National jobless parley will meet government to demand job actio . The delegate conference of representative Ottawa April 27 will seek appointments with Labor . other cabinet ministers. _ The conference, at which about 80 delegates coming national organization, is also planning to of Commons, to solicit support for a program of public works, cash relief payments on a national system. Quebec province will send about 0 delegates, including 15 from Mon- treal, Quebec City, Rouyn, Three Rivers, and other centers will be represented, Quebec unemployed organizations are now organized in a provincial council. From B.C., Fred Collins, leader of the provincial council there, and One other delegate, will speak at Ottawa for 60,000 unemployed in that province. Toronto will send & score or more, headed by Ray Collette, president of the Toronto unemployed union and chairman of the provisional committee organiz- ing the national parley. Welland has elected seven. Cities in West- ern Canada and the Maritimes will also be represented. Officials stress that this is not a Mass demonstration of unemployed, but a conference primarily to make representations to the government and to set up a national organiza- tion. * x * Close to 80 delegates representing trade unions, Legion branches, poli- tical and youth organizations, and National groups, attended the all-in Conference on unemployment in Pender Auditorium last week and heard Fred Collins, president of the Vancouver Unemployed Action Association, give a detailed report ©n the jobless situation in B.C. “At present there is no appre- | Ciable decrease in unemployment,” Said Collins. “About 15 percent of the working force is jobless. Destitution is widespread, thous- ands of citizens have exhausted their benefits and the federal gov~- ernment is doing nothing to cope With the problem.” _ Collings told delegates that a na- _ tional organization, uniting “all gen- uine, independent unemployed or- 8anizations,” will be established at @ national conference which will be held in Ottawa on April 26. Collins will represent the Vancouver UAA at this meeting, and an unemployed delegate from Vancouver Island will also attend, The conference passed resolutions Calling upon the federal government to trade with all the world, increase Unemployment insurance and boost relief scales, eee THE DRAMA WORKSHOP OF UNITED JEWISH PEOPLE’S ORDER Presents “It’s Hard To Be A Jew” By Scholom Aleichem Directed by Garry Culhane Sunday, April 23 8.30 P.M. YORK THEATRE Tnvitation Available - Call PA. 2454. ’ s of Canadian unemployed organizations to convene in Minister Mitchell, Prime Minister St. Laurent and They will demand action on jobs for half a million unemployed workers in Canada. from almost every province will meet to form a meet in caucuses with each of the parties represented in the House higher unemployment insurance benefits and STEEL ISSUE BEFORE COUNCIL OTTAWA Right wing stand again challenged For the third successive meeting, delegates to Vancouver ‘Labor Council (CCL) forced Steel representatives and execu‘s.ve council raembers to defend their untenable position of. approval toward Steel’s raiding tactics against Mine-Mill at Trail. Bill Stewart (Boilermakers) made a motion under “new business’ that council petition CCL and CIO headquarters to inform all afhliates ‘sf any extension or alteration of jurisdiction of national or interna- tional unions is made between con- ventions.” Such a provision “would notify unions so that they can De prepared to repel raiders.’ (When Steel raided Mine-Mill, USW heads later claimed jurisdic- tion on the basis of a secret letter from Philip Murray. This letter has been submitted to Labor Rela- tions Board, but never discussed in council. Apparently Steel heads have greater confidence in govern- ment agencies than in trade union bodies.) Stewart’s resolution was voted down, 41-29, in a standing vote, after Dan Radford, CCL ‘representa- tive, loudly asserted that “the CCL has no secrets.” ~ Another. resolution from Marine Workers and Boilermakers Union, asking council. to initiate a dele- gate conference of all youth organ- izations and other groups interested in tackling the problem of “hood- lumism,” won wide ‘support, from delegates. : An alternate proposal advanced by the executive, that council ask the city to call the conference in- stead of having the VLC call it, caused a split vote, 34-34, which was broken by Chairman Pen Baskin's deciding vote in favor of the ex- ecutive recommendation, William White (Boilermakers) ex- pressed his opinion: “Referring the matter to city council means that it will probably be pigeon-holed.” Delegates heard Murray Cotter- i i irector ill, CCL political action direc and one of the jeaders of the Steel raid at Trail, declare that pensions for everyone would be “the No. 1 the political front this objective on r ak year and the top issue in negotia- tions.” Cotterill’s placing of pores de- mands ahead of wage eman s is “the Reuther line for 1950” and is not far removed. from President Truman's pledge of “prosperity for everyone by the year 2000. eee STANTON & MUN RO