lospital
lacilities
essential’

: jiscussing the problems of
iy kkers found by the recent
sh istrial survey to be suffer—

@ irom tuberculosis and
ed to leave industry, Wil-
@ Stewart, president of the
Hermakers and Iron Ship-
Wiers’ Union, Local No. 1, in
Stinterview with The People
| Mweek urged ail sections of
'@abor movement to press the
@ncial .government for im-
) sate action. Stewart said that

; overnment should be urged.

F-ovide hospital facilities for

_feular cases without delay,
“@to grant higher allowances
spendents of workers inca-
fited from illness and not
Wed by pensions or compen-
ae

.me need for adequate na-
‘health insurance policies
(uynever so pressing as it is
i.’ he said. “The workers
‘m™aiis coast have repeatedly
isin their own records of pro-
Stilo but there is another
ied that must be broken, and
figis reducing the number of
®icitims and other cases of
5 and accident not covered
wpisurance -to which authori-
“iow turn a callous sheulder.

Wart pointed out the great
mets of the industrial survey
§oeing taken by the ambu-
af unit of the division of
itt ailosis control in detecting
ig) cases of TB but expressed
}sfaction at the delay in

#2 suitable quarters to pro-—

#io0spital facilities.

4 only is a new hospital re-
wi, He said, but the need for
sprary Gwellings and hos-
equipment is quite press-
ae lhe government is not mov-
jist enough,” he declared.

ty asisted that as Jong as TB
iy were left to worry about
fire of their families once
@ mily income is stopped
47ill never get well.
4] TyOne agrees that in order
*e tuberculosis a patient
45 mental and physical
“that is hardly possible
§- existing conditions,’ he
® ied.
Rens of cases have come
| attention of the Boiler-
ie: Union and while we can
me financial assistance,
ases only serve to empha-
® need for proper health
#on and care of families,”
#< concluded.

listry Probe

> CH GEORGE, B.C.— The
: \-ommission inquiring into
©; Conditions presided over
tice Gordon Sloan which
mcd its hearings in Vic-
ie weeks ago will resume
sigs in the Fort George
' District where ain 1942
} percent of the fire loss
» Province was centered.
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Minerva Cooper Second City Nominee

LPP Names Burrard Candidate

“You have not

¢ picked a novice, but one who
ment,” declared Dorise Nielsen, M.P., endorsing

has been tried and tested in the labor move-
the nomination of Minerva Cooper, pro-

vineial secrétary of the Labor-Progressive Party, as the partys candidate for Vancouver-
before a nominating convention in Foresters’ Hall last Sun-

Burrard federal constituency,
day. “Many are the difficult jobs
member for North Battleford stated.
ing and heartaches felt by the homest
this riding to see that she comes

to Ottawa where we can fight
together again.”

Nominated by Shelly Rogers,
chairman of Machinists’ Union,
Local 692, Mrs. Cooper’s nomin-
ation received unanimous ap-
proval and the audience gave
her-a Standing ovation as she
advanced to the platform to
make her acceptance remarks.
_‘I am more deeply honored
than I can say at being selected
as your standard bearer in Van-
eouver Burrard riding,’ she
Said. “I accept the responsibili-
ties gladly.

“We are a party of scientific
socialists and we know we have
a great contribution to give to
the future development of Can-
ada. Our party will fight for
reforms and improvements for
the workers in order to streng-
then the movement for social-
ism.

“We are not promising the

“perennial roads and bridges. We

will leave that to the political
premisers. I pledge to you my
utmost in this great struggle for
a better Canada.

“The lights of the shipyards
which have signalized the great
Productive efforts of our workers
will never be dimmed because of
any slackening on our part to
“keep the wheels of industry re-
volving in our country to assure
our people social secruity and a
better life.”

Presided over by Val Christie,
chairman of Mount Pleasant LPP
branch, the convention heard
Fergus McKean, provincial LPP
leader and the party’s
candidate for Vancouver Center,
score the false issues being raised
by other political parties to con-
fuse and divide the people of
Canada. Lashing out at the false
issue of “socialism versus free
enterprise,” McKean stated that
the agitation being conducted by
the CCF leadership and certain
leaders of reaction around this
false. slogan only beclouded the
real issues of postwar reconstruc-
tion in Canada and played into
the hands of those who wished to
divide the people.

Pointing out that Mrs. Gooper
Was the fourth to be nominated
of the nine federal candidates the
LPP intended to name in this
province, McKean said that the
coming federal election was the
most important of any yet held;
“because the government to be
elected will be responsible for
determining the pattern of Can-
ada’s development in the postwar
era and for many decades to
come.”

Explaining that the party would
fight for unity of the working

‘people around a program serving
their needs, he condemned the
propaganda being spread by the
CCF leadership predicting unem-
ployment and ruin after the war.

