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LUMBER WORKER

August 7, 1952

“used to call this my “fake-home’
pay, but I never get that far with it
‘any more!”

Labor MP
Defends UK
Welfare

TORONTO (CPA)—The La-
bor government of Britain not
only gave practical expression
to the Socialist thinking of the
previous forty years but at the
same time oragnized national
recovery so that at the end of
Labor's period of office Britain
was healthier, more productive
and more stable in her social
relations than ever before,
Right Hon, Kenneth Younger,
Secretary of State in the 1951
Labor Government, told the
CCF National Convention ban-
quet in Toronto, August 7.

Of the differences between La-
borites led by Aneurin Bevan and
the bulk of the Labor party, he
declared “Already adjustments
to the program are making this
quarrel out of date. There will
be no split in the Labor Party
over this, even if differences of
emphasis persist.”

U.S. Cooperation

Stressing the importance Labor
attached to cooperation withthe
United States in world affairs,
based on full and frank exchange
of information and criticism he
declared that “the necessity for
Anglo-American cooperation is
accepted by every significant
group and person in the Labor
Party, including Aneurin Bevan.”

He stressed that Labor’s“pro-
gram of nationalization had made
previously inefficient industries
into smooth-running productive
units; it had made possible the
economic planning which had
produced rapid British post-war
recovery. There was still much
room for progress in the field of
industrial democracy, he felt.
Labor had also been able to bring
about “a considerable levelling

up of the great inequalities of in-
come, largely achieved through
comprehensive welfare and social
seeurity measures.”

“Welfare State”

“All parties in Britain now pay
lip service to the ‘welfare state’,”
he noted, “but only Labor would
have forced the legislation
through.”

Younger deseribed Aneurin
Bevan as “. a controversial
personality, colorful and militant,
with a Welsh contempt for the
English habit of understate-
ment,” but stressed that the;
points at issue between Bevan
and other Laborites were “not a

_ fundamental issue of principle, |
but a question of proportion.”

Support U.N.

Emphasizing the need for An-

- American cooperation,

, who is a Labor spokes-

man on international issues, criti.

-eized those supporters of Anglo-'
unity who “seem to
think the alliance so brittle that

the claimant on the ground that
he left voluntarily and disquali-

TORONTO (CPA) — The

dorsed by delegates to the CCF
August 6, 7 and 8. Though they
economic solutions to what they

Douglas that “We can’t have a

must haye weapons. Much as I

They heartily endorsed a reso-
lution calling for a vastly ex-
panded program of economic aid
to underdeveloped areas, but re-
fused to delete from it a sentence

as “necessary . . . in the present
international situation.”

Independent Policy

In a composite resolution on
foreign affairs, delegates resisted
moves to delete a clause calling
on Canada “to pursue an inde-
pendent policy on all questions”.
“Of all the nations in the U.N.,
Canada is in the best position to
maintain an independent posi’-
tion, stated CCF vice-chairman
David Lewis. “We are not men-
dicants to Washington and we
are not satellites in the Soviet
bloc.” He accused the Canadian
government of “fear, hesitation
and mealy-mouthedness” in the
“The moral influence of Canada
in international relationships is
out of all propordion to her
wealth and power,” declared Sas-
katchewan Premier Tom Doug-
las, stating that Canadian oppo-
sition might have prevented pre-
cipitate U.S. actions like the
crossing of the 38th parallel in
Korea or\ bombing of the Yalu
river power stations. “Canada is
a big girl now, but has not yet
learned to change her own dia-
pers in the U.N.,” put in B.C.
delegate Dorothy Steeves.

Resolution

Here’s the text of the compo-
site CCF resolution on foreign
policy:

"In view of the critical situa-
tion that endangers the peace of
the world it is urgent that we re-
assess and affirm our position with
regard to international affairs.

‘The CCF reaffirms its full sup-
hort of the principles of the Unit-
ed Nations. With all its short-
comings it remains an essential
agency for building world peace.

worse than war—tyranny and oppression.”

describing military rearmament |

“No Honor System >
Yet Possible” .

-- DOUGLAS

Principle of collective security

through the use of force if. necessary was overwhelmingly en-

National Convention in Toronto,
put most emphasis on social and
felt were the most fundamental

problems, delegates agreed with Saskatchewan Premier T. C.

community or a community of

nations on an honor system when part of it has no honor. We
need a police force, locally and internationally and the policemen

hate war, there are some things

brinciples of the United Nations
have often been sacrificed to

|. power politics. Therefore the CCE

calls upon Canada

(1) to pursue an independent
policy on all questions;

(2) to resist atlempts by any
nation to use the UN for
selfish ends;

3) to take the initiative in
strengthening the various
agencies of the UN and
providing them with ade-
quale resources to carry
out their purposes and to
urge the participation of
all member nations;

(4) - to support the inclusion of
all nations willing to abide
by the UN Charter;

(5) to insist that any action
against aggression under-
taken by the UN be com-
pletely under the control
of the UN,

(6) to work towards the abo-
lition of the veto in the
UN.

“This convention also reaffirms
its support of NATO as a collec-
tive security measure on a regional
basis within the spirit and frame-
work of the UN Charter but op-
poses over-rearmament at the ex-
pense of economic and social
security, The CCE, however, will
do all in its power to strengthen
the UN as a world force so that
regional “pacts will increasingly
become unnecessary.

