Elect CCF-Labor-Farmer Majority National LPP Maps 1944 Plans TORONTO, Ont.—A campaign of vigorous defense of the wartime and postwar inter- ests of Canadian labor, farmers and middle-class people, in conjunction with the aim of electing a CCKF-Labor-Farmer majority in the coming Dominion elections, has been mapped by a special meeting of the National Executive of the Labor-Progressive Party which heard a report from Tim Buck, national party leader, on January 5, 6. Mr. Buck, reporting on his observations during a national tour, proposed to the committee a series of executive and policy measures to bring fully up to date the decisions of the party’s founding convention last August. LPP Convention Date Postponed To March. The B.C. Provincial Executive of the Labor-Progressive Party has decided to postpone the provincial convention of the party, scheduled for January 22-23, until early in March. The move was made necessary in order that deci- - sions on policy reached at the full LPP National Committee meeting called for February 12-13 in Toronto may be conveyed to delegates by B.C. members of the National Committee. Date of the provincial convention will be announced shortly. The meeting of the National Committee in Toronto in February has also necessitated the cancelling of Tribune editor Leslie Morris’ tour, it is announced by Provincial Org- anizer Tom McEwen. Morris was scheduled to speak in Vancouver, New Westminster, Kamloops, Victoria and Cum- berland. McEwen also stated that delegates already chosen by clubs to attend the convention would stand as elected, while clubs which have not yet held their elections should proceed with them so as to be ready for announcement of the final convention date. Shipyard Unions Pian Federation The first national union in Canada’s shipbuilding industry will be launched in Vancouver this weekend when shipyard workers representing CCL unions in Prince Rupert, Victoria, New Westminster and Vancouver open a two-day convention postponed further moves until that situation had been clarified. starting January 15 in the Holden Building auditorium. The meeting will follow out the policy recently agreed on he- tween the Boilermakers’ and Tron Shipbuilders’ Union, Local 1, and the Canadian Congress of Labor, in negotiations for reaffiliation of the union to the CCL, by which the union would initiate the establishment of a B.C. ship- yard union federation, affiliated on a national union basis to the - Congress, and to which all CCL unions in shipbuilding would be Union Asks Vacation Pay Application for holidays with pay was made Wednesday to Regional War Labor ~Board by Local 2765, United Steelworkers of America. The application was presented by William Turner, sub-local chairman, on behalf of union members employed by Western Steel here. Two previous applications were made in April and August of last year. This sub-local is the only one in Local 2765 which has not been granted holidays with pay. William Turner was elected chairman at elections held last week. Other incoming officers are Roy Dafoe, vice-chairman, and Jack Stephen, recording secretary. : chartered as local bodies. Tentative plans call for each local union to pay a per capita of 25 cents per month per mem- ber to the federation, which would in turn pay five cents per member in per capita to the CCL. This will mean that all shipyard unions, at present chartered di- rectly by the Congress, will be chartered only by the federation, and will do all their business with the CCL through the feder- ation. Plans call for the setting up of federation offices in Van- couver, and it is likely there will be full time officers elected to carry on its work. Whether this new setup will later be extended to cover CCT, shipyard unions in other parts of Canada is not known at present. It is understood that considerable sentiment exists for just such a development. Principal questions before the convention will likely be the elec- tion of officers, adoption of a con- stitution, and full discussion on the 1944 shipbuilding program and the whole matter of postwar employment. Unions to be represented in the new federation will include all locals of the Boilermakers Union, Dock and Shipyard Workers, CCI Machinists Union, Blacksmiths Union, and Operat- ing Engineers. It is not known whether locals of the Amalgam- ated Building Workers will come into the setup. Over a year ago, prior to the Boilermakers Union dispute with the CCl, the Amal- gamated unions were consider- ing affiliation to the CCL, but Accenting the growing public demand for specific. pledges by. the government to the service- men and women, the committee decided to mobilize its members and supporters for a campaign to give support to the rising demand for a minimum of $100 clothing allowance on discharge, and for generous cash grants to all men “who haye served in the armed forces: fo stop the unscrupulous layoffs in war industry which are being carried through and threat- ened from coast to coast; to beat back the growing attack of re- actionary circles against the la- boring and farming people and to fight for post-war reconstruction measures which will carry through the expressed desire of Canadians for employment and social security after the war. The executive declared that these campaigns will go together. with the full participation of the national party organization in the federal elections, with the aim of electing a majority of CCF, la- bor and farmer members to the next House of Commons. The “national executive “will urge the provincial councils of the party to select a limited num- ber of LPP federal constituencies which will concentrate the party’s Strength and resources upon the task of electing its candidates in those constituencies,” according to a motion adopted by the meet- ing. : Weither of the two old-line capi- talist parties can