2 Kimberley Mine Union Applies For Certification A little over four months ago the International Union of Mine, Mill and Snielter Workers opened its sweeping organ- izing campaign in the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Com- pany’s stronghold of Trail and weeks the majority of the miners and smelter workers were organ- jed, and then began the long three- month waiting period called for under the ICA Act before the union could be certified as bargaining agent for the men. This week that waiting period was over for members of Kimber- ley Local 651. Application has gone forward to Victoria for certifica- tion of the local, international rep- resentative Harvey Murphy told The People, and within a few days a similar application will be for- warded covering the several thou- sand workers of the Trail smelter. When both locals have been certi- fied, the management of Consolid- ated will be asked to meet the union in negotiations for an agree- ment. This move is only one of many now under way among the widely- separated local unions in the prov- ince, Murphy reported. Mass meetings at the beach and the mine of the Britannia opera- tions on Howe Sound last Sunday witnessed the installation of local union officers by Harvey Murphy and adopted resolutions to open A MODERN and OLD-TIVWE DANCING WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY Hastings Auditorium Kimberley. Within a space of negotiations with the company within the next two weeks. One of the oldest operations in BC, Brit- annia Mines has never before maintained relations with the trade union movement. | On August 14 negotiations will get under way at Silverton between fhe union and the Western Explora- tion Company, operating the Stan- dard and Mammouth mines and mill. Two days later, union rep- resentatives will meet the man- agement of Wartime Metals Lim- ited for an agreement covering the Kootenay Florence property. At the end of August negotiations will open with the management of Hed- ley Mascot, which has already in- dicated willingness to meet the union. Names of newly-elected officers of local unions announced this week were: Britannia Mines: J. Balderson, president; Ken Smith, vice-presi- dent: F. Lindsay, business agent; Al Fenney, recording secretary; and Neil McLeod, P. Flannigan, Walter Young, D. W. Hounson and P. Kapowsky, trustees. Hedley #Mascot: Jack Buller, president; Jack Moffat, vice-presi- dent: Stephen Graham, record- ing secretary; Ken McCord, finan- cial secretary; Reg. French, war- den: Jack Evanson, conductor; and Dugald Boyd, Thomas James and William Graham, trustees. Red Rose: Don Guise, president; R. Cummings, secretary. 828 E. Hastings MODERATE RENTAL RATES fe tem te se Hedley Nickel Plate: Joe Kelly, president; Earl Edward, secretary- treasurer. 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The People 105 SHELLY BUILDING (119 West Pender) — Helped Issues in Book Shop MArine 6929 30 Branches Party Set Up Less than one month ago Tim Buck, chairman of the national initiative committe to form a new party of Communists, addressed a provincial initiative conference at Georgia in this city. “Im the final analysis,” he said, “this conference is not a conference for me or for any! it is a conference at which the leading members of the left-wing movement i couver and vicinity meet to consider a newly developing situation and what the working person; of Canada should do about it. “Vy proposal is, of course, that to meet this situation in the most effective manner, we should or- fanize a new party, a left wing political party; a party of which the core, the main basis of the initiative force, will be those fif- teen to eighteen thousand Canadi- ans who have been members of the Communist Party of Canada for the past ten or fifteen years; who have stood with the fight for Commun- ist policies through thick and thin in spite of all threats and perse- cution, and who are convinced that the example of the Soviet Union, the example of the Red Army, has created a growing desire for free- dom on the part of ail people merged into one iremendous line of historical development, a develop- ment towards greater democracy, greater freedom, to be brought about by the organization of the working class.” From the conference to which Tim Buck addressed his proposal a provincial initiative committee of 40 members was elected to organ- ize a section of the new party in British Columbia. On Wednesday this week, in the same hotel, some 100 delegates to a provincial convention called by CHARLES STEWART this initiative committee heard Fergus McKean, committee secre- tary, report that 1400 applications for membership in the new party had been received and that already 30 branches, nine of them in Van- couver, had been established in the province. “Tt is,” said McKean, “a splen- did response and one that demon- strates at once the need for the new party and the readiness of working people to join it and work for its policies.” In his opening remarks to the convention, Tom McEwen, commit- tee chairman, declared that the answer to the question, Does Can- ada need a new party of Commun- ists? had been given in the elec- tion of J. B. Salsberg and A. A, MacLeod to the Ontario legis- lature and the election of Fred Rose to the House of Commons. MeEwen took strong exception to Thomas Wayling’s dispatch to the Vancouver Sun explaining “ym-Canadian” yote of “foreign” |) elements. “The day is past in Canada when insidious reference can be made to ‘foreign’ elements,” he stated. “These candidates stood for total war policies in the interests of the Canadian people and it was on these policies that the people elected them.” The support already given to the new party, he said, showed that working people recognized it as being in keeping with the finest traditions of the Canadian people. Fergus McKean defined the tasks of the new party as: @ To strive for a total war ef- fort. @® To organize the working peo- ple for social and economic advance. @ To lead the Canadian people to the achievement of social- ism. “And by that I do not mean the so-called socialism of New Zea- land and Sweden. I mean the true socialism whereby all forms of ex- ploitation are abolished. Only one country the world has achieved the socialism of which I speak, and that country is the Soviet Union,” McKean said. Socialism, he continued, would be achieved through the demo- eratic will of the majority of the people. It could only be achieved by the desire of the majority of the people for it. With the Canadian people coming in growing num- bers to a realization that the new world must be built in new ways. the new party had the opportunity and the responsibility of showing them that the one way lay through socialism. It had the opportunity and the responsibility of leading them in the struggle for the streng- thening of democracy and against all the efforts of reaction to halt their forward march. “And above all else in that im- mediate strugsle is the necessity for Strengthening our war effort in every way, for bringing about the complete defeat of the Axis, the utter destruction of fascism. That is the first great forward step in building the new world,’ he de- clared. Referring to the relations of the new party with the CCF, McKean said the new party would welcome cooperation. Bul he said, “if the CCF in- sists on naming candidates in every constituency, it has that right. The new party also has that right.” _The new party, McKean con- tinued, would run candidates wherever it felt it had the support. “JT feel that the confidence ex- pressed by industrial workers in electing Communists to office in their unions will be expressed in the popular vote where Commun- ist candidates run for public of- fice,” he declared. At the afternoon session McKean Was upanimously elected as pro- vincial chairman of the new party and at the evening session the fol- 100% Union House PAc. oesa} Meet Me at KING’S CAFE for a Square Meal! THE BEST OF FOOD Your Host .. 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