By BRUCE MAGNUSON

by eemployment is rising rapid-
if nine, in both Canada and the
_lited States. Plants engaged in

“Wilian production are closing

In scores of places. Dur-
ase past couple of weeks
tie faders of labor in both coun-
| am fave stated that we have
ted into a recession.
€ official figures given for
oT of unemployment
| Were easily be doubled. If -we
will include students who
| me Seeking work this sum-
We could easily find that
Sale between 1.2 and 1.4
ae unemployed out of a tot-
; Thee Some eight million in our
bi force. Counting all who
} ha

| the

Work and have already ex-
| ee their unemployment in-
- abang €, and those who have
‘ob Oned any. hope of finding
cial and are therefore not offi-
Y listed in statistics, the fig-
of Feud run as high as 15%
: € labor force. This is a seri-
> Matter indeed.
Desens the depth of the de-
Sion, which lasted from 1929
to BS, we had from one-third
4) €-half of all workers below
Tests of age unemployed.
i time, too, it is the young
ey. utter most from growing
| cline ployment and economic de-

* * *

tha the bargaining front, more
| labo One-half of the organized
| tect force are seeking new con-
Max * In an interview in early

“*Y the President of the Cana-

ee

IF THERE IS UNITY

dian Labor Congress warned
that there is “going to be real
trouble before the end of the
year” as militant union members
looking for pay raises run into
federal austerity policies.

These austerity policies, Os-
tensibly adopted to fight infla-
tion, are+ in fact not directed
against inflation at all. Instead
they are the instrument of em-
ployers and government to put
a squeeze on labor. The result
is continued and even intensi-
fied inflation along with. grow-
ing unemployment which ‘Prime
Minister Trudeau claims to be a
“side effect” of his “fight against
inflation.”

The real truth of the matter
is, that monopoly capitalism, and
its imperialist policies are to
blame for both unemployment
and inflation. Moreover, it is im-
perialism, and. United States im-
perialism in particular, which
continues to use war as an in-
strument of enforcing its poli-
cies. everywhere.

Any system which seeks to
control and reduce the income
of those who produce all our
wealth, and which seeks to re-
strict the democratic rights of
workers’ arid peoples’ organiza-
tions, is by that very act alone
admitting its economic, social,
political and moral bankruptcy.

Y bd * *

The chief purpose of imperial-
ist domestic and foreign policy
makers today is to preserve the
status quo and to prevent revo-
lutionary change. That is why
the U.S.A. today maintains a

Prude: bit

ee

cooked up to disrupt

of forgery

bee letter partially reproduced
whi, is the copy of a forgery
tha a was circulated in the

union movement in Al-

| “rta with the aim of disrupting

i Unity of labor and frustrat-
tor JOint action for
| Ogress,

a Spite of the exposure of it
labo fraud by Bruce Magnuson,
| ist Peecretary of the Commun-
 teta arty, William Dodge, sec-
iat treasurer of the Canadian
Arche Congress, and William

(4.ct) president of the Ontario
enon of Labor, neverthe-
that public stated they “believed
itis a genuine fetter.” These

peace and

Be i8
anements are irresponsible,
fF have the same aim as the
tery,

» the a enemies of labor unity
to Tuly desperate if they had
ett to such extreme ac-
bulla timed to coincide with the
Con “up for the Canadian Labor
ees convention — taking
Seca, tt Edmonton during the
0nd last week in May.
€ history of this forgery is
Ollows:
ia Dec, 30, 1969, the Central
x “RS Committee. of the
Baa nist: Party of Canada
Baninnt a letter to its party or-
I esting tions, putting forward its
ni ate of the issues facing the
adian Labor Congress con-

|. as f

vention — such as the pressing
need for trade union unity, the
fight for jobs,, the struggle to
curb the profiteering of the big
monopolies, to raise the mini-
mum wage, for trade union
rights, for tax reform, etc.

On Jan. 9, in the typical cloak-
and-dagger method of the CIA,
FBI and RCMP, a crude forgery:
was circulated on a copy of the
Communist Party’s letter head,
naming trade unionists as sup-
posedly responsible for directing
Communist Party policies with-
in the trade union movement.

On February 18, Bruce Mag-
nuson, Labor secretary of the
Communist Party, wrote the Ed-
monton and District Labor
Council, drawing its attention to
the forgery. Mr. Magnuson said
“the purpose of forwarding this
(copy of the forgery) to you is to
inform you of the fact that this
is an outright forgery, and that
no such letter has ever been sent
from here.” The policies of our
Party on labor matters are nota
secret but a subject for public
debate. Anyone circulating any
letters or material in any such
underhanded manner is obvious-
ly doing so for the purpose of
misrepresenting our position and
policies, implicating individuals
who have no desire to be involv-
ed, and who are not in any way

iLabor can stop war,

military force of a million and
a half abroad at 450 major mili-
tary bases in 64 countries.

But, as has been correctly
stated, “In our time to subju-
gate a people striving for its in-
dependence and progress means
to destroy it.”

We would be well advised to
ponder over the fact that the
Nazi-inflicted ruins and murd-
ers of Oradour and Lidice in the
Second World War were the
logical result of the same policy
as are today the American-in-

-flicted ruins of Indochina and

the Song My massacre in Viet-
nam. ‘

The fact that in 20 years
NATO has spent $1,250,000,000
in armaments, and that military
spending in 1968 was five times
as much as 20 years earlier, has
a great deal to do with inflation.

