ahoney clique stages
stayaway from BCFL

Having failed to win control of the executive board of
the B.C. Federation of Labor (CCL) at that hody’s recent
convention, the Mahoney faction absented sufficient members
from a called board meeting to frustrate Federation business

“through lack of a quorum,

Home, Alsbury, Symington and
McKenzie stated their refusal to
attend, claiming previous engage-

ments or improper notification.
Cameron did not answer the call.

President Danny O’Brien called
a board meeting for September 11
to deal with “unfinished business |
of the 5th annual convention” and

+, ”
eabet Auporiank saattars, The constitution defines a quor-

um as consisting of two officers,
three members of the executive
committee, and two additional
members of the executive board.
(Difference between the committee
and the board is that the commit-
tee consists of four title officers
plus five additional members elect-
ed at the convention, while the
board consists of these nine plus
a delegate from each CCL labor
council in the province.)

Those present were President
O’Brien, first vice-president Wil-
liam Stewart; board members
Malcolm MacLeod and Harold
Pritchett, plus delegates from the
four CCL labor councils in B.C.,
namely, John Turner (Vancouver),
Tom Fanthorpe (Victoria), Ed.
Webb (Vancouver Island) and
Sam English (East Kootenay).

All these board members support
the policies laid down at the Fed-
eration convention and represent
the militantly progressive tradi-
tions of the overwhelming major-
ity of the B.C. CCL membership.

With two officers, two commit-
tee members and four board mem-
bers present, it would have been
possible to proceed had any single
additional committee member at-
tended.

O’Brien has officially notified
all affiliates of the situation,
charging that “the business of the
Federation is being, unduly held
up and Federation’s authority
usurped by a minority of the ex-
ecutive board. He is asking af-
filiates to demand that a full ex-
ecutive board meeting be held
immediately.

Those absent were secretary-
treasurer George Home, second
vice-president Stewart Alsbury,
board members William Symington,

- Stewart McKenzie and John Cam-
eron. All these were on the slate
of the Mahoney faction at the Fed-
eration convention, where CCL
Western Director W. Mahoney at-
tempted to extend his drive to

lish right-wing CCL machine
oe trol over BC's big industrial
~~ unions.

_ US tron curtain rung
~ down on Canuck unions —

The Canadian headquarters of the UE-CIO stressed this
week that the seizure of the Canadian Director, C. S. Jack-
son, by U.S. immigration authorities, “is part of the grow-
ing and general attack against organized labor on the part of

anti-union ‘employers and their
counterparts in government.”
Jackson was seized by U.S. im-
migration officials. at LaGuardia
airport on Tuesday, September 7
and rushed to Ellis Island, pre-|
sumably for deportation, without
the opportunity of seeing ‘legal
counsel. Prior to leaving for New,
York, Jackson was in contact with
immigration officials at the US.
- consulate in Toronto, and was told
he did not have to check his entry,
status in Toronto but could do?°
it at the port of landing. The UE
leader was enroute to his union’s

Living standards hit
by ERP-- economist

The Marshall Plan, as originally
submitted to Congress, envisaged
“a lower living standard for the
workers of Western Europe in
1950-51 than in the hard days of
1934-38.” The U.S. Congress, in
voting for the plan, “fixed a still
lower living standard.” This con-
clusion by the distinguished Ger-
man authority on world labor
conditions, Jurgen Kuczynski, in
the June 16 issue of “New Times,”
is followed by the prediction that
even these lower standards will
not be “practicable” when the
economic crisis develops in the
United States. This will “bring
living conditions down to a level
much lower than that provided
for by the Marshall Plan.”

At the same time Kuczynski,
who is now a professor at the

University of Berlin, predicts that
in the peoples’ democracies in
Eastern Europe “the standard of
living of the population by 1950-
51 will surpass the pre-war level,
and undoubtedly will be higher

international convention where he
was to act as chairman of one of
the main committees. His seizure
at La Guardia Field brought the
total of UE delegates who have
been refused entry to the U.S. to
ten. Among the remaining nine
excluded were some taken off the’
train at Buffalo, and others who
were informed by immigration
authorities in Toronto that they
would be denied entry.

