, _ Huge crowds like these demonstrators in France, marie the. celebration of May Day around the world. re Continued from page Te. MAY - Bert Johnston said youth have 8 big stake in peace. He emph- . 8sized that unemployment is hitting young people coming Cut of school particularly hard and that it would better serve Canada if funds spent on arms Were put into education. UFAWU spokesman Mickey Beagle said the fishermen and Shoreworkers in B.C. support- €d the fight for peace. She Said attempts are now being Made to take away from fish- €rmen their unemployment in- surance. ‘Mine-Miil District President | Harvey Murphy, who had re- turned that morning from the CLC convention in Montreal, Was critical of the CLC for re- Jecting unity of labor. “One day they sang Solidarity For- ever,” he said, and next day turned around and expelled two more unions.’ Murphy welcomed the demand for the Shorter work week.as part of the fight against unemploy- ment. City Communist Party sec- retary Harold Pritchett said “the Canadian government is pouring millions down drain -for useless missiles - which the U.S. is discarding. Urging. labor to take its. right- ful place in the fight for peace, he said the working people can look to the future with confi. pens ke ada and said Canadians should ‘NORAD be dropped. the DAY William Irvine of the Al- berta CCF sent gréetings to the rally. In his message he Se OO eal ea CLC meet fails to act. many vital issues The Canadian Labor Congress met last week in convention in Montreal. Following are some of the main decisions arrived at by the convention: @ Agreed with the establish- ment of a new political party, and gave the National Execu: tive Council a blank cheque to participate in its formation. MAY DAY Around the world May Day celebrations this year reflected the rising forces of peace and freedom everywhere in the world. These attracted the greatest attention: SOVIET UNION _Millions took part all over the country. In Moscow’s Red Square hundreds of thousands took part in a parade before government leaders. Speeches empha- sized the theme of peace. PEOPLE’S CHINA A giant May Day carni- @ Passed a resolution call- ing on the Federal government to support policies in the Com- monwealth and the United Na- tions condemning. the apar- theid policies of the South African government. The con- vention also called on Cana- dian labor to boycott all goods made in South Africa. @ Referred back a weak res- olution on unemployment and called instead for amendments to the Unemployment Insur- ance Act to cover full periods of unemployment, and demand- ed stronger action by the Con- gress to meet the beens ee ment situation. of Bomare bases in Canada and called for reduced arms spending with thé money to go into projects to ENS unemployment. Harvey Murphy, District : President of the Mine Mill an@ _ Smelter Workers Union, who sat through Convention as an observer for his union, made the following observations in an interview with the Pacifie Tribune. “Discussions on the economie problems of Canadian workers at the convention demonstrate again and .again the burning desire of the vast majority of the delegates to hammer out a militant policy of action to resolve these problems. These desires, however, were cold- shouldered by the leadership of the Congress. In their place appeared a proposal that the solution to the problems must await the election of the as yet unformed new political party. jammed Peking. estimated 3,000,000 people val in Peking highlighted e@ Adopted an economic} “The demands of Canadian celebrations which were |! policy calling for higher wages,}worxers for a amited labor marked by the people’s en-}/ 4 reduced work week; increas- /movement, including Mine thusiasm for the great pro-}!eq social security benefits: Mill, the Fishermen, United gress China is making. AX || stepped up public investments:| Electrical Workers, Civic lowering of trade-barriers, in-| workers was defeated by a creased efforts” to promote | piece of McCarthy-like trick- said, ‘Peace is the only de- fence in a nuclear age. The | military preparations for mod- ern’ war as a means of surviv- al may well be the ultimate in- | sanity. ‘Our selected means of ‘defence has become the surest path to our own destruction.” He urged neutrality for Can- ' demand that both NATO and The rally unanimously adop- world trade; maintenance and) increase of farm purchasing} power. @ Defeated a strong move to re-admit unions like Mine Mili CUBA More than half a million Cubans attended a rally in Havana which was address- ed by Premier Fidel Castro. The rally was a demonstra- }/ and UFAWU. — pace a! U.S. imperialist e@ Expelled two additional | Ttesesb unions from the Congress JA PAN (Teamsters and §.I1.U.). Hundreds of thousands e@ Defeated a motion allow-| took part in May Day dem- ing the Catholic Syndicate Un- onstrations against ratifica- tion of the U.S.-Japan treaty. In Tokyo a huge demonstra- tion denounced U.S. policies ate’? as opposed to the present proposal that they “merge” with the Congress. ions the opportunity to ‘‘affili- | /ery by bringing in a resolution that Communist and Fascist- led unions be admitted to the LOpneress. As if this were the issue! | “Foreign policy is at the | |heart of our problems in Can- — ada,” said. Murphy, “yet the convention did not even find . ; time to deal with this prob- lem.” | In the election for executive officers of the Congress, candi- | dates opposing the ofiicial slate |received approximately one ‘third of the vote. | and Premier Kishi. @ Rapped the establishment ted a resolution’ urging im- mediate action on unemploy- ment and another in support of the boycott of South Afri- can goods. A third resolution asked that “the Summit meet- ing bend every effort to. reach agreement on disarmament and peace.” In a special May Day article entitled “New Victories Ahead,” Tim Buck, national |. leader of the Communist Party of Canada_said, ““Labor’s world wide forces are greater than ever. If the trade unions of the world were united they could become a decisive force within a short time.” He said the year ahead will be. one of extending struggles because of | the bosses’. offensive against labor. Buck hailed the strug- gles of the colonial. peoples. for freedom. PARKS” AND Pree vost wos IMPROVING SOCIAL SECURITY. WHAT AN END TO THE COLD WAR COULD-MEAN FOR CANADA May 6, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3 |