Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 30, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Page 6 Cal sets 12-Point plan to increase employment to _ m Toronto of the Canadian Congress of labor wednesday proposed a 12-Point pro Gram aimed at boosting employ ment by jacking up purchasing the program embodied in a Cal executive statement on economic was Laid before the Conr Gress annual convention As the basis for a debate on a employ As suggested by the executive to some 850 delegates the policy Calls for labor going after More for the Federal govern heat whether you convert your present heating Plant or instal a Complete fur Nace or insist on a free heating Survey from specialized heating supplies limited 311 Pembina Highway phone 42-4512 int pct of hot Loralou on flu at our of Flem. No obligation ment laying out Money for Public works and social Security Mea sures and also making shifts in its tax Structure. The Cal chiefs said the pro Gram is a Long term one and also admitted it Calls for Federal deficits. No. 1 suggestion in the executive policy statement was that labor should press for higher wages on the theory that higher pay whips up More purchasing Power. Monday Cal president a. A. Mosher in his presidential address to the Congress advised that labor keep an Eye on Industry s ability to pay when it is demanding wage increases. Higher pay tops list in its statement wednesday the Cal chiefs put increase pay at the head of their dozen Point also observed that labor May have to be satisfied with holding to existing pay Levels in depressed industries. Wage the state ment said curtail markets and production and employment. Wage increases expand markets production and employment. Where depressed industries can show that increased wages cannot e met they must at least be iced at present other Points in the declaration of policy 1. Working hours should be reduced with take Home workers pay maintained to increase Job oppor unities. 2. Unemployment insurance Bene fit payments should be improved. 3. There should be. A. Country wide Public assistance for workers out of jobs and not Cov ered employment insurance. Pensions and family allowance payments should be increase personal income tax impose capital gains tax Cut put exemptions dividend income and reduce the Sale tax with a View to abolition urge Public works 6. Launch a Public investment program of Federal provincial municipal spending on such things As housing hospitals and roads. A v 7. Promote exports through Mea sures like. Trade missions Trade agreements with specific countries and the lowering of barriers to International Commerce. 8. A planned immigration policy based on the country a capacity to absorb immigrants in an expanding without lowering the Standard of living. 9. Measures to maintain and increase farm Pur chasing Power. 10. A substantial in crease in Canada s contribution to the Colombo plan for the rehabilitation of Southeast Asia and the establishment of an International development fund under nato. 11. Special help de pressed Canadian industries get on heir feet and to help depressed areas either by bringing industries nto them or by helping workers move to regions where jobs Are available. Free press thu igday september 30, 1954 Tungsten wire can be drawn so Ine that a Pound would stretch to 950 Miles. Biggest new shipments of surplus in 3 years half Price screwdrivers High Quality am Drivers with Mog be taxed Blades Complete with stand. Sensational value afford to miss it Sale starts fri., oct. 1 9 . Open until 6 . Saturday 9 . Special Reg. 69e Bristol Myers ammonia Ted tooth powder by. The makers of Pana 9 per Large tin limit 1 tin buy two pair get 1 pair free 400 Dox. Pair. Exclusive Purchase. Reg. Value or. Two ruin. Rui vow to. 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Satisfaction or Money refunded at Manitoba s Only registered surplus store 2 locations Only 891north main St. I 397 Portage ave. cart ave. J and when the generation of kids reaches College it might be hard to get in unless you play Good wordless action Gall at convention Toronto up demands for action to halt rising unemployment in the farm implement Industry were voiced today at the annual convention of the Canadian con Gress of labor Here. The demands were accompanied by slams aimed by some rank and file. Delegates at uni6n leaders. , Toronto member of the United automobile workers of America said he has been alarmed by a statement of Cal president Mosher which he interpreted As meaning wage cuts should be accepted by workers in depressed or. Mosher promptly denied the remark was included in his pres dental address to the Congress monday. Mosher said he had advised workers to take cognizance of the economic position of Industry in making pay demands jut said he was not advocating cuts a member of the United steel workers of America largest in the a swipe at his own Leader Charles Millard of Tor nto. Steel member John Belling Lam said Millard was not taking an Active enough part in proceed Ings of a Cal appointed committee dealing with unemployment prob lems in the farm implement Industry. If our director can t attend meetings for goodness Sake let s it someone else on the commit or. Bellingham said. Moke. About act meet continued from Page 1 realism needed supporters told the convention that labor must be