(Text of broadeast over
CKEY, Toronto, by Leslie
Morris, Ontario leader of the
Labor-Progressive Party.)

Lt me tell you the truth
about the Ford ‘strike.
Last Friday and Saturday I
saw for myself the dramatic
events which swiftly were
leading to a climax you have
tread about in the papers. I
Saw the much-advertized
constitutional attempt of the
city police to go through the
picket lines, which was the
legal prelude to sending On-
tario police and RCMP. I
walked on the picket lines my-
self to talk to strikers and
union leaders. I spoke to mer-
chants and to citizens who are
not on strike. I am sure if you
knew the story, as I know it;
if you spoke to the men of the
Essex Scottish who are now on
strike, the RCAF boys and sail-
ors, as I did, you would agree
with me when I say the citi-
zens of Windsor are fighting a
battle for simple human rights
—the right to be free union
men, the right to have a voice
in their conditions of employ-
ment, for the greatest pur-
chasing capacity, for the seni-
ority of veterans, for a better
life for the children.

This fight did not start last
Friday at 3 o’clock when the
police commission, over the
head of Mayor Reaume, order-
ed city police through the pic-
ket line. It started 20 months
ago when the war was still on,
before D-Day. For 20 long
months the Ford Union has
worked without a real union
contract. Had they taken ad-
vantage of the war emergency
to compel the union shop, they
could have won it then. But
they did not. They put the war
first. As good patriots they
waited for peace to come to
push their demands upon the
biggest anti-union corporation
on this continent, the Ford Mo-
tor Company.

The union patiently exhausted
ed every step prescribed by Do-
minion and provincial law to
get the union shop. After years
of the speed-up and blacklist-
ing they knew they must have
the union shop to work for Ford
with any sense of security at
all.

But Wallace Campbell, pres-
ident of the Ford Motor Com-
pany, who had grudgingly and
Partially recognized the union
during the war, decided that
the difficulties of reconversion
and an abundance of labor
would give him the chance to
break the union. He is now try-
ing with might and main to do
just that. If he, succeeds, every
anti-labor employer in Canada
will try to do the same. If he
fails, labor will gain a new bill
of rights in every industry.

The simple truth of the mat-
ter is this: that if Mr. Black-
well’s police succeed in forcib-
ly re-opening the plant or any
portion of it, a heavy blow will
have been struck for the anti-
labor Ford Company and
against every union in Canada.

Ten thousand platitudes would .

not conceal that fact from the
people of Windsor, and from
600,000 union members right
across Canada.

I CHARGE the Dominion and
Provincial governments with
the following anti-labor ac-
tions:
—I charge that for two long
years Canadian labor has ask-
ed for a Labor Code that would

The Battle Of Winds

by LESLIE MORRIS, Ont. Lead

compel employers to recognize
unions and give security to
every union which has received
certification as representative
of the workers in the plant.
Neither Ottawa nor Queen’s
Park has moved a finger to do
this. Because they have refus-
ed to move for fear of offend-
ing employers, they are respon-
sible for the strife and suffer-
ing in Windsor tonight.

—I charge that Premier Drew
and the Dominion government
are cooperating to open the

LESLIE MORRIS
LPP Ontario Leader

gates of the Ford plant—not
to protect private property but
to permit scab labor to operate
first the powerhouse, and next
the whole plant, freezing out
of their jobs at least 10,000
Windsor citizens.

—I charge that the Ford Mo-
tor “Company in public adver-
tisements has tried to’ use re-
turned veterans to divide the
workers in the plant and break
the union, and that the govern-
ment by breaking picket lines
is helping Henry Ford.

—I charge that the Attorney-
General planned this affair, in
cooperation with Ottawa, even
while the Union was in the mid-
dle of negotiations with Ottawa
for a formula to end the strike.

—I charge that Premier
Drew’s 1943 election promise
to pass the “fairest and most
advanced labor legislation” was
designed only to catch votes;
that he has since refused to
budge on this issue but has used
it to further his political am-
bitions as against the federal
Liberals.

—I charge that Humphrey
Mitchell, federal Minister of
Labor, was not in accord with
the facts when he told the House
of Commons last Friday that
the union had turned down his
proposal for settling the strike,
that the facts are these—last
Thursday night 9,000 strikers
endorsed a set of counter-pro-
posals which should have been
considered by Ottawa.

