_ dangerous The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions is being re-organized, reports Kalmen Kaplansky, Inter- national Affairs Director of the CLC. The first step Was taken at the recent executive board meeting in Brussels with the resignation of general secretary J. H. Oldenbroek. The re-organization is to follow the lines set out by the 6th World Congress of the ICFTU last December. The congress called on the ICFTU “to commit greater resources and greater efforts to the achievements of the objectives of peace, freedom and justice for all through the building of stronger trade unions throughout the world.” Other Decisions Other organizational decisions made by the executive board in- clude: © More . adequate financial resources must be secured. “A ppecific goal of ‘ at- least $10,000,000 should be raised through the International Solidarity Fund for the 1961 to 1963 period. Safer Diesel Trains Demanded A leading railway union offi- cial has demanded that the rail- ways install a safer design of diesel unit, following an ac- cident in the mountains of British Columbia that took two lives. A. R. Gibbons, National Legi- slative representative of the Brotherhood of Enginemen and Firemen, said present pilot de- signs are a danger to rail em- ployees. Near Ashcroft He made the charge after studying reports of an accident near Ashcroft, B.C. An CNR eastbound freight train was de- railed June 27 by a rockslide and the leading unit plunged 80 feet into the raging waters of the Thompson River that ran parallel to the track. “One cannot help but wonder if this terrible tragedy could have been averted by the application of a pilot of a better design, better than that with which the Road- Switcher type diesel unit are equipped,” said Mr. Gibbons. Different Design “It has been suggested by enginemen that a pilot be designed similar to the 'A’ type units which are bullet-shaped and have a tendency to bury themselves rather than lift clear of the track.” Declared the BLFE vice-presi- dent: “We are aware that this matter is under consideration by the Railways and Board of Tran- sport Commnissioners, but surely the time has come when some of this consideration should be turned into a concentrated effort to develop a safer pilot. Not only are the lives of employees in danger but there is a definite mental strain on every man re- quired to work in the highly mountain territory subject to slide and closely paralle- ling rivers.” Igloos protect against cold so well that Eskimos often wear summer clothing inside them. of cooling the igloo, the ik ice inside a window pane © Four Assistant General Secretaries will be appointed and machinery to “promote the maximum of co-ordination and integration within the secre- tariat” will be set up. © The whole structure of the ICFTU will undergo a change. One aim, says Mr. Kaplansky, is the desire to build an ef- fective trade union movement in Asia, Africa, Latin America and other parts of the world where the struggle is hardest and the need is greatest. 135: Affiliates The CLC was represented at the executive board meeting by secre- tary-treasurer, Donald MacDonald and General vice-president William Mahoney of the Steel- workers. They were accompanied by Mr. Kaplansky. The ICFTU now has 135 affiliates from 102 countries comprising a total mem- bership of close to 158,000,000 workers. The executive board also passed resolutions on various pressing international problems. It called for the resumption of disarmament talks in Geneva, deploring the action of the Soviet bloc dele- gates in breaking up the Geneva conference on disarmament practically the moment when new proposals were to be presented.” The executive board also in- sisted in a resolution on the need for the peoples of the free world to maintain pressure on the South African government to abandon its racial policies. It recalled the ICFTU boycott and “noted with great satisfaction the widespread response which the call for a con- sumers’ boycott had found on the part of free trade unions,” re- ported Mr. Kaplansky. Affiliates were urged to continue the fight. MEMBERS OF THE IWA from Sechelt Area who participated in the week- end Seminar July 16-17, at Sechelt. 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