EDITORIAL PAGE Mew threat looms ITH the 69-day strike of the IWA’s 27,000 members ended on the basis of the Deutsch report and resumption of work in the woods and mills of B.C. getting back to normal, “industrial peace” (as the bosses and their lackies call it) has been restored. Opinion within the IWA and out- side its ranks is dividéd on what the IWA won, and -what it could have won. The prime question for B.C. labor at the moment however, and of necessity high on the agen- da of the coming convention of the B.C. Federation of Labor, is what lies ahead for labor now "that the bulk of the 1959 wage contracts have been settled. Editorial “kites,” feelers, and legal opinion of varied sorts are being trotted out on what must be done to avoid similar “ruinous” strikes in future. A lot of calculat- ing is being done by press and legal “experts” on the “high cost” of the IWA and other strikes to the B.C. economy. The sinister pur- pose of such propaganda should not be ignored by organized labor. With Bill 43 and its consequent Lunik HE Soviet Union’s moon rocket Lunik II which landed on the moon, Sunday, September 13, 1959, has been hailed by world-wide scien- _ fic and lay opinion as a “tremen- dous scientific achievement” herald- ing the further progress of Man’‘s ex- ~ plorations in outer space. “In his address of greeting upon arrival in the U.S. Tuesday morning, Premier Nikita Khrushchev gracious- _ ly informed his American audience that when the U.S. sends its first rocket to the Moon, “it will find an old friend there to welcome it.” (The Soviet flag carried by the 860-pound missile). In this, Man’s first contact with the Moon, the Soviet Union made it clear that it was “ndt making any territorial claims on the moon.” The _ field is therefore still open to specu- lative U.S. real estate promoters, if, as and when they get there! Pacific Tribune Phone MUtual 5-5288 Editor — TOM McEWEN Managing Editor — BERT WHYTE Published weekly at Room’ § — 426 Main Street Vancouver 4, B.C. Printed in a Union Shop Subscription Rates: One Year: $4.00 Six Months: $2.25 Canadian and Commonwealth countries (except Australia): $4.00 one year. Australia, United States and all other countries: $5.00 one year. scores of injunctions against TWA strike activities, to say nothing of the spate of employer injunctions against other striking unions, it is clear that these instruments of re- striction and obstruction are not serving monopoly as fully as was hoped for. Hence other and more drastic curbs on labor are being touted by monopoly spokesmen. Stemming directly from the political technique of the Deutsch “mediation” the question is being posed, why couldn’t this have been done in the first place, with mon- opoly and its battery of legal talent supplying their own implied an- swer: “Yes, let’s do it in future and make it binding.” In other words, get busy with the establishment of “industrial courts” and “compul- sory arbitration” to round out Bill 43. This growing threat to labor’s bargaining power can only be met by the greatest united independent political action on the broadest basis possible. Faced by a strong labor-farmer political alternative, instead of the palsied . “political arm” of the go-it-alone CCF social democracy, the schemes of mon- opoly to hogtie labor can be defeat- ed, with Bill 43 and its spawn of restrictions wiped from the statute books. - - Comment Cold war harvest .S.-RESIDENT union leaders in the clothing industry are voicing loud protests against American imports of ready-to- wear clothing (ladies and gents) from Japan and Hong Kong. These imports, say clothing union lead- ers, threaten the economic stan- dards of American and Canadian workers, by flooding the market with low-wage produced garments from sweatshops abroad. These union leaders have a case, vital not only to clothing workers but to all wage earners. Their case is weakened, however, by their noisy and unqualified support of U.S. cold-war imperialist policies; by their rabid anti-communism and (even in the midst of their protest) uniting in chorus with all the in- spired counter-revolutionary emi- gre riff-raff and Zionist reaction in America in anti-Soviet tirades against the current visit of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchey. This particular instance of U.S. monopolists utilizing the “sweat- ed” products of their U.S.