BEHIND THE SCENE ~ STRUGGLE IN CFU er,- ‘that the. split. is eaaeee Of. tries. BEHEN-D-the seenes sehsiagitie> between the “+ the AFL-CIO of the USA and its- Generally . speaking, ‘West tallied up the economic British counterpart, the TUC, U.S. position is that all con- balance sheet for the year which has. been’ smouldering tributions ta. the:.. ICFTU*-1961, they: found that it was: ‘should® be made ona volun- tary basis: from the unions which are affiliated to it, and this procedure has been followed: ‘so. far. _Naturally,: the American feeling is that: he who pays the piper. will. ‘call the tune;. and. since. the. tries,.-by the Soviet. paper = to arid disbuted bythe: Inter: - -AEEGIO: kag-been’ contribut.:. “Pravda BELO eT, Be = “national Conf éderation- oe ing~ the: lion's’ share. of “thes. eta tate Poe on Frée Trade. ‘Unions. a ICFTU. “budget. . “year “after. ; vee Many: ofthe. countries pane”, year. they-nefuse to: recognize” cerned are * —, ger “colonies. = only the Britishers ‘who have? ros : Windainghtalls: it ig a con-. the right’ to: work: ~with the~ flict’ between wo. giants, unheerewnnes ‘nations: * hardly a joyful one for world capitalism. The following article outlines some of the things they would have dis- for some time, has threaten-: ed to break out into the open. On the surface, the. row is “over how ‘money: for assisting trade unionism. in. underde- veloped countries, mainly a Africa, should be -contributed an éstimation of the econo- mies of the capitalist coun- ‘though. before: the 1960" elec: covered — it.is-a.summary of - Lie ‘961° aaeal: produc. tion. went ub-by only one per: constr the THOS position: that itis. cent in the- United: States, al; “prises or Si moder: _tion, the’ Democratic Party. : and "Kennedy had projected.a~ >. ECONOMIC BALANCE SHEET FINDS CAPITALISM IN ‘RED . When. the - leaders of the . West. Germany and France,, increased’ by nine _ percent: were turned. out by .the capitalist countries: than. in. any other More war materials post-war year. In the 1961-62 fiscal year; the U.S: Pentagon’s budget was uppedby $6 billion. But this did not result in “prosperity.” With a colossal surplus-of, unused productive: cal ~ Gapacities~ im - industry, the “anerease . a military: "spending ~ does. not: lead. to. large-scale ; enter- Hon: Of yori ‘as an. “attempt Uy noe Sof ne eons old -ones: . products “the United States. with» the -TUC aiming~at_re- taining and | expanding its im-~ a fiuenee. int: those territoriés>: > The TUC-_ position: is: “that 2.5 fo 5. percent: growth: in in- volunta ty financing” Wil’ dustrial. cain apnually. Nevers Be ee thé Corfederations ° uf x nid’ footing “ahd ey _Ih1961,.the ~ The imperialist powers con- tinued. to: try to ‘overcéme = ‘their < economic 5 difficulties: - ~ through” “Intensified” éxploita- ; -and. the Yanks, ‘seeking’ to re- ~ place it with’ their” ideas and’ methods. Both ° groups: - feel that they will best be-able-to- serve monodply ¢apitar and -prevent the World Federa- tion of Trade Unions,.-whose_ attraction to workers in the underdeveloped countries is growing, from Sane its influence. In order to try to gloss~ over their differences Sir Al- “worked _productive Se eathate a system ‘of “settled: and’ “adequate” means of. .income. This, it feels, wilk ~prevent~ “poaching: -on. what. ‘it considers. to be its own private preserve. : “IGNORE WORKERS NEEDS ~ In their intensifying strug- gle the two giants have lost sight. of the. most important thing of. al—the desires. and intentions of the workers in capacity, engineering industries work- ed at 60_to 70 percent capa- city. - In > February, 1961, the number of fully unemployed reached 5.7 million, the high- est total in the last 20 years. A period of recovery in the spring and summer of 1961 fred Roberts and Frank the underdeveloped coun: stalled in July. Industry Cousins of the TUC are pay-_ tries. again fell into a period of ing a visit to George Meany, Their struggle for freedom stagntion. boss man of the AFL-C1o. from imperialism certainly 5a Eee These differences have exist- Suggests that before long Canadian industrial output they will decide to do their own union job in their own way and without any outside interference. International. solidarity in helping. to’-tackle economic and industrial problems - is”: one thing; external meddling, and squabbling for undisput- ed “spheres of influence,’” is in 1961 went up by less than two percent, while that of Britain rose by only 1.2 per- cent. Even the rate of economic _ growth. of West Germany, Italy, France and Holland, whose. economies had: been developing much faster than that of the U-S., fell sharply. Steel production by. mem- ed ever since the ICFTU was formed in 1949, but it has been continually