jRefer Steel
Dispute To
iCongress

A new development in the dis-
pute within the United Steel
Norkers of America over diver-
jion of union funds to the CCF
for political purposes came at
his week’s regular meeting of
he €Ciz Vancouver Labor Coun-
al when a letter from A. Wheat,
fecordine secretary of Local
229, USWA, enclosing further
ivadence on the misuse of funds,
vas referred directly to the na-
‘ional office of the Canadian
Wongress of Labor.

The letter and enclosures were
eferred without being read when
fee-chairman Wrnie Dalskog
‘uled that the information did
5 20t- properly come within the
‘urisdiction of the Council. It is
mmderstood the information for-
yarded included ‘copies of let-
ers and checks which passed be-
‘ween ©. HG. Millard, Canadian
|irector of the USWA, and the
fancouver headquarters of the
| uion concerning money paid to
ferbert © Gargraves,
or furthering the interests of
he COE. =
"| There was no opposition to the
aotion from the bloc of delegates
"mostly from the United Steel
‘Workers and Amalgamated
Suilding Workers—who -have
ecently been turning council
aeetings into a ‘“donnybrook.”
tpparently the disclosures con-
-erning misuse of steel workers
)ounds, which implicated the CCF,
‘vas felt.to be too damaging to
rarrant further loud talking by
hese delegates at the present
ime.

And there was no yoice raised
)rom this opposition bloc when
"delegate Fraser Wilson of Van-
'ouver Newspaper Guild, Local
+. took the floor to criticize in
"harpest terms the “unprincipled
acties” pursued by this bloc in
'ts attempt to take over control
'£ the council for political rea-
/ ons.

' “There is a. idelibeaste attempt

‘eing made here by a bloc of
Slelegates, led by a bunch of poli-
‘ical bankrupts, to take over this

-ouncil for means and in a man-
yier directly opposed £9 the in-
of. lab One

“Tt reported this at the last
neeting of my local union, in-
‘ludinge a full report on the dis-
sraceful scenes which took place

» nembers of my local then passed
2. unanimous vote of confidence
n my report, and urged that we
‘do all we can to fight for the
) u2intenance of honest trade un-
"ion principles in. the Vancouver
slabor Council2.q y

|. There was applause at the fin-
sh of his remarks but no reply
"of any kind fromthe targets of
This eriticism.

*@his same group of USWA
nd ABW delesates were further
Titicized in a letter to council
"by Pat Gonroy, CCl secretary-
reasurer. At the last’ meeting
he bloc, taking advantage of a
ight numerical superiority in

Gontinued on Page 6
“See LABOR COUNCIL

CCF-MLA, |

“quarreling

2t the last council meeting. They

“Siez Denkmal’—
man military clique.

Monument of Victory. Pride of the Ger-
Built in part of guns captured from the

Danes in 1864, the Austrians in 1866 and the French in 1870-1.
It stands, or stood, at the end of Sieges Allee—the Avenue of
Victory—in the Tiergarten, a short distance from the Reieh-
stag building which was burned by the Nazis. Battered to
Pieces by Soviet artillery, it is no longer a monument to military

aggression.— Photo by Ol’ Bill.

Frisco Conference
Goal of Centuries

SAN FRANCISCO—tThe people of the world have
struggled for centuries toward the goal which appeared close

to attainment in this month of April,

1945, as the great

Unied Nations’ conference on world security got under way

Wednesday in this famous

It was not a peace conference.
It was something far greater
than that. It was a meeting of
the five major powers and the
remaining 41 nations of the dem-
ocratic world—only Poland was
absent—te lay the foundation of
lasting peace and progress first
charted by Roosevelt, Churchill

and Sfalin in the ancient city of,
|Teheran.in November of 1943.
Wilson f° a. 7.

. San: Francisco this week was
no..Palaee-of Versailles in 1919.
Here were no embittered old men
among themselves
over division of the spoils of
imperialist war. This was a meet-
ing of the United Nations on the
yery eve of victory over the most
terrible foe that mankind has
ever known, a meeting deter-
mined to “prevent future wars of
aggression by wiping out the
conditions which give rise to
such wars. .

