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| I. No. 34.

5 Cents

Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, August 28, 1943

ihy Lay Them Off?

labor Supports
| L. Cohen’s Stand

(Labor in British Columbia joined with labor throughout
eiada this week in asking immediate publication of the re-
sis on the National War Labor Board Enquiry and for action
folye the issues raised last week by J. lL. Cohen, KC, labor
etesentative on the board, whose refusal to take part in
ether sittings until government labor policy was clarified has
Fused the trade union movement,

mployees of Boeing Aircraft of; the Canadian Congress of _abor,
sada, through their union, Aero-|issued a statement expressing re-
iical Lodge 756, here approved | gret that there was disagreement
Fens stand, and sent him a] on the Board, and backed the labor
N= stating that “a labor code to|member in his demand that “both
Bt the requirements of present | the report of the board and the
labor problems must be estab- minority report by Cohen should
Hed at once . _ . your courage-|be made public without the slight-
Stand in protesting lack of labor | est delay. y

lation to make possible effi- Percy Bengough, acting president
mt functioning of war labor) of the Trades and Labor Congress
stds is much appreciated in the | “wholeheartedly endorsed Cohen's
it” stand that the goyernment’s posi-
hortly after Cohen’s letter an-|tion should be clarified in regard
mcing his decision was pub-
led; President A. R. Mosher, of

See COHEN — Page 2

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byelections.”

Unanimously adopted, the reso-
lution said- that what is now nec-
essary is the setting aside of all
obstacles to the unity “of all sec-
tions of the labor and farm move-
so as to advance further
the present great popular sweep,
to overcome and conquer all ob-
stacles and hindrances which yet
block a combined United Nations
offensive against Hitler-held THur-
ope, and to defeat the reactionary
attempts to disrupt the Canadian
home front and make a ‘negotiated

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peace’.

The convention declared “the
present situation is ripe for, and
imperatively calls for, establish-~
ment of the political, parliamen-
tary unity of all sections of the
Canadian labor and farm move-
ments.”

“Such unity was made possible
“by the fact that all sections of
the labor and farm moyements
are in general agreed upon the
main immediate wartime measures
and reforms, upon the need for

a clear-cut program of reforms

here last weekend by more than 500 delegates from ey
The convention, electing Tim Buck as the new par
as national chairman, declared its readiness to affiliate with the CCF. which, it said, “can
and should become the all-inclusive federation of all sections o

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Unity With CCF Urged By
Labor-Progressive Party

TORONTO, Ont.—Building of a labor-farmer movement that will “
| the leadership of the country and government”
ada’s workers, farmers and pr

go forward to assume

was the over-riding task placed before Can-

ogressive citizens by the Labor-Progsressive party established

The convention set the new party the task of working for
working class and a unified trade union movement.”

In one of the most important resolutions to come befor
“the history-making and nation-wide sweep of the Cnaadi
action which has scored its outstanding successes in the r

and social security to win the

peace, and upon the need to pre-
vent monopolists and  old-line
party politicians from turning back
the social clock to the tragedies of
the past decade and a halt in both
domestic and foreign relations.”

It is essential, the convention
resolution said, to bring together
the CCF, the trade unions, the new
Labor-Progressive party, the farm-
ers’ organizations and the cooper-
atives. It continued:

“This can be most readily and
rapidly achieved by the creation
of a broad, all-inclusive political
federation of laboring and farm-
ing people. This national con-
stituent convention of the Labor-
Progressive party therefore de-
clares that the CCF can and
should become the all-inclusive
federation of all sections of the
labor and farm movements.”

The CCF “aims to be such an
orgahization” as at present “form-
ally constituted,’ the resolution
Said, adding:

“This national constituent con-

ery parts of the country.
ty’s national leader and Evariste Dube

f the labor and farm move-

“a single, unified party of the

e the convention delegates sreeted
an people into independent political
ecent Ontario elections and federal

vention declares the readiness of
the Labor-Progressive party to af-
filiate to the CCF on the above
basis. As an affiliated section of
the CCF, the Labor-Progressive
party will place above all other
considerations the cause of unity
in action of the Canadian labor
and farm movements, and loyally.
adhere to the decisions and consti-
tution of the CGF”

_The keynote address was de-
layered by Tim Buck, whose elec-
fion by acclamation as National
leader touched off ‘an unparalled
demonstration.

“We are gathered together in a
momentous hour of world history,”
Buck declared. “We lave gathered
in response to the needs of this
momentous hour and the respon-
sibilities that it brings forward for
the progressive movement. We
are gathered to strengthen and in-
crease the effectiveness of our ef-
forts to help win the War. We are
gathered to prepare ourselves for

See CONVENTION — Page 7