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€eting to reduce world tensions.”

gn policy declaration was adopted by delegates attending the 13th annual
the 370,000-member Canadian Congress of Labor, held in Montreal, September 14-18.

of its red-baiting preamble, the resolution reflected the growing rank-and-file pressure for

ace and trade. An original reso-.

|\cluding China in the UN. We

By MARK FRANK

in settling the cold war and “

CCL convention urges
Canada take lead
In settling cold war

MONTREAL

support the British proposal for a Big

thinking of the official CCL
leadership and many local un-
ions.

Other positive features of the
CCL foreign policy stand included
a demand for “genuine disarma-
ment covering all weapons” and
conclusion of a peace treaty with
Austria and also with Germany “as
soon as an all-German government
has been freely elected.” Admis-
sion of People’s China into the
UN was made conditional on “‘suc-
cessful conclusion” of the Korean
Peace Conference.

Joe Kenney, representing the
‘United Auto Workers’ Ford Local
200, spoke in support of his local’s
resolution for unconditional im-
mediate admission of People’s
China into the UN. ‘I am for in-

want a peaceful world. We don’t
want war between the US. and
China. We and our brothers in
China want peaceful trade.”

The convention adopted a set
of resolutions calling for con-
struction of the St. Lawrence
Seaway ‘“‘serving Canada’s na”
tional interest first,’ and for
construction of the Trans-Can-
ada oil and gas pipelines.

Other highlights of the
convention were:

CCL

@ Passage of an emergency Teso-

lution on the layoff crisis in
textiles calling for an immediate
three-way meeting of government,
labor and management.

@ A wage.drive resolution call-
ing on all affiliates “‘to give
consideration to the desirability
of a general wage increase.” |

@ Setting up of the incoming
CCL executive committee as a
strike committee on  behalf® of
Noranda-Timmins miners. Pledges
of support from unions came
from the floor during debate. At
the close of the convention C. H.
Millard, Steel director, declared
he would acknowledge receipt of
financial support from Mine-Mill
and those of ‘like mind.” ' Deci-
sion as to whether to use the
money or not would depend ‘‘on
circumstances,” he told delegates.

® Objectionable features of the
proposed Bill 93 amendments
to the Criminal Code covering the
right to picket, freedom of speech,
opinion and expression, were the

and Nanaimo, Oc-

target of a resolution unanimous-
ly adopted by the convention. The

» aS announced by
Sovernment, will
Y everyone who
es ee getting a

at election time,”
Lawrie, Provincial leader
h tonal Federation of
By ql the Pacific Tri-

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fog,’ leome d
Thar.

at youth
dealing

Was the demand
NFLY during the

provincial election campaign.

‘only to rally young people to press
for.it at Victoria but also to popu-
larize it with older people,” said
Lawrie.
shows that the idea caught on.

“We raised that demand not

| of the CCL, was one of the warm-

Quebec and Ontario, where the

parade.

CCL was urged to take every step
to see that these amendments do
not become law.
@ A move to change procedure

by holding conventions every
two years ‘was soundly defeated.
@ Endorsation of an amendment

to a resolution on the housing
crisis which urged that a joint
presentation of TLC, CCL and
Catholic Syndicates be made to
the ‘government urging assistance
to cooperative housing plans. An-
other resolution called: for govern-
ment support of low-cost, low-rent
housing. .
Symptomatic of the uneasiness
of workers in shops was the extend-
ed debate both on unemployment
insurance and reports of layoffs
in the farm implements industry.
Jim Marlow; a UAW Local 200
delegate, scored the Unemploy-
ment Insurance Act, saying “the
whole act needs changing.” He
spoke of the need to fight another
depression in advance. “It’s far
more important to be working than
drawing unemployment insurance,”
he said.

Tom Paton, of Toronto’s Massey-
Harris plant, told how ‘they had
been warned of another layoff just
as they left Toronto. Four months
ago, he said, the checkoff had been
4,500, now it was 3,000.

He spoke of a reported world
market for 80 million tractors—
and the same number of com-
bines, discs and harrows. “If we
can find a way to supply these
people with machine guns, tanks
and bullets, surely there is a way
to provide them machines.

Debate on the UAW Local 200
resolution urging an invitation be
sent Mine-Mill, Fur and Leather
and United Electrical Workers
asking they return to the ranks

est during the session.