harder to keep sweeping them under _ the carpet, and the mission “\0f Roberts and: Cousin’ is an attempt to prevent ‘am open split frony developing’ at ‘the Berlin Congréss. in July. Some -observers feel; -how- quite. another.. and Steel Community was in- creased by only six-tenths of one percent. In West Ger- many, steel production drop- West Berlin- @ | dead city eum by 26 ee in Bel- Of the capitalist countries, only Italy and Japan main- tained a high rate of indus- trial growth. On the stock exchange, however, shares in Italy fell by 15 percent from July through September; in Tokyo by 21 percent from August through October; in West Germany by 21 percent in the same period. The currency situation in the main capitalist countries remained unstable. The American weekly, Bar- ron’s, wrote that 1961 saw the United States ousted from first place as regards cur- rency power and that in the last 12. months U.S. gold In one month over 1,430 large truck transports were counted, jammed with furni- ture of prosperous West-Ber- liners fleeing the city. Wait- ing list now, for these ‘“mov- ing vans,” is six months long. American - operated airlines are at capacity, taking out the shadier characters who do not dare pass through East Ger- man check-points on the highways: Many of the worst war criminals still living have had their headquarters in West Berlin for years. Two of the biggest West Berlin banks (August Thyssen and. Jeumann- von Massen- BERLIN — Biggest news throughout Germany (both East and West) is the swift decline of West Berlin. ~ The huge numbers. of cur- rency-speculators, spies, and ordinary criminals, who used to work full blast in East (socialist) Germany, are pour- ing out of West Berlin to Bonn — they can no longer operate because the. newly- built wall has properly quar- antined crime - ridden West Berlin. A iat Soho. epera gto” .eurrency reserves of » West Sa West: Berlin’ ‘panks ~ Germany “were 12° to 15 per= > 6£.an* inerefse. in. ‘the ad, “eat - “tion of. tie markets: of under- developed countries. »From. 1953 to 1961, how- the world ‘prices. of manufactured goods exported by the leading capitalist states rose by 10 percent, “while the prices of raw ma- terials and foodstuffs supplied by agrarian and raw-material . countries went down by eight. Boa to nine percent. This means that while prices grew in favor of the the possibilities for greater marketing of their monopolies, Douglas predicts .June 18 election fe; C. Douglas, leader of: the New Democratic : Party, thinks. the next Federal élection will be held on June 18. “Douglas. ‘outlined. his the election date last week while in Ottawa to report to the NDP-CCF group in the House of Commons on how the party’s election cam- paign is shaping up. He said he had switched his choice from June 11 to June 18. yLFIED MALL CeRLAFIED BAS Devid C. Aen, United ‘ States autora ~ stocks ee to 16.9 billion x UNITED STATES DEPAR wASHINGTO March 2, 1962 eon, Pesutra, Washington 25, D, one in underde countries dwindled, In 1961, many coun’ Latin .. America, A: Africa . experienced. difficulties in their bal payments. ‘ * * * In. 1961 the trad among the imperialist tries sharpened. 2 ppan. ‘and. Japanese lies, Britaint started: 4 joining. vhe Common: a. closed ~West-Euro .The British gover cided. to’ make its trade “policy .a_more-: “instrument of expans the ‘markets © of We Europe. The . monopolies” of Germany and Japan, other hand, ever mo lutely pressed the U.S: in the domestic market United States itself. q The aggravation of perialist contradictions } to the unbalanced, UM nature of the capitalist © . omy. On the other side balance sheet, the lead the Western world Cc” help noticing that: Soviet industrial P tion in 1961 went up P. by it percent. Socialism now accoug 36 percent of the world _ dustrial output. Less than a dozen ago,. Soviet. industrial P tion amounted. to 1es5§ 30 percent .of the States. At the end of Soviet prcijuetion was to more than 60 per the total output of Am industry. The Soviet econo rapidly overhauling the iti economy. All down th the socialist world 4 tinuing to advance 9 positions of capitalism ¥ sMENE or i stil OC March 1, 1962 order aoe: or : el : Corset 26: Senet orate nat ¥ Aon -At-the - out" ‘of 196t, ‘the ee Above is a copy ot tno ae. Stoolpigeon act of 1954. letter in - General Kennedy: authorized David -C; Acheson,. thé ~ torney, to haul Wcrker editor James Jackson into om “Kennedy's aim was to jaik Pail Sie she ‘while. violating the First’ Amendrhent, circu” ‘the Fifth: Amendment, and- avoiding’ & test im: “eg pe ast ‘Provision..)° {0 Met is: fd HK son: the J “Jackson sbcToking: a copy of the Kensie’ how UsS.. officials are vie om “US. ‘Constitution in’ “their anti-Communist frenzy- whiteb U.S. ;