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ORGANIZED LABOR SPEAKS WITH ONE VOICE in the current campaign for price and rent controls. Details of the campaign

were discussed at a meeting in Ottawa attended by officers and officials of Canada’s four central labor organizations.

In the usual

left to right order those attending the meeting were: Front, Gerard Picard, President, Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labor;
Perey Bengough, President, Trades and Labor Congress of Canada; Pat Conroy, Secretary-Treasurer, Canadian Congress of Labor;

Arthur J. Kelly, Chairman, Dominion Legislative Committee of the Railway Transportation Brotherhoods.

Rear, Jean Marchand,

Secretary, Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labor; Leslie Wismer, Public Relations Director, Trades and Labor Congress;
Gordon Cushing, Secretary-Treasurer, Trades and Labor Congress; Eugene Forsey, Research Director, Canadian Congress of Labor,

and Jack Williams, Public Relations Director, Canadian Congress of Labor.

Labor, was absent due to illnesse

A. R. Mosher, President of the Canadian Congress of

Slanting
The News

Four ICFTU labor consultants
to the UN are on the warpath
about slanting of UN press re-
leases in favor of the Communist
Party line.

The incidents centre round two
events involving the World Fed-
eration of Trade Unions, from
which unions in thé western
democracies broke away.

The first protest was about a
release to the press which dealt
only with WFTU statements de-
nouncing xe-armament of demo-
cratic powers, and ignored a
suggestion made at the same time
by the ICFTU for the inter-
national control of prices.

The second “offense” by the
UN publicity staff came after
omission of mention of an ICFTU
plan for relief and rehabilitation
of Korea, but-inclusion of a de-
nunciation of UN policy in Korea
by the Communist WFTU.

“It is hard to believe these two
similar acts of discrimination
were accidental,” said Matthew
Woll, AFL, spokesman for the
ICFTU group, which included
CIO leader Jacob Potofsky and
Michael Ross.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

I can lick the whole police de-
partment.

“Free Unions Must Stand Together”

CCL delegates Pat Conroy,
George Burt and Fred Dowling
took a leading part in the Inter-
American Regional Conference of

ICFTU Call

the International Confederation|,He and the AFL's George

of Free Trade Unions in Mexico, Meany Jed a 15-man CIO-AFL
City in January. [aslewation, and assurances were

P given which foiled those who

Jacob Potofsky, president, CIO. hoped to play on former disputes

Clothing Workers, madea stirring between the two bodies in South
call for unity, “The times call, American affairs,

for the free trade union world to

stand together as never before,”

Francesco A b:
Mingaid, sco Aguerre, Cuban

lashed out at Lambardo Tole-
dano, Mexican Communist leader,
and said he must be “eliminated.”

He also hit at dictatorships in
Santo Domingo, Venezuela
Nicaragua arid Argentine.

Principal message of the meet-
ing for North Americans was
that the AFL and CIO stand firm
to prevent any move against the
absolute unity of the ICFTU.

Close economic ties between
the industrial worker and the
farmer are being demonstrated
in an effective way by the Amal-
gamated Clothing Workers of
America in its current, $1,000,000
union label campaign in the U.S.
and Canada,

Through union label exhibits
at county fairs the Amalgamated
has been impressing huge farm
gatherings that, dollar for dollar,

AMALGAMATED LABEL
CAMPAIGN SUPPORTED

in every price bracket, the
farmer gets a better buy in
“store clothes” when he _pur-
chases a suit or overcoat with an
Amalgamated union label in it.
The union is pointing out that
supporting decent wage and
working standards for union
labor means greater purchasing
power for industrial workers, of
which farmers are among the

largest beneficiaries.

Federation of Labor president,

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