-dominat- ed “free” Japan, in cahoots with their British counterparts in Hong Kong, is not without precedent in history. A century ago the British textile barons set up in business in India with the express purpose of exploiting the cheap and teeming labor of India to batter down the economic and social gains of the Lancashire textile workers. Messrs. Dubinsky, Potofsy 2 company in the plush offices 0 . international needle worker unions have good cause to pr the inundation of the “mark with finely-tailored apparel made by workers receiving 10 cents al hour or less in these “Asian out posts of our free world.” It isnt likely, however, that U.S. monopo- ly, whether on the home base, Canada or “free” Japan, and hig sensitive to maximum profits, V be moved to compassion by $s protests. And much less so wh the U.S. monopoly exploiters kn that those trade union tsars doi the protesting are ardent support ers of every anti-Soviet canard. Trade union leaders who lard theirsfeeble “protests” against ruthless monopoly exploitatiol with noisy denunciation of Nikita Khrushchey and the Soc world he represents are assur one thing at least; in this ca steady flow of fancy blous shirts, suits, etc., from the “fi world” industrial hells of Tok and Hong Kong; and with them th menace of lowered standards 7 the needle workers of the U. S. and — Canada. — Tom McEwen NE doesn’t have to look be- O yond the columns of the daily monopoly press for valid reasons as to why the circulation of papers like the Pacific. Tribune should be doubled and trebled. -Since the announcement’ that Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev would visit the U.S. this month, the monopoly press has reached a new high (or low) in-anti-Soviet slander and distortion. One hasn’t to go further than the Vancouver Sun for evidence of this renewed crescendo of cold- war gutter journalism. fake the pages of coldwar tripe the Sun has recently featured on. Nikita. Krush- chev by one Roy MacGregor- Hastie, an alleged “veteran Mos- cow correspondent” of something or other. Pure unmitigated tripe. tripe at this precise time is self- evident; to prejudice any lessen- ing of tensions or good that might The purpose of this anti-Soviet result from Mr. K’s visit; to incite hostile demonstrations against the head of the Soviet government, thus nurturing the coldwar atmos- phere so necessary to the nuclear maniacs of the U.S. and their tory Charley McCarthys in Canada. And let no one think that these anti-Soviet hallucinations and - in- ventions featured by the Sun are purely “coincidental.’’ On the con- trary, they are part of a top-level conspiracy with its} monopoly- controlled press to keep the nu- clear fires well stoked; to assure that whatever else may happen from the Krushchev visit, it won’t dimish their nuclear stockpile or their conspiratorial efforts to use _it against the Socialist sector of the world. _Or take the Sun's most recent “contribution” to Soviet-U.S.-Can- adian peace and friendship, the re- print of an ‘open letter to Ike” from a New York Times paid ad- ‘vertisement entitled, “Please, Mr. - President, Keep This Killer Out.” An anti-Soviet slanderous inven- tion of the most sordid vintage, undoubtedly concocted by a few underworld Nazi and White Rus- sian emigres, who must needs hide their identity under the soiled label of the “Committee Against Summit Entanglements.” But: their identity or lack of it doesn’t deter the Sun from reaching down for this piece of literary filth, to dec- orate its editorial pages with. At the Newspaper Association of Canada’s annual luncheon last week in Toronto, -W. H. Evans, president of- the Canadian. Manu- facturers Association, in paying “tribute”’- to the monopoly sewer press, stated among other things: ee - our larger . dailies do an admirable job of reporting in some depth, world and national affairs . comments. is free, facts are sacred.” — In using the words “some depth” the CMA chief struck paydirt. No known rodent ever dug lower in search of garbage than the CMA monopoly press. As for facts being | “sacred” and comment “free,” Ananias himself would blush at that one. : What do the coldwar promoters and their’ monopoly press fear from the visit of Nikita Krushchev —a fear which compels them to engage in a renewed campaign of anti-Soviet slander and villifica~ | tion? _ ; ; You won’t find the answer to | that question in the columns of the | kept press. It can only be found in the current editions of papers — like the Pacific Tribune; only one — of the very good reasons why every -worker concerned with ~ peace and survival should become a reader. September 18, 1959—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page !