Citing the provisions of the

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that with a united Tabor move-
ment to press for the necessary
reforms, a long period of peace-
ful economic development was
assured, but, he continued, the
“continued harping by such CGF
jJeaders as Mrs. Dorothy Steeves
on points of difference among the
United Nations to the exclusion
of the general unity already
achieved, only breeds suspicion
and defeatism and leaves the
people confused and divided, to
the advantage of reactionary ele-
ments who, because they are most
fearful of the progressive move-
Iment of the people, seize upon
the divisions the CGF creates.
“Whether the feaders of the
CCF are conscious or not of the
role they are playing is nof the
main issue. The facts are that
their stubborn opposition to the
spirit of the Teheran agreement
and their refusal te unite with
other working class movements,
their persistence in playing parti-
san politics, in using every pro-
gressive issue as a political foot-
ball, helps to spread defeatism
and confusion and injures the
cause of the people,” he said.
MeKean cited the stand on the
Japanese taken by Angus Mac-
Innis, MP, at the recent CCF pro-
vinecial convention as exeraplify-
ing the €CF leadership’s role.
“While we have still to defeat
Japan, while all our energies must
be bent towards a victory we have
still to win, the GCF leadership
further divides the people of Brit-
ish Columbia by demanding votes
for the Japanese,” he stated. “The
War against Japan is relegated to
the background while the atten-
tion of the people of British
Columbia is directed towards the
issue Of giving the franchise to
the Japanese an issue artificially
created by the CCF. What kind
of leadership is this? Is this the
way to rally the people for the
defeat of the Japanese fascists.
This is a first class demonstration
of political irresponsibility.”
Contrasting the positive policies
of the LPP with the negative
position adopted by the CCF lead-
ership, McKean declared that the
LPP program was realistic, cap-
able of realization at this time and
embodied the main desires of the
Canadian people for social secur-
ily measures, jobs and rehabili-
tation; “things upon which the
-greatest unity and agreement can
be found in the country.”
Holding that unity of all pro-
gressive forces and particularly
labor unity was as essential to
reconstruction as to victory, Mc-
Kean recounted the many appeals
ihe LPP had made to the CCE
for cooperation to establish work-

ing class unity or at least to
achieve a degree of electoral
agreement.

“All overtures for united action
have been answered by redbaiting
and deliberate distortion of the
political aims of the LPP. As a
responsible political party the
LPP has certain duties to perform
and these include bringing a
correct program, to theSpeople
and electing to public office men
and women pledged to carry it

out.
Turning his fire upon the Pro-

we have done together in the past,” the Tabor-Progressive

“Mrs. Cooper is one who has experienced the suffer-
eaders of Saskatchewan and I want the electors of
Teheran agreement, McKean said _ i

MINERVA COOPER

LPP standard bearer
couver-Burrard federal constitu-
ency who has won wide acclaim
as one of the most accomplished
women speakers in the labor
movement on the Coast. Born in
North Bay, Ontario, Mrs. Cooper
attended university in Saskatche-
wan and later homesteaded ‘in
that province. A former school
teacher, she became editor of the
Western Farmer in 1940 and con-
ducted a series of broadcasts on
farm problems. Last year she
was elected provincial’ secretary
of the lLabor-frogressive Party
in British Golumbia.

gressive Conservative Party, Me-
Kean castigated John Bracken,
its national leader “as a man
who deals with deceptive slogans
and programs.”

“Do you think,” he asked his
listeners,’ that a party which
produced R. B. Bennet and Ar-
thur Meighen has changed for
the better because it finds an
instrument in John Bracken to
smooth out its deceptive slo-
gans.’

“It is sections of this party,
allied with such people as Glad-
stone. Murray and others who
raise divisive issues, that find
comfort in the antiunity and de-
featist policies of the GCF lead-
ership,” he said. =

in Van-=

3
CCL Brief
Criticizes
Health Bill

OTTAWA. — Exception to
sections of the national health
insurance plan in its present
stage is taken in a brief sub-
mitted te members of the
House of Commons Social
Security Committee by the
Canadian Congress of Labor.

Objecting. to the methods of
financing proposed in the bill,
Which the brief describes as a
“flagrant violation” of the prin-
ciple of the ability to pay, the
brief states:

“The flat rate contribution of
$12 per adult is simply a head

‘tax perhaps the most objection-

able type of tax there is and
certainly one that has no rela-
tion at all to the ability to pay.

“The fiat percentage income
tax of three percent’ for single
persons and five percent. for mar-
ried persons is almost equally
objectionable, especially in view
of the maximum limit of $30 for
single persons and $50 for mar-
ried persons.

In a memorandum to the gov-
ernment last February, the CCL
asked that any health services
plan should be-

-@ Nationwide in scope.

@ Preventative as well as cura-

tive, with emphasis upon pre-
vention. :

@ Complete and covering all
forms of treatment required-

@ Open to all irrespective of
income. pee

@ Democratically controlled
through fully representative
bodies on which lay members
shall be in the majority.

@ Directed especially towards
the improvement of health
Standards in- rural areas.

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