fitting tactics of Millard, ‘ders of labor. aber morning when the “sarched out as One man strike with Local 200. ne will ever forget the + members played in help defeat the plans of both ' jyincial and federal gov- 5 3s to bludgeon the Ford « off the picket-lines. ' ein Canada will ever for- auto barricade, built by Sous action on the part “ers of the two UAW lo- ' protect the lives of work- - e will forget how we de- che plans of Col. Drew “jorney-General Blackwell th the picket-line. | some few exceptions there 7 ty in the ranks of or- | - labor in our city. The two locals, forwarded ms asking the unions to “is action on November 12, and Millard counter- “i these wires. 'men and women of labor -teady and willing to take - but this move stopped and threw confusion into anks. 1 Millard of the Steel tried to scare the workers ‘ggzesting that a one-day ge would mean revolution. ‘ised the old worn out fas- ‘ur that this was a ‘“Com- -t plot?” to capture power. tter nonsense! hows to what depths some - will descend in order to! 34 TRANSFER ourteous, Fast, Efficient H : ee, Callacs: Ast. 1710 HAst. 6084L 406 Alexander Street | | 1 NICK STOOCHNOV Lbrous Leaders Will (Called To Account By ALEX PARENT, MPP The Labor MPP from the scene of the recent strike- amd City of Windsor explains why his union struck in mpathy with the Ford workers’ battle for union security 3 why the Canadian labor movement must repudiate the — perenne ae Conroy and Mosher—mis- do one in, Canada will ever forget that memorable members of our union, Local onto the carry through a partisan policy which is not based on the needs of our people, but which is based on the ambitions of a@ few indi- viduals. “STRIKE TOWN” I was greatly incensed the other day when I read articles in several newspapers and periodi- |, eals dealing with the Ford strike. In MacLean’s Magazine is an ar- ticle called “Strike Town” telling Canadians that the Ford strike was a plot of the “Reds” to cap- ture power. Editorials in the Globe- and Mail — Premier Drew’s mouth- piece and the spokesman for the monopolies in Canada — assert that the Ford strike was a plot of the LPP to capture power in Canada and was meant to scare the working people in believing that fighting for better wages, for union security and jobs for veterans meant revolution! The pro-faseist daily, the Toronto Telegram, said practicaly the same things. Now we have the spectacle of a labor paper, the CCF News, writing a mess of tripe in an article entitled “Back stage of the Windsor Strike,’ where they jump on the Tory band-wagon. And of course it goes without saying that the fascist-minded columnists of the Windsor Daily Star, Harrison and Clark, immedi- ately grab these mouthings and rewrote them in their column. A CONSPIRACY I maintain that all this is part of a conspiracy on the part. of the monopolies, aided by a sec- tion of the labor movement, to behead the UAW of its militant fighting leadership. This con- spiracy shall fail! We in Windsor will never al- low the spokesmen for monopoly capital to get control of our lo- cals, nor will we allow some par- tisan individuals in the labor movement to gain control of our locals for their own selfish aims. The labor movement of Can- ada is facing a year of struggle. The fight will be of a different nature than in the past. The next stage is the battle for wages to maintain the purchasing power of our people. The next three months will tell the story of the battle for jobs, wages and secur- ity. Quality and Purity As HOMEMADE A HASTINGS BAKERY [ 716 E. Hastings HA. 3244 § iF HAstings 4030 Night Phones: MA. 7067 - FA. 6115-R Active Trading Co. Importers - Exporters - Graders SCRAP STEEL CAST IRON Metals of all Kinds FOUNDRY SCRAP SUPPLIES 935 East Cordova St. Vancouver, B.C. picket-line in a sym- || — CIFIC ADVOCATE — PAGE 7 HARRY BALL Burnaby Councillor Discharge Of Women Protested Attempts by progressive mem- bers of the Burnaby Citizens’ Re-Establishment Committee to block passage of a _ resolution, sponsored by the Ottawa Citi- zens’ Rehabilitation ‘Committee requesting the government to make room for returned service- men in jobs now held by women who were not necessarily depen- dent on such for livelihood was defeated on January 18, at a regular meeting of that organ- ization. * Speaking in opposition to the resolution, K.C. Wilson, repre- senting the Burnaby Municipal Committee of the Labor-Pro- gressive Party said that such ac- tion would be reminiscent of Hitler and Mussolini’s fascist