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[LABOR FRONT|

By BILL KASHTAN

Most of the delegates to the Canadian Labor Congress
convention, in voting for the resolution on the New Party,
thought it was in line with the Winnipeg resolution on

political action,

Actually the opposite was the case.

~The administration pulled a
fast one over the delegates.

Un-American committee

The negative attitude dis-

‘The adopted resolution at| played on these resolutions

this convention declares:
*‘SRe
convention accepts

from union locals, and the sup-

it resolved that this| Port given the study papers
and ap-| Which establish the program

proves the report of the execu- and constitution of the New
tive council, including the gen-| Party make it quite clear that

eral principles set Out in the
study papers referred to there-
in and hereby endorses the
steps taken by the council to
carry out the instructions and
mandates of the last conven-
tion.”

_ Thus the pretense is main-
tained that the proposed New
Party is being organized along
the lines of the Winnipeg reso-
lution.

In fact, however, by com-{
| political movement will be a

mitting the convention to ‘“‘ac-
cept and approve the general
principles of the study papers”
an entirely different concept
of the New Party is being
established.

This was nothing short of
trickery and deception on the
pari of the adminisiration.

~The draft of the program
moves in the direction of a
Social Demoegatic Party, not a
federation of various groupings
united against monopoly.

The draft of the constitution

the Winnipeg resolution has
been thrown overboard.

To put it plainly: the aa
ministration tricked the. dele-
gates and the convention. -

Deception, however is not a
solid basis upon which to build
a political movement. whose

monopoly and its parties.
Something entirely different
is needed to do that.
The development of such a

hard task as it is.

The fact that only a. few
voices were raised in opposi-
tion to political action should
fool no one. ©

Those who are opposed to
political action decided. to
maintain silence at this con-
vention, but they represent an
importani section of organized
labor and will probably try to
sabotage such a development
by other means.

The right-wing CCF line
plays right into their hands.

spells that out further and en-
sures control of such a political
movement by the CCF under
whatever new name it may
take.

The trade union movement
is looked upon as a source of
finances for such a _ party,
rather than being the heart
and core of it.

The delegates at this con-
vention who thought they were
re-affirming support of the
Winnipeg resolution were in
fact committed to approve
these general principles.

Some. of the delegates might
say “this isn’t so.” But if it
isn’t so—Why were the reso-
lutions from union locals
throughout the couniry which
called on the convention to
return to the letter and spirit
of the Winnipeg. resolution and
spelled this, out, ignored and in
fact rejected?.

Why did the Political ’ Edu-
cation Committee, move non-
concurrence. in. the ‘resolution,
which urged the inclusion of
all labor organizations and

unions at the founding. conven-
tion, to. establish — the. New,

P
en why did. it likewise)

resolution | which proposed a
more democratic basis of repre-|
sentation for ‘trade unions. in,

the New Party?

Nor is the development of
political action helped. by the
re-iterated statement that “la
bor doesn’t want to dominate”
the New Party.

What sort of party is it go-
ing to be, then?

What will be the role of la-
bor in it? Will it be based on
the labor movement or some-
thing else?

The fact is that under the re-
peated cry that ““labor doesn’t
want to dominate the New
Party,” conditions are being
created for domination of the
New Party by the CCF under a
new name.

The draft program and con-
stitution, whose principles were
approved by the convention,
sees to that.

It is not yet too late to
change course. But this can

only be done if the Winnipeg)

resolution is adhered to,

The issue involved is
whether an all-inclusive feder-
ated labor-farmer party is
striven for, open to all organ-
izations, including the Com-
munist Party, which support
the. letter and spirit of the |
Winnipeg resolution.

This ‘question. ought to be-
come a matter. of active debate
in ‘all union locals” ‘through
‘the country from now up to
‘the founding convention.

aim is to challenge and defeat}.

“OOH, THE WORLD ISN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR UST"

STOP THE TESTS !
OUTLAW THE BOMB |!

H-bomb talks open
again af Geneva

GENEVA — The __ Soviet
Union last Friday sought
safeguards and guarantees
. from the U.S. that all the lat-
ter country’s forthcoming
nuclear explosions would be

for peaceful and not military
puropses.