It is the military-industrial
complex and not the working
people who depend on the mili-
tary sector of economy for pro-
fits and prosperity. But it is the
working people who are being
forced to pay the shot in the
end.

- A World War II aircraft car-
rier cost $55,000,000. But a mod-
ern aircraft carrier costs $545,-
000,000.

A World War II submarine
cost $4,700,000. But a modern
nuclear submarine costs $200,-
000,000. |

‘A World War II fighter plane
cost $54,000. But a modern F-
111 fighter plane costs $6,800,-

—

One never hears about these
inflationary price hikes, because
they énrich the arms profiteers
and. keep the military-industrial
complex in a prosperous state.

It is here that the greatest in- _

flationary pressure develops
now. :

And as the effort is made to
shift these astronomical costs to
the working people via monop-
oly-rigged prices, higher taxes,
rents and interest, many essen-
tial civil and social service pro-
grams are cut back, such as
housing, urban renewal, pollu-
tion’ control, school and hospital
construction, general health and
welfare, and many others.

At the same time there is a
big expansion in growth of mili-
tary research, military and police
training for aggressive imperial-

ist wars and suppression of pub-'

lic dissent at home.

* * *

Regardless of what it does to
preserve itself, the old order is
finished and even American im-
perialism, powerful as it is, is
no longer in control, nor does it
possess the initiative in world
affairs.

Changing world relationships
ate amply demonstrated by the
fact that out of 43 countries
with allied commitments to the
United States only four have
troops in Vietnam: the U.S.
client states of South Korea,
Thailand, Australia and New
Zealand. Even little Philippines
has had the courage under peo-
ple’s pressure and struggle, to

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: fo Comrades in the Trade Union Movement

Alberta.

Greetings:

As we enter 1970,
and Canada will face stiff barge

The resnonsivility tc coordina
“puce Magnuson with
Province of Alberta the task is left in
oug TomJinsen. Comride Jaci. Foiiiips
e Alberta comrades. We should

assigned to Comrade
commission. In your

hands of Comrades Art Roberts and D
closely with th
to influence delegates attending the
alt unions now outside tre Congress.
od after by Comrade

of Vancouver will wor.
encourage our members

to open the door to affiliation of
Ovr interests 2t the C.L.C. Convention are being look
the position of Secretary of the hest Labor Council

Tomlinson who enjoys
in Edmonton.

accountable to us or anyone else
for the work carried on in the
name of our organization.”

Mr. Magnuson sent a copy of'
the forgery to the Edmonton
Labor Council and his letter to
the President of the Canadian
Union of Public Employees, Ot-
tawa on April 1.

“The Communist Party has an
important role to play and, of
course, has a right to explain
its policies to the labor move-
ment,” Mr. Magnuson told the
Canadian Tribune. “But it is ob-
vious that there are people with-
in the trade union movement

i: The Canadian Labor

rc

depression

withdraw from this unjust and
genocidal war. Thirty-seven
countries have turned a deaf ear
to U.S. pleas for troops. (See
U.S. News and World Report,
January 12, 1970).

The trend today is unmistake-
bly in a leftward and socialist
direction. While 26 million Ame-
ricans voted for Barry -Gold-
water in 1964, slightly less than
10 million voted for a George
Wallace in 1968.

3 co *

Canadian labor today can stop
austerity and the deliberate
slowing down of the civilian
economy. United labor can stop
the drift to a, new depression
and mass unemployment. It can

stop layoffs. in the public as well

as private sector of the economy
It can stop the squandering of
billions for armaments and war,
and thereby curb monopoly. pow-
er and the drift to more costly
inflation that robs the working
people and those with low in-
comes. Only when organized la-
bor joins in and gives working
class voice and power to the
fight for a new direction in both
domestic and foreign . policies,
will those policies be changed.
The country and the people will
rally to support such a call from
organized workers at this cru-
cial time. .

Delegates to the Edmonton
CLC Convention! The eyes and
ears of Canada are eagerly fol-
lowing your deliberations and-
decisions.

Congress

Convention = Edmonton = May 1970.

who want to drive a wedge be-
tween the Communists and the

’ organized workers. This forgery

was issued for the purpose, of
misrepresenting Our position,
less than two weeks after our
general letter was mailed out.

“This forgery has been circu-
lating for months in right wing
circles of the trade union move-
ment, who have taken great care
that it did not fall into the hands
of trade union members who are
Communists or sympathetic to
progressive ideas.

We were able to secure a copy
of this forgery as early as Feb-

more than six million workers in the U.S.
ining for new contracts. Tiis is apa fe

te and direct this work has been
the help of our trade union

the carable

TLC Convention

ruary and wrote Edmonton
Labor Council and Stanley Little,
president of CUPE, who is also a
member of the Executive of the
CELE. ey

It should therefore be known
to people like William Dodge
and William Archer that this for-
gery was ‘being circulated, and
their pretense now to look upon
it as a genuine letter put out by
the Communist Party is a con-
scious effort to misrepresent the
real issues. It is an old CIA and
RCMP practise to create divis-
ions within the labor movement
with such methods.”

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