CLC LAUNCHES PROGRAM

Vol. XXIII, No. 9

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PRINCIPLES

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‘oals for the United

Gansaee ane movement. was eee by delegates to

Delegates Form

Largest

TORONTO (CPA)—The

Force

largest single labor ly in

Canada’s history came into being at the Gouiseuna of the
Canadian National Exhibition here as 1619 delegates from
coast-to-coast approved a constitution for the Canadian
Labor Congress.

ie CLC founding convention,
sae prousht posse te pay 000
organized work na-
eval Conen

and steadily to end the major aie
vision of ue oe nadia ian labor
movement and tak ie most im-
portant pe fovanin the ae of
“one united house of labor”
Approvai of af CLU constitu-

ana Labor ey
he 16-year- old rostened
Congres of Labor. With the gra-
ual blurring of the sharp divi-
m between organizations on a
aay or industrial basis, which

LES J. GEDDE!

CHAR)
Past President, Trades ae
Congress of Great Britain.

fundamental controversies

fin @racelhey (ee movement, a
aps barrier to any merger was
removed.

‘he many common objectives of
ie various sections of organized

“FORCE” Page 3

IWA WINS
x0 AWARD

made
this week by Mr. Ned Dear-

won the 1955 Public Interest
AY

e founding convention of the 1,018,000-member Cana-
or Co: here. Labor’s aims were proposed in~

rm of princi

The program lays down as labor’s aims fos a better life

for all Canadians:
1, Full pee at the high-

wnethoe “Saar by Govern-

ment: , and
tive year the award has been || providing for union security and
a us red upon this publica- |] fre check-off,
Prtiperctheradacd vere || ona of child
Geese A. Brandenburg, Chi- || 5. Equal p: vee ‘or sas ine for
Editor of Editor and r men.

Publishers Robert R. Burton,
ident, Needham,
‘orby Inc.; Hugh
Curtis, Dalton, Better Hom
& Gardens; Norman D. Danien
vice - president, ee
Founda OH Fred

6A qatioaal minimum wage of
1.00. an hour.
7. A national Forty Hour Week

8. ational Fair Wages Act
prov viding for union wages and

Gee orga-
nization ’s ery ices, National
io1

Sutton, professor
of “journalism Northwestern
University.

JODOIN

HEADS

NEW CONGRESS

(CPA) —
bined ie ti the trade union
Ae
mem

smen,

48 years ago Sdeed | i
help and support to

In’ addition to the unanimous
choice of the 43-year-old Interna-
See Page 2

Two labor veterans whose com-

TOP LEVEL CONFERENCE, a
plans, (Back row, from left)

don Ladd. (Front row, from left) Claude Jodoin, George Meany,

and services and on all Sore
fusnt contracts, direct and it

10. Prohibition ot injunctions in
labor disp

11. A etarscated national so-
cial “security system,

with |

PRESIDENT GEO. MEANY
AFL-CIO.

. Maintenance of the Can: nadian

Labor on all
a

abor

presentation on the Board of

unem-
ployment insurance, pene Aine
ances, , old age Bensions at 65 for

women without

ows’ alloy

12.

17. Full support for Deo:
and consumers’ co-oper:

Sane oe < industrial pensions, | 27d credit unions.
ealth insurance with sickness 16. Taxation based on ability to
cash leaictas, praia and wid- ay; higher taxes on big in-
comes, higher exemptions for
8 aie a

boli.

A
assistance system to
d by 1 i

tion of the-sales tax.

ce, 19.
18. Public ownership of public

utilities.
14. par dereee of banking

rt of co-operative,
limited dividend and subsi-

ized low-rental housing; low
interest rates and long amortiza-

redit.

Se thon

See “PROGRAM” Page 3

it CLC convention, Toronto, included oa of the IWA officials and the leading figures in the merger
“stu Hodgson, Lloyd Whalen, Joe Mor!

rhe Hartung, Donald MacDonald, Charles Geddes, H. Lan-

Green GoldCJOR

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