Labor—and other community groups in Rochester, N.Y. now have
a full voice and active participation in the city’s life. They
achieved it by unity. AFL and CIO leamed to work together,
then joined with other groups. Here they are at a meeting of
the Community Legislative Council. -Left to right: Florence
H. Winchell, supervisor of parent education in the public shools;
President Anthony A. Gapone of Central Trades and Labor Goun-
cil (AFL); Dr. Hxie BE. Welsch: the Rey. Isaiah P. Pogue of
National Association for Advancement of Colored People;
Katherine Hull of United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers
© (CIO); Louise Genovtse, AFL; Anna K. Buell, social worker:
) Mrs. Natalia K. Evan, psychologist: William Karby of Ameri-
| ean Newspaper Guild (CIO).

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delegates to its ninth annual con-
vention in Seattle last week.

The internationally known
body, representing: labor, pen-
Sions and other groups, played a
major role in uniting the people
of Washington State against fas-
cism and for progressive action.

Last year the WCE, workings:
with all other progressive ele-
ments, succeeded in carrying the
State for Roosevelt in the presi-
dential contest and in electing a
progressive Democratic goyern-
or and legislature. This election
unity was carried into the legis-
lature’s work and brought into
being an advanced social secur-
ity program.

Foreign y Urged
For Postwar Canada

Ministry of Foreign Affairs as one of the key depart-

nents of the Canadian Government is one of the hoped-for

7 esults for Canada of the San Francisco Security conference

linistry Urged

Behind the WCF is a nine-year
record of anti-fascist, progres-
Sive achievements which form a
major landmark in the political
and social history of Washing-
ton State. Throughout these
years, as the struggle on the is-
Sues proceeded, the WCE con-
tinued to rally the democratic
and. progressive sections of the
people around its policies until,
at the final convention, there
were more than 200 delegates in
attendance reresenting 66 labor,

#2 April, said Beckie Buhay,
i\ fontreal organizer of the Labor-
# rogressive Party, in a broad-

)2st over Station CFCF in Mont-
2al last week. :

the Chaloults, the Dorions and
the ,Duplessis. “These people
ignore the true meaning of this
| War against Fascism, and their
| €onstant chorus is that we should
have nothing to do with the new
world which is arising all around
us. If we ecarmy these arguments

® Such a Ministry, she said,
7 iculd be established to conduct
#1. independent, progressive and
# 2althy Canadian foreign policy

“hich will be another result of

ne conference.

Such a policy will mean that
= im the sphere of world affairs
snd international relationships,
| ur country will break with the
east and follow the course
vhich it deems best for the
Eh ireservation of peace; it will
Fiean that Canada can never
drawn, against her own
— est interests, into the vortex
' f such calamitous policies as
Stat of Munich and anti-
| ovietism, which Jit the flames
@ € this war and made it ineyit-
ible that we should haye to
‘ght an enemy ‘whose insati-
‘ble appetite for plunder we
vid not have the voice to op-
> ose.”

Miss Buhay called for a truly
Foresentative delegation, made
| of spokesmen of both indus-
)y and labor, to be sent to the
/aterence. This delegation
‘ould be pledged to support the
imea agreement which carried
2 plans for world cooperation
70 their final phase and which
“the bedrock upon which the
nization of the United Na-
S ean be established as a
con of peace and security,
‘hting the path that leads to a

ster future for all humanity.’

p Striking sharply at the opposi-
i to this unity, the LPP orean-
© T stated> “Let us beware of

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{

Dthsayers who amuse them-
ives by poking at the still fresh
ment which unites the three
2at powers .. ; Without unity
sween these three, there can
* no successful outcome at San
ancisco, and no real peace.’
OLATION DANGER,

She described the fatal re-
ts that would come from list-

|into the field of postwar rela-
‘tionships, the great industrial
| developments’ which have made
‘important beginnings in raising
| living standards in Quebee dur-
jing these years of war produc-

ition will become abandoned
|shells, and our province will
jlapse imto backwardness and
| poverty.”

The LPP speaker asserted that
| with the tremendous rise in Can-
|ada’s industrial power through
| the war, Canada will come upon
| the stage of world affairs at San
| Francisco, “as the new, young
|giant. Our viewpoint will be

|fresh. . . . We can help to turn |

the great exporting nations away
from petty squabbles over old
markets, and open their eyes to
the great needs of Russia, of
China, of devastated Europe and
Asia. And we can obtain our own
skare of these markets as outlets
tor Canadian wheat and manu-
factures so that our factories
¢an keep going and our workers
ean keep working, without hav-
ing to worry that our domestic
market is restricted by Canada’s
small population.’’

#2: dilettantes and the political

TORONTO, Ont—Representa-
tives from the two major labor
congresses in Canada should be
included in this country’s delega-
tion to the San Francisco Secur-
ity Conference, urges a resolu-
tion from Local 382, UAW-C1O,
sent to the two congresses,
Prime Minister Mackenzie King,
the press and all M.P.’s.

The resolution points out that
Canadian labor “has contributed
enormously in the production of

Pilag to the Quebec isloationists, |

war materials for the defeat of
our enemy.”

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pensions and other affiliated org:-
anizations.

in the last national and state
elections, WCE President Hugh
De Lacy was elected to the
U.S. House of Representatives,
Executive Secretary Thomas
C. Rabbitt was elected to the,
State Senate, and several other
WCE Jeaders were elected to
Congress and the State Legis-
lature; all on the Democratic
ticket.

