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Royal Columbian

Sisters Norma Eddie and Gertie
Swan of the LA Local 1-357, TWA,
visited the following patients in
the Royal Columbian Hospital Nov-
ember 12 to 17, distributing candy,
cigarettes and’ copies of the B.C.
Lumber Worker,

P. Parson, Flanagan Mill — Heart

‘condition,

Paul Suveges, Alaska Pine —

Operation.

J. Kirby, MacMillan & Bloedel —

Fine,

©, Folka, Fraser Mills — Knee
operation.

J. Netzlaw, Pacific Veneer—Heart
condition,

Basant Singh, Pacific Pine—Fine.

Nels Hansen, Canadian White Pine

Quinsey

J. Cadden, Canadian Forest Pro-
ducts —’ Hand operation.

R. -Bolchenhauft, MacMillan &
Bloedel — Opération.

Wayne Folkestad, Pacific Veneer—
Operation.

Sam Andrews, Alaska Pine —
Broken arm.

Andy Fleury, Pacific Shake &
Shingle — ‘Fine.

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Rank & File Move
Disturbs T.U.C.

By KENNETH C. RATHBONE

LONDON (CPA) — Six hundred trade unionists who
attended an unofficial conference in London adopted a
“charter of workers’ demands,” but refused, on the advice
of the conference organizers, to form a rival or trades
union congress or a new political party. They intend to
work through the existing Labor Party and trade union

List D

R. Boileau, Fraser Mills — Arm
‘ailment.
J. Irwin, Shooks Planer Depart-

Operation.

Royal Columbian

Sisters Norma Eddie and Gertie
Swan of the LA Local 1-357, IWA,
visited the following patients in
the Royal Columbian Hospital Nov-
ember 17 to 25, distributing candy,
cigarettes and copies of the B.C.
Lumber Worker,

P. Parson, Flannagan — Heart
condition.

P. Suyeges, Alaska Pine—Operation

S. Andrews, Fraser Bay Logging
Camp — Broken arm.

W. Brown, Alaska Pine — Heart
condition.

©. Folka, Fraser Mills — Knee
operation.

J. Netzlaw, Pacific Veneer—Heart
condition.

S. J, Bowlgeous, Pacific Veneer —

Heart condition.

Cadden, Canadian Forest Pro-

ducts — Hand operation.

N, Bastien, MacMillan & Bloedel—

J.

Surgery.

Special Programs
Discuss Crisis

A special series of three Radio and Television programmes
on the subject of unemployment, which should be of particular
interest to labour, will be presented over the CBC networks
under the auspices of the Citizens’ Forum.

Following is the list of

the programme topics and times

of presentation: “Why Do We Have Unemployment?”, Radio
time December 4, Television time December 7. “How Can We
Relieve the Pain?”, Radio time December 11, Television time
December 14. “Is There a Lasting Solution?”, Radio time, De-
cember 18, Television time December 21,

From Page 10

“Report”

second United Nations Conference
on the Law of the Sea.
Law of the Sea

Earlier this year, a conference
was held in Geneva, but no deter-
mination was made at that con-
ference. After listening to the
speeches of many of the member
nations, it appears quite evident
that there was not sufficient time
at the Geneva conference to ade-
quately deal with the extension
of the territorial waters of Na-
tions.

It was mentioned, in a regret-
table tone, by such countries as
Indonesia, Afghanistan, the Phil-
ippines and the United States. It
did appear as if there was a
general desire to have another
conference as soon as possible,
probably during July or August
of 1959.

The extension of the territorial
waters of Canada to the suggest-
ed twelve miles would be most
beneficial, not only to the B.C.
Coast but also to the Atlantic
Coast. Mr. Herman Batten, M.P.

from Newfoundland is here also
and he and I have exchanged
many notes and ideas about the
importance of such a move to
both the East and the West
Coasts.

Iceland Episode
Probably the unilateral action
of Iceland earlier this year in ex-
tending her territorial waters to
twelve miles promoted much of
the desire to reach an early con-
clusion on the matter.

There are a number of Nations
which already have more than a
three mile limit. For instance,
Albania has had a ten mile limit
since 1952, Bulgaria has had a
twelve mile limit since 1951,
Ecuador 36 miles since 1950, In-
donesia, 12 miles since 1957 and
so on with fifteen other Nations.

If and when this second con-
ference is held, we can only hope
that it will arrive at a mutually
acceptable solution which will be
of assistance, not only to Canada,
but to other Nations.

“No Reason For
Wy
Smugness

WINNIPEG (CPA)—Canada,
which does not use torture or
permit slavery as do some
countries, has no reason for
smugness, Dr. H. L. Keenley-
side, director-general of the UN
Technical Assistance Adminis-
tration, told a regional Human
Rights conference here.

Dr. Keenleyside will be chair-
man of the National Conference
on Human Rights, to be held in
Ottawa December 8-10 to com-
memorate the tenth anniversary
of the signing of the UN Univer-
sal Declaration of Human Rights.

Religious, racial and social dis-
crimination do exist in Canada,
the speaker said, noting that
Canada’s treatment of Japanese-

- Canadians during the second
world war was worse than the
‘USA’s treatment of Japanese-

Americans.

Blackballing Applicant

“I am afraid that there are too
many Canadians like the man who
has his conscience under such
control that he sees nothing in-
congruous in going to a Christian
church on a Sunday, listening
with approval to a sermon on
human brotherhood, and on Mon-
day, blackballing an applicant for
membership in his club because
the applicant is of the same racial
origin as our Lord himself,” he
said.

Keenleyside noted the case of
the U.S. secretary of the Trea-
sury denied admittance at a Can-
adian club because he was Jewish,
and the refusal of a Montreal
hotel to accommodate Nobel
Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche,

a Negro.

organization and rank and
mittees”.

