SS en ae ist Issue, September B.C. LUMBER WORKER From Page 1 V7" “CROSSMAN" tion from the trade unions, the constituency parties, the coopera- tives, and the women.” f Guaranteed Wage The IWA questions then dealt with British opinion regarding such questions as the guaranteed annual wage. Mr. Crossman ad- mitted that the question of dis- placement by automation had caused the British workers great alarm, and that they were inter- ested in securing a larger meas- ure of protection. He expressed great admiration of the work done by Walter Reu- ther but explained that in Great Britain the unions sought such schemes through legislation as much as by economic action. His fear was, he stated, that if the unions rely exclusively on guaranteed wage plans obtained by bargaining, many thousands of workers, less well organized, would be neglected. In fact, the lower income workers would gain the least protection, he said. Political Action Intended Mr. Crossman was emphatic in stating that the British trade unions intended to gain a lar- ger measure of social security by political action taken as an integ- ral part of the British Labor Party. He considered that an over-all scheme for health ser- vices and social security, sponsor- ed by the State, was vastly pre- ferable to a patchwork system set up by private enterprise. ICFTU Praised The visitor gave warm praise to the work of the ICFTU, and said, “You will have Communist | reyolutions in order to achieve the minimum requirements of or- dinary people, unless we as trade unionists get in there to organize genuine free trade union move- ments in the colonial territories, and organize genuine democratic cooperatives. They’re the only means by which people can pull themselves up out of the middle ages into a decent standard of living, Without a communist revo- lution. We must teach these peo- ple the principles of free trade unionism. That’s the biggest sin- gle job we have ahead of us.’ When questioned by President Morris, he explained that next year a Commonwealth Confer- ence will be held of the Common- wealth Labor Parties. This is possible, he stated, because of the remarkable similiarity in prob- lems and aims. Martyrs Honored LONDON, ONT. (CPA) — One of the famed “Tolpuddle Martyrs”, George Loveless, who lies buried in the nearby Siloam cemetery, was honored in a Labor Day memorial service by labor leaders from this- area. The “Martyrs” were exiled from England to Australia 120 years ago for union activities. Love- less later came to Canada and settled here in 1844. MOSHER AT TUC OTTAWA (CPA) — A. R. Mosher, honorary president of the Canadian Labor Congress and of the Canadian Brotherhood of *| Railway Employees, will repre- sent Canadian labor.at the British Trades Union Congress to be held at Brighton during Septem- ber. Mr. Mosher was named CLC fraternal delegate to the TUC at the CLC’s recent executive coun- cil meeting here. _ AFL-CIO Secretary - Treasurer William Schnitzler and Emil Rieve, chairman of the executive council of the Textile Workers Union, will be the AFL-CIO fra- ternal delegate to the TUC. Probe Seeks Answer First enquiry into indus- try-wide jurisdictional prob- lems under the Canadian La- bor Congress was held re- cently in Ottawa to deal with trade union interests in the paper bag and box converter plants in Canada, Five unions, including the IWA, and the Pulp & Sul- phite Workers, all with mem- bers in these plants, sub- mitted evidence. District Council No. 1, IWA, was represented by the District President Joe Mor- ris, National Vice-President CLC. 2 A special sub - committee will review the situation un- der consideration, and make recommendations. Represent- ing the IWA on this com- mittee is the Eastern Cana- dia Director H. Landon Ladd. Mahoney Elected OTTAWA (CPA) — William Mahoney, assistant Canadian director of the United Steel- workers, has been elected vice- president of the Canadian La- bor Congress. He was chosen unanimously by the CLC executive council meet- ing here to succeed Steel’s Cana- dian Director, C. H. Millard, who was recently appointed director of organization for the Interna- tional Confederation of Free Trade Unions. CCL Executive Mr. Mahoney, 39, started work at Algoma Steel’s mill at Sault Ste. Marie at the age of 17. He became a full-time union official in 1941 and eight years later he was named assistant to the Cana- dian director of the Steelworkers. He was a member of the execu- tive of the Canadian Congress of Labor from 1951 until the forma- tion of the Canadian Labor Con- gress early this year. The new CLC vice-president was born in Cardiff, Wales, and came to Can- ada one year later. 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International, 2nd Vice-President, , Local 1-85, IWA, to follow the debate on political action at the recent meeting of the IWA District Conference. Bury Gets High ICFTU ORIT Post Jim Bury, former. Secretary of the old Vancouver Labor Council (CCL), has been ap- pointed assistant General Sec- retary of Inter-American Re- gional Organization (ORIT) of International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Bury, a member of the United Packinghouse Workers will be permanently based at ORIT’s Mexico City headquarters. ICFTU Organizer He is no novice in the interna- tional labor field having recently returned from Kenya where he spent two years as a field organ- izer for the ICFTU. In the ORIT post, Bury will be in one of the top ten labor jobs in the world, The ICFTU is di- vided into three regions—Europe, Asia and the Americas. Under the three top leaders at the ICFTU Brussels headquarters are the three regional secretaries and their assistants. ORIT controls international la- bor problems throughout most of North, South and Central Ameri- ca. In addition to the Mexico City headquarters, it has officials and field workers in Washington, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Bar- bados. GEORGE SMYTHE, recently elevated to the post of President, Local 1-80, IWA, Duncan, to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- , tion of Tony Poje. BR: INSTRUCTION IN INDUSTRIAL FIRST AID to Industrial 'S ASSN. OF B.C. THE INDUSTRIAL FIRST AID ATTENDANT! - Vancouver 3, B.C. 130 West Hastings Street