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Double jeopardy
bearing children
and working in
Canadian industry

Indian
Centre
opening
its doors
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No : splits ne ‘divisions,’

Kinnaird appeals to trades

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| JIM KINNAIRD AT MAY DAY RALLY. .

TRIBUNE PHOTO—SEAN GRIFFIN

" Federation working to keep Bullding Trades in the CLC.

A stirring appeal from B.C.
Federation of Labor president
Jim Kinnaird for ‘‘no splits, no
divisions, and to be masters in our
own house in Canada’’ brought
over 500 people to their feet at
Vancouver’s annual May Day
rally Sunday at Templeton Audi-
torium.

Unity of the labor movement j}
in face of the threat of the estab- |
lishment of a rival trade union |

centre in Canada by the U.S. con-
trolled building trades unions was

the central message heard at the |

largest May Day rally in the city in
recent years.

Kinnaird, who on Friday had
become executive director of the

Federation after his union, the In- |

ternational Brotherhood of Elec-

trical Workers, was suspended [
from the Canadian Labor Con- |
gress, used the occasion of the ral- }
ly to appeal to building trades |
workers to fight for their unions |
to stay inthe CLC, and to prevent |
the establishment of a new centre |

based on the building trades.
The proposal to found the

‘‘Canadian Federation of |
Labor” in October to embrace |
the 12 building trades unions sus- }
pended from the CLC last Thurs- }
day was announced Friday by |
James McCambly, director of the }
AFL—CIO building trades de- }

partment in Canada.

The new centre ‘‘does not rep-
resent the hopes and aspirations
of building trades people,”’ said

‘*Without a vote or mandate of

themembership a few top officers |

have set up a new organization
that I don’t think has a hope in
hell of surviving.

‘Building trades workers will

have to press hard for no splits,

no divisions, to be masters in our |
own house in Canada, and to

have a militant labor move-
ment.”’

Kinnaird told the rally that the
executive council of the B.C. Fed-

eration of Labor met Friday and

worked out ‘‘a sound position’’

to keep the building trades in the |

CLC, and CLC president Dennis

McDermott has been invited to. |

See MAY DAY page 11

strike
lesson:

GVRD no

way to go

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Union

may pay
directly
to CLC

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Socred
policies
target
in vote

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