September 7, 1951 .

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LUMBER WORKER

Bury Busy For CCL Meet

HECTIC DAYS are experienced by Jim Bury, Secretary of the
Greater Vancouver and Lower Mainland Labour Council as prepara-
tions proceed for the entertainment of the 1000 delegates and vy:
tors expected at the CCL Convention in Vancouver.

MITCHELL MAPS CAMPAIGN

“ORGANIZE THE NORTH

/ ‘ is the slogan when International Representatives Jack Bethune (left)
and Ray Pigeau (right) go into a huddle with District Secretary-treasurer George Mitchell.

The Fight For Freedom

By Pat Conroy

‘The reports presented at the Second Biennial Congress of the
International Confes jon of Free Trade Unions, held in Milan,
Italy, from July 4 to 12 inclusive, showed that the ICFTU, despite
all the prophecies of doom that attended founding and mani-
fest difficulties that haye confronted it in its short period of ex-
istence, hax become a new and dynamic force in world affa
Based on a solid foundation of concern for the workers of every
nation, and spelling out freedom and security in language w!
workers everywhere understand, the Milan Conference was able
fo tell how the ICFTU had been able to penetrate to almost every
country on the face of the globe and-there become established as
the chief spokesman of free men and women everywhere.

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ICFTU. Such has been the re-
spon ince December, 1949, to
the ICFTU’s prog s well as
its program in laying a solid
world-wide foundation for the
establishment of a genuine free
and working-class trade union

movement, that the Communist
World Federation of Trade Un-

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ions b * so alarmed that it
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between the two world |
trade union bodies.

The fact that the WFTU sent |
such a telegram was not merely
an indication of the growing
strength of th y free trade |
union Confede
of the inere
the WFTU,

World Picture

Reports from every country
pointed up the need of a genuine }
free world trade union ore: =
tion. They laid bare the world
picture in terms of living stand-
ards, denials of liberty, dictator-
ship of the strong over the weak,
and the need for a positive and
dynamie program to meet these
conditions. ‘

Reports from the backward na-
tions part ly told of Com-
munism winning by default in the
political sphere, because of the
inhumanly low ‘living standards
of literally hundreds of millions
of people in the backward na-
tions. Every report was high-
lighted by the same call — the
demand for greater world-
strength for the forces of free-
dom, and the need for! greater
cohesion and unity in planning
the building of a world worthy

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World-wide Program

Dealing with specific iss
the conference expressed pr
for the work of the International
Labor Organizatio: oncern over
the plight of refugees; support
for the Schuman Plan and Euro- }
pean economic integration, with
an insistence on adequate’ labor
representation on, all boards; sup-
port for the efforts of the free
nations to strengthen their mili-
tary defense; opposition to ad-
mission of Franco Spain to the
U.N. or any grant of financial
aid to that country; and support
of efforts to estab! effective
anti-inflationary policies on a na-
tional and international scale, as |
well as emphasizing the need for |
@ program to develop ceonomi- |
eally under-developed countri |
The more one looks at the i

ternational picture, the mo

clearly one sees that the freedom
and Security of Canadian trade
unionists are definitely and irre- |
vocably tied up with our own |
willingness and capacity to help
the workers of the world in the
buckward nations to see that |
there is, after all, an alternative
to the promises of imperial Com-

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