PACIFIC ADVOCATE

PEOPLE’S VOICE FOR PROGRESS

1. No. 21

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VANCOUVER, B.C., SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1945

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Vassile Kuznetsov reads a telegram from Marshal Joseph Stalin to members of. the
t delegation to the World Labor Conference held recently in London, England.

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0,000 signatures,’

Every sign indicates that British Columbia will go over the top with its modest quota
Labor-Progressivye Party Provincial

Chairman Tom McEwen

VA. this week when queried about the LPP petition campaign for changes in federal

regu_ations.

petition campaign which
goal of one million signa-
Siationally, is in full swing
= province with several
and of the petition forms
6y forwarded to leading
imionists, public bodies and
/¢ubs. Support will be
=| trom workers on the job,
fmts and shipyards, and
ihe public at large.

the same time the campaign
Enpel the government to
fthe necessary changes in
yartime labor code (P.C.
band wage freezing recula-
P(P.C. 9384) will receive
inpetus through the widest
"© public distribution of a
containing copy of LPP

National Leader Tim Buck’s let-
|ter to Prime Minister Mackenzie
| King urging amendments to the
labor regulations.

“This is a campaign for a real
allround labor code which will
guarantee in reality and not just
on paper that the forces of labor
wil be integrated into the demo-
eratie machinery of the nation,”
he stated. “Our campaign is a
contribution to realizing the de-
mands of the broadest sections

of the Canadian trade union
movement. It will give a tre-
mencous impetus, on a broad

non-partisan basis, to these de-
mands.” -

The LLPP chairman emphasized
that tecent acceleration of the

ticularly evident now in
affiliated to the Trades and La-

setting up of - political action
committees in the. unions, par-
those

bor Congress of Canada (AFL),
would also prove a major factor
in inereasing the level of the
campaign. He said that he ex-
pected that these committees
would take up the question of
pressing for the needed amend-
ments aS an urgent matter of
business demanding immediate
action.

“Regardless of trade union af-
filiation.” he asserted, “the great
predominating idea in the minds
of mast workers. today

is the)

CCF Policy
Rejected
By AFL

APL unions in the Lower
Mainland area will launch on a
program of non-partisan labor
political action, without ties to
any political party, and “without
restricting the right of any un-
ionist to support the party of
his awn choice? =

This policy was unanimously
endorsed by delegates to the
regular meeting of the Vancou-
ver and New Westminster Dis-
trict Trades and Labor Council
this week ‘after hearings the re-
port of the council’s newly-form-
ed Political Action Gommittee.
The report. given by council
secretary A. K. Gervin in the
form of.two recommendations
approved at the PAC meeting,
urged all affiliated locals to im-
mediately set up local union
PAC’s and set their committees
in motion by beginning discus-
sions of matters of political im-
portance to labor. Decisions of
the local union political commit-
tees would be referred to the
Trades Council PAC in the form
of recommendations, and would
in turn be referred to Council
meetings for decision by the
delegate body.

Appended to the PAC report
was the assurance that the
Trades and Labor Congress of
Canada, in line with its last eon-
vention decision, would estab-
lish a National Political Action
Committee ‘in the near future.”
The national body will act as the
coordinating and guidins center
for political action committees
on a provincial, district and local
union seale.

CCF POLICY REJECTED

Decision to confine the politi-
eal action work of the Trades
Council on a non-partisan basis
eonforms to the policy laid down
by the Trades Congress conyen-
tion at Toronto last October. It
contrasts sharply with the posi-
tion taken by a minority group
of CCF unionists who have “cap-
tured” control of what remains
of the CCL-PAC and have tied it
to the program of the GCF.

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GE LABOR INCLUDED —

Canadian Delegates Must.
Decisions
AtSan Francisco Meeting

TORONTO—Full support by Canada’s delegation to the coming San
Francisco Conference for the policies of world. cooperation laid down at
Yalta, was urged by Tim Buck in reporting to aq meeting of the National
Executive Committee of the Labor-Progressive Party, held over the week-
end. Mr. Buck urged inclusion of representatives Of erganized labor in the

Canadian delegation to the
world security conference.

The meeting was attended
by Mr. Fred Rose, M.P. for
Cartier; Mrs. Dorise Neilsen,
M.P. for North Battleford;
A. A. Macleod, MPP; J. B.
Salsbers, MPP: members of
the Party in the municipal
governments of Toronto and
Hamilton, and leading Party
workers in Quebec and QOn-
tario. The purpose of the gather-
ing was to hear an address by
Tim Buck, the Party’s National
Leader on the forthcoming ses-
sion of the House of Commons in
the light of the United Nations

Conference scheduled to open in
San Francisco on April 25.

Mr. Buck proposed that in the
House and all representative
bodies, and in the work of the
Party generally, the LPP should
arouse public opinion for the full
support of the proposals of the
recent Crimea Conference.

The meeting agreed that the
delegation to the San Fran-
cisco Conference should em-
phatically include representa-
tives of the organized labor
movement. These should be
drawn from the two trade un-
ion congresses, which have been
represented at the historic
World Trade Union Conference
in London.

Noting that Canadian dele-
gates to the recent London
conference of the world’s trade
unions, representing 60,000,000
organized workers, went on re-
cord in favor of the establish-
ment of a strong world organ-
ization of trade unions, Mr.
Buck observed: “A noteworthy
similarity is to be seen in the
conclusions of the World Labor
Conference and the Yalta Con-
ference of the ‘Big Three’ ”.
The meeting hailed the decis-
ions of the London labor con-
ference.

RECIPROCAL TRADE
AGREEMENTS

The recent announcements by
Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. King re-
specting trade expansion, and the
removal of trade barriers between
Canada and the USA, must be
welcomed and supported. It is an
important step in the right direc-
tion. But Britain, as the chief
customer for Canadian goods,
must be approached in the same
spirit by Canada. These arrange-
ments, along the lines of the

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