HARVEY MURPHY
LPP Candidate for East

Kootenay.

Local Slavs

Greet Tito

The juncture of the Red
Army and Marshal Tito’s
National Liberation forces
on the battlefields of Yugo-
slavia was hailed this week
by Vancouver Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes, the major na-
tional groups which make
up the Yugoslav federation.

The Yugoslavs expressed
their joy in a message to Mar-
shal Tito via Radic Moscow.

Resolutions of gratitude for
Ailied assistance given Tito’s
forees and for speeding the day
of the complete liberation of
their country were also adopt
ed at a mass meeting of the
YWugoslavs held this week at the
Groatian Educational Home.
Copies of the resolution were
sent to Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, President Roosevelt
and the Soviet Embassy at Ot-
tawa.

The meeting pledged the fur-
ther support of the majority
of Vancouver’s Yugoslavs for
Tito and endorsed the warning
of General Wilson, Allied com-
mander in the Mediterranean, to

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Council
Ganada “for the purpose of
forwarding this needed unity,

“by a joint policy in which the
- two labor bodies would work

side by side in the Interests of
the Canadian. people.?

The preamble to this resolu-
tion noted both the great gains

“achieved by organized labor in
the last four years and the
“fact that anti-labor forces were

massimg for an attack on the

trade union movement in the

postwar. “Unity of the organ=
ized workers is the most de-
cisive weapon in meeting this
attack,” the resolution states.

The theme of unity was BIcG
stressed in another resolution
eallnmg on both labor con-
gresses to pledge’ to refrain
from setting up organizations
dual in character, -

Other resolutions endorsed by
the couneil for presentation to
the convention include granting
of the right to vote in elections
to merchant seamen “‘no matter
where their ship may be;” the
establishment of the principle
by government and industry of
equal pay for equal work “re-
gardless of sex, color or na-
tionality,” as well as the prin-
ciple that: where layoffs are
necessary they may be made on
the basis of ‘strict seniority
rights.”

“some political organizations in
the Balkans assisting the Ger-
mans,” that such practices will
be dealt with soon.

Reflection of the significance
of this warning is seen on the
local scene in the action of Lazo
Mihalievitch, president of the
Serbian National Shield Society,
disavowing any support of Tito.

This frank confession of what
is charitably deseribed as con-
fusion among a small local
grouping was even more thor-
oughly exposed this week by the
call of King Peter of Yugoslavia
to his countrymen to rally to the
support of the “Yugoslav Na-
tional Army under Marshal
Tito. The anti-Tito elements
have now lost every. rallying
point in Yugoslavia except one,
and the Red Army together
with Tito’s forces are fast de-
stroying that.

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Contractors Housing Plans Do Not
Solve Home Shortage Problem

homes for the present. It will
concern’ itself strictly with the
future.

Meanwhile plans for solution
of the present problem are be-
ing considered by other sources.

This week at the city hall C.
H.. Thorn, secretary-treasurer
of the local Building Contrac-
tors Association, appeared be-
fore the council with an appeal

for a survey of city lots which
“would be suitable for the erec-

tion of 1,000 homes for return-_

' ed soldiers under the National

Housing Act. Houses, would,
of course, be built only for
sale.

The way the plan works is as
follows. A soldier or exservice-
man visits the office .of, the
Contractors Association, where
he inspects home plans and lot
locations within his price range.
When he has selected the lot
and type of house, he requests
a loan from the government
through the National Housing
Act. Under a revised act which
came into effect this week he
can borrow 90 percent of the
cost of a $4,000 or 85 percent
of the cost of a $5,000 home.
This means he must have a
down payment of about $400 to
lay on the line. When his loam
is approved, he signs his conr-
tract with the builder, who goes
ahead with the plan if and when
he can find manpower and ma-
terials.

While most servicemen, like
other people, want to own their
own homes, comparatively few
have the necessary down pay-
ments. Despite questionaires
allegedly “ Hrovine” otherwise,
this is a fact, as pointed out in
the recent Social Agencies
housing survey. e

Therefore, while it is essen-
tial that home-ownership at a
low initial output be available
to servicemen, a home-owner-
ship plan must not replace a
low-rental housing scheme. The
two plans ean work side by side;
and such an arrangement would
be ideal.

This week, after a brief tele-
phone conversation, C. H. Thorn
invited me to his office to dis-
cuss the housing crisis in gen-
eral and the Contractors’ plan
in particular. While we did not
agree on many points, we did
agree on the basic one that
some action on the housing
front was imperative.

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, “You can quote me as saying
that one of the most essential
things at present is a ceiling
on houses,” he told me. “We
have ceilings on everything else
=—why not on housing accom-
modation? Under the present
system, old houses can be sold
at skyrocketting prices, and
owners are able to make huge.
profits. For example; the own-

er of a house built at a cost of =

$3,000 several years ago sells

it now to somebody desperate -

enough to pay an unfairly high
price. On his profits, the own-

er now. plans an expensive new:

dwelling for himself. The re-:
sult?) The person renting the
eld house is evicted. Somebody
pays too much for old property.
And labor and materials which
should be used to provide low
cost housing are tied up in an

expensive building project. A =

ceiling price on real estate

would prevent this.”

One of the points on which
Thorn and I did disagree was
the Wartime Housing Project
through which 100 homes for
servicemen will be built.

He ipeeterred: | the
reai plan, whereby a2

‘of public spirited busine
. form. a.: corporation -to

low-rental houses with 2

ment assistance on a non-
basis. L agreed with hin
the Montreal Plan would
solution, but added that
no action had yet been: tal:
local businesSmen—due .
tothe apathetic attitude ©
city council — the W:

_Housing plan seemed to |
-only immediate solution

able. ;

When Ef -left Thorn’s —
however, we had= ‘agreed |
fact that a low-rental s

for those: unableste buy

was necessary.
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be taken in by any public
signed t6 obscure the issu
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_ture, and promises it wil

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