‘WHAT'S ON foR “TONIGHT, FELLAS--. DEFENSE os
FREEDOM OR PursUIT OF JUSTICE wn?

' —¥Fred Wright in UE News

Veteran Communist
passes in Australia

In a recent edition of the Aus-
tralian “Tribune” the death of
John (Jack) Kavanagh is reported,
Born in Ireland, the Kavanagh
family moved to England when
Jack was still achild, At 16 years
he was working in the coal mines
_ and at 18 a combatant inthe Boer
War of 1899-1900, There he
learned to hate the aggression
and cruelty of imperialist war-
fare,

At the end of the Boer War
Jack Kavanagh emigrated to
Canada where he joined the So-
cialist Party, Later he became
one of the foundation members of
the Communist Party of Canada,
playing an active part in the build-
ing trades and other unions of
that period,

In 1925 Jack emigrated to Aus-
tralia and joined the Communist
Party of Australia, During the
Hungry Thirties “down under”

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Kavanagh played aprominent role
in the building trades, among ‘the
unemployed, and on the central
labor bodies of Australia,

On his retirement from active
party and union work Jack became
prominent in the senior citizen
pensioners’ association and fora
number of years was state presi-
dent of that body,

Many “old-timers” in Canada
and especially in B,C, will re-
member Jack Kavanagh for his
work in the early days of the Com-
munist Party, his activities on
the Vancouver Labor Council, in
the building trades unions, and
probably most prominent, the
part he played in the short-lived
One Big Union (OBU) movement,

Joining with the tribute paid to
Jack Kavanagh by the Australian
“Tribune,” the “PT” salutes the
memory of a veteran fighter,

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Lab

By TOM McEWEN

At. its origin in Canada in the
year 1894 the institution of Labor
Day was primarily designed by
its diverse founders to be a “re-
cognition,” not only of the* worth”
of Labor in the scheme of things,
but as a sort of an assurance
that Labor could always be relied
upon to preserve that quality of
subordinate “meekness” so ess-
ential in a profit-motivated so-
ciety,

A rapidly changing world js
shattering that pipe dream with
deadly certainty, as a cursory
glance at the Labor Day score-
board of 1964 readily shows,

This year close to one million
workers across Canada have been
involved in wage negotiations in
many of the largest and most
basic industries in the country,
Negotiations which, in many in-
stances have been stalled and ob-
structed by the unyeilding atti-
tude and class-stubborness of
the organized employers, and in
consequence, precipitating many
long and bitter strike struggles,

In the majority of unions where
Strike votes were authorized, the
percentage favoring direct strike
action, when all other union ef-
forts at a peaceful settlement of
the wage dispute had failed, was
exceptionally high, With strike
votes hitting an 80 to 100 percent
decision, there was no room left
for “doubts” as tothe determina-
tion or unanimity of the union
membership around the issues
involved,

Secondly, the degree of Labor
unity and solidarity in support of
this or that striking union on the
Picket line took precedence over
“jurisdictional” or affili ation
ties, The old and honoured con-
cept that “united we win? found
a resurgent and healthy growth
in the strike struggles of 1964,

Nowhere perhaps was this
more in evidence than in the un-
precedented “white collar?
struggle of the MacMillan-Bloe-
del office workers of Port Al-
berni, which not only demonstrat-
eda magnificent unity and soli-
darity against aruthless ana pow-
erful timber monopoly, but open-
ed up a great new vista of labor
organization and expansion in a
vitally important fiela that has as
yet been barely touched by or-
ganized Labor,

Thus in a year when monopoly
profits have reached an all-time
high Labor unity and_ solidarity
in the winning of wage and other
working and social concessions,
has also seen new and important
objectives won, Moreover the
long-term agreements sought by
the monopolies, as a means of

or Needs

War economy

tying the hands. of the workers,
in nearly all instances met with
resounding defeat, Canadian
labor decisively refused to have
the “future tied to the present,”

This growing militancy of la-
bor augurs well for the future,
since it marks a readiness to go
on a counter-offensive against
the concerted attacks of mono-
poly, and the latter’s intention to
further squeeze Labor through
the media of increasing automa-
tion and mechanization of indust-
ry, And while the latter does not
as yet receive the importance and
attention is must have in future
wage negotiations and new labor
legislation, important beginnings
in this field also are taking shape
in Labor’s demands,

Reflecting this growing mili-
tancy in the ranks of organized
labor in Canada, the recent ses-
Sion of the Executive Council of
the Canadian Labor Congress
adopted a Sweeping program for
continued struggle and progress,
A program that calls for greater
unity in the struggle for peace,

Unity and solidarit
Labor Day. Picture

; fe)
1964 WAS A YEAR IN WHICH B. C. LABOR WON MANY ere
y scored many successes which workers me which |
above shows the short-lived picket line at IF

and the universal outlawil ‘eg
nuclear weapons; for the UA :
of French and English-speayt
Canada in a new and indepene

elie:
Confederation; for a stream-li

t
ing of Parliament and the efficiel
execution of its function 1
service of the people, etc.

the

Equally important also ee

C.L,C, call for policies to ae
guard Labor’s interest in

of increasing automation an@”

displacement of workers.

ork; i
need for shorter hours of WO!”

: re-
longer vacations with Pay,

training of workers,
effective measures to he

ide jobs.
unemployment and provide JO”

of the

These are only a few by the

policy measures advanced
C.L,C, Executive session.
duced to practical rank-an
union activity, they envis :
continued and mounting ge
against monopoly, and a ste@

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growing unity in the sinc

Labor to do a big job; thew s
of peace and an equal ee of
the vast heritage and wea ;

Canada, in which Labor has beefs

and is, the prime architect at

builder,

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this

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quickly brought the giant CM&s monopoly to terms and won 4

standing victory.

Rankin hits new W&K de!
—vows battle will go on

Harry Rankin, president of the

Central Council: of Ratepayers

and leading Opposition spokesman
to the notorious Webb & Knapp

‘land steal in the West End, has

condemned the announcement that
“rights” to the Coal Harbor de-

velopment have been purchased
by a new Syndicate,

Commenting on recent reports
which stated the $55 million deal
had been sold to a Syndicate of
Vancouver

businessmen, he-
stated:

“We are going to investigate

| thoroughly the original agree-

ment between the City of Vancou-

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ver and Webb & KnapP ‘to have’
which Webb & Knapp Wa and
completed purchasing mber
and have clear title by Septé
1963, ;
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cerned:
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onto Vancouver waterfro
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