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ealizing the urgent need for

legislation in Caada, which
would require, during wartime,
amendments to Order-in-Council
P.C. 1003, the Executive Council
6f the Canadian Congress of
Labour, at its December 12, 1944
meeting, appointed a special sub-

sponsibility of studying this
Order-in-Council with a view to

suggested amendments based
upon actual experiences of the
Congress’ many affiliates in the
field.

This sub-committee, consisting
of George Burt, chairman; C. S.
Jackson, secretary; C. H. Mil-
lard; T. Frezeau; and myself,
met in Ottawa on January 12
and 18 of this year. The com-
mittee was assisted by the many
proposals submitted by the vari-
ous Congress unions and further
assistance to the committee’s
work was given by Mr. J. L.
Cohen, K.C., eminent labor
iy lawyer; and Eugene A. Forsey,

Ph, D,, director of research,
€.C.L. The committee was un-
animous in its recommendations
at a special Executive Council
meeting of January 15, 1945;
which, with a few minor changes,
also adopted the proposals unani-
mously.

It is felt by the committee
that it is basically essential that
certification‘ of the “collective
bargaining agency” is necessary
rather than the certification of
the bargaining representatives.
This procedure of certifying bar-
gaining representatives instead
of trade unions or any other bona
fide employees’ organizations
Jeads to many difficulties. It is
also very important to make
sure that the term “collective

_ bargaining agency” is clearly
: defied so that company unions
would be disqualified by law
and denied any rights in connec-
tion with certification.

It is further recommended
that conciliation service be im-
proved to simplify and speed up
such service where a dispute is
in existence and where it has
been found impossible to recon-
eile difficulties. The establish-
ment of a national war Jabor
board should be granted by law,
authority to implement closed
shop or union shop provisions
into an agreement between an:
employer and a bona fide bar-
gaining agency where it is’ so
desired should be granted that
unfair labor practices should be
clearly defined and penalties im-
_ posed where violations are found,
including substantial fines and
imprisonment,

__ It is felt by organized labor
in Canada, which is fully sup-
ported by many. right-thinking
citizens, that tremendous tasks
face our nation following’
over our enemy dur-
the reconversion and post-
r periods. Union security
n is necessary and es-

‘if labor is to play its full

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improvements on union security|

Demanded.

second item on the conference

Citrine outlined a nine-point p

to justice, that all stolen property
be restored and that full repara-
tions be made. Citrine stressed
that all stolen property be re-
stored and that full reparations
be made. Citrine stressed that
the international labor movement
must establish consultative ma-
chinery in conjunction with the

-| international supervising author-

ity to safeguard the conditions
under which German labor is em-
ployed.

PROGRAM OUTLINED

The program outlined by
Citrme demanded: (1) that
Germany be defeated “com-
pletely and beyond all ques-
tion” and that “the myth of
Germany’s invincibility” be de
stroyed once and for all; (2)
that Germany's “blood-guilty
war Jeaders and war crimin-
als” pay the full penalty for
their crimes and that “every
German man or women who
has taken an active part in the
atrocities of which a record
exists must be brought to
trial and punishment”; (3)
that restitution be made for all
stolen property “whether loot-
ed from conquered cities, ex-
Propriated during military oc-
cupation exacted from munici-
palities or communes, or plund-
ered from individual citizens.

(4- That Germany must make
reparations “in services, goods
and money even though it in-
volves the continuance of Allied
control over the entire German
economy for many years. and
perhaps for generations”; (5)
that Germany must be totally
disarmed by “the surrender.of all

German general staff and the
disbandment of all her armed
forces, "the closing down of all
German war factories, the dis-
persal of all war-like stores and
Taw materials used in war manu-

Soviet Delegates

Create Impression

LONDON—(FP) — The disci-
pline of the 35 Soviet delegates
to the World Trade Union Con-
ference amazed, American re-
porters, who are used to U.S. la-
hor conventions. The Soviet tn-
ionists were invariably on time,

listening attentively and taking
notes.

