comment! ol TLNT UN ete oe ALT VTA ULL UT T -Mine-Mill inclusion in parleys demanded by Rossland-Trail CCF NELSON, B.C:—Rossland-Trail members of the CCF have been angered by refusal of CCF and CLC top leaders to admit Mine-Mill union into Kootenay conferences on political action. Following a meeting of the Rossland-Trail CCF executive, attended by representatives from all parts of the riding, a spokesman issued a strong statement rapping Stanley Knowles, leading CCF member and executive vice-president of the Canadian Labor Congress. The statement read: “Mine-Mill has been -a union with an _ outstanding record as a labor organization in the Kootenays for a period of more than 63 years. “This union has complete Canadian autonomy and with a democratic. constitu- tion, philosophy, objectives and administration, has ren- - dered and continues to render valuaBle service to Canadian labor. “Therefore, we are of the Opinion that the inclusion of Mine-Mill union is essential to the success of any CCF-trade union conference.” In his press “statement, Knowles attacked what he call- ed “totalitarian unions” and PATRONIZE CEDAR FUEL & TRANSFER Phone: 566-R-3 Cedar, B.C. Gas Installations FURNACES — STOVES WATER HEATERS Harry C. 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Federation of Labor secretary and a lead- ing right-wing spokesman for CCF, then flew to Ottawa and inspired. Knowles’ state- ment. In Trail, one leading CCF member is reported as say- ing: “I can’t understand how | anyone who is supposedly in- terested in labor-farmer unity can start off in the develop- . ment of such unity by exclud- ing a group like Mine-Mill, which certainly can stand on its own feet in terms of pro- gress “This is certainly the height of short-sightedness as far as the - local CCF is concerned. The error of such a position must be rectified. Only by full participation of all people of all outlooks can the success: of discussions such as these about to take place be as- sured,” : ROOFING & SHEET METAL REPAIRS Duroid, Tar and Gravel Reasonable Gutters and' Downpipes NICK BITZ BR. 71-6722 st ca Mine-Mill has 6,000 mem- bers in the southern interior, with the largest concentra- tion in the Rossland-Trail rid- ing, the seat presently held by former Lands and Forest Minister Robert Sommers. Local CCFers, many of them Mine-Mill members, re- member that if the CCF had taken the.seat in 1952 instead of the Socreds, it could have formed the government. They want to win the seat in the next election but recognize that to do so they must have Labor - CCF unity which would include Mine-Mill. The question of Mine-Mill's participation in area confer- ence is expected to be a hot issue at the CCF provincial council meeting, scheduled to be held in Vancouver this weekend. The extent of the unemploy- ment crisis expected to hit the province this winter, already indicated by increasing layoffs and lengthening jobless lines, requires that the Bennett gov- ernment call a fall session ol the, legislature to discuss plans for works projects and other measures to relieve it. This is the opinion of the Labor-Progressive Party as voiced in a resolution sent to Victoria from its recent pro- vincial committee meeting. The main resolution adopted by the committee in a weekend discussion noted that the Social Credit government had taken no steps to combat unemploy- ment, although the province was facing the worst crisis of the past quarter-century. ' “The anti-labor offensive of the employers, aimed at load- ing the burden of economic crisis upon the backs of the working people, has been con- doned and encouraged by the attitude of the Bennett govern- ment,” the resolution declared. LPP urges session on jobless crisis ! 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