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By P. J. O‘/KANE
The B.C. Young Communist
ague urges students and young

Unemployed Canadians to take

action now against the growing
Problem of unemployment in
aS and to join in the battle,
Bee cner with the labor
oe cment, unemployed, and the
*Oung Communist League, to
ut pressure on the Provincial
ae Federal governments to
all late emergency measures to
€viate the crisis — of
wnemployment.
Te 1s year - the threat of
Cann ployment is facing many in
Tha ae as a result of the
Bat eau government's ‘“anti-in-
a, policies. Those most
a Ously hit are the thousands of
* Ng people in Canada and
eS oycally those: just coming out
high Schools and universities.
Beas ada there are 542,000
fee unemployed. This does
Re Include families of
asseoved or those on social
Istance. Of this vast number
=e are teenagers. Coupled
Sa this are the 35,000 college
he University students looking
th Summer work, 5,000 more
€N last year.
; ate Vancouver area, for the
the a School year (according to
na €port of School Trustees of
ee B.C.,) students
309 €red in Grade 12 numbered
will ae grade 13, 1,410. Many
~ looking for work in June
es a large number from
egist grades in which 5,316 were
ing ered in Grade 10 and 4,027
Tade 11 in the 1968-69 years.

_WHY? ASK YOUTH

Wane people are asking

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Y” and «
about a What can we do
Many’
enh young people depend

Summer employment to
ere fees for Universities
any er educational institutes.
first t ea be looking for their
nl ul time job with the hopes
ued a future. What hope
. ave on an already
are ted labor market? They
ast to be hired because
h € no experience and
gy & not yet acquired skills, they
e first to be laid off

e they have no seniority.

€arn t

.The basic cause is Prime
Minister Trudeau’s method of
dealing with inflation by
creating mass unemployment
through cutbacks in production.

This crisis is nothing new to
our Big  Business-oriented
society.. Its lack, of planning and
developing of resources, lack of
developing secondary industries,
and its economy based on profits
for the few monopolies and not
for the general benefit of all
Canadians, this is what causes
regular crisis. This is true in all
capitalist countries.

Although we know the only

permanent solution to this
problem .of unemployment is the
building of a Socialist Canada,
we do feel this grave problem
can be alleviated NOW by the
following program:

(1) A summer works project
for students to provide jobs with
adequate wages NOW;

(2) Financial grants (not
loans) to enable students to
continue their education during
this crisis;

(3) Special living allowances
for students because they cannot
collect unemployment insurance
having never worked before;

(4) An immediate nation wide
program of building. homes,
schools, and hospitals, etc. — fin-
anced through cutting back of
arms budget and stopping hand-
outs to monopoly ;

(5) Development of Canadian
natural resources in Canada
creating secondary industries.
Build an all-Canada east-west
power and energy grid; build a
plastics industry, asphalt and
processing industries based on
western Canada resources; build
a copper smelter*and steel mill,
build a Canadian merchant
marine.

The Young Communist League
all young .people to

urges
demand the Provincial and
Federal governments take

action NOW to alleivate the
unemployment situation.
“We call for support from
unions and all people’s organl-
zations to help impliment this
program of jobs for youth.

Bosses attack on labor
hit by Longshore parley

The growing employer offensive against labor expressed in the formation of the
Employers Council of B.C., and the many lockouts and anti-labor legislation, came
under fire in the Officers Report at the 11th convention of the Canadian Area,
International Longshoremen and Warenousemen’s Union, meeting in Vancouver on

April 27.

The report urged unity of “all
labor under one roof”’ and called
for the United Fishermen and
Allied Workers Union to be
admitted into the CLC ‘“‘without
any strings.”

Drawing attention to the
economic situation facing
Canada, the officers . report

charged that one of the aims of
the austerity program of Ottawa
was to impose wage controls on
labor ‘‘so that profits may go up
and workers will be excluded
from sharing the benefits of
technological advance.”’

Attending the ILWU
convention were 63 delegates
from 8 locals representing 3,300
members, as well as 6 delegates
from 4 Ladies Auxiliaries. Many
of the delegates were young
people, reflecting a new feature
in the union.

Delegates heatedly discussed
many problems of their industry,
adopting a number of important
resolutions of concern to water-
front workers. However, . they
also found time to deal with a
wide range of other issues of
wide concern to labor and the
public. ;

In adopting their officers
report, delegates approved
recommendations urging that
the Carter Report of Taxation be
implemented; that government
funds be used for public invest-
ment such as large scale housing
programs; called for a cutback
in military expenditures from
the $1.8 billion spent annually at
present; action to end
profiteering, roll back of prices
and adoption of rent controls.

Delegates adopted a resolution
pointing to the danger of the
Vietnam conflict spreading to
Laos and Cambodia, and called
for withdrawal of all foreign
troops from Vietnam. It urged
union members to back peace
actions endorsed by the B.C.
Federation of Labor and Labor
Councils.

