Kuzych, jobless, built
expensive home, Stewart
tells union conference

“Myron Kuzych hasn’t worked since 1945, yet he managed to build a $10,000 home, and
for a time maintain a downtown office and conduct weekly anti-union radio broadcasts,”
charged Bill Stewart, secretary-treasurer of the Marine Workers and Boilermakers Union,
in his outline of “the Kuzych case” to 50 AFI, and CCL representatives in Pender. Auditor-

ium last week.

, The conference, called to discuss
defense of trade union rights, de-
cided to raise “the Kuzych case”
on the floor of every union. local.
Realizing that union security is
at stake, the Marine Workers Un-
ion is taking a majority decision
of the B.C. Appeal Court to the
Privy Council, seeking a reversal
of the order which prevents unions
expelling any member who pays
dues, even if such individuals de-
clare their vowed objective is the
destruction of the union.

“We are appealing to all trade
unions to assist us both morally
and financially to guarantee that
sufficient finances are available to
carry the appeal to Privy Council,”
said Stewart. : if

The jobless Kuzych has never
lacked money to continue his anti-
union campaign. “My friends lend
it to me,” he once boasted. He also
declares his determination not to
accept a job unless he is reinstated
in the Boilermakers Union and re-
ceives damages assessed against
that union. (“Looks like he’s re-
tired for life,’ commented one un-
ion member.) 2

“It is significant to note that
prior to the second Kuzych trial,
the Canadian Manufacturers’ As-
sociation circularized their af-
*filiates urging them under mo cir-
cumstances to grant. any form of

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semblance of union security to
have it elimiated,’ pointed out
Stewart.

Kuzych won the case, was or-
dered reinstated. Union officials
Bill White and Bill Stewart refused
to issue the union-buster a card,
put the question before the union
membership, which turned thumbs
down on Kuzych by a vote of 979 to

This rejection by the membership
demonstrated clearly how honest
trade unionists regard men of Kuz-
ych’s stamp.

He had tried once before to
impose himself on the labor move-
ment, running for the position

‘of president of the Boilermakers,

at a time when he still was a
union member. .Out of 10,000 el-
igible votes, Kuzych received 14.
’ The recent majority decision of
the five judges in, the main ap-
peal before the Appeal Court of
British Columbia ordered ‘Kuzych
reinstated, and Mr. Justice Whit-
taker said:

“A man has a right to work at
his trade. If membership in a un-
ion is a condition attached to work-
ing at his trade, then he has an
indefeasible right to belong to that
union, It must be so, or else the
union can have no right to agitate
for a closed shop. For a union to
set itself up as the sole arbiter of
who shall join the union and re-

main a member, and at the same

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time decree that no one shall be
employed who does not belong to
the union, is an attempt to exer-
cise totalitarian powers which: no
constitutional democratic country
claims to have, or has the right
to, confer upon any union.”

This is now law in British Co-
lumbia, and may well be followed
in every Canadian court. It means
that unions can be forced to ac-
cept into membership. scabs and
boss-paid uniom-busters of every
stripe. Unions will be powerless
to expel them save on grounds of .
non-payment of dues.

Marine Workers and Boilermak-
ers Industrial Union is challenging’
this anti-union judgment by appeal-
ing to the Privy Council. Because
the court ruling threatens all un-
ions, it is the job of all unions to
assist in raising money for the
appeal.

B.C. Federation of Labor (CCL)
already has a committee set up.
Official delegates to the conference
from Trades and Labor Council
(AFL) will raise the question. of
a council committee at the next
TLC meeting. The “Kuzych case”
will be aired in all CCL and AFL
locals, and the facts made known
throughout the labor movement.

As Bill Stewart put it: “The
issue is not Kuzych versus the
Boilermakers; the issue is Kuz-
ych versus union security.”

SASKATOON CONFERENCE

‘End cold warand save
jour markets’ LPP call |

SASKATOON

A prairie farmers’ conference to “‘end the cold war and save our
markets” has been called by the Labor-Progressive Party and will be.
held at Saskatoon on July 10-11. Leslie Mornis, editor of the Canadian:
Tribune, will be the guest speaker at the parley.

-Key points on the agenda are:
the farmers and the fight for peace;
the economic struggles of the far-
mers; building the Labor-Progres-
sive party in the farm districts.

Under the heading, “Unite for $2
wheat; stop soaring costs”, the con-
ference call, distributed widely this
week throughout Manitoba, Saskat-
chewan and Alberta, says?

“The dark clouds of economic

storm are gathering thickly over
prairie skies this summer. The cold
war of Truman and St. Laurent,
plus our dependence on the Yankee
dollar, are ruining our markets.
Negotiations with Britain are break-
ing down. Costs of production are
still zooming upward, but the price
of wheat has been cut 35 cents a
bushel, and the prices of other farm
products also continue to fall. The
squeeze of high costs and falling
prices is on with a vengeance, and
it’s getting worse.

“The Labor-Progressive party has
for the past four years consistently
warned of the coming crisis. _We
said that the farmers would lose
heavily under the British-Canadian
Wheat Agreement, They have. We
said that the International Wheat
Agreement is an instrument of the
cold war designed to tighten the
Yankee grip on the world wheat
market. We are being proven cor-
rect, We said that the price of

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For Further Information :
= Write To: The Labor- Progressive Party,
: Room 503, Ford Building, Vancouver

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: ““We must pass over to the offensive in the fight for peace.
Peace can be won if we face reality-and fight.

“The peace camp in the world is growing, with a third of
by governments headed by Com-

the earth’s population led
munists..

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“We, the people of North America, must join with all the

peace-loving people to demand unconditional prohibition of

the atomic weapon as an instrument of mass extermination

- of people; and to regard as a war criminal that government
which first uses the atomic weapon against any country.

‘

“Your contribution ‘will make this fight possible. and
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help to build our Party.”

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wheat would go down, and it is:
going down.

“We fought for strong farm un-
ions in the three prairie provinces,
against those who tried to belittle:
and undermine the farmers’ econo-
mic organizations. The rapid growth
of the farm unions today proves
that we were right in our conten-
tion that the day was fast coming
when they would be needed as never
before-in the history of the west.

“A great united battle for justice
for the West is shaping up. The
LPP will be in the thick of that
battle, fighting for the fullest unity
of the farmers and the fullest unity
with the workers in’ the cities.

“To get ready for the critical
period ahead, the LPP is calling a.
conference in Saskatoon for July
10-11. We are sure that this con-
ference will help to clarify our un-
derstanding of the close relation-
ships between the world-wide strug-
gle of the people for peace, and our:
own fast deepening crisis. It will
help to unify the progressive far-
mers in the common battle against
the great monopolies — the railway,
machinery, fertilizer, packing and

‘milling trusts, whose greed knows:

no limits. It will help to strengthen:
the work of all progressive farmers
in the unions and the cooperatives.”

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