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Calls Mass Meeting To
Get Action On Jobs

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idly behind the striking
in. British Columbia,
incial strike committee
d that $28,000.00 has
rwarded to National
-eadquarters. The com-
SO issued.a plea to the
| workers of British
to continue their sup-
he strikers.

‘’rovineial Strike Com-
Iso reported that one
thousand post cards will
rded by all union mem-
ir friends and families,
e Minister Mackenzie
‘manding that the Fed-

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imnment act now to amend
r Code, granting union
to all trade unions.

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@ the strikers of Local
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“esting a second vote be
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'ikers Must Win”
iEwen Warns

the Windsor Ford Strike stretched into its fourth
little in the way of new developments in the strike
were available. There was the possibility however
striking workers would again vote on acceptance

posal that they return to work,
pending government negotiation-
arbitration of the dispute, but
as yet no decision has been made’
by the strikers.

Tom McEwen, Provincial
Chairman of the Labor-Progres-
sive Party, speaking on behalf
of the Windsor-Ford Strike Com-
mittee charged that “The Ford
Motor Company of Canada has
embarked on a nation-wide cam-
paign of advertising with the
aim of distorting and confusing
issues of this historic strike.” He
pointed out that for seventeen
months, Local 200 of the UAW
tried to negotiate a union agree-
ment with the Company on the
same basis as applies in the
giant River Rouge plant, but that
the Ford Company had consis-
tently rebuffed advances made

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Men On

Breadlines

The hundreds of wuriem-
ployed in the city of Vancou-
ver are fed up with being
pushed around by Unemploy-
ment Insurance Commission
officials, National Employ-
ment Service Employees, and
employers of labor in Van-
couver. This fact emerged
from a series of interviews
with men lined up outside of
Selective Service headquar-
ters in Vancouver this week.

Men are also becoming indig-
nant. at the method by which
Unemployment Insurance pay-
ments are being cut off as a
means of forcing workers into
lower-paid employment, and
point out that the attitude of
Commission officials is, ‘Well,
you men will have to realize that
there aren’t any jobs at high
wages to be: had, so you’ll have
to take what comes and make
the best of it.” This attitude on
the part of Commission officials
is causing concern and some

anger on the part of men seek-
ing employment and subsisting

on Unemployment Insurance
beefits.
Outside the Hamilton and

Pender Selective Service office,
a recently terminated electrician
told me: “They’ve offered me a
job in a logging camp some-
where up the coast but I just
can’t take it. There’s no work
around for electricians it seems,
not in Vancouver anyway. I got
out of the army about a year
and one-half ago and my wife
and kid are in Vancouver. I
ean’t afford to take a job in
a logging camp and move my
family out of the city. I’ve never
worked in a logging camp, any-
way.”

The greatest fear among men
now receiving
benefits is that they will be
arbitrarily cut off of unemploy-
ment payments if they refuse
to take jobs offered. The grave
difficulty is that the jobs of-
fered by National Employment
Service are not in most cases
suitable. Steel erectors are be-

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unemployment.

A call to the unemployed in Vancouver was issued this week by the La-
bor-Progressive Party, as Austin Delany, City Organizer, urged the thous-
ands of jobless workers of Vancouver to rally toa mass meeting to be called
in Cambie Grounds, Sunday, December 16, at 2 p.m. In case of bad weather
the meeting is slated for the HastingsAuditorium at the same time.

Austin Delany, ex-Sergeant Jack Phillips, and Garry Culhane, Secretary
Shipyard General Workers Federation, will address
the meeting and will give the details of the Labor-
Progressive Party reconversion program.

“The meeting is being called to present the LPP
position on the unemployment crisis,” Delany told

“and to rally the unemployed veterans and
war workers in a united protest against the completely un-
necessary unemployment crisis,

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There are ominous signs in Vancouver that behind-

the-scenes movements are bein
veterans and organized labor!’
out that big business is on a

-move to solve the unemployment

BILL WHITE
Boilermakers’

LPP Enters
Candidate In
N. Okanagan

Labor - Progressive Party
Headquarters announced on
Wednesday morning this
week that Minerva Cooper,
LPP Educational Director
and former editor of the Wes-
tern Farmer, has been named
party standard bearer for the
North Okanagan by-election,
scheduled for December 19. Mrs.
Cooper was nominated at a nom-
inating conference held in Ver-
non Tuesday.

Pres., Union

It was pointed out by Nigel
Morgan at the time of the nom-
ination, that the executive of the
Labor-Progressive Party had
agreed to the proposal from the
North Okanagan LPP group to
nominate Minerva Cooper, be-
eause of the provincial signifi-

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g initiated to split and divide
Delany warned. He pointed
sit-down and is making no

muddle. He called on unemploy-
ed workers and veterans to sup-
port the planned meeting for the
urpose of uniting the unemploy-
d into a mass organization to
emand action on housing, public
works, and many other projects
which can provide employment
o the hundreds now seeking jobs.

OB CONFERENCE

Meanwhile, representatives of
rganized labor, veterans, civie
overnment and industry met at
job conference held in City Hall
o set up a committee which will
ttempt to relieve the unemploy-
nent crisis. Representatives of
rganized labor placed a number
f proposals before the meeting,
sking immediate institution of
he 40 hour week with co re-
in take-home pay, im-
plementation of the 14,000,000
dollar government works pro-
gram, location of bottlenecks in
supplies, establishment of second
and third shifts in industry.
Spokesmen for veterans asked.
federal responsibility for wun-
employment, veteran priority in
civil service, priority for vet-
erans in securing automotive
equipment.

Forty-five delegates to the
conference submitted many sug-

gestions designed to’ relieve the
unemployment situation.

Major General Hoffmeister,
who came in for sharp criticism
from organized labor recently
for statements charging discrim-
ination by unions against veter-
ans, was taken to task by repre-
sentatives of labor.

Hoffmeister’s suggestions drew
sharp criticism from Garry Cul-
hane who pointed out that veter-
ans were looking for homes and
jobs at decent wages and not a
chance to do odd chores around
other people’s homes. A propo-
sal to return Chinese to China
was repudiated by labor dele

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