Several trade union leaders
have warned their members
against this movement and threa-
tened the expulsion of those who
associate with it. It may cause
some trouble in industry and in
the labor movement.

Rank and File Conference

The conference, described as a
National Industrial Rank and File
Conference, was organized by the
editorial board of a weekly paper
called the Newsletter (circulation
27,000). Chairman of the confer-
ence was the editor of the News-
letter—Mr. Peter Fryer, who left
the Communist Party and the
Daily Worker staff when he dis-
agreed with Soviet action in the
1956 Hungarian revolt.

The workers’ charter adopted
includes demands for work shar-
ing without loss of pay to avoid
unemployment, solidarity action
with all sections resisting dismis-
sals, a national protest campaign
led by the T.U.C. and the Labor
Party, a one-day national strike
against unemployment, no dis-
crimination against colored work-
ers, protection of shop stewards,
a campaign for a 40-hour week,
nationalization of engineering,
shipbuilding, textile industries
and of the land of the big owners
without compensation.

Middle Class Fabians

It is claimed that the Labor
Party lacks a militant socialist
policy and the charter alleges
that this is because the party is
controlled by middle class Fabians
and trade union officials.

The charter states that trade
union officials should all be sub-
ject to periodic election, that their
salaries and wages should be fixed
by the average wages of their
members, and that they should
travel in “cheap economical vans,
carrying loud-speaker equipment
for factory gate and other meet-
ings, with the name of the union
prominently displayed”. It adds—
“The pioneers who built our
movement did so without the help
of Consul cars, knighthoods, or
fat salaries.”

Disgruntled Leftwingers

Those leading this movement
appear to be a varied collection
of Marxists, Trotskyites, ex-
Communists, and other disgrun-
tled Leftwingers. An official Trot-
skyite party, known as the Re-
volutionary Communist Party and
believed to be about 500 strong,
existed in Britain until 1949. It
then disbanded and recommended
members join the Labor Party in-
dividually.

Considerable secrecy surround-
ed the conference. The press were
not admitted. A delegate who had
a camera with him had to sur-
render it to the stewards before
he was admitted. According to the
Manchester Guardian report there
was a reasonable majority of
manual workers, but there were
also “duffel coats galore, and
faces behind beards that would
not have shamed St. Petersburg
in 1905. There were young women
wearing their Left-wing views
and yellow trousers with equal
earnestness.”

Secret Information

The News Chronicle, which
claims to have come into posses-
sion of secret information and
documents, alleges the main pow-
er behind this movement is a
secret organization known as The
Club. Its members operate under
secret code names such as “Mann”
and “Burns”, etc, Meetings are
always secret and members in-

file “solidarity action com-

structed to go to the meeting
place not more than two or three
at a time so that they will not
attract attention.

All members of The Club must
be active and if they cease to be
so they are expelled. It is said to
have branches meeting weekly in
London, Birmingham, Leeds,
Sheffield, Manchester and Liver-
pool, and is also said to have been
the guiding hand behind recent
unofficial strikes at the London
docks and on the South Bank,
London, building site. According
to the News Chronicle the leader
of The Club is Mr. Gerry Healy.
He was prominent at the recent
rank and file conference, and is a
Labor Party ward chairman in
Streatham, London.

The news Chronicle also re-
ports that within the next few
weeks Mr. Healy intends to go to
Canada and Mexico on a fund-
raising mission, and that he will
meet leaders of similar revolu-
tionary groups in Canada and

Mexico.

Radio
Unions
Merge

OTTAWA (CPA) — Merger
talks between the National As-
sociation of Broadcast Employ-
ees and Technicians and the
Association of Radio and Tele-
vision Employees of Canada
have resulted in a memorandum
of agreement to be submitted
to ARTEC members for a re-
ferendum decision.

ARTEC has been affiliated to
NABET for some time. NABET
is a Canadian Labor Congress
affiliate.

Talks chaired by Congress pre-
sident Claude Jodoin are aimed
at merging the two broadcast
unions into the biggest in that
field in Canada. NABET now has
1,700 Canadian members and
ARTEC has about two thousand.

CBC Employed

About 3,400 of the 3,700 work-
ers belonging to both unions are
employed by the Canadian Broad-
casting Corporation.

NABET is now in the concilia-
tion stage of negotiations with
the CBC. The employees are ask-
ing for wage increases averaging
about 20 per cent.

The tentative merger agree-
ment calls for an elective Cana-
dian director for NABET, as well
as other structural adjustments.

Statistics

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Serious Situation

The number of people in the labour force in British Colum-
bia on September 20, 1958 was estimated at 553,000. Thus there
were 7,000 more people in the labour force in September, 1958
than in September, 1957; however this was about 11,000 people
less than in August. The decline was mostly due to seasonal in-
fluences, such as students leaving for school and housewives
leaving agricultural jobs at the end of the summer season and

not seeking new jobs.

The number of workers having jobs on September 20, 1958
also dropped by 11,000 from the 533,000 estimated on August 23.
In comparison with the September, 1957 figure, there were about
9,000 less people with jobs in British Columbia this year than
last, when 531,000 workers were employed. The number of un-
employed and seeking jobs in September was 31,000, unchanged
from one month ago, and more than twice the September, 1957
number of 15,000 unemployed. It seems that the unemployment
figure has reached its lowest point for this year now and the
number of people looking for jobs may be expected to increase
from now on through the end of winter.

—Bureau of Economics and Statistics

U.K. Unions Prepare

British unions paid out £2,971,000 ($8,318,800) in strike pay
last year—the largest amount since the General Strike of 1926—
according to the report of the Chief Registrar of Friendly

Societies.

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