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IWA. Convention

Carpenters and Joiners is

thrown out the door.”

Tarsen asked why no mention
of Nazis or Fascists was made
in the case as presented by the
president. “Why is there silence
om presence of such sinister
forces in the United States
fighting against the principles
for which our boys are dying?
i was just about convinced the
Republican Party was a party
of progress when our president
finished speaking” he said.

in an endeayor to prove the
Communist Party and the Com-
munist Political Association to
be identical, President Lowery
placed in exhibit and quoted
from numerous association pub-
lications, including Browder’s
“The Road Ahead” the “Manual
for Club Leaders” the proceed-
ings of the organizational con-
vention of the CPA, and also
an advertisement in the “Peo-
ple’s World” of San Francisco.

The latter called on all com-
munists to join the newly or-
ganized CPA, while President
Lowery claimed quotations
from the other exhibits proved
identity of the two organiza-
tions.

“As long as this clause was
in the constitution I could see
no alternative to taking the
action I did” he said, and charg-
ed that the “line of the Commu-
nist Party had changed so of-
ten that the party in opposition
to Roosevelt in 1932 had sup-
ported him in 1936, called him
a2 warmonger in 1940, and now
is out for him again.”

Pete Thomas of District No.
2 moved to concur in the board
_ ruling following the president’s
- case.

FIP a opposing this motion [f
am expressing the wishes of the
_ majority of the members of
District No. 1,7 said District

President Harold Pritchett of
Vancouver.

“Phree members have been
thrown out without trial or
charges. When we formed the
IWA it was to get rid of the
dictation of Big Bill Hutchin-
son, and in 1937 we formulated
a constitution providing for the
democratic rights of members.”

“These include the right to a
trial on charges, and presump-
tion of imnocence until found
guilty,” he detlared, “and the
constitution of the United
States and of Canada is founded
on that principle.

“Tf we permit the officers to
throw any member out without
trial we are on our way to dis-
intregation,” declared Pritchett.
“But if after fair trial they are
found guilty of charges, sling
them out and I’ll help you do
it,” he concluded amid tumul-
tuous applause.

“Is this an TWA convention
or a meeting of the Dies Gom-
mittee?” asked Wilk Killeen of
Dunean, B.C. “Hitler would like

to see this resolution go
through.”
“This interpretation is

stretching the point too far,”
said International Board Mem-
ber Nigel Morgan. 1

“This resolution of concur-
rence with the executive board’s
decision is going to disunite the
IWA and purges are bound to
follow its passage,” he warned.

“Such red-baiting, Jew-bait-
ing, negro-baiting is following
Hitler’s course on this con-
tinent, and it is the last resort
of scoundrels anywhere, to find ~
Scape-goats and promote dis-
unity and disruption,” he claim-
ed. “We want unity in the com-
ing months.”

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Civic Unity -
Meet at Trail

‘CCF and LPP’ Clubs of
Trail, together with Trail
and District Smelter VWeork-
ers’ Union Local 480, have
joined forces in a lLabor
Civic Elections Committee
and have drafted a tentative
program on civie issues for
which they ask the support of
all democratic and progressive
minded people in the area.

In announcing the program
the committee stresses that it
is not introducing partisan poli-
ties into the civic arena but is
providing a rallying point for
eandidates and electors inter-
ested in civic betterment.

The program deals with a
number of concrete points di-
rected to improvement of civic
services, playground and school
conditions, as well as city finan-
cial affairs. It also calls for the
buying of power wholesale by
the city and retailing it to the
consumers.

The program declares that,
while some of the improvements
must await termination of the
War, “important sections of it
can be achieved in the imme-
diate future.”

Tt concludes with the state-
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the nature of public works can
be utilized in the period follow-
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projects, aiding our economy in
its transfer from war to peace.”

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serious study to the possibility
of achieving “one trade union
center” in Canada, was en-
dorsed by an overwhelming ma-
jority. :

Delegates were almost solid-
ly behind the contention that
labor’s postwar program of full
employment, social security and
lasting peace could only be
achieved by labor unity. It was
pointed out that most elements
within the CCl were not in ac-
cord with the disruptive, split-
ting policies of C. H. Millard,
Steelworkers’ leader.

Millard, many delegates de—
was the spokesman
within the CCL for a disrupt-
ing and raiding policy which
did not have the backing of
CCL union members and which
could only lead labor down blind
alleys.

“Reactionary employers wel-
come Millard’s tactics,” stated
Dewar Ferguson, acting yvice-
president of the Canadian Sea-
men’s Union. “Such policies
play into the hands of that sec-
tion of industrialists who are
hoping for strife in the ranks
of labor in the postwar.”

The convention reaffirmed
the no-strike pledge made last
year without a dissenting yote.

Delegates sharply attacked
Premier Drew’s stand on family
allowances and unanimously
endorsed such legislation as be-
ing a step in the right direction.
“In speaking in approval of the
family allowance legislation, I
would like to take this oppor-
tunity to protest against the
statements of one who has
proven himself to be an enemy
of labor. I refer to Premier
Drew of Ontario,” said Made-
leine Parent of Montreal, dele-
gate of the United Textile
Workers of America. :

A notable feature of the ses-
Sions was the address of Vin-
cente Lombardo Toledano, pres-
ident of the four million stronge
Confederation of Latin Amer.
ican Workers (CTAIL). Tole-
dano, who leads the workers
of Central and South America
ealled for Canadian labor co-
operation with all other work-
érs of thé Americas in the for-
mation of a Continental Gon-
gress of Labor.

Decision to send a eable of
greetings to Premier Joseph
Stalin of the USSR on the oc-
casion of the 27th anniversary
of the Soviet Union was marked
by a tremendous ovation.

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The fact that wome
tend to have a definite
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the war was amply de;
strated by the program ia

ned by 70 delegates frox

of the IWA Federated 3
uiaries at their annual
vention held for the
time on Canadian soil
week in the Medical_r
Auditorium, Vancouver.
Delegates voted unanim.
to take a direct part in the
tion of the next governr
of the United States and
ada, declaring: that the “ac:
of labor will determine the
of government elected?

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pledging themselves to ge

hind the Political Action —
mittees to “do all possib)
ensure the election of 3
gressive government.”
Postwar planning came i:
a great deal of discussion, 7
of the lessons learned “da
the war years being applic
a better understandins of
problems of the peace, |
gates earnestly requested
respective governments in

postwar period to retain p

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ernment jurisdiction, pon
out that since the deposed
panies had not cooperate

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not entitled to have their p
back when the peace was >.
New officers elected fo:
coming year for the TWA
derated Auxiliaries were:
garet Mix, Northern Was
ton, president: Nancy H
ton, British Columbia,
president; Wanda Brown,
lumbia River, secretary: @
Fisher,
treasurer; I. Godfrey, Br
Columbia, trustee.
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as the Auxiliary delegate ¢.
Congress of Women’s A
liaries. ‘

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