SS OS SCO eS NN —_ SS = Se SS SU OU? Bee. COU. OS... =. = Sl é_ Wanting ror GQ prance, Of some 60 : men, young and ine aed, who were waiting € at the Hamilton street Sin, ) | Ble men’s welfare office on ee Morning, a good a a have been working up i aaa or so ago, and would Eas ae job the moment € majority of the 20 older ine Heerviewed said they were Oi me residents of B.C. The ae men had been in the tha Ce, on the whole, for more a year. roses ormation culled from a Datien peenn of the men waiting Very ve to be served by the eS; eecauate staff gives the Such © statements of people Gagla aS Welfare Minister + Ral and Mayor Tom fee who have been trying transie me the impression only elfa nts haunt the single men’s Te office and the taxpayer. Onday morning more than , 3 Ay €n staged a protest at the Milto Dec in’ Of the long delay in Drocese their applications 0 Bac and the cheques they Tuesday Need. One man said on ay Morning he had been at . eee a.m. so he could Waiting e line, but he was still 8 on the bench at 10 a.m. Sey thej, 2 Of the young men had N street welfare office last week when the ancient house they lived in burned down. They too were waiting, from Monday until Tuesday, to get the $45 (two week pittance) that would enable them to find a room. The applicants were asked if they had a trade. “Have la trade?”’ snorted one of them in reply. ‘I’ve got five trades if anyone wants to use them. I’m a truck driver, a painter, and Tcan cook and I’ve worked in hospitals A 60-year old man who said he was ‘‘just a laborer”’, reported he had just returned from the Okanagan. ‘‘The valley is full of - students looking for fruit picking jobs,”’ he said, ‘‘and they get work ahead of old fellows like me.”’ Another man was a Stationery engineer and had the papers to prove it. “My unemployment insurance ran out six weeks ago.” Add to the above men who have been logging, several fisher- men, a. geophysical survey tech- nician, an asbestos miner, and an artist, and you see a Cross section of unemployed B.C. “Why come to us?” asked a - a membership has increased by man perhaps in his forties. “There’s over 8 percent unemployed in this lousy province, So where else would we be but in a relief line-up. s the Gaglardis rant There’s lots more like us!”” he added bitterly. The younger men, with a few exceptions, had been out of school for three years more or. less, but in that time had done only ‘“‘odd jobs’’.: ‘“Never gota trade,’’ one after another said. ““Wouldn’t matter . . . there’s no jobs anyhow. . .” And so they wait, and wait, and wait in the cramped quarters of the welfare office, morning after morning, and the sun beats down and you can’t get a decent room for $10, (yet we’re expected to) and the young ones want an old house where they could make out together, maybe, and in the meantime, the Gaglardi’s and the Campbells and the whiny voices on the hot line programs go on telling the people that here in beautiful B.C. there is no place for guys who won’t work. . . Thirsty or Hungry? Unions at all-time high OTTAWA — Union member- ship in Canada hit an all-time high in January, 1970, when it reached the 2,173,000 mark. In the last 10 years, union almost 50 percent of non-agri- cultural paid workers. Union membership affiliated with the CLC made up 75 percent of the total, while 9.5 percent were affiliated to the Quebeé- based CNTU, and 15.4 percent comprised unaffiliated national or international unions. Nineteen unions reported a membership of 30,000 or more and combined they have a membership of 1,155,000 or 53 percent of the total. ne. L —Lossessions go up in smoke Canada Over $10,000 P $ n 7.000 - $10,000 Re 5000 - $7,000 ’5 ine Pere e eee Mtage Distribution of Canadian Families *3,000 - $5,009 “nder $3,000) 1951 1957 Dat a: DBs, only nonfarm families prior io 1965 ome pyramid has been turned upside down 4 1952 “961 1967 1969 Workers Of Canada 1 | i 1 Pro : J Cater; ative Fraternal Society 1 lit, all yourneeds inthe 1 : He Insurance field ] FEINSUR Rrice l I ENDOWMENTS i i PENSION PLANS WEEKLY BENEFITS 5 East Pender St. or Stional Office at .”S Pritchard Ave. | | I Appl Y to: B.C. office at | 'Nnipe | 9 4, Manitoba | Council hits CFAW raid Full support for UFAWU members in Nova Scotia in their fight for representation by the union of their choice was expressed by the Council of ‘ Canadian Unions, es, en- Convention delegat on the dorsing a resolution ‘ Nova Scotia fishermen’s dispute submitted by the Canadian Textile and Chemical Union, TED HARRIS. 757 East Hastings St. Vancouver 4, B.C Painters‘and Paperhangers Supplies Sunworthy Wallpaper Reg. 45¢ — Now 19¢ a Roll GLOBE PLANNING A TRIP? For all your travel needs contact: vee 2679 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 6, B.C. TOURS 254-2313 condemned the Canadian Food and Allied Workers and the Canadian Labor Congress ‘for their anti-union practices.” The resolution outlined the background to the strike and pointed out that UFAWU members fought a seven month strike last year as part of their struggle to win agreements from two foreign owned and subsidized fishing companies. After the strike had met with partial victory, it said, the com- panies “called in the CFAWU (Meat Cutters and Butcher Work- men) who signed a contract without agreement of the men, who were then dismissed for refusal to sign CFAWU cards.” Labelling the CFAWU actions as ‘‘the worst type of conduct,” the resolution said these “geabbing practices have been approved by CLC president Donald MacDonald.” Beaver Transfer * Moving * Packing * Storage 790 Powell St. WANTED — Phone 254-3711 253-129] i The chart above, reprinted from the Commentator, organ of Local 480, United Steel Workers Union, Trail B.C., illustrates how the nation’s income distribution has been turned upside down, and the trend continues to accelerate. OBITUARY — Following a long illness, a long- time resident of Vancouver and activist in trade union and cultural circles, Joseph (Joe) Freedman passed away recently in the Vancouver General Hospital. Born in Lodz, Poland in 1898, Joe Freedman came to Canada in 1921, settling first in Winnipeg, then moving to Toronto, then back to the prairie city, and finally to Vancouver, where he resided since 1935 until his passing. In all these centers Joe was a tireless exponent of trade unionism and was a key figure in ‘much of the organization in his own trade, that of a fur worker. While in Toronto he established the first local of the Fur Workers Union, then an affiliate of the WUL. Joe was also active in the Toronto Labor League press and a tireless worker for the United Jewish Peoples Order (UJPO) and the Jewish language weekly paper The Wochenblatt. Blacklisted by many furrier bosses in Toronto and Winnipeg for his union activities, a cruel but also an illuminating tribute to his devotion to the cause of Labor, Joe Freedman never slackened in his struggle for labor organization, cultural advance, and lasting peace. 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