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Gov't conceals truth about
unemployment and proposals

N. ANDERSON, Vancouver,,
B.C.: At the beginning of the year,
when unemployment was high,
government officials were busy is-
Suing denials that there were 40,-
600 unemployed in this province.
They claimed that no more than
20,000 were unemployed, mostly
seasonal, they said.

Now that the logging camps
are opening up again and more
jobs are available in the build-
ing and other trades, the truth
comes out. It appears that the real
total of unemployed was 50,000
not 40,000. We only get the truth
by way of a claim that unem-
ployment has been reduced this
month from 50,000 to 30,000.

Even in a matter like this the
government tries to conceal the
truth from the people. I leave it
to the imagination of your read-
ers to conceive how much is be-
ing kept from us about the vari-
ous military installations through-
out the country—and_the secret
clauses in the Atlantic pact.

However, what interests me,
and I expect it will interest a
lot of other people who can ex-
pect to be lining up outside Un-
employment Insurance Commis-
sion’s offices before very long at
the rate Canada is losing export
markets, is the real extent of the
St. Laurent government’s plan for
meeting an unemployment crisis.

When Mackenzie King was still
prime minister we were assured
repeatedly that the government
had a huge program of public
works ready. As soon as unemploy-
ment reached serious proportions
the government would start work

en this program im urcer to take
up the slack.

Now, it turns out that this huge
program will not give work to any
more than 30,000 people — the
number of unemployed in this
province at the present time. But
the government’s program is sup-
posed to take care of the unem-
ployed throughout the country
when unemployment really be-
comes serious, and from all the
statements I have seen the gov-
ernment does not consider the
situation serious yet.

What a colossal fraud!

I am only a pensioner, and it

will not make a great deal of dif-
ference to me as I could not hope
to hold a job if I could find one.

I think though, that some of
these men in the trade unions
and the veterans’ organizations
who are playing the, government’s
game by organizing witch-hunts
against communists would do bet-
ter to start worrying about things
like jobs for their members and
public projects to take care of
their members who have no jobs.
Otherwise, ‘the government will
be solving its problem by putting
us all in uniforms, with or with-
out a swastika.

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A short while ago, Port Alberni
city fathers endorsed a resolution
calling for federal aid in develop-
ing the local airport. That reso-
tion ended with the familiar
words, “. .. can be used for mili-
tary purposes by land and sea
aircraft.” I believe the petition
for the Alberni-Cumberland high-

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for peace

way concluded much the same
way. An editorial in the Twin
City Times for March 14 also took

up the refrain, “. . . if need be,
could become a center of military
importance.” The editorial con-
cluded with the statement: ‘(There
are some indications that an ap-
peal of this nature would not fall
on deaf ears.”

How are we who live in the Al-
berni valley to interpret this?
Have we come to such a pass that
the ‘only local improvements to
which the federal government will
contribute are those that have
some military value?

I have yet to see any facts, as
opposed to the speculation, opin-
ion propaganda and outright
falsehoods, which show that the
Soviet Union is planning agegres-
sion against this country or any
cther. But it is quite obvious that
certain interests in this country
are preparing for war and that
their military preparations are de-
signed more for conducting ag-
gressive than defensive warfare.

But, if our government so ar-
dently desires peace, how about
it talking peace instead of war?
How about building roads and
hospitals for peace purposes?

It must be apparent that if we
in this Alberni valley, as in any
other district, allow our public
works and industries to be built
with a view to war, we shall pay
the price in the destruction of our
living standards and ultimately in
the destruction of ; our homes.
Such a policy is as dangerous as
the bombs it may bring.

I am all in favor of a program
for building schools, hospitals,
low-cost homes, roads, an airport,
but these things can only mean
real progress for our community
if they are constructed for peace.

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—HOLLY WOOD

LEADING FOREIGN delegates to the cultural and scientific
“peace conference’’ to be held in New York March 25-27 will come
to the West Coast for similar conferences, the Arts, Sciences and
Professions Council announced here last week.

The local conference will be
under the direction of the world-
noted chemist, Dr. Linus Pauling,
director of the Crellin and Gates
laboratory at the California In-
stitute of Technology and region-
al director of the ASP council.

The meetings will be held here
April 16-20. The New York con- -
ference, called under the direc-
tion of Dr. Harlow Shapely, di-
rector of Harvard Observatory,
will be held at the Waldorf-
Astoria hotel.

Among delegates already en
route to New York, are:

Abee Jean Boulier, France;
Maria Michi, Italy; Dmitri Shos-
takovich, USSR; Erling Chris-
tophersen, Norway; Louis Gold-
ing, Britain; Carlo Levi, Italy;
A. A, Fadayev, USSR; N. Gan-
gulee, India; and Paul Eluard,
France,

(Four British delegates, J. D.
Bernal, scientist; J. G. Growthers,
historian; Louis Golding, novelist,
Patricia Burke, actress, were barr-
ed by the U.S. state department
on the ground that the “peace
conference” fas a front for com-
munist propaganda.

The state department, which

Einstein honored |

has reluctantly approved admis-
sion of Soviet and other delegates,
has also taken what it terms “re-
taliatory action” in barring five
Hungarian delegates.)

The ASP council here said other
delegates are scheduled from Lat-
in America, Israel and other
countries but their names have
not yet been received here.

Many of these, Dr. Pauling said,
will come to the Los Angeles-

Hollywood conference and per-
haps to others on the West Coast,
but just which delegates was not
known at this time.

It is known, however, that a
number of the delegates after the
Los Angeles-Hollywood conference
will leave April 21 for San Fran-
cisco for a meeting under Arts,
Sciences & Professions Council
auspices there.

Sponsors of the New York
conterence include Herbert
John Davis, president of Smith
College; Dr. Sarah Gibson Blan-
ding, president of Vassar Col-
lege; Dr. Albert Kinstein, Dr.
Guy Emery Shipler, Artur
Schnabel, Lyle Borst, Frank
Lloyd Wright, T. O.. Thackery
and Rabbi Louis Newman.

i

Dr. Albert Einstein, one of the sponsors of the cultural and
scientific conference for peace which will open in New York this

weekend, is greeted by a group

of refugee children as he cele-

brates his 70th birthday in his Princeton, N.J., home. The little
girl second from left is a cousin of Einstein who met him for
the first time at the birthday celebration.

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