Polls For ikeena By the three other contesting ie . Protesting Opposition Parties to more than two ng = a my “olling stations ‘to serve Over » 0,000 electors, ig ‘to obstruction encountered . calling a meeting to discuss ie disagreement, Bruce: Mickle- = argh. Labor Progréssive Can- ‘date for. Skeena, has forward- ‘1a telegram of protest to the -hief Electoral Officer in Ot- ‘iowa. a and object- |, The text of the telegram reads: \ Jur party protests opposition > , Liberals, CCF and Conserva- ves to more than two polling Btations. Population over - ).000. Two thousand new ters since last election. | 2attered population and lack of | ansportation and early closing '* polls means hundreds oitarily disfranchised. Enumera- /on conducted basis of | venty-one divisions. inyol- > on pollme ® dyvise adherance to paragraph : ‘yventy-one and “lections Act. seventy-two | the returning officer for Skee- | i, was obliged to call in all par- ™ es. as is. compulsory “when! ‘iere is disagreement among /ontesting parties over election | cocedure. The meeting was held 'o for considerable time j 1e Wiberal candidate tried to -2cure a partner. The Conserva- oO Be Re ve party sent no representation |} hatsoever, and instead confirm- |i their stand against more than |w¥o polling stations by phone. ' ’ -fhe Labor Progressive Party | as staunchly maintained that ; here should be a polling station ‘or every polling division, and in "his they are backed up by the Ulection Act. Despite the fact "hat all parties have agreed that he population exceeds 10.060, he Labor Progressive Party has been alone in their contention “hat there must be more than | wo polling stations to serve the Dopulation. Tt is largely through the work | of the LPP candidate for Skeena, Bruce. Mickleburgh, that there “are now nine new polling sta- jHons in the Queen Charlottes to Serye loggers, and the fishermen Iwill be able to vote at three new Stations at North Island, Goose Bay, or Squadarie. while | Union Conference in Oakland are, 1. to r.: Holding an informal discussion during the recent meet- ing of the administrative commiuttee of the World Trade CIO Pres. Philip | eierrey vice-pres. Sidney Hillman, vice-pres. R. J: Thomas. Liberal-Labor Support For UAW Candidates of | WINDSOR, Ont.—Campaign for the election of three UAW -Labor members to the (with Liberal and Labor- Progressive support, Legislature from Wuindsor moved into |high gear following the holding of Liberal conventions. The three candidates, George Burt. Windsor - Walkerville; Alex Parent, Essex North and | Mayor Art Reaume, Windsor- Sandwich, were given complete | backing by the Liberal organiza- | tions. Burt and Reaume receiv- ed acclamations at their respec- | tive conventions and Parent. the | president of Local 195, won the | convention by a two-to-one vote. The Labor-Progressives had | reyiously agreed that if the UAW decided to nominate can- | didates here they would be given | party backing. Parent's nomination meeting was featured by the sensational yevelation by Nelson Alles, for mer CCF member for Essex North, of ‘“‘Gestapo-like tactics by the CCF” in ‘shadowing him and his waite after his election. Highlight of the election nieetings here to date was the address by George Burt, Can- |adian director of the UAW-CIO, at his Liberal nomination meet- ing, in which he made an em- phatic plea for a union of forces against Drew. BU RTS STATEMENT “The pattern which we haye in our own unions is the only kind of pattern which will solve our problems.” Burt said. : “We have all parties our union organization. We have plenty of Liberals, CCF, Conser- vatives and what have you in members. But we do not ask what their party affiliations are when they appear at the dues wickets. Regardless of a man’s political affiliations he is eligible t@ join our organiation. “That is the pattern the great Allied leaders are laying down at San Francisco, and that is the only kind of pattern which will solve our post-war prob- lems. “We are going to be criticized for our ideas but I do mot think big business can solve the post- war problems of Windsor, and I do not think trade unions can and I know positively that the CCF cannot. They need help as well as we do. We are willing to go out of our way to ask for help and we are glad to receive is to solve these problems. “JT come to you with a man- date from the membership of our organization. This is the only solution to prove of some worth—especially to the boys coming back and expecting to find jobs. “We know the people of Wiaurtd- sor are prepared to go down the line with a practical working program, and we feel that our program will make the most outstanding contribution to solv- ing postwar employment prob- Continued on Page 10 See UAW LABOR “bor Volume 1, No. 29, may: 19, 1945 WFETU Draft Constitution To Okayed By National Centers SAN FRANCISCO—The United Nations Conference on International Organization here invited representatives of the world labor conference administrative committee to par- ticipate as “observers ” ed with formation of an economic and social council. The decision to admit world labor delegates followed a request from the ad- ministrative committee