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Merku ryey eA ee Tt Tit Tet get dt Sit Tid Ont Tt Gt Til TAT TAT TT Th if ~ English Sub-Titles. Odeon-Hastings Theatre = 3 Bays Commencing Monday, March 28 iat Titiuny . MOO a neveumsueranenenade CO PO eee R ahs s >» Mine-Mill endorses a i 2 of The Canadian autonomy’ propos- al will take effect July 1 if changes in the Mine-Mill constitution to en- able the Canadian membership to draw up its own constitution are approved in a referendum of the entire international in May. The historié proposal was brought dramatically into the convention Friday last week with the ampli- fied voice of Canadian internation- al vice-president Nels-. Thibault speaking to hushed delegates in the Havenport Hotel here by tele- phone hook-up from Trail, B.C. Delegates rocked the Daven- port’s sedate Marie Antoinette room with applause as Thibault declared proudly: “Most surely history will re- cord this action as the positive beginning from which there will be established in Canada a full- fledged national labor move. ment.” If approved by the membership, the proposal would grant Mine- Mill in Oanada the right to shape its own constitution, elect its own officers, and conduct its own af- fairs with no possibility of inter- ference from the international union headquarters in the U.S. No other US. _ international union has ever proposed such ac- tion. Dominated economically and politically by U.S. big business, Canada also lacks an independent national labor movement — the only country in the world in that position. pee Thibault paid respects “on be- half of all honest, fighting work- ers in Canada” to Maurice Travis, recently resigned as Mine-Mill sec- retary-treasurer and a Taft-Hartley victim, and concluded with the wish that it “may not be long un- til we again can mingle freely to- Canadian autonomy By WILL PARRY SPOKANE The International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers moved last week toward guaranteeing unqualified autonomy for its 30,000 members in Canada. In terms of long-range impact on the entire North American labor movement, the proposal approved with impressive delegate unanimity may well outrank in significance any other action of this impressively united convention. HARVEY MURPHY “B.C. does not mean from Convention.’ ” ‘Barred gether with no thought of border obstacles.” Thibault was followed by Har- vey Murphy, western regional di- rector, who told delegates “B.C. does not mean ‘Barred from Con- vention,” and Al King, president of the Trail local. King was one of five Trail delegates, including Mrs. John Petrunia of the women’s aux- iliary, to be: turned back at the AT LAST! A FILM THAT: RANKS WITH “GRAPES OF WRATH” AND “OPEN CITY” “SALT OF THE EARTH’ Watch For First Vancouver Downtown Showing ‘SHOWING PORT ALBERNI April 4-5-6 CAPITOL THEATRE border on. written instructions from the U.S. Justice Department. The convention earlier protested the border ban. Others unable to penetrate the ‘Jead-copper curtain,” as it was dubbed here, were R. Morandini, C. Skinner and Chuck Kenny. Mine-Mill international president John Clark assured Thibault, also by phone, “this autonomy action is going to go through, and I know it means as as you have said, great- er cooperation, greater love, great- er brotherhood among American’ and Canadian workers.” * *. 8 A union leader from either side of the line opened up the issue on the convention floor itself. International secretary-treasurer Albert Pezzati declared Canadian labor “has long since reached the ability to stand on its own feet, make its own decisions, and run its own affairs.” ~ Every Canadian union is affeect- ed by U.S. domination, he said. “The time will come inevitably when. all. Canadian labor will achieve the full and free inde- pendence the workers there are- entitled to. We choose not to wait for history to kick us in the teeth. We choose to move in advance of history.” | In severing mechanical ties, he said, the international union is by no means abolished. “This is not a secession or a withdrawal,” he emphasized. “Our Canadian brothers will continue te be represented *at international conventions, to vote on interna- tional officers and amendments to the constitution, and to pay per capita.” Of Canadian: locals’ per capita, =| he explained, 55 cents will come to the international and 70 cents ‘will be retained by the autono- mous Canadian union, a split work- ed out with full agreement among the bi-national executive board and officers. A Canadian spokesman, Mike Solski, president of the Sudbury local, expressed warm ia- tion of the U.S. membership’s aid in first organizing Mine-Mill in Canada. But the Canadian union was young then, and now it has reached full maturity, Solski said. “Our enemies will interpret this as secession,” he predicted. “That's just not correct. This action’ will strengthen us, not weaken us.” He said he locked forward to the day when “the workers of Mexico, of Jamaica, or any other country may affiliate on the same basis, and in that way unite the miners and smeltermen in North America and throughout the en- tire world.” International president Clark, who first joined the miners’ union 48 years ago in Canada, closed the debate after 18 rank-and-file dele- gates had supported the proposal and none had opposed it. A solid chorus of “Ayes!” carried the question. PATRONIZE CARNEL’S COFFEE SHOP 410 Main St. Now Operated By “we GEORGE & WINNIFRED , GIBBONS