- Higher jobless benefits

_ denounced by officials

A suggestion made by Dr. George F. Davidson,
make the terms of unemployment insurance more generous,

insurance commissioner C. A. L.
Association of Public Employment

—OTTAWA.
deputy-minister of national health and welfare, to
has come under sharp fire by -unemployment
Murchison. During discussions on social insurance at the International
Services, Ontario branch, the deputy-minister, who supervises the wel-

fare section of the department, called for unemploy nent insurance not only to insure against the risk of

loss of an individual’s job but prevention of a recur‘ence of

the situation which developed during the de-

Plywoods layoffs
at Port Alberni

Woodworkers who supported
and other former IWA

pression.

His comment touched off an
almost violent attack against
him by Commissioner Murchi-
son, who declared: “Don’t think
we can start being Santa Claus
in all our local offices.” The
fund would take care of minor
recession, he said, but not a full

—PORT ALBERNI, B.C. |

Harold Pritchett, Ernie Dalskog | ‘“t¢Pression.
officers now leading the Woodworkers In-| Davidson had also declared,
dustrial Union in their opposition to the Marshall plan have received | “Our objective should be to stretch
vindication of the correctness of their policy. |Our unemployment insurance ap-

still another unwelcome

This week Alberni Plywoods cut production and laid off 69 employees.

Housewives act
on fare increase

Housewives’ Consumer Associa-
tion has called a meeting at Pen-
der Auditorium, Room 6, July 26,
8 p.m., to discuss action on the
increase in telephone rates and
street car fares.

“Although the interim fare in-

erease goes into effect Monday,
there is still time to protest
against it becoming permanent

when public hearings are - held
in Vancouver,’ an Association
spokesman said.

“The job housewives face is to
help arouse public feeling against
the phone and fare boosts, and

_€rs, and U.S. markets are begin-

proach as far as possible in order
to bring as many people as pos-
sible under. it, rather than abide
by actuarial considerations.”

The curtailment is a direct result
of the closing off of the British
market for plywood, caused by
the worsening dollar-crisis, which
itself is a result of the trade re-
strictions of the Marshall plan.
Alberni Plywoods © has chopped
prices by 15 percent, hoping to
regain by increased domestic
sales of Douglas fir plywood some
of the volume lot with closing off
of the British market. But since
other Canadian industries, simil-
arly affected by loss of British
orders, are also laying off work-

A. D. Watson, actuarial adviser
to ‘the Unemployment Insurance
Commission, attacked Davidson
for not
about unemployment insurance,
and was afraid he had not been
in “a good environment.”

“If we were. struck by the
breath of real unemployment,”
said Watson, “the fund: might per-
form very differently” from _ its
present action of paying out $50
million in benetits, Only additions
to the fund came from interest on
the almost $1 billion amount in
it at the present. He believed
more generous payments of bene-
fits would not make the fund any
more “social.” _

ning to reflect the growing crisis,
the prospects are not bright.

Until recently Britain was ab-
sorbing from 60 to 75 percent of
British Columbia's plywood out-
put, but there is now little hope
that the dollar-crisis will permit
any extensive new orders.

LUT ZOR

NIGEL MORGAN

Tours Interior

Nigel Morgan, provincial lead-
er of the Labor-Progressive par-
ty, left Vancouver this week
on a short organizational and
speaking tour of the southern

| interior, following which he will

visit Port Alberni.

“The purpose of my trip is
to conduct discussions on the
recent provincial and federal
elections and to prepare for a

understanding anything |’

meeting of the LPP provincial
committee in Vancouver on Aug-
ust 13-14,” stated Morgan.

The LPP provincial leader's
itinerary is as follows: July 22,
Kamloops; July 24, Cranbrook;
July 25, Michel; July 26, Fernie;
July 27, Trail; July 28, Ross-
land; July 29, Vernon; August
8, Port Alberni.

Tom McEwen will visit Vic-
toria on Friday, July 29, it was
announced.

