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Tories to pick leader Sept. 9
|s it a sham battle?

By PHYLLIS CLARKE

LOSE to 2,500 delegates are
expected now at the Con-
servative Party convention

scheduled for next week in To-
ronto. They have before them
the task of choosing a new
leader for their party — one
whom they hope can again lead
them to victory.

The nine aspirants for the po-
sition have been roaring back
and forth across this country,
exhorting, urging, pleading, that
they be the one selected.

Lurking in the wings is the
“Old Chief.” It could very well
be that contrary to all the ex-
pectation, John will say he’s in
the race and where that will
leave the contest is anybody’s
guess. Diefenbaker has always
been a mavarick in the party—
that’s what earned him so much
hatred in the eastern party cir-
cles—and he’s not a man to be
written off, or to write himself
off very easily.

The only “assurance” really
that he’s not planning to throw
in the old campaign hat is that
his strongest supporter, Alvin
Hamilton, has got into the fray.
The story is that Hamilton would
never have taken the plunge un-
less he knew for sure that Dief-
enbaker didn’t want the mantle
any more.

There are those who say
that it’s all a sham battle. And
to come extent that’s true. There
are those who have gone into
the fight purely and simply to
show how much strength they
have and thus ensure for them-
resins position in any future
Conservative cabinet.

But it would be wrong to
think of the Conservative party
as a monolith. As a matter of
fact ever since 1963 when Dief-
enebaker lost his second cam-
paign, the cleavage between the
Ontario Bay Street crowd and
the western sections of the party
have become more and more
pronounced.

One new factor at this time
is the stronger representation
coming from Quebec who will
have 23 percent of the voting
strength. This alone guarantees
that the question of ‘the candi-
dates’ stand on the future rela-

tions of French and English

Canada will play a decisive role
in the proceedings.

The Thinkers conference at
Montmorency Falls had pro-
posed the writing of a new con-
stitution. This constitution
which should recognize that

U.A.W. in

By WILLIAM ALLAN

DETROIT

OMETHING new has occured

in the midst of negotia-
tions between the United
Auto Workers and _ General
Motors, Ford, Chrysler—Emil
Mazey, secretary-treasurer of
the union has plunged into a
Vietnam peace campaign. He is
helping to circulate petitions,
throughout the nation that calls
on President Johnson to end the
Vietnam war. The sponsors of
the new movement call them-

selves Negotiations Now. They

seek a million signatures to
present to Johnson.
“I’m spending most of my

o

time on bargaining,” Mazey told

Canada is-composed of two na-
tions should be, they said, “such
as to permit and encourage their
full harmonious growth-and de-
velopment in equality through-.
out Canada.”

Not unrelated is the question
of the Union Nationale, and
where its support will go. There
are many indications that Pre-
mier Johnson has given the nod
to Duff Roblin, Manitoba Pre-
mier and front runner in the
leadership race.

That’s one reason there is
such a flutter around the Stan-

Lurking in the wings is the |
‘Old Chief.’ It could very
well be that contrary to all
the expectations, John will
say he’s in the race. Where
that will leave the contest is |
| anybody's guess. His obvi-
ous disfavor on Bay Street
has to be measured against
his still popular image in the
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field campaign since the story
goes that he had planned to
press . his campaign without
Quebec. Now Robert Stanfield,
Nova Scotia’s premier, is mak-
ing sure that he talks about the
rights of French Canadians
everywhere he goes. This, it is
said, is causing some disquiet
back in his home province.

The most non-Thinker of all
the candidates is Senator Wal-
lace McCutcheon. Ever since
the Montmorency gathering he
has been blasting it. Long known
for his adherence to right-wing
views, to greater Canadian “in-
tegration” with the United
States, McCutcheon is not re-
garded as having a chance at
the leadership but large support
could ensure him an important
role in all future Conservative
planning. There should be no
illusions that if that is the case
there will be a strong swing to
the right.

He, along with particularly
Donald Fleming, former finance

minister, is an advocate of some
form of unity with Social Credit
—perhaps the sort of alliance
that would give Social Credit
backing at the provincial level
while they stay out of the fede-
ral field. The attack on social
service measures, on fiscal re-
form, also forms part of this
pattern and is quite discernable
in the campaigns of these men.

