Hall's stock slumps as Congress convention nears

porting President Bengough for his firm stand in refusing
to be stampeded by the raucous wail of “communism.”

Local unions which might otherwise have been content to
send only ‘token’ delegates are now sending their full quota—
with one main purpose in mind, viz, not to permit Big Business
and its Sullivan-Hall stooges to split and destroy the Trades
and Labor Congress of Canada. "i ate

Refusing to be stampeded by high-pressure red-bogey pro-
paganda, President Ben‘gough has maintained a principle trade
union position throughout in his interpretation of Congress
policy; the right of the Canadian Seamen’s Union to demo-
cratically choose their own leaders; that the laws of Canada
shall apply with equal force to employers as to workers, and
that support of the CSU struggle is a constitutional as well
as a moral obligation of the TLC.

The actions of Frank Hall and those who associated them-
selves with him in attempting to split the TLC, are inspired
by those whose interests are best served by a weakened and
divided labor movement. It becomes the sacred duty of every
sincere trade unionist in Victoria next week to see to it that
the policies of President Bengough are upheld, and the Hall
faction meted out the condemnation and scorn they so justly
deserve, ‘

;FRroM Cape Breton-to Vancouver Island a tidal wave of

support for the policies of President Percy Bengough of
the Trades and Labor Congress is surging up. AFL union
delegates are looking eagerly towards Victoria and the 63rd
convention of the TLC which will open on Monday, October 11.

Key issue on the agenda will be Congress policy as express-
ed in its stand on the struggle of the Canadian Seamen’s Union
on the Great Lakes strike this year, and the contemptible
attempt of ‘railroader’ Frank Hall of the Railway and Steam-
ship Clerks’ Union to knife the Congress in the back by
“chartering” the Sullivan scab “union,” thereby hoping to
throw the CSU to the dogs and ‘take over’ the presidency.
of the Congress in place of Bengough. :

The wave of indignation that kas swept rank-and-file AFL
unions from coast to coast at this piece of bare-faced union
treason has sent a fiock of AFL ‘roadmen’ scurrying to cover
to compose “explanations” for their support- of Frank Hall’s
action. It has also tomed down the predictions of Canadian
Manufacturers Association political weather cocks in Ottawa
and in the pages of the daily press, that their investments
in glamor boy Hall are not going to pay off!

_ . Seores of resolutions have been forwarded by local unions
to the TLC condemning the actions of Frank Hall and sup-

PERCY BENGOUGH

Peace statement

Laurent policy of aggressive war) resolutions, by leaflet and radio, by
against Socialism and democracy. building up a powerful front for
No money for homes! But $300 | peace, fight to save Canada from

| Wall Street-War. We call upon the

li 1 fe 7 i | ;
pee REIL tan eae HE | Canadian people to meet and de-
when Wiblex was. -ravaring | feat the warmongers, We call upon
Czechoslovakia and Spain | every LPPer, we appeal to CCF’ers,

, to work. mightily for peace, to
No wonder that the

Morgan raps Benchers
in letter to Wismer

_ Commenting on -the recent action of the Benchers of the

B.C. Law Society in barring UBC student Gordon Martin from

the legal profession, Nigel Morgan, provincial leader of the

highest arouse the Canadian people to fight) Labor-Progressive Party, has forwarded a sharp letter of

praise for these* war = policies | against the Wall Street War Pro-| protest to attorney: ~
comes from the Tory press and the) gram, and for this Canadian Peace} Wismer.

monopolists who make billions out’ Program: “The action of the Benchers of

!
SE ae De Oe —Not a man, not a gun, for | the B.C. Law Society in denying ad-

of the Soviet Union and the New
‘Democracies. They do not flinch
from turning Europe, Asia and
America into a reeking shambles
_ in their mad war plan to bring the
world under the heel of American
dollar imperialism! :

|

Mackenzie King and St. Laurent)
are up to the ears in this insane
Wall Street conspiracy against
_ peace. In 1938 the Liberal govern-
ment opposed the Soviet Union’s
proposal for united action to stop

-general Gordon | z

that immediate profession. The is-
sue is: shall those who allow them-
selves to be nominated as the” can-

Hitler’s fascist aggression under
that it could not “commit

pretext
Canada.
‘Yoday, Lester B. Pearson,
without consulting the people or

_ Parliament, announces the _ re-
jection of the United Nations
and the complete commitment of
Canada to the U.S. plans for ag-
gressive war against the Socialist

It is a lie when they say the |
Soviet Union threatens Canada |

or the peace of the world. The
only great power which is talk-
ing war and preparing to carry
war to lands across the seas is

the United States. The reckless.

war preparations which King

and St. Laurent pretend are for |
our “defense” are in fact a part |

of U.S. aggressive war prepara-

Wall Street War!