The LPP also announced that
its provincial offices will be
moved from the Shelly Building
to a more convenient location
at 503 Ford Building, 193 East
Hastings, at the end of this
month. :

unite with other organizations to
defeat these increases.

“We are hoping for a good
turnout of housewives at our meet-
ing next Tuesday, ‘where we will
start the ball rolling against the
unfair price hikes sought by BC-
Electric and B.C. Telephone.”

Farm costs higher{

OTTAWA
Working people caught in the

high price squeeze should have a kin.

look at the cost of living for Can-
ada’s farm folk. Whereas the gov-
ernment cost of living index for
the whole country stands at 160.5,

the cost of living for | farmers
stands at 173.3, as of June.

U.S. Quakers declare

War not inevitable

NEW YORK

“War between the United States
and Russia is not inevitable; Rus-
Sian communism and American
capitalism can co-exist in peace.”
This is the. conclusion arrived
at after more than a year of study

With: only two weeks to

second place and is assured of a

go in the Junior “‘B”
before playoffs begin, the Pacific Tribune team is fighting it out for

by the American Friends Service
Committee, which won the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1947, and embodied
in a 26-page report forwarded to
U.S. Secretary of State Acheson
and Russian Ambasasdor Panyush-

Mine-Mill holds

Inco bargaining

TORONTO
Canadian Congress of Labor
raiders received a setback when
the Ontario Labor Relations Board
ruled that the Mine, Mill and Smel-

The American Quakers urge the
United States to drop barriers to
east-west trade, set up a unified

, and place the atomic
bomb stockpile under a United Na-
tions seal.

PT circulation reflects
work our readers do

Launching a labor
dominated by big business, whose

of lines of capitalist propaganda to befuddle clear thinking. Its survival
devotion and hard work

depends on the loyalty,

only gauge of the total hours of
sustain a voice that speaks their
thoughts and champions their in-
terests is the circulation of the
paper.

The Pacific Tribune continually
faces serious financial problems,
which can only be solved by in-
creased revenue from a steadily
rising circulation. Because we
cannot afford to hire salesmen to
sign up new subscribers, we must
depend upon our loyal readers to
do this important job on a volun-

tary basis. :
During the spring financial
drive, 214 Press Builders ‘raised

$25 each for the paper. Now we
are asking every one of these
Press Builders to go out and sign
up at least one new _ subscriber
before the end of the month.

paper is always a daring venture in a country

ter Workers’ Union still holds bar-
gaining vights at the Inco refinery
in Port Colborne.

CCL bureaucrats had lavished
large sums of money and thrown
heavy forces into trying to take
over the Mine-Mill local, but in a
recent labor-board conducted ballot
could not obtain a majority of those
eligible to vote. The CCL local got
631 votes, Mine-Mill 626, and there
were 1305 eligible. Negotiations
can now get under way on a new
contract.

The verdict strengthens position
of Port Colborne and Sudbury
Inco workers, for Inco has at-
tempted to use CCL activities at
Port Colborne to divide the work-
ers and stall on negotiations.

Present . contract at Sudbury
was extended to July 25 while In-
co refused to bangain in good faith
on a new contract and the dispute

dollar dailies spew forth millions

of its supporters. The
labor workers perform in order to

Builders, as well as our thous-
ands of supporters, will help. us
overcome the “summer doldrums”
in circulation by getting out some
night this week and visiting a
few potential readers, Experience
shows that when the work is done,
new readers can be obtained.
Here’s the July Honor Roll to
date:
GREATER VANCOUVER

CSU Striker, Maritime ...... 18 will likely go to conciliation,

Bert Whyte, Kitsilano ...... 3

Audrey Brandon -.......:...; 2

Dora Madley, Norquay ......... 2 FRASER VALLEY

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PROVINCE SUNDAY, AUGUST 14

Ernie Weed,*Trail ......./... 3 Fleetwood Park — Surrey

J. Ormerod, Mission ....... 2% Everybody Welcome

W. H. McConnell, Terrace o2 Fun for All

W are confident that our Press

PT ball team fights for

second place in league

baseball league

spot in the playoffs between the
four top teams.