UAW delegate G. Lambert of
St. Catharines took the floor to
congratulate the Ford local for
its resolution. He argued that

“United AFL and CIO support for striking miners of northern

this week, was dramatically portrayed in Toronto's Labor Day

opposition being voiced, more than

VETERE EEE REE EE RE ERE EERE

Banquet will mark
China anniversary

The fourth anniversary of the
People’s Republic of China will
be celebrated here at a concert-
meeting in the Fishermen’s Hall,
138 Cordova East,’ from 1-5 p.m.
this coming Sunday, September
20, and at a sumptuous banquet
at the Bamboo Terracé, 155 Pen-
der East, at 6 p.m. the same day.

The concert-meeting and ban-
quet have been organized by the
Chinese Workers Protective As-
socfation.

RU UEL RY RYIBT ESL),

big Mcintyre Mines was struck

choose the union of their own
choice. Mine-Mill had been ex.
pelled in 1948. ‘‘Yet in all those
years, despite thousands of dol-
lars poured down the drain in
raiding, the workers of Mine-
Mill showed that* Mine-Mill was
the union they wanted to belong
to.”

Roy Babcock of UAW Local 200,
which submitted the resolution,
was unable to get the mike. CCL
President A. R. Mosher, in the
chair, cut him off and accepted a
motion for a standing ‘vote on the
resolution, clearly designed to in-
timidate delegates. °

Some 40 delegates stood up bold-
ly supporting the invitation to the
expelled unions. Many others,
talked to later, spoke quite openly
of their support for the motion,
but admitted their fear of coming
out openly. The UAW delegation
itself was split on the vote.

Immediately following this vic-|
tory for the right-wing the resolu-
tion dealing with endorsation. of
the CCF as the “‘political arm” of
the CCL, was introduced. This
passed, but not without energetic

60 delegates voting against the
motion. ;

Babcock, whose union had of-

and

would never get the
the CCCL in anything involving

LPP ban .
rejected

by CCCL

QUEBEC CITY
“A resolution calling for the
banning of tthe Labor-Progressive
party was decisively rejected by
over 400 delegates attending ses-
sions of the 33rd annual conven-
tion of the Canadian and Catholic
Confederation of Labor here.

Action of the representatives of
106,000 Quebec organized workers
came on the heels of a public ap-
peal by Premier Maurice Duplessis
to the Canadian Bar Association
meeting earlier in the week, ask-
ing for extension of the Padlock
Law across Canada. - It was an un-
precedented departure from what
had become regular procedure at
CCCL conventions in the past to

call for outlawing of “commun-
ism.”

A series of historic strikes —
Louiseville, Dupuis Freres, Asbes-
tos—reviewed at the sessions, dis-
crimination against Catholic unions
by Duplessis’ labor board and the
certainty of further strike strug-
gles, created the background for a
series of strong resolutions which
to many observers here appeared
as a “girding up” fer future bat-
tles. :

This was to be seen in the de-
cision to up strike fund donations
from 10 to 25 cents a month from
each member — a.fund of $25,000
a month to increase the annual
strike fund from $100,000 to $300,-
000. -Strike relief was set at $10
a week for a single person and $20
for married persons.

Responding to the appeal of
the miners of Norknda and Tim-
mins, the convention declared
its full support for their strike.

Sécretary-general Jean March-
and lashed out at the Duplessis’
government’s labor relations board,
which had refused certification to
the workers at Aluminum Rolling
Mills at Cap-de-la-Madeleine on
the grounds that a Catholic priest,
the Rev. A. Picotte, had delivered
several sermons favoring the idea
of a‘ union.

In a challenge to ‘industrialists
legislators, the convention
adopted a resolution Saying they

cooperation of

“the exploitation of the workers.” ,
The CCCL resolution declared

that it would never deprive its
members of the

and on the contra
them “

or attempt to deprive them of.
their share of justice.”

right to strike,
€ ry, will support
against all who rob, exploit

fered a resolution urging support

of non-partisan political action,
was the first to speak: “We’re not
out to do a job on the CCF,” he
said, “We're out to do a job for
labor.”

Bill Stewart of the Vancouver

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spoke on the resolution covering
national health insurance, point-
ing out that'the millions of dollars
being spent on arms each day
drained resources and provided
the government with a continued
excuse for not bringing in a plan.

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