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1945

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CCL Council

of the soldiers but of the whole
nation, is the war, and our pledge
to the men in the armed forces
is that we give them all the
munitions of war they need.
That's the first point of labor
and anyone fighting fascism. Be-
cause today you fight fascism
with a gun. Some people sneer
at this. Id like to wipe that
sneer right off their face. This
war is a people’s war, and it’s
jabor’s war.”

FULL SUPPORT

Stating that he is 100 percent
behind the BCER workers and
that their demands are just and
can be won, Murphy urged adop-
tion of the resolution and full
support for the street railway-
men. He pointed to the public
support for their demands and
said that labor must maintain
that public support, and not an-
tagonize it, in order to win the
demands: “Under the No-Strike
pledge we have changed one fed-
eral act after another, and we
are going to continue to change
them. Ottawa reacts to public
pressure. I believe the street
railwaymen can win. It is a
strike against the BCER, not
against old people, the public or
the war. We are not going out on
Sympathy or general strike. If
it means prolonging the war, if
it means one extra soldier being
killed I’m against it.?

Exception to the  No-Strike
pledge was voiced by James
“Shaky” Robertson, Hileen Tall-
man, Pen Baskin, Arthur Turner,
CGF MUA, and Tom Bradley.
The last named gave the only
no vote on the final ballot.
_ Characteristic of the position
taken by all the GCCFers was the
indirect method by which they
voiced -their hostility to organ-
ized labor’s pledge.

This indirectness consisted in
again and again referring to
“some who take exception to the
‘No-Strike’ pledge” without once
stating that they themeselves
were these people. In the name
of unity, CCL policy or ‘“sup-
port” for the street railwaymen,

HARVEY MURPHY

Miners’ Representative

but not in one case of their own
position on “‘No-Strike’ policy for
the trade union movement, the
CCFers tried to turn Council
delegates against the pledge.

AUTHORIPFY CHALLENGED

Supporting the executive reso-
lution, IWA President Harold
Pritchett and Steelworkers’ de-
legate Coray Campbell both
stated their support for the
street railwaymen, and said they
would advise their union mem-
bers to accept rides to their
work, except with BCER equip-
ment or private “jitneys.” Camp-
bell challenged the authority of
Robertson to advise Steelwork-
ers’ members not to accept rides,
thereby trying to foment a sym-
pathy strike among essential
war workers. He said that if the
men were to accept this advice,
in three days a shop working on
vital war equipment, which was
the only one of its kind in the

West, would be forced to close
down.

A moving plea for support of
their “brothers, sons and sweet-
hearts” overseas by maintaining
allout full production was made
by youthful TWA delegate Alice
Pack. “If we force war workers
to even come to work two hours
late we will be betraying their
trust in us,” she declared.

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Intensify Political Action

Murphy pointed to the great
gains and victories which jabor
has won through the mainten-
anee of the No-Strike pledge,
and describing the major politi-
cal ‘victories won in the Ameri-
ean elections, with the election
of Roosevelt and also many pro-
gressives to Congress, he asked,
“How many strikes was that
worth and how much further
ahead are we now?”

FULL -PARTNERSHIP

Acceptance of labor as a full
War partner, “giving direction
and assistance to Canada as a
full fledged member of the Uni-
ted Nations,” was called for by
President Pritchett in the of-
ficers’ report. “Organizational
an deconomic gains for the union
in B.C. were unprecedented in
the history of the woodworking
industry of this province and
our international,” he stated.
“Wage increases for the wood-
working industry for 1944
amounted to» three million dol-
lars.”

Pritchett called for acceptance
by employers of the union’s ma-
jor demand the union shop, as a
measure for “the establishment
of sound labor relations in the
industry and resultant increased
production in the interest of the
allied cause.”

Turning to the question of No-
Strike policy, he related how the
CIO had increased its dues-pay-
ing membership by 669,000 dur-
ing the past year while stand-
ing by its ‘No-Strike’ pledge, and
how similarly TWA District One
had doubled its membership.

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POLITICAL ACTION

The convention also went on
record advocating both Gana-
dian -and international labor

the CCL and the Trades and La-
bor Congress to take joint action
in legislative matters and to set
up a joint committee to press for
labor’s program. They called
for establishment ‘of a new ali
inclusive labor movement of the
United Nations to replace the
old and wnrepresentative IF TU,
which persists in excluding sey-
eral of the world’s most impor-
tant union centers including
those of the CIO in the USA and
the USSR.”

OTHER RESOLUTIONS

Among other resolutions
adopted was a call for exclusion
of Japanese from the coastal de-
fence zone “until the last threats
of Japanese fascism and aggres-
sion have been completely elimi-

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stand on the housing question, (
Measures of increased aid for’
veterans’ rehabilitation, national
Wage policy, union shop and |
checkoff, granting of democracy
to colonial countries, labor repre-
sentation in the federal depart—
ment of reconstruction, as well
as many IWA matters. :

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