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LABOR’ S VOICE FOR VICTORY

VOL. Ill, NO. 42

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Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, October 21, 1944

LPP Urges

7 Action on

Housing

- Solution of the impasse
reached in providing low-
rent housing for low in-
come sroups, as provided

in the Winnipeg city
council plan, is being

( sought by the City com-

mittee of the Labor-Pro-
gressive Party. Prade
union support is being en-
listed by the LPP in a
letter sent out this week.
The letter urges the
unions to endorse the
Winnipeg resolution and
inform the Wancouver
city council and local
MP’s of their stand.

Vancouver city council
is currently considering
endorsation of the reso-
lution as asked by the
Winnipeg council and is
expected to favor ft ASA
means of solving the des-
perate housing situation
locally: Already the civic
Postwar Housing Com-
mittee, over the as
opposition on “Char
grounds of its eee

Alderman George [Bus-
combe, has decided to
recommend to city coun-
cil that it endorse the
resolution.

; The opposition of Bus-

combe was scathingly de-

“nounced by Elgin Rud-
dell, LPP city secretary,
in an interview with The
People. “This is again the
use of the ‘red herring
tactic by this old oppon-
_ent of municipal action to
‘solve the housing crisis,

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he said. ‘When the
_ question of houses for
soldiers was before the

council recently he tried
#40 use the same excuse

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C.QM_S. CLIFFORD PHET

hails from Yorkton, Saskat-
chewan. He has been im-the——
active army for almost three
years.

Prior to his enlistment in-
the army Cliff Peet was well

kmewn in many sections of
Saskatchewan as a result of
his work on behalf of pro-
eressive and farm organiza-
tions. He was associated with
Hon. T. C. Douglas in the
founding of the C€-C.Y.M.
movement in Saskatchewan.
For several years prior to
the outbreak of the war he
was a writer of numerous
feature articles dealing with
the plight of Saskatchewan

= Quebec Meeting

QUEBEC GITY, One —
Opening of the Canadian
Congress of Labor fifth an-
nual convention in Quebec
City on Monday of this
week was marked by evi-
dence of strong opposition
to the continuation of any
policy of endorsing the CCF
as the political arm” of the

CGIE-

Statement of Congress
President A. R. Mosher, in
his opening speech, that
“the CCF more closely rep-

resented the views of labor °

than any other political
party was met with mark-
ed opposition from the con-
véntion floor.\Cries of “Not
true,’ and ©, no, inter-
rupted the speech for several
minutes.

Attempt of CCF delegates,
led by C. H. Millard of the
Steelworkers, to usé the is-
sue of the Packinghouse
Workers demands to under-
mine the “ne-strike”’
also met firm opposition.
Many delegates made it clear
that such demands could be
realized without mecessity

of a strike and that Labor's
“no-strike policy must be ad-

‘hered to.

“Hitler is still -fabor’s
number one enemy,’ de-
clared Harvey Murphy,
Mine, Mill and Smelter

Workers’ delegate from Van-
—Continued on Page 8

pledge-

Half tracks of a South African regiment push for-
ward through mud clogged roads into a section of the
Appenine mountains that formed part of the German
Gothic Line in Italy. ;

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Unionists Leav:
Conference
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Charging CCF packing of the Vancouver I|s-
land Regional Rehabilitation Conference, the
Vancouver Island Joint Labor Conference, repre-
senting all trade unions on the Island, withdrew
from the continuation committee this week.

The conference, sponsored by the VIJLC, was
a broad conference representative of all sections
of the community, with delegates from the man-
agements of local shipyards and aldermen from
Victoria and other Island municipal councils.

Evidence of CCF disruption appeared in in-
dustrial panel discussions causing the withdrawal
of the Superintendent of Yarrow’s Shipyard who
was acting as chairman of the panel. The purpose
of the conference was consistently blocked by CCF
delegates who persisted in cramming their party’s
program down the throats of the other delegates.

—Continued on Page 8.

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