died. “GAGLARDI MUST GO” says this unique banner carried by a woman in last Thursday's jobs demonstration in Victoria. A MORAL Vancouver Reader Writes: I was born and raised in a small town in south-western Turkey. ‘My home town’s inhabitants were mostly proletarian. Like myself, they could not afford to buy enough things to eat and -- Wear, We, my mother, father, grandmother, two sisters and two brothers all lived together and the house belonged to my grandmother. There were a couple promegranate trees in the yard which were planted by my father and two uncles. Between August and September the fruit was ripe enough to eat. I was 6-7 years old at that time. My brother and me always wanted to get some of the pomegrantes to eat but we were hever allowed to do so by our granny. She was so greedy that she would almost eat all of them, though of course there wasn’t enough time for her to be able to eat more than one percent because as soon as the rain fell Most of them perished and were eaten by the birds. My granny died at the age of 107, and she was ill for eight years. When the doctor came to our home one day he told her that if she could buy some medicine, she would be alright, but I told you how greedy she was. She wouldn’t buy any. Medicine to be cured, so she Nine years after her death we found considerable amounts of money which she had buried. We live in civilization at the present time and in a civilized country, but we still have many people like my granny. They possess many things for which they haven’t got much use, and the same unused things could save the whole world. If the owners of these things don’t give up greediness they will have the same conclusion as my granny. HOCKEY WAR A. Marsan, Ste. Agathe, P.Q., . writes: To please the Americans we have professional hockey on Sunday afternoon. It is not the desire of the French Canadians to go and see fist fights on Sunday but the Americans want it that way to make money on TV. As I wrote to Mr. David Molson, we are too much mixed with the Americans; they will lead our national sport to disaster. The expansion is wrong; each game is now a civil War. SUBSCRIBES A.J. of Oliver, B.C., sends some clippings from a recent issue of the Oliver Chronicle which carries extensive reports of statements made by the professional anti-Communist Pat Walsh while speaking in the Okanagan city under auspices of the pro-fascist Canadian League of Rights. A.J. writes: ‘Enclosed is $5.00 cash. I am subscribing to the Pacific Tribune. About all Mr. Walsh managed to do in this com- munity was to alienate the young people, and make me decide to subscribe to the Pacific Tribune.” Attention FRASER VALLEY Readers! : HEAR BRUCE MAGNUSON, Nat'l Labor Sec’ty Communist Party of Canada Speak On: “ACTION PROGRAM FOR JOBS” MONDAY - FEBRUARY 8th - 8 PM DELL HOTEL — WHALLEY Ausp: Fraser Valley Regional C’ttee GPG | Gaglardi ‘work-for-welfare’ plan no substitute for jobs (The Pacific Tribune asked CUPE representative Jack Phillips if he would give his opinion on the welfare program sponsored by P.A. Gaglardi’s department. Following are his views:) By JACK PHILLIPS From time to time we hear about the work for welfare program sponsored by P.A. Gaglardi, provincial Minister of Rehabilitation and Social Improvement. The typical project is to select two groups of ten men each from the ranks of married, employable men on social assistance. Once chosen, each group alternates every two weeks between the classroom and the work site. The work project endorsed by the city of Vancouver on August 20 of last year involves park maintenance, such as trimming, back brushing, footpath clearing and digging drains. Each group of ten spends about three months in class room sessions and work on the job. In the report submitted to Vancouver city council in August we find the following: “It became quite evident at the outset of the project that most of these men have serious family and personal problems”’. Further in the report: “Unfortunately there is no guarantee of full time employ- ment at the end of the course So much for Gaglardi’s solution to unemployment! In making the selection for these projects the Social Service Department and Canada Manpower work in cooperation. They assume that the men they are dealing with have a combina- tion of social, physical, psychological and vocational, limitations which prevent them from being referred directly to educational upgrading courses, vocational training courses or employment. In short, these men are the hard-core social assistance cases, with an VITAL READING Available at the Co-op Bookstore, 341 W. Pender St., Vancouver. Phone 685-5836. United In Struggle for Full Employment — A message to organized labor by Communist Party of Canada, by Labor Secretary Bruce Magnuson — 25 cents. Jack London: Sailor on Horseback, by Irving Stone — Biography of Jack London — 95 cents. Life and Deeds of Uncle Sam— A Little History for Big Children, by Oscar Ameringe. Published by the Farmer’s Association— .30 cents. Please include 5 percent tax and 15 cents postage. Pete Munro ill Veteran trade unionist and life- long Communist, Pete Munro is in Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver. He was suddenly taken ill Wednesday morning. The PT joins his many friends in wishing him a speedy recovery. elementary school education, or less, and on vocational skills. Some haven’t worked for many years. The classroom training is supposed to help them to adjust to the community at large, to Overcome their personal problems and to acquire the necessary attitudes, know-how and aggressiveness for job searching. The laboring work, under a ‘‘sympathetic’’ foreman, is supposed to help them in acquiring work discipline and in getting along with fellow workers. at the point of production. While the first such project was undertaken in Vancouver in 1969, the men received the going labor rate under union contract. In addition, they received a monthly allowance to bring their monthly income up to $50 more than they were receiving in welfare assistance. (This has since been raised to $100.) The medical coverage they were entitled to as welfare recipients was continued. Since the first Vancouver scheme in 1969, there has been no follow-up on those who participated, to determine what benefit they derived from the project. With the unemployment situation much worse today, the benefit is a dubious intangible. POOR SUBSTITUTE Obviously, such schemes which Gaglardi is trying to spread throughout the province, are a poor substitute for a full employment program. Many civic employees deeply resent such projects. Firstly, because they themselves are fearful of layoffs due to problems of muni- cipal financing. They can see an extension of this government — subsidized work force leading to a possible reduction of the regular work force. Secondly, because giving these * welfare case no other alternative but pick and shovel work tends, in the opinion of these civic employees, to leave the impression that thousands of public employees engaged in public works and maintenance are somehow or other being subsidized by the taxpayers to do unnecessary jobs— that they are on relief. This does not mean they are unsympathetic to welfare cases. Experience has taught them that many local politicians are more concerned with getting people off the welfare rolls than they are in creating more jobs. It is a sad commentary on our society that in this age of power digger and the mechanical earth mover, the provincial government wants to put men back on the pick and shovel to “rehabilitate’’ them. By and large, the unions involved have taken a good position. They say that if these men work in their jurisdiction, they must be covered by the applicable terms of the collective agreement and must not replace any unemployed members on the rehire list. They also say that such a program is a poor substitute for a large-scale program of public works and the building of low-rental housing in line with the requirements of the people. Further, they stress the need for new, national policies that will stimulate and broaden the economic life of the country. As one trade union officer put it, “We want to see jobs chasing workers, instead of a growing army of unemployed chasing a diminishing number of jobs.”’ BILL SHAW ILL Bill Shaw, veteran Communist and leading press worker, is in Vancouver’s — Shaughnessy hospital for treatment. The PT staff and readers send their best wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery. PUBLIC MEETING Hear BRUCE MAGNUSON, Nat'l Labor Sec’ty Communist Party of Canada Speak On: “ACTION PROGRAM FOR JOBS” SUNDAY — FEBRUARY 7th — 8 PM SWEDISH HALL (East Hastings St. & Clark Dr.) Ausp: Vancouver Regional C’ttee, CPC Classified advertising HALLS FOR RENT BUSINESS PERSONALS RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME Available for meetings, banquets and weddings at reasonable rates. 600 Campbell Ave. 254-3430. UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE - 805 East Pender St., Vancouver 4. Available for banquets, wed- aie, meetings. 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