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Increased public investment and tax cuts which would

‘SO LONG

JOE MIYAZAWA (right),

IWA Associate Research and Education Director, was cordially wi

hed

“happy landings” by District President Morris and Bill Dixon, on behalf of the students at the
Kelowna weekend Institute as he left for his trip to Calcutta.

affect the majority of Canadians were urged in a brief
presented to the federal cabinet last week by the Canadian
Congress of Labour. In its annual submission, the 400,000-
member labour body placed emphasis on the seriousness
of unemployment and also advanced proposals for govern-

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|Morris
States
Purposes

That trade unions are here
to stay as an institution of
because they
continue to perform a vital
function in the community,
was the theme driven home
by IWA District President
Joe Morris in addressing as-
semblies which wound up the
IWA-CCL educational week-
end institutes in the In-
terior.

On each occasion, the Union
had as dinner guests, prominent
citizens together with the stu-
dents, wives and friends. The
District President took them
frankly into his confidence re-
| garding the role of the trade

UBC Institute
Wins Acclaim

Fourth Annual CCL Union Institute, held at the Uni-
versity of British Columbia, November 6-7, was hailed by
the students in attendance as being an unqualified suc-
cess in the stimulation given to trade union education.

“Master-minding” the program
of the Institute was Howard Con-
quergood, Director of Education
and Welfare, CCL. Local arrange-
ments were in charge of the
Education Committee of the Van-
couver Labor Council, W. G. Hall,

Chairman.
Opening assembly heard Dr.

John Friesen, Head of the Uni-
yersity Extension Department, as

key-note speaker. He dealt in an
informative way with his recent
experiences in European coun-
tries while assisting in a survey
of modern methods of adult edu-
cation.
Intensive Training
The two-day courses included:
Shop Steward Training, History
of the Union Movement, Basic
See “INSTITUTE” Page 3

LABOR NAMES
CIVIC SLATE

Decision to nominate a partial slate of candidates for
the Vancouver civie elections in.December was made at
the November 9th meeting of the Vancouver Labor Coun-

cil.

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Nominated were; For Alder-
Vie Forster; for Parks

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IWA District 1st Vice-President, William Gray, was
med as the labor candidate for the Parks Board.

Board, William Gray, William
Pierce; for School Board, Dan
Radford.

The position taken by the
Council was set forth in the fol-
lowing statement:

At the regular meeting of
April 27, 1954, this Labour Coun-
cil passed a Resolution request-
ing a Labour PAC Committee be
formed to contest the Civic Elec-
tion. The Executive was in-
structed to approach the Trades

See “SLATE” Page 3

Green Gld-(JOR

DISTRICT

CONVENTION
FEB. 14-17

Call was issued this week
by the IWA District Officers
for the 18th Annual District
Convention to be held in the
Hotel Georgia, February 14-
15-16-17.

unions in the fife of the com-
munity.

The speaker lifted the curtain
on turbulent scenes in trade
union history: in order to explain
that the character of the move-
ment has been shaped against a
background of struggle. Now, he
stated, the trade’ unions have be-
come a stabilizing factor in the
economic life of the country.

He'said in part:

See “MORRIS” Page 2

ment action in a number of other spheres,

Dealing with unemployment,
the memorandum said the situa-
tion had become “decidedly worse
than it was a year ago”. Atten-
tion was drawn to a number of
the government’s own reports
showing reductions in employ-
ment, farm income, retail sales,
and exports,

“We are in the midst of an
unmistakable recession,” the
CCL said. “It is no longer
merely a possible danger, as it
was a year ago. It is a fact,
and has been for the last eight
or ten months. It is no longer,
as it was a year ago, just a
matter of coal and textiles and
agricultural implements and
motor cars. y

The crisis in all these is still
with us, and has become worse;
but it has also spread, though
usually in a milder form, to a
whole host of industries, and
affects every major sector of
the economy... . It must be
recognized that even a stable
national income and stable em-
ployment are not good enough;
we need a rising ‘national in-
come and rising employment if,
we are to provide full employ-
ment and a rising standard of
living. Add together a falling
national income, rising produc-
tivity per worker, and a rising
labour supply, and the only
possible result is rising unem-
ployment.”

Buying Power Needed

Emphasis was placed on the
necessity for increased purchas-
ing power in the hands of the

See “JOBS” Page 12

IWA INTERIOR REGIONAL OFFICE window, on the main street of Kelowna, attractively dis-
played the Union’s program, during the week-end Institute at that point. The “welcome card” seen
in the centre was on display in the show windows of retail merchants throughout the city.

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