Black market

and other peeple with Nmited in-
comes desperately seeking a place
to live. Hundreds of new homes
costing upwards of $8,000 have
been built amd finished by con-
tractors, a large number of them
in the high-bracket South Gran-
wille district, but hundreds of
more modest homes being built
“by veterans and workers are still
unfinished for lack of materials.

This is the situation which has

led the British Columbia Com-
mand of the Canadian Legion to
“send a strong protest to Recon-
struction Minister C. D. Howe
demanding the imposition of con-
trols which will enable veterans
to obtain in reality the priority
in obtaining building materials
they already have in theory.

“In effect, there are no con-
trols,” Robert McNicol, provin-
Cial secretary of the Canadian
Legion, told the Pacific Tribune
this week “The market is wide
open and this simply means that
veterans Cannot get into it at
all because the big contractors
are taking everything there is.”
A survey made by the Pacific
Tribune this week shows that

since Vancouver City Council re-
laxed its authority to refuse build-
img permits for non-essential con-
struction scores of big new pro-
jects have been undertaken.

Since March this year building
permits for theSe projects all of
which can be regarded as non-
essential, have been taken out at
the city hall and in most cases
construction is already well ad-
vanced,

Neon Products, addition to of-
fice and workshops on Terminal
Avenue, $45,000.

Boultbee_ erection of store and
office on Howe Street, $60,000.

Marweil Construction Com-
pany, completion of stores and
offices on West Pender Street,
$130,000. _

Canada Bemis' Bag Company,
addition to factory on Parker
Street, $53,000.

Odeon Theaters, alterations to
Beacon Theatre $20,000.

Art Monument Company, erec-
tion of store and ledge on Kings-
way, $35,000. ;
..Bartram industries, addition
to factory on Woodland Drive,
$76,000.

St. Regis Paper Company,
erection of manufacturing plant
on Arbutus Street, $180,000.

A. P. Madson Company, erec-
tion of factory on S. W. Marine
Drive, $80,000.

Teeson ~-Motors, erection of
garage on Seymour Street, $14-
000.

Suburban Theaters erection of
theater and stores on Oak Street,
$60,000. :

Marshall Wells (B.C.), erection
of warehouse. on Carrall Street,
$356,000.

Begg Motors, erection of ware-
house on Terminal Avenue, $34,-

United WDistillers, erection of
warehouse at south foot of
Shaughnessy, $225,000.

McLennan, McKeely and Prior,
erection of warehouse on Clarke
Drive, $205,000.

Vancouver Trunk and Bag
Company, addition to warehouse
on Charles Street $50,000.

These projects are absorbing be—-
tween them hundreds of tons of
cement and thousands of feet of
lumber that otherwise could have
Lgone into the construction of
houses for WVancouver’s veterans

and other homeless citizens.

to fritter away time or opportun-
ity.

Several letters a day are ar-
Vriving at the headquarters of the
Housing League now established
in one of the two buildings, tell-
ing of the terribfe plight in
which countless families find
themselves as winter approaches.

The League, under the fighting
leadership of Hd Hanratty, form-
er RCAF observer, who has
worked night and day during the
last three weeks in a campaign
which has captured the imagin-
ation of Ottawa, has opened a
housing registry.

Lists compiled by the registry
will be presented to the city for
immediate action. As on previous
occasions, the League has prom-
ised that needy families will be
housed. Plans are underway to
organize all families living in gov-
ernment owned homes so that
no one will pay rent higher than
one-fifth of a family’s income.

At the same time the drive for
a national housing program will
be maimtained.

Hanratty told the Pacific Tri-
bune this week that he was anx-
ious to spread the movement to
the rest of the country and would
welcome correspondence from out-
Side points. The Ottawa address
is 334 Chapel Street.

AUIUUUUVUEUELU CLANTON

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In the article ‘Littl Share-
holders’ of B.C. metal mines’ in

the Sept. 6 issue of the Pacific
Tribune, page 12, it reads: “When
you stop to think about it, all
that a miner loses when he goes
out on strike is about $250.00 a
month.” That figure should cor-
rectly read $150 per month.

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Aviy could not prevent a riot
among the unarmed people of
Calcutta, unless it did not wish
to prevent it.

“It is significant to note that
when British troops finally came
on the scene with rifles and
machine guns that the death
toll soared from hundreds to
thousands.

“An important phenomenon
of newspaper reporting on
India is the emphasis which
is given to instances of In-
dian internal disunity.

“During the last year thous-
ands of Hindus and Moslems,
,Many more than were involved
‘in the Calcutta riot, joined to-
gether in united action on vari-
ous issueS—namely, the strike of

the Indian Navy, ‘the postal
workers’ strikes, the Kashmir
demonstration.

“To ignore these facts when
interpreting the Calcutta riot,as
our press reporters have done,
is to perpetuate and foster the
false and anti-democratic idea
that the Indian people are in-
capable of achieving internal
harmony. It is a distortion of
the truth of the Indian political
scene.”

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Belgians demand
Degrelle arrest

BRUSSELS. — Popular demand
in Belgium for a rupture ©f rela
tions with FEranco Spain reached
an all-time high this week as the
Belgium government officially de-
Mmanded that Hranco explain the
“escape” of Leon Degrelle, Belgian
fascist who had taken refuge in
Spain.

Degrelle disappeared on the eye
of his scheduled deportation to
Belgium. Rumors are current here
that Degrelle was escorted to the
Portuguese frontier with Franco’s
help. Belgian Premier Spaak has
demanded a precise explanation of
the circumstances under which the
fascist managed to get away.

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