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Shipyard Strike Proves Need
For Labor Policy

Te= strike of 1200 members of the Boilermakers and Iron
Shipbuilders Union at Hamilton Bridge last weekend
brought open flame to the smouldering fires of discontent
among the workers in this plant and the interlocking West
Coast shipyard.

On several occasions during the past few months walk-
outs in the West Coast shipyard have been averted only by
the refusal of the men to allow themselves to be provoked
into taking extreme action by the management’s anti-labor
attitude, and the strike action taken in the Hamilton Bridge
plant serves to stress the fact that here the provocation was
the more flagrant and the underlying motive more apparent
to the men.

This was no question of a dispute between two unions

with different affiliations, as the company attempted to show.

- It was the inevitable result of the company’s attempts to pur-

sue an open shop policy, regardless of the consequences, in

an industry where the principle of the closed shop is gener-
ally recognized.

The Boilermakers’ virtually 100 percent organization con-
stituted a challenge to the company’s declared open shop
policy and the company was forced to cast about for a pretext
to avoid recognizing the closed shop the Boilermakers already
had in effect. It sought to employ the means successfully used
thus far to maintain the open shop in the West Coast shipyard,
that of playing one union against another, of utilizing inter-
union differences to its own advantage and the disadvantage

of the workers, and it found an instrument in the Amalga-
mated Welders.

Some pointed questions might be asked about the organi-
zation and financial resources of the Amalgamated Welders,
but in the West Coast it has at least some claim to a member-
ship. In the Hamilton Bridge plant it had no such claim, and
it was clear to the workers that in signing a separate agree-
ment with eight welders, the management was deliberately
conniving to undermine the Boilermakers’ union and provide
itself with a pretext for maintaining open shop conditions.
When their protests were ignored, they resorted to strike.

HE entire trade union movement, however it deplores the

short-lived strike action, will regard the withdrawal of
the welders and the agreement of the management to grant
the Boilermakers sole bargaining rights as a victory—not a
victory for labor alone but for the people as a whole and their
vital interest in obtaining maximum war production.

The anti-labor policies followed by the Hamilton Bridge
management and still pursued by the management of the
West Coast, where jurisdictional disputes between the unions
have complicated the situation, have led to continuous clashes
between management and labor to the detriment of produc-
tion. There is no question that were the companies obliged to
relinguish these policies and grant the closed shop demanded
by the unions production relations would be improved im-
mediately and ship construction speeded up. The company
must be forced to recognize, since apparently it will not do so
of its own volition, that the nation is not interested in its
efforts to maintain privileges that weaken the war effort
and delay production, but only in the building of ships to carry
our armed forces to the offensive and victory.

The strike has again demonstrated the need for a federal
labor policy establishing beyond dispute labor’s right to col-
lective bargaining and outlawing company unions. Such a
policy will make it difficult for companies like the Hamilton
Bridge and West Coast Shipbuilders to place selfish considera-
tions above the needs of our war effort. It will give in effect
what the government has recognized in principle—labor’s
claim to full and equal partnership-in the national struggle
to defeat HitJerism.

he Role Of Long
Range A\ircratt

By Lieut.-General A. Golovanov
in Red Star

Los range aircraft has been called upon to influence the
course of the war by striking blows at the economic and
political centers of enemy country. They can reduce the vol-
ume of supplies on the front by destroying the factories that
produce them. One massed raid on a fascist industrial center
can replace a few such raids on the battlefields, while syste-
matic blows may cause serious harm to the fascist army.

The irrevocable law of such
raids is that they must be of a
massed character and they must
be pursued systematically. A few
blows from the air, even if under-
taken on the biggest scale, cannot
to any extent seriously undermine
the economic might of an enemy
with a highly developed industry.
Only the systematic destruction of
the enemy's principal centers,
blows struck deep in the rear
throughout the duration of the
war, may solve strategic tasks.

Herein lies the main feature of
long range aircraft. Soviet long-
range bombers also take a direct
part in_operations at the front.
They are operating on every sec-
tor from the Barents Sea to the
foothilis of the Catuicasus, and
moreover they are striking massed
blows in an effort to bring about
a change in the situation by a
Single raid to ensure the success
of the ground forces.

e

NDICATIVE of this is the recent

operation northwest of Stalin-
grad. It had become known that
the Germans had decided to ex-
tend the front on one sector and
thereby secure the left flank of
their troops attacking Stalingrad.
For this purpose they concentrat-
ed a great number of troops on
a narrow sector of the front. But
their offensive was frustrated by
the uninterrupted operations of
the Soviet long range bombers.
The next day found the Soviet
bombers at work at another sec-
tor of the front.

Long range aircraft plays an
important part in the struggle
against enemy planes. This task
is being solyed by blows at in-
dustrial objective where planes
are produced and by raids on air-

dromes. The latter is resorted to
most frequently and yields notice-
able results.

Cases have been known when
during a single night raid on an
airdrome, Soviet long range bomb-
ers have destroyed up to 80 Ger-
man planes. They have also help-
ed to secure safe passage of trans-
ports headed for Soviet ports with
war supplies from SBritain and
America.

On reaching a fixea district the
long range bomber units would
begin to strike systematic blows_
at enemy air bases a few days
before the arrival of transports.
Despite complex meteorological
conditions, the Soviet pilots have
kept the Germans in a constant
state of tension, blocking their
airdromes and destroying their
planes and thus helping the trans-
ports reach their port of destina-
tion.

