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By BERT WHYTE

In face of rising unemployment, Vancouver Labor Council this week took the first step to prevent a return to the Hungry Thirties by unanimously endorsing a resolution ask ing Ottawa to initiate plans to take care of the country’s jobless this coming winter.

The executive committee resolution urged that supplementary unemployment insurance benefits be increased 100 percent and the periods of payments be extended; that the federal government plan measures in addition to unemployment insurance benefits; that arrange- ments be made to send benefits through the mail.

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emphasized. “While this reso- lution is directed at Ottawa, civic and provincial govern-

702-E ES ments cannot escape their re-

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sponsibilities.

“Many of us remember rid- ing the freight trains during the Hungry Thirties, and we will fight. to make sure there will be no return to those con-

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VLC president Lloyd Whalen 23,4 and 12

Wenner-Gren getting Province in pieces

Mo, CCF leader Robert Strachan said this week that he will ne examine Premier W. A. C. Bennett about new Wenner- ®n reserves in northern B.C. at the January session of the

“sislature.

The provincial cabinet announced earlier that more reserves,

ditions. The number of unem- ployed just about equals the number of immigrants brought to this country during the past year. We are not opposed to immigration, but we are op- posed to indiscriminate, un. planned immigration — against the bringing in of workers when industry cannot find jobs for them.”

“This time labor will not make the mistake it made in

. acts surface, mineral and . ee had been grant-

ts fo = Wenner-Gren inter- an t its proposed 4,000,000 Power Peace River hy-

net achan charged that Ben- ineg 8 Siving away the prov- dinar pleces” so that the

Y citizen won’t realize

the €xtent of the giveaway.

“Mhis is part of the premier’s promise to give Wenner-Gren anything he wanted,” said the CCF leader.

CCF and LPP spokesmen have demanded that the de- velopment be handled by B.C. Power Commission, with as- sistance from the federal gov.

ernment.

“the Hungry Thirties and ig-

nore the jobless workers,” de- clared Sam Jenkins (Marine Workers). “We recognize that jobless workers are just. as much' a part of the labor move- ment as those with jobs.

“Our union today has 400 unemployed. On Monday some

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-_By SAM RUSSELL MOSCOW

Plans for the first inter- Planetary flights to the moon, fie and Venus ate now

er active preparation ere, : i: This was disclosed last Doh by Professor Vladimir

tonravov, head of the “partment of theoretical ma-

Mars, Venus

thematics at Moscow’s Bau- man Institute of Technology.

For a satellite to reach the moon, he said, it must travel at about seven miles a second.

But as man-made Moon No. 1 is already circling the earth at a speed of about five miles per second, the technt- cal probleths are already vir-

within 1

tually solved.

‘The time is already near,” Prof. Dobronravov told me, ‘when we will be able to reach the moon and we shall be able to watch that arrival on the television screen.

“Our scientists are design- ing special space suits inside

which normal life will be pos- ,

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sible, and’ there is no doubt that we shall see people on the moon in such suits in our lifetime.

“We shall also witness whole cities built on the moon with all conditions for normal human life and exist- ence.” :

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