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Provincial Program

ment and which body would un-
dertake a comprehensive survey
of needs and possibilities and co-
operate with municipalities, labor

and management in inaugurating

a long range plan of construction
immediately.

FRANCHISE

The delegates reaffirmed their
stand favoring full citizenship
rights, including the franchise,
for the Hast Indians, Chinese an
native Indians. :

The convention also took a
stand on the Japanese question,
advocating that in the interests
of unity the Japanese should not
be brought back to the Pacific
Coast area up to.a distance of
100 miles inland, after the war.

HOUSING

Program of low-rental housing:
projects was called for by the
convention which urged federal
financial assistance to provincial
and municipal housing authori_
ties, Amendment of the National
Housing Act was endorsed to
provide for such steps, along the
lines of the Winnipeg city coun-
cil resolution currently being
considered by city councils across
Canada.

The resolution asks that such
authorities proceed as soon as
Possible with plans for apart-
ment houses, as well as single
and multiple family homes, and

that such accommodation be
rented at not more than one-
fifth of family income. Any

losses incurred would be borne
by the federal government.

Also the delegates urged that
the Crown: company, Wartime
Housing Limited, be continued

into the postwar period to pre-
vent real estate speculators from
buying such homes at sacrifice
prices and reselling them to the

tenants. The government is asl-
ed to give tenants first option to
buy on such properties, and that
rent’ already paid be applied to
the purchase price.

MUNICIPALITIES

Establishment of a full .min-
istry of municipalities in the pro-
vinelal government was urged in
another resolution adopted at the
sessions. This
take over all present functions
of the department of municipal
affairs and provide guidance and
assistance to municipalites
throughout the province in meet-
ing problems for which only a
very few of the larger municipa-
lities are at present somewhat
equipped.

This resolution ecalls for such
a ministry to retain experts in
town and regional planning, for
the encouragement of inter-mun-
icipal and provincial-municipal
cooperation in the best utiliza-
tion of road building and other
heavy equipment for pub-
lic works, and for the making
of regulations to prevent dis-
eriminatory and uneconomic mun-
icipal taxation which has result-
ed in the past from the competi-

tion for industries.
EDUCATION

Appointment of Dr. Maxwell
Cameron to enquire into the dis-
tribution of educational costs be-

tween the provinces and the
municipalities was welcomed,
and the provincial government

was called on to make immediate
increases in educational grants
pending final report of the en-
quiry. Free textbooks for all
students. was also urged in the
resolution on education.

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Outline of thefederal and provincial programs of the Labor-Progressive Par,

given in an address to the

men present, was the third poli-
tical spokesman to appear before
the committee, having been pre-
ceded by Howard Green for the
Progressive Conservatives 4nd

Solon Low for the Social Gredit- |

ers. :

The LPP leader dealt exten-
sively with Canada’s position in
international relations and. post-
war trade, emphasizing the basic
foundation of continuing interna-
tional unity and cooperation of
the major powers for an expan-
sion of trade after the war.

The speaker then analyzed the

Gov
Provincial Leader Fergus McK
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ernment Affairs Committee of the Board of Trade ]
ean in the board room of the Merchants’ Exchange

cKean, who received an attentive hearing from the b_

possibilities for industrial devel-
apment of British Columbia in
the postwar period. He pointed
out that social progress for the
Canadian people after the war
depended on the maintenance of
full employment based on an ex-
panding export trade, the devel-
cpment of secondary industries
and the further development of
the domestic market through
raising living standards and con-
sumer. purchasing power.

Such considerations, McKean
stated, applied with particular
force to the province of British

-Golumbia, ;
‘ment after wartime ir

where ‘full

had run out of present cs
depended sharply on the :
ment of secondary mar |
ing industries to handle =:
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from these which origiz
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was. the need for chear
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be assured by governmen’
and therefore necessitate |
ownership of the maje.
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1 AM NOT GOING TO BEG OF YOU. THERE IS_NO NEED.
YOU ARE INTELLIGENT, FAITHFUL WORKERS FOR JUSTICE,
FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND,EXTENSION OF DEMOCRACY,

FOR A FINER,

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SEND IN .YOUR CONTRIBUTION, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF

YOU.

Federal Election Campaign o

$50,000

IN SUPPORT OF
CANDIDATES OF THE

LABOR-PROGRESSIVE

PARTY

Provincial Treasurer, Vi McCrae,
- 209 Shelly Building {
Vancouver, British Columbia