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CCF CONVENTION

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Section Beaentation of the B.C.

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Sixteen of the 18 resolutions
thratic on the Winnipeg De-
ae — the CCF’s national
; ae of principles—called
om or another for a
tom th of the trend away
teturn € socialist aim and a
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ies resolutions on NATO
uae its repudiation. Thir-
fis "solutions on interna-
a Be tions called for dis-
mb ent, banning the H-
me ending the tests, a
ties g Conference and_poli-
ang ae to bring peace
a Ship between all
i efforts of right-wing
ie, ¢ Men like Frank McKen-
tion's airman of the conven-
leg, nel affairs commit-
h Mrs. Grace MacInnis,

Wines cial president, to
the Fo the conyention that
“ae ore Declaration was
align an.expression of soci-
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Nbport ty, delegates voted to
Ccp eA his declaration: “The
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alist; 8 full program of soci-
ilitueg ss ting has been in-
tion os In effect, the resolu-
of the Presented a repudiation
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dal “ting down of the origi-
Principles.

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claration~ of 1956 “a™party
tcembstone.”

The convention voted to wel-
ceme and support the Cana-
dian Labor Congress’ recent
political action resolution by
calling for action to establish
a new labor-farmer political
movement, including the CCF
“and forward looking persons
in British Columbia to the end
that. a. government represent-
ing the interests of the people
will be elected in this prov-
ince.”

Delegates elected a special
committee composed of Robert
Strachan, Alex Macdonald and
Grant MacNeil to open nego-
tiations with the B.C. Federa-
tion of Labor for a “labor-CCF
alliance.”

Main emphasis of the con-
vention was placed on pre-
parations for the next provin-
cial election—expected within
two years or less.

Key issue singled out for
attention was the question of
public ownership of the prov-
ince’s utility services. The con-
vention called for:

@ A joint federal-provincial
development of the Columbia
River hydro resources, with
sole distribution rights to be
vested in the B.C. Power Com-
mission.

® Action to bring the B.C.
Electric and B.C. Telephone
Company under public owner-
ship.

@ Placing of wholesaling
and retailing of natural gas
under the publicly-owned B.C.
Power Commission.

© Opposition to the aliena-
tion of natural resources by
“private investors such as the
Wenner-Gren. interests.”

Robert Strachan was unani-
mously re-elected CCF provin-
cial leader of the CCF. Mrs.
Grace MacInnis was elected
president by a vote of 89-47
over Mrs. Margaret Ecklund,
also of Vancouver. Colin Cam-
eron, Nanaimo, was elected
first vice-president; Bob Prittie
of Burnaby, second vice-presi-
dent, and Knute Buttedahl,
Vancouver; Hugh Clifford,
North Vancouver; Owen Jones,
Kelowna; Frank MacKenzie,
Vancouver; Pat Thomas, Esqui-
malt; and Dave Stupich, Na-
naime, were successful candi-
dates for the new provincial
executive.

Protest phone hike

OLYMPIA — Washington
State Grange is protesting
against the application of Pa-
cific Telegraph Company for
another rate increase.

Officers of eight Canadian National Steamships vessels now up for sale have called on President

Claude Jodoin of the Canadian Labor Congress to make a “last-ditch effort to prevent this catas-
trophe which is taking away our right to sail the high seas as Canadians.” The ships, shown here
anchored in Bedford Basin near Halifax, formed the CNS West Indies fleet. The CNS decided
to end the service rather than concede SIU demands after the union struck the fleet and the

ships are now up for sale.

S/!U_ CHARGES

CPR ignores public,
refuses settlement

Latest move in the three-week old Seafarers International Union strike of the CPR coast
steamship fleet, is the CPR’s disclosure that some of its ships may be sold. The pattern for
such action has already been set by Canadian National Steamships which tied up its West
Indies fleet rather than concede SIU demands and is now offering them for sale.

In the east, CPR president
Crump is denouncing “foreign
control of our Canadian
unions,” the implicationg being
that the SIU membership
would shave no grievances or
wage demands were it not for
union “instructions” from the
UES;

A statement issued by the
SIU this week persenting the
seamen’s side in the CPR dis-
pute, shows that the CPR can
“run” its ships at any time it
wants to bargain in good faith.

The SIU statement points
out that the union has only
had one basic wage increase
1953, despite the fact
have sky-

since
that living costs
roketed during the past five
years.

With this introduction the
union pinpoints these facts in
the dispute:

e “One June 15, 1957 the
agreement was reopened and
the members asked for cer-
tain revisions in their agree-
ment. No common ground
could be found for a Settle-
ment, and, after a conciliation
officer was unsuccessful in
his attempts .to solve the dis-
pute, a conciliation board was
appointed.

@ “The board investigated
the dispute over a long period
of time, five months and
twenty-three meetings to be
exact; the most prolonged and

thorough board

our history.

hearings in

® “The chairman of the
board and the company nomi-
nee signed a majority award
with the
wage question on which the

exception of the

chairman recommended a 25
percent increase spread over
two years. The company nomi-
nee recommended a 17 per-
cent increase over two years.”

The SIU statement charges
that the CPR ignored the ex-
istence of the board’s report
for months after its release.
Only when a strike vote was

taken by the SIU on CPR
ships did the company notify
the federal labor department
that it “would not accept any
part” of the board’s recom-
mendations.

The CPR was “quick to ac-
cept the Kellock report” in
the railroad firemen’s dispute
and to berate the union. for
not doing likewise, but it re-
jected the MHarrison report,
despite the fact that prior to
the. strike the SIU “had indi-
cated a willingness” to _nego-
tiate a settlement, “using the
Harrison report as a basis.”

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