Champion
opens big
campaign

Progressive young people in
British Columbia are starting a
campaign January 15 to raise
$2,000 for Champion, bi-monthly
paper published in Torontoj which
is + conducting a national-wide

drive for $10,000 on its fifth
birthday to ensure continued},
publication.

_ “For the past five years Cham-
Pion has been the only progres-
sive youth paper published 1n
Canada,” said a spokesman for
the B.C. Champion Committee.

“It has campaigned successful-
ly against attempts to introduce
conscription. ‘It led the out-
standing work of young people
in cdllection of signatures to
the Stockholm Appeal and has
been in the forefront of the strug-
gle for peace. It has fought con-

sistently for the needs of youth,
and is currently campaigning for
a federal grant of $100 million to
develop sports and: recreation
programs in Canada.”

National Federation of Labor

Youth is one of the many organ- |

izations supporting the Cham-
Pion financial drive. Last week
a conference of NFLY campaign-
ers was held at Nanaimo with
Pacific Tribune editor Tom Mc-
Ewen as guest speaker, and this
Weekend a parley of Vancouver
and Lower Mainland members
of NFLY will be held in Haney.

Champion is sponsoring a tour
of Vancouver Youth Singers, Koz-
bar Dance Group of the Associa-
tion of United Ukrainian Cana-
dians, Chinese-Canadian Dance

Group and other artists to several ,

Vancouver Island centres in Feb-
ruary.

Concerts will be held at Vic-
toria, February 4; Lake Cowi-—
chan, February 5; Nanaimo,
February 5; Cumberland, ‘Feb-
Truary 12 and Port Alberni,
February 12. The Cowichan
and Cumberland concerts will
take place in the afternoon.

A Champion, birthday banquet

is planned for Vancouver on Féb-
Tuary 18,
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On visit to USSR
The national executive of the
Labor-Progressive party’ has
received a cabled invitation
from the central committee of
the Communist party of the
Soviet Union to send a guest
to the 20th congress of the
CPSU in Moscow February 14,
Tim Buck, national leader, has
been designated as the guest
from Canada and is already in
Europe. He will visit a num-
ber of countries while overseas.

Continued

CHINA |

Toronto Daily Star, December
30, 1955: “. . . . it is quite clear
Canada could go ahead and re-
cognize the Peking government
without upsetting the Western
apple cart; Britain, after all, has
recognized the Chinese Commun-
ists for six years now... .’”’

A. H. Hollingworth, Liberal
MP for York Centre, April 21,

/1955: Recognition is just -“plain |’

'eommon_ sense.” Canada must
make the “fundamental overture

of diplomatic recognition.”
Prime Minister St. Laurent,
March 8, 1955, in Seoul: “I do
feel that some day we are going
to have to be realistic. We are
going to have to admit that the
present government of China is
the government the people want.”
Executive Council, United
Church of Canada, May 4, 1955:
Despatched letter to External Af-
fairs Minister Pearson -urging re-

-cognition of the People’s Gov-

ernment of China as the de facto
government, reaffirming the Gen-
eral Council’s position of Sep-
tember 19, 1952 in Hamilton.
Tim Buck, LPP national leader
October 3, 1955: Urged Pearson
to independently and officially
open negotiations for the recog-

|nition by Canada of the People’s

Republic. “This would be a logi-
cal follow-up to Geneva. All
Canadians should take part in
an irresistible movement for re-
cognition of China.”

Dr. James G. Endicott, Cana-
dian Peace Congress, September
7, 1954: “There seems little doubt
‘that the majority opinion in par-
liamentary circles and through-
out the land favors recognition
of China.” J

C. H. Millard, vice-president,
Canadian Congress of Labor, Oc-
tober 3, 1955: “I would favor the
Widest possible exchanges right
up to and including recognition
of China. .. .-I am in favor of
any moves along the lines of
working towards negotiation and
on a friendly basis.”

M. J. Coldwell, CCF national
leader, March 23, 1954: “The CCF
for a long time has contended
that Canada should recognize the
present government of China. . .”

Canadian Congress of Labor
convention, Toronto, 1955: For-
eign policy statement endorsed
by delegates representing 400,000
members called for recognition

of the People’s Republic. of China.

arms race
1956 goal

“1956 is the year in which we
may fulfill the promise of Gen-
eva by ending the arms race and
foresaking the cold war ‘once
and for all,” Ray Gardner, chair-
man, told a public session of
B.C. Peace Council Sunday last.

“The positions of the powers

on the question of banning nu-
clear weapons and reducing: con-

‘| ventional arm$ and armed forces

now almost coincide. Public
opinion must now insist that the
gap be closed and that an inter-
national .agreement on disarma-
ment be signed and carried out,”
Gardner said.

Gardner announced that a
peace mission will visit Victoria
on Monday, January 30, to ask
the legislature to urge the federal
government to intensify its ef-
forts to bring about disarmament.

A pledge now by all the coun-
tries concerned to stop testing
nuclear weapons would help pro-
mote agreement on the abolition
of such weapons, Gardner said.
“Partial solutions will open the
door to complete and final solu-
tions,” he contended.

The meeting elected a new
executive, with Gardner re-
turned as chairman. Two new
vice-chairmen, Carl Erickson
P and Mrs. M. Bladen, and a new
secretary, Mrs. Rhea Dear, were
elected.

Honor clubs
for sub work
in past year
Dear Reader;

Next week we’ll publish com-
plete standings of all press clubs
for 1955 and proposed sub tar-
gets for 1956. In order to extend
our circulation we ourselves

‘thave to circulate—among our
friends and neighbors, and our
fellow workers.

