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TONS DEMAND ACTIO!

CCL Council Urged To
Back Strikers To Limit

Organized labor in British Columbia, overwhelmingly

in support of the

Ford, strikers and angered by attempts of top officials of the Canadian Con-
gress of Labor to block sympathy action on a national scale, is preparing

for a renewed showdown battle which ma

new crisis in Windsor.

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The statement, which was is-
sued following Gervin’s endorsa-
tion by the Civic Action Associa-
tion, follows:

“The candidates nominated by
the Trades and Labor Council
merit and welcome the support
of all sections of the community.
R. K, Gervin and Tom Parkin are
running as a team, nominated by
the Vancouver Trades and Labor
Council, and endorsed by organ-
ized labor as a whole. The pro-
gram on which they will conduct
their campaign deserves the sup-
port of all organizations and in-
Gividuals who are sincerely in-
terested in making Vancouver a
better city to live in for all its
people. Support for labor’s pro-
gram and endorsation of. labor’s
candidates by all is appreciated
as a mark of confidence in labor’s
choice, and is in aecord with or-
ganized labor’s desire to work
together will all groups of citi-
zens for objectives that would
be beneficial to the welfare of
Vancouver.”

“It must be stated however,
that selection by any organiza-
tion of one or other candidate
nominated by labor and inclus-
ion of such candidate in a slate
together with other candidates,
not considered or endorsed by la-
bor, has not been solicited or ap-
proved by the Trades and Labor
Council.”

“Without wishing
any opinions about the merits
of other candidates, we wish it
to be fully understood that or-
ganized labor accepts full re-
sponsibility for the candidates it
has nominated who are running
as straight labor men, we wel-
come the support of all sections
of the community but can accept
no responsibility for other can-
didates whom it has not con-
sidered.”

Rigby pointed out that there
are enough trade unionists who
may vote in the civic elections to
elect labor’s slate if the campaign
is supported by the whole labor

to express

movement. “Labor must support

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This fact emerged
clearly this week as some
of the major unions in
the province voted to

“stand by” for whatever

action they are called on to
take.

By the week’s end these
developments had taken full
shape:

Members of Local 1-71,
International Woodworkers of
America, the 3,000-strong “‘og-
gers local,” had voted overwhelm-

ingly “to take whatever action

may be deemed necessary by the
union leadership.” John MacCu-
ish, local 1-71 president, told P.A.
“alert. notices” had been
sent out to all camps under the
union’s jurisdiction, which ex-

»itends as far north as the Queen

Charlotte Islands, and that “our
members are ready to £0 when-
ever the signal is given.”
Reports of similar moves are
expected momentarily from oth-
er IWA locals in the B.C. dis-

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Officials of shipyard unions in
Vancouver and Victoria were pre-
paring for “stand by” action, and
the Ford strike issue was being
further clarified through the use
of sound trucks touring Van-
couver shipyards.

Total registered donations for
the Ford strike from B.C. is now

Se] OVer the $20,000 mark, this sum

Plan Active Campaign
At City Convention

The need to rally the Labor-Progressive Party in the
coming municipal election battle was stressed by Austin

Delany, City Director of the

Labor-Progressive Party,

speaking to the City Conference of the LPP held in Boiler-

makers’ Hall, Sunday, November
18. Pointing out that the politi-.
cal scene in Vancouver is moving
into the center of the stage, De-
laney stressed the need to mobi-
lize the entire membership to
earry the election program of
labor to the electorate.

“The conditions are now cre-
ated for a decisive defeat of the
incompetent, do-nothing, reac-
tionary candidates of the Non-
Partisan Association,” Delany
stated. “The issues of public
ownership of the BCElectric,
broadening the civic franchise,
solving or relieving the housing
crisis, relieving the tax burden,
and reorganizing education have

been consistently sidetracked or
bungled.”

Delany welcomed the entry
into the civie electoral battle of
four labor candidates represent-
ing the two trade union centers,
and called for complete coopera-
tion and support from all mem-
bers of the LPP to assure elec-
tion of labor’s slate. He also
lashed out at the CCF for its
anti-unity position in nominating

Mrs. Laura Jamieson as alder-
manic candidate, and predicted
that three other candidates

would be nominated to round out

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}exclusive of the thousands of

dollars which have been sent to
Windsor’ directly from local
unions. ;

One of the best indications of:
the tremendous sympathy and
support aroused over the Ford
issue was seen this week when:
the Vancouver Sun unit of the
Vancouver Newspaper Guild
donated $1,200 from a collection
among both editorial and busi-
ness employees.

Meanwhile the. first bewilder-
ment created two weeks ago by
the CCL’s countermanding of
the United Automobile Workers’
telegraphic appeal for a nation-
al one-day sympathy strike has
given way generally to anger
and resentment, and renewed de-
mands for a definite move.

The UAW’s appeal, issued un-
der the signatures of Roy Eng-
land and Alex Parent, presi-
dents of UAW locals 200 and
195, and approved by the union’s
joint policy committee, was is-
sued to Canadian labor on Sun-
day, November 11. Despite the
fact that the CCL executive had
given the auto union full assur-
ance of support in such action,

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