: B.C. LUMBER WORKER

ist Issue, October

Steel Workers
Backed 100%

_ MONTREAL (CPA)—The fight of the United Steel-
workers against the gold mine operators in Northern On-
tario and Quebec became the fight of the whole Canadian

_ Congress of Labor when delegates to the CCL 13th annual

convention pledged unanimous support to the striking

Steelworkers.

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Delegates called on the Con-
gress executive to establish itself
as a national strike committee to
put the whole weight of the orga-
nization behind USWA.

Four Effected

The strike at the four mines in
the Timmins area of Northern
Ontario began early in July on
the question of wage increases
and union security, while miners
at Noranda Mines at Rouyn, P.Q.,
came out on strike at the middle
of August.

Canadian Director of the Steel-
works, C, H. Millard, said that
regardless of the many concilia-
tion reports that had been
brought down, the mine opera-
tors, “with almost no exceptions
whatsoever”, had refused to give
benefits gained in other fields of
industry. The reactionary em-
ployers had banded together and
had said “the unions have got this
far but will get no further,” he
charged.

Exploit People

This section of the mine-own-
ers (in the Timmins, Ontario, and
Noranda, P.Q., areas) was chal-
lenging the unions, even though
mining industry in Trail and
Kimberley, British Columbia, had
accepted unionism.

~The whole question involved in
the mine strikes was “whether
unionism will be accepted by em-
ployers and by the provincial
governments. The mine owners
are allowed to exploit the natural
resources of the province and

they are now trying to exploit
people as well,” said Mr. Millard.

No Leisure

“Murdoch (J. ¥. Murdoch,
President of Noranda Mines)
does not believe in shorter hours.
He says it demoralizes the work-
ers and that working people do
not know what to do with their
leisure time. When he told me
this, he was sitting on the ver-
anda of his summer home at Lake
Joseph in Muskoka enjoying well-
earned leisure.”

The Steelworkers’ director re-
ported that the Catholic Syndi-
cates had pledged their “entire
and undivided support” to USWA.
in the Noranda strike. Top offi-
cials of the powerful congress
affiliates in auto, oil, mine, tex-
tile, rubber and _packinghouse
workers’ unions pledged support
of their respective organizations
too behind the striking steel-
workers.

Miners’ Business

Alex MacAuslane, pledging the
support of the Oilworkers, told
delegates that this was “one tinie
when (J. Y.); Murdoch will have
to get down off the top of his
millions and do business with the
miners.” Freeman Jenkins, Mine-
workers’ District 26 President,
described the present situation as
“a threat to the whole labor
movement. If we lose this fight
the whole movement will pay the
penalty. :

FOOD PLAN URGED

MONTREAL (CPA) — CIO
President Walter Reuther sug-
gested that the food surpluses
of North, America, particularly
wheat, be made available to the
world’s underdeveloped coun-
tries in an interview here.

The disposal of these food sup-
plies should be tied in with the
building up of technical assist-
ance to these backward areas,

GREETINGS!

Mr. Reuther said.

In order that there should be
“no strings attached”, the CIO
President suggested that the dis-
posal should- be handled through
United Nations agencies. “This
matter should not take the form
of a glorified welfare handout
but should be part of an overall
plan to raise the living standards
throughout the world,” he said.

TO THE I,W.A. CONVENTION

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BAN UPHELD |

MONTREAL (CPA) — A resolution calling for re-
admission of three unions that were expelled from the |
Canadian Congress of Labor because of Communist leader- |
ship was turned down by an overwhelming majority ‘of
delegates to the 13th annual CCL convention here.

Local 200 of the United Auto-
workers, Windsor, submitted a
resolution calling for the re-
admittance of the Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers, the United
Electrical Workers and the Fur
and Leather Workers’ unions, all
three-of which have been out of | elements which caused them to be
the Congress since 1951. expelled, they will be welcomed

Chairman of the convention | back into the Canadian Congress

Chappell, CBRE, was loudly ap-
plauded when he told delegates
that his committee recommended
non-concurrence and suggested
that “when they (the expelled
unions) rid themselves of the

Resolutions Committee, Harry | of Labor.”

A.C.S. JOINS
CONGRESS .

QUEBEC CITY (CPA) —
The 14th annual convention
of the Amalgamated Civil
Servants of Canada has call-
ed for affiliation with the
375,000 member Canadian
Congress of Labor.

The Civil Service organiza-
tion, which recruits members
from all branches of thé fed-
eral civil service is reported
to have been studying the
move for some time.

PEACE
MOVES
URGED

MARGATE, ENG. (CPA)—
The 52nd annual convention of
the British Labor Party en-
dorsed the foreign policy state-
ment drawn up by the party
executive which registered dis-
approval of German re-arma-
ment, at least until four-power
talks on the subject had taken
place, and called for the neu-
tralization of Formosa and
Korea.

The 1,300 delegates warmly
applauded former Prime Minister
Attlee when he presented the
foreign policy program on behalf
of the party executive. Attlee
called for an end to U.K.-U.S.
bickering and said that the Labor
Party believed that close co-
operation with the United States
was vital to both Britain and the
whole Commonwealth.

Resolutions calling for a re-
pudiation of-the U.S. Battle Act
(vestricting trade with Commun-
ist countries) and another reject-
ing “the present tendency to ac-
cept U.S. policy as the policy of
this country”, both fell for lack
of support. :

Foreign Policy

Among the other points includ-
ed in the foreign policy discus-
sion were:

1. Criticism of the recent U.S.
Spanish pact granting
“bases for aid”.

2. A statement that it was
“absolutely ridiculous” not
to recognize the Mao Tse
Tung government as the
government of China.

3. Full talks with Russia and
other countries before any
German re-armament.

See for yourself—today.

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