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"\ ‘Red Bogey’ and the
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ior political action and
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» Ontario.

I ‘view, National Affairs Monthly, issued by the national
se of the Labor-Progressive Party, was published here

menting on the new publication, Stanley Ryerson,
— LPP educational director, said:
1 important milestone in the development of Marxist

“Tis appearance

In a special section headed
“From the World Press” appear
two important articles, one of
the Soviet trade unions and the
forthcoming world labor confer-
ence, the other a scathing criti-
ecism of General Smuts’ imperial-
ist postwar proposals written by
R. Palme Dutt.

To complete the issue there is
a review article dealing with

“The Organization of Employ-

ment in the Transition from War
to Peace” and an editorial state-
ment of aims by Stanley Ryer-
son, managing editor.

“National Affairs Monthly will
prove to be an invaluable guide

for active political workers in

all fields of the labor and pro-
gressive camp,’ Ryerson stated
this week. “I hope that LPP
members and leaders alike will
make full use of it. Progressive
trade unionists, ©@E’ers con-
cerned in bringing about labor
unity and progressive itarm and
middle class people, ali will find
a great deal to interest them in
its pages.”

Ryerson explained that the
title of the review had been
changed from Canadian Affairs

Monthly in response to a request.
from. the- Wartime —Information

Board in order to avoid con-
fusion with the bulletin, Canad-
ian Affairs issued te the armed
forces by that body.

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Conference

Of Unions.

MONTREAL, Que. — The
Political Action Committee
set up by Montreal Trades
and Labor Council last month
has brought in a report re-
commending that “a broad
conference of all affiliated

unions be convened for the pur-

-pose of establishing or creating

a broad committee for political

‘action in the light of the recom-

Mmendation of the Trades and
Labor Congress last September.’

The committee’s report de-
clares that “the decision of the
Congress applies today more
than ever, in view of the general
Situation in the country and
especially in view of the unfay-
orable legislation recently passed
by the (Quebec) government in
spite of the protests of the trade
whion movement.”

The report says: “In the new
federal iabor code we have
seen the results of the Dominion-
wide campaign for fair labor
legislation. The response of
Sroups of Liberal MP’s such as
took place in British Columbia

~ under pressure of local trade

unions proves more than ever the
correctness of the resolution
adopted at the Congress con-
vention last September, reveals
the role that labor can play in
Shaping the policies of the na-
tion, and further underlines the
necessity for exerting here the
full political infiuence of our
trade union movement.”

The committee recommends
that labor’s influence can best
be brought to bear through “a

--clear- formulation of labor’s im-

mediate demands” and “through
supporting ‘candidates on the
basis of the policies which they
follow rather than upon the
basis of the party to which they
belong.” ‘

Union Signs New
Pact With Inco

PORT COLBOANE, Ont.—Lo-
cal 637 of the Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers union has
signed an agreement with the
International Company covering
the 1,600 employees of INCO’s
Port Colborne nickel refining
plant.

The second to be signed with
the world’s greatest producer of
nickel in two weeks, the agree-
ment becomes effective immedi-
ately, establishes a procedure
for negotiation of any differences
which may arise as to interpre-
tation, and provides for discus-
sion of a general wage increase
in approximately six months in
aecordance with existing wage
regulations. All basic conditions
of work are covered in it.

Signing of the agreement clim-
axes a lengthy organizational
campaign under the leadership
of William Simpson, internation-
al representative of the union
who has been resident here for
some time. Simpson is now re-
turning to Kirkland Lake, where
he will take up new organizing
Guties.

Kirkland Lake miners voted
last week in favor of UMMSW.

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Labor Personalities —30

Garry Culhane

By CYNTHIA CARTER

G*ky CULHANE—on the family documents its Gerard
Sheehy-Culhane—is young, aggressive and a stickler for
accuracy who takes pride in finishing what he sets out to do.
The descendent of a long line of rebels who fought for freedom
and democracy in his native Ireland, he has found the expression
of his rebellion against the social system in the labor movement
which, as the inheritor of the finest traditions of struggle
wherever struggles have been waged, today finds new meaning
in them and gives them new purpose. -

In his early years his family was quite well-to-do, but just
the same, he has had to work hard for a living. The education
he acquired at three universities has been blended with more

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I had heard a great deal
about the secretary of the
new Shipyard General Work-
ers Federation because Garry
has the typical Irish knack
of making friends quickly
and easily, but I only met
him for the first time this
week when I dropped in at
the federation’s new office
on West Pender Street and
asked him to tell me some-
thing about himself.

“Well,” he began, “I was
born in Dublin in 1912. My
father was a taxing master—

it hasn’t anything to with

of the King Bench My
mother came from an old
Irish family where, for seven

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every generation were exiled,
jailed, horsewhipped or hanged for revolutionary activities.”

Culhane’s grandfather was David Sheehy, a leading Irish
parliamentary figure during the days of Parnell and the Irish
Liand League. His uncle, famous in Irish history, was Sheehy
Skeffington, a close friend of James Connolly and one of the
best known leaders of the Irish labor movement, who was
murdered in prison. His aunt—Skeffinston’s wife—was an offi-
cial delegate from the Irish Free State to the Soviet Union and
a prominent author and playwright. From her, Culhane remem-
bers, he first learned something about socialism.

After his father died, his mother, a famous Irish beauty,
married again. And in 1922 the family came to Canada, settling
in Montreal.

HEN he was seventeen, Garry decided to leave home. Work-

ing his way on a tramp steamer, he went back te Dublin
to study literature and drama at the National University and
attended the Abbey School of Dramatics. A year later he re-
turned to Montreal to spend the next two and a half years
working his way through Loyola College as a structural steel
worker on the waterfront. When, in 1933, there was no more
work to be had, he took a job on a tramp steamer again, made
his way to England and presently to Ireland and enrolled once
more at National University, this time to take an arts extension
course. :

By 1934 he was once more in Montreal and taking more than
a casual interest in the progressive movement. Two years later,
when Franco led his fascist rebellion against the democratic
government of Spain, in a city where calumnies and lies against
the people’s front were spread high and wide the Loyalists had
no more active sympathizer than Garry Culhane. During these
two years Garry worked on the Montreal Gazette as an account-
ant, doing dramatic criticism on the side. 2

After this, he went to work in a large Montreal department
store where he organized a local of the Retail Clerks Union
and presently lost his job as a result of his union activity. So
he turned to selling vacuum cleaners for a living, spending his
spare time in work around the League for Peace and Democracy
and the Youth Council.

In December, 1940, he was arrested under Section 21 of the
Defense of Canada Regulations. He immediately went on hunger
strike—it was a familiar form of protest to him—to demand
the right on trial in open court. He was released after being held
for fifteen days, following a protest made by the government
of Hire:

He worked for a time in the Canadian Car and Foundry at
Montreal and then, in 1941, he came to Vancouver, worked as
a ship’s fitter at Burrard North, moved to Victoria to work at
Yarrow’s as a loftsman and become a member of the Boiler-
makers and Ironshipbuilders, Local No. 2, there. Before long he
was elected to an even more responsible union office, presi-
dent of Local No. 2. And when the Labor-Progressive Party
was formed, he became a foundation member.

Last month, the 20,000 affiliated members of the new Ship-
yard General Workers Federation chose him as the secretary
of their organization.

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