“We recognize the upsurge in

* Africa and Asia toward social and
economic improvement and self-
determination and we oppose any
attempt to maintain the status quo
under the guise of defence. We
further urge the UN to assist these
areas in their efforts toward demo-
cratic self-government,

“Finally, we believe that peace
and security depend on economic
justice and personal liberty. Only
through the extension of demo-
cratic socialism can these ends be
securely and permanently achiev-

“However in recent years the

ed

released,

to trade unionists.
Appeal

That a claimant who was dis-
missed because he refused to
participate in a medical plan in-
troduced at the request of the
majority of his co-workers on the
ground that it precluded him
from choosing his own doctor,
had acted in a manner which was
tantamount to voluntarily leav-
ing his employment without just
cause,

Decision

The material facts of the case
are as follows:

The claimant, a married man,
was employed by an airline as a
mechanic at a rate of pay of $220
a month from 1948 to July 31,
1950. He filed a claim for benefit
on August 1, 1950, and establish-
ed that his services had been dis-
ensed with because he had re-
‘used to participate in a new
medical plan on the ground that
it seat reelude him from
choosing his own doctor.

The insurance officer refused

fied him for a period of six weeks,
The oe of Ease upheld the
officer but told him that

he could appeal to the Umpire.

Claim Denied For
One Against Many

As a service to its readers, The B.C. Lumber Worker will publish,
as space permits, selected decisions in appeals heard before the Umpire
under the provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Act, as officially

The appeal and decision outlined hereunder presents points of interest

The conclusion of the Umpire
was that participation in the plan
was compulsory only insofar as
the payment of contributions was
concerned and no employee was
to be forced to avail himself of
the medical services it otfered if
he preferred to choose other
medical services at his own ex-
pense.

For this reason the appeal was
dismissed.

STEEL GETS
BETTER DEAL

WASHINGTON (LPA) —Set-
tlement was reached in the steel
strike July 24 after Presidents
Philip Murray of the CIO and
United Steelworkers of America
and Benjamin Fairless of US
Steel spent seven hours together
in the White House at the request
of President Truman. Terms
were similar to the industry’s fi-
nal offer, plus a price raise of
$5.20 a ton for the companies.
Production was expected to re-

sume in about a week. 1

SASK. CO-OPS PROSPER

REGINA—There are now 315
co-operative community service
organizations in Saskatchewan,
B. N. Arnason, deputy minister
of co-operation, said recently.
This type of co-operative is in-
corporated as non-profit, and no
patronage dividends or interest
on share capital may be paid.

These community service co-
operatives include the follow-
ing kinds with numbers of each

in brackets: community halls
(249); skating and curling rink
associations (43); recreation
associations (14); community
feed barn associations (7); and
co-operative livestock sales as-
sociations (2). If such an asso-
ciation’s activities show a sur-
plus, the money must be used
either to improve the associa~
tion’s facilities or to finance
some other non-profit com-
munity project.

®.

UN AIDS CHI

UNITED NATIONS, NEW
YORK (CPA) — A program to
build up health standards among
children in Afghanistan is being
conducted by the United Nations
Children’s Emergency Fund.

A survey by the International
Labor Organization, affiliated to
the UN, has shown that condi-
tions of child labor which “recall
the early days of the industrial
reyolution in Europe” still pre-
vail in many parts of the world,
and has drawn the censure of
world public opinion to the coun-
tries which allow industrial ex-
ploitation of children.

Food Supply

Economists of the UN’s Eco-
nomic and Social Council and of
the Food and Agricultural Orga-
nization have drawn up blue-
prints for agrarian reform,
stressing that exploitation of the
60% of mankind who live on the
land must be ended, pointing out
ways and means of effectively
ending the oppression of absentee
landlords and the usury of money
lenders,

These are only three of many
projects sponsored by specialized
UN agencies, frequently forgot-
ten in the rush of interest in
General Assembly debates be-
tween U.S. and U.S.S.R. repre-
sentatives. (The Russians boycott
most technical agencies, the
Americans pay most of their
bills.)

New Projects

Here are some other recent UN
projects:

‘An international Laboratory
is being set up at Geneva for
nuclear research.

The hoe and the scythe have
been introduced into Afghanis-
tan by F.A.O. representatives.

The U.N. Educational, Sci-
entific and Cultural Organiza-
tion has started an interna-
tional team of historians work-
ing on a three million-word
history of the world, designed

LD HEALTH

to describe “the development of
the peoples, their relations and
their achievements”. UNESCO
is also issuing records of folk
music from all parts of the
world.

UNICEF has set up a centre
in Paris to train nurses and
others to handle polio cases.

A mission from the World
Bank is surveying the economic
development possibilities of Ja-
maica.

SOME GET
BACK PAY ®

Loggers and sawmill workers
who terminated employment with
employers who have contracts
with the International Wood-
workers of America, CIO, during
the recent strike in the North-
west, were urged today to apply
immediately to their former em-
ployers for retroactive pay due
as a result of the strike settle-
ment.

The notice came from A. F.
Hartung, IWA president, who
said the men may have only a
few days yet to make application.
The retroactivity stems from the
new contract which grants a
wage boost of 744c an hour plus
differential: pay and other bene-
fits as of April 1.

Men who worked from that
time until the strike was called
will have pay coming to them if
their operations were covered by
the IWA Northwest Regional
Negotiating committee settle-
ment, Hartung said, regardless
of where they are working now,
or what union affiliation they
may have.

Deadline of 80 days for appli-
cation is based on the date each
individual company was notified

|by the wage stabilization board

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