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American soldiers repairing bomb-torn streets.

U.S. Army engineers at rehabilitation work.

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Housing Project For

Burnaby Is Outlined |

Highlights of the program advanced by Griffin were:

© Industrial deyelopment of the city of New Westminster
based on retention and expansion of present woodworking, air-
erait repair and shipbuilding industries.

: @ Extensien of the waterfront toa sive New Westminster
first class port facilities fully capable of handling an expanded

Pacifie trade.

* @ Institution of a housing program designed: To develop
Burnaby as “potentially the finest residential suburb in Canada.”
To enable expansion of New Westminster by agreement between
New Westminster city and Burnaby Municipality for the Royal

City to incorporate and develop

now administered by Burnaby.

adjacent undeveloped territory

To develop South Westminster as

an industrial and residential center.
i

@ Encouragement of new industries in suitable locations in
Burnaby and lower Fraser Valley municipalities.

*

e@ Institution of a public works program in the lower Fraser
Walley to provide an adequate dyking system and a network of

first class roads.

“None of these questions is
solely a federal, provincial or
municipal affair. While some
questions are the direct concern
of the municipalities involved,
obviously the municipalities
themselves cannot do more than
fight for the federal and pro-
vineial 2id required to carry out
such proposals,as I have made,”
Griffin said.

“In itself this program will
provide iii one small section of
the country a material founda-
tion for the new and better Gan-
ada that can emerge from this
war.

“But it must be accom-
panied by legislation to guar-
antee to the worker in the
pestwar period the rights and
position he has earned during
the war. The farmer must be
-Sivyen the assurance of a de-
cent livelihood. And work-
ing people as a whole must be
given, in health insurance,
pensions and all the things
that together constitute social
security, a freedom from the
want that haunted workers
and farmers alike during the
hitter pre-war years.”

Declaring that such a pro-
gram “will suarantee to service-
men returning to live in this
constituency the jobs, homes
and security they expect of
their country,” Griffin: said:

“This isi the pattern of the fu-
ture development of this consti-
tuency as I visualize it, a pat-
tern to lift Burnaby from its
past and= present haphazard de-
velopment tothe status of a

great residential area of mod-
ern homes in the country’s fin-
est natural surroundings; a pat-
tern to develop New Westmin-
ster’s industries and potential
port facilities, both along the
north and south banks of the
Fraser River, to give it equality
with other Coast ports in com-
peting for postwar Pacific
trade; a pattern that will pro-
vide the Fraser Valley with a
greatly .expanded market for
its products.

“Gan it be done or will the
cost -be prohibitive?” Griffin
asked in conclusion. “As a peo-
ple we do not ask if the war can
be won or if the price of victory
is too high. Nor should we ques-
tion the possibility or the cost
oz undertaking those measures
that will strengthen the de-
mocracy and security for which
we fight.

“Tt cannot be done by labor
alone and it will not be done
without labor. It can be done
by applying to the problems of
reconstruction the same unity
and purpose we apply to the
problems of the war and by
electing to office proven rep-
resentatives of labor ‘whose
policies express their determin-
ation to get it done.”

Among those attending the
picnic were Councillor Tom Bin-
nie and School Trustees Wirs.
Anna D. Lowery and Floyd Ham-
ilton of Surrey, Roy La-
viene, Fraser Valley LPP or-
ganizer, and Bill Bennett, popu-
lar columnist for The People,
who introduced the candidate.

Continued

Great emphasis was laid on
the fact that “building of homes
for servicemen’s families, while
of first importance, does not be-
gin to solve the problem.”

The special meeting of the
city council had been called to
consider the proposed “Toronto
plan,” whereby homes for sol-
diers would be built by Wartime
Housing Limited on tax-free
city lots, to be turned back to
the city at the end of 12 years.

While veterans, unionists, and
other groups favored building
of at least 500 homes under this
plan, council refused to consider
building: of more than 100 dwell-
ings.

