U.S. delegation to General Assembly of UNO confer during one of London sessions. L
to R, John G. Townsend, State Sec. James F. Byrnes, John Foster Dulles, Sen. Tom Con-

naly, Frank C. Walker, and

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.

Attempt lo Unseat Shipyard
Delegates Fails At VLC Meet

An attempt by CCF delegates to capture or disrupt the Vancouver Labor Council
by challenging the status of the shipyard unions failed last night, after sharp exchanges

during which the chair was sustained following the challenge of Steelworkers

Eileen Tallman.

delegate

Following the acceptance of| Workers’ Federation was formed,

delegates credentials Steelworkers
delegates led by CCF’er Eileen
Tallman and Fen Baskin ques-
tioned the right of the three
shipyard unions, the  Boiler-
makers and Iron Shipbuilders
Local 1 the Dock and Shipyard
Workers Local 2 and the Ship-
wrights Industrial union, to seat

their quota of 21 delegates om:
the grounds that these unions |

had now amalgamated.

Secretary John Turner read a
letter from Shipyard Federation
secretary Garry Culhane in re-
ply to questions as to the status
of the union, pointing out that so

far none of the unions concerned |

had surrendered their charters,
that they were still paying per
capita on that basis to the Con-
gress and to the Federation and
that until such time as all of the
obligations had been fulfilled
and a charter issued by the Fed-
eration to the new local the
three unions concerned would
continue in existence and hold
all agreements. Malcolm Mac-
Leod, Federation President and

“delegate to the Labor (Council

protested the interference in the
internal affairs of another union
and substantiated the position
put forward by Culhane.

When CCF delegates continued
to challenge the right of the
Shipyard unions to seat their
delegates, several delegates drew
attention to the fact that that
the steelworkers, whose dele-
gates were creating the furore,
were themselves seating some 25
delegates from 13 locals repre-
senting about 800 mtn accord-
ing to the per capita paid into
the council. It was following this
delegate Tallman challenged the
ruling of President Leary that
the whole discussion was out of
order, The chair was upheld on
a vote of confidence. Several
delegates later recalled that
Vice-President McAuslane had
upheld a similar decision at the
time that the Shipyard General

ruling that until such time as the

| Federation was properly consti-
; tuted with a Charter from the
‘congress and all details cleaned
up the status of delegates to the
labor council should remain the
same as formerly.

The CCF delegates failed in
their bid to capture executive
positions on the council despite
a strong bid.

President E. E. Leary was
elected for his fifth term of of-
| fice and Secretary John Turner
returned for his third term in
that position. W. White, Boiler-
makers’ president, beat CCF
MLA Arthur Turner in the con-
test for the vice-presidency.

Elected to the important legis-
lative committee were, Nigel
Morgan, Sid Sarkin, Frazer Wil-
son, Charles Caron with E. N.
Sadler as chairman.

The organization committee
will be represented by Malcolm
MacLeod, chairman, Sam Jen-

kins, J. McCuish, J. Bradley and
P. Baskin.
For the grievance committee,

C. Bury, chairman, W. Kilpat-
rick, E. Dalskog, G. Home and
G. Mitchell, while D. Barbour,
chairman, E. Constantine and S.
Sheard were elected to the cre-
dentials committee.

Officers were sworn in at the
end of the meeting by Secretary
of the BCFederation of Labor
Harold Pritchett.

x

LPP Drive

Gains Support

Public support of the Labor-
Progressive Party national hous-
ing campaign was clearly demon-
strated this week, as numerous
orgenizations, representing every
section of the population In Van-
couver, extended invitations to
the LPP to supply speakers to

‘meetings to acquaint the public

with details of the campaign and

i proposed solutions to-the grave

housing situation.

At the end of the first week
of the campaign invitations to
supply speakers had already been
received from the Y.M.C.A.
Public Affairs Institute; Vancou-
ver Housing Association; District
No. 1, International Woodworkers
of America; Boilermakers Union.

A large number of individuals
have already registered their in-
terest and support the LPP cam-
paign. Among those who have al-
ready indicated support were
Prof. Topping of the University
of British Columbia, Dean Swan-
son, Christ Church Cathedral,
Reverend Gooper of St. James
Church, and Reverend Norman.

Meanwhile the Labor-Progres-
sive |Party was continuing a
broad provincial-wide campaign
in an attempt to force action
from the governments to meet
the grave housing crisis which
faces British Columbia and Van-
couver in particular. The LPP
program called for the building
of 6,000 homes in British Colum-
bia immediately to eliminate
overcrowding and slum dwelling
conditions, launching of a home
building campaign at the rate of
6,000 per year for five years and
the encouragement of private
home building to build a further
6,000 units per year through in-

creased government assistance.

Legislative Brief Presented
By United Labor Delegates

Following a year in which joint action by AFL and CCL
unionists has resulted in many successes, including election
of a trade union candidate to the city council, British Colum-
bia organized labor got off to an auspicious start this year
with the presentation of a joint brief of legislative demands

to the Provincial Government

Pointing out that they were
no longer speaking for isolated
groups but were representative
of thousands of workers, skilled
and unskilled from every branch
of industry, including municipal

Nigel Morgan, provincial lead-
er of the Labor-Progressive
Party, will leave Sunday, Febru-
ary 10, on a speaking tour of
Interior points, as part of the
LPP federal housing campaign,
He will address public meetings
at the following points.

Vernon— Sunday, Feb. 10,
8 p.m.

Kelowna—Monday, Feb. 11,
8 p.m.

Penticton—Tuesday, Feb. 12,
8 p-m.

Nelson—Wednesday, Feb. 13,
8 p.m.

Trail — Thursday, Feb. 14,
8 p.m.

PACIFIC ADVOCATE — PAGE 2

LPP Leader Will Launch
Campaign In Interior

Cranbrook—Friday, Feb. 15,

8 p.m.; ;

Fernie — Sunday, Feb. 17,
2 p.m.

Michel — Sunday, Feb. 17,
8 p-m.

Morgan will leave Vancouver
this week on a speaking tour of
the Johnston Straits area, during
the course of which he will ad-
dress a number of meetings as
vice-president of International
Woodworkers of America, Local
1-71. He will address loggers
at Sointula, Inglewood, and Stew-
art Island, in addition to other
meetings.

at Victoria,

and provincial employees’ the
united delegation placed as the
number one point in their brief
the need for adequate Federal

and Provincial Labor (Codes,
stressing the following two
points:

@ That the Provincial govern-
ment through: the interprovincial
conference, continue to press for
the enactment of a Federal labor
Code, embodying the basic prin-
ciples of P.C. 1003 with certain
amendments, into permanent
legislation as a National Labor
Code with Provincial administra-
tion.

@ That the Provincial Govern-
ment give consideration to the
preparation and enactment of a
Provincial Labor Code embody-
ing the basic principle of P.C.
1003 with certain amendments in
the event that the Federal gov-
ernment declares that the em-
ergency no longer exists and de-

Relations Regulations 1008.
The brief goes on to recom-

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law that will make the
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resolution commutil -
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FOOTNOTE. 4

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me last Saturday, 2: %
who served six years g
had: spent all his @ @
ceived to date and wa §
it. He asked me what.
pointed out in a prev |
veterans of this wat {
to draw out-of-work 4
12 months in the firs |
after discharge ovel-
your gratuities. But &

See UNITED LABOR BRIEF

to apply for these br
FRIDAY, JANU