al : seme Ll UHL Labor fights wage restraint MILITARY. INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX LTT B : a : ie a 4% ' H ; yeie Habel Renae aos ae i : ane < oy ; OES fm § : er = [ i. : ea! ’ vt : ~ Se ces \\ = : ir sa = - : \ “ : et tonal alge ———— Aye CRIWESE ARE eS 7 5 Ants SS GOMWMG! VSSR;Tor. . Begs Tange EVEN THE 2) a HotrentoTs! aN <>) = 4 — PEN{AGON 4) Namie OG “Well, general, that bad news is certainly good news.” By BERT WHYTE pvoscow — “To act in the e it of Lenin means. to fight ent} Peace firmly and consist- Bac means to stand firmly on eer peace, to help the Bin struggle against imper- cay aggression, to uphold the a of social progress and na- Dleg independence of the peo- the’ Alexei Kosygin, head of the Soviet Government, said in Closing speech at the two- ke, Ceremonial meeting in the ee to;,-mark. the -Lenin centenary. AY the opening session Gen- Ce Secretary of the CPSU tral Committee Leonid €zhney delivered a_ report, © Living and Triumphant ee of Lenin. Representatives i Many countries spoke .and Outstanding theme was the for unity of all parties fighting for Need ani nd movements Lewilliam Kashtan, National f ‘€r ot the Communist Party ree ada, and Samuel Walsh, iste cent of the Parti Commun- Celepc, Quebec, are attending ing Tations in Moscow honor- i 100th anniversary of the of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Peace an : : aa Progress, against imperial- » freedom, independence heesvein summed eas if up; ain Dirit Words: “To act in the dat... Of Lenin means to consoli- th eanity_and cohesion of all lores Outionary and liberation S of our time in the strug- t coeainst world imperialism, he jon otate above all the co- tha, Of the socialist countries are the main detachment Cegg o World revolutionary pro- ing tzhnev’s exhaustive report reg ae some interesting fig- War Wlustrating the great for- ity, ttides made by the Sov- isa Nlon: “Soviet society today Ve], POWerful industry and a de- i eo agriculture. Today our oy .-Y takes five days to turn dust nore than the whole of in- ee in Tzarist Russia pro- M a year,” r fy. c@hney went on to stress le : aly opship and cooperation of al) ¢2SSes and social groups, of al .tions and nationalities, of deenerations. It is a real em- Ment of the ideas of prole- \ tarian, socialist humanism. One of the greatest achievements of socialism is that every Soviet man is assured of his future. At the present time the Soviet economy is entering a new im- portant stage. The 24th Con- gress of the Party is approach- ing and preparation of a new Five-Year plan is nearing com- pletion. The Key task is to achieve higher productivity of labor in every sphere in order to ensure rapid economic growth in the period ahead. Accelera- tion of scientific and technical ‘progress and correct organiza- tion of planning are important tasks. “The main purpose and the main meaning of the policy which our party has been con- sistently implementing is to create for the working man the most favorable conditions for work, study, leisure and the development and best applica- tion of his abilities. In the last CITE SOVIET ECONOMIC GAINS . FOLLOWING LENIN’S POLICES — few years we have achieved a great deal in this sphere and have solved a number of major social problems. In that period special attention was devoted to raising the living standards of the categories of working peo- ple in the lower and middle in- come brackets in town and country,” Brezhnev said. “The task today is not only further to raise the remunera- tion for labor but also to expand production of the goods the population needs, to improve the quality of the services, further to continue extensive housing construction, and to take fresh the health of the working peo- ple. Understandably all these tasks cannot be solved at one go, by the adoption of a resolu- tion, however good. This calis for insistent efforts by the whole party, by the whole peo- ple. “We are on the way gradually continued on page 8 -support Auto workers in van of battle to defeat -Nixon-Trudeau line By MEL DOIG Meeting in convention of the United Auto Workers in Atlan- tic City, 3,271 delegates repre- senting 1,800,000 U.S. and Can- adian auto workers declared their readiness to man the pick- et lines this year in their fight for higher wages and against policies of wage restraint. This was their answer to the auto monopolies, to President Richard Nixon and Prime Min- ister Pierre Trudeau. The dele- gates heard UAW president Walter Reuther link the com- ing 1970 contract negotiations with the struggle for peace. “The United Auto Workers has worked and is working to end . the tragic war in Vietnam,” Reu- ther told the delegates. He de- clared the union is prepared to strike if necessary to win its objectives in negotiations with the “big three” auto companies which start in mid-July. The convention delegates, 222 of them representing 40,000 Canadian auto workers, cheered Reuther’s statement that Cana- dian workers are not respon- sible for inflation in Canada any more than U.S. workers are to blame for inflation in the U.S.A. “We don’t believe,” he said, “it comes in good grace from the leader of any country in Western society to ask work- ers to pay the price for infla- UE applies to promote The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers union (UE) is to make an application to the Canadian Labor Congress for affiliation. Meeting last week in Toronto’s Skyline Hotel, 200 delegates to the UE’s 32nd con- vention adopted a national exec- utive board resolution that the UE “engage in any necessary discussions with the appropriate officers and committees of the CLC to this end.” The UE’s application for membership in Canada’s central labor body, states an official press release from the conven- tion, is the first the organiza- tion has made since its sever- ance from the old Canadian Congress of Labor, a predeces- sor to the CLC, 20 years ago. The national executive board resolution, adopted by the con- vention delegates representing the 25,000 members of the UE, declared, ‘Information received from all parts of the country in- dicates very broad and substan- tial support among CLC affiliat- ed unions for one united trade union centre, with substantial in particular for the right of affiliation of UE and tion when it is the greed of the corporations that is respon- sible.” : Major contract demands de- cided on by the UAW conven- tion include the goal of a mini- mum pension of $500 a month after 30 years of credited ser- vice, regardless of age. The “30 and out” slogan has the. sup- port of young and old in the auto union. With it are coupled demands for a substantial wage increase and full cost-of-living protection. The UAW is demanding there be payment of a _ termination sum at the end of the contract next September 15. It will also demand supplementary unem- ployment benefits (SUB) for low seniority workers. It is go- ing after the establishment of the principle of inverse senior- ity, by which older workers eligible for SUB money equal- ling 95 percent of their average wages will take layoffs ra-.her than younger workers. Walter Reuther was re-elec- ted president of the UAW, and Dennis McDermott, director of . the UAW Canadian Region, was unopposed. in his_ re-election which now makes him one of seven of the union’s vice-presi- dents. AVOIDED SOME ISSUES Militantly positive in its over- continued on page 8 to join CLC labor unity other named unions to _ the CLC? Noting that the broad sup- port for a united labor move- ment arises from the experience of trade unionists facing deter- iorating economic’ conditions and the harmful effects of Ame- rican domination and control, the resolution said, “Workers see more clearly today the need for the elimination of all forms of discrimination in the trade union movement.” It expressed the view that whatever the response of the CLC to the UE’s application for membership might be, the union would “continue the struggle for all-in trade union unity, de- fend the UE from any and all attempts to invade our juris- diction and to strengthen the UE by fighting for growth with- in the jurisdiction we claim.” The delegates declared they were “flatly against any form of wage restraint” and in opposi- tion to “business-inspired gov- ernment commissions that seek to perpetuate the fraud that la- bor is responsible for inflation.” Monopoly price control, specu- continued on page 8 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MAY 1, 1970—Page 5