PEOPLE’S VOICE

PACIFIC ADVOCATE

FOR PROGRESS

7 L. 1. NO. 43.
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Vanceuver, B.C., Saturday, November 4 1944

ind Layoff

Vancouver fabor circles ar

to consider» preblems of

TiM BUCK
Pational leader of the Laber-
brogressive Party. ;

PP Urges
bublicPower.

Strong approval of the an-
unced intention of Premier
irt to convert the B.C. Elec-
ic Company to public own-
bhip was voiced in a sharply
orded resolution on govern-
ent development of British
slumbia power resources
lopted unanimously at 4
lembership meeting of the
ceouver |abor-Progressive
y at the Hastings Audi-

Hum this week.
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lrade Union Leaders
Velcome City Postwar

Conference

e expecting the conference of

wresentatives Of labor, imdusiry, business and the city coun-

reconversion of industry to

acetime production, to lay a practical basis for dealing with
2 question and will be well represented at the preliminary
peting called for this week by Alderman Jack Price. Price

| Was

named by city council to
organize the conference and is
busily engaged in bringing the
representatives together:

Necessity of civic action on
the reconversion issue has been
made clear by the increasing
number of layoffs which may
soon become a major problem

unless vigorous steps are taken]
|te cope with it.

While reem-
ployment of workers laid off ap-
pears to be keeping pace with
the situation, the problem has
aroused considerable uncertain-

Several Vancouver labor lead-
ers expressed themselves as
wholeheartedly in approval of

=\the conference when queried by

P.A. Malcolm Mcleod, president

|of the Shipyard General Work-
| ers’
‘his organization would be repre-
4)sented and said that he “wel-

Federation, announced that

comed the move as the only prac-
tical answer to the reconversion

problem.”

Stu Kennedy, financial secre-
tary of Aeronautical Lodge, felt
that Alderman Price should be
congratulated for promoting the

eonference and said his union

followed a general policy of pro-
moting such meetings of all in-
terested groups to consider the)
problems of pastwar-.

Another commendation for
Price came from Nigel Morgan,
TWA international board mem-
ber, who said that the mobiliza-
tion of resources and energy for,
peacetime must equal that for
war. 3

“Such a conference,” said Mor-
gan, “can lay the basis for co-
operation between labor, man-
agement and government for the
release of necessary tools and
material without interference
with vital war production to
make possible speedy reconyer-
sion. It should plan to reduce
#9 a minimum inconvenience for
those who have made such a
sreat contribution to the war
effort by working in war in-
dustries.”

contrast.

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The following statement was adopted at the

Exposes CCF Scheme

Executive Committee

For

Controlling Local Unions

regular weekly meeting

of the B.C. Provincial Executive of the Labor-Progressive Party.
“The action of Stewart Alsbury and other CCF members and support-

ers in calling for the expulsion of all members of

the Labor - Progressive

Party from the International Woodworkers of America in British Colum-
bia constitutes the most serious threat to organized labor in B.C in many

Dorion’s Statement False,
Says Tim Buck

* (The following statement was issued to the press by, Tim
Buck, national leader of the Labor-Progressive Party).

According to press reports Frederick Dorion, MP for
Charlevoix-Saguenay, claims knowledge of a “secret
union’ between [Liberals and the Labor-Progressive Party.

The reasons for orion’s assertion are fairly obvious.
He opposes Canada’s war effort and the statement was
made during a conference to unite other opponents of the
nation’s war effort into a federal parliamentary group.
The strong influence of pro-fascist ideas in that group ex-
plains the motives for such a statement at their organiza-
tional meeting. Dorion’s assertion is without foundation
however and absolutely false.

The Labor-Progressive Party is in mo union with
any other political party. What the Labor-Progressive
Party, proposes is that our next Dominion Government
should be a government representing and based upon a
coalition of all democratic forces. .

The main basis for such a coalition is obviously to be
found among the reform Liberals and members and sup-
porters of the labor movement. Because of this, the Labor-
Progressive Party is urging the election, to the next House
of Commons, of the largest possible group of labor MP’s
pledged to participate as a group in such a coalition.

Tt is scarcely necessary to point out that this is exactly
the opposite to any secret umion” such as Frederick
Dorion suggests.

TLC A

Jnity And Progress

Complete unity around one of the most statesmanlike
programs ever adopted by a labor convention, highlighted
by unanimous support for non-partisan “constructive” labor
political action, marked the sixtieth annual convention of
the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, held in Toronto
last week. Representing 350,000 Canadian trade unionists,
650 delegates were in attendance.

Following immediately after ic ae

z z 5 y the striking statement of
pe shen. Cee Sane Congress President Perey Ben-
= poe Saws Cem dommcgn Dea: gough in his remarks closing the
vented adoption ‘of a realistic Gen eee ae Be pee
program based on labor's owt will not become the dog running
eet neces) oneal peland the wagon of any political

f B : party. :

action, and spit obs eas The red-baiting which tainted
down the middle, the - ee the sessions of the International
vention provided a refreshing Woodworkers of America con-
vention in Vancouver last week
non-partisan | and Which received the very ac-

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Discussion on
political action was summed up

leet Achieves .

As a result of the actions
taken at the International
Convention of the [IWA, just
concluded in Wancouver, and
at the convention of the Ca-
nadian Congress of Labor,
held in Quebec the week
previously, the plans of the
leadership of the CCF to
either dominate or wreck the
major trade unions of British
Columbia now stands fully
exposed.

“The Wabor-Progressive Party.

hereby charges the CGF leader-

ship:

_ GQ) With deliberately work-
ing to gain control of B.C. -
trade unions through the medi-
um of wholesale expulsions of |
union members; :

(2) Of planning to use the
political action committees of |
the Canadian Cengress of La-
-bor headed by Charles Millard,
Ontario CCE MPP; to either
‘force the CCL unions in B.C.
to become a vote-catching ap-
paratus of the CCF or destroy
them in the process;

(3) Of entering into an

agreement with the notorious
Trotskyite, Secialist Labor
Party in the USA which con-
trols the international leader- _
ship of the TWA and nineteen
of whose members now stand
indicted for treason im the
USA, to cooperate to either
gain control of the TWA im
B.G. or destroy the union;
(4) With deliberately plan-
ning organized disruption of
B.C. trade union local meetings
with the purpose of making
conduct of business at these
meetings impossible, to em-
barass and discredit the lead-
ership in order to pave the
way for members of the €CF
to gain control. :

“In substantiation of the
above charges, the following
facts are presented. In calling
for the expulsion of those whom
he branded as Communists,
Stewart Alsbury of the -New
Westminster Local of the TWA
was demanding the expulsion
of the majority of the present
leadership of the TWA, of pre-
cisely those men who, over a
period of years. worked self-
sacrificinely to build the TWA
to its present position as the
largest and fastest orTrowin =
trade union in B.C. Stewart
Alshury is a brother of the nro-
yincial nresident of the CGF.
Tom Alsbury, who himself has
cained entry into the TWA by
working part time in the

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