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SON EN Sa Sa ee SS 35 14 Missi 10 5 NSS Sees ene ae 10 5 ee ee Penk Pals 5 1 Nelson. =... eee 10 21 Point Grey ------.---- 40 16 New Westminster -__--- 35 9 Victory Square --_----- 40 14 ‘ eee Notch, Hill 92225 5= 10 5 Wraverirent: =o 20 9 Mies ind 1 Gourtenany 30 Prince Rupert -------- 10 9 eae 28 +5 Salmon: Arm --------+ 5 4 Se Suibiala: ne ee 20 4 Cowichan ------------ 40 it Miscellaneous -------- 18 Naneiine 10 oo 85 43 : ee TOTAT 2 286 Sereeeg re oe : GRAND TOTAL -- 596 JE SS ek 35 18 _—_ Renew that SUB now! Special sub rates effective only from September 15 to November 1 Six Months $2.00 — One Yeor $3.50 Here’s my sub ‘SECOND LOOK’ CLC saps strength | by excluding unions © By WILEJAM KASHTAN A welcome note was struck by Bill Black, president of the B.C. Federation of Labor, when he declared recently that “some method must be found” to bring large unions expelled or sus- pended by the old Trades and Labor Congress and the Cana- dian Congress of Labor years ago back into the main stream of the Canadian labor move- ment. Black suggested that the case of the Vancouver Civic Employees (Outside Workers), Isn’t it time then to draw some useful lessons from these shameful efforts and get down to commonsense negotiations with a view to bringing these the United Fishermen and Al- *yniopns into the congress? lied Workers, and Mine-Mill should be reviewed by the Canadian Labor Congress and then went on to say “these suspensions were imposed years ago and it is time we took a second look at the facts as they now exist.” It’s to be hoped that this idea will be taken up by trade union leaders in other parts of the country., These unions as well as the United Electric- al Workers and the Canadian Textile Council are not out- side the CLC because they wish to be. They were con- sciously excluded. _It would be foolish to deny that this has caused them harm as divi- sion always does. But the main victim of this division has been the entire trade union movement, which, because it was divided, was not able to exert its great po- tential strength in a way that counts. It’s true that since the CLC was founded last year, sig- made in advancing trade union unity. Two of the Railway Broth- erhoods are now affiliated to the congress. At the recently- held Catholic Syndicates con- vention, a further step towards all in trade union unity. was indicated in the decision of the convention to continue ne- gotiations for affiliation to the CLC. But the CLC cannot truly become the spokesman for all organized labor nor be as ef- fective as it should be as long as substan‘ial groups of work- ers are excluded from its ranks. This state of affairs will continue if the basic sec- tion of hard rock miners, elec- trical workers: and fishermen are not brought into theCLC with their autonomy fully pro- tected. CLC president Claude Jodoin tried to “solve” the problem at the founding convention by appealing to the membership to break ranks over the heads of the unions concerned. This taccic failed as it was bound to. The second phase was a stepped-up raiding operation against some of these unions. This failed too. It’s no secret that some unions, particularly the Unit- ed Steel Workers’ leadership, have been moving heaven and earth to prevent the affiliation of unions like UE and Mine- Mill, Up to the present they seem to have been more per- sistent in putting their view- point across than those who favor affiliation. It is time now for the rank and file in all unions to make their voices heard. And that ~ includes the rank and file in the Stee] Workers. These unions were expelled from the old TLC and CCL for other than political reas~ ons. UE was expelled for non- payment of per capita which its International had omitted to pay. Mine-Mill was expell- for reffusing to give up part for refusing to give up part Workers. The United Fisher- men were ousted for being — critical of some aspects of TLC policy. None of these reasons, eve? a nificant progress has been™ if they were by some stretch 7 of the imagination valid be- fore, are grounds for their con- But tinued exclusion today. excluded they are because thé Steel Workers’ leadership bought Mine-Mill jurisdictiot and because some other unio leaders also have an eye OF expanding their “empires.” But here too no grounds eX — o ae ists for exclusion because a! most every union in the con” gress today is a dual unio® ~ In fact this is recognized the constitution and without such recognition there would be no merger. To discriminate against oD°” or more unions on these grounds goes con‘rary not onl¥ . to the constitution but creates some dangerous PFO cedents which some unioD?” will pay heavily for in thé future unless the situation rectified. ; A “second look” is nece™ sary. And, given the desiré “some method can be found” by the time of the next CLC co?” : vention to practically achieY all-in trade union unity. N° is the time for every unio® a local in Canada to make ee voice heard on this vital m#@ ters October 25, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE # (sae iy OA ES GO ee mae