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Above is a scene from the mass demonstrations in Italy
against the revival of fascism. Photo shows police attack-

ing demonstrators in Genoa

with tear gas and fire hose.

Police brutality only resulted in larger demonstrations
which finally forced the government to. retreat.

Centre CCF candidates
forced on unionists

A B.C. Federation of Labor sponsored nominating
conference in Vancouver Centre last week nominated
lawyer Tom Berger as its standard bearer in the coming

provincial elections.

This was the second nomin-
ating conference staged by the
BCFL-CCF forces to pick a

Suitable candidate for their
anti-unity straight-jacket pol-
icy of the BCFL-CCF “alli-

ance’”’

An earlier conference with
thirteen unionists in attend-
ance had chosen Fred McNeil,
longshoreman and local Trot-
skyite, as the candidate.

Sid Thompson, president of
IWA Local 1-217, who presid-
ed at both nominatizg confer-
ences, explained that some of
those who had attended the
first meeting did not reside in

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and ‘were
to select

the constituency,
therefore ineligible
a candidate.

At the second conference
where. the final selection of
lawyer Tom Berger was made,
some twenty-three were in at-
tendance. Thompson ruled that
the conference would be strict-
ly limited to carrying out
BCFL policy, and that only
CCF’ers were eligible to stand,
subject to CCF approval.

Andy Brogan, Marine Work-

érs, Bill Arland, Machinists,
and other unionists present
opposed this narrow- ruling,

i with nine of the twenty-three
I ginally “walking out’, leaving
ithe remaining fourteen to de-
cide upon their lawyer can-

| didate,

‘Charge British spy |

flights before U-
LONDON — Before the

| U-2 was shot down,. British
| reconnaissance bombers
| were flying over the Soviet
Union.

This was. revealed
week in the London Amer-
ican, journal of

this

U-2. flights, the - journal
said: “At this time Britain
was flying twin-jet Can-
bera bombers over Russia,
but they had several narrow

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eventually suspended.

British officials have re-
fused to. comment
statement.

on

LESLIE MORRIS, (above) of
the Netional Executive Com-

munist Party, paid
tribute to Bill Kolisnyk, first
communist to be
North America, last Saturday
at an overflow banquet in the
Ukrainian hall.-More than 250

people packed the hall. Winni-
peg’s Joe Forkin and Nigel

OS asda also 9 Spa

ea AT SORE hy

“When I shouted ‘fire’, TF meant: in the hrs’ mess!

IT COULD HAPPEN ANY TIME

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Americans |
in Britain. Speaking of the|

escapes and the flights were |

the |

a stirring |

elected —in |

Following this BCFL nom-|
ination, the CCF staged aj}
nominating conference and
picked Bill Dennison, con-
struction worker, as Berger’s
running mate in Vancouver
Centre.

gress Executive Council has decided

Committee” to
Teamsters Union.

assist other

In fact it is a dangerous step ~

and will be applauded by
monopoly and its press which

is constantly striving to sharp-
en relations and bring about
divisions’ within the trade
union movement.

One can understand a per-
manent. committee being es-
tablished - by -the. Canadian
Labor Congress whose aim
vould be to come to the aid
of unions on strike. That
would be an extremely useful
| thing to do, particularly now
| when it is becoming abundant- }
|ly clear that more and more
|employers. are pursuing a/|

| hard line towards unions and
|the needs .of the
| Class.

|. What sort of
|the Canadian Labor Congress
| leadership developing
|this life and death struggle?
| According to the press CLC
| President Jodoin was to have
| been one of the main speakers
j}at a public rally to

working

around

demon-

IAM K:

According to press reports the

If this be true,
| certainly out of tune with the needs,
of the trade union membership throughout

| tion in

solidarity is!

strate support for these work-
ers but for one or another |

| reason was unable to be pres-
ent,

| Wouldn’t it be far more use-
|ful and desirable for the
Canadian Labor
|} unite all sections of the trade
|}union movement against
|present capitalist offensive,

| the subject of

Congress to}

the |

|rather than setting up a vigil- |

ante committee whose  pur-
pose is not to bring the Team-
sters back into Congress,
|to dismember them?

| One could go further. A per-
|} manent committee to rally the

but |
| all decent

lly a

|ment who always

| over one’ million strong trade |
}union movement against. the |

| threat of economic crisis
ment could undoubtedly per-
form a useful purpose at the
present time.
Unemployment remains at a
high level, a fact even
sapitalist press is. forced to
recognize. And if this. is the
Situation today, what is it like-
7 to be in the fall
when normal
| ities cease?

summer

| ads
| . Doesn’t it suggest the need
|for a massive campaign now

|to compel appropriate govern- |

August 5, 1960—PACIFIC

and |
present large. scale unemploy- |

the |

| whose task

and winter |
activ- |

|ment measures to meet the |
.| Situation?

| .And doesn’t it raise rather |
|sharply the necessity for a
| break through on the hours
| front?

}unity and

will

ASHTAN
Canadian Labor Corie
to set up a “Vigilante

unions in dismemberit ng the

that august body is

desires and wishes
the counitv.

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WO-SIdeq

ive and on

crucial to a
for job secure
is being increase
ed can be
demand for a shorter
work week which the recent
UAWA Canadian Counéi
meeting called for as its major
1961 negotiations.

McDonald . of

seen

in the

target in

And President
the United Steel Workers who
the demand in
negotiations, has
compelled toca
hours of work

jobless situa-

dropped
year’s

last
now
ll for

to cope

been
duced
with the

re-

critical
industry
Here the Executive
Council of the Canadian Labor
Cor LET SES, instead of setting up
§ nte committee”
the Teamsters, would
been better advised, in
sultation and in cooperation
with all its affiliates,

take an effective

the steel

too

a ‘vigila on

have
con-

to under-
supporting
campaign for an objec-
tive.

To put it
that these

such

mildly,

matters

it’s a pity
were’ n

intense

ot
discus-
sion and action at the Council
meeting.

It is a commentary
thinking of the present leader-
ship of the Congress that it
should choose the name “vigil-
ante committee,” a “name
which stinks in the nostrils of
people. It is equal-
ommentary those
within the move=
prate about
solidarity and give

lip service to it, but seem

on .the

on

trade union

quite willing to smash a union.
Is union breaking sweeter

when done by so-called labor
leaders than ‘when done by the
employers?

This “vigilante committee”
ght to be disbanded and re.
placed by a°Unity Committee
would be to truly
all. sections of the trade
union movement around a
gram aimed ai

stantial wa

a
,

proe
Winning sub-
> increases,
ed hours of work, the
i of the tu
oyment

reduc-
organ-
morganized and

for all who need

a committee
perform a

the
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Such
would

could and
useful servy-
trade union move-

the working class of

ice to
ment
our

country

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