-Mean while

we. can:,,an-
nounce the win-
ners of our
Club of the

Year awards—
Halperin in
Greater Van-
couver and
Cumberland in
the province.
Members of
Halperin press
club won the award not only
because they went over the top
in number of subs, but because
they signed up many new read-
ers and. also participated suc-
cessfully in street sales.

Special mention should be made
of Point Grey press club, which
obtained 140 subs and renewals,
top total for the city. Other Van-
couver clubs deserving mention
include Kitsilano, Advance, West
End and Mount Pleasant.
Among the provincial press
clubs which led the way in the
year-round fight for circulation
were Kamloops, Maple Ridge,
Parksville, Duncan, Notch Hill,
Prince George and Sointula.
Watch for the proposed 1956
sub quotas next week and then
make sure that your press club
gets on the honors list during
the next 12 months. Club of the
Month book prizes will be award-
ed this year, as in the past.

Rita Whyte

for CLC

An official call is now out

Toronto April 23,

Congress (TLC) and the Cana-
dian’ Congress of Labor (CCLY,

"Business before the parley will
be adoption of a constitution;
election of officers (apart from

vention); debate on resolutions,
communications, petitions and re-
ports.

Representation to the conven-
tion will be on the basis of one
delegate for every 1,000 members
or less, and an additional one for
every major fraction of 1,000. Pro-
vincial federations and trade
councils will be entitled to a
maximum of two delegates each.

Resolutions to the convention
have a deadline 60 days before
the opening. An undertaking has
been given, announced at the
last convention, that draft copies
of the constitution would be cir-
culated 90 days prior to the open-
ing of the parley.

Merger preparations are going
on all down the line from the
top officers of the national bodies,
to the provincial and local trades
| council levels. In addition, there
| is a parallel process of talks go-

ling on .between various unions
in the same jurisdiction with the
idea of forming one big union
where both TLC and CCL affili-
ates have been operating.

A recent example of this was
during the AFL-CIO merger con-
vention when the Amalgamated.
Meat Cutters and Butcher Work-
men and the United Packinghouse
Workers of America announced
a “merger within the merger.”

An accord has been reached
between both unions for early
creation of a 500,000-member. or-
ganization, Ralph  Helstein
(UPWA) and Earl W. Jimerson
(AMCBW) reported. From the
‘UPWA will come 175,000 mem-
bers and from the AMCBW 335,-
000. A merger convention is

In the U.S., the new 15,000,-
ed publishing the AFL-CIO News.

In Canada, official Magazine of
the new Canadian Labor Con-
gress will be called Canadian
Labor and will appear in April,
with an estimated circulation of
20,000. Editor of the journal will
be Norman S§S, Dowd, presently

ee the CCL Canadian Union-
ist.

lige!

‘A NEW FOREST MA

vention of the new Canadian Labor C

the appointed slate of main of-.
ficers until the second CLC con-:

expected : fe tar
P nerweners | aspirations because the govern-

CBC NETWORK
MONDAY, JANUARY 16 — 10.15 PM.

Ending of | Of ficial call out

parley

TORONTO
t constitutional con-
ongress to open in

for the firs

‘Sessions will be held in the Coliseum of
the Canadian National Exhibition with an expected attendance
of at least 1,500 delegates, coming from the Trades and Labor

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| CENTRE

days’ campaign, and the condi-
tion of the voters’ list, so that
large numbers were disfranchis-
ed — made it impossible for
voters to give a conclusive: opin-
ion. The fact that only one in
every six eligible voters actually

voted Social Credit can hardly be
regarded as an expression of con-
fidence.”

Result of the election was:

Les Peterson (SC), 6073;
Douglas Jung (Cons.), 3691;
Dorothy Steeves (CCF), 2788;
Jack Gillett (LPP), 438.

In the 1953 general election,
first choice votes under the now
discarded transferable ballot sys-
tem in Vancouver Centre ballot

“B” were:
Mozham (SC), 6510; Jamie-
son (CCF), 6035; Sweeney

(Lib.), 3757; Taylor (Cons.),
917; Stewart (LPP), 573; Rear-
don (Christian Dem.), 468.

The sharp increase in the Con-
servative vote was attributed to
the failure of the Liberals to
contest the byelection and the
Conservatives’ choice of a can-
didate.

By naming Douglas Jung as
the first Chinese Canadian to

-|contest public office in the coun-

try the Conservatives won strong
support from the Chinese Cana-
dian community, a fact borne
out by the majority given to
Jung in the six polls where the
Chinese ‘Canadian vote is most
‘heavily concentrated.

One reason Peterson obtained
ithe Socred nomination was the
| government’s desire to have a
‘second lawyer on its benches,
'and the Conservative’s nomina.
. tion of Jung, also ‘a lawyer, is
|reported to have drawn from
Attorney General Robert Bonner
‘the remark that he wished he
had known Jung had political

ment would have looked favor-
000-member AFL-CIO has start-| ably upon giving him a nomina-

tion.

Indian film showing

Goodwill visits by Premier Ja-
waharlal Nehru of India to the
Soviet Union and China are feat-
ured in a program of Indian films
to be shown this Friday, January
13, 8:15 p.m. in Pender Auditorium
here by B.C. Peace Council.

TUNE IN /

afl if
Morgan

PROVINCIAL LEADER \
LABOR PROGRESSIVE
so PARTY |

NAGEMENT POLICY’