.econstruction Council |
To Submit Housing Plan |

Last week Vancouverites were telling each other that the housing sit-
uation just couldn’t get any worse. This week, with 40 owners of scows and
shacks on soon-to-be-reclaimed False Creek added to the long list of those

facing eviction the crisis has reached new, almost unbelievable proportions.
And while the homeless demand action, city forces are gradually tak-

\ LABOR’S VOICE FOR VICTORY ing sides in the fight for or against adequate housing for the families of
-- __ servicemen, war workers, and the host of other civilian workers without
pe OP et NO. 22 <> 5 Cents whose contribution the war could not be won.

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" victory is now a real pos- Ee ocnss een: ete ses
| Sibi Ge the ative building of certain sections of
: React: pe a a the big B-29 Superfortress
Yee peoples are thrown into bombers was seen by officials ,
ee inumnediarely: : of Aeronautical Lodge 756
as an indication that recon-
version of the industry to new
types of construction is no
idle dream of the future, but a
practical principle which can Wa

- be applied now.”

Not only the battle-
fronts, but a series of dip--
Wi =«lomatic defeats for Ger-
wy, many in Finland and now —

- Bulgaria, give proof that.

the “New Order” is dis-
amtegrating. Even the
most reluctant neutrals
and satellites are drawing
the necessary cenclusions.

Construction of the new
parts, which have never been
: made in Boeing plants here
Vera Olzewski is acclaimed “Miss United Nations” at the labor-Progressive before, can be accomplished

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ie ‘Phe powerful Soviet ad-, Picnic at Confederation Park. with little dislocation of the
vances to the Baltic coast = : ' industry, believes the union,
and actoss. the Polish . a eas oe : which through its production a
plains have been matched TOTTETAEAETEE AAUP TUTTO li commiuttee will work in co- es
by the drama of the west- ~ operation with the manage-

ern front springing into
action and breaking the
two-month stalemate.

ment ‘to put production
changes into effect as

: on Tri = UTeSs smoothly and efficiently as
a Allied armies following fe | possible.

their brilliant break- x z j ete : Stu Kennedy, Lodge 756
through in southern Nor- ; recording secretary, told The z
mandy now are in a pOsi- | = : : : People shortly after comple-
ton t a ale rey “tion of negotiations for the

hy Nee 2 ee Goal $10,000 ay ee had been an-
already foreshadowed by CONTRIBUTION. fo the ae nounced that “‘there is no

evacuation of German ci- | por Progressive Party’s fed- reason that Boeings should
® vilian personnel from eral election fund yet? If you be a one-plane plant. We
Paris. ae, ae gee eee can branch out into sub-con-
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Germany ig feeling the your club doing to .oversub- tract work for different types

eae Eetrak defeat fro seribe that quota? If you are of aircraft, and I can see
ee ret os detest, trom) not a member, you can show nothing to prevent conver-
other quarters, too. The your support by making a sion to production of con-
sudden decision of Fin- donation to the LPP fighting sumer goods in the pre-fab-

| land’s president Risto _} fund NOW.

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# eg eer : By October, when work A

ricated woods field when

but by bringing that policy

j lands capitulation. before voters in the oe ef- MONTREAL.—In one of the bitterest and on the B-29’s will reach a i
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8 ey can ae Se Aaa this province has known in all its turbulent politi- 3, je; eS sdditional 800 2
e| Praised 10r pacilic GeCsIres, a eaees ECE WO Z 2 1, 2
| having held the Finnish | #0r organization NOW. A cal history, Maurice Duplessis ultra reactionary, ereployers «ee ye 1
— atmies in their miserable | \eciment in victory and post-| Pro-fascist Union Nationale, with 45 assured ee a ee pd
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