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By BERT WHYTE

In face of rising unemployment, Vancouver Labor Council this week took the first
step to prevent a return to the Hungry Thirties by unanimously endorsing a resolution ask
ing Ottawa to initiate plans to take care of the country’s jobless this coming winter.

The executive committee resolution urged that supplementary unemployment insurance
benefits be increased 100 percent and the periods of payments be extended; that the federal
government plan measures in addition to unemployment insurance benefits; that arrange-
ments be made to send benefits through the mail.

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emphasized. “While this reso-
lution is directed at Ottawa,
civic and provincial govern-

702-E ES ments cannot escape their re-

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sponsibilities.

“Many of us remember rid-
ing the freight trains during
the Hungry Thirties, and we
will fight. to make sure there
will be no return to those con-

pepe?

VLC president Lloyd Whalen
23,4 and 12

Wenner-Gren getting
Province in pieces

Mo, CCF leader Robert Strachan said this week that he will
ne examine Premier W. A. C. Bennett about new Wenner-
®n reserves in northern B.C. at the January session of the

“sislature.

The provincial cabinet announced earlier that more reserves,

ditions. The number of unem-
ployed just about equals the
number of immigrants brought
to this country during the past
year. We are not opposed to
immigration, but we are op-
posed to indiscriminate, un.
planned immigration —
against the bringing in of
workers when industry cannot
find jobs for them.”

“This time labor will not
make the mistake it made in

. acts surface, mineral and
. ee had been grant-

ts fo = Wenner-Gren inter-
an t its proposed 4,000,000
Power Peace River hy-

net achan charged that Ben-
ineg 8 Siving away the prov-
dinar pleces” so that the

Y citizen won’t realize

the
€xtent of the giveaway.

“Mhis is part of the premier’s
promise to give Wenner-Gren
anything he wanted,” said the
CCF leader.

CCF and LPP spokesmen
have demanded that the de-
velopment be handled by B.C.
Power Commission, with as-
sistance from the federal gov.

ernment.

“the Hungry Thirties and ig-

nore the jobless workers,” de-
clared Sam Jenkins (Marine
Workers). “We recognize that
jobless workers are just. as
much' a part of the labor move-
ment as those with jobs.

“Our union today has 400
unemployed. On Monday some

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See JOBLESS

-_By SAM RUSSELL
MOSCOW

Plans for the first inter-
Planetary flights to the moon,
fie and Venus ate now

er active preparation
ere, :
i: This was disclosed last
Doh by Professor Vladimir

tonravov, head of the
“partment of theoretical ma-

Mars, Venus

thematics at Moscow’s Bau-
man Institute of Technology.

For a satellite to reach the
moon, he said, it must travel
at about seven miles a second.

But as man-made Moon
No. 1 is already circling the
earth at a speed of about five
miles per second, the technt-
cal probleths are already vir-

within 1

tually solved.

‘The time is already near,”
Prof. Dobronravov told me,
‘when we will be able to
reach the moon and we shall
be able to watch that arrival
on the television screen.

“Our scientists are design-
ing special space suits inside

which normal life will be pos- ,

QO years

sible, and’ there is no doubt
that we shall see people on
the moon in such suits in our
lifetime.

“We shall also witness
whole cities built on the
moon with all conditions for
normal human life and exist-
ence.” :

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