Saturday,
April
7,
1945.—— Page 3
Delicate to the first Annual Convention ‘of the Workers’ Educational Association held in Vancouver, March 30 and 31.
WEA Holds Successful Convention
Seen of a labor college within the next twelve months is the goal set for the
lorkers Educational Association in British Columbia at the first annual conference which
sicluded its two day session in the Provincial Normal School, Vancouver, last Saturday.
phe conference was termed a |
pat success by Claude Donald,
fsA director in B.C. Seventy-
@: delegates from 27 unions
were Dr. R. H. Gundlach of the
University of Washington and
active in the California Tabor
School; Major Tan Hisenhardt,
fresented all branches of or- | NEvatoanl Director of Health and
Seed ator Ga the prowince: | Physical Fitness in the Dominion
J cgates included. miners, log
*s, millmen, street
en, plumbers, shipbuilders,
Psphone and aircraft workers
Phe conference assembled with
purpose of deciding on the
fin forms of activity that the}
1A would undertake through |
coming year and the steps/
Hessary to carry out these ob-
fives. With the assistance of
sernmental and educational
Berts who addressed the ses-
iS, a program of expanded
intensive,.educational work
» agreed on to Le: carried to
| province.
bir GRANT:
tS finaneé this extension of
| for
_| Department of Pensions and Na-
| tional Health,iand Harry Jones,
sath. | supervisory director of job train-
ing for the Dominion-Provincial
| Youth Training Program. Drum-
|mond Wren, National WEA Di-
reczor, also addressed the con-
ference by means of a trans-
seribed recording.
The delegates decided that the
immediate task of the WEA in
B.C. is to Assist trade. unionists
|to acauire a better understand-
ing of present day problems af-
fectinge workers. Such problems
were =conceived of as ranging
| from the meaning of curtent in-
ie wnionists an ‘all’ parts” of
ternational conferences, the need
improyed labor legislation
and social security measures, re-
lations between veteran groups
‘yities it was decided to ap- | and the trade union movement,
Bach the Provincial Depart-
4% cf Hducation through the
tly formed. goyernment-labor
panittee for an annual grant
£310,000. -Lo back up this de-|
hid the incoming executive wae
;ructed to organize a cam-
i of support among local
fins, with a lobby of union
gates ‘to go to Victoria for
purpose later in the year.
mong the prominent guests
addressed the delegates
to the tasks of achieving full
employment and a high standard
of living in postwar years.
To achieye these objectives,
the conference projected a series
of measures for consideration of
the incoming executive. These in-
cluded a series of public forums
on peacetime problems to be
addressed by prominent govern-
mental representatives and other
speakers; steps to convene a con-
ference in the near future to deal
with the problems of returning
families; a summer school with
the aim of developing educational
leaders among trade unionists.
Cooperation .with the Exten-
sion .Department of the Univer-
sity of B.C. was also suggested,
as well as inereased joint activity
in cultural matters with the La-
bor Arts Guild. Special attention
to publicizing educational ma-
terial among labor papers was
urged and a WHA Regional Bul-
letin to be published. The dele-
gates also urged active partici-
pation in physical fitness pro-
grams through cooperation with
the Dominion-Provineia] Physi-
cal Fitness Pregram (Pro-Rec).
George Johnson of the Retail
Clerks” Union was elected presi-
dent of the WHA for 1945. Other
executive members are: First
vice-president, Carl. Moeller;
second vice-president, Gus Sku-
zansii; secretary, Jeanne Cam-
eron; treasurer, © Margaret; Don-
ald; Vancouver and Lower, Main-
land representatives, Tom Par-
kin, Gladys Shunaman, John Mc-
Cuish; Vancouver Island repre-
sentatives, Dennis Fitzgerald,
Verne Weayer; Interior repre-
sentatives. Harvey Murphy,
George Allen. : ;
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Support Urged For
Palestine Jewish State
Creation of a Jewish state in Palestine based on friendly
relations between the Jewish and Arab people was envision-
ed as a hoped-for result of the Crimean charter by Fred Rose,
MP (LPP, Montreal-Cartier),
during his contribution to the
Hiouse of Commons debate on the
San Francisco world security
conference.
