Smith, new president of
Civic Employees, will
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Ed Smith, newly-elected president of Local 28, Civic Employees Union, will attend the Trades
and Labor Congress convention in Halifax next month and present the appeal of the union against its

suspension last year.

Smith was elected by acclamation.

Local 28 election nominations this month saw business agent Donald Guise and raring secre-

tary. Jack Phillips retuned by acclamation.

G. Keats, T. Evans and R. Bailey.
Elections take place at the Aug-
ust membership meeting.

In a policy statement issued by
the new president, Smith outlined
the union’s position in its dispute
with the TLC.

“Some members say, ‘Why bother
appealing? The Congress has giv-
en us a dirty deal and what can
we expect from them?’ The fact
remains that we didn’t interfere
with the officers of Congress. It
was the officers who interfered
with us. That is the message I
will carry to Halifax.

“It is a fact that the bulk of
Canada's organized civic workers
are in the Trades and Labor Con-
gress of Canada.
a right to be in the Congress too.
But if the convention is so stack-
ed against us that our appeal will
fall on deaf ears, then we will get
along without the Congress until
such time as there is trade union
democracy in the Congress.

“After all, it was not the Con-
gress thad built this union. It
was unions like Local 28 that
built the Congress. This is the
message I will carry to Halitax.

“After vainly trying to saddle
us with a group of leaders we
didn’t want, men who were defeat-
ed by secret ballot, Congress of-
ficers suspended 16 of our officers

and stewards and then set up a
rival union with the same jurisdic-
tion as Local 28. The fact that a
dual union was set up under these
conditions, while Local 28 was still
in good standing, is a disgrace to
the labor movement of Canada. ~

“Then, when the dual union, as-
sisted by a screaming daily press,
failed to make the progress ex-
pected of it, Local 28 was suspend-
ed as a union. The order of sus-’
pension notified us that we had
the right to appeal to the next
meeting of the TLC executive coun-
cil, and, finally to the convention.
But Congress officers made a mock-

ery. of this right of appeal by
placing two paid organizers in the
field for the sole purpose of de-
stroying our local. This is the
message I will carry to Halifax.

“Today, through documents
signed by Sam Lindsay, president
of the Congress-sponsored union,
the rump union stands exposed as
a company = union. Vancouver

‘Trades and Labor Council (TLC-
AFL) passed a resolution on May
15, 1951, dissociationg itself from
company union literature issued by

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Lindsay on behalf of the rump
union. This is the message I will
carry te Halifax.

“Despite all the blows we have

suffered, the vast majority of Van-

couver’s outside civic workers
have remained loyal to their un-
ion. Also we have started a cam-

paign of organizing the unorgan-

ized, bringing into the trade union
movement groups of civic em-
ployees previously neglected.

“All this means that come what
may, we will remain organized
as a body of trade union work-
ers, and we will go on to greater
achievements in advancing the
wages, welfare and security of
our members. This fight has
made us a better union. We won’t
be stampeded. We are going tp
win. This is the message I will
carry to Halifax.”

WE KNOW YOU'RE COMING

“We know you're all coming, so
we've baked a cake,’ said Elgin
Ruddell, manager of the 1951 Un-
ited Labor Picnic, to be held in
Confederation Park on Sunday,
August 12.

“But we're ian you to use
your talents, too. Can you bake
a cherry pie? Whip up a batch
of cookies? Use your spare dough
to make some doughnuts?

“I guess I’d better stop before I
get my ingredients mixed. The
idea is that there’ll be prizes offer-
ed for the best home cooking; and
if you’re not inclined to enter the
cooking contest, we’d still appre-
ciate donations for the snack bar.”

Ruddell said that cooking, fine
arts, handicrafts, designs, costume
jewelry and toys contests, all with
peace as their motif, will be a
main attraction this year. Valuable

prizes will be awarded.

Fight for peace in Korea begins
for us in homes, streets of city,
Gardner tells Peace Assembly

*“The fight for peace in Korea, where cease-fire negotiations have already been placed in jeopardy
by American refusal to discuss the withdrawal of all foreign troops, begins for us right here on the streets

and doorsteps of Vancouver.”

This was the theme of a report made to Vancouver Peace Assembly

‘his week by Ray Gardner, executive secretary of the B.C. Peace Council, on his return from the na-
tional council meeting of the Canadian Peace Congress.

* “In Toronto Mrs. Nora Rodd told
us that everywhere she went in
Korea the first question asked of
her was invariably, ‘What are Can-
adians doing for peace?’

“Since then I have read We Ac-
cuse, the report of the delegation
of women which Mrs. Rodd head-
ed and which investigated reports
of American atrocities in Korea.

It is a frightening document. I}.

can think of only one other book
that compares with it for sheer
horror. That is The Black Book,
the indictment of the Nazis which
the Jews of the world prepared
and presented to the war crimes
tribunal at Neuremberg.

“To read We Accuse from start
to finish will fill any honest per-
son with anger, compassion and
an overpowering determination to
answer with deeds, not words, the
question which Korean mothers
asked so often of iMrs. Rodd:
‘What are Canadians doing for
peace?’

' “But it is meaningless to be
moved by this book, to condemn
this terrible barbarity unless we

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ourselves, each and everyone of us
who says he stands for peace, is
prepared to do something about
it.

“We are not required to do
much. All we are asked to do
is to collect five signatures each
day from now until the first of
September to the World Peace

Pact petition. What a small,
trifling sacrifice to make, the giv-
ing up of a lit}le time, in the face
of such overwhelming human
misery. Thirty-five signatures a
week for tne next four weeks.”

Gardner reported that more than
65,000 signatures had been collect-
ed in British Columbia to the
World Peace Pact petition and said
that B.C. peace workers had creat-
ed a magnificent example for the
whole Canadian peace movement.

“I was extremely proud to rep-
resent the British Columbia Peace

Council on my visits to all the

prairie cities and some of the
cities of Eastern, Canada. Ewvery-
where the work of our petitioners
was praised and held up as an ex-

ample,” Gardner reported.

“The result, I am sure, is going
to be-a tremendous upsurge in the
whole peace movement from here
to Toronto.”

Gardner pointed out that turn-
outs for Saturday street petition-
ing had been consistently decreas-
ing’ since the record turnout of
May 12 and called for larger turn-
outs for every Saturday during
August.

Street petitioning will be held
throughout the downtown area
this Saturday, he reported. A mass
mobilization of petitioners was ‘ap-
proved by the meeting for August
11, sixth anniversary of the first
atomic bombing of Hiroshima in
August, 1945.

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Here’s what's cooking
at labor's big picnic

Entry forms for these contests.

are available }from the United
Labor Picnic Committee, Room
501, Ford Building, Vancouver.

The picnic’s entertainment pYro-
gram will last all afternoon and

evening. There'll be wrestling,
boxing, an exhibition of judo,
races for the children and other
items in “the afternoon, and at
7 p.m. a softball game will feature
the N-Flyers and a. “mystery
team.”

Games of skill and fun, novelty —

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operate along the picnic’s midway-

Featured speaker at) the great
annual gathering will be Alder-
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Sask. Peace Council
greets Douglas speech

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Saskatchewan Peace Council,
“on behalf of the many thousands
who have signed the _ petition
calling for a Five-power world
peace pact” has greeted Premier
T. C. Douglas’ speech on world
affairs delivered to the CCF con-
vention “as a real contribution
to the great struggle for world
peace now being carried on by
the people of Canada.”

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