number of delinquen-
very hundred boys be-
ages of 10 and 17
5; 19.5 compared with
he Point Grey and
|sy areas. And this was
| to 1989 before the
[an areas’ population
~2n by the additional
‘ing the war.

‘or - Progressive Cam-
(30,000 homes for B.C.
' for. Canada
= the need for aggres-

leadership, and for
‘ressure on the senior
; together with a

ounced policy of pass-
_ g legislation. The La-
sive Party seeks the
of all community or-
for combined action
3st pressing of social
_.bove all, the Labor-

Party is going to
and meeting a warm
‘om thousands who
+2 a part in the fight
and jobs through
_2eSe means it is pos-
trate from every part
_. thunderous demand
svernment can ignore.

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Another Aspect

Pogue was ill in bed at the mo-
ment when the deputy sheriff's
gang arrived. Her son, 19-year-
old Cecil Pogue, has served two
years in the army, part of the
time overseas. Her husband, Ar-
chibald.. Pogue, was killed over-
seas in 1944 when serving with
the Seaforths, after having vol-
unteered in September, 1939.
In addition, there are four
young Gurney boys and’ two
‘teen age Pogue girls, for whom
the prospect of being moved out
to the Sea Island hutments is
by no means attractive,
Speaking to the crowd which
assembled shortly after the fur-
niture was moved back into the
house, Mrs. Effie Jones, presi-
dent of the Tenants’ and Home-
owners’ League, stressed that the
eviction “was something that
never should have happened.”
“The authorities have been
quick to raise pretexts in this as
in other cases,” Mrs. Jones said.
“But the people who need homes
are going to have to brush those
pretexts aside, as the veterans

did in the case of the old Hotel
Vancouver.”

MacDonald

he not, in favor of us taking
over the hotel”

Eric Martin, organizer of the
occupation committee, told the
press: “I asked Austin-Delany to
come on the committee, knowing
his organizational ability. The
fact is that he served as a lieut-
enant in the paratroops and as
such was to me not a communist
nor of any other political stripe,
but a man who served his country
well”

Bob McEwen, “OC” of the oc-
cupational force issued the fol-
lowing statement to the press.
“As manager pro-tem of the oc-
cupation forces at present in the
old Hotel, I speak for the entire
committee in stressing that we
are not connected as a group
with any political associations of
any kind whatsoever. Any mem-
ber of our committee or of the

‘| occupation forces who has ,politi-

cal views or has participated
in any political party rallies, etc.,
has done so definitely as an in-
dividual. Politics is playing no
part in our organization.”

MacDonald’s charges were
made to the press, and at the time
did not have the endorsation of
his branch of the Legion.

at which a serious attempt has
to be made to bring about a
settlement. This has happened
again and again; the steelwork-
ers, packinghouse workers, min-
ers and Ford workers disputes
are but the outstanding ex-
amples.
OBSTRUCTIVE DEVICE

If anything were needed to
prove conclusively that the Ov-
ernment itself considers the war
labor board machinery mainly as
an obstructive device it is pro-
vided by the announcement that,
with the relaxation of price con-
trol, wage increases up to five
percent will be permitted with-
out reference to the war labor
boards.

- But a wage increase of five
percent would be so utterly in-
adequate in Canada today that
its very proposal is a mockery
of the needs of the working
people, particularly with the
prospect of sharply rising prices.
Because the government has up
to now shown no inclinafion to
change its attitude sharply, the
trade union movement is com-

“Build Ships In B.C.“
LPP Urges Ottawa

The Labor-Progressive Party
this week went on record in sup-
port of the campaign being con-
ducted by shipyard unions to as-
sure a continuing of British Co-
lumbia’s shipbuilding industiry.
The‘ campaign, which will con-
clude with a province-wide ship-
building week, is receiving sup-
port from many quarters as or-
ganizations reply to the telegram
sent out by the Shipyard Gener-
al Workers’ Federation urging
broad support of the move.

The Labor-Progressive Party
also despatched a telegram to
W. L. Mackenzie King, Prime
Minister of Canada, and urged
that the critical unemployment
suituation facing skilled workers
in BC as well as the need for
jobs to servicemen and merchant
seamen requires urgent consider-
ation by the federal government
of steps to protect the rapidly
declining shipyards industry
and urged assistance in securing
shipbuilding contracts for local
yards,

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pelled to push its wage demands
regardless of the obstruction
caused by penalizing wartime
wage machinery. Unless the gov-
ernment increases the amount by
which. wages can be raised by
collective bargaining, without re-
ference to the war labor board,
or transforms that institution
from machinery ta prevent wage
increases into an institution
based upon. and expressing the
peacetime need for immediate
action, responsible trade union
leaders are now compelled to
make an onerous choice; they will
have to choose between slow ex-
haustion of the workers and the
decline of the Strength of the
unions through the tortuous de-
laying tactics of the war labor
boards; or direct submission of
their wage demands to the em-
ployers with a time limit beyond
which strike votes will be taken.

WANT NEGOTIATIONS

The labor movement wants to
settle wage questions and other
disputes with employers by ne
gotiation. The trade union move-
ment accepted the restriction of
wage adjustments imposed dur-
ing the war, inequitable as was
their application in many cases.
The trade unions accepted the
interminable delays imposed by
the systematically drawn out
procedure and methods of the
war labor boards and the Depart-
ment of Labor: The trade union
Movement voluntarily refrained
from using its strong wartime
bargaining position to gain spec-
ial advantages during the war,
which is the very opposite of
what the big monopolies did. But
today, the trade union movement
is face to face with the facts

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Be Met By Organised Labor Now”

‘that Canadian wages have re-
mained static while prices have
crept up and now the Dominion
government, conttary to its as-
surances, is preparing to grant
big business its dearest wish —
abolition of price control as a
means of breaking the back of
erganized labor.

In this situation the trade un-
ions must fight for adequate
wage increases NOW! These in-_
creases can—will be won by 1a-
bor solidarity and strong united
leadership, based upon full par-
ticipation by the rank and file
in the shops and locals. Already.
this is seen in a number jof key
industries where workers are on
the move for united wage strug-
gles.

COMING WAGE BATTLES

That is why the belated but
welcome statement of the CIO
leaders here is a good omen for
the coming battles. The time for
the labor movement to meet the
challenge presented by the ac-
tions of the monopolists protect-
ed by Drew, Duplessis, and the
Dominion government is NOW
The instrument with which it can
be met successfully is the power-
ful trade union movement, united
in coordinated action between the
various unions, the two Congres-
ses, and the railroad brother-
hoods. The means by which to
meet the challenge successfully
is by direct submission of wage
demands to the employers and
the backing up of those just
demands by the united support,
and action, of the organized .la-
bor movement. :

The time to win higher wages
and stiffen price and profit con-

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i : SscOou nt To Returned Men

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veterans a 10 per cent discount on their purchases of
Several other stores in Vaneouver
are now giving discharged personnel a 10 per cent

This fine gesture of material help is more appreciat-
ed by our boys than fancy speeches and should, in
our Opinion, be copied by more merchants.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1946 _