to the heads of the delegations of the four sponsoring nations. The in- vitation was extended by the committee on economic and social organization, aiter the UNCIO steering committee placed the decision in the hands of the far- mer group. The UNCIO committee also ex- tended an invitation to the tri- partite International Labor. Organization, which the AFL lad argued should represent world labor at the United Na- tions conference. AFI, President William Green, who arrived here this week, stated that there is not “the slightest possibility or probability” that the AFL wall affiliate to the new world labor organization. He charged that Sir Walter Citrine and Walter Schevenels, president and secre- tary respectively of the Imterna- tional Federation of Trade Un- ions, are the leaders of a plot to destroy the IFTU. Earlier, the administrative committee completed plans for the structure of a new world la- organization, the World Federation of Trade Unions. The proposed constitution, adopted unanimously by the 13-man com- mittee, will be circulated to all rational trade union centers and will be considered for formal adoption at the next world labor conference in Paris in September. FURPOSE— TO UNITE Its preamble proclaims the purposes of the WETU to be to unite the trade unions of the world regardless of “race, na- tionality, religion or political ori- gins,” to assist workers in eco- nomically backward countries to {orm unions, and to carry on the struggle against fascism “under whatever form it operates and by Whatever name it may be known.” It further defines as WETU objectives the removal of the causes of war and the repre- sentation of world labor on all imternational agencies concerned with the problem of world organ ization. Affiliation will be confined to one trade union center from each ecuntry but in exceptional cir- cumstances “more than one na- tional trade union center ox in- dividual national trade union or- ganizations may be granted the right of affiliation.”* The struc- ture of the organization will con- sist of a general council, an exe- cutive committee and a bureau of management. Full convention of the WFETU will be held every two years. The general council, including repre- sentatives of each affiliated or- ganization elected by the world congress, will meet annually. The executive committee will also be elected by the full congress, and will consist of 17 members elec- ted from national centers and three members elected from trade departments. The 17, national seats will be allocated as follows: three to the USSR. two to Great in the meetings,of the committee charg- Britain, two to the U.S., two to France, three to the rest of Hur- epe, one to China, two to Latin America and one each to the Pa- cific area and Africa. METHOD OF VOTING The bureau of management will consist of a chairman and four vicechairmen to be elected by the executive committee and the general secretary. The me- thod, of voting provides for one vote per 50,000 members to or- ganizations with a membership up to 5,000,000; one vote for each additional 100,000 members be- tween 5,000,000 and 10,000,000; one vote for each additional! 200,- 000 between 10,000,000 and 15,- 000,000; and one vote for each additional 400,000 over 15,000,- 000. Trade departments, which wall replace the present trade secre- tariats, will be established by the general council for such indus-= tries as it determines. The de- fartments will deal with techni- cal problems in their industries but will have no power to make decisions or pursue activities in connection with matters of gen- eral policy. The representatives ef the trade departments in the congress and on the general couneil will be permitted to vote by a show of hands, but will have no vote in the event of a roll-ceall card yote. AUTONOMY GUARANTEED The autonomy of all affiliates is guaranteed by the constitu- tion but each affiliate is obliged to report to the general secretary periodically on the steps it has teken to apply decisions of the congress. Affiliates are also chliged to carry decisions into effect unless they notify the gen- eral secretary within three months that a decision cannot be applied. The general secretary will then place such notification before the executive committee for further action. Members of the administrative committee who approved the con- stitution were Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman, CIO; Sir Walter Citrine and Ebby Edwards, Bri- tain; Louis Saillant and Benoit Frachon, France; Vasili Kuznet- |zov and Mikhail Tarasov, USSR; Vicente Lombardo Toledano and Angel Cofino, Confederation of Latin American Workers; H. T. Liu, China; Walter Schevenels, International Federation of Trade Wnions; and J. H... Olden- broek, International Trade Sec- retariats. PARIS — Leon Jouhaux, pre- war general secretary of the French General Confederation of Labor (CGT), who was arrested in 1941 and last week was liber- ated from the notorious Dachau prison camp, is expected to ar- rive here on Saturday. Jouhaux’s post in the CGT has been kept epen for him, with Louis Saillant and Benoit Frachon acting joint- ly as provisional general secre- taries until his return.