oT Spam.. Zed rabite / RIBUNE Continued from page 1 for big business. Election of its candidates will bring no sig- nificant change in Vancou- ver’s affairs. Particularly significant is the fact that the CVA entered the election with a full slate FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1957 EPP. POSITHON: ‘Ottawa must act ake the Diefenbaker gov- to ent and to provide ntenance for every i says a state- -d this week by the o¥-Progressive party’s na- growing act act stop committee. acy,” the state- Jodoin, spokesman 1] llion trade unionists, na- lov > ic © unempioyment 1S a tianal tional eme Who 1S 1 Ask the 350,000 unemployed Canadians and their families. They know the truth. They know it IS an emergency. There may well be the big- exhausted and have ice benefits, going hungry and workers again r of eviction. Burt, Canadian direc- United Auto Work- sovernment that jlren are being school hungry. urging 1 governments to take f families. City on Ottawa t home I are eea ye oll; y re calling emergency. Work- di their families know it on jobless crisis. Labor demands of the fed- eral government: * @ That unemployment in- surance benefits be continued for 52 weeks instead of the present 30, and increased, as Diefenbaker promised in the election campaign; and that they be extended over the win- ter in all casés. @® Public works, including low rental housing, be started now, at trade union wages. ® City councils must given financial assistance relief cases. be for @ Trade should be opened with all countries now, to put laid-off people back to work making goods for export. Ottawa must act! The Tories pledged to maintain full em- ployment before the last elec- tion. Make John Diefenbaker live up to his promises. Not a person should be laid off, not a factory or depart- ment closed down, in a world hungry for our products. Not a single Canadian needs.to go wi hout the necessities of life in this rich country. Take it up in your unions, your farm organizations, your ratepayers, and home and school associations. Make the Diefenbaker gov- ernment act to stop growing unemployment and to provide * work or maintenance for every jobless Canadian! Delegates give reports on World Youth Festival NANAIMO, B.C. Lahti, who attended Youth Festival t summer as a dele- of the Finnish Organiza- f Canada, will give his ata public ‘“re- meeting at the l, this coming Sun- in ~ day, December 1 at 8 p.m. Two other young Canadians who attended the festival, Esa Kuusisto and Anita Knott, will also speak. Lahti slides and a film taken at the festival. will also show color of six candidates. Its obviouus intention is to knock labor out of civic politics. It should be clear that one of the main reasons some influential re- actionary interests are back- ing the CVA is because they want to prevent labor from rallying around it all progres- sive forces and creating a genuine people’s alternative to the NPA. The role of Tom Alsburyy in accepting nomination from the CVA while the labour council of which he is vice-president, is running its own candidates, has been sharply criticized by trade unionists as a “stab in the back.” Alsbury must have been secretly carrying on negotiations with the CVA even as the labor council was putting forward its own nomi- nations. His statement in reply to labor’s criticism to the effect that he is not opposing labor candidates is sheer hypocricy. He deserves the condemnation he is receiving on every side from workers and progressive voters. . Making a strong bid again for city council is Effie Jones who last year polled close to 18,000 votes and whose struggle for civic reform has made her name a household word. Cam- paigning as an independent on a strong people’s program she has repeatedly called for unity of labor, ratepayers and pro- gressives to sweep away the NPA. Faced with the prospect of a large number of aldermanic candidates and with a bid by the CVA to replace the equally reactionary NPA, what is the best course for pro- gressive voters to follow? This question will concern many who want a change for the better at city hall. The best course under the circum- stances is for voters to mark their ballot for the three labor candidates and Effie Jones. In this way voters will be able to unite behind four of the six to be elected who stand for the best interests of Vancou- ver. It is the only way to defeat the NPA and the attempt of the CVA to take its place. Only such unity at the polls can frustrate the plans of big business and old line politi- cians to keep the affairs at city hall firmly in their grip. challenged b Non-Partisan domination of city | y labor candidates ERE @S CHARLES LAMARCHE 3 PADDY NEALE Wage boost at loco . ends long oil strike Victorious Imperial Oil strikers at Ioco returned to #4) this week after winning a nine-week strike against the : company, a subsidiary of Standard of New Jersey. The 250 strikers, members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, won increases of 11 to 22 cents an hour, retroactive to September 1, plus a lump sum of $144 to be paid in lieu of retroactive pay to last spring. The strike began September 24, with the company offer- ing seven percent on the basic rate of $1.67 an hour and the union demanding 12% per- cent. William Fraser, chief concil- iation officer of the B.C. Labor Relations Board, acted as medi- ator in the negotiations which resulted in termination of the strike. Mounting support for the strike on the part of all B.C. labor unions helped greatly in speeding the settlement. On Friday and Saturday last week volunteers picketed many of the larger Imperial Oil sta- tions in Vancouver to bring November 29, 1957 — SAM JENKINS yr Vancouver Labor Cow cil is sponsoring three *) dermanic candidates in Vancouver civic elections P ember ll. They are Charl Lamarche (IWA), Sam Je ins (Marine Workers) Paddy Neale (IWA). All J0 time members of the 147) movement, the candidaies * pledged to support a work man’s platform based 0 — employment for all citizem Vancouver. In challenging il : NPA domination of city ” all the VLC declares that “10” trade unionists and their ilies in Vancouver deserve rif resentation on city councll: the true strike situa io the attention of the P if Hundreds of trade ull j. and other citizens had sal in their Esso credit cart R the company during thé two months, and pressure | mounting. ol (0) Attempts of Imperial at? run “hot” oil were frust! a when railroad workers Tj | to take CPR trains thi i { ( picket lines. Several were suspended but lateF iy) instated when a railroa® - up threatened. él In Victoria unionists ni tof the strikers by previa! barges from landing { A products. asf The strikers met que fe ody: o Bt uy | night in the Port Mo creational hall: and Vv? 18 él accept the company’s : offer. ’ Ioco is the only orb plant in Imperial’s natio® chain. ve) PACIFIC TRIBUNE—P4”