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NO CANADIAN NEEDS TO
“There is no reason for unem

Progressive Party’s national executive
monopoly refuses to operate them the government

dian needs to be out of work.

“Socialism would provide jobs for everyone — as is in
fact the case in all socialist countries today — but this does

not mean that nothin
fight’ the slump.”

g can be done in our country now to

Full text of the LPP statement reads:
Where is the recovery the Diefenbaker government is

talking about?

Unemployment continues to rise and may reach the ONE

MILLION mark before

spring. In the meantime prices and

profits go up as menopoly gouges’ the Canadian consumer.

The T

ory government promised work for all.

Instead, 4,000 coal miners in Nova Scotia have been laid

off and a number of coal mines closed down.

The shipping

industry is being scuttled. Now the aircraft industry may be

grounded. Canada Car and
Foundry at Fort William
threatens to close its plant

‘while a uranium mine has

stopped operations and thrown
400 miners out of work. A sul-
phur plant has likewise ceased
operation,

How many more such events

-have we throughout the coun-

try?

These aren’t signs of re-
covery. They are indications
of economic crisis and disaster
for the jobless!

In the meantime great po-
tential markets are cut off by
the United States. Orders from
-China for cars and aluminum
were cancelled because of U.S.

interference. For U.S. imper-
ialism war, hot or cold, is
more profitable than peace-
ful co-existence.

It is high time the labor
and farm movements united
to compel parliament and gov-
ernment to change the situa-
tion and adopt new national
policies starting from the in-
terests of the people, not the
profits. of monopoly.

There is no reason for un-
employment in a rich country
like ours, There is no reason
for plants, mines and mills to
shut down. If monopoly re-
fuses to operate them the gov-
ernment must be compelled
to do so and keep Canada at

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work. No Canadian needs to
be out of work.

Socialism would provide jobs
for everyone — as is in fact
the case in all socialist toun-
tries today — but this does
not mean that nothing can be
done in our country now to

fight the slump.

The Labor - Progressive
Party calls upon the Canadian
people, and in the first place
the trade union, farm and co-
‘operative movements, the CCF
and ourselves, to combine in
a great national effort to win
the following:

@ Government operation of
closed plants and mines.

@ Cut monopoly profits and
bring retail prices down.

© New markets for industry
and farming through trade
agreements with the Soviet
Union and China.

@ Recognize China.

@ Stepped-up public works
at trade-union rates.

@ Subsidized low - rental
housing, _

@ Revise the Unemployment
ment Insurance. Act to pay
benefits at two-thirds of a
worker’s earnings for the full
period of unemployment — to
cover all wage-earners,

BE OUT OF WORK—LPP
ployment in a rich country like ours,” says a statement issued by the Labor

committee. “There is no reason for plants, mines and mills to shut down. t
must be compelled to do so and keep Canada at work. No Cand:

© Increased pensions.

@ Shorter work week with
same take-home pay.

© Moratorium on house and
furnishing debts of unemploy-
eded Canadians.

Such a program can KEEP
CANADA AT WORK. The

LPP calls upon the unem-

hi

ployed to organize to protect
their interests in the same

way the western farmers att
now doing in their march
Ottawa. es

United labor action. ané
labor-farmer cooperation , ¢@
compel parliament and. gov
ernment to act now.

February 13, 1959 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 2.