\ Convention tion, the provincial government is urged to enact a Labor Code “to eurb the attack of monopoly upon the wage standards and trade union organizations of the workers,’’ while working to se- cure needed constitutional changes in Dominion-Provincial relations which will lay the basis tor labor and social security le- gislation on a national scale. Provincially, meanwhile, the LPP urges (a) the outlawing of company unions; (b) a provincial minimum wage law of 55 cents per hour; (c) the 40-hour week with no reduction in take-home pay; (d) equal pay for equal work. 8 B.C. must become the pioneer in the realization of health in- marketing boards: and farm pro- tection against evictions; fore- closures, crop failures “or other factors which menace the well- being ard Prosperity of farm communities.” Reduction in freight rates, abolition of exces- Sive tariffs on imported farm implements, government machine pools, and the promotion of con- Sumer and producer cooperatives, were other points urged by the convention. Under the heading of housing, the new LPP program proposed the construction of 20,000 new homes in B.C. under provincial government authority, together with a comprehensive slum clearance program. In the field of labor legisla- Carr stated that the posing of a slogan of class against class however, would be incorrect. “By raising the slogan of class against class we ignore the fact that all of the workers are not agreed on the policies of so- cialism, and that the entire bour- geoisie is not unanimous on the reactionary policies of finance capital.. We ignore that we have in Canada millions of farmers and middle class people who must be provided ‘with a banner of working class struggle~ emin- ating from the working class and not the bourgeoisie, and we therefore state that issues are the question of the day.” “The best way to lead the people is to lead in the battle for the isstes which they desire TOM McEWEN Reelected Provincial Chairman at LPP Convention Carr | Be dreds of thousands!) If we are united, be wor” : “I wish to appea build a party in B.c- recruit thousands up: 4 of workers. Our lIe~ for unity of the We | belonging to the pari } to help the working “My. message to — concluded, “on the i election is to makes come before your pe program. they desi. cause of socialism ig of the people. -. | With this in mind with every working = woman, every pr = every farmer who free forward-looking ten ote Leader 1988 he was elected district sec- retary of the IWA. At that time the union, facing organizing one of the worst open shop industriés: in Canada, num- bered only a few hundred mem- bers. During the succeeding: eight years the new LPP pro- “vincial leader, working with such other outstanding trade unionists as Harold Pritchett and Hjalmar Bergren, led the IWA through numerous bitter struggles to the point where, in 1944, a master agreement was signed with the operators cov- ering every major logging camp and sawmill on the Coast. As a’result of his work in B.C. he gained national recog- nition, was for some time a mem- ber of the national executive of the Canadian Congress of Labor and one of six delegates from that body to the World Trade Union ‘Conference in London last February. In addition to his duties as Canadian interna- tional board member of the IWA Morgan has headed for several years the legislative commit- tees of both his union and the Vancouver Labor Council. His choice as LPP leader as- sured the party of the guidance || of one of the best-liked, prac- tical and experienced labor men in the province, a man whose leadership qualities will be of inestimable value in the coming provincial election campaign ana in the political and economic struggles which face the work- ing class of B.C. during the coming period. - - - Compliments ... i Dr. R. 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These and other proposals on education, taxation and citizen- ship comprised the LPP’s pro- gram for progress. In the words of the program, “the extent of cur postwar problems cannot be over-emphasized; they are equal in importance to the great task of winning thé war.” In the win- ning of the peace “all forces in the ranks of labor and pro- gress are duty bound to examine the situation and face the facts by placing the interests of Brit- ish Columbia’s progress -above partisan advantage and differ- ences.” Uphill Choice For Fernie Tom Uphill, veteran laborite and sitting MLA for the provin- cial costituency of Fernie, was nominated to represent labor in that riding at a recent nomi- nating meeting held in Fernie. The meeting was attended