The UE-CIO statement stressed
the fact that it was the fourth
CIO trade union group to be de-
nied| permission to enter the U.S.
during the past few weeks. Pre-
viously a group of delegates of
the Amalgamated Clothing Work-
ers, headed by Louis Palermo of
Toronto, were excluded. - Recently,
Roy England, president of Ford
Local 200, UAW-CIO, was pre-
vented from crossing the border.
Officials of the International Wood-
workers of America have also been
turned back. '

“The exclusion of union dele-
gates from the United States to
attend international conventions
is obviously designed to fit the
pattern being set by the U.S. gov-
ernment in attempts to create a
situation of public fear of the
activities of the trade union

movement,” says a UE statement
or the question. ~

Although half of the UE con-
vention delegation were refused
permission to enter the US|,
another group was admitted.
Among those refused entry was
George Harris, UE secretary-trea-
surer.”

UE officials emphasize that no

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than at any time in their history.”

‘Am I in America? ’

Wixiecrats led and inspired

_ Progressive party presidential] candidate Henry Wallace with a
tomatoes and epithets of
attempted to address unsegregated audiences in North and South

cargo of eggs,

Carolina during. his recent tour.
feet in Burlington, N.C., as a

‘change.. This is the “way of life’ the Marshall planners seek
to foist upon the people of Europe and Asia!

Strain impels Kardash
ask release as leader

WINNIPEG The following
statement has been released by Ald-
erman J. Penner, chairman of the
Manitoba committee, LPP: “The
provincial committee, LPP, at its
meeting held on August 29, by un-
animous decision regretfully ac-
ceded to the request of W. A. Kar-
dash, MLA, to release him from
the position of the provincial lead-
er of the party, a post he had occu-
pied for the past six years. . The
strain upon his health and his phy-
sical handicap were given by W.
A. Kardash, as the reasons prompt-
ing his request.

“Alderman J. Penner, chairman
of the Manitoba Commttee, will as-
sume the. responsibilities of the
provincial leader until an acting
leader will be chosen at a party
conference to be convened during
the latter part of September.

SUE

Tribute to Zhdanov

The following is a copy of a
wire sent by the Labor-Progres-
sive Party to the Central Com-
mittee, Communist Party Soviet
Union, Moscow:

The national committee of the
Labor-Progressive Party extends
expression of, deepest grief and
heartfelt sympathy at loss of
Comrade Andrei Zhdanoy. The
Party and the working class
movement of Canada profoundly
appreciate great contributions he
made to the fight for Marxism-
Leninism, tor vanguard party
leadership. We grieve with you
at passing of an outstanding
leader of struggle for peace, de-
mocracy and socialism.

TIM .BUCK,
General Secretary.

HU

by the Klu Klux Klan greeted
‘nigger-lover”, as he

.Splattered eggs lie at Wallace’s
police captain watches the ex-

Tzft-Hartleyized

United-Electric (CIO) Cana-
dian Director C. S. Jackson,
seized by U.S, immigration au-
thorities and barred from attend-
ing the international convention
of the U-E. Nine other Canadian’
U-E delegates were similarly
barred. This denial of entry to
Canadian trade unionists by the
U.S. immigration on trumped-up
charges lof “communism” .con-
stitutes a grave threat to exist-
ing union relations in Canada
’and the U.S. ;

reason has been given for the
refusal to allow the delegates to
attend the international conven-
tion other than arbitrary rulings.
“Our union is the target today.
Tomorrow it will be still another
union unless the people register
their protests against the use of
government authority to serve \the
interests of. profiteering employ-
ers. 3 :

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In an open letter to Vancouver’s city engineer C. A. Bat-

men
‘mended February 28 by a coroner’s
jury at an inquest on the death

of Arthur Blais, night street sweep-
er killed by an automobile.

“The last word from you, Mr.
! Battershill, was to the effect that
| you were sampling different types
of equipment and considering the
cost,” writes Jack Phillips, union
secretary, “In the meantime, hight
sweepers are sampling death, and
may yet have to pay the same price
as Blais because of the city’s de-
lay. :

_ “Last year the city donated $500
to the Automobile Club for road
signs. . . . This sum would be
sufficient to purchase white uni-
forms for the small number of

ee Ee ciatcs a ‘ ‘ -
tershill, the Civic Employees Union Local 28 (Outside Work-
ers) presses for immediate provision of white untforms for
doing night work on city streets.

This was, recom- —

men involved. It’s important to
give information to tourists, but
it is even more mportant to help

motorists see a man working on
the streets on a dark night. It is
cheaper to spend a few dollars to
give a night worker a uniform
than to pay his widow a pension
for life, and much more satisfac- —
tery for the parties concerned.

“The coroner’s jury recommenda- —
tion was last February. This is
September. The dark, rainy nights
of fall and winter will soon be here:
We think it is high ‘time the city
provided night street sweepers and
all employees +similarly exposed, —
“with the necessary uniforms. How
about it, Mr. Battershill?”

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