~ Jackson hits * federal credit restrictions TORONTO A demand that the federal gov- ernment rescind its credit restric- tions, ds a measure towards relieving the serious layoffs in the durable consumer goods industry, Was made this week iby CG. S. Jackson, President, District 5, United Electrical Workers. In a letter to Prime Minister St. Laurent, Jackson further pro- Posed, as a program for ensuring employment and raising the stan- dard of living, that the government reduce the present heavy taxation on low incomes, impose a 100 per- cent excess profits tax on industry above five percent return on in- vestment, institute a program of Public housing and public works to replace the armament program, Promote an independent Canadian Policy of unrestricted trade, and encourage the 40-hour week in in- dustry. Jackson charged the government With having no solution to the present situation except réstric- tions of credit and wage increases, . thus lowering living standards of the working people, while at the Same time permitting, and even encouraging, price increases and high profiteering on the part of Industries producing consumer foods, In addition, while it seemed that peace would be effected in Korea, ‘the government appar- ently was not going to offer any relief from these conditions in the future. On the contrary, Jackson stated, it is evident that there will be an even more dras- ti¢ curtailment in living stan- dards and. increased unemploy- ment under the specious heading of continued “defense”. Jackson called’ Prime Minister St. Laurent’s attention to a brief Which the UE had presented to he government in May, 1950, en- titled “Jobs, Securitiy and sPeace”, and recalled that at that time the Union had pointed out that the Inevitable ‘results of a war econ- Ben: were a drastic reduction in lving standards, paralleled by 8Toss profiteering. : ‘ It is the opinion of the UE, the etter continued, that full employ- Ment, rising living standards, im- Proved social security and an ex- Panding national income were Possible oniy under conditions of peer These conditions could: be = leved by an extensive public dda program, such as the St. —4Wrence Seaway, a public hous- re program, etc., coupled with an Ndependent Canadian trade policy Seared to the needs of the Cana- ad people and free from subser- tence to American interests, : Any restrictions imposed on any Rar ect of the national economy Beoee the guise of defense have poulted. in the past, and would *sult in the future, only in the 1 2Poverishment of the masses of on, people, while at the same time Owing outrageous profiteering 8nd domination by big business pore the ultimate result of war S a means whereby big’ business Could continue its profiteering. c . A DIGNIFLED SERVICE, ANADA’S FINEST MORTUARY ere When will city council move on False Creek ienace? stage. menace cutting through the heart of Vancouver. Unions score new Duplessis threat fo labor MONTREAL A call urging all sections of the Quebec labor movement to unite ranks to fight threatened Duples- sis legislation designed to destroy the trade unions was madé in sep- arate statements here by Robert Haddow, Canadian Director of the International Fur and _ Leather Workers, and Jean Pare, vice-pres- ident of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. Both union leaders referred to a recent speech made by Quebec’s Premier Maurice Duplessis at Maniwaki where he urged ~ that “force” be used against what he termed were “Communist agita- tors” im the labor movement. Dup- lessis’ remarks stemmed from the fact that a successful organiza- tional drive by the Canadian Union of Woodworkers is bringing hun- dreds of loggers into the trade union movement. Haddow and Pare also stressed that a spokesman for the Quebec Department of Labor has threat- ened that the government may “make sweeping amendments to its labor laws.” “No trade union,” said Haddow, “will be under any illusion as to: what is the intent of the anti- labor Duplessis government in raising a storm of anti-Commun- | ist incitement at this time. Again, as on previous occasions, the labor | movement is being conditioned for a new attempt to bring in legis- j lation which will hamstring it.” in the labor movement has any il- lusions about the kind of unions | Duplessis and his friends would | call bona-fide. Behind their crude camouflage of anti-communism lies their long-standing policy of try- ing to smash every.union which insists on representing .the true For years city council has been thinking about “cleaning up” False Creek, the rat-infested health | interests of its members and re- S> far, plans haven’t advanced beyond the talking It’s high time citizens demanded that counci’ act to remove the health hazard caused by the narrow channel of almost stagnang water, ideal spot for the start of an epidemic. fuses to kow-tow to the employ- toward labor was best illustrated two weeks in the to export revolution is nonsense.” the Soviet government to enter “into negotiations of a most busi- ness-like character with other powers” to settle all major inter- national issues now in conflict. A basic component of Soviet foreign policy, said Malik, is its readiness and willingness to enter into a five power peace pact with the United States, the U.K, France and People’s China. He stressed four other compon- ent points of Soviet policy: @ An immediate reduction of arms and the “unconditional pro- hibition of the atomic weapon and establishment of international con- trol over the prohibition of this weapon.” @ The carrying out of the Pots- dam agreement regarding Ger- many. @