Seven of the Russian delegates
‘Were women, all married, all
alertly following every word
whether in their own language
or
brought a staff of nine interpre-
ters and advisers, including six
women. One woman was so good
she translated French and Eng-
lish into Russian for the Soviet
delegation and also English into

| gates,

French, helping thé other dele-

munitions, the dissolution of the

not, The delegation also |

Complete Destruction of German Military
Machine, Reparations in Goods and Sery-
ices, Punishment of War Criminals and a
Program to re-educate German Youth is

' LONDON—(ALN)—Complete agreement of the Big
Three at the world labor conference—the CIO, the Soviet
Central Council of Trade Unions and the British Trades Un-
ion Congress—on the postwar treatment of Germany was
achieved during the discussion of the peace settlement, the

agenda.

Opening the debate, TUC general secretary Sir Walter

rogram for Germany's “‘uncon-

ditional surrender,” urging that all war criminals be brought

facture, the dismantling of all
industrial establishnients in
which war production has been
carried on and the outright pro-
hibiion of the production and use
of aircraft”;

(6) That the German military
system “be utterly eliminated,”
with all agencies of military in
struction closed, the wearing of
uniforms prohibited and such
changes made “in the political,
economic, social and territorial
strucure of the German Reich”
as will destroy its foundation;
(7) Germany must be demo-
eratized “by the establishment
of such’ political and economic
conditions within which the
framework of the institutions of

free citizenship can be developed

Cabs: United On estan Of Geren

y

under stringen guarantees,” par-
ticularly the reestablishment of

free trade unions ‘and the free- |’

dom of political and cultural as-
sociation and sof the press and
public meetings;
MUST RE-EDUCATE

(8) German youth must be re-
educated “in an atmosphere
cleansed of the Prussian militar-
ist tradition with its glorification
of war and its contemptuous and
hostile attitude toward demo-
cratic ideals”; and (9) Germany,
“thus transformed, must be rein-
tegrated ultimately with the
European conmmuniy and with
the new world order that the
United Nations are resolved to
establish in the coming peace
settlement.” 3

Full agreement with the Cit-
rine proposals was expressed by
Mikhail Tarasov for Soviet La-

bor and by James B. Carey, sec-
retary-treasurer of the CIO. Com-
menting on the program, Carey
asserted that “the question is not
one of a hard or soft peace, but
of taking all the necessary mea-
sures to guarantee that aggres-
sor nations will not have another
opportunity to start aggression.”
Carey pledged “the force and
strength” of the CIO to ensure
that “the measures adopted at
this conference are obtained.”
Warning that fascism “is not
the perogative of the German

The soldiers and sailors man-
aged to get her for the World
Trade Union Conference, using

Message Sent
To Big Three

LONDON-(FP) — “Delegates
from .35 countries, representing
over 60 million workers of free-
dom-loving countries __ learned
with deep satisfaction the results
of the Crimean conference,” the
World Trade Union Conference
said Feb. 14 in a unanimously
adopted message to the’ leaders
of the Big Three.

“We hail all measures further
accelerating the anti-Hitler war
and fully support the declaration
that every vestige of the hate-
ful fascist regime must be eradi-
cated,” the conference said. “We
welcome your intention of pro-
ceeding at once to perfect an in-
ternational organization along the
lines of the Dumbarton Oaks pro-
posal to prevent aggression and
maintain peace,

“We are fully in accord with
your declaration assuring the
people of liberated lands the ful-
lest democracy and self determin-
ation and hail your reaffirmation
of the great Atlantic Charter
principle of the right of all peo-
ple to choose the form of govern-
ment under which they will live.

“Meeting here in London to
perfect the unity and close col-
laboration of the working people
of freedom-loving nations, we
pledge our full support to you
in carrying out the decisions you
have reached.”

