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VANCOUVER, B.C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1944

Voice of AFL unions

lnadian labor bodies against ‘Inanimous support was given /delegates at-this week's reg- rc TLC meeting to an execu- fe recommended resolution ‘ing: “That the Council re- = st the Prime Minister of Can-

» to use his good offices to list in clearing up the Greek © ation by permitting the peo- “® ot Greece to elect a govern- ‘Bit of their own choice.”

* ollowing the recent action of Vancouver Tabor Council, powerful IWA and other

*§°. unions in similar strong

“tests, the stand taken reflects

“lic opinion in B.C. against

“Stish intervention. Through-

Canada, trade unionists.

line with the labor movements

the USA and Great Britain. ® engulfing the federal gov- ment with such protests.

siundreds of resolutions con- ming the present British

icy of using military force)

back the reactionary Greek ime have been sent to Ot- "a. With little exception they uest the Canadian govern- tot to use its influence with British authorities to bring end to Allied arms being used finst the MLAS patriots in fer that the Greek people may Mocratically proceed to elect fovernment of their own ice.

~The resolutions which come om both AFL and CIO bod- S$. yoice approval of Prime mister King’s recent assur- Wicé that no Canadian troops me being used against the

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in Vancouver, the Vancouver

Indes and Labor Council this week added the support of pusands of local unionists to the protests of other B.C. and

British intervention in Greece.

ELAS and take the point of view that Canada owes her fighting men unqualified as- surance of a- clear-cut policy of nen-intervention in the af- fairs of peoples of liberated nations. :

TORONTO LABOR COUNCIL

The Toronto Labor Council (CCL), representing tens of thousands of trade unionists in Greater Toronto, requested the Canadian government to use its influence with the British gov- ernment “to immediately stop hostilities” against the people of Greece. A copy of the Coun- eil’s resolution was sent to the Ganadian Congress of labor

asking; them to take similar action.

The Oshawa and District Labor Council (CCL). repre-

senting the thousands of auto. basic industrial workers in Oshawa and district. urged Prime Minister King to give assurance that neither Canadian troops nor material be used against the peoples of Greece.

Twenty thousand Montreal

aircraft workers. members of Lodge 712. International As-

* sociation of Machinists (AFL)

strongly protested “the use of

British planes. tanks and men

against the brave members of

the Greek Army of Liberation (ELAS.)

The resolution stated that ‘We regard this intervention as an effort to force upon the Greek people the unpopular

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French Provisional

On his arrival in Moscow for conferences with Marshal Joseph Stalin, Gen. Charles de Gaulle (left), head of the Government, Foreign Affairs Commissar V. M. Molotov.

was met by Soviet

government of Papandreou. and as a direct contradiction of the principles contained in the At- lantie Charter and the decisions made at the Teheran and Mos- cow conferences.”

SEAMEN PROTEST

From Halifax. C€. H. Meade, District Representative of the Canadian Seamen’s Union (AFL), urged the Canadian government to make a clear, unconditional statement of non-

intervention in the affairs of

liberated nations. Canadian

merchant seamen, Said Meade, were deeply concerned over pre- sent British policy.

Besides the above which are representative of hundreds of resolutions from organized labor which have flooded Ottawa. the daily newspapers are receiving

more. letters than they can print from Canadian citizens strongly condemning present

British policy of using ‘troops against the liberation forces in Greece.

. Labor Conference

Nigel Morgan, Pacific Coast labor leader and international representa- tive of the International Woodworkers of America, has been elected to act: as alternate observer for the Canadian Congress of Labor at the historic World Trade Union Conference to be held in London, England, in February,

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News of the appointment came from a _ special meeting of the CCL

national council held in To- ronto last week. Pat Con- HOY, CCl’ Asecretary, @ be Millard, director of the Steel- workers, and Maguire, secre- tary of the CBRE, were ap- pomted as delegates to the London meeting. Besides Morgan, Clarence _ Jackson, president of the United Elec- trical Workers and George Burt, director of Automobile Workers, were elected as alternate observers,

LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM The special national council

meeting was held on December | £5 and 16 to discuss the formu_ } lation of a Congress program on |:P-C. 9384 and 1003, with re-

spect to union security and wage questions, for presentation to the federal government.

The meeting decided to re.

quest all affiliates of the CCL. to send in their proposals re_

garding changes in the two or- ders-in-councils to a special com- mittee which was set up to draft the final stand.

The special legislative co- mittee consists of George Burt as chairman. and Glarence Jack- son. Harold Pritchett, TWA, G. H. Millard and T. Prezeau of the Engineers. The committee will meet again January 13 and 14 to consider the affiliate’s submis- sions and draft a program to be presented. It was also decided to attempt to secure the coopera- tion of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada in making a joint presentation,

The meeting also approved the resolution on political action which had been adopted at the

recent meeting of the CCL poli-

tical action committee. On the urging of delegate Pritchett the

question of broadening the basis’

of representation o% unions on PAC will be decided upon at the next meeting of that committee to be held January 12 in Toronto.

YETERAN’S RIGHTS

The council also considered the problem of seniority rights of returning veterans and adopted a resolution recommending to its chartered and affiliated un-

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