p : Interior CCE
;ClO States Post-War Program Kager To Unite

By ANTHONY JENKINSON
NEW YORK, N.Y.—The central demand of the CIO after the war will be for “a real job Te eee ee ee eo ae
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for every: able-bodied American who wants to work,’ CIO i ili anit
i é ; : president Philip Murray an- =. : meee
mounced this week. Speaking before an audience of leading industrialists and Tals 4; the Hee Be ee ae ee ae ee ie rs ae

: o ring the district. On November

Economic Club, he said:
“The U. S. is now producing 25, 26 and 27, McKwen addressed meetings in Cranbrook, Nel-

Jobs For All — Full Union Rights

=) gentlemen,

| tion’s

fa net national income of $150,
=; 000,000,000 a year. We must con-
| tinue to produce it when we re-
turn to peace. That is the trans-
eendent objective of the CIO.
) After the war, there must: be
steady jobs for 55,000,000 work-
=, ing people.”

‘Explaining that by a “real job”
he did not mean a “fake relief
= job,” Murry added: “A ‘real job,’
means a job at an
f annual wage high enough to make
possible home ownership, child-
ren and enough food and cloth-
‘ing to keep them happy and

| well.”

Full employment can be a-
» chieved, the CIO leader said, by
“preventing income from being

% idle,’ by “giving all legitimate
encouragement to competitive
* enterprise,’ and by “examining

our entire tax structure with an
» eye to its effect on production
' and employment, on investment
and spending.” P

Sales taxes must be avoided,
| he said, since “they take our pur-
chasing power from those who
spend it and depress business
and employment. Progressive in-
| come taxes must be retained for
' the opposite reason.”

Mattew Woll, AFI vice-presi-
dent and chairman of the Federa-
committee on post-war
| planning, has also made public
| the report of his committee to
the Senate’s special committee
on U. S: post-war economic pol-
| icy and planning. Stressing the
need for “over-all planning of
reconversion from wartime to
peacetime production,” the re-
port called for immediate es-
tablishment of a “citizen policy-
' making board, on which labor
will be represented,” empower-
ed to supervise cancellation of
government contracts and “liquid-
ation of government property and
InaterialS in war production
plants in such a way as to stimu-
late an expanding economy.”

The report warned that “small
business is gradually being ex-
eluded from competitive oppor-
tunities, which leads to danger-
ous concentration of economic
power in small but powerful
groups.” 3

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Other points
war program
proved social
an end to all
on labor, and

in the AFL post-
call for “an im-
security system,’
restrictions placed
restoration of the

full functioning of collective bar-
gaining as a means of “assuring

an increasingly equitable distri--

bution of returns from joint proe
duction.”

LPP Urges Election
United Labor Slate

The full suport of organized labor behind candidates for
civie office endorsed by the Trade Union Representation €om-
mittee, as the “only ones standing a chance of defeating the
Non-Partisan Association slate in view of the anti-unity posi-
tion taken by the CCF,” was urged this week by Fergus
McKean, provincial chairman of the Labor-Progressive Party,

in a statement on the December
8 elections. Text of the statement
is as follows:

For the past seven years the

citizens of Vancouver have wit-
nessed a steady decline of their
civie affairs—a decline marked
by a disgraceful deterioration of
city streets, worsening of an al-
ready dilapidated transportation
system, an appalling growth of
slum conditions, lack of proper
parks and supervised playgrounds
in congested areas, and retention
of an obsolete and reactionary
system of education in city
schools. ue

Not only has our city failed to
develop; it has actually retro-
gressed during the period. Civic
policies have not been designed

to serve the interests and wel-
fare of the citizens but to cater
to the interests of a small minor-
ity of big property holders.

This decline of Canada’s third
city is the outcome of the poli-
cies followed by successive ad-
ministrations representing the so-
called Non-Partisan Association.
The title Non-Partisan is a mis-
nomer. Actually this association
is the very essence of partisan-
ship. Its membership is drawn
from the ranks of the Liberal
and Conservative parties and its
objective is to defeat the candi-
dates of the ordinary citizens of
Vancouver and keep control of
civie administration in the hands
of the vested interests. In other
words, the Non-Partisan is a
united front of the Liberal and
Conservative parties and the big
business interests of Vancouver.

Obviously, the only way to
break this monopoly control would
be for the ordinary citizens also
to unite their forces behind a
slate of candidates pledged to
oppose the representatives of big
business and to serve the inter-
ests of the majority.