build the new Canada for which our people are fighting, says the party’s leading committee. Issues are being joined, and will come to a climax in the federal election, which may be called -by Mackenzie King at any time, which will determine the course of our country for years to come. The LPP is pledged to work for such a ma- jority of CCF, labor and farmer ‘candidates as will make impos- sible the fulfilment of the plans of the Tories and Liberals for a -return to anarchy masquerading as “free enterprise” dom from controls.” The meeting received a letter from David Lewis, national sec- retary of the CCF, rejecting the recent offer of the LPP/for co- operation in defeating the old parties in the coming election. Tim Buck was instructed to reply to Lewis along the lines of poli- cies and decisions of the meet- ing, and reiterating the pledge of the LPP to continue the struggle for labor unity. Other steps were taken to im- prove the party’s organization and educational work, and to build clubs of the party in every com- and “free- munity. ee! eae} Firefighters Elect Hagman i: the semi-annual election of officers, members of the Vancou- ver Firefighters Union re-elected Cecil Hagman as’ secretary-treas- urer and W. T. Peain as vice- president, it was announced this week. i 1 Both Hugh Bird, president, and J- W. Falconer, membership secretary, continue in their pres- ent positions until the next elec- tion, which takes place in July. RENE GAMAGHE who has been nominated to con- test the byelection for Coquit- lam Municipal Council on Jan- uary 22. Gamache, who is vice- president of [WA Local 1-357, was runner up in the election last month. City LYF Clubs Grow Organization of the Labor Youth Federation in this city on a district basis is well underway, according to Ruth Turner, LYFE organizer here. A functioning branch has been established in the Grandview area, and plans have been made for the setting up of similar branches in Kitsi- lano and the West End. Labor- Progressive clubs in each area have promised assistance. “The two big issues on which we are campaigning at present are, at first, the need for better school text books and second, the need for better facilities in schools,” stated Ruth Turner. The LYF is also working with labor unions on drives for fur- ther amendments to the ICA Act. The Grandview LYF branch, with an approximate membership of 40, recently held its elections for the New Year. Ruth Ross was elected president, Toots Gardiner, vice-president, Ann Lew, treasur- er, and Stella Baron, secretary. Other executive members are Winnie Williams, Dale Dades, Peter Derwianko. - ed, Campaign APL aad CCL labor [esq ers pledged support this wee } of the proposed campaigi | to increase blood donation 4 among organized workers i Vancouver. : i re a Preliminary plans for the cang paign were made on the sugge 7 tion of the MWLabor-Progressiv; Party city committee, after mec) ings between city committee er4 ecutive members and Red Cros) Clinie officials last week. A fun) ther meeting, between Mall) Kenny, executive secretary of thy clinic, and LPP and labor leadei; has been scheduled for this weel | end. x “In the coming year, with it vasion of Europe by our armieé a certainty, the need for bloaf plasma will be greater than an need for this precious materi; we have yet encountered,” dij. clared E. E. Leary, president ¢; Vancouver Labor Council an five-time donor. ‘In my opinion it is the dul of every healthy citizen to do: ate his blood. It is, after all, simple process, and there are rt Birt Showler, Trades Counc president here, also a five-tin; donor, agreed that “there is 3 discomfort, and certainly it little enough to give compare with what our men overseas a! ill effects to the donor,” he ad nae giving.” Both labor leaders declare that “organized labor is read willing and able to cooperate wi | the Red Cross in a campaign speed up donations, in view of i} minent increased military actior Fergus McKean, provincial le-¢ der of the lLabor-Progressi Party, himself a blood donors € pressed his party’s eagerness make a campaign to increase dc ations a success. “The opening of a second fre is close at hand,” he stated, “a: | the labor movement, I am certa: is ready to do everything possik te speed the defeat of fascisn CLASS [FIED A charge of 50 cents for each in- sertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column. NOTICES Regular meetings of the South Vancouver LPP Branch are held at 8 p.m. on the second and fourth Monday of each month, at Nor- quay Hall, Kingsway and Slocan. Canadian Aid to Russia Fund, Auxiliary No. 1, wants sewers and workers. Send used clothing of all kinds to 835 West Pender. MArine 2744. For a good time make 4 point of coming to the basket social, whist drive and dance sponsored by West End LPP Branch. Time: 8 p.m., Saturday, January 15. Place: 1332 Davie Street. Open Forum will be held Sun- day, January 16, 8 p.m., at 2443 East Hastings under auspices of Hastings East LPP Branch. Hal Griffin will speak on “The Future of Eastern Europe.” If you have a spare copy Builders of British Columbia Bill Bennett, published at Vz couver in 1937, The People c use it in its library. Send it The People office. West End LPP Branch nee} a piano. Will buy or hire 6 preferably borrow. Any offer: Phone John Goss at MArine 54/1. Open Forum is held every Su day, 3 p.m., at Fishermen’s Ha 138 East Cordova, under auspic} ef Victory Square LPP Branch ™ Speaker on January 16 will —— Fergus McKean on “What ne | in Occupied Europe?” with W) llam Burgess, chairman. Regular meetinas of the Ha a] ings East LPP Branch are he at 8 p.m. on the first and thi) Friday of each month, at 24 East Hastings. Whist drives < held every Saturday at § p.f Cash prizes. Admission 25 cent Winning numbers in Nor Burnaby LPP draw were: _ Stevenson, 7 Howard Avent B48; E. Smart, 1453 Powell, E5.