_ come in the second vice-president
* race

slate.

— Council charges fraud

in IWA election count,

_ Fadling may be upset

.

Charging the balloting committee with “gross violations”

Columbia River District Council

session to take steps to

District Council.

Indicating a determinatién to
Wage an all-out fight against Fad-

ling, the council officers have sent
signed copies of its charges to
every IWA local and district
council,, to international officers
and executive board members and
to president Philip Murray and
secretary James Carey of the CIO,
as well as Adolph Germer, Murray |:
lieutenant who was recently ap-
pointed by Fadling AS IWA direc-
tor of organization!

Officers signing the charges aré |

Harvey Nelson, president; Jim
McKay, vice-president; Claude M.
Hale, secretary; and Ronald F,
Roley, international executive
board member.

The council charges that the
balloting committee, headed by Joe
Huber, who is on Fadlng’s pay-
rol, is guilty of “gross violations”
of authority and indicated “par=
tiality” which “cannot be toler-
ated if a true and correct ‘cer-
tificate of anton. is to be forth-
coming.”

@ In the case. of three locals
“more ballots were cast” than
the locals had members eligible
to vote. These included Fad-
ling’s ey local in Ahendpen,
‘Wash, —

@ In the case of one Thoat the '
ballots were counted although .
“the ballot stub numbers were
missing pic the registration
sheet.” .

@ Votes were tabulated as
coming {trom another local al-
though “there was no signed
certificate of election from the
local union.”

' It is claimed that if the con-
_ stitution is followed the _ ballots
in such cases must be’ thrown out.
If such a procedure is followed
it is confidently believed here
that Fadling’s 397 vote majority
would be wiped out and his op-
ponent elected by a Rigi a
‘margin.

The new tabulation ‘demanded
by the Columbia River District
Council] would not affect the out-

in which William Botkin
sought re-election on the Fadling
Botkin was defeated 11,171
to 13,597 by John Hawkins.

_ The grave charges hurled in
the election Protest ‘has widened

* Councillors returned.
TORONTO

In Ontario municipal elections,
Crowland voters have returned
labor Councillor Mike Bosnich,
business agent for UE local] 523, for
a third term, and in nearby Hum-
berstone, labor Councillor Milton |.
Benn has been re-elected with an

of the

of constitutional procedure,
International Woodworkers of America is’ ‘offici
the count by which IWA president James Fadling was assertedly re-elected.

The formal protest and a demand that the international

PORTLAND
the right-wing
ally protesting

executive board be immediately ie into
“guarantee a fair and impartial tabulation of the ballot’
announcement that Fadling had defeated Claude Ballard by a 397-vote margin

tabulated. Ballard, former vice-president and ousted assistant director: of organization,
backed by the Columbia. River

followed an official
out of 25,161 votes
was officially

the
the powerful
which formerly supported him.

It is also expected to have
plenty of repercussions in top
CIO circles as Fading is one of
three hatchet-men named by
Murray to do a job on the In-

Warehousemeén’s Union, | the: In-

split between Fadling and
right-wing group

ternational Longshoremen’s and

==

‘ternational Fishermen and Al-
lied Workers and the Marine
Cooks and Stewards.

Strikebreaking charges .against
Fadling have been filed with. the
CIO executive board by Germain
Bulcke, second vice- president, on
behalf of the ILWU. The charges
grew out of the ILWU’s dispute
with Juneau Spruce Corporation,

es 8 2 ’ *
Visits City
———_—_—_—

E. E. Leary, representative of
the International Fur and Leath-
er Workers’ Union here, an-
nounced this week that Pearl
Wedro (above), district organizer,
had arrived in. Vancouvex to as-
sist the union i ‘its kien seageen

} al werk,

\

meet them,

In spite of export slumps for
September and October he claimed
exports would not show lower tot-
als for next year.

Basis of _ government’s present
trade policy is to export Canadian
‘raw and semi-raw materials to the
US. in return for finished goods
this country needs, the attendant
sacrifice of Canadian finishing
plants being part of: the “adjust-
spent” he predicted.

oan had to admit his Rear
to be largely dependent on USS.
‘conditions, but was silent on the

CCL raiders,
get rebuff —

TIMMINS

Activities of CCL raiders suf-
fered a Trough jolt here when they
failed in their attempt to snatch
certification from the _Mine-Mill | *
union for the Hollinger mine. The|
CCL’s “Porcupine Miners’ Union,”
after an expensive campaign, ap-
plied to the Ontario Relations
Board for bargaining rights for
the giant mine, but the board
dismissed the application on
grounds it did not have a major-
ity of the employees:

there. :
Mine-Mill won cones and
a contract at Hollinger in 1945,

ties in refusing to- negotiate — a
new agreement with Mine-Mill.
There -is no appeal from. the

increased majority. ; :

Trade Minister C. D. Howe boasted of his ‘
House of Commons but made admissions that belie any r
he nevertheless expressed confidence that what he called. the

“Some production patterns will have to be altered,”
may Hoe scores of thousands out of work.

| Canada ‘and lead to emigration | of

| 83,525 drew jobless benefits in Sep.

Bene “

but management subsequently took cde

advantage of the raiders’ activi-|
_ estimated 30,000 unemployed, of.

bes G

Howe's optimisim. over trade -
not borne out by jobless fou.

‘optimism’

~ Was

explosive evisis developing south of
the border.

This gave Tory spokesman Bon:
ald Fleming the opportunity to
make political capital punctur-
ing the “salvation wit Pre aUss
balloon, Fleming’ pointedi out US.
and Canadian economies are com-

sterling areas except in conditions
of world shortage. He said the U.S.
has surpluses, of almost all lines,

Continuing, he pointed out “inte.

$2 billion U.S. branch
lished . to

petitive, and that U.S. cannot pur-}
chase goods we formerly shipped to |.

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‘OTTAWA

i a review KE Canadian trade trends in the

a outlook. Admitting big export difficulties,
ego,

cof Canada’s economy would
his way of presen changes that

Hey,

Peg oa
‘invitation

to violence’

WINNIPEG

‘The police borimiskion’s report, ©
whitewashing the recent violent at-
tack on members of the’ Associa- —
tion of United Ukrainian Canad-
ians and damage done to the Uk-
rainian Labor Temple here, was
denounced as a signal for further
vidlence by an AUUC delegation
which carried its protest to Winni-
peg City Council. 2

The AUUC brief to council term-
ed the commission report “ a slan-
dev and insult to the organization.”

The police commission, it declar-
ed “was more concerned in the
vindication of their (the DP’s)
lawless behavior than with a true
account of what happened.” The
report, the brief ‘further alleges.
Was based entirely on ‘so-called

participated in the attack.”

“Such + a report can be construed a
as a greén light to ‘those lawless —
eleménts -to repeat their perform-
ance any time . they so “desire, not
only upon’ our meetings but meet-

ings of other groups. in other halls.”

“tony Bilecki, AUUC organizer,
who led the delegation, repeated

| the AUUC demand. for an “open

public investigation” of the DP-led
attack on an AUUC meeting in the ~
Ukrainian Labor Temple on Octo-
ber 16. This has also been demand-
ed by Ald. M. J. Forkin, but so far

‘the request has been ignored by

the ruling majority of old line par- ~
ty elements on council, aided and

abetted by the CCF.

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“professional” and | “industrial”
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tember as compared to 44,861 in
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no benefits.

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whom some 20,000 are in Vancou-
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decision of the board rejecting
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ure will be doubled within the

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