—No conscription or militari-
zation of our youth!

—U.S. troops must leave Can-
ada! .

—Demand that Canada in the
U.N. supports the Soviet resolu-
tion for an immediate universal
one-third reduction of arma-
ments and the outlawing of the

mittance to the Bar of Gordon
Martin, LPP candidate in the 1945
provincial elections and third year
law student at the UBC, constitutes
the most flagrant violation of civil
and political liberties B.C. has- had
the misfortune of witnessing for
many years.

“IT understand Mr. Martin pre-
sented an imposing number of cre-

| didate of a political party be liable
to discrimination because of their
political views? Or shall any per-
son be denied entry to certain pro-
fessions because of his political be-
liefs?

As the provincial leader of the
Labor-Progressive Party I .consid-
er it my duty to protest against this
flagrant violation of civil rights.
Since the free choice of political

atomic bomb! ow

—Stop the shipment of Cana-
dian uranium except for peaceful
purposes! Stop the shipment of
arms to Chiang and the tyrants
in Greece, Indonesia and Malaya!

—Kecognize the State of Is-
rael!

—Kestore triendly relations
and normal trade between Can-
ada and the USSR and the New
Democracies!

—Save Canada from

dentials attesting his good reputa-
tion. Therefore it can onty be con-
cluded that the Benchers’ decision
was based on political bias and
outright . political discrimination,
Their action is even more outrag-
eous when it is considered that Mr.
Martin was admitted to the law
fraternity three years ago and has
since devoted himself completely to
preparing for a career in the legal
profession, spending his wartime
gratuities to do so. “

“The Martin case not only casts
reflections on the impartiality of
the legal profession, but it also
poses an issué far transcending

tions.

Canadians must speak out, must
act now to save the peace, to guard
Canada against Wall Street war. |

The Labor-Progressive Party calls |
on the labor movement and all |
peace-loving: people in French and)
English Canada to join hands in|}
popular democratic action to save|
Canada from the fires of, Wall
Street war! We call on labor to de-|
mounce the support given to Wall
Street war by CCF leaders who | Unite Canada for Peace!
tread in Bevin’s treacherous foot-; (]ssued by the British Columbia-
steps. : | Yukon Committee of the Labor-

In public meetings, by protest' Progressive Party.) .

Soviet Union and the New Demo- candidates is also involved-in this

issue I consider it incumbent upon
your government that it should im-
mediately investigate this serious
breach of the people’s political
freedom.”

Meantime Gordon Martin has
made official application to the
Law Society for stated reasons
upon which the Benchers denied
his admission to the bar.

Millard waives

. ry Wallace wages a stubborn
icies, for friendship between North |
America and the Soviet Union. Mil-
lions of Americans and Canadians
support him. But the Liberal gov-

ernment here has sold out body
and soul to Wall Street, to the
billionaires who hated Roosevelt
and financed Hitler.

To their shame, the Coldwell-
Lewis-Millard leadership of the
CCF join with the Tory and Social
Credit chiefs behind the King-St.

War!

Our club at its meeting last
= week began a discussion on
the Party, its nature and its
work. This topic, which is be-
ing taken up in many Party or-
izations as part of the prep-
aration of our pre-Convention
‘discussion, gives us a good op-
portunity to deepen our under-
standing of many problems of
_day-to-day work, in the light of
basic theory. _
How does the club fulfil the
function of an advance detach-
ment of the workers, a center of
leadership? In other words, to
what extent does it fulfil the
role of vanguard, which is the.

its work fulfil the idea of the

Party as the organized detach-

ment, the organized center of

p, the highest form of

class organization of the work-
jets?

-- Starting with questions such

as these, it’s not long before—

- gome new insights are gained,
‘in terms of strength and weak-
‘nesses of our work.

