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posed “effective measures aimed at speeding up the economic,

social and political developments

of these countries."

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“War Is Not

-- CCL

Inevitable”

: TORONTO (CPA)—The events of the last year in the

international field have proved that war is not inevitable
and that negotiations are neither useless nor a sign of
weakness, the Canadian Congress of Labor stated in its
debate on international affairs at the CCL 15th conven-

tion here.

A broad statement of foreign
policy, adopted by the more than
900 delegates regretted that the
results of the Geneva conference
and the disarmament committee
of the United Nations had been
So small but urged that all mea-
sures aimed at securing world
peace be pursued.

Ban A and H Bombs

The convention supported a
call by the British Trade Union
Congress seeking the action of
trade unions in every country to
press their governments for an
international agreement on the
abolition of stocks and the pro-

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hibition of manufacture of A and
H-Bombs. A warning to the gov-
ernment that it must not “falter
or fail” in its support of NATO,
Western European Union and
other defensive measures against

| communist aggression, noted that

“defence and negotiations must
go hand in hand. Neither can
safety be jettisoned in favor of
the other.”

The Liberal government’s pre-
sent policies on immigration,
trade and assistance to the un-
derdeveloped nations of the world
were strongly criticized in the
report approved by the delegates.

|| It deplored “the racial discrimin-

ation in Canada’s own immigra-
tion policies” and expressed re-
gret at “the inadequacy of. the
Canadian government’s support
of the Colombo Plan.”
Stimulate Trade

Support for “maximum East-
West trade” was qualified by the
necessity of “denying weapons
adn strategic materials to aggres-
sors or potential aggressors.”
However, the CCL urged the gov-
ernment “to intensify its efforts
to promote trade with Western
Europe, the Commonwealth, and
all other countries, subject to the
imperative necessities of Nation-
al security”, Concern was ex-
pressed at “Canada’s heavy de-
pendence on trade with the Un-
ited States” which has resulted
in the accumulation of large trad-
ing deficits with that country.

The CCL specifically called on
the government to increase its
contributions to the Colombo
Plan and U.N. Technical Assist-
ance to “at least $100 million”;
condemned the Soviet Union for
blocking the creation of a free,
democratic Germany; called for
the admission to the U.N. of
China and also “all the demo-
cratic states whose entry has
been blocked by the Soviet Union;
and sent a message of greeting
and assurance of support to
workers in totalitarian countries.

Affiliates and chartered unions
of the Congress were urged to
make effective the support of
the CCL for the United Nations
and the International Confedera-
tion of Free Trade Unions.

CCL URGES
ICFTU
SUPPORT

TORONTO (CPA) — Inter-
national trade union affairs
aroused considerable discussion
at the 15th annual convention
of the Canadian Congress of
Labor here as some 900 deleg-
ates re-affirmed CCL support
for the International Confeder-
ation of Free Trade Unions
and turned down a suggestion
of joint action by the ICFTU
and the communist-controlled
World Federation of Trade
Unions.

A request that a greater educa-
tional program on the activities
of the ICFTU be carried out by
the CCL International Affairs
Department was made by a num-
ber of delegates,

Jim Bury, United Packing-
house Workers, stated that the
ICFTU was trying to help the
workers in the world’s underde-
veloped areas to form their own
trade unions. The free trade
union organization did not try to
impose any particular form of
organization upon these workers,
he noted, but it was making e
forts to help them organize their
fellow-workers,

Bury, who has just returned
from 20 months in Kenya as an
ICFTU representative, said that
he was “not too well received” by
the white community in the
troubled East African colony

since the white settlers wanted
to maintain the economic privil-
eges they had gained at the ex-
pense of the African workers.
He said that he was “sold” on
the ICFTU’s program of giving
on the spot advice and assistance
to workers in the underdeveloped
countries.
Standards Threatened

Jim Bury urged greater sup-
port for the ICFTU and warned
delegates that it was in the un-
derdeveloped countries that the
greatest threat to the living stan-
dards of Canadian workers was
to be found.

CCL Vice-President C. H. Mil-
lard asked all CCL affiliates to

contribute at least one cent per

member per month to the ICFTU
Regional Activities Fund. He
noted that abdut 75,000 of the
400,000 members of the CCL
were now making one cent month-
ly contributions to the Fund.

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American unions, a “made in
Israel” tag is an automatic guar-
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