* ‘With this objective in view and
in accordance with the decisions
of both congresses of the Cana-
dian trade unions for independ-
ent political action, a number of
the largest Vancouver trade
unions formed the Trade Union
Representation Committee. How-
aver, all efforts of the committee
to secure unity were blocked by
the CCF leadership, which not
only refused cooperation but

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launched a red-baiting campaign
against the TURC. The CCE then
nominated a full slate of candi-
dates on an announced policy of
non-cooperation with the trade
unions or any other labor groups.
it is a sad commentary on the
trade union position of the CCF
when the only trade union spokes-
men it could secure in its at-
tempts t ojustify its vote-splitting,
anti-unity policy were two rene-
gade Communists—James “Shaky”
Robertson and Malcolm Bruce.
The radio broadcast sponsored

by Bruce was sponsored by the ~

Welders and Burners union of the
Amalgamated Building Workers,
a local which, it is reported, ex-
ists mainly on paper and has not
held a membership meeting for
several months. With such a
questionable sponsorship, Bruce
launched a vitriolic attack on the
unions affiliated to the TURC,
resorted to misrepresentation and
downright falsehoods, as, for in-
stance, the charge that the TURC
had nominated candidates, which
it had not, and concluded with
the demand that candidates en-
dorsed by the committee, among
them Harold Pritchett, withdraw
from the campaign.

Harold Pritchett was the run-
ner-up in last year’s aldermanic
campaign, polling one thousand
more votes than the highest CCF
candidate. By demanding that
Pritchett, who has the best
chance of defeating an opponent
of the Non-Partisan Association,
withdraw, Bruce objectively aids
in the election of Non-Partisans.

In the interests of securing a
United Labor slate in the civic
election the MLabor-Progressive
Party refrained from nominating
and sought the cooperation of the
TURC and the CCF in achieving
unity. Four members of the
Labor-Progressive Party were en-
dorsed despite the attitude of the
CCF leadership.

Because of the anti-unity atti-
tudes of the CCF, the only uni-
fied slate which stands a good
Chance of defeating the candi-
dates of the Non-Partisan Asso-
ciation in the coming election is
the slate endorsed by the Trade
Union Representation Committee.

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At Cranbrook he stressed the
need for unity among all sections
of labor, and appealed to the
CCE constituency conference,
scheduled for the following day,
not to nominate a candidate with-
out consulting the hard rock and
coal miners on selection of nom-

JOHN BOWLES

secretary of the Pacific Coast
Poultry Producers Association,

who is contesting the Surrey
municipal election as a candi-
date for council in Ward Four.

CivicAward
Pending

Vancouver city employees this
week await the decision of an
arbitration board now consider-
ing evidence presented by both
parties in the dispute between
Civie Employees*Federation and
the city council over the issue of
a closed shop.

Eyidence presented by employ-
ees showed that 95 percent of all
employees affected were already
members of the Federation, a
body representing the three civic
unions—firefighters, outside city
workers, and city hall employees.

Democratic procedure followed
by the union was outlined by
Business Agent Walter Schibbens.
In asking a closed shop contract,
he stated that “we frankly admit
we are pioneering. We were pion-
eering 25 years ago when we
signed the original agreement
with the city. It was the first in
Canada between a municipal
council and its employees.”

Federation Secretary Robert
Skinner traced the history of the
organization, and declared that it
had prevented many trivialities
from coming before the concilia-
tion board.

inee and formulation of policies.

In Nelson, speaking on postwar
issues, McEwen declared that “the
LLP is the only party pledged to
a program of unity,.” Charging
the Liberal party with failure to
put into practice in government
the program recently drawn up at
a national caucus, and the Pro-
gressive-Conservatives with being
under control of financial monop-
olists, he declared that the CCE
and LLP could work in unity with
farmer and labor groups, if they
sought a basis of unity.

“lt has been said that the Labor-
Progressive Party has been
formed to split the labor vote,”
he stated. “This story comes from
those who ride the backs of the
workers.”

He scored stories circulated
throughout the district to the ef-
fect that the “LLP is in the pay
of the King government,’ and
that “Tim Buck was hired by
Canadian capitalism to split the
labor vote.”

“These rumors are obviously ri-
diculous,” said McKwen, “and
their only effect is to confuse
those who do not know the facts.
Such statements are nothing but
out and out slander.” :

“The Labor-Progressive Party
does not wish to contest seats
where the CCF has a good chance
of winning, but it does not want
the CCF to oppose it where it
might win itself,” he said. “We
have no quarrel with men like
Herridge, who are fighting for the
same things as we are, but we
do quarrel with men like Winch
who distort principles.”

At a crowded meeting in South
Slocan, McEwen spoke to LPP
club members, miners and farm-
ers. Many questions were asked
by young Doukhobors, who look
to the progressive labor move-
ment for leadership on questions
which confront them as a group.

In all areas visited, states Me-
Ewen, there is a growing senti-
ment among CCF rank and file
members for Jabor-farmer unity
and for unity with the WLabor-
Progressives. At each meeting he
urged the building of cooperation,
and asserted that “the first thing
to fight for is unity. Never where
it has been applied have the peo-
ple lost.” 7

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