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In Windsor, we talked to
Charlie Brooks,, president of
Chrysler, Local 444 about the
new models.

He said, “once again the gov-
ernment here has totally ig-
nored recommendations fer tax
reform that would protect and
increase the purchasing power
of the workers. Instead we are
getting the brunt of it again.
The government as usual has
grabbed the wrong teat on the
wrong cow.

“Inventories of goods here
were never so high and this
has given rise to stories of a
plant shut-down in the main as-
sembly, which is denied by man-
agement. What they cannot
deny is the crash program by
all auto firms to unload the 1969
surplus (1.5 million cars, un-
sold) and in some cases 1968
cars still in the stockpile.

“As you know we are prepar-
ing to enter 1970 contract ne-
gotiations. The auto industry is
well aware of this and are mak-
ing their moves, getting tough
with our members on produc-
tion lines, preparing cutbacks.
We will deal with them on cut-
ting rates and increasing speeds
and cutting manpower as we
know how. Cutting workers
buying power is not the an-
swer in Canada, but its reduc-
ing the unfair tax load, lower-
ing interest rates, building low
cost housing, trading with all
countries, and cutting prices of
cars by at least $200 as our
union has proposed on the ’69’s,
that is a program labor must
advance and fight for,” Brooks
declared.

elsewhere. Lives have been lost
because of lack of safety precau-
tions for people involved. Gener-
ally, long hours, poor pay, and
complete absence of any job
security has been the lot of thou-
sands of Italians, Maltese, Por-
tuguese and other immigrants
engaged in this particular indus-
try. Millionaires’ Row in Metro
has expanded at the expense of
these unfortunate workers. Even

- crime syndicates have establish-

ed respectable fronts for their
operations in the business world.
The victims of all these shena-
nigans are the workers, particu-
larly immigrant laborers.

The need to organize these
and to improve their lot by col-
lective action was always obvi-
ous. But the problem was never
seriously tackled until two years
ago, when the Council of Con-
crete Forming Trade Unions was
set up. This Council took in Iron
Workers, Hoisting Engineers,
Laborers, Carpenters and Cement
F: ishers. A number of impor-
tant agreements covering hours,
wages and conditions were ten-
tatively reached by the end of
last year and negotiations were
progressing along with organi-
zation.

The process was disrupted by
Bruno Zanini ,working through
the Lathers Union’ in November
of last year, when they signed
a five-year “Sweetheart Agree-
ment” with the Metro Toronto
Ferming Contractors’ Associa-
tion. Actually this was a part of

a carefully worked out tactic to

oe ae

“Nationalism is not a new
growth in China. It can easily be
traced through the policies of
her rulers from ancient times to
the present day. At different
times it fed on different nu-
tritients, was nurtured and
strengthened by different histo-
rical conditions.

China’s ancient feudal might,
her wars of aggrandizement and
conquest of neighboring coun-
tries are the factors which for
centuries fed her great-power,
chauvinist ideology. Not least
influential in shaping the theory
of her “uniqueness” and of her
having been “historically prede-
stined” to rule over other na-
tions were her ancient religious
and ethical doctrines, especially
Confucianism, ancestor worship
and distinctive mores, so utterly
different from those of the
“barbarians.”

Virtually all of Chinese an-
cient, medieval and bourgeois
literature was imbued with na-
tionalism. The great Chinese
revolutionary democrat Sun Yat-
sen was aware that Chinese na-
tionalism had ‘its reverse side.
China, he wrote, never “counted
other countries for anything.”

Let me say at once that Marx-
ists always did and do now draw
a clear distinction between the
nationalism of an oppressing na-
tion, and the nationalism of an
oppressed nation, regarding the
latter as their ally in certain
stages of the struggle for social
progress.

One of the founders of the
Communist Party of China, Pro-

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once again disrupt an organizing
drive in the industry. When the
Lathers Union was instructed by
their own International not to
proceed on their own in opposi-
tion to the Council of Concrete
Forming Unions, they ignored
the request. Instead they pro-
ceeded to form, what is purport-
ed to be a Canadian independent
union, but a union which, in
fact gives the appearance of
being an employer - dominated

union.

More than one-half of the

members of the so-called Inde-

pendent Canadian Concrete For- .

ming Union—1,000 out of 1,700
—work for the Di Lorenzo Group
of Forming Companies. On Sep-
tember 11, this company provid-
ed buses to bring men down to
Maple Leaf Ballroom in St. Clair
West, to break up a meeting of
hoisting engineers belonging to
the International Union of Oper-
ating and Hoisting Engineers.
Most of those at the meeting
were employed by Di Lorenzo,
and the object of the meeting
was to discuss the Toronto Build-
ing Trades. Council’s proposal to
call all hoisting engineers off
their jobs as a means of forcing
the issue in its struggle with
Bruno -Zanini’s union, masquer-
ading under the name of ‘Inde-
pendent’ and ‘Canadian.’

