The Labour Statesman
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alternative: [The Labor Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-02-06
issued: 1966-12
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note: ' '■"! 10c ; DICIMHR. mt OWOH *-'_?*'?*-_?_ "••.o-t. .*•.' ' "_3_ r* . p* _»>o- __**.__ •frSJI • 30* . .. «_ I"** SB» ..Q,gB.._——_ _•_"»__■■-_:'. 3S«-_ 3a Ir". THEY (AND WE) WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS One of the most important meetings in Canadian labour history was held in Vancouver Nov. 7 to Nov. 9. This was the first meeting of the Canadian Labour Congress Commission o n union structure and organization. The CLC Commission is hearing representations and briefs from labour groups across the nation. The latest sessions were held in Regina on Dec. 5 and 6 and in Winnipeg Dec. 7 to Dec. 9. The purpose of the commission is to find ways and means of meeting the increasingly powerful aggregations of corporate business power on one hand, and on the other, to end internecine jurisdictional struggles within the labour movement- Shown above at the first meeting of the Commission in Vancouver are (left to right): G. Rancourt, General Secretary, Quebec Federation of Labour; L. Sefton, Vice - President, CLC, and Director, District 6, United Steelworkers of America; F. W. Dowling, Vice-President and Director, District 10, United Packinghouse, Food and Allied Workers; Donald MacDonald, Secretary-Treasurer of the CLC and Commission Chairman; William Lady man, General Vice- President, CLC and Vice- President, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; Robert Smeal, Vice- President, CLC and Business Manager, Canadian Air Line Flight Attendants Association. Meeting with the Commis- tion are: E. T. Staley, President, B.C. Federation of Labour, and (extreme right) Ray Haynes, newly-appointed Secretary - Treasurer of the B.C. Federation of Labour. The B.C. brief began with criticism of the CLC organization itself and proceeded to wider possibilities of large-scale union mergers "in the long term." One of the most revolutionary changes suggested by the B.C. Federation of Labour was an attack on the com-' munications problem by establishing a labour paper. Peterborough county jail …
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439696
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : B.C. Federation of Labour ; Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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