The questions of the peace—
disposition of Germany, repara-
fions, punishment of war crimi-
nals both in Germany and Japan
had been dealt with at Yalta.
What faced the delegates. to. the
San Francisco conference were
not the problems of the war, but
of peace that will come after
shee :
Yhe general shape of the
security organization has al-
ready been outlined in the
Dumbarton Gaks proposals.

“presented might endanger

Seiohts

“city by the Golden Gate.”

What is required in San Fran-
cisco this week and in the

weeks to follow is the framing
of the Dumbarton Oaks recom-
mendations into, a concrete,
workable plan that can achieve
the basic objectiye—mainte-
nance of unity among the five
Inajor powers on all problems
of security. For without that-
unity among the major powers’
world peace will become an

empty futile slogan.

There were many problems
facing the delegates at the open-
ing session on Wednesday—ad-
dressed by President Harry S.
Truman from Washington by

radio—which appeared difficult | §

of solution and even damaging to
Big Three unity. The question of
Poland loomed big on the agenda.
Future disposition of colonial
territories was almost -certain
to ereate.sharp discussion, while
there was,,danger that.some of
the small and middle powers re-
the
meeting by introducing the com-
pletely false auestion’ of the

” of the small nations.

But on the positive side of the
picture as the conference vot un-
der way were, the following two
factors:

“Continued on Page 6
See SAN FRANCISCO

April 28,

1945 — Page 3

SGWF Plans Extensive
Participation In Election

Political action committees of four big unions represent-
ing 10,000 shipyard workers in Vancouver got down to work
this week to rally the biggest labor vote in history 1 in the June

11 federal elections
Led by the Political Action
Committee of the Shipyard Gen-
eral Workers’ Federation, PAC’s
of the - Boilermakers’ Union,
Blacksmiths’ Wnion, Dock and
Shipyard Workers and Ship-
wrights, Joiners and Caulkers’
Industrial Union met last week-
end and started the wheels turn-
ing in a2 campaign which has two
objectives: :

@ Rally the largest popular
vote eyer registered in the five
Vaneouver and district ridings.

@ Popularize labor’s legisla-
tive program with special at-
tention to the key demand for
full employment in the postwar.

First proposal for the cam-
paign came from a general mem-
bership meeting of the Dock and
Shipyard Workers’ Union, which
instructed its own PAC to eall
for a joint meeting of the poli-
tical action committees of the
SGWF affiliates. An initial do-
nation of $100 was made by the
DSWU for organizing. purposes.

The joint meeting of the PAC’s
was held last weekend, and was
followed this Friday by a mass
meeting of all SGWE members
at the Boilermakers’ Hall.

all SGWF affiliates containing
proposals for the campaign, and
it is expected that donations will
be made by all unions involved.

Three committees have _ been
set up: organization, finance and
publicity. Maleolm Meleod,
president of the SGWF, heads
the organization committee. Law-
rence Anderson is handling pub-
licity and W. J. Robson, finance.

“The Federation intends to
carry through its policy. of non-
partisan labor political: action in

+_--, Compliments ... .

Dr. R. Llewellyn ‘Dougtas

RICHARDS aie HASTINGS
‘i Vancouver, “B.C.

Cir- |‘
‘cular letters are being sent to.

the election campaign,” Malcolm
MeLeod told PA.

“We intend to carry the issues
of the election to every ship-
yard worker and to rally the big-
gest labor vote in history. At
this stage of the game a mags
vote of trade unionists will mean
a generally progressive vote that
will assure a progressive govern-
ment with labor representation
—and that’s our objective.”

Plans haye not yet been laid
for any form of constituency or-
ganizations sponsored by the
PAC, according to. Mcleod.
The immediate job is to carry
the issues of.the election into
all Vancouver shipyards with
stress laid on getting every work-
er to the polling booths. :

“As our plans develop, organi-
zation by constituencies may be
undertaken,” he said. :

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