i Hien! 11 es WHY NOT :-NOW? an extensive trade with China. The report follows CCF na- tional leader M. J. Coldwell’s recent disclosure to a meeting at Comox, B.C., that a docu- ment extending Canadian recognition to China was al- ready in existence. These reports, perhaps in- tended to ally the mounting public clamor for immediate ee ant Phone MUtual 5-5288 Bu Authorised as second class mail by Ng, Ne / the Post Office Department, Ottawa - 39 VANCOUVER, B.C. \__ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1958 HIRD recognition, found no-substan- tiation in the stand taken by the Canadian delegation to the UN when the issue of China was debated. « The Canadian stand was de- Continued on back page See RECOGNIZE TIME VICTORIOUS i Striking longshoremen hy. tt was a case of third Nie Ietorious, a 'n the past 35 years, in &8ain in 1935, they , “n. their strike lost, their k peshed in bitter strug- Cn, the B.C. Shipping he » Wednesday this week, hah of the International A.” Men's and Ware- \ a Union, having Nie rcent to approve a a met returned to ‘tds th all their major de- th On. Their own united Ravi nd international’ labor Dep, pre compelled the kh hipping Federation, ’ hie ally refused to dis- iy.” Wages, shorter * toy tter conditions, to Ne the sal agreement which iti ee week old strike x er fve B.C. ports — Sl Westminster, Aytsg 8, Victoria and Port eyes the ILWU these Wages—An immediate in- crease of 7 cents an hour, an- other 7 cents on May 1, 1959 and another 7 cents on Novem- ber 1, 1959. The union had ask- ed 25 cents an hour increase and rejected a _ conciliation board award of 10 cents an hour only after it had been rejected by the Shipping Fed- eration. Wages however, were a secondary démand which. the union had offered to negotiate provided its other demands were met. Pensions — Establishment of a non-contributory pension fund jointly administered by the Shipping Federation and the ILWU. The Shipping Fed- eration will pay into the fund 16 cents for every man-hour worked. The pension scheme will: be included in the collec- tive agreement instead of be- ing attached as a separate agreeement as in the past. All these were major union de- mands. Hours—The working day wil be reduced from a regular nine hours, with the ninth hour paid for at overtime rates, to a regular eight hours, with a ninth hour to be worked only when necessary to finish a ship for sailing. The eight-hour day was another major union de- mand. the Chinese People’s Republic “‘early next year” this country, “If next year, why not now?” Newsweek reported that British diplomats attending the Commonwealth trade conference in Montreal had been told by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker that Cariada hopes to develop ANADA 10 RECOGNIZE NEXT YEAR" A report carried in the U.S. magazine Newsweek this week that Canada plans to recognize has brought the immediate popular reaction in Labor-CCF parley widens perspective Right-wing CCF leaders were forced to back up from their anti-unity position at the Labor-CCF political action conference held in Vancouver last weekend. With CCF delegates outnumbering trade union representa- tives 95 to 60, top CCF leaders tried to sell the idea that their Reports from all panels and discussions in the general ses- sion recorded an overwhelming majority in favor of broader unity to build a poljtical alter- , native to the major political ongshoremen win demands The agreement, which runs to ‘April 30, 1960, was reached -in negotiations arranged by Eric G. Taylor, appointed as mediator by the federal gov- ernment after talks with the Shipping Federation broke down. party should put up the candi- dates and the trade unions supply the -money to elect them. But the conference soon showed its opposition to this narrow concept. At the conclusion, there was almost unanimously agree- ment that the new movement must be based on the progres- sive concepts of the CLC reso- lution on _ political action adopted earlier this year. The question of participation by such independent unions as Mine-Mill, Fishermen and Van- couver Civic Employees was raised on several occasions and sparked a number of heated axchanges. Continued on back page See LABOR-CCF But what's Starr doing about it? This time it’s federal Labor Minister Michael Starr who says it, the same man who was _ assuring voters last March that the “worst of unemployment” was over. But it’s not. This winter may see un- employment as high as last year. This is what Starr told the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees at their convention here this week. He had the figures to prove it. The country has 281,000 unemployed, up 105,000 from last year. Un- employment insurance ap- plications in B.C. are 50-60 percent higher than last year. But apart from the usual appeals to labor and man- agement, Starr had only the same general assurance to offer that the Diefenbaker government would _ take “every possible step.”