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The speaker outlined the values
of each course provided in the
Institute program. High priority
was given by him to “contract
analysis”, a course which enables
union members to define their
rights under the contract clearly
when job problems arise, he said.

The shop stewards he described
as the “backbone of the Union.”
The training in this course on
their duties, he said, was based
on experience, and gave the
union’s representative on the
job, the tools with which to pro-
tect the interests of his fellow-
members,

In the other courses provided
by the Union, the student gained
a better perspective of his status
in industry, and the role played
by his union in the protection of
working-class interests, he as-
serted.

Kenney Advocated Councils
Guest speaker Ed Kenney at
the closing banquet, boldly broke
new ground for the B.C. trade
unions when he outlined a pre-
liminary plan for the establish-
ment of economic councils.

He based his proposals on re-
solutions adopted by CIO conven-
tions, and frequently referred to
as the Phillip Murray Industry
Council Program. He contended
that collective bargaining, which
is limited to wages and working
conditions, is only the beginning
of industrial democracy.

Organized labor, he affirmed,
must ultimately become a full-
fledged partner with manage-
ment in planning for the econo-

NEY”

The speaker freely admitted
that he expected opposition to his
plan, and that in any event it

would be slow of accomplishment. |

His proposal envisaged the es-
tablishment of joint economic
councils in each major industry,
comprised of freely chosen re-
presentatives of organized work-
ers and organized owners in that
economy or industry, together
with a government or other pub-
lic representative,

The economic council should,
he said, undertake the planning
and organizing of its particular
economy or industry for the gen-
eral welfare.

The preliminary steps outlined
by the speaker were:

(1) The utilization of existing
groups and methods rather than
some theoretically ideal blue
print.

(2) The criteria to be laid
down by the conventions of the
National CIO, the Canadian Con-
gress of Labor, and the IWA.
Sound programs, he claimed,
would lessen class conflict, re-
moye the evils of unregulated
competition, and restore to func-
tional groups powers now unduly
concentrated.

(8) The setting of industry-
wide standards, without in any-
way imposing rigid uniformity in
union contracts. Flexibility would
be sought.

The plan would lead to the
formation of a national economic
council and the systematic study
of the role of government in the

mie welfare of the people.

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Grant MacNeil, course leader;
Understanding our Economy, and
Economic Trends in B.C., Profes-
sor William Dixon, UBC, course
leader; and Job of a Shop Stew-
ard, IWA District President, Joe
Morris, course leader,

Home Keynote Speaker

Secretary George Home, B.C.
Federation of Labor officially
opened the Institute in a keynote
address as the students assem-
bled. He reviewed the pressing
problems of labor under present
circumstances and thus indicated
the importance of a strong trade
union movement.

He outlined the purposes of
trade union education and de-
clared them to be essential in the
building of the movement and the
attainment of labor's objectives.

Institute Complimented

The IWA Eastern Canadian
Director, Harvey Ladd, proved
himself no stranger in Victoria,
as he identified himself with the
struggles of the labor movement
during the years of the depres-
sion,

As a member of the Executive
Committee of the Canadian Con-
gress of Labor, he paid a warm
compliment to the work of the

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Educational Director, Howard
Conquergood. The educational
program, he declared, was mainly
responsible for the solidarity evi-
dent throughout the ranks of the
unions within the Congress.

Education was vital, he said,
because more than ever before
the trade unions must hold to a
courageous and clear vision of its
objectives and ideals of social
justice.

The speaker challenged the
motives of those who would im-
pugn the motives of the unions,
when exercising the right of free
speech on any question, however
controversial.

Red China and U.N.

He cited the instance of the
Congress’ advocacy of the admis-
sion of Red China into the UN.
He deplored the growing fear
which tended to restrict outspok-
en opinions on the subject. This
made it difficult to gain a ra-
tional expression of opinion, he
stated, and. might easily lead to
a repetition of mistakes made
earlier in the determination of
relations with the USSR,

A question such as whether we
should keep Red China without

Fear of opinion should
paralyze the discussions am
trade union members.
claim the right and freed
stand up and speak their
he affirmed.

The IWA official drove
the point with vigorous
that the trade unions must act
on the belief that their welfare
is indivisible from world-wide
prosperity. rs

“Trade unionists can never
ignore the fact that

elsewhere in the world live and
die who have never known free-
dom from hunger. “Such a sit-
uation will engulf us, unless
remedied,” he declared.

Communism on March

“World communism is knock-
ing at the doors of the “have-not”
nations. If we were in the same
circumstances, as many of our
fellow-workers in the less privi-
leged nations — hungry, illelad
and oppressed—we would seek
that which offered any hope of
salvation.” “We must face the
simple fact that unless the hun-
gry are fed, no force will
the onward march of world com-
munism. Unless we provide food,
hope, and constructive progress,
we have no moral right to criti-
cize our neighbors.”

LOCAL 1-80
TO ELECT

Members“ of Local 1-80,
IWA, are reminded that the
membership meeting to be
held in the IWA Hall, Dun-
can, Sunday, December 12,
at 10:30 a.m., will elect the
Local Union’s delegates to
the convention of the B.C.
Federation of Labor, and the
IWA District Convention.

The B.C. Federation of
Labor holds its convention,
January 8-9, and the IWA
District Convention opens in
the Hotel Georgia on Febru-
ary 14 for four days. The
CCL staff seminar will be
held in Parksville, December
8-16.

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