—I charge that this evidence
of bad faith on the part of the
government is substantiated by
the fact that. while these ne-
gotiations were going on Mr.
Blackwell announced a “pre-
vious undertaking” with the
federal government with regard
to the joint use of Provincial
Police and RCMP.

—I charge that the Ford Mo-
tor Company is using the ex-

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cess profits tax to shut down
the plant and starve the peo-
ple of Windsor into submission.
Ford plans to use the money
it would have paid in excess
income taxes had the plant been
operating, for the purpose of
breaking the union at no loss of
money to the company. It is
using its reserve of $30,000,-
000 piled up during the war
years to break the union.

—I charge that the Ford
Motor Company and the Gov-
ernments are discriminating
against Ford employees to the
disadvantage of Canada, by re-
fusing to give to Ford workers
on the Canadian side of the
Detroit River the selfsame
union shop which exists in the
Ford plants on the American
side.

—I charge that there was
not, and would not have been,
any violence in this strike un-
til the governments sent their
police to Windsor against the
advice of Mayor Reaume, the
elected chief magistrate, and
the city council.

—I charge that the provin-
cial government is violating
municipal democracy by flout-
ing the opinions of the demo-
cratically-elected city council,
and following the advice of two
members of the Windsor police
commission, both of whom are
appointed by the provincial gov-
ernment.

The third member of the
Commission, Mayor Reaume,
the only member elected by the
people, has condemned the ac-
tion of the two provincial ap-
pointees.

—TI charge that the only pur-

pose the Provincial and RCMP
police can have in Windsor is
to open the power plant and.
thus to break the strike. I
charge that the Provincial Gov-
ernment and Ottawa must have
the intention of operating the
power plan by scab labor, or by
the police and military, because
the power plant workers, mem-
bers of the Union are legally on
strike according to the words
of the Dominion Minister of
Labor himself.

—I charge that this strike,
now eight weeks old, could have
been settled in one hour had
the government done its duty
—either the Ontario or the Do-
minion governments—by order-
ing the Ford Motor Company
to give union security to the
10,000 Ford employees, and, if
the Company still refused, to
take over control cf the Ford
plant as the packing houses
were taken over.

—I charge that the govern-
mentts are _ discriminating
against the Ford workers be-
cause they organized a united
labor slate in the last provin-
cial election, and that political
revenge plays a large part.in
the actions of the governments.

—I charge the Dominion gov-
ernment with discrimination
against the Ford strikers be-
cause they demanded that the
men go back without a con-
tract, whereas last week in the
Guelph steel strike the feder-
al government made no such
condition.

These are not charges based
upon. opinions. They are charges
based upon facts, every one of
which can be substantiated by

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EAM

LONDON — I have re-
turned from a month’s visit
in Greece convinced that the
EAM has fully recovered
the ground since December
and it is by far the largest

political movement in the
country today.

There are only two sub-
stantial political trends in
Greece: the EAM and the
Royalists.

The Republican center and
small old Socialist group play
an important role in the pres-
ent political maneuvers because
their participation in the elec-
tions held by the present re-
gime would provide the figleaf
of respectability the British
government desires.

Equally a government form-
ed by the center could, with
EAM support, purge the armed
forces, liberate accurate elec-
toral registers.

Old Republican parties have
been shattered in fragments,
however, and the great bulk of
their popular following adhered
to the EAM during the resis-
tanee.

OFFERS ONLY HOPE

It still adheres to the EAM
because the EAM alone offers
any hope of the solution of the
country’s problems.

The Royalists today com-
pletely control the Regent and

the Government and rule the
country through the general
staff where the Military Lea-
gue of Gen. Vendiris has its -
seat.

It cannot possibly be in the
interests of the British Labor
Government to prop up the
Royalist fascist regime which
is nothing more or less than
the old quisling regime in a
slightly altered disguise.

This, however, is the inevit-
able result of making hostility
to the EAM the cornerstone of
British policy. The underlying
purpose is not merely anti-
Communist but also anti-Rus-
Sian phobia. British officers
and officials in Greece make no
secret of the fact that they re-
gard the reactionary regime in
Greece as a bulwark against
Soviet penetration of the Med-
iterranean.

SUPPORT ROYALISTS

They give their support to.
the Royalists who openly
agitