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By PHYLLIS CLARKE
DPLEGATEs at the last meet-
ing of the Toronto District
Labor Council were fairly
unanimous -in their support of
the Building Trades Council

| Ssainst the. Confederation of
ational Trade Unions, but not:

ithout some sharp debate.
The resolution pledged full
ra Ok to the Building Trades
east in its fight to defeat
fe CNTU, asked for support
fom the Ontario Federation of
abor and Canadian Labor Con-
gress, called on members of the
eeuent Floor Workers union
ho as within the Brother-
; Od of Carpenters and Joiners,
nd condemned the CNTU for

it “fostering labor disunity and

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AGS Y tor extending its ne

4s campaign to Toronto.”
ain discussion _ centred
eee the last point in the reso-
‘on and the formulation in the

: eae which described the

a8 a “Quebec-orientated

, *©Paratist organization” which

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disunity, y fostered labor

Toronto Labor Council —

opposes CNTU

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Among objections was one
from a delegate of Local 112,
United Auto Workers, on what
exactly was meant by “separa-
tist” organization. Another dele-
gate, David Fairey of the Moul-
ders Union, pointed out that
there was a need to look at the
labor movement as a whole.

Expressing his disagreement
with raiding, Fairey pointed to
the Steel Workers’ raid on his
own union in Quebec as equally
deplorable. He suggested that
the character of the CNTU was
now so changed that it is wrong
to refer to it, as one delegate
had, as a company union,

Fairey -spoke of the democ-
racy and rank and file control
in the CNTU, concluding that if

the CNTU wished to come into
Ontario to organize unorganiz-
ed workers he would wish them
good luck. The need, according
to Fairey, was to call for unity
with the CNTU as the only way
for the whole labor movement
to move ahead.

This. view was also expressed
by Dave Archer, president of
the Ontario Federation of Labor,
who is. a delegate to the Toron-
to council.

While expressing ‘his agree-
ment with‘the sentiments ex-
pressed by the delegate from
the Moulders Union, Archer also
attacked the positon being taken
by the Toronto dailies of en-
couraging a situation in which
members of the former Carpen-

AFL-ClO struck on status-quo

By WILLIAM ALLAN
DETROIT
Hoffa, - Teamsters
newsmen that he
nited Automobile
Bhreses dent Walter Reu-
Criticism of the AFL-CIO
im a recent letter to
locals. Reuther had
ie s i: his letter to 900-of
leadiet aie that the AFL-CIO
sin Ship was complacent,
ain Raa stuck with the status
ak X adn’t fulfilled the goals
1955, merger convention ‘of

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by UAW spokesmen. ao
Offa said here: “I don’t think
Should withdraw or
Were Walter and had

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wouldn't he has going for him,

Organizational
€ complace
pezber charged eee with.
Reet eed he would add to
the AFL Comments by saying
entire ape Is not utilizing its
en ‘torts for Organizing any-
in the United States. He
at over 40 million
workers exist in the
Could be used as a

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Tecorg re
that R flects th

Unorganized
Nation and

nti-labor elements.

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hevithdraw from the AFL-CIO,

39

h er casters. would not join
with them, there is no

t let someone else run ,
Ecign Hoffa said the AFL-

ikebreaking force by -

© Said, “if the UAW: were

need for two labor federations
in this country.”

He elaborated on the issue of
strikes in coming truck negotia-
tions, Jan. 17, for 450,000 driv-
ers and 50,000 mechanics and
clerical, workers. He repeated
there is no need for a strike to
win but, if needed, he said the
union could strike all transcon-
tinental trucking eompanies and
leave the intra-state carriers
operating without effecting the
economy.

He said: “All of labor must
prepare through its press, the
public media and public mobili-
zation to defeat the wave of
anti-strike legislation this 90th
Congress will receive and may
try to pass.”

Hoffa agrees with Reuther

He said the Teamsters will
continue their national organiz-
ing efforts. They have agreed to
establish a permanent matching
fund with the International
Longshoremen’s Union (ILU),
whose president is Harry Brid-
ges, to organize unorganized
workers in West Coast ware-
houses. : :

He said the Teamsters and
the ILU each will put $20,000
into the fund to start. Both
unions have cooperated together
for years and since 1961 have
conducted joint negotiations for
warehouse workers, coming out
with a joint contract. This year
will see again a joint negotiat-

ing team on: contract. renewals .

for 25,000 West Coast workers
in both unions.

ters local, which has a long-term
agreement with the employers,
are being told that they have the
democratic right to be in a
union of their choice, and pre-
sumably thereby revoke their
existing agreement.

Archer suggested that if the
position of the newspapers now
is that’it’s okay to say that an:
agreement no longer exists, he
can think of a number of poor
agreements that should be boken
immediately. His opinion was
that the newspapers would then
howl about the “irresponsibility ‘
of labor.” —

While agreeing that raiding
should be condemned, Archer
also pointed to the need to see
what faults exist in unions that

prompt workers to begin to
$eek another union. “We have
to correct undemocratic methods
where they exist,’ he said.

The extreme position of Max
Federman of the Fur Workers
Union that the CNTU had the
most reactionary forces behind
them did not seem to meet with
much enthusiasm. Delegates did
not have the opportunity to
answer Federman because some-
one “moved the previous ques-
tion” just after he sat down.

Mayor William Dennison was
given time at the meeting to ex-
press his appreciation for the
assistance of the Labor Council
in Toronto’s recent civic elec-
tion. He expressed the hope he
would be able to work closely
in his term of office with both
council and its municipal com-
mittee. ;

Nominations for council offi-
cers and committees were also
held. President Don Montgom-
ery received an acclamation for
another term: Elections for all
other positions are scheduled for
the next meeting.

4M FROM THE ARMY HARDSHIP AND SURVIVAL ScHoOL..,
CoULD YoU EXPLAIN HOW Yo) SURVIVE ON YouR WAGES?”

CEE to campaign for housing

The need for more and better
housing stands as one of Cana-
da’s highest priority social prob-
lems, and this need will be the
focus of the Canadian Labor
Congress in February. Each
year the CLC designates Febru-
ary as Citizenship Month and
urges its affiliated organizations
to concentrate on some aspect
of public need.

“As we enter 1967, housing
stands. out as one of the coun-
try’s greatest needs,’ CLC Pre-

sident Claude Jodoin said in a
statement to the press. “It is a
contradiction in human needs
that at a time of so-called afflu-
ence we should not only fail to
meet the challenge of housing
but, even worse, allow the situa-
tion to deteriorate.

“It is a national disgrace
that one-quarter of our popula-
tion should be living in inade-
quate housing. These conditions
are inevitably going to have a
lasting effect on the generation

that is today’s youth.

“Mortgage provisions and in-
creasing interest rates are push-
ing housing further and further
from the reach of those who
need it most. The fact that hous-
ing starts have dropped serious-
ly indicate the crisis proportion
that housing has reached.

“This problem can only be

met by an approach on a num- |

ber of fronts. There is great need
for a housing program geared to
meet the needs of families earn-

ing less than $6,000 a year, with
particular features to meet the
requirements of those with in-
comes of less than $4,000.

“In an effort to focus public
attention on this situation and
obtain -long-needed action, pro-
vincial federations of labor,
labor councils and affiliated

unions are being’ asked to under- -

take programs in February
which will make obvious the
need which confronts so many
Canadian families.”

January 20, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5.

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