Barristers, Solicitors, Notavies SUITE 515, FORD BUILDING, (Corner Main & Hastings Sts. 193 E. HASTINGS ST. ) MArine 5746 Police, scabs attack pickets TRENTON, Ont. Six men and 35 women strikers at the Downs Coulter Company here, this week stood their ground val- iantly before the combined assaults of police and_more than 50 strike- breakers before being forced to yield by sheer weight of numbers. The strikers were defending their jobs in the textile plants as mem- bers of the United Textile Workers (AFL) Local 105 which has been on strike in this town for 15 weeks in a battle for a 15-cent hourly wage increase and the 40-hour week. Starting wages now are 40 cents an hour for women and 55 cents for men. The UTW began negotiat- ing for the new contract last Aug- ust. On Monday this week the company was ready to start the strike-break- ing movement. Escorted by the local police department and 35 new- ly-recruited strikebreakers, they en- tered the plant by a side entrance when strikers barricaded the front gate. The story that police had to smash the door was a “grandstand } play,” union Officials declare, Com- pany Officials inside actually plied axes to the door, although all they had to do was open the lock. The door opens outward. Strikebreakers left town before the action. George Beckett, UTW organizer and strike leader, issude an appeal for support to all unions in Ontario and Quebec, “regardless of whether they are CIO or AFL.” Program correction In the Labor-Progressive party’s statement on agricultural policy featured in the March 24 issue of the Pacific Tribune, point No. 3 of’ the program should read: The Dominion government must put a floor under all farm prices, including a minimum floor price no lower than $2 a bushel for wheat for the next three crop years’ paying an additional 25 cents a bushel for wheat marketed under the Five Year Pool. with pie in Reuther stifles strike sky deal INDSOR A bare 24 hours before strike deadline, UAW president, Walter Reuther came to Windsor to sell his pension scheme to 11,000 Ford Workers of Local 200, United Aut o Workers union. The agreement with the proft-swollen company, accepted this week, give Ford workers the equivalent of 7.9 cents an hour for a $55 a month pension payable after 30 years of work. No sooner had acceptance been assured by UAW leaders, then the company announced a record profit of $17,356,762 last year—equivalent to $10.40 a share for U.S. stock- holders, an increase of more than 250 percent over 1948. The company announced also that production re- cords had’ been broken for the year with 112,130 vehicles rolling off the speeded up assembly lines. The pension plan promises Ford | workers $55 a month when they | reach the age of 65—provided they have worked 1,800 hours each year (250 working days) for 30 years. In addition, they will get a com- pany-paid insurance plan and hos- pital, sickness and accident bene- fits. A number of important con- tract improvements were conceded by the company to the union. Acceptance. of the $55 pension plan is a long retreat by UAW lead- ers from the original 3i-cent pack- age demand, which included $100 pension after 25 years. The UAW | leadership began negotiations more than 13 months ago. Following re- jection of a conciliation board of- fer of a $55 scheme, Local 200 voted to take strike action, set the dead- line for April 12, announced they | would go back to the 31-cent pack- age. : The Reuther-led leadership of the UAW, along with the company, called on Welfare Minister Paul Martin, who is a Windsor MP, and he made a vague Liberal promise that “he believed the old-age pen- sion means test would be abolished | in a few years and a contributory | scheme enacted by the govern-}| ment.” (Otherwise, Ford workers who qualified for the company pen- sion, would have been disqualified | for the government pension of $40) and would have profited by only | $15.) Martin made no definite com- | mitment, however. Acceptance of the $55 plan by | rank-and-file Ford workers was re-| i struction work in the city. portedly made with little enthusi- asm. There was no alternative wage proposal put forward by UAW leaders. While the final count was not available at press time, the Pacific Tribune learned the vote in favor was about two thirds, not unanimous, as some newspapers re- ported. The 7.9 cents per hour increase is reported to include 4.6 cents for the pension and 3.25 cents for hos- pital, health and insurance. Strike, lockout ties up Victoria building jobs VICTORIA, B.C. Strike of CBRE employees at Evans, Coleman and Johnson, Ltd., has led to a tie-up of all major con- Build- ing trades workers are giving full support to the strikers and refusing to cross picket lines. In retaliation, contractors are laying off building trades workers lon many jobs not affected by the CBRE strike. Unity between AFL construction workers and CBRE strikers remains firm, despite this lockout provocation. NEW ADDRESS 9 EAST HASTINGS Corner Carrall I invite you t visit my new: office. I have: no connectio with an y other dental office. Phone TA, 5552 DR. R. 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