Jack Henderson, president of
Canadian Legion Pacific Com-
mand, spoke for veterans of
both wars when he plainly told
the mayor:

“We believe the first need is
for homes for families of seryv-
icemen, but we don’t believe the
probiem ends there.”

Jordan Guy, of the Junior
Board of Trade declared that
his colleagues “of the same age-
group as the young fellows
serving in the armed forces to-
day” were “one hundred per
cent behind a well-thought out
housing plan.”

Results of a housing survey
conducted by Vancouver Coun-
cil of Social Agencies were also
presented to the council. After
interviewing 600 city families,
social workers found cases of:

€ Five persons eating, sleep-
ing, and living in one room.

@ Eleven persons sharing a
small house with one bedroom.

@ Four families sharing one
small apartment.

@ Twenty-six persons shar-
ing one bathroom.

Regarding homes for service-
men, the Social Agencies brief
declared:

“A low rental housing

scheme seems the only an-
Swer to Vancouver’s problem.
It isinet reasonable to expect
those citizens who have small
Savings, and especially our
returned servicemen, to in-
vest in a home, even under the
proyisions of the National
Housing Act and _ thereby
burden themselves financially
for many years to come.”

Local contractors, through
their organization, Vancouver
Building Contractors Associa-
tion, are fighting to sabotage
plans for a low rental housing
scheme here.

- This week a spokesman for
the group, before Vancouver
City Council, declared that such
a plan would be “unfair” since
it would take available build-
ing materials out of the hands
of the contractors.

Maintaining that ‘soldiers
want to own their own homes,
anyway,’ the contractors”
spokesman denounced the War-
time Housing plan to construct
100 homes for soldiers on city
lots.

Contractors argue that with
1,500 partly-constructed homes
in the city remaining unfinished
because of all material short-
ages, all available materials

should be turned over to them-

to carry on their work.

The fact is, however, that of
the 1,500 houses now under con-
struction, the majority are lux-
ury class homes, priced far
above the income of the average
worker, let alone the allowance
of the serviceman’s wife.

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Pro-Fascist

Activities

MONTREAL, Que —

The Hon. Louis St. Laur
ent, Canadas tory-minded
minister of justice, agrees

that there are pro-fascist ele-
ments in the province of

Quebec, but professes not to

believe that they are a dan-
ger to the people of the
province, or to Canadians as
a whole.

instead, St. Laurent feels
that those citizens who criticize
the actions of his department
in allowing the pro-fascists and

fascists to beat up men in the

armed forees, organize anti-
Semitic and anti- -democratic
riots, “are rendering a gieat
disservice” by their ‘criticism.

The above was St. Lau-
rent’s reaction to a resolution:
passed at a meeting of the
Outremont-Van Horne Club of
the Labor-Progressive Party of
Quebec. G

The resolution pointed out
that the recent charges of Sen-
ator Bouchard that a secret so-
ciety ‘““working towards the
subversion of the Canadian con-
stitution and the disruption of
Canadian unity,’ had never
been refuted, and that on the
contrary, “the recent riots in
Montreal, Valleyfield and Que-
bee City tend to substantiate
the accuracy of Mr. Bouchard’s
remarks.” =

To the request of the resolu-
tion that the federal govern-
ment appoint a Royal Commis-
Sion to investigate the activities
of pro-fascist activities in Que-
bee, St. aurent was equal-
ly hurt.

“I do not consider that: an
investigation by a Royal Com-
mission is called for, and I am
not disposed to recommend that
such an investigation be called
for,” replied the Minister.

“The allegation in your reso-
lution that the work of pro-
fascist elements in Quebec has
created a situation where it is
dangerous for members of the
Canadian armed forces te walk

on the streets of Canadian
cities, is absolutely false . _-”
Says part of St. Laurent’s

letter in reply to the resolution.

Evidently St. Laurent,
who had no inhibitions when it
came to keeping labor leaders
behind barbed wire, does not
believe in protecting Ganadian
servicemen from beatings at
the hands of pro-fascist hood-
lums.

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