| Onity with all mothers’

against nuclear horror

The fiasco of “civil defence” (CD) against the dangers
of nuclear warfare will not end with the resignation of its
chief, Major-General G. S. Hatton. Nor is it likely -that any
future policies CD may propose to meet the hazards of
deadly atomic “fallout” will prove to be any better than
what has already cost the Canadian taxpayer some $45-
million dollars, with nothing to show for it either in en-
lightened public information on nuclear hazards, or safe-
guards against it. Rates

up the phone and call Mrs.
Mather, and a guest speaker

woman councillor Mrs. Cam- il] pe on hand to inform the
illie Mather heard Air Vice- audience, large or small, on

Marshal F. V. Heakes, civil de- the deadly dangers of nuclear
fense co-ordinator for Greater |tests and nuclear warfare: a
Vancouver, elaborate on the |jobh which CD has completely
horrors of nuclear warfare, | failed to do.

and what CD was doing about ~ : 3
it, Councillor Mather decided We want enlightened mot::-
then and there that it was time |¢TS here to agree wigiomathers
mothers and womenfolk in /2 Europe and Asia,” says

general did something about Camille Mather, “that there
it themselves. must be no more: atomic tests,

no suicidal war.’’
Mrs. Mather gathered| Capitol Hill Ratepayers As-

around her some twenty moth- |sociation at its recent meeting,
ers (with an open invitationjand by unanimous vote
,

Last week when ‘Burnaby’s

we

Active in Canadian labor
circles for half a century, A.
R. Mosher, 78-year old honor-
ary president of the Canadian
Labor Congress died suddenly
on September 26 at his home
at Lake Bernard. Mr. Mosher
had suffered a heart attack.
Ai the, time of his death he
‘was serving as a member on
the Canada Labor Relations
Board. ; +

Burnaby nominees tol 4

carry peace program)

Ai a nomination rally held last week in Burnaby, William
(Bill) Turner and Mrs Ma.rie Godfrey were nominated aS”
candidates in the coming Burnaby civic elections. Turner will
run for councillor and Mrs. Godfrey for school board.

Candidate for civic office, Bill Turner is a long-time resi-
dent in the municipality, secretary of the Burnaby Ratepayers
Council and member of the South Hill Ratepayers Association.
An electrician by trade and an active participant in trade union
and all community affairs, Turner has been a candidate in the
Burnaby civic elections for a number of years, in which his
popular vote has steadily increased. f

Nominated for school board, Marie Godfrey has a long
record of active community and PTA work. Mrs. Godfrey is
a past president of the IWA Local 2-17 Womens Auxiliary, @
past president of the McPherson School PTA and has served
on the PTA Council and the Vancouver Council of Women z
She has also taken an active part in the work of the Vancouver
Foster Day Care for children. f

Both these Burnaby civic candidates, nominated as “in-
dependents,” will contest the civic elections on a program of
peace and peoples’ welfare; on the need to channel the vast
sums of money now being spent on armamenis into badly

needed municipal services, covering social, economic, recrea-

tional and health facilities for the people of Burnaby.

Quebec unions divided —
on major unity issues

to all others), inbued them pledged full support to the
with her enthusiasm and con-|peace efforts of Councillor
cern about the nuclear dan-|Mather and her group of

ger facing all humanity, and
got down to work. Now all
any organization. group. or
family circle has to do is pick

mothers who have undertaken
the job of informing citizens
on the horrors and dangers of
nuclear war. ~

By CAMILLE DIONNE

MONTREAL—The 38th annual convention of the
Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labor (CCCL-

Ind.) held its sessions in Limolou, Quebec. By the time of |:

its closing sessions, as this was being written, the dele-

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U.S. newsmen “assessing” the impact of the historic 13-
day visit of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev upon
Americans at all levels have unintentionally revealed
Uncle Sam’s “split personality.” One, the objective
majority personality, seeking a path to peace and welcom-
ing Khrushchey’s “end-all-wars” plan; the other, still
clinging to the idea of bigger bombs, bigger profits, bigger
“hate” campaigns.

_| Union Nationale

gates had discussed the following major policy issues:

@ Affiliation to the Canad-
ian Congress of Labor;

® Affiliation to a political
party;

® The avowed confessional

.|character of the CCCL;

® A vigorous attack on the
violation of labor’s right of as-
sociation.

This last was almost the
only point on which there was
complete unity. On all other
major issues the convention
found itself divided into three
main groups.

One group, led by Gerald
Picard, former president of the
CCCL, favors the CCF type of
“Holitical action”; affiliation
to the CLC now settling of dif-
ferences after.

Another important greup is
against affiliation to the CLC;
wants no affiliation to any
type of political parties
(though the leaders of this
group are either Liberal or
supporters)
and want to retain the confes-

sional character of the CCCL.

The third group, which
seems to hold a balance of
power and is led by Roger
Mathieu, president of the
CCCL, and Jean Marchand.
general secretary, managed to
maintain unity on _ the sur-
face at least, by favoring af-
filiation, but asking for guar-

antees that the CCCL will
maintain its entity within the
CLC and keep the right to or-
ganize the unorganized. This,
it maintained, is essential to
the survival of the CCCL af-
ter affiliation.

This group succeeded in side-
tracking the issue of confess-
ionality for another year by
submitting the question to the
bishops of the province a short
while before the convention
and then pleading that it
would make a mockery of the
authority.of the clergy, if the
Syndicates were to take a de-
cisive stand at this convention.

The delegates accepted the
report; presented by the com-
mittee charged to negotiate
with the CLC on the question
of affiliation. It also demand-
ed the formation of a new
committee to continue the ne-
gotiations with the CLC. A
resolution adopted by the con-
venton specifies that if the two
parties come to an agreement
the CCCL ‘will hold a referen-
dum on the proposed condit-
ions of affiliation. ©

A resolution was adopted
reiterating the ‘‘non .partisan”
policy of the CCCL ‘but stating
that the various federations
were free to affiliate to a pol-
itical party. It means in prac-
tice that the CCCL takes the
same stand as the CLC, ex-

cept that the latter recom
mends to its affiliates to join
the “new CCF party” under
another name. -

Here again it was a concili-
ation between the
group which advocates CCF-

Claude Jodoin type of “polit.

ical action” and the support

ers of Liberal-Union Nationale —

type of “political action.”

The report of President Rog-
er Mathieu,
length with the attacks on the

right to organize trade unions ©
and the complicity of the Pro- —

vincial government, provincial

police, the Quebec Labor Re-~

lations Board and the bosses

in destroying that right, was —
adopted unanimously by the ©

convention. ;

To substantiate his charges, —
Mathieu cited cases of police ©

brutality at St. Hyacinthe and

Murdochville, cases of bias on ~
of the QLRB, and ~
some 30 companies who had °
laid off workers for trade un-

the part

ion activities.

While talking about the lack

of freedom in Quebec. in mak-

ing his attacks against the pro-
and the —
bosses, Mathieu could not re" —
frain from repeating the boss- °
es’ propaganda about the so- —

vincial government

called “lack of freedom” for
the Catholic in the. socialist
sector of the world.

This red-baiting may not be
unconnected with the fact that
not a word was said about the
danger of nuclear tests, the
occupation of Quebec by U.S.
troops, the reckless war bud-
get which bear heavily on un-
employment and the pay en-
velopes of Quebec workers.

October 2, 1959—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2

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