os IC ADVOCATE ?LE’S VOICE FOR PROGRESS Ensure Windsor Victory; <=: 5 Cents 4 iver,’ .B.C., Friday, November 23, 1945 s Candidates 2 Action Onissues lermanic Bid |o the Vancouver, New Westminster and }.and Labor Council this week endorsed the |. K. Gervin, Trades Council secretary, who + unanimously ‘United Fisher- } 7orkers Union, ’ for the cam- /imination, Rig- f ily préss avith -) one morning f -e to print a ' y the Political p {of the Trades, | futed the en- . candidates by f* zations. tory in elec- -lowknife Ad- ouncil this __abor-endors- running for sitions on the teessful in the A significant lection contest f Russell Cum- gressive Party /ho received the cal 802, Inter- , Mine, Mill and Cummings is (nt of the union candidates who er lJabor’s ban- t Kerr, Yellow- _ and Major Well-known nor- 4 i or candidates t Administrative ‘new life to that | been a strong- 1é-bosses in the | on Page 2 IWKNIFE ' coming civic elections as candidate for that 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. y become necessa ry ~ 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 Continued on Page 8 See LABOR’S CANDIDATES / C Dive po 4 “gg yy i Ge o a mer Coe t. —! ae: | that in event of a 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- = trict. 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 Continued on Page 8 See ACTION PROGRAM }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, Continued on Page 7 See FORD rn Lak sind ph emits neath ii ieee Sagh aes Pe tipn stein Hills