“The Crimea conference and
the subsequent discussions with
the Arab people as well as the
San Francisco conference will
make possible a peaceful, indus-
trial, cultural and political ad-
vancement,.of all countries in the
Near Hast,” Rose declared.
“On the background of such
a bright future the Arab people
can and-should consider the es-
tablishment of a Jewish national
homeland in Palestine as a con-
structive. factor in the. develop-
ment of the Near Hast.”’
The Quebec member “outlined
the pressing problem: ~* which
would confront the United Na-
tions after victory in Europe, of
resettlement of those Jews who
survived the Nazi holocaust.
“Seattered through the Huropean
continent,” he said, “many of the
Jewish survivors will seek to
leave the lands where so much
them. The coalition cemented at
Teheran, at Yalta, and as it will
be further extended’ in San
F'ranciseo, makes possible a new
and constructive way of solving
longstanding problems of mna-
tionalities and frontiers. It is
in the light of these historic facts
that we should approach ~the
problem of Palestine.”
- Rose said he hoped that, as a
result of discussions held by both
Churchill and Roosevelt with
Arab leaders after Crimea, the
latter would understand that
mass migration of Jewish people
into Palestine is essential and
not a menace to a’ prosperous
"future of the Arab people.
“Such .mass migration,” he
asserted, “should be encouraged
by the United Nations, and all
financial responsibilities connec-
ted with it should be undertaken -
by the United Nations as part
of their general resettlement and
rehabilitation plans.”
Rose also called for legal
sanctions against anti-Semi-
tism. “Anti-Semitism was part
of the official program im alli
countries of the Hitlerite coali-
tion,” he declared. “Hitler’s
anti-Semitic poison has had its
effects in countries outside the
fascist axis. Every member of
the United Nations is duty
bound to ban by law all racial
discrimination... We should do
So in Canada, and should strive
te have it established by the
new organization that all mem-
ber states rid themselves of
anti-Semitism.”
Concluding his remarks on-the
Palestine problem, the dynamic
Labor-Progressive representa-
tive stated, “I am sure’ that I
express the sentiments of the
Eouse when I voice our sincere
hopes that the Crimean charter
will herald the establishment of
the friendliest, fraternal rela-
tions bétween the Jewish and
Arab people, so setting the stage
for a great future of all people
in the Near Hast and for the
tulfilment: of the aspirations of
the Jewish people through the
ereation of a Jewish state in
Palestine.”
Labor Plans
For May Day
suffering has been visited upon |;
Labor’s May Day celebration
will be held on Sunday, April 29,
it was decided at a oealentaney
meeting of the May Day com-
mittee. Representing AFL, CCL
and other labor bodies, 43 dele—
gates attended the meeting. f
Echo of difficulties met by last
vear’s highly successful parade
came in the decision to request
use of the main road through
Stanley Park, so that marchers
would not nee to straggle along
through the footpaths leading to!
Brockton Point Oval, where the
celebration is again to be held.
The breaking up of the parade
at the entrance to the Park last
year created considerable re-
sentment in labor ranks.
The meeting decided to send
out a call to all labor organiza-
tions to attend the next meeting
on Monday, April 9, when final
plans will be drawn up.
The following executive com-
mittee was elected: W. HE. Wear,
chairman: John Turner, secre-
|tary; Sam Shearer, financial sec-
| retary;
Harold Pritchett, pro-
gram committee; Cecil Hagman,
finance committee; George Kas-
Sian, parade committee; Ken
Williams, tags; Fraser Wilson,
publicity; Frances Greenwood,
hospitality, and Ernie Dialskog,
grounds.