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By NIGEL MORGAN
VICTORIA, B.C. — Branding the federal government’s newly-enacted Wartime
Wage Control Order 1943 as being “vile,” and “totally against British justice,” the
Saanich Municipal Council this week voted unanimously to demand its immediate
withdrawal. The resolution, adopted after a letter had been read from the Van-
couver Island Joint Labor Conference appealing for the council’s support, directed

Cae Municipal Clerk W. A. Greene to advise R. W. Mayhew, M.P. for Victoria, of their
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LABOR’S VOICE FOR VICTORY

Hl. TH. No. 4,

Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, January. 29, 1944

| TORONTO, Ont. — The great majority of the Ca-
lian people desire unity within the British Com-
nwealth of Nations in support of the Teheran
eement which will bring about lasting Anglo-Am-

#¢© any proposal tending to diminish Dominion sov-
ignty signalized by the Statute of Westminster.
This is the position of the Labor-Progressive Party,
“| expressed through Stanley Ryerson, LPP national
§licity and education director, in a statement on
| week’s speech in Toronto by Lord Halifax, British
§Dassador to the United States.

Speaking before the Toronto Board of Trade, Hali-
advecated greater imperial centralization in mat-

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; VICTORIA, B.C.—Foremost among the important
es to come before the legislature when it meets
f coming week is that of rehabilitation and recon-
ction. :
lt is now a year since the Post-War Rehabilitation
incil headed by Hon. G. T. Perry, minister of edu-
jon, completed its voluminous report. But beyond
rant of 1,000,000 acres of land to the Dominion
ifernment for settlement under the Veterans’ Land
of 1942 and a scheme for construction of a
way network through the province, the Hart
oition government has given little indication of
folans.

“Thousands of workers in new indusiries will want
now what plans the government has for ensur-
jcontinuation of their employment in the post-war
od. Shipyard workers, in particular, will expect
government to give leadership in bringing about
establishment of a steel industry on the Coast,

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‘an-Soviet collaboration, but they will rightly op-

views and to request his assistance toward this end.

American troops in Italy are finding “General Mud” a
tough foe. Wearing hip boots, these Yanks try to extricate
a jeep mired in a muddy Italian field.

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tehabilitation Big Issue;

Unions Ask
ICA Act
Amendment

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Benefit
Fund For

Evans

With Arthur H. Evans, one
of British Columbia’s best-
loved labor men and nation-
ally known as the leader of
the 1935 Regina trek of single
unemployed, lying in Viancou-
ver General Hospital suffer-
ing from dangerously serious
injuries sustained when he
was struck down by an auto-
mobile, The People this week
announced the establishment
of a special benefit fund for
the injured labor man and
appealed to all his friends
and labor people generally to
Send in contributions imme-
diately.

Intended to help pay for
the heavy doctor and hospital
expenses — specialists have
been called in—and assist
his wife and daughter, it will
be called the Arthur Evans
Benefit Fund. Contributions
should be mailed in care of
this fund to the offices of
The People, 104 Shelly
Building, Vancouyer, B.C.

Evans was injured when,
after alighting for a streetcar
on Kingsway, he walked
around the back of the ve-
hicle and into the path of a
ear travelling west. Picked
up by another driver, he was
rushed to hospital and found
to be suffering from com-
pound fractures of both legs,
lacerations and severe head
injuries.

Unconscious since the acci-
dent, at time of going to press
hospital attendants described
his condition as “un-
changed.” It is feared that
both legs will have to be
amputated.

An indication of the high
regard held for him by thou-
sands of labor people is seen
in the fact that hospital offi-

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