The other question yet not
answered is where will the
westerners place their support—
on Alvin Hamilton, regarded as
the left bower of the Conserva-
tive Party or Duff Rublin. Tra-
ditionally it is the western sec-
tion of the party that is the
more progressive (it was from
there that the Progressive got
added to the name), and today
the main federal seats are held
in the west so they have more
strength than might otherwise
be expected.

Hamilton from the left as

McCutcheon from the right
might just be in there to guar-
antee his future position but
Rublin was wooed by many to
get into the fray and his com-
mitment to the federal field, as
with Stanfield, indicates a very
serious campaigner. He has a
number of things going for him,
his western base, his expected
support from Quebec, the fact
that he is not part of the old
federal cabinet and so does not
have to answer for any com-
plaints of what was done in the
last number of years.
’ The enthusiasm that greeted
his announcement that he was
running in the eastern conser-
vative newspapers might indi-
cate that he’s the man that the
the Bay Street boys see as their
choice. However, there is no
doubt-that when it comes to who
will be the best man for Bay
Street, George Hees probably
still is the front runner. Co-
chairman of the convention
Eddie Goodman is known as a
strong Hees supporter. His ra-
ther fading glamour though and
obvious aging playboy manner
runs against the expectation of
his winning.

But that gets us back to the
nagging question: what if Dief-
enbaker gets in there too? His
obvious disfavor on Bay Street
has to be measured against his
still popular image in the west
and even if he’s not in as a can-
didate himself can his influence
again keep the Bay Street crowd
from getting their way?

The final act opens at Maple
Leaf Gardens on Sept. 6th.

Vietnam peace fight

us, “but I believe peace is the
number one issue in the country.

“I happen to believe that if
this war spreads to China or
turns into a nuclear war, we can
kiss our (auto) negotiations
goodbye. Government agencies
will impose wage controls and
destroy collective bargaining as
we know it—so there really is a
relationship.”

Asked if this meant that the
UAW might refuse to support
President Johnson in the 1968
election or throw its support te
a peace candidate, Mazey said.

“We haven’t made a decision
about this yet.”

Mazey said that while the
UAW: membership might not
share his position on the peace

issue, that the leadership did.

With Mazey playing an offi-
cial role in seeking one million
signatures for Negotiations Now
in Vietnam, by Oct: 1, it means
that the UAW will officially,
through its locals and other
media, publicize and aid the
campaign.

The Michigan State Fair,
which attracts, thousands each
day, is to be a special target
with teams of signature collec-
tors covering it.

Already the prestige of the
UAW being involved has sent
TV interviewers out to Solidar-
ity House to place Mazey on
TV and him saying that war and
the collective bargaining in the
Big 3 are inseparable.

CCORDING to Donald Mac-
Donald, secretary treasurer
of the Canadian Labor Con-

gress, trade union membership
stands at an all time high in
Canada and “prospects for con-
tinued growth are exceedingly
good.”

In a Labor Day message, Mac-
Donald noted that: ‘Outside the
established trade union move-
ment there has been an enor-
mous surge of interest in collec-
tive bargaining among many pro-
fessional and semi-professional
groups. The practice of bargain-
ing collectively, which has al-
ways formed the basis of the
trade union movement, is now
being widely accepted. The signi-
ficance of this development is
one of the important situations
now confronting the trade union
movement.

“These circumstances clearly
prove the fallacy of those who,
only a short time ago, were pre-
dicting the demise of the labor
movement. It is now quite ob-
vious that not only is our move-
ment going to remain, and con-
tinue to increase in numbers and
strength, but it is going to play

Must resist
complacency

“PTVHE labor movement must
resist the temptation to
sink into complacency

about the solutions we have

won to yesterday’s problems.”
said Larry Sefton, director of
district six of the United Steel-
workers of America, in a Labor

Day statement.

Pointing out the problems of
our urban society, Sefton stated:

“We must not stand by and
watch our cities, in which most
of our members live, collapse
into piles of rubble and junk,
crowded with a demoralized
humanity. This is no question
of one real estate development
or another. The desperate need
is for the application of suffi-
cient resources—financial, social
and human—to re-build our
cities as centres for the enrich-
ment and ennoblement of human
life, not for its deprivation and
degradation. We in the labor
movement must encourage this
to be done—must urge that this
be done—must insist that this
be done.

“Nor can we in the labor

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