ef LE: VES POLITICAL bey mnie UNCLEAR 0, 43 Phone MUtual 5-5288 Authorised as second class mail by My W, xo the Post Office Department, Ottawa 10c VANCOUVER, B.C ae FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1958 are {SPRING Mee ci three of the trade unionists who will carry la Nea elections. They are (left to right): SESSION: By BERT WHYTE B.C. Federation of Labor convention this week approved a five- “page political education committee report recommending further BCFL-CCF cooperation to elect “a people’s govern- ment in B.C.” and “unqualified support to the resolutions and statement endorsed at the Win- nipeg convention of the Canadian Labor Congress.” Endorsation of the report might have proceeded almost without question had CCF trade union leaders not in- terpreted the resolution as also endorsing a year-old BCFL stand supporting the CCF “as the best means of presently obtaining” labor’s legislative aims. Early debate was mild enough, as speakers assumed that the report, endorsing the CLC resolution, left the’ door cpen for development of a broad people’s. movement, to include farmers, other progres- sive organizations, and unions not now affiliated to the CLC. por’s independent banner into the Van- Sam Jenkins, E. A. Jamieson and Paddy Neals. by Vancouver Labor Council this week, they will contest aldermanic seats. (See story on back page). Mcks moots ‘dog collar’ law Por yr. hajog Minister Lyle Wicks ty, &t the provincial ‘itetion iS Considering the \ of some form of eg Pe arbitration, as de- I at big business lead- titan Spring session of thin Ure, in a speech to a A oual convention tis ye Recon of Labor begs Ying lip service to BS & a Labor Relations ts oy Snly the best that Page "et had but the best “eed & Socred mini- “we are start- next upward thrust of our our econmy, andd careful to. promoting smother rela- tions between labor and man- agement without further re- stricting the rights of labor, management or the public..” Wicks went on to say. “Compulsory arbitration is another solution which haa been proposed as a remedy for all our ills. However, Aus- tralia, with its compulsory arbitration, still has’ strikes— some 1,300 of them in 1956. “You might say that once compulsory arbitration is used then you: lose freedom, but surely it can be said that your responsibility as the greatest labor organization in B.C. is no greater and no less than that of the firemen and the policemen who have accepted arbitration as a successful means of settlement? “B.C. has the distinction — the unfortunate distinction— of witnessing the rejection of unanimous. conciliation board awards by one or other of the Continued on back page See ‘DOG COLLAR’ It was a CCF member, A. Macphee (Pulp, Sulphite 708, Prince Rupert), who first raised the question of the role fishermen and miners, mem- bers of UFAWU and Mine- Mill, could play. “In my riding of Skeena we wouldn’t do so well without the support of the fishermen, and in the Trail area I im- agine Mine-Mill support is necessary,” he said. “It wasn’t our CCF club, of which I am chairman, that elected Frank Howard. It was the trade union movement, including the fish- ermen.” IWA district president Joe Morris undertook"to give some answers to Macphee and other delegates who were seeking clarity. “The policy is to form a political movement that will be separate and apart from the trade union movement,” he Continued on page 3 See POLITICAL Trade union unity urged Changes in the Canadian La- bor Congress constitution ‘so as to enable the affiliation of all bona fide trade unions re- gardless of the personal be- liefs of their officers or mem- bers’ is recommended in a resolution submitted to the B.C. Federation of Labor con- vention by Pulp and Sulphite Local 312. Another resolution on trade union unity, .submitted by Street Railwaymen’s Division 101, asks the BCFL “go on record as urging the CLC ex- ecutive to speed up the pro- cess of bringing all trade un- ions presently not affiliated to the CLC into Canada’s trade union centre.” 10 million victims if tests go on By SAM RUSSELL MOSCOW — Continua- tion of nuclear tests at their 1954-58 level may cause the death of some 10 million peo- ple of cancer, leukemia and inherited diseases in one gen- eration at the beginning of the next century. This warning was given here by a leading atomic scientist, Prof. Alexander Kuzin, at the opening of a month’s campaign for the prohibition of atomic weapons. Prof. Kuzin said that these deaths would result from pol- lution of the earth with radio- active substances from the fall- out from present nuclear tests. = “This is the terrible price that mankind will have to pay if there is no agreement on the immediate and uncondi- tional cessation of nuclear tests,” he said. Other Soviet scientists criti- cized the attitude of American scientists like Dr. Libby and Dr. Teller who tried to mini- mize the hazards from nuclear explosions by comparing them with the ordinary death rate. “No scientist,” said Prof. Kuzin “should ever stage ex- periments which result in the death of even a single person. How can one defend experi- ments which lead in the final analysis to the death of many millions of innocent people.” Dr. Fyodorov, leader of the Soviet delegation to the recent Geneva Conference on the con- trol of nuclear explosions, said it had been established that adequate -control could be en- sured.