INERVA COOPER rov. Ed. Director Ford F union which might have — a strike. ‘en also underlined that oly capital begins the of our postwar problems -.eerted attack against the _andards and working con- of labor, and the trade . He charged the federal -vincial governments with ‘ind abetting Ford in his =\c¢ attempts by sending > Windsor. ~ -osing, McEwen pointed - unions everywhere must yw he alert and stated that f ial of union security to -iking Windsor workers q tes a grave phreat to <4 very where. hn Trek Youth »meeting of the Provincial -mmittee of the National ion of Labor Youth in ».ill be. held Monday, De- ' tenth, in Ukrainian Hall, » and Hawkes Ave. Fcoming Youth Trek to on the question of post- -mployment will be the = pic. discussed. Now sche- Pior early January, after Fient reconvenes, the Trek = gainng support from | groups and interested or- Fions across the country. ‘opes .to send up to six es, to take part in the for full employment, the - ‘week, $25 minimum _ wage, union security, and p nal training. | set for discussion is the ‘ation of the Federation . out of Vancouver, and larly the building up of youth clubs, where recre- and educational activ- n be.carried on, and where workers can be recruited e union. campaign against Section Bill 15, the revocation of lity clause; the Feder- role in the community Ek campaign; and the civic fas, where our Labor can- have been endorsed, will =; discussed. Fedration is asking for ¢ntinued moral support of no union movement in n organizing the progres- youth movement. Fey boa ric ADVOCATE — PAGE 3 Cooper Contests cance cf this by-election. The ‘{nomination of Mrs. Cooper fol- lowed the refusal of the CCF to’ cooperate in the election of a la- bor candidate in this stituency. con- Provincial Organizer Maurice Rush is at present in Vernon as- sisting in preliminary election ac- tivities. Other leading spokesmen of the Labor Progressve Party ‘| wiil participate in the LPP cam- paign. In a mesage to the nominat- ing convention, Mrs. . Cooper stressed rural electrification, the extension cf irrigation facilties and improved market roads as major questions facing the elec- torate. “Farm security, jobs and the maintenance of spending power are inseparably linked with a comprehensive public works pregram,”’ Mrs. Cooper de- _tlared. “The people of the North Okatagan have the opportunity to speak cut on behalf of all the people of this province against further stalling en the Part of the government, by sendmg a farmer-labor repre- sentative to Victoria.” she as- serted. .-The North: Okanagan by-elec- tion was necessitated by the re- cent death of Dr. K. C. Mac-, Donald, Provincial Minister of Agriculture. Nigel Morgan, Provincial LPP leader, ~strongly empha- sized the rallying of every party member around the cam- paign, and issued a special ap- peal for funds to assure ade- ‘quate finance of the campaign 11 TICKETS _ ESE SERE WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19th 9 p.m. PARR RB GOOD PRIZES First Prize Electric Washing Machine —10 OTHER PRIZES— 104 Shelly Bldg. 209 Shelly Bldg. 339 West Pender ESE NEN EE SE TIE SSE ELESSE SELES RS LE ITA IE EEA EVERYBODY WELCOME RROCEEDS Tot P.A. TURN OUT AND VOTE FOR The United Labor Slate Lawson Turner Parkin Gervin GET ACTION AT THE CITY HALL ! xX XK X a Millard Bloc Under Fire At Ontario CCF Meet Strong resentment at the role being played in Canada’s itade union movement by such CCF stalwarts as C. H. Mil- lard has boiled to the surface in the Ontario CCF, according to reports received in Vancouver by PA. The recent convention of the Ontario CCF was featured by sharp attacks from the floor against the party’s trade union policy, especially in respect to the Ford strike. Delegates point- ed out that the CCF had played no. active part in the Windsor situation, declaring that in con- trast to the Labor - Progressive Party, which had thrown its full weight behind the strikers, the CCF had “lost face” by its de- nothing attitude. Big Meetings Feature Labor’s Civic Campaign With less than a week to go. before the December 12 civic elections, organized ‘labor in Vancouver has its first chance in over 25 years to send direct representatives of the trade union movement to the City Hall. Campaigning under the slogan ‘Time for a Change at City Hall,” unions of both the Amer- ican Federation of Labor and the Cenadian Congress of Labor, working jointly, are backing a four-man slate to fill the alder- manic vacancies in the city coun- cil in the first serious bid to break the ‘stranglehold of the Non- Partisan Association. The four candidates are R. K. Gervin, secretary, and Tom