The Soviet delegate to the
Three Power nuclear confer-
ence here, Mr. Tsarapkin,
made this request when the
conference resumed today af-
ter a fortnignht’s recess.

He said the U.S.S.R. did
not intend carrying out any
underground nuctear explos-
ions in its domestic research
program.

U.S. delegate James J.
Wadsworth, said he hoped to
make a report on the USS.
position to the conference
next week.

SYNGMAN RHEE
Bs cased Be stooge. who has
created a new crisis in South.
Korea by fleeing to the U.S;
amid charges of misappro-

‘| the Senate on Land Use in

dito the

protested by Americans

SAN FRANCISCO —
Committee is finding the go

FARM
NOTES

SENATE COMMITTEE

SMALL FARMER
By Dick Reimer

a Canada has made the following
recommendations with regard
problems of small

farmers:
and release to farmers the re-

ment, universities, etc.

program service to deal with

The House Un-American
ing tough these days in its

attempts to keep McCarthyism alive in the United States,

The Committee received an
inhospitable reception by the
people of the Golden Gate city
recently.

On Friday, May 13 city po-
lice were let loose on 300 stu-
dents: who attempted to enter

|| REPORT ON SOLUTION FOR ere :

the visitors gallery, which was
packed with a hand-picked au-
- dience. In an unprovoked at-
The Special Committee of} tack fire hoses were turned on,
the youths by police who re-
sorted to violence to remove
the youth.

More than 100 police ar-

onstrators, 51 of
1. A special body to collect sk hom a ae pee
: day nearly 8000 people gath-
sults of research by govern) 2eq outside the hearings to in-
_ |dicate their displeasure with
2. An expanded extension|poth police tactics
Committee’s methods.

students. Next

and the

farm planning and sound man-
agement to aid small farmers.

4. A special counselling ser-
vice to facilitate the employ-
ment in off-farm jobs of farm-
ers in low income areas.

se An expanded program of Protests asked in
vocational and technical train- 5 ekg crens Pieaag
ing in rural areas. Hazel Wolf case

The Walter-McCarran Act

has struck again.

On Friday morning, May 13

Hazel Anna Wolfe of Seattle,

5. Extension of re-settlement was given an order to present

assistance to small farmers
wishing to move to another
job.

Some of these recommenda-
tions are all right in them-/

herself June 12 for immediate
| deportation to London, Eng-
land.

Mrs. Wolfe, who is 62 years

of-age, has never been to Eng-

priation of more than’ $10.
million.

selves, but they all av°id the
main question which is to find
‘a sOlution to the marketing
problem
they aré compelled to sell what
they produce at levels which
afford them little or no com-
pensation for their labors.

In 1951 some 62% of Can-
ada’s farmers averaged $2500
or less gross returns, and since
then conditions have become
worse.

What we need are guaran-
teed prices and more export
markets. As to moving small
farmers into off-farm jobs
when we already have about
three quarters of a million un-
employed: is, to put it mildly,
somewhat unrealistic.

in city June 10
Mrs. Violet Dewhurst, |
formerly from British Co-|

lumbia, xecently returned
from the international con-'
gress of women at Copen-

hagen and will report at an
evening gathering to Van-

couver women, Friday, June

1), at Mount Pleasant Hall,
th and Main, at 8 p.m.

¢ het Rheem

farmers face when,

land. Born in Victoria, B.C.,
her father was of Scottish par-
entage, her mother was born
in the United States.

She attended school in the
U.S. as a child and established
permanent residence there in
1922. She has a daughter, five
grandchildren and a_ great-
grandson. All her relatives are
American citizens.

The Canadian government
announced in 1959 she would
not be allowed into Canada
because she was not a Canad-
ian citizen due to her early
marriage to ‘an American citi-
zen,

The British government
agreed to take her because her
father was British. But Mrs.
Wolfe knows no one in Britain,
and at 62 would have no
means of support there.

The Hazel Anna Wolfe De-
fense. Committee was formed
‘to fight her deportation. The
committee ‘appeals to all peo-
ple to protest the deportation
by writing. ‘the U.S. Depart-
ment of Justice, Washington,
D.C. For further information
write the Washington Com-
mittee. for Protection of For-
eign Born, Rm. 118-604 Uni-
versity Street, Seattle 1, Wash-
ington. ;

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