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Program Covers Wide

While the new program has
Several obvious weaknesses, and
while criticism has been level
led at the negative attitude ex-
pressed in the preamble, which
States, “There is no assurance
that these evils (unemployment,
insecurity and suffering) will
not return,” the program was
described by Pritchett as “one
which can provide a basis for
trade union political action.”

The fullest cogperation with
other nations, particularly the
British Commonwealth, United
States, Soviet Union and China,
is asked in the section dealins
with international relations.

The program also calls for:

@ Full employment, useful
jobs at union wages under union
conditions, for every man and
woman.

@ Social security, not as a
substitute for jobs, but to pro-
vide against temporary unem-
ployment and other interrup-
tions of earning power, and
against old age and the special
burdens involved in raising a
family.

@ Continuence of wartime
controls with modifications. to
meet changed circumstances, to
ensure that the economic sys-
tem is directed to the satisfac-
tion of real needs.

@ Plans to be made now for
extensive public works, by the
federal government. These pro-
jects should be of a socially use-
ful nature.

@ Layoff pay.

@ Rehabilitation for mem-
bers of the armed forces, the
merchant marine and fire fight-
ers to be a first charge on the
national budget.

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@ Provision of lowcost hous-
ing. With this must go city,
town and regional planning, the
program to be set in motion at

_ once.

@ A national food policy, to
provide an adequate diet within
the means of every citizen. A
national food planning commis-
sion to be set up at once.

@ Conversion of government-
owned war plants to civilian
production, under government
control.

“® Coordination of transport--

ation facilities, such transport
services as are not publicly
owned to be fitted into the over=
all plan to avoid unregulated
highway-rail-water competition.

@ A vast program of electri-
fication of rural areas, a gener-
al raising of the rural standard
of living:

@ Free education from pri-
mary school to university, ex-
tension of evening schools for
adults, grants for students of
merit and a living wage for
teachers equal at least to that
of highly skilled workers and
professionals.

® A basic minimum wage,
removal of present restrictions
on upward adjustment of wages.

@ Adequate labor legislation
to guarantee right of associa-
tion in unions of the workers’
choice, collective bargaining,
outlawing of company unions,
and establishment of better
working conditions.

@® Labor representation on
all government boards and in-

dustries. y

@ Economie equality -for
Canadian workers. There must
be no double standards, the
existence of substandard wages
and conditions in any part of
Canada being a basic cause of
disunity.

@ Continuence of union-man-
agement production committees
in the postwar era.

National officers of the Po-
litical Action Committee are:
chairman, ©. H. Millard, MPP.
Canadian Director, United
Steelworkers of America; first
vice-chairman, R. H. Carlin,
MPP, director International
Union of Mine Mill and Smelter
Workers; second vice-chairman,
George Harris, sec.-treas. Dis-
trict 5, United Electrical, Radio
and Machine Workers of Amer-
ica: secretary-treasurer, A. An-
dras, Canadian Brotherhood of

Railway Employeés.

FIRST SHOWING IN VANCOUVER

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man move her furniture to a neighbor's basement.

Continued

Drew

A. A. McLeod of the Labor-
Progressive Party issued a call
several weeks ago for a fall ses-
sion, with the leaders of the
opposition parties uniting to
force Drew to back down or
resign.

Only a coalition of Jabor
forces with progressive Lib-
erals can prevent a CGoalition
of Colonel Drew and Maurice
Duplessis, which is plotting to
destroy all progressive reforms
in Canada, Sam Garr, national
organizer of the lLabor-Pro-
gressive Party, told 10,000 To-
rontonians gathered at the LPP
“first birthday” picnic.

Veteran labor leader A. E.
Smith, reviewing the record of
the Drew administration before
the same gathering, with its
trail of broken promises, called
for the ousting of the Drew
clique by an aroused and angry
citizenry.

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Low Cost Housing Campaign

Gathers National Momentum

The campaign to stop. evictions and to press
municipal, provincial and federal governments the
sity of entering on a plan of low-cost housing consit
has assumed nation-wide proportions. Citizens com:
have been set up in congested areas, and vigorous Pp
about lack of action, particularly on the part of civi

ernments, have been raised.

While Vancouver citizens
held protest meetings on the
steps of homes from which
families had been evicted, simi-
lar meetings were being held
in Toronto, where a like situa-
tion exists.

Toronto and District Emerg-
ency Housing Committee, set
up last week, has drawn up a

six-point prograri which asks: -

legislation prohibiting evic-
tion of soldiers and war work-
ers families, conversion of large

buildings into living accommo-—
. dation,

immediate building of
500 Wartime Housing dwel=

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2,000 most urgent cases
ronto, the majority
families of servicemen 4
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Union Paper

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Deepsea and Inlandbo:
union (CIO-CGCL),. such
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the union, the union’s fr
tax exemption for me
navy men, coupled with ¢t
that the union membersh
exceeds 1,000, warrant
publication of “The Ga
Seaman,” a by-monthly }
whose first issue rolled :
press Friday, August 18.

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Which expresses the unit
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editor of the young pap:
this week. “We want £
our members well inform
the problems which afte
union. The four page k
which we previously cir
proved to be inadequate.

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ped through agents will
its members in every §