Following is the historic reso-
lution -of dissolution which the
delegates adopted unanimously:
RESOLUTION :

Whereas, the growing aware-
ness of the American people of
the strength of their enemies and
of the correctness of the admin-
istration’s policies for the de-
feat of fascism brought into be-
ing a national coalition for the
reelection of President Roose-
velt; and
Whereas, this coalition victory

New Organizer
For Fishermen

_Fred Olsen, one of the best-
known fishermen on the Goast,
this week was appointed general
organizer for the United Fish-
ermen and Allied Workers’
Union, “the new amalgamated
organization of fishermen and
fish cannery workers established
at a convention earlier this
month. Olsen has been a lead-
ing figure in the fishermen’s
unions for many years, and un-
til recently- headed-the Stuart
Island local of the former United
Fishermen’s Federal Union. He
will assume his duties in the
near future.

Olsen’s appointment was ap-
proved at this week’s meeting
of the UFAWU general execu-
tive board, the first held since
the convention. Other decisions
made included the setting up of
two local unions in Vancouver,
one for fishermen and the other

fashington Fed.

in this coalition, brought dissol

Saturday, March 31, 1945 — Page 3

Need for broadening the existing coali tion around President Roosevelt and Governor
Mon C. Wallgren, together with the fact that their organization s aims had been achieved
ution of the Washington Commonwealth Federation by

was the necessary prelude to the
military, victories now being con-
summated and the collective se-
curity United Nations agree-
ments ready to be formalized and
ratified; and

Whereas, the election of Gov-
ernor Wallgren and almost the
entire slate of supporters of the
President and his policies in this
State was the result of the same
Kind of coalition which brought
together people of all sections of
cur population, regardless of
preyious political affiliation or
economic status, whose political
activity and, unity in the recent
Session of the legislature helped
the state administration enact a
genuine people’s program in aid
ot the war effort and postwar se-
curity; and 3

Whereas, the continued active
participation and cooperation of
all anti-fascist groups and forces
on the broadest basis possible is
required for still greater unity
in support of the administra-

tion’s program for the complete
defeat and eradication of fas-
cism teday and a continuing and
deepening unity for the estab-
lishment of peace and prosperity
for tomorrow; and

Whereas, in the achievement
of these common aims which
have the support of the great

majority of our compatriots, the
affiliates of the WCF must, to-
gether with all other democratic
forces, broaden and deepen their
participation in the coalition
headed on a state scale by Govy-
crnor Wallgren and on a nation-
al scale by President Roosevelt.

Resolved, that the WCF, hav-
ing fulfilled its historic, anti-
fascist role as an imdependent
organization and having joined
with all freedom-loving people to
obtain the objectives’ set forth
above, is hereby dissolved and
its affiliates and officers are ab-
solved of all responsibility to its
constitution which shall be as of
this date null and void.

|
| Nazi prisoners of) war work-
ing in logging camps in the In-
[terior of British Columbia are
| treated as “preferred citizens”
j;and are being used to lower
| wage and working standards of
| Canadian loggers.

This charge, backed by docu-
mented evidence, was levelled
by Harvey Murphy, international
representative of the CIO Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers Union,
at this week’s regular meeting of
the CCL Vancouver Labor Coun-
cil, and as a result Minister of
Labor George S. Pearson has
been asked by council resolutions
te conduct an immediate inves-
tigation through his department
of conditions at the Swanson
Lumber Company camp at Clear-
water, north of Kamloops.

The matter reached the floor
of the council through a resolu-
tion presented by Local 1-357 of
the International Woodworkers
of America, asking that the pro-
vincial labor department inves-
tigate the Swanson operation
“which is employing German
prisoners of war under condi-
tions which seriously threaten

the welfare of Canadian citi-
zens.”
Speaking on the resolution,

'for shore workers.

Harvey Murphy quoted at length
from a letter received from G.
MeCarthy, cook at the Swanson
Camp. MeCarthy’s letter
charged: :

WAGES REDUCED
That when the Nazis were put

Nazi Prisoners Get
Preferred lreatment

That food served the POW’s
was immeasurably better than
that seryed either to the civilian
loggers or members of the Vet-
erans’ Guard; that the Nazis
were provided with a special
baker from among their number;
that sugar rations given the pris-
oners were such that both civi-
lians and guards went without
for three days of each week.

That the Nazis worked under
their own German army disci-
pline, with Nazi NCGO’s acting in
the most arrogant manner to-
ward the civilian workers.

DEMAND IN VESTIGA TION

“Labor is interested in this
matter from two directions,”
Murphy declared. “First, we

don’t want to see Nazi prisoners
in Canada treated as long-lost
sons. Second, we don’t want to
see these prisoners of war used
in such a way as to reduce wages
of Canadian workers and help
anti-union employers to smash
the trade unions. But that’s ex-
actly what’s happening at this
Swanson camp.”

The Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers representative added
that the Swanson operation had
previously been investigated by
National Selective Service, and
that another probe by NSS was
now under way. :

The resolution urging a de-
partment of labor investigation
Was approved unanimously by

to work at the camp, wages for

civilian workers were immedi-
ately reduced, and a number of |
loggers discharged.

That a modern . wash-house

and shower room was built for
the priscners and civilian work-
ers had to ask permission to use
the facilities, and if refused had
to_go to town for baths. ;

council delegates AIL, PARKIN.

Organized labor should work
with all other sections of the
community in helping solve the
problems of handicapped people,
Major Gordon Chutter told dele-
gates to the regular meeting of
the Vancouver Labor Gouncil
this week.