This action came after the
officers report accused the
Nixon administration of policies
aimed ‘‘to keep on with the war
while going through hypocritical
maneuvres designed to mislead
public opinion.” The officers
report criticized Canadian
complicity expressed in the sale
of arms to the U.S. for use in
Vietnam. It also called on
Canada to withdraw from all
military alliances and to support
the United Nations.

Delegates called on Canada to
immediately establish full and
complete sovereignty over the
Canadian Arctic and to protect it
against U.S. encroachments.

Other actions urged: a drive to
organize unorganized workers
in B.C.; vigorous action to
combat pollution; more action
by labor to champion the needs
of the poor, including those on
welfare and old age pensioners;
a government operated non-
profit car insurance scheme;
and rejection of the Federal
government’s new Indian
policy, which delegates said
would destroy the identity of the
Indian people as a distinct
people. Delegates urged labor
Indian unity to achieve full
equality for, the Indian people.

A resolution condemning the
“qncontrolled exploitation of
our natura: resources’? was
adopted by delegates. It called
for the establishment of a

Canadian merchant marine
which would provide “‘jobs for
Canadian shipyard: workers and
Canadian seamen.”

Two issues which were of
major concern to delegates were
problems arising from adjust-

INTIMIDATION

Police
seller of P

sales. They Sale.
possibly be conn
non resident.

The above item appeared in the
April 30 edition of the Kelowna
Daily Courier in Premier, WAC
Bennett’s own riding. The PT is
filing a strong protest with the
paper and the local council over
this attempt at intimidation.

ment of union work rules to meet
technological change, and an
equitable distribution of work
opportunities.

Resolutions covering
limitations on the hours of work
in a specific period and the
problem of applying labor’s
objective of a shorter work
week to an industry in which
work is not steady saw. consid-
erable discussion.

Delegates finally agreed to
accept the main points embodied
in three resolutions and referred
them to the Area Board to
implement along with local
officers. The three resolutions
called for a maximum of 78
shifts on a 13 week period; no
one to be dispatched for more
than six consecutive shifts; and
a maximum of 624 straight time
hours on a 13 week period.

A summary of the main
features of the new contract won
in the 1969-70 negotiations was
given in the officers report.

Criminal for Gov't to
deliberately foster
unemployment-Haynes

“Tt is criminal when a
government deliberately plans
to foster unemployment,” Ray
Haynes, secretary of the B .C.
Federation .of Labor told the
audience at a meeting of unem-
ployed workers, students and
people on welfare last week.

This theme was stressed again
and again by other speakers at
the meeting held in the Labor
Temple.

“Every competent economist
agrees that to attempt to fight
inflation through unem-
ployment is crazy,” said Wally
Ross, provincial organizer of
the NDP.

Bill Duff, business agent of the
Plumbers and Pipefitters Union
asserted that mass unem-
ployment today is a result of a
move initiated by the Trudeau
government in co-operation

with the employers organi-_

zations to confront labor and
weaken unions.

Paddy Neale, secretary of the
Vancouver Labor «Council,
stressed that the workers were
being used as pawns in the phony
fight against inflation, while
Alex Bondi, of the Unemployed
Citizens’ Welfare Improvement
Council, said that historically
the unemployed were used for
scabbing purposes.

Jack Nichols, of the
Fishermens’ Union, reminded
the audience that inflation
victimizes labor even under
conditions of high employment,
and the effort to make them the
scapegoat merely reflected the
ineptness of the Trudeau govern
ment.

He said that whether we liked
it or not, the Liberals were in
power, and the fight against
their policies faced the people
right now, and could not wait for
elections to register protests.

Old-time miners union leader
Harvey Murphy brought rounds
of applause when he asked:
“When did we working men ever
cause inflation?’ and again

when he shouted, ‘‘We’re not
going back to the 30’s!” He
reminded the people that it was
the lessons learned and the mass
action of the unemployed in the
1930’s that formed the base of the
great trade union movement
today.

“Ts there unemployment
because there is no work— when
people need housing, schools,
hospitals?”’

He said that when our natural
resources were sent out of this
country in raw form it cheated
thousands of workers out of jobs.
And now, he added, the Socred
government has to beg industry
to be allowed to process
something at home, as in the
case of a smelter.

Vietnam aid
leaves city

School supplies worth $1,000
and one thousand iteras of
clothing and bedding will be
contained in the 23rd shipment of
goods by the Children’s
Committee of Canadian Aid for
Vietnam Civilians. Other
contents include surgical equip-
ment, surgical dressings,
eyeglasses, soap, etc. The total
value is $3,096.00.

The consignment of 36 crates
left Vancouver on Monday, May
4th, on the Soviet S.S. ‘‘Ola’’, and
will be transported free of
charge to Vietnam.

All articles of clothing and
bedding are distributed in the
combat zones of South Vietnam.
The school supplies are divided

‘equally between the Red Cross

Societies of North Vietnam and
the National Liberation Front.

By the end of its fourth year of
operation in June the Children’s
Committee anticipates a total
contribution of 40,000 knitted
and sewn garments and bed
covers.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1970—Page 3