1st Issue, December REUTHER SEES | ; LABOUR’S DAY NEW YORK (CPA)—The merger of the American ' Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Or- tions offers the labor movement “great new op- sunities for service to our nation and all its people,” President Walter P. Reuther said here. The CIO President welcomed the establishment of the 15,000,- 900-member labor body in his to the 17th and final con- ‘stitutional convention of the CIO at the Manhattan Centre. Mr. Reuther's report reviewed the work of the CIO during the past year and stressed the importance of the merger which will result from the approval by the CIO and AFL conventions of amal- gamation into a single central labor body. The Tools 'The “tremendous opportunities” that the merger presented to the labor movement ‘do not provide in themselyes guarantees of fu- ture success”, said Reuther. Unity merely gave “the tools we need to organize the unorganized, ‘to help our affiliated unions, to be more effective in gaining the passage of progressive legisla- tion, in more successfully carry- ing on our citizenship responsi- Dilities in the realm of political action”. He stated that these oppor- tunities would only he translated into success so long as labor realized that unity was not the ul- timate goal. “Unity of labor will be what we make of unity. If we make of unity only the con- venience and comfort of the sta- tus quo, unity will do little to advance the cause of.labor .. . But if we meet the challenges, if our new organization is based on the dynamics of growth, we will be able to make real and tangible progress”. » Poverty Abolished Reuther predicted that labor unity would make for greater effectiveness in organizing the unorganized; it would increase labor's effectiveness in Congress and the State Legislatures; it would help bring about “a rising standard of living and an econ- omy of abundance in which pov- erty and hardship can be abol- ished”; it would help strengthen civil liberties and civil rights; and make the fight against cor- cuption, intolerance, discrimina- tion and totalitarianism more ef- fective than in the past. In a review of CIO activities during the past year, the Presi- dent noted that affiliated unions have “continued their great con~ tributions to our national econ- omic progress”. He singled out the winning of the guaranteed annual wage by the United Auto Workers—of which he is also President—and the gains of the United Steelworkers as “the most dramatic manifestation of this advance”. Some corporation man- agements had, however, “pre- ferred economic jungle fighting” yather than working with unions, Reuther charged. Leadership Absence While economic activity had shown an upturn in the U.S. dur- ing the past year, the benefits of this upturn had been distrib- uted “inequitably”, he said. Leg- islative progress during the year had been “a mingled combination of atcomplishments and disap- pointments” because of the ab- sence of real leadership from the White House and “obstacles created by Administration forces”. Finally, the CIO President called on the United States to “dramatically and effectively give tremendous help to the under- developed nations”. In its speech and its deeds, he said, America must give “leadership and hope to the hundreds of millions of people who yearn for a better life.” CLC Outlines New Services OTTAWA (CPA) — An expansion of the services provided at present to members of the Trades and Labor Congress and the Canadian Congress of Labor is contem- plated when the two organizations merge to form the 1,000,000-member Canadian Labor Congress next April. ‘The proposed appointments of departmental heads, already re- liably reported to have been de- cided upon by the TLC-CCL Unity Committee, includes the naming of two TLC officials to head new departments. Leslie E. Wismer Leslie E. Wismer, at present TLC Public Relations and Re- search Director and a former CCF member of the Ontario Leg- islature, will head a new depart- news copy December 16th, Publication date of the next issue of the B.C. LUMBER WORKER is December 22nd. 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Max Swerdlow Max Swerdlow, TLC Director of Organization and Education, will head the new Education De- partment of the CLC. Jack Williams A Department of International Affairs in the new Congress will probably be under the direction of the CCL International Affairs Director who is expected to be appointed shortly. At present the CCL International Affairs Department is under the jurisdic tion of Jack Williams who took on the duties temporarily follow- ing the resignation of Marty Levinson, former Director, earlier this year. Norman Dowd The Executive Secretaries of the two Congresses, Norman S. Dowd of the CCL and Arthur E. Hemming of the TLC, will as- sume similar posts in the Cana- dian Labor Congress. Mr. Dowd will also edit the new CLC offi- cial monthly magazine which is to be called “Canadian Labor”. Claude Jodoin Claude Jodoin, President of the TLC, will be first President of the Canadian Labor Congress and the posts of Executive Vice-presi- dent and Secretary-Treasurer of the CLC will be held initially by TLC Secretary-Treasurer Gordon Cushing and CCL Seeretary- Treasurer Donald MacDonald re- spectively. SIGN UP THAT ¢f89) NON-MEMBER! * Leather Workers Return To ClO BOSTON (CPA) —The last international union chartered by the Congress of Industrial Organizations during its 20 years of separate existence was welcomed in the CIO’ recently. The union is the Leather Work- ers International Union (CIO) which grew from the Leather Workers Organizing Commit- tee formed ten months ago. A breakaway of leather work- ers from the communist-domin- ated Fur and Leather Workers Union, which was expelled by the CIO, Jed to the establishment of LWOC. The new Leather union now has 10,000 members in New England, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. 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