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BILL KASHTAN
PLAZA HOTEL
BALLROOM

Sunday, April 15

1:30 p.m.

Veryone Welcome

‘DEAD AT
HEAR

versus

Wm. Kashtan

se NATIONAL ORGANIZER
COMMUNIST PARTY
OF CANADA

speak on
New Jobs Through New Markets

EVER GROWING MASS UNEMPLOYMENT
FISHERMANS HALL

Sunday, April 15, 8 p.m.
138 EAST CORDOVA ST.
mity Cttee_C.P.C, Rm. 506 B. Hastings, MU 4-1451

REMEMBER
APRIL 12, 1961?

One year ago on April 12,
1961, Yuri Gagarin launched
the space age with his historic
flight aboard the Vostok. This
week Gagarin said he is
ready to undertake new
assignments.

WILLIAM KASHTAN. | na-
tional labor secretary of the
Communist Party is in B.C.
to address a series of meet-
ings on the subject, “New
Jobs. Through New Markets.”
He will speak at the Fisher-
men’s Hall, 138 E. Cordova
St., in Vancouver Sunday,
April 15, 8 p.m. Earlier that
day he will speak in Nanai-
mo’s Plaza Ballroom at 1:30
p.m.

40’

Under the banners “Full
Employment” and “Better
Legislation”, the Fourth
Constitutional Convention
of the Canadian Labor Con-
gress opened in Vancouver

President Claude Jodoin, in
his opening address to the
convention, spoke in very
general terms about some of
the key questions facing the
working class — peace, dis-
armament, unemployment,
but proposed very little by
way of specific solutions on
these issues.

He made it very clear that
so long as he and other top
brass were in charge of pol-
icy making, trade union soli-
darity would continue to take
a shellacking. They would
never “open the doors of the
Congress to all unions with-
out exception,” he said, thus
stating unmistakably that
they intended to maintain
present cold war divisions in
the labor movement.

These remarks might have
been made in answer to the
whole question of solidarity
in the labor movement as it
was raised in the April 6
issue of ‘The Fisherman”,
which was distributed to all
delegates on the opening day
of the convention.

In a hard hitting front page
article, the paper stated that
the main issue facing the con-
vention was one of labor un-
ity, and said: “The last CLC
convention expelled the In-
ternational Brotherhood of
Teamsters and the Seafarers
International Union for alleg-
ed raiding. But the leaders of

the CLC are up to their necks \

in the Steel union raids on
Mine Mill.”

Calling for “a parliament
of labor including all unions
with all their divergencies of

viewpoint,” the paper repeat- .

ed the oft-stated UFAWU
position that it was prepared
to “meet with CLC represen-
tatives or any other union
groups in or out of the Con-
gress to discuss unity.”
RAIDING HIT

Unity was also the subject

Plan May Day
rally. at Natal

Michel Local 7292 of the
United Mine Workers of Am-
erica has announced that it
is sponsoring a May Day
Rally to be held: on Tuesday,
May 1, at 1 p.m., at the union
hall in Natal.

A number of prominent
speakers will be in atten-
dance, including MLA’s Leo
Nimsick and Harry McKay.

“NORTH BURNABY
Hear

NIGEL MORGAN

Prov. Leader Communist
Party of Canada
Speak On

TRANSIT
THE COLUMBIA

and

PUBLIC POWER
Wed., April 18

8 p.m.
LOCHDALE HALL
(Sperling & Hastings)
Everyone Welcome
Burnaby Const. C’ttee.
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CLC convention here

in a special issue of ‘The
Mine Mill Herald’? which was
handed to delegates as they
entered the convention hall
on Tuesday. Mine Mill also
scored the CLC for its policy
of disorganizing the trade
union movement and stated:

“Divisions in the trade un-
ion movement will deepen
unless raiding is condemned
and ended. Raiding contra-
dicts the time-honored aim of
all trade unions to organize
the’ unorganized, and truly
defend and advance the inter-
ests of the working class.”

On Monday the convention
was addressed by L. M. Raft-
ery,-fraternal delegate frora
the AFL-CIO, who used the
occasion to take a swipe at
the policies of trade and cul-
tural exchanges with social-
ist countries that is followed
to a limited extent by Can-
ada. Raftery’s contribution
was something less than spec-
tacular, and the delegates
rebuffed his pleas by adopt-
ing a resolution calling for
an extension of existing trade
policies.

Other resolutions which
have been adopted supported
the principle of Canadian
unions taking political action
without interference from
their Internationals; extend-
ing family allowance pay-
ments and unemployed bene-
fits; greater income tax relief
for wage earners; and the
establishment of a compre-

: S. :

SAM WALSH, formerly
chairman of the Toronto
Committee of the Communist
Party, has been appointed
Quebec organizer. Walsh was
born and educated in Quebec.
Carl Rush, who was formerly
in Quebec, is now on the
National Tribune staff in

charge of circulation promo-
tion.

Brown ‘guilty’
under L-G Act

SAN FRANCISCO—Archie
Brown, longshoreman, was
found guilty here under the
Landrum-Griffin Act for the
crime of having been elected
by his fellow trade unionists
to a union post.

Effect of the decision is
that union office is not de-
pendent on the vote of union
members but on congression-
al approval. Members of
Local 10, ILWU, had re-elect-
ed Brown, a well-known
Communist, even after his
last indictment.

hensive national health plan.
A number of political reso-
lutions, such as the effects of
Taft-Hartley and Landrum-
Griffin legislation on Cana-
dian sections of International
unions, had not hit the floor
at press time.
WEAKEN RESOLUTIONS
The resolutions committee
is watering down almost all
resolutions of value. A typi-
cal example is the treatment
received by a very fine reso-
lution submitted by the Na-
tional Union of Public Em-
ployees (NUPE). Pointing out
that the sources of electric
power are natural resources,
it stated that, as such, “all

_sources of electric power, fuel

and power resources in Can-
ada be NATIONALIZED.”
(Emphasis ours.)

At press time the 40 car-
penters delegates who walked
out of the CCL convention
Wednesday had not returned.
-The delegates walked out in
protest against “unfair treat-
ment.”

The smouldering dispute
between the IWA and Car-
penters had also failed to see
the light of day by press
time. Indications are that the
Carpenters are rejecting IWA
charges of raiding in New-
foundland and the CLC lead-
ership is reluctant to have the
issue dragged out into the
open.

The proceedings so far
have been marked by a lack
of enthusiasm bordering on
apathy, in the opinion of this
reporter.

This is due in no small
measure to the wishy-washy
attitude of the top leadership
and their consistent refusal
to meet any real issue head
on.

INDONESIANS TRAIN. Above photo shows people’s mi-
litia in Makassar preparing to take part in liberation
of West Irian from the Dutch.

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