AST but not least, they strike
blows at enemy communica-

tions. Not long ago, in a night raid
on an enemy railway station, long
range bombers destroyed some 500
carloads of tanks, artillery and
other equipment. Hundreds of fas-
cist soldiers perished at the sta-
tion or were put out of commis-
sion and train movements were
disrupted for a long time.

Another raid was made where
troops were detrained and which
resulted in the destruction of
much equipment and rolling stock,
as well as of over 3,000 soldiers
and officers. A formation intended
for an offensive was put out of
commission.

These are but a few examples
of the operations of Soviet long
range aircraft.

Food For The Red Army

MOSCOW.

DS wartime difficulties, the Soviet food industry has

been keeping the Red Army steadily supplied with sugar,
tea ,tinned foods, fats, tobacco and soap.

Food enterprises adapted their output in record time to
meet the demands of the front. The output of food concentrates
has been extended, as well as the vitamin industry, which since
the war has increased its output eight and one-half times.

Hundreds of new enterprises
have been built in Uzbekistan,
Kirghizia and other eastern dis-
tricts of the Soviet Union includ-
ing big sugar refineries, a large
number of canning factories, me-
chanized bakeries and tobacco fac-
tories.

With cooperation of scientists,
a number of enterprises have or-
ganized the production of high

caloric foodstuffs for airmen,
tankmen, paratroops and guer-
riJas.

The successes of the food in-
dustry have come in for recogni-
tion by the Soviet government
which has honored a number of
leading food workers.

The Order of Lenin was award-
ed to the director of a canning
factory which, although situated
in the immediate vicinity of the
front, was able nevertheless to

produce more than two million
tins of canned food above -the
plan for two months. The director
of a mechanized bakery which
keeps the men at the front sup-
plied with bread despite enemy
raids and shelling was awarded
the Order of the Red Banner of
Labor.

The temporary occupation of a
number of regions which had
played an important role in the
production of different kinds of
foodstuffs, such as the Ukraine
and the Kubans and the fact that
the front now passes along the
Volga, have created enormous dif-
ficulties in supplying the army
and the rear with necessary food-
stuffs. The tireless work of the

food workers is directed precisely
towards overcoming these diffi-
culties,

SHORT '
JABS |!

by OV Bill ae

Naz

A Fascist - En

ARG CARRIERE was organ Bowe’

izer for Jean Drapeau in th if Pet
recent byelection in Quebec. H |

was arrested at the instigation o 7B0y

the RCMP, or maybe it was th. ors

military authorities. The reaso. iy th
for his arrest was obvious. Reak Al
marks at an election meetin; —

were calculated to interfere wit | :
recruiting and to sabotage th” erals

war effort of the Canadian pec gig 3
ple sti
It would be a legitimate question a Eth
if one were to ask why Jea\F
Drapeau, the candidate, was Setel bid
arrested also. Who is Jean Dreip- 3

peau? Fred Rose, in an exceller
little pamphlet, “Hitler’s 5th Ca)
umn in Quebec,’ tells who he :
and something about his ant: Ԥ.
Canadian activities. i

Rose quotes an affidavit mad ‘| ,j
by a person of great integrit § x
whose identity cannot be a
yulged for obvious reasons. Th fipe
affidavit in part reads: “In Seg § x
tember, 1940, I was asked hb §
Roger Beaulieau, Belanger Stree) |; 4
Montreal, at the time director o f
Quartier Latin (official pape $e
Montreal University) to meet 5
friend of his, Fernand Lessard, . 9
I met Lessard in the office of th ¢&
Jeunesse Agricole Catholiqut “hie
Roger Varin (another director c pile
the League for the Defense c §it
Canada—F.R.), was present i #2:
the office at the time... pth

‘Tessard asked me to join th § 4
LX, a secret organizaion whos @!
aim was to establish a Frenck —
Canadian, Catholic, independen #¥%
state in Quebec. Acquisition ¢ §"
power was to take place throug —
the use of violence. Each membé-
was obliged to secure for himse iE
a rifle of a caliber not less tha §.
32, 300 rounds of ammunition, §,
water bottle and a hunting knif §.,
and be ready at any time for §;
call from the leader. j

“J was approached later kb jf,
Jean Drapeau, 5th Ave., Rosi
mont, Montreal, to attend a mee
ing of the ‘LxX’”

More Fascists Ihe
EAN DRAPEAU, who cali P
himself “the candidate of th F

draftees,” is linked up throug |

the Ordre de Jacque Cartie. -?
with Wilfred Lecroix, M-P., wh
startled the House by readin
from confidential document: §
with Rene Chaloult, whose trai ©
orous words were declared innit /
cent by a Quebec judge recen [{!
ly; with Maxime Raymond, wk
has just recently launched a ne’

ultra-French nationalist party,

Quisling party, in Quebec, ant 3

with all the other fascist-inspii ¥

ed elements who desire te kee
the French-Canadian workers th |
most exploited of all the people &
living on the North America =
continent. :
And while these Quislings arc}
permitted to spread their subvers |
ive, fascist ideas—the Communis |}

Party is still a banned organiza |

tion.

Stools

HO is a stool pigeon? Ar |

there amateur and profes
sional stool pigeons? These ques
tions are being asked as a resul
of the investigation into the ac
tivities of that great “helper o¢
the police,” Etsuji Morii.

This investigation by a minoig
judge of the Ontario backwood!
partook of the character of ¢
trial, in which not Morii was or
trial, but the RCMP. To somt
of the officials of the RCMP, al:
though a man is supplying thr
police with information and ma
terial assistance (and running <€
gambling joint on the side), he
is not a stool pigeon unless they
give him, money for his informa
tion.

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