edicts on women in Germany and Italy, and action along the lines suggested in the resolution would constitute a mere drop in the bucket in remedying a de- plorable situation. The alterna- tive of a double-barreled pol- icy of jobs and homes by the inauguration of a nation wide housing program was suggested as a logical step to solve at least .in part the mass unemployment problem which at present exists. T. Blake, representative of the North Burnaby Board of Trade, also opposed the resolution and stated that to take a job from one individual and give it to an- other solved no problem and such a resolution would constitute an imposition on the liberty of the (Canadian people. A representative of the Doug- las Road Ratepayers also opposed the resolution, asking who was to be the judge of what constituted extenuating circumstances, and also stating the impossibility of turning the clock back as far as women and employment was con- cerned. SPOULOGOSAOREEERGGEOSRCOCECEECCROLSTOUBEEDDESSSESESREEDODASADR SEEDS For Advanced Styles in Ladies’ Coats, and Suits SHOP AT Vogue Ladies Apperel 932 Granville St. Dresses, VOOPULDOOCODURDDNURREOTOGRDORD Vanconver, B.C. * croonoovenmeonneOUOONRUQnsQatenD. a We Have Men-Material: Govt. Must § tart Program By E. D. HOLLOWAY Nothing is plainer to every Canadian worker, farmer and veteran than this: A nation-wide housing crisis exists W hat that is getting worse. isn't so plain is that nothing is being done about it because there are powerful cliques who want to build the kind of | houses for which the wealthy will! have to pay dearly, but which three-quarters of our population would be unable to buy or rent. Yet that is the simple truth. So far the government has shown a cruel indifference to the plight of the low-income family without a decent home. Yet the fact is that no one in Canada need be cheated of warm, dry, clean dwellings at reasonable rents. An adequate housing program can be realized. and that means ‘one reckoned in terms like those‘ used for munitions after the fall of France; in short it means a bil- lion-dollar program; it means marshalling men and materia} without stint. Other countries have had the same problem and solved it. Holland (a poorer and smaller country than Canada) has hun- dreds of thousands of tidy, at- tractive homes which the gov- ernment as been helping to build and maintain for over forty years. In Britain, three of every eight housing units built between 1919 and 1939 were publicly assisted. The government is now embark- ing on a new, gigantic housing program. SOVIET HOUSING FN the Soviet Union construction for veterans’ houses was under- taken in each area as soon as it was liberated. The USSR found men and material for the job in 1944. Canada can certainly find them in 1946. How about the United States? Has it been possible to do any public housing there? It has. In the mid-1930’s an agency was set up in Washington to get low- rental -dwellings built. This ageney offered large loans and subsidies in 1937 to the housing authorities set up by the cities. Uncle Sam, to make sure of pro- viding the housing, pays one- third of the monthly rent of the low-income tenant. The United States government took this step because it knew HIGH QUALITY LOGGERS AN that the private contractors, the life insurance housing outfits. and the limited dividend cor- porations would cater only to the upper-third of the nation and to the people able to pay ‘relatively high rents. A program to look after the “one-third of the nation ill-hous- ed” was therefore necessary. As a result, by 1939, nearly 40 per- cent of the housing units built were for the low-income third of the United States whose monthly rent averages $12.~ Canada can easily do the same. RENT TOO STIFF £F'ANADA’S state-guaranteed life insurance housing outfit can only cater to the wealthier class of tenants. Housimg Enterprises of Canada (owned by the insur- ance interests, guaranteed by the government) has advertised that when it gets some units to build they -will rent for $35 a month and up. All their tenants are going te be in Canada’s top-in- come third. Joint aetion at onee by the people’s civic, provincial and fed- eral representatives could get us low-rental housing. There is no better time than now to work: out a billion-dollar housing program for, Canada. The federal and. provincial of- ficers should give civic author- ities all possible assistance in setting up housing bodies. 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