CCL MAKES HISTORIC DECISIONS

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“Merger

members. A job which he de-
seribed as being “a far bigger
job than the one we have achieved
so far.”

New Opportunity

Larry Sefton, United Steel-
workers, stated that the forma-
tion of the Canadian Labor Con-
gress would give the workers of
Canada “a new opportunity to
face a new age with its new pro-
blems”. The new strength of the
CLC could be used to organize
the white collar and public ser-
vice fields—“which at present we
have not scratched”. These
groups of employees would be-
come more and more important
with the increase of automation,
he said.

Sefton told delegates that the
formation of the CLC would give
the GCL the opportunity of
speaking to the TLC on the sub-
ject of politics “on an equal foot-
ing”. He said that one of the
most important achievements of
the CCL during its 15 years of
existence had been the “third
dimension it has added to the
thinking of the workers on poli-
ties.” if :

Labor had realized that all its
problems could not be settled
across the bargaining table and
that. legislative action was also
necessary to win its demands.
CCL political policy had not re-
sulted in the election of a large
number of representatives but it
has had an effect on legislation
that has been important not only
to labor but all Canadians, he
said,

A warning. note was sounded

Okayed”

by R. J. “Doc” Lamoureux, Que-
bee Federation of Industrial
Unions, who noted that co-opera-
tion on the merger arrangements
at the provincial level had not
been as great as on the national
level. The field of disagreement
on the merger may be, wider on
the provincial level “unless labor
leaders are prepared to sink some
of the personal differences and
ambitions” that now exist.

A number of delegates raised
the question of revising the basis
of convention representation and
the frequency of conventions en-
visaged under the merger agree-
ment, William Mahoney, United
Steelworkers of America and
member of the CCL Executive,
said that these details should be
raised at the merger convention
in April, 1956. :

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Unions affiliated with the
new U.S. labor congress to be
formed next December through
the merging of the AFL and
CIO may be asked to establish
a fund of $8-$10 million for a
giant campaign to organize the
large number of workers out-
side the trade union movement.
Walter P. Reuther, President
of the CIO and the United Auto
Workers, told delegates to the
15th annual convention of the
Canadian Congress of Labor
here that his own union was
prepared to contribute $1.5 mil-
lion to such a fund.

The CIO President stated that
the merger of the two great U.S.
labor congresses would mark the
beginning of “an organizing cru-
sade to bring into the ranks of
labor the millions of unorgan-
ized.” The labor movement could
“revive the crusading spirit of
the old days” through the launch-
ing of a great organizing cam-
paign,

If others of the large unions
were prepared to contribute to a
fund for bringing greater num-
bers within the ranks of organ-
ized labor, he said, the UAW was
prepared to “put up $1 per mem-
ber—or some $1.5 million.”

IWA GIVES
APPROVAL

TORONTO (CPA)—Approv-
al to the forthcoming merger
of the Canadian Congress of
Labor and the Trades and
Labor Congress of Canada was
given by seventy-five delegates
to the national policy confer-
ence of the International Wood-
workers of America (CIO-CCL)
held in conjunction with the
15th annual CCL Convention
here.

While supporting the merger,
delegates called for a revision of
the merger terms, particularly
with regard to proposed voting
procedure at Canadian Labor
Congress conventions and the re-
commendation that conventions
be held biennially instead of
every year.

Al Hartung, IWA International
President, stressed to delegates
the importance of international
labor ties. “Employers do not re-
cognize international boundaries”
he said, “and neither can we. I
think the merger of the central
bodies in our labor movement has
been hastened by the growing
dictatorship of wealth in the Un-
ited States.”

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|CCL Convention

Breaks Record

TORONTO (CPA)—The 15th annual convention of the
Canadian Congress of Labor—and last under that name—
came close to establishing an attendance record. The more
than 900 registered delegates who packed the convention
hall of the Royal York Hotel here made up the second
largest convention in Canadian labor history. The 1952
CCL convention is believed to have been the most well-

attended labor convention ever held in Canada.

Among the guest speakers who
addressed the convention deleg-
ates were Walter P. Reuther,
President of the Congress of In-
dustrial Organizations and presi-
dent of the United Automobile
Workers; Labor Minister Milton
F. Gregg, V.C.; Jacob Potofsky,
President of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of, America,
and Dr. G. J. Van Heuven God-
hart, United Nations High Com-
missioner for Refugees,

Varied Resolutions

. A wide variety of resolutions
was dealt with by delegates dur-
ing the 4% day convention. These
included: a demand for a Bill of
Rights; approval of ending the
means test for blind pensioners
and increasing their tax exemp-
tion to $2,000 single and $3,000
married; a request that Remem-
brance Day be declared a statu-
tory holiday; and pressure for
the establishment of a national
Bureau of Standards.

Matters of particular signifi-
cance to the labor movement
which received convention ap-
proval included demands for: a
national industrial pension plan;
the appointment of more Cana-
dian Labor Attaches; the volun-
tary revocable check-off to be
included in a National Labor
Code; opposition to ‘contracting
out’ of work; the abolition of
court injunctions in industrial

disputes; workmen’s compensa-
tion benefits at 100 percent of
earnings, tax exemption for tools
used by a worker in his trade;
publicity of the union label cam-
paign; and simultaneous transla-
tion facilities to be provided at
conventions.

Delegates opposed the estab-
lishment by the CCL of a daily
labor paper on the grounds that
the new congress should make
decisions on such a matter, A
proposal that overtime work be
banned was rejected as being
impracticable. A hot debate re-
sulted from a recommendation of
non-concurrence in a resolution
calling for Canadian unions to
be directed and controlled by
Canadians.

Convention resolution Commit-
tee chairman, Larry Sefton, said
that the resolution had been “put
on the floor by communists to
wrap themselves in the Canadian
ensign and slam our American
brothers”. To loud applause he
told delegates that the Canadian
labor movement had received
only help and assistance from
U.S. unions. The committee’s re-
commendation was upheld by all
but four of the more than 900
delegates. IVA member on Re-
solutions Committee was District
President Joe Morris.

Delegates

Propose

Automation Study

Suggestions for chanelling the effects of automation
into “unprecedented abundance and leisure for all” rather
than allowing technological improvements in Canadian
factories and offices to lead to “greater wealth for the few
were made by delegates
the Canadian Congress

and unemployment for the many”
to the 15th annual convention of

of Labor here.

The convention called on the
federal government to convene
a labor - management - govern-
ment conference to plan the
overall introduction of automa-
tion. It urged, specifically, the
introduction of the guaranteed
annual wage; a shorter work-
week with no loss in take-home
pay; planned full employment
to accommodate displaced
workers; severance pay for
workers displaced through
technological changes; planned
location of new industries; full
discussion with the unions con-
cerned when automated “de-
vices are to be introduced;

training of young people to
operate and maintain automat-
ed machines; and pay for op-
erators of the new machines
commensurate with their skill
and responsibility and at levels
sufficient to provide purchas-
ing power to absorb the pro-
ducts of the new machine age.

Study of the changes in union
structure and work contracts
which will be brought about as
the result of the introduction of
automation was urged upon the
Congress antl its affiliates and

chartered unions.

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