PT readers are urged to take
in a sandlot game and watch the
Pacific Tribune team in action.
Last Monday they copped a 43
decision over the ace Acme team
at Powell Street grounds.

Here’s the schedule of remaining
league games:

July 21, North Van Crusaders
vs. Pacific Tribune at North Van-
couver,

July 27, Boshards vs. Pacific
Tribune at Connaught.

July 28, Acme Machinery vs.
Pacific Tribune at Kerrisdale.

August 2, Collingwood vs. Pa-
cific Tribune at Connaught.

August 15, Padific Tribune vs.
North Van Crusaders at Clinton:

August 8, Collingwood vs. Pa-

cific Tribune at Powell St.

‘August 10, Pacific Tribune vs.
Collingwood at Clinton,

* Playoffs start on August 15. The
Junior “B” league is sponsored by
the Vancouver Junior Chamber of
Commerce.

KEEP THIS

CCL attacks
on UE gets
boss support.

—TORONTY:

Local and district spokesmen of
the militant United Electrical, R& —
dio and Machine Workers of Am
erica (CIO-CCL) have lashed back
Strongly against banning of five |
of their officers fram deliberations —
of the Canadian Congress of L@ —
bor. UE is one of many CCL ut
ions whose members face potel-
tid] layoffs as a result of decisions
supporting government cold wa!
trade policies: rammed throug?
Congress conventions by the rub
ing right-wing CCF clique. od

UE’s 25,000 members have stated
their determination to oppose —
strongly all attempts to split the
union by attacks on its leader
ship, to fight back union raiders
to stay within the CCL and t0
fight to win the membership °
that body for policies of unité
labor action against the employe!
offensive,

The CCL executive council cat
its Ottawa meeting “denied voic®
or vote in any convention, fed
eratién, or council of the com
gress” to C. S. Jackson (UE di& *
trict president), M. Chambers
(vice-president), George Harris
(secretary-treasurer), Ross Rus
sell (director of organization) and
J. F. Douglas (publicity director):

The charge was that criticis™
in the UE News of CCL officials
policies and tactics at this'spring§
Ontario Federation of Labor meet-
ing constituted “wilful and caleu~
lated slander” aimed at trying t?
destroy the federation. On this
charge the UE had been suspend
ed April 24 from the executiv®
council, which is the highest com”
gress body bethween conventions
and includes representatives of- .
affiliates, Suspension from th®
council will be continued, In, 2%,
dition the splitters’ resolutio?
threatened that any /further criti:
cism (“slander” in Congre®
double-talk) “will result. in total
Suspension of the entire organizZ@ .
tion,”

Implied blessing for the mov
lad already come from a_ Dif
business enemy of UE and all
labor. H. A. ‘Cooch, president
of Canadian Westinghouse, said
“The Canadian government
should take action against the
Communists within the unions
wko are agitating for a wage
increase that threatens the Do
minion with a depression.”

A wire to CCL secretary Pat
Conroy from’ Jackson _ strongly
protested “action of executive
council in interfering with the 2U-
tonomous rights of this union
advocate the policies adopted
its membership,” and “invasion ?
democratic rights of our member"
Ship to decide who shall represe?
them in the CCL.” is

The wire served a sharp . Pe
minder that “the basic princiP
on which (the CCL) wasi found"
was the right of direct represe™
tation on the executive council. 16
It also protested “the mid:
series of violations of fundamet es
ethics” in CCL officers’ use of th
public press to  pre-judge ae :
smear UE officers, and in ole
ing the UE from answering ¢
“slander” charges. , in-
Notice was served may ane
tend to carry our protests
basic eRIpenahts of the Congrect
and to the forthcoming conv

DATE OPEN!

Aion,”

ANNUAL LABOR PICNIC |

SUNDAY, AUGUST 7
At Confederation Park

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— Wrestling and Boxing —

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