realistic. It was not True that labor s new economic policy was to hold the line on wages because the con Gress policy has been and still is to seek higher wages. One Delegate pointed out that the document under debate opens with the statement Canadian Jabor wants full employment a the highest possible Standard of labor which should progressively Rise. Nothing less can prevent a colossal waste of our manpower and. Our huge investments in Plant and further they pointed out in statement on How buying Power could be raised the first Point definitely says this can be done by pressing for higher wages. Wage reductions curtail production arid employ ment. Wage increases expand markets production and employ the document was finally a by a Large majority. Fear of growing unemployment Lias been expressed in Many speeches since the opening of the convention. Us. Employment wednesday Michael Widman Washington d.c., guest speaker representing the United mine workers of America said in the United states were registered As unemployed and part time. This Situa tion1 was aggravated by the fact that new jobs were needed for Young people entering the labor Market. Or. Widman said miners were not opposing Mechan izing of the mining Industry but concentrating their efforts on improved wages and benefits. He thought a -30-hour week was now Neces sary to reduce unemployment. Or. Widman commented that it was a sad state of affairs that we always have to have War to have full and steady employ the convention heard the first negro to be appointed to a sub Cabinet Post in the United states j. E. Wilkins assistant Secretary of labor. Never forget or. Wilkins told the convention that soviet rus Sia with its communistic Ideo orgy pursues a. Policy of subsidizing disorder or even inciting civil War in weak fostering Mutual distrust Between nations that believe in Freedom offer ing economic advantage or Aid where either May be Welcome land seeking to Divide and con Quer. He said there is neither Rea son nor for employers denying Equality of Opportunity in employment on racial grounds. Students reception the archbishop of Ruperts land will hold a reception for University students at Bishop s court 680 Wellington Crescent from 3 . To 5 . Saturday. Members of the University of Manitoba Canterbury club will be on hand to outline for the coming year. Salaries doubled Ottawa of trus tees of Ottawa civic Hospital has approved salary boosts to attract More interns. Salaries of Junior interns Are increased from to and. Seniors from ?100 to per month. Blackheads Don t Ithem. Get two of peroxide powder from any drug is Fly with wet hot doth Iver fee they amply Trade unions having women troubles too Toronto Union Are having women troubles. They can t get the girls out to meetings. At the 14th annual convention of the Canadian Congress of labor in delegates tried to find a solution. _ Winnipeg unionist Effie Richard son of the United packing House workers of american complained that of the 90 women members of her local Only five turn zip Ai Only two Ever do most delegates were against the Fine system As a Means of drawing in attendances. Too dictatorial they said. If you have films or something to Zap up the meeting you la gel world leaders of salvation army greeted at Vancouver Vancouver and mrs. Wilfred Kitching world leaders of the salvation army were welcomed by More than 30c army members when they arrived Here from san Francisco wednesday for the salvation army s Western Canada Congress sept 30-oct. 6. The couple accompanied by col., Gosta Blomberg and Brig Stanley read of London was greeted by the Vancouver police pipe band and officer delegates from m a h i t of Northwestern Ontario Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia enjoy automatic with the Fairbanks Morse Oil Burner conversion Model with 3 controls plus tank and installation Skinner Bros. Plumbing heating Ltd. 153 Osborne Street phone 42-2121 a said mrs Margaret Thetford of the Cal Toronto education office appointment of More women to working committees was suggested by Doreen Mcnichol of Winnipeg who belongs to the office and professional workers Union. The women working and the Union movement will grow on she. Said. Average yield of Corn on land is 33 bushels an acre but yields of 140 to the acre Are not uncommon and there Are some reports of yields up to 225 bushels an acre. Out. Prospector critically injured in car Accident Upsala 42, one of the three men from who became millionaires through development of the Geco b ase metals property in the Manitou Wadge area was critically injured wednesday night in a car Accident on no. 17 Highway about 72 West of port Arthur. He was taken to Hospital in fort William with a possible fractured neck and undetermined internal two compan ions were also injured John Heil Man 39, of fort William and Peter Yarmuch 47, of Gerald ton. 1the men were headed Lor a Hunt n g trip when their car skidded on the wet pavement and rolled twice. Youngest in Canada 2 Halifax up -4 Henry d. Hicks 39, took Over As Nova Scotia Premier wednesday and became the youngest Canada. He succeeded who became Premier in april on the death of Angus Macdonald and stepped aside when a Liberal convention picked or. Lor the Post sept. 10. J i the United states grows about half Corn. 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