Is it a weakness of the club,
that it simply receives directives
from the ward or section or re-
gional committee, and tries to
‘apply them_as best it can, but

hardly ever initiates projects it-
self, or independently works out
ideas and plans in the light of
‘our general policy? If so, there’s
something radically wrong, that
needs correcting. And in the
first place, perhaps, it’s the
club’s conception -of itself: a
week understanding of the idea
of the Party as vanguard, trans-—
lated into the concrete terms
of the life and work of the given
club, Or a large part of the fail-
ing may lie with the leading
committees, which likewise, may
have a mechanical conception of
leadership.

Take for example the LPP
campaign for peace, featured in
this issue of the Pacific Tribune.
The main content and direction
are indicated in the statement
of the National Executive, which
places this fight as a No. 1 task
of the Party.

The general plan of campaign
has been submitted to the pro-
vincial and regional committees,
and will be taken up by all re-
sponsible committees (trade un-
ion, youth, women, etc.) and by
every club.

What will the main problems
be? 3
First, getting clear on the
political urgency of the ques-
tion, understanding its life and

’

a The LPP column
Centers of leadership —

death significance for our Par- -
ty, for the labor movement, for
the Canadian people,

The St. Laurent-King gov-
ernment is plotting war: the
people must act for peace.

Save Canada from Wall
Street’s plan for war!

That is the issue that must be
grasped in all its scope and

‘depth and meaning for the

working people — for Canada.

Second, the job is to trans-
late the plan of campaign into
concrete terms in each province,
region and locality. It isn’t
enough to carry on propaganda
and agitation in general. For in-.
stance: g

In what plants are arms being.
produced for the Kuomintang’s
criminal, U.S.-backed war on
Chinese democracy? Of for the
imperialists in Indonesia, Mal-
‘aya, Greece?

What about the stationing of
U.S. troops on Canadian soil, the
carrying on of war-preparations
by the U.S. militarists in your
province or region? —

What glaring examples are
there of ‘war-mongering, war-
inciting speec by local brass
hats or other reactionary bigwigs
in your area? Or of war hysteria
promotion in the press, on the
radio, etc.? Hace

What about the plans for mili-

By STANLEY RYERSON

tarization of the youth in your
locality? ‘

To all of these we need to re-
act—and to find the most effect-
ive way of doing it with the
forces at our disposal,

e ;

~ We need meetings of neighbors
and workers in the shop, radio
broadcasts, leaflets, sale of the
Pacific Tribune, winning new
members for the Party—all as
part of a definite plan of cam-
paign.

‘We need to have every mem-
ber speak up on the question at
every opportunity—in the union
local, the fraternal organization,
on civic bodies, in farm groups...
In simple, hard-hitting terms, |
we must. warn the people and
call them to action. —

_ We must seek opportunities to —
support existing movements for —
peace, for friendship with the
Soviet Union, and among the wo-
men and the youth—and to help
build a united movement for
peace in Canada. And in all of
this, the work that the Party
itself does can prove a powerful -
stimulus. j

Lastly, we must check up on
the fulfilment of what we have
decided, so as to move ahead
constantly towards bigger and
better results in the work we
oleh \

premium pay

More than 1,000 Toronto steel-
workers, members of the United
Steelworkers of America (CIO),
led by C. H. Millard, are now
working Saturday’s and Sundays
without overtime premium pay
which was waived by Shaky Rob-
ertson, USWA international re-
presentative. The probabilities
are that 1,500 more Toronto
steelworkers will also. have their
premium pay waived by Millard
representatives. This is another
example of Millard’s policy of
retreat, say local steel workers.

Auto workers, however, under
the leadership of George Burt,
UAW-CIO Canadian Director, are
standing firm in their policy of
demanding time and a half for
weekend work as called for in
contracts. é ;

The same is true of the UE-
CIO, led by Canadian Director
Cc. S. Jackson and of the
United Textile Workers of Ameri-
ca (AFL) whose Canadian Di-
rector R. Kent Rowley has made
it clear that premium pay will
not be waived.

A unanimously passed resolu. —
tion demanding an end to red-
baiting in the United Steelwork- —
ers of America (CIO) was passed
by USWA Local 2900 (John Ing-
lis), the largest in the Toronto
area, ’ :

The Local 2900 membership
also instructed its delegates to
the coming Wage and Policy
meeting of the USWA to raise
the issue of red-baiting in the
union as a whole and to deman
that it be stopped.

Similar resolutions have beet
passed by the Hamilton Harvest:
er Local and the Sydney Local of
the union.

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