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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1959

LPP in Delta names
provincial candidates

Charles Stewart, constituency organizer of the Labor-Pro-
gressive Party in Delta, has announced that Homer Stevens of
Ladner and George Lakusta of Langley, will be the LPP candi-
dates in the next provincial election. The decision to nominate
these two candidates was reached at a recent meeting of the

Delta LPP membership.
Selmer Bean, the previous
candidate, has withdrawn in
favor of Homer Stevens. Bean
will act as campaign manager
and stated that he “will throw
“ his full weight behind Stevens
and Lakusta, and will work
vigorously on their behalf.”

Stevens will enter this cam-

paign because of the grave

situation facing trade unions
due to the recent anti-union
legislation.

“T believe the next provin-
cial election must be. fought
on the issue of the people’s
rights and welfare versus the
sell-out to big business inter-
ests,” he said. “Bill 43 is. aimed
at hamstringing the labor

- movement and holding down
the living standards of the
workers. The Socreds, the

- Liberals and the Tories have
all given support, open or tacit,
to anti-labor legislation. None

of the old - line parties has

~ fought to prevent the sell-out
of our natural resources to
foreign interests. The farming
population has received no pro-
_tection against the dumping
of American farm produce or
the rising burden of taxation.”
Stevens continued: ‘‘There is
every need for a broad people’s

coalition in the spirit of the

Nigel Morgan named
in Vancouver East

Nige] Morgan, LPP provin-
cial leader, was nominated
Tuesday this week as a candi-
date in Vancouver East in the
forthcoming provincial elec-
tions.

’ Accepting the nomination,
Morgan said that the people
of B.C. must unite “to stop
the Bennett government’s sell-
out of our natural resources
to native and foreign monopo-

lies.”

HOMER STEVENS

Winnipeg resolution of the
CLC. However, there is one
obvious effort to narrow this
down to a simple rehash of the
old ‘CCF political arm’ policy
which failed in the past and
will fail again. I am prepared
to work for unity of the labor
movement and the farm move-
ment, and will seek every
reasonable method of achiev-
ing such unity around a com-
mon program and mutually

acceptable candidates. It is my .

intention to continue, during
the campaign, to advocate
unity of the working people
to defeat reaction in Victoria.”

“George Lakusta, a resident
of Langley, is a woodworker
and trade unionist. Before en-
tering industry he worked on
his father’s farm and _ still
takes a keen interest in the
farmers’ problems.

Lakusta is well equipped to
fight for both the industrial
and the rural electorate, He is
a strong advocate of united
labor-farmer political action
as the only means of defeating
the Social Credit government
of reaction in Victoria.

constituency to form ‘

In a statement adopted fol-
lowing a three-hour discussion,
delegates backed the proposi-
tion that “all locals strive to
develop political action in their
constituencies in co-operation
with other trade unions” along
the lines of the Winnipeg
resolution of the Canadian
Labor Congress and that pass-
ed by the 15th annual UFAWU
convention last March.

The 34 delegates, including
six from women’s auxiliaries,
proposed that locals “arrange
meetings and conferentes with
other interested unions and
groups in their constituencies.”

In taking this position, the
conference made it clear the
union “will not simply act as
a rubber stamp, but must be
part and parcel of any deci-

sions in respect to political
programs and _ selection of
candidates.”

The meeting heard reports
on political action from Prince
Rupert, Campbell] River and
Gibsons where union delegates
have taken part in joint politi-
ca] action discussions with
other sections of the trade
union movement.

In Prince Rupert, it was re.
ported, the union had been
formally invited to a confer-

LPP in Trail-Rossland

to nominate candidate

TRAIL, B.C., — The Trail-
Rossland club of the Labor-
Progressive Party at its regu-

lar monthly Meeting decided e

to hold a nominating meeting
to select a‘ candidate to con-
test the Trail-Rossland con-

stituency in the next provin-

cial elections.

The candidate is expected
to be announced at a public
meeting Thursday this week
in Trail, where LPP provin-
cial leader Nigel Morgan will
be the guest speaker.

“Although the LPP is nomi-
nating a candidate, we will
continue to work for all-in-
clusive labor unity, and we
will fully support any politi-
cal movement dedicated to
achieving that end,” said a
statement issued by the LPP
constituency committee.

Union Probes
political action

A meeting of political action committees from locals and women’s auxiliaries of
United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union last weekend called on locals within ,
‘joint political action committees.’

The meeting, attended by political action representatives from as far away aS “°) 4,
and Victoria, in addition to Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, met May 2 in New Westmis® ‘

ence at Terrace called by the
Kitimat Labor Council, and in
Campbell River, jointly- with
other unions arranged a politi-
cal rally for this week at which

1.000 hear Buck at
Toronto May Day ral

TORONTO—“If the people
can maintain peace through
the next seven years, it will
be too late for the imperialists
to start a war,” Tim Buck told
the largest May Day gathering
held in Toronto for several
years, estimated by the daily
press as “close to a thousand.”

Victory is in sight in the

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West

MLAs Dan Campbell and
Squire were schedule é
speak along with a repres
tive of the United Fish€
and Allied Workers Uni

struggle for ys Buck
phasized, because “victory
already been achieved in”
building of socialism. df

But because the vicl? oh
jt does

peace is in sight, fs
mean that the danger © | 1

has passed, the Lee

warned.

Continued from page 1

LABOR LOBBY

“Action is ineffective if it
is isolated to one council,”
said. John Hines (Painters).
“We need concerted action by
all labor councils.”

VLC preSident Lloyd Wha-
len refused to accept a motion
urging council to contact other
labor bodies, on the grounds
that this is the prerogative of
the BCFL and the CLC. He
added, however, that the dele-
gation would urge the Can-
adian Labor Congress to con.
vene a conference on unem-
ployment. It had failed to

accede to an earlier VLC re-

quest to take this action.

‘Following the Ottawa lobby
the VLC will sponsor a mass
meeting to hear the delega-
tion’s report.

“I support the plan of the
executive, but feel that we
should also take some direct
action,” said Sam Jenkins
‘(Marine Workers). “Jobless
members of my union have
been lopped off Unemployment
Insurance rolls for the past
several weeks. May 15 will be
the grand finale. We should
seriously consider taking our
wives and children down to
the UIC office and camping

there until John Dil
gets moving on this pro
If authorities ask
we're doing there,
we followed John a”
where we ended up-
per of the workers is we
thin, and they expect” pi?
action from the leade®
the labor movement.”

Harold Thayer, | oer ]
vineial secretary and ©) of!
the monthly CCF News:
express fear and concel? ©
Jenkin’s suggestion.

“Nothing could dest,
labor movement quick? yg
direct action of this ne 1
said Thayer. “Labor ba
achieved anything by a
the barricades. We or
our heads. We must &
respect for democratic g
ment, and while we mus
on’ the present govel if
we must mobilize suP i
our proposals in ths
and democratic way:

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Jenkins jumped to his ae
to answer Thayer bu Ae
chairman refused him # {f
and called for a vote net
resolution to organize ©
by to. Ottawa. It waS ©)
unanimously.

May 8, 1959 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—>