he It *p i) It 1 1] hy q My, ten: rgrthly” ine. tre dh nto in W tacin LABOR COUNCIL TOLD Court decision threat to union Authorised as second class mail by VANCOUVER, B.C. lO¢ the Post Office Department, Ottawa = “PORT ON CHINA © of w Review, 8 trial for Advance to Oe talism By LESLIE MORRIS "Oy; ® Was the first congr é ® since the formation of the People’s Republic 0) . ag Minued on back page — See MORRIS ON CHINA : Teh-chuan, Chinese minister : s¢ at the International Red Cross Conference in 2, has offered to go to the U.S. to testify illiam Powell, former editor of the China his wife Sylvia, and Julian Schuman Sedition, PEKING ® aN experience completely new in human history pe cnt at a congress of Communists of little more MOusand elected delegates who speak for over 10 elembers in a single state, and when that state a Ss million people 4 € earth. a quarter ofall the ess of the Communist Party of health, pic- A warning that the conviction and sentencing of two officials of the and Rock Workers Union of Canada on ‘“‘criminal contempt of court’’ charges could set a precedent for similar action “‘against any union’’ was voiced by Vancouver and District Labor Council president Lloyd Whalen this week. Whalen, a leading figure in the council committee set up to woo rock work- ers away from their break- away independent union and bring them back into the local affiliated to the council and CLC, reported on the special committee’s activities and pre- dicted that the striking rock workers “will be back in the legitimate trade union move- ment in a few days — all of them.” But, Whaien -warnea dele- gates attending Tuesday’s meeting of the labor council, no one should “gloat over what happened in the courts be- cause it could be used as a precedent against all of us.” Disaffiliation is not the way to solve union problems, Whal- en continued. The fight for union democracy must be waged and won inside the union itself. “Provisional officers have been installed in the local, and we have contacted the inter- national (International Hod Carriers) and told them the business of this local must be conducted in a democratie manner,” said Whalen. “That means shop stewards elected, business meetings held, and so on. We made it very clear to the international that this council will not tolerate cor- ruption.” (Provisional officers are: William Slewidge, president; Lawrence Kenny, vice-presi- dent; Harry Croft, secretary- treasurer; Frank Campbell, recording secretary; Robert Burns, sergeant-at-arms; Wil- liam McGowan, W. A. Kondra, George Carr, executive mem- bers; Slewidge, Croft and J. Brody, business. agents.) Whalen reported that he and other special committee mem- bers had held a meeting in Campbell River attended by about 200 workers, some 30 of‘ them rock workers. After the meeting they had “‘discuss- ed the problems arising out of the breakaway and strike until long after midnight” and he had found the workers “confused and embittered.” “How many workers still follow Rock and Tunnel Workers of Canada and how many follow the new local?” asked a delegate. “We appealed to them to come back into the legitimate trade union movement, and that is where they’ll be in a Continued on back page See LABOR COUNCIL LPP nails slanders in labor dispute Answering reports in the daily papers falsely asserting that the Labor-Pregressive party encouraged the disaffili- ation action taken by Tunnel and Rock Workers Union of Canada, LPP provincial leader Nigel Morgan, on behalf of the party’s provincial executive. this week issued the following statement: Some irresponsible and en- tirely false accusations have been levelled against the LPP by certain anti-labor elements who seek to maintain the di- visions in labor’s ranks. It is a matter of public record that the LPP welcomed the recent trade union merger. It is equally a matter of record that the: LPP is opposed to split- ting labor and will support every move towards further- ing unity, because such moves strengthen labor, help in the winning of new concessions for the working people and will accelerate progressive political development in the country generally. There is no question, and never has been in our view, that the best place for the Tunnel and Rock _ Workers Union — and all unions — 1s inside the Canadian Labor Congress. In fact, we feel it necessary to reiterate our opinion that in the construc- tion industry particularly, the interests of labor will not be served by separation of one of the smaller unions from the CLC and its Building Trades Council. On the other hand, it is not a question of coercing the Tunnel and Rock Workers in- to the CLC, but one of re- solving -a dispute through patient negotiation- and dis- cussion. Distrust created by the dic- tatorial and undemocratic at- titude of a handful of U.S. labor bosses and those who carry out their orders in this country will-only be over- come by the removal of griey- Continued on page 8 See LPP REFUTES Tunnel WE NEED COLUMBIA POWER by Maurice Rush FEATURE ON PAGE 11 Site of the proposed Mica Creek dam.