Recognition of the trade {| mie at oneiof the closing ses- of the fifteenth annual e Brotherhood convention ert Bay last week. aternal greetings from the ed Fishermen’s Federal m were brought by George Mr, UFFU acting secretary, ® William Rigby, managing er of The Fisherman. #TORIC INJUSTICES Me so-called Indian problem reality a white man’s prob- # Rigby declared. For a sat- tory solution in a compara- iy short time, a. sincere desire jhe part of the federal goy- Bient to make amends for the ric injustices of the past is Pired. he unions,’ he said, “can ® ensure that the things the ies want done, are done dem- @ically, but with and by the @ins themselves.” @: is a tribute to the true Sdship established between Brotherhood and our unions ' the desire for cooperation is as firm as ever at this con- ‘on, in spite of certain mis- rstandings and minor dis- | ements during the past 7 i 8 DGE FULL SUPPORT Willer pledged UFFU full sup- | to the ten-point program iiited by the Brotherhood for incing social conditions of native population. He stress- Whe part that can be played he labor movement in arous- i public opinion to secure “a and square deal’ for the ves in the much needed revi- ®s to the Indian Act, being tht by the Brotherhood. Sonservation of our fisheries, laled as a vital need by this vs deplorable conditions, is ther field in which joint con- Wation and policies should be Weanced by our organizations,” jeclared. “In the interests of ® memberships, we must never W anybody or anything to de us.” Necopnition of the Indians as froup capable of making their ® decisions and deserving of @ right to have a say in their ©: future, came to the conven- lin a letter from Hon. T. A. Tar, Dominion minister of nes and resources. whe minister assured the na- 8s that “those interested in lian welfare’ will have the op- tunity of voicing their opin- dians And Unions leaffirm Friendship union movement as the eco- ic arm of the natives and a policy of closest friendly co- jation between the Brotherhood and union s in the fishing istry was reaffirmed in.a resolution passed amidst ap- ion on revisions to the Indian Act. The letter also stated, “it iS my own view that the policy of Indian administration should be directed along lines of en- couraging the Indians to take an active part in the life of the country and to accept the privi- leges and responsibilities of full citizenship but retaining at the Same time the traditions of their race.” j INADEQUATE OPPORTUNITIES Inadequacy of educational op- portunities and medical care were emphasized by every Indian speaker at the sessions. Qne speaker charged that the govy- ernment simply did not want the natives to become educated and had gone back on its promise to provide higher education for the Indians. Stories of hopelessly in- adequate medical care were told by William Beynon, Russ John- son, Frank Assu, Guy Williams and other Indian leaders. INDIAN COOPERATIVES Qn the brighter side were the stories of the Indian coopera- dives, mainly in the fishing in- dustry. These reports, brought to the -convention by President Alfred Adams and August Mur- phy, of Nootka, among others, served to refute the impression popular in some quarters that the Indians are incapable of help- ing themselves. President Adams was unani- mously reelected for a fourteenth term at the concluding sessions. District vice-presidents returned by acclamation are: Johnson Russ, Caleb Williams, William D. Scow, Frank Assu, Tom She- wish, August Murphy and Oscar Peters. Tim Modie and Walter Wilson were elected treasurer and recording secretary respec- tively. Guy Williams was reelec- ted business agent for the south- ern district, and William Beynon for the north. Civilization Triumph LONDON. — From Hansard: The Hon: Member asked the minister if there was not some- thing grotesque in a situation where so litle paper is allowed by the Government to the pub- lishing houses that half of the Eyeryman series is out of print, while a certain sensational Sun- day rag can publish an edition of 4,500,000 each weekend? SIDNEY HILLMAN “Everybody knows that the chairman of the CIO Pelitical Action Committee cast his vote for FDR. Saturday, November 25, 1944 — Page 9 labor, meeting in London on De- { | 5 : ganization. cember 4,-CIQ president Philip Murray stated recently... This can be done, he said, by revising the constitution of the present Inter- mational Hederatton -of Trade dJnions to give the CIO repre- sentation, or by the establish- ‘iment of a new world labor or- Murray emphasized |. the need for speed in setting up 'a world labor body, stressing the urgency of world labor having a voice at the peace table. FRATERNAL DELEGATES Speaking at a press conference, Murray also revealed that the CIO had invited Sir Walter Cit- rine, general secretary of the British Trades Union Congress, to send fraternal delegates to the GIO