Sinclair backs “first
steps. to China trade

GIBSONS LANDING, B.C.

Addressing the opening rally of his election campaign here
Monday of this week, Fisheries Minister James Sinclair observed
that “there doesn’t seem to be much reason why the first step
towards building up trade with China could not be taken.”
He prefaced his observation with a gratuitious reference to the

required “good behavior” of
the Chinese people as the
guarantee of such trade rela-
tions.

Leading. B.C. industrialists
and Canadian businessmen
generally are less concerned
about China’s “good behavior”
than they are about the Lib-.
eral.government’s conforming
with U.S. trade restrictions
which bars this country from
a vast potential market.

In his address to the sixth
annual banquet of the B.C.
Chamber of Commerce, W. C.
Mainwaring, B.C. Power Cor-
poration vice-president, de-
clared that “now seems a good
time to promote trade between
Canada and China.- There are
products that China is inter-
ested in buying that we could
sell profitably.” :

Mainwaring urged that pres-
ent embargoes be lifted and
faciliiies aranged so that Can-
adian businessmen could send
missions to China to open up
trade chanels.

Despite increasing demands
from business interests, as
well as constant public pres-
sure, the St. Laurent govern-
ment has stubbornly refused
to recognize the People’s
government of China.

And despite .a steadily grow-
ing market crisis in a number
of this country’s basic indus-
tries, which* would stand to
benefit from trade deals with
China, it has done nothing to
facilitate trade relations.

Such outstanding industrial-
iss as H. R. MacMillan and

James Duncan, president of
Masey-Harris, have scored the
government’s attitude of ‘“non-
recognition” which deprives
this country of a steadily ex-
panding market. Doubtless
this was one of the factors
motivating -Sinclair’s state-
ment.

Senatorship
offer bared

OTTAWA

A closely-guarded secret the

unsuccessful efforts of Prime

Minister St. Laurent to get

Canadian Labor Congress pre-

sident Claude Jodoin to aceept
a senatorship is now public.

The plan to make Jodoin a
$10,000-a-year for life senator
started over a year ago before
mergeit of the two major labor
congresses. The plan was to
make Jodoin a senator with
independent labor status, but
the labor leader turned the of-
fer down flat.

He was made the offer be-
fore and after the merger. Said

Jodoin: “The CLC is opposed _

to non-elective legislative bod-
ied and it would be quite im-
possible for me to hold a seat.

The overwhelming Liberal
composition of the Senate after
22 years of Liberal govern-
ment has brought frequent
suggestions in recent. years
that the government appoint
other than Liberal stalwarts
to vacancies.

LPP seeks shorter week,

national code

TORONTO
Demand for ‘“‘a new constitu-
tion, drawn up by Canadians”
is a major demand of the LPP
federal election platform.
Maintenance of provincial
rights in full and guaranteeing
of the rights of the people of
Quebec to provincial autonomy
and to full national self-deter-
mination are emphasized.
LPP candidates will also
campzign for a Canadian Bill
of Rights; the right to vote in
federal elections at the age of
18; full citizenship rights to the
native Indian population with-
out loss of treaty rights; a Can-
adian flag, the supremacy of

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Canadian parliament and abo-
lition of the death penalty.

A nine-point plank of the
platform calls for people’s
needs before -monopoly prof-
= economic and
social measures advocated by
the LPP.

its,” > outlining

Shorter hours of work with
higher wages heads the points
as well as a national labor
code.

Other points include the need
for a “comprehensive national
security act” a charter of pock-
age law of social security. The
demand envisages federal re-
sponsibility of the complete
protection of every Canadian
in childhood and maturity
egainst the economic effects
of sickness, unemployment
blindness and old age.

LABOR AROUND THE PROVINCE |
Immigration policy alarms unionists

Delegates to this week’s ses-
sion of Vancouver Labor
Council expressed deep con-
cern on “the problem of im-
migration” and a special ex-
ecutive meeting has been au-
thorized to prepare a policy
resolution on the issue.

Many delegates voiced
strong condemnation of the
governments immigration
policy, which in effect is add-
ing new hundreds of unskilled
workers to the present unem-
ployed “pool.”

It was reported that skilled
carpenters could not get work
on home construction projects
at Dawson Creek because. con-
tractors were hiring non-
union unskilled immigrant
workers at wage rates far be-
low contract agreements.

The council took steps to
initiate action by the Cana-

dian Labor Congress to win —

the B.C. Teachers Federation
back into the labor movement:

A recent vote among Vancou-
ver elementary teachers for
reaffiliation to organized labor
showed 531 for, 444 against
and 73 abstaining, although
the vote at the B.C. Teachers
Federation ~ convention ., was

341 to 256 against affiliation.

A petition protesting the ad-
ministration of Local 213, In-
ternational Brotherhood. of
Electrical Workers by the
union’s international execu-
tive was shelved by council
president Lloyd Whalen who
ruled it a matter in which the
council “has no control.”

595 se 5

Suspended by the Canadian
Labor Congress on charges of
union raiding, 3,000 or more
B.C. members of the Interna-
tional Union of Operating En-
gineers are now outside the
organized labor movement.

Raiding activities of the Op-
erating Engineers are largely
confined to its eastern locals

in and around Toronto. The
CLC ouster however, is nation-
wide. ;

This is the first suspension
carried out by the CLC since
the merger between TLC and
CCL unions over one year
ago. The CLC executive coun-
cil stated that the IUOE fail-
ed to honor its “no raiding
pledges.

One of the
chalked up by the labor mer-

ger was the ending of jurisdic:

tional warfare between unions;

and halting of the suicidal |

raiding of membership by one
union against another.

The Operating Engineers
can return to the CLC by re-
stating its no-raiding pledges
or by appealing its case at
the next convention of the
CLC in Winnipeg in 1958.

Members in B.C. operate

heavy road and construction

machinery, dredging equip
ment, heating and power
plants. ,

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