LN FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1959 a Premier W. A. C. Bennett of British Columbia (left) and Premier Joseph Smallwood of Newfoundland (right) “seem to be competing with one another to see who can be the worst premier in Canada” said Canadian Labor Congress president Claude Jodoin this week. He denounced Small- wood’s action in decertifying the IWA in Newfoundland and condemned the “reactionary legislation” introduced by the Bennett government. Newfoundland loggers still on picket lines Newfoundland loggers are still manning picket lines and the IWA strike can still be won if the entire Canadian labor movement throws its moral and financial support behind the strikers, Stu Hodgson, secretary of IWA Local 1-217 told Vancouver Labor Council this week. “Despite company and gov- ernment claims, the strike is not lost,” said Hodgson. The company has imported strike- breakers but the loggers are still picketing. The log haul is over, but the river drive is yet to come. Who is going to drive the logs—Joey Small- wood and the company offi- cials?”’ By a unanimous standing vote VLC delegates reiterated their support for the strikers. A committee of VLC, BCFL and CLC representatives has been set up and some 15 speak- ers are visiting locals to keep unionists here informed on strike developments. Referring to the death of a constable during a melee when RCMP attacked peaceful pick- / ets, Hodgson said the IWA in- / tends to give full backing to one of the strikers charged with murder. “We're not going to stand by and see that man hanged,’ he said. “We will take the case to the Supreme Court if neces- sary.” P The murder trial is being conducted in camera. “Only the accused man and his lawyer are allowed in the courtroom,” said Hodgson. “I suppose they are afraid the mainland newspapermen would report the proceedings. That’s why the mainland news- papermen were kicked out in the first place—they told the truth about the RCMP attack on the IWA strikers. “Clubs beating a tattoo on your head in 1959 hurt just as much as they did back in the Thirties. In the course of the fighting one of the constables stuck his head where it should not have been in the first place. We regret his death but the attacked | loggers were not to blame for this accident.” The strike started as a local - one, soon became a provincial matter and is now a national ‘issue, said Hodgson. ‘on MUNA ARK Ao ial LPP RESOLUTION Unity needed i fight for peace TORONTO-—A strong call to build the Labor-Progressive Party in the strug peace, independence and socialism is sounded in the political resolution prepared convention discussion by the party’s national committee, end. In two days of lively debate members of the committee worked out the Com! estimation of the present political situation in C anada, and the course of coming struggles will be discussed and develop- ed in party clubs across the country, and in public meet- ing between now and Thanks- giving weekend when the Seventh National Convention will be héld. The resolution declares that for the Canadian people, no less than for ‘those of the great powers, the question presents itself, “Which way?” — Con- tinue along the path to war, to its eventual end in mass nuclear extermination and ir- reparable devastation, or change while there is yet time to inaugurate policies of peace and new high levels of econ- omic development and peo- ple’s welfare. It says that peace, indepen- dence and socialism are the ultimate basic solutions for the Canadian problems. “Events are showing that the path by which we can achieve these are the Com- munist policies which our party’s membership has brave- ly fought for. This is the only path forward for Canada.” Examining the economic sit- uation in Canada, the resolu- tion states that the recent limited upturn in the Can- adian economy has no broad basis. Increased production and productivity is bringing no corresponding increase in em- ployment, At the same time, the reso- lution warns that through their control of the state and with the active assistance of the Diefenbaker government and the Tory, Liberal and Social Credit parties, the monopolists have stepped up their attacks on the workers’ living stand- ards and democratic rights. Of the Ottawa government, the resolution says it was el- ected because of its promise to change the policies by which the St. Laurent. government increasingly tied Canada to U.S. imperialist policy but it has failed to live up to the expectations of the millions of democratic Canadians who voted Tory. Turning to the international situation, the resolution em- phasizes the great historic ad- vance achieved. in socialist society since the LPP sixth national convention met in the _ spring of 1957, and draws the striking contrast between this advance and mass unemploy- ment and economic crisis in Canada. The resolution holds out the prospect that the completion of the seven-year plan in the Soviet Union and further con- solidation, strengthening, and advance of the world socialist system and the consequent de- cisive shift in world relation- ships will create the real pos- sibility of permanently ex- cluding world war but at the same time warns of the grave danger of war now as a result of the desperation of imperial- ist circles. The committee devoted close attention to the fight for peace and the resolution calls for ac- tion by the party to win unity of the Canadian people in the struggle for policies based on peaceful co-existence and the breaking away of Canada from the U.S. war camp. Calling attention to the deep crisis in Canadian for- eign policy, the resolution puts forward the views that the foreign policy needed by Canada is one of neutrality, which would mean the with- drawal of Canada from NATO and NORAD, the removal of U.S. military bases from Can- ada, linked with the develop- ment of an active policy of peaceful co-existence. The resolution re-states the position of the party with res- pect to the fight for working-’ ‘class and*democratic unity, on the economic front as well as in the political area. It declares that a broad all- inclusive people’s political movement based firmly on the trade unions would be a vital factor in uniting the labor movement and all democratic forces to lead Canada by poli- cies of peaceful co-existence along the path of peace, trade and industrial expansion. It warns of the calculated and systematic efforts being made to prevent’the imple- mentation of the essential con- ent of the Winnipeg resolution which met here over the holiday - port of the CCF, perhaps ‘the defeat of revisionist fi » public work. May 22, 1959 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PA of the CLC and to restrict # union political action to a different name. In a section dealing the work of the party, resolution draws attenti which sought to liquidate party. As a result the has been consolidated, 3 must now be built in course of greatly 6% NEW OWNER, — HUB LTD. Vancouver’s oldest mens | clothing store, THE LTD. of 45 East Hastings has a new owner-managel in Morris Saltzman. Saltzman took over # year; he had been with | old firm previously for nearly twenty years has made a wide circle friends among Hub mers. a THE HUB LTD. has beet connected with men’s cloth ing and furnishings — over 75 years. 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