Build home, world markets

Mine- Mill parley
adopts peace plan

NEW YORK

The 48th convention of the International Union of Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers adjourned Friday last week after adopting a
far-reaching program for ‘‘A World at Peace’ with emphasis on the
implications for the non-ferrous metals industry.

Delegates. named Denver as

their convention city for 1953,

when the union will. celebrate its 60th anniversary.

‘Supports
strikers
in Quebec

United labor support for strik-
ing oil workers, shipyard workers
and electrical workers in Quebec

is urged by Harvey “Murphy,
Mine-Mill western regional di-
rector, in his column in B.C.

District News, the union’s paper.
Murphy writes:

“We have received from the
Montreal Labor Council. CCL, an
appeal for financial support for
the Oil. Workers International
Union (CIO-CCL), who are con-
ducting a strike in Montreal
against the Phelps-Dédge Corpo-
ration, and we are sure that our
membership will give full support
to these workers who are bat-y
tling for trade unionism.

“We are not for one minute un-
mindful of the fact that these
workers are a local of the Oil
Workers, a union whose leader-
ship classify themselves as right
wing, and also belong to the
Montreal Labor Council, which
has done a good measure of red-
baiting.

“They are in a real desperate
fight as is all organized labor
in Quebec, and we know it ‘is
not the rank-and-file of the
trade unions who do the split-
ting, certainly not these work-
ers who have not at any time
wanted a division in the ranks
of the CCL, but have not been
consulted by the top brass.

“In face of this situation we
must look on their struggle as a
fight for all of us and help them
beat back the plot to destroy the
trade union movement — a plot
sponsored by Hes hues and his
cohorts.

“In the same connection, the
valiant fight being put up by-the
United Electrical, Radio, and Ma-
chine Workers and that of the
Catholic syndicates in the’ ship-
yard, are part of the same battle,
and also merit the support of our
entire membership. I know that
we must not look on names, af-
filiations or lack of affiliation
when workers are fighting the
boss for wages and working con-
ditions, Unity is the watchword.
and everything must be done to
win.”’

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In a fast-moving last day ses-
sion, they approved a wage and
contract policy statement which
hailed the winning during ~ the
past month of settlements ‘ap-
proximating| 10 cents an hour
from three of the Big Four mining
and smelting companies in the
United States.”

Calling attention to] the| fact |’

that the 1952 wage settlements
have yet to be approved by the
U.S. Wage Stabilization| Board.
the convention declared that
“this board| as reconstituted| by
the last Congress is more bent
upon freezing wages than the old
one — despite this, we Serve
notice upon all concerned that we
do not intend to see our hard-
won bargaining gains taken away
from us or pared down.”

The detailed program for “A
World at Peace’? was keyed to
three points:

V Stabilize the non-ferrous
metals industry.

V Build the home market.

V Extend world markets,

Under the first part, the union

proposed that “the iron grip of

the U.S. monopolies on _ the
world’s non-ferrous metal re-
sources be broken,’ that non-

ferrous metal production be allo-
cated among the nations through
an International Materials Con-
ference, and that an_ International
Development Authority be estab-
lished to promote development of
industry and resources in under-
developed countries ‘‘without
economic or political interfer-
ence.”

The second phase of the pro-
gram calls for “higher wages,
lower taxes, a work week of 35
hours now and later 30 hours with
no; loss.in pay, an end to discrim-
ination, and higher incomes for
the nation’s farmers.’’

To build the home market. the
union proposed ‘‘a vast housing
and public works program, so
that every family will have a de-
cent school to go to, every sick
person will be taken care of in
fully equipped and staffed hos-
pitals, every farmer will have
electricity and a telephone, so
that our highways will be made
wide enough and safe for all our
cars, and so that our great river
valley, instead of being eroded
one’ year and flooded the next.
with thousands of farms and
homes destroyed every year, will
be controlled and developed for
the benefit of the people.”

To extend world markets, the
union called for freeing of trade
between nations from cold-war
restrictions ‘‘which mean the loss
to our members of thousands of
jobs.”’ :

The convention further pro-
pesed that delegations of Mine-
Mill members be sent to Latin
America and Africa ‘‘to conduct
on-the-spot surveys of condi-
tions, so that our membership
may be more fully informed
and that we may build up ties
of unity among all non-ferrous
metal workers of this continent
and others.”’

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Canadian people protest

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The discredited Liberal-Conservative Coalition gave U.S. interests extensive rights to B.C:
But E. T. Kenney, former minister in the defeated Johnson Liberal government, who
helped to give the U.S. dominated Aluminum Company of Canada its huge Kitimat holdings, is
now protesting proposals to use’B.C. water rights in the Atlin area to provide power for 2 new:
The reason for his alarm: He fears the prop '
new development may adversely affect the Kitimat project. The reason for most Canadians’ alarm
They fear that Kitimat and other U.S.-controlled projects will be used against their own interest
in peaceful Canadian development to raise Canadian living standards.

resources.

aluminum development at Skagway, Alaska.

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Congress of Canadian Women will
name delegates to national meet

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Election of delegates to the Third National Conference of Canadian Women will be one °

the important items on the agenda of the next membership meeting of Congress of Canadian wome™
in the Lounge Room 4&t. Pétider auaitorrum, 5 p.m, Septemper 24.

“How Precious are our Children,’’ will. be the theme of the national parley, to be ‘hel

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Toronto. October 17-19.

The local CCW meeting will
discuss the national conference
call, elect delegates, and report
on the family allowance survey
now being carried on. :

On October 3, a public meet-
ing will be held at Hastings
Auditorium to hear Mrs. Olive

Wilkinson, CCW delegate to
the International Conference in
Defense of Children, held in
*Vienna last spring, present her
report.

This week the Congress, under
the signature of B.C. council
president Mrs. Hilda Scott, pro-
tested to the provincial cabinet
against the increased rate of re-
turn granted the BCElectric. The
wire read:

“We protest increased rate
of return granted BCElectric.
Ask your government rescind
increase, dismiss present. Pub-
lic Utility Commission. commis-
sioners, We recommend Royal
Commission inquiry into BC-
Electric operations.”

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