| LABORS VOICE FOR VICTORY

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Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, September 18, 1943

A round of buck passing
“at the City Hall which has
‘incensed those citizens
who have been refused
the right to make appli-
‘cation for inclusion in the
‘ivic voters list this week
‘marked the campaign be-
‘ing waged by Vancouver
frade unions for new inter-
‘pretation of the city char-
fer.

When a delegation from
the Trade Union Repre-
sentation Committee vis-
ited Mayor Cornett to ask
for clarification of the issue
| the mayor passed the buck

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‘The Aces who never fly?

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City Officials

Pass. Buck
On Civic

Vote Issue

National Union Of
Shipyard
Workers

Proposed

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CCL Recommends
CCF Affiliation
To Member Unions

__..._. MONTREAL.—From the Canadian Con
has come one of the most im
trade union body in many years—a recommendation,
to one, that the unions affiliated to the CCL affiliate to

The resolution declared that “it is becoming

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J. L. Cohen, K.C.

recently dismissed member of
the National War Labor
Board, who told the CCL con-
vention that no time must
be lost in instituting a labor
policy, based on co-operation
with labor and proper treat-
ment of labor. There must, he
said, be an end to the program
of aggression which manage-
ment and even government
is conducting against the
growth of trade unions.

. Solution to the reinstate-
ment of the Boilermakers
and Iron _ Shipbuilders
Union by the Canadian
Congress of Labor may be
found in one of a number
of proposals now being
studied by CCL officials
and union representatives
in Montreal this weekend
after the question of sus-
pension of both the big
shipyard union and the
International Woodwork-
ers of America failed to
reach the floor of the CCL
convention as expected.

Advice reaching Van-

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gress of Labor’s convention here this week
portant political decisions to be made by a Canadian

approved by a yote of two

the CCF.

increasingly apparent that organ-

ized labor, if it is to play its
part in improving the welfare
and economic status of the
workers, must take political
as well as economic action
due to the inevitable and
ever-larging control that gov-
ernments are exercising over
all aspects of economic life
and industry in this eountry.”

The proposal for the affilia-
tion was not passed however
until delegate after delegate

had taken the floor to insist -

that affiliation must be based
upon an understanding of
right of local and interna-
tional unions to shape policy.

An appeal by Delegate
George Harris of the United
Electrical, Radio and Mach-
ine Workers that the CCE
revise its constitution to allow
the greatest. possible affilia-
tions by establishing the party
on a federated basis, thus
permitting direct affiliation of
unions and a share in the con-
trol and shaping of policy,
Was unanimously greeted by
delegates.

“he trade unions have
every right to exercise such
control if the leadership is to
be responsible to the mem-
bership of the unions,” Harris

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