convention openmg in Chi- eago on November 20. Citrine replied that the invitation put See Hand Of Oil Barons Behind Soviet-lran Rift Soviet displeasure with the Premier of neighboring Iran, Mohammed Saed, for his strange behavior in rejecting a Soviet offer to develop Iran’s northern oil deposits, is arousing widespread support inside of Iran it is reported. Demonstrations of 30,000 in Meshed-i-Sar and Tabriz were reported from Moscow with the leading Iranian news- papers _ opposing their own government’s course. Some American observers are quick to misinterpret Soviet mo- tives in desiring the oil conces- sions. They forget that no in- dividual or company inside of the USSR would profit by -the Iran development, by contrast with the profit with which a few British oil companies have gain- ed through exploitation of Iran’s oil in the south. SUDDENLY CHANGED It appears that the Iranian government had decided to let Soviet engineers develop the northern oil resources, which border on the strategic Soviet Baku fields. Suddenly, Mohammed Saed re- versed his position, and attemp- ted to win support from the Brit- ish and American ambassadors, who announced that their coun- tries were not pressing for oil concessions at the present time. HOSTILE ELEMENTS The Soviet Foreign Commissa- riat, Sergei Kavtaradze, express- ed amazement at the sudden Tranian switch, which was ob- viously inspired by elements hos- tile to the USSR, perhaps among the British oil companies. Saed defended his course in a radio ad- | dress on October 31, admitting that he had been influenced by Iranian representatives abroad, who are notoriously in cahoots with the big oil companies. WHERE FRICTION LIES The conflict, therefore, is between the USSR and the people of Iran on the one hand, who haye everything to gain from the economic develop- ment of the country, and Mo- hammed Saed and oil company executives on the other. The USSR is of course com- pletely disinterested in territorial acquisition in Iran.- In fact the Soviet Revolution 27 years ago abandoned the Czarist sphere of influence and cancelled Czarist concessions. STRONG, NEIGHBOR But the USSR does want a say in Iran’s economic development, which would greatly accelerate the rise in living standards of her people and help make Iran a strong neighbor on the Soviet Caucasian flank. Cooperation LONDON—Four Soviet labor leaders have been invited to visit Italy as guests of the Italian General Confederation of Labor, (CGL), “to strengthen friendly ties existing between workers of the two= countries,” the CGL announced. 17 } CO Delegates Urge Creation Of Permanent World Labor Body NEW YORK-—The creation of a permanent world labor organization in which the CIO and other trade union bodies of the United Nations will be given “‘their rightful place” will be urged by CIO delegates to the preliminary world the TUC general council ‘in a position of some embarassment,” and cited the practice of the TUC for the past 50 years “to confine its delegation to the American Federation of Labor.’ : PUBLIC OPINION Discussing the possibility of the IFTU constitution being re- vised, Murray deemed this un- likely since the AFL has a de- cisive voice in the organization and, he added, “Sir Walter has indicated that his emotions might be somewhat swayed by their decision.” The CIO “does not intend to let the AFL speak for the whole of U.S. labor,” Mur- ray continued, “because they don’ represent it.” Zhe only means of overcoming the “ap- parent reluctance” of Citrine and other TUC leaders to recog- nize the strength of the CIO, he said, is through the pressure of public opinion in England. ISOLATION The ClO News, official organ of the CIO, comments: “If the AFL maintains its present atti- tude toward the London confer- enee, it will isolate itself com- s pletely from world labor: This’ would be in line with official AFL support for isolationist Congressmen, but scarcely pleas- ing to the membership. After all, the officialdom may have en- dorsed Nye, Fish et al, but the rank and file did not.” Closer Link — With U.S.S.R. MONTREAL, Que. — G. N. Zaroubin, Ambassador and Min- ister Plenipotentiary of the So- viet UWnion in Canada, told a large audience here last week that “there is no reason why there should not be an even greater friendship between my country and Canada in the post- war.” The Ambassador’s address was delivered at His Majesty’s Thea- tre in celebration of the 27th an- niversary of the Soviet Union, sponsored by the Quebec section of the National Council For Canadian-Soviet ‘Friendship. ‘DISTRUST GONE Lit.-Col.. Vincent Sheehan, re- cently returned from the Euro- pean theatre, told the audience that “we may all devoutly hope that the atmosphere of distrust which once blighted our relations has gone forever. Our alliance (with the Soviet) has made vic- tory possible, and it will also make peace possible.”