Par- kin, executive member, of the AFL Trades and Labor Council; John Turner, secretary of the CCL. Vancouver Labor Council, and Jack Lawson, member of the Boilermakers Union and a Span- ON SALE BG x X Ed ¥ 8 x i 4 4 i ¥ & Fa Ei Bi 11 i ¥ : % : 4 x Ed Ed i 8 : Ei 8 3 | united ish war veteran. Campaign man- agers are Wililam Rigby of the AFL United Fishermen and Al- lied Workers Union and Macolm MacLeod of the Shipyard Gen- eral Workers Federation, CCL. Planned and put into effect on a point basis, with frequent con- ferences between the candidates and managers, the campaign was gaining increasing strength and effectiveness as polling day neared. All affiliated unions of both labor councils have been circular- ized and meetings addressed by candidates. While the Non-Par- tisan meetings have been attend- ed by as few as eight people, the labor candidates have been speaking to big meetings of unionists both in labor halls and at noonday metings on the job. The labor campaign has also been pushed ahead by an exten- sive publicity drive, including a series of newspaper advertise- ments, radio addresses and “spots,” streetcar | advertise- ments, and touring sound trucks which have covered shipyards and sawmills: and other industrial plants. The campaign will win@ up Monday night, December 10, with a mass rally at the Boiler- makers Hall, beginning at 8 p.m., at which all candidates will speak. Meanwhile strong criticism was leveled at the Non-FPartisan As- sociation at this week’s regular meeting of the AFL Trades and Labor Council in a letter read be- fore council from Division 101, Street Railwaymen’s Union, which “eondemned the attempt of the Non-Partisans to deceive the people of Vancouver into be- lieving its candidates are sup- portec or connected in any way with organized labor.” This was in reference to the Non- Partisan inclusion of R. K. Ger- | vin on its Slate. Council delegates decided to again insert its Political Action Committee statement, first is- sued three weeks ago, as a paid advertisement in all three daily- papers, with the pictures of all four united labor candidates. While here was no direct crit- icism of Millard, whose most re- cent attempt to label national sympathy strike action behind the Ford strikers as an “insur- rection” brought him condemna- tion from all sides, there was plenty of criticism of the poli- cies which Millard is carrying out. Trade unionists in the con- vention pointed out that the bulk’ of the CCE membership was apathetic to organized labor, and that many CCF’ers were not even members of unions in the industries where they work. ‘Such charges prefaced a reso- lution which would make it man- datory upon all CCF members te hold membership in a trade union where such unions exist. The report of the CCF trade union committee revealed a fact long put- forward by CCL union- ists opposed to the Millard-Mosh- er policy of attempting to tie the Canadian Congress of Labor to the CCF. It showed that of the hun- dreds of thousands of unionists in the province, only 7,500 were di- rectly with the Ontario CCF. That number constitutes only a fracion of the members of Millard’s own United Steel Workers of America, and reveals how weak is the CCF claim to being the “politi- cal arm” of the Congress, either in Ontario or across Canada. White Asks Howe Act Minister of Reconstruction’ Cc D. Howe was the subject of sharp criticism from Bill White, President Boiler- makers’ and Iron Shipbuilders’ Union this week for his failure to implement promises of con- tinued shipbuilding. “Apparently labor can expect no asisstance from Mr. Howe’s department in solving the unem- ployment crisis’, White stated. “With nearly twenty thousand unemployed in Vancouver alone, Mr. Howe’s department admits that it has ceased to function in connection with shipbuilding. This despite assurances he made to the Labor-Veteran Reconver- sion Committee in-Ottawa in Oc- tober that more contracts would be allotted the following month than the shipyards could handle.” “This was apparently the usual politicians’ promise and nothing else. The opinion of la- bor is that Mr. Howe’s depart- ment has ceased to function al- together,” White stated, “and he must assume responsibility for breach of faith to labor’. The reconstruction depart- ment stated that it was “no longer placing contracts for the construction of ships’, and that its “function ceased with the end of the war in the Pacific”, in re- ply to a telegram from the Boilermakers’ Union requesting action on Howe’s promise of con- tinued shipbuilding on the West Coast. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1945 | :