. B.C. LUMBER WORKER

ED. HAW REPORTS ON BANFF F SEMINAR

“Starving Millions Need Our Help”

By E. W. HAW
Financial Secretary, Local 1-118, IWA;

A ea to IC)

FTU Seminar, Banff.

movement its problems and its ans ctive

delegate Ney ae Coin
No. 1, LW.A. It was a

are doing their utmost to build
democratic trade | under
very trying ‘i

The North American scene

ourabl
was fairly well known to your te
_ delegate

1
States, wh
0

of the people who live in age
porte. By North America, I
mean faunal and aie United

these Calan differ from coun-
id ae polation
dif-

0
Pemnet iol reoctackics?’ one
mical and political reason:

through the solldantty ca Rs free
labor movement, ite a2 i aL
Hon, 700 million

ius predicted! sae tHe sh
enkes that hie will double
the year 2

onetian oS
United

aay in Asia, where a hun-

ha: mn pie or

surplus ‘food, It is costing
are million people are living on millon dollars per day to as
ill c he U.S.
bor nt 2 billion, 300 million
great that we find a dollar © to restrict food

aisieae ig patieve that such c produc Ruch but ven if all of thi:
aan food was shipped to the starving

ditions

mill

_ Many of these countries pro-

the
ment is well established en

e
and also by the majority is ah
ion, to

ie people they
represent.

at stic-
-| ally pees compared to what

rs | are

oe as tea, coffee, cotton and
sugar which ‘have to be sold on
the pod markets

in the
cout lie which these aes
ted,

lucation Vital
Educational opportunities are

ee ime so Ne solution to the
archi seems to be:

my
&
8
&

2 Better Stan of food
supplies; Gee

eet Differ
r, I ele that after

pe. The Mee in

number of eumatizations,
LCGFE.T.U. The

improve 6 educa-
tonal ‘standards of the “people

ing through the United Nations
organization, sag its agencies.
There has been a great deal of

lie chi

ee ia of population in-

catia

rong trade union move-
Beit in oie en any of these coun-
tri ries can | ly be hace

through education. Tt
is established that the birth rate
pf most e underdeveloped
ountries: eas be = ene
edaeationl Ms and mde

We Anteay assistance by ex-
perienced trade unionists ou ‘om

the york ‘of the Fade unionists

e areas more fruitful.
Seminar
mate: ot be that ap feeding the

Ais the same
time, che iehae a will also im-
prove,

4 New ey a food pr ‘oduc-
tion. Ther

starving millions of the world! creased.

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method

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the standard of living of the
people.

ICFTU Co-operates

At. t present time, the
CF working with the
. (International Labour Or-

i in the field, a

hu
the mediately & ston to co-
ate in the

At the same ume, some of the
more advanced countries are pre-

Canadian eine seven

Millard’s Proposals

The highlight of the Seminar
was the address by Bro. Charles
Millard, formerly an officer of
the C.L.C. who left the Cana-
dian labor movement to act a
Direct of Organization of the
LC.E.T.U. Bro. Milatd stressed

the following 5 poi

- Unionism is
moi Tike | cal, when Palin

imported and orted without
loss in qealityat Talon t be
indigenous. me ‘bot oe

ent mu the

out
workers, function. th cea the

efforts of t salir cal others and
it must operate for the local

workers, if he Tabor ov

ent is de i

cite cational =progra! It is a
universal necessity.

ie labor movement mu:
hee aoe allan aud ‘esponale
Its su to large exten’
sources and ingenuity.
. The labor movement mu:
is independent and amc
only abor

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i

e to achieve the socials
pelea and cmonue objec-
s of organized labor.

Labor must recognize
Gass of interdep eran and

wealth and ean only be ach-
ares en ate development.

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