BLOT OUT SLU) See Housing Supplement -ttting |oceasion for the ity national housing cam- _ ian a meeting commem- “ithe life and work of The great working class whom friend and enemy one of the greatest men /ime”, Nigel Morgan, pro- ‘eader of the Labor-Pro- -- Party, urged on an over- wd in Vancouver’s Bea- _atre, the importance of _ needs facing Vancouver nation. “past twenty-two years en the most significant nt years in the history _nd,” Morgan asserted. He '-m tribute to the leader -2ussian socialist revolu- iting out that Lenin, by _ ibutions to the extension cience of social change ‘he people of the “prison = nationalities” through isition from a narrow, '1 society to leadership in "body wants homes”, told the overflow meet- veryone wants decent because it is well known _ home is the foundation communities, and the one of national pros- ‘The fact that we want "not sufficient. The cam- ‘tT homes will demand the “public pressure if the ‘provincial, and munici- mments are to be moved ‘rection of satisfying the ed for homes.” n pointed out that poor /is not cheap housing. lousing not only costs 200r housing costs lives, cts a tremendous toll in aortality, juvenile delin- erime, tuberculosis, ty- id other social evils”. Jed for public support of * national housing cam- rging the demand made 1PP for “A billion dollar program”, cert presenting talent of ational groups was pre- t the meeting. 2 g that there could be no | g of the Labor-Progres- essure to meet the grave | Leaving to right, White House after emergency steel conference, left CIO Pres. Philip Murray, Reconversion Director John W. Snyder, Pres. Benjamin Fairless of U.S. Steel Corp. Warning that if the City Coun- cil pursues a “narrow penny pinching policy” and “still finds reasons or excuses for inactivity” in opening the old Hotel Van- couver as a hostel for returning servicemen the City of Vancou- ver will see a “protest movement develop throughout the city that will have few parallels in its in- tesity and scope” was served this week by Austin Delany, City Or- ganizer of the Labor-Progressive Party in an interview with P.A. Delany’s statement followed the return of Alderman H .L. Corey from consultations with federal authorities and officials of the CNR-CPR in Montreal and Ottawa. Since Corey’s return, city. council has stated that the city will not be a party to any group taking over the building unless the group or agency is an “established one with substantial backing”. The city council had also gone on record as prepared to pay two thousand dollars per month toward operating costs of the hotel as a hostel. All major obstacles were re- moved from operation of the hotel as a hostel for returned servicemen with the public an- nouncement by the CPR that it would be turned over provided there was no cost to that com- pany. Any further difficulty was solved when the federal govern- ment announced its willingness to contribute toward operating costs. . Progress to date is seen as the result of considerate public pres- sure led by the Labor-Progres- sive Party. LPP veterans, their wives and many supporters pick- eted the Hotel for three succes- sive weeks,‘and Alderman Corey’s eastern trip was the direct result of a meeting with City Council by a Labor-Progressive Party delegation. A broad housing conference, provincial ex-M.P. Dorise Nielsen, and Nigel Morgan, throughout Greater Vancouver, ed this week in connection with th 30,000 new homes in British Columbia. Indications. that the drive for a low-cost housing program in B.C., part Davies To Speak Here Raymond Arthur Davies, inter- nationally known -writer and journalist, and author of a num- ber of recent books, including “In- side Russia Today,” “Canada and Russia,” ‘This Is Our Land,” and “Truth About Poland?’ will ad- dress a public meeting in Pender Auditorium, Boilermakers Hall, 339 West Pender Street,,on Jan- uary 31, as guest of the National Council for Canadian-Soviet Friendship. Davies spent nine months in the Soviet Union, and visited all of the major eastern and south- ern European countries in the course of his tour through Eu- rope. While abroad he spent soms time in Jugoslavia and Poland. In Jugoslavia he interviewed Marshall Tito, visited Belgrade, Zagreb and many towns in that country, interviewing guerilla leaders throughout the country. While in Poland, Davies spent time in Warsaw, Danzig and Kra- kow. He also passed through Ru- mania and Hungary on his way to Berlin, shortly after the signing of unconditional surrender, and visited Turkey and Iran in March 1945, where he interviewed gov- ernment leaders and other prom- inent public figures. An internationally known writer with wide knowledge of European affairs, Davies’ articles have frequently appeared in P.A. UNO Probe Of Java, Greece Panics British The camp of the American and British imperialists has been thrown-into a panic following the Soviet Union’s formal request to the United Nations Organization security council for an investigation of British and Indonesia. Letters asking for a probe of British actions in the two coun- tries were filed with the security council by Andrei Gromyko for the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- publics and D. Z. Manuilsky for the Soviet Ukraine. Both letters stated that. the presence of Brit- ish armed forces in Greece and Indonesia constituted a threat to the internal security of those countries, and that in the case armed intervention in Greece of Greece British troops were aiding rightist forces against the democratic people’s movement The move apparently caught the British and American dele- gations by surprise. A day earl- ler their combined press and radio services had been whooping up support for “poor little Tran” and its request for a security Continued on Page 8 See UNO PROGRESS PP Moves To Sm iousing Crisis = Plans ass Public Drive tours by writer Dyson Carter, and community conferences are among the activities definitely arrang- e Labor-Progressive Party’s campaign for of the national drive for a billion dollar expenditure for homes in the next five years, is shaping up into one of the men of the major LPP strug- gles in 1946, is seen in the announcement that at least seven community conferences will be held in the Greater Vancouver area alone during the -party’s ‘Housing Week’ which begins February 18. In conjunction with these con- ferences, LPP members are now canvassing the city on a house- to-house basis with the aim of obtaining signatures to petitions which will be forwarded to Ot- tawa. The provincial objective is 50,000 signatures. “Housing Week” will be climaxed by a city-wide housing conference on | the afternoon of Wednesday, February 20 in Salon “A” of the Hotel Vancouver. Featured speakers at the con- ference will be Dyson jCarter, in- ternationally known scientific writer, and Dorise Nielson, for- mer M.P. for North Battleford and now the national legislative director of the Labor-Progressive Party. The next evening, Thurs- day, February 21, these two well known ,Canadians will- address mass meetings in the ballroom of the Hotel Vancouver and the au- ditorium pf the Boilermakers’ Hall. Dorise Nielson will also speak in Kamloops on Tuesday, Febru- ary 19, and in Port Alberni on Wednesday, February 20. The LPP is also staging a dinner for her at the Hastings Auditorium in Vancouver on Saturday, Feb- ruary 23, starting at 8 p.m. Spe- cial arrangements ‘have been made to make this an outstand- ing event, with a full course hot dinner, entertainment and dane- ing. COMMUNITY CONFERENCES Meanwhile the LPP’s Vancou- ver city committee, is working out plans for community housing conferences, has announced that such conferences will definitely be held in the following areas: North Vancouver in the LPP Hall; Burnaby in the Norburn Hall; Hastings East in Olympia Hall; West End in Gordon House; and in. Grandview, Fairview and South Vancouver. Meeting places fer the last three conferences will be announced shortly. The LPP’s demand for 30,000 new homes—6,000 a year for the next five years under federal £overnment subsidie Ss, With 20,000 to be constructed in Continued on Page 8 See HOUSING DRIVE ash