The sentiment for Canadian
autonomy within international
unions, and for strengthening
both the number and quality of
independent Canadian unionism
is growing in this country. And

it is a good thing and must be

fessor: Li Ta-chao pointed out in
the twenties that the Chinese
peasants simply could not dis-
sociate foreigners from imperi-
alism, and that it was up to the
Communists to teach them, to
explain to them patiently that
not all foreigners were bad.

It may be said that the so-
called “sinification” of Marxism-
Leninism began with the em-
ployment of this great social
doctrine as a means of attaining
nationalistic ends, with this uti-
litarian approach to Marxism.
Mao Tse-tung and those who are
now his close associates seized
upon Marxism as a means cap-
able of ensuring revolutionary
action while they pursued aims
that has nothing in common with
the aims of the proletariat.

Mao Tse-tung has himself all
along ,been an ordinary petty-
bourgeois nationalist. This is so
because this “great Marxist”
virtually did not read the works
of Marx, Engels and Lenin, which
with only a few exceptions had
not been.translated into Chinese
in either the twenties or the
thirties . .. Mao drew his knowl-
edge of Marxist-Leninist theory
chiefly from a few popular pam-
phlets translated into Chinese.

The sharp edge of present-
day Great Han chauvinism is
turned chiefly against the fifty
and some non-Han nationalities
inhabiting China today.

While pursuing the policy of
forcing the assimilation of the
non-Han nationalities, the Mao-
ists spouted.Marxist formulas on
the necessity of erasing racial
and cultural differences, “forget-

PRT

supported by all who cherish the
right of Canadians to run’ their
own affairs. The Communist
Party has been in the forefront
of the fight for Canadian inde-
pendence, against U.S. economic
and political domination. This
struggle includes the battle for
Canadian members of interna-
tional unions to determine their
own policies and to run their
own affairs as they see fit with-
out any interference from inter-
national headquarters in the
United States. This involves the
aim of establishing a Building
Trades Department within the
CLC;

It is clear that international
unions are going to be with us
for sometime to come and that
both international and national
unions are going to have to
learn to live side by side and
work for policies to advance the
interests of the working class
and the cause of labor, which is
the purpose of trade unionism:

It is particularly important
that jurisdictional disputes and
inter-union rivalries should be
dealt with democratically and in
a way that strengthens the fight-
ing power of labor rather than
to weaken it. This struggle is a
matter of policy rather than one
of Canadian versus International
unions. The enemy is the boss
and his allies, which in our sys-
tem includes governments who
support the employers and con-
nive to weaken labor.

Neither side in the current
battle in the construction indus-
try in Metro

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ting” that Marxism-Leninism be-
lieves that such differences can
be overcome only in the remote
future.

From the very beginning the

.Maoists virtually took over the

Kuomintang policy of assimilat-
ing national minorities and the
system devised for carving out
the autonomous units only faci-
litated the process.

In part, Mao Tse-tung fanned
the. cult of his own personality
for nationalistic purposes. His
favorite hero, the Emperor Chin
Shih Huang Ti, could have learn-
ed much from the “great helms-
man” as far as barbaric despot-
ism and cruelty are concerned.

The Ninth Congress of the
Communist Party of China, held
in Peking this April, put forward

“a frankly chauvinistic platform.

It proclaimed that the centre of
the world revolution had “shift-
ed” to China. It should be em-
phasized in this connection that
in official Peking’s view one of
its chief means of attaining its
hegemonistic great power aims
is all-out anti - Sovieteering,
which has now taken the dan-
gerous form of military provoca-
tions. It is striving to undermine
the influence of the CPSU and
the U.S.S.R., in the Communist
and national liberation move-
ments and on the international
arena in general, for it is the so-
cialist community and the first
land of victorious socialism, the
U.S.S.R., that offer the chief ob-
stacle to Peking’s hegemonistic

plans.
—New Times

and without fault. There are
plenty of faults with the inter-
national craft unions. But these

faults are not going to be cured

by promotion of company and
dual unionism, hypocritically
promoted under the umbrella of
Canadianism and Independence.

The issue is to bring the resi-
dential construction workers up
to par in wages and conditions
with workers in industrial and
commercial construction. For
this! organization and unity is
needed, so that the job can be
completed as quickly as possible.

The promotion of division that
serves the interests and aims of
the building contractors is not
independence. The promotion of
Canadian unionism, and Canadi-
an union autonomy has to be
promoted so as to strengthen,
not weaken, the fighting capacity
of the working class. :

In this particular case, th
Metro Toronto Building Trades
Council carries on the fight for
unity of all building trades work-
ers in all types and areas of
construction. The victory for
this cause means organization
from one end of the industry to
the other for the purpose of ad-
vancing the rights and living
standards of these workers. In
this struggle the support must
go to those who champion that
unity, and for the defeat of the
employers’ attempt to divide the
construction workers against
each other, a policy which has
for too long stood in the way
of organization to improve the
lot of the workers.

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