Servicemen Spend Leave

At World Conference

LONDON— (FP)—Scores of Gl’s, fighting ;on, Euro-
pean battlefronts far from home, watched from the galleries
while their union brothers from the U.S..and all the four
corners of the world planned the international labor organiza-
tion that will carry on their war into a people’s, ‘peace.

their furloughs, wangling passes
from their commanding officers,
passing by the ushers who de-
manded their non-existent press
tickets, filling the galleries with
khaki and navy blue.

The CIO delegation got a real
welcome from the Yonk union-
ists in uniform, who ounumbered
the British soldiers.in the ranks
of the conference spectators. GI
unionists not only watched the
daily sessions but a constant
stream of servicémen flowed “in
and out of the Mount Royal
Hotel paying respects to the CIO
delegates, who. carried. on bull
sessions wih them in off hours.

Nigel Morgan
Visits Front

Word has just’ been received
that Brother Nigel Morgan, in
London, England, to attend the
World Labor Conference as a
CCL delegate, has been paying
a three-day visit to’ Canadian
Army units in Belgium and Hol-
land before returning to Canada.

The party visited a transit
centre from which troops, due for
leave, depart for the United
Kingdom, and also inspected a
German refugee camp.

Brief reports so far submitted

to’the B.C. Lumber Worker are
to the effect that Nigel has had

!a very interesting trip and will

have much to tell when he re-
‘turns. It is reported that he
tvavelled on the boat with over
90 IWA members on their way to

the fighting fronts.

(some nations,

nation alone,” Vicente Lom-
hardo Toledano, head of the
Latin American delegation,
Pointed out that fascist re-
gimes exist in Argentine, Port-
ugal and Spain and asserted:
“Tt is useless, to punish Ger-
many and allow the other fas-
cis regimes to remain.” While
Yoicing support of the Citrine
proposals, S. A. Dange, presi-
dent of the All-India Trades
Union Congress, criticized the
fact that they did not specify
the role >that trade unions
should :play inside the various
countries, ‘

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Conference

5. Prepare and circulate a
draft constitution for the new
world trade union federation
“which it is the purpose of this
conference to establish.”

6. Call an emergency confer-
ence if it is deemed necessary
in light of world events.

7. Issue invitations to the
next conference and accept af-
filiation of such additional un-
ion bodies as it or the confer-
ence may determine,

This last point leayes the door
open for affiliation of the AFL,
which has so far refusedto par-
ticipate in the conference. Head-
quarters of the committee will
be in Paris and it will be financed
by_ voluntary contributions only.

Preamble -of the report stated
“full agreement on the objectives
of a speedy and uncompromising
victory, enduring peace, eradica-
tion of fascism, international col-
laboration in the economic sphere,
full employment with rising stan-
dards of living and security for
men and women of all nations,
and a democratic society assur-
ing political and civil equality
and opportunity for all.”

“This report holds out great
Lope not only to labor but to the
whole world,” Hillman told dele-
gates. “I am happy to say that
in a yery short time we found a
basis for agreement on all these
matters troubling labor and the
world,” During discussion on the
report Hillman, in answer to a
question, said: “We regret the
AFL is not here and when they
decide to come in we'll make a
place for them on the executive
committee.”

Before the report was unani-
mously adopted the conference
witnessed a number of remark-
able demonstrations of the unity
permeating these sessions when
rival union delegations from

after conferring

with each other agreed on their
joint representatives on the con-
tinuations committee. Agreem™t
was necessary because of the
conference rule that internal dis-
putes on the authenticity of rival
delegations must be resolved hy
them rather than by the confer-
ence itself.

Despite an insinuation by IFTU
Sec. Walter Schevenels that dis-
unity existed in the French dele-
gation, the Frenchmen reached
quick agreement on their repres-
entatives. They are the famou:
resistance leader, Louis Saillent,
B. Franchon and A. Gazier of the
French Confederation of Work-~
ers, to which the vast majority
of French unionists belong, while
J, Dumas of the French Confed-
eration of Christian Trade Un-

jons was agreed on as an alter-
nate,