Labor Council Backs

land are lined up in full support of
workers in Windsor following this week’s reou-

Striking Ford Motor

lar meeting of the CCL Vancouver Labor Council.

Delegates, acting on a resolu-
tion presented by the executive,
voted to donate $100 to the auto |
workers’ strike fund.

“The Ford strike has become
the spearhead of labor’s demand
for union security and adequate
Provision for Canadian workers

' during the reconversion period,”
delegates were informed in a
letter from Norman Dowd, execu-
tive secretary of the CCL. The

are meeting this week to form
a Windsor Strike Committee,”
Pritchett said. “Meanwhile, we
are urging all CCL unions in
the province to raise all the
funds they can, even to the
extent of seeking public sub-
scriptions.”

A second motion
by

move by the Ontario government
to send in police reinforcements,

| “which could only be for the pur-
letter stated ‘that the 10,000 pose of protecting scabs and
members of the United Auto- breaking the strike.”
mobile Workers of America

Turning to the problems of
meat rationing, delegates ap-
proved a motion to request WPTB
chief Donald Gordon for infor-

struck work over the basic ques-
tion of union shop conditions.

Further support for the Wind-

introduced
Sid Sarkin, Journeyman Tail-

MINERVA COOPER

Provincial Educational Director

ors Union, warned against any

ion. “From a humane point of
view alone, rationing is neces-
sary and vital. If the govern-
ment is going to handle the
meat and make a profit on it,
no one can have a)iy objection.
But if the packing houses are
going to handle it and make
a profit at the expense of

| feeder plant employers, and to

Auto Strik
TO rit(
the responsibilities of the recon-
version period.
Cutbacks in industry and the
cancellation of war contracts
have resulted in a stiffening of
the attitude of reactionary, anti-
union employers, and have forc-
ed the need for immediate and
decisive action by government to
ensure full protection of union
security and wage security.
Governmental acceptance of
its responsibilities has already
been stressed by the United
Automobile Workers themselves
in a special release directed to
the trade union movement across,
the country, which emphasizes
the union’s willingness to meet
with Ford management on a
special Board of Conciliation for
the purpose of settling the
union’s dispute with Ford Motor
Company. At the same time, the
union stresses its determination
to no longer tolerate the anti-
labor attitude, not only of Ford
but of other automotive

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cppose placing of economic ad-

vantage completely in the hands
of the employer.

The giant Ford Company has
for years spearheaded the anti-
union attack of large manufac-
turers on labor and dominated

Hastings Ste,

Vancouver.

hungry people, then labor cer-
tainly does have serious objec-
tions.”

sor strike, now in its third week,
was assured by Delegate Harold
= Pritchett, Secretary-treasurer of
the B.C. Federation of Labor.

“Officers of the Federation

mation on whether the govern-
ment or private interests will
handle the meat supplies for Eu-
rope’s hungry millions.

“No honest Canadian will

Council Secretary John Turner
was elected to represent the or-
ganization the delegation

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