By LESLIE MORRIS

CMA experts juggle figures
to prepare way for wage slashes

ID'TY THE POOR BOSS. He makes only 6.2
Percent profit after all his labor. So says a slick
booklet Put out by the Canadian Manufacturers Asso-
“lation, likely in preparation for a big pay-slashing attack.
t us look at the bosses’ figures from a few angles.
First, the CMAs experts say that for 88 large,
dium and small co-operating companies’ annual profits
Were made up of 3 percent of sales as dividends and 3.2

pacent retained in the business for expansion, a total of
““ Percent,

. _ An amount of 3.8 percent for “‘depreciation’’ is not
included. Why not? The wear and tear on the ma-
chinery and buildings went into the final product and was
included in its cost of production. That must be figured
“Sa return to the boss. :
ven on the basis of the CMA’s very substionable
(for example, lum ing a giant corporation witl

Broimd-the-comies Hate to make horse and rabbit
ay a horse and one rabbit!) the profit should be not
wut 10;1. :

hen again, taxes should be included in the gross
"turn to the boss. The worker has to pay his taxes out
of bis Pay. And to figure profits on sales, instead of
“Wei capital, ig another old-time trick.

figures
a little

de DUt there's an even bigger piece of lying attached
» this. The CMA’s selected a group of companies to
Put the best possible face on the profit system and to
Work up sympathy for the much abused manufacturer.
Let US’ select an even more representative group from
the table of corporate profits in the Dominion budget
Papers Contained in Hansard es 22, ae ane
Ccording » is, profits before taxes in
142 million era $1,821; in 1948, $2,174
Uhon,

The bosses’ pamphlet doesn’t quote these figures.

tt sbeaks of $733 million profits before taxes. Quite a
difference!

But when it comes to telling about the taxes paid

we the past 11 months workers at aes ve
ount City, Hl, members of the ate :

beat bave been on strike, and the efforts aes -

the their strike have not stopped pre or

ive ged Murder, The company hired ers kc

a agency, the agency hired gunmen, gunmen

by the bosses the CMA puts its best foot forward. wie
it, gives profit figures only one-third the size of th -
overnment’s information, it gives figures for taxes ond
by these companies which amount to five-sevenths of t
amount revealed by Ottawa. ‘s
In other words the propagandists for the CM et
the worst possible light on the profit figures, and the best
ible light on their tax payments.
oth aie with dividend payments. The CMA
talks of -$109 million in dividends. The sume?
talks of $540 million in 1948, $300 million more than
e pau CMA tearfully complains that eee
dividends (money retained in the business) came to $11
million. The government which has to collect the ee
gives the figure of $890 million for 1948, more than
1 much as in 1946!
ewer so it goes all the way through, a piece of the
most dishonest and deceitful buncombe ever to come out
of the CMA offices.
: You people in the plants and unions and on the
negotiating committees will come up against this Sipe
es stre as can be. The boss and his lawyers will p ead
the necessity for a wage-cut on the basis of the C
aoe him the lie direct, for the truth is that not He
but a figure far higher than that ey ne aR He
the rea
ueezed out of your power to labor.
a show that the boss is rolling in profits ‘aes
no matter how he disguises them, have increased fan-
tically since the end of the war. —
a Pea profits represent the unpaid labor shame
workers. No boss with his feet on the desk, oe ig -
ressure salesman, no corporation lawyer cc = :
raife of value to production. Only the worker does t ; y
® The CMA is putting up a miserable defense of the

proht system. The

Liars sure can figure real figures don’t lie.

shot strikers and blasted at Mine-Mill Ieaders with

guns, one 24-hour period four attempts were
aaa ok Fey ei of two Mine Mill officers. In what
is now becoming a pattern for the national CIO in
attempts to dominate the Mine-Mill union, raiding
CIO Shipbuilders are linked with the company, the
fink agency amd its gunmen against the strikers.

LABOR FOCUS By J. B. SALSBERG

WEFETU meet and

Canadian labor

poe outcome of the federal elections does not alter
the fact that the battle for tra
be intensified all along the line,
Tories for years have been urging
trade union movement to start p
Suspensions.

de union unity must
The Liberals and the
the right wing in the
urges, expulsions and
The disruption of the labor movement is,
of course, necessary for the two old line capitalist par-
ties in order to implement their big business.

As for the CCF top leaders they fully accepted the
role which big business was urging upon them. They
and their trade union supporters carried into the
trade union movement the disruptive, red-baiting and
union-splitting activities.

-

elections. It is ti

central problem which will face
unionist in the coun

every honest trade
try from now on.

y will be highlighted
d Federation of Trade
0 Italy, on June 29. The

acing policies first pro-
at Fulton, Mo., which
the Truman Doctrine,
th Atlantic Pact have

respective countries, They
without reservation,

: But it would be wrong to conclude that the offi-
Clal absence of these and a couple of lesser labor
bodies wil] have inflicted fatal j

founding of the WFTU.

At Milan are to be f
the trade unions of the |

upon to safeguard peace will

.

At about the same time, the labor leaders’ who are
their imperialist masters

They,

isolated
rmore the disrupters of

SS themselves Politically
on—to the declining and
struggle between progress

But these disru
represent the bul
meet in Switzerla

ment have protested aganst the
WFTU and that they remain he
WFTU. They will, in
policies that Milan will adopt.

r sentiments expressed at
Milan and not at Switzerland.

union movement has, when-
ever it was given an opportunity, voted overwhelming-
ly for world trade union unity. Both the TLC and CCL

embership of neither

ortunate also in that
George Harris, secretary-treasurer of the United Elec-

e Workers’ International Union
district in Canada, is attending the Mlan Congress as
an observer. Though not an offcial delegate, George
Harris does, in the truest sense, represent the spirit,
sentiment and certainly best interests of organized labor
in Canada more than will the Mosher-Conroy emissary
who may be’ sent to the Swiss gathering, which will

have the blessings of Truman, St. Laurent, and their
like in other countries.

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