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For Community

Improvements in structure

community and press
posals of the organization.

Special attention was devoted
to club executive structure to
zid in accomplishing a division
of function in the mass political
work of the memibershp.

Key
proposal here was that of

the
ere-
tary to lead in the linking up of
political education with mass
activity, through a division of
leadership with the club chair.
man.

Other

proposals on executive
structure included special JAbor
and community activity chair-

men, charged with guiding the
efforts of members involved in
such phases of LPP activity, and
limitation on the number of
members on executives of small-
er clubs in outlying districts.

PRESS CIRCULATION
Consideration of press circu-

}lation work among the elubs re-

sulted in a number of concrete
proposals. Most important of
these was the setting up of a
permanent press committee in
each club, with a capable person,
relieved of responsibility for
other phases of party activity,
in charge and the work of which
would be lead and coordinated
directly by the P.A. circulation

circulation work,
education and

Organization Planned

Activity

and functioning of LPP Clubs, with special emphasis on
were highlight features of an extensive list of pro-
publicity panel adopted at the B.C. LPP Conven-

department.
enthusiastic

Also included, with
Support, was the
proposal for full seale participa-
tion in the paper’s Five By Five
Clubs and an allout drive to en-
dist members in them.

EDUCATION

The conyention recommended
that the B.C. LPP appoint a full-
tame educational and an indus-
trial

director, each of whom
would devote their engeries to
these phases of activity. The

delegates devoted close attention
to the educational work of the
party. Special Marxist classes
were advocated for all clubs, a
summer school was advocated
for 1945 and importance of de-
voting a major portion of club
meetings to political discussions
was emphasized.

Adoption of the reeommenda-
tion to push subscription sales
of the Marxist publication, Na-
tional Affairs Monthly, was
marked by the stirring tribute to
its contribution to Canadian poli-
tical analysis by ‘Ole Bill” Ben
nett, of the People’s Book Store.

Other recommendations in-
cluded the setting up of rehabili-
tation committees, holding of

LPP Financial Campaign

The Fighting Fund Committee of the Labor-Progressive
Party has been strengthened to include some of the best known

names in the province of B.C., in labor, professional and cultural
fields. Harold Pritchett, Nigel Morgan, Malcolm McLeod .. .
who haye become men of stature nationally known, as B.G. labor
has grown from small beginnings to the giant it is today. John
Goss, chairman of the Labor-Arts Guild, musician and impres-
sario, endeared to the hearts of thousands of music-loving peo-
ple in Canada and in his natiye London. Dr. W. D. Curry a resi-
dent of the proyince for many years who has watched Vancou-
ver grow up to be a great city—-and is known to its people both
through his profession and as an old-timer in the labor move-
ment.

These men, along with Minerva Cooper and Vi McCrae will
form the “Fighting Fund’ Committee of the LPP. They are all
busy people burning the candle at both ends already, but still
determined to find time to write letters, to arrange interviews,
to hold discussions with people in their homes, in their offices,
in their stores, and on the job. They go out and win support
for the LPP in its battle for democratic unity, speedy victory
and post-war progress. :

The committee can do a great deal, but the main task of
transforming our campaign for funds into 2 public political
undertaking depends on you. It depends.on the thousands © deve
members and supporters of the party who have been ee ee =
bone of the labor movement in every public ee it has
ever undertaken. To date only a small perce oe Ses
porters have really been in action. Many wane to be ae a
have not considered in concrete terms what t ey can :

3 i i estions earefully and
you consider each of the following suggé
decide which ones apply to ee i Sa
a ore Oo e follo gu ae
eee ie TPP Club election committee.
a ork on i ial, bazaar, candy sale,
2. Help the club to organize a socia’, ?

imi ts. :
= es oe ae afternoon tea at your home addressed briefly

by a party speaker. :
7u pe siade a friend to organi

oe 4 list of your friends and relations and call on them

eee ee 5 ae. contributors who might be approached
for a See atial contribution.
7. Organize in your home 2
the festive Sea Sen i
eal ier list again, decide what you ee Ran oo ee
your club or write the L
or’ phone Minerva Cooper,

ze a tea or evening house

“Party for the Party” during

PP provincial office,
PAcifie 1455.

forum discussions on week
nights, establishment of club li-
braries, exchange of information
between clubs on stccessful com-
munity work and development of
leadership in club areas on the
basis of community issues.

ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP

A recommendation on asso-
ciate membership in the LPP, for
persons unable te participate in
club activity or meetings, was
endorsed and sent to the national
executive for consideration.

Professionals
Organize

The United Office and Profes-
sional Workers of America, CIO,
Local 173 has been certified as
sole” bargaining agent in British
Columbia for all Industrial In-
surance Agents, licensed to sell

life insurance for the Prudential
Insurance €o. of America.

Loeal 173, UOPWA is the first
union of its kind in Canada. Pro-
gress has been extremely rapid
since the obtaining of a charter
in May. It is also the mtention
of the new union to expand to
ether provinces of the Dominion.

The first collective bargaining
elections for all industrial insur
ance agents in B.C: who are li-
censed to sell life insurance for
the Metropolitan Insurance Com-
pany will be held in the month of
December under the supervision
of the Provincial Labor Depart-
ment. This poll will be held to
determine whether the UOPWA,
CIO focal 173 is to be the
Agents’ sole representative.

Ground crewmen load the tail guns of a Superfortress at
a Saipan base just before the takeoff for a Tokyo raid.

Representative Government
Primary Need For Yukon

Immediate federal measures to bring the Yukon Terri-

legislation, to be followed as

tory up to the level of the rest of Canada in social and labor

quickly as possible by demo-

cratically elected, representative government, were advocated

in a resolution on Yukon prob-
lems adopted at the B.C. LPP
second annual convention last
week. » Sponsored by Carl H.
Gray, Whitehorse LPP Club dele-
gate to the meet, the recom-
mendations were enthusiastically
endorsed.

Suporting the resolution, Fom
McEwen, who is federal - inde-
pendent labor candidate for the
Territory, described the tremen-
dous possibilities for economic
expansion and prosperity in the
great North country. -Hundreds
of thousands of more residents
could be brought in to the sparse-

ly settled districts if the control

Dramatic Play To Feature
Peoples’ Concert Series

The People’s Concert Series, presented weekly by the
Labor Arts Guild, under the direction of. John: Goss, and
sponsored by the Boilermakers’ Union in their hall every
Sunday evening, will be discontinued for Christmas Eve and

New Year’s Eve only, and re-
sumed again on Sunday, Jan-
uary 7, 1945, at 7:30 p.m., with
a gala program of leading talent
opening the post-holiday season.

A stage adaptation of Norman
Corwin’s famous radio play,
“Untitled,” will be presented as
the second half of the tenth Peo-
ple’s Concert, on December 17,
closing the pre-holiday series.
This is a powerful anti-fascist
work, which has gripped the
democratic peoples of this con-
tinent via the Columbia Broad-
easting network. Jack Bowdery,

‘| well known in Vancouver theatre

circles, a shipyard worker and
chairman of the Dramatic Arts
Section of the Labor Arts Guild,
has adapted and produced this

play with a fine cast of worker-
artists.

The competitive art exhibition,
“British Columbia at Work,” for
which Trade Unions donated over
$600 in cash awards, and which
eompleted three successful
weeks’ showing at the Vancou-
ver Art Gallery on December 10,
was moved to the Boilermakers’
Hall, 339 W. Pender., on Decem-
ber 11, where it will remain until
after the holidays.

Many workers, trade unionists
and others were unable to see
the exhibition because of incon-
venient hours, and this extension
was arranged at popular request,
with the co-operation of the Boil-
ermakers’ Union and the Van-
couver Art Gallery.

of reactionary Tory vested in-
terests, now profittinge from the
status quo, could be removed and
democracy allowed to be effec-
tive.

Mecliwen paid a special tribute
to the young and_ yigorously
growing labor movement in the
Yukon and said that this new de-
velopment in social and political
(relations promised to have far-
reaching results in achieving the
aims outlined in his remarks.

The resolution read as fol-
lows:

“Resolved that we urge the in-
elusion in our national program
of a provision for democratic
electoral government for the
Yukon Territory; that pending
the full realization of repre-
sentative government in the Ter-
ritory we immediately press for
the adoption of Federal legisla—
tive measures for the improve-
ment of educational, health and
other social services; adequate
compensation laws conforming to
B.C. standards; a statute for the
48hour week; medical and hos-
pital services, etcetera, in order
te raise the standards within the
Yukon Territory to the level of
other areas in Canada.”

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Helen Anderson Elected

Helen Anderson, city organizer
for the Labor-Progressive Party
in Hamilton, Ontario, was elect-
ed Alderman in Ward Seven of
that city. Helen is well known
in labor circles in Vancouver
where she was an active member
of the old Communist Party. She
replaces Alderman Harry Hun-
ter, union organizer and mem-
ber of the National Executive
of the LPP. Hunter made an
excellent showing in his first
bid for Board of Control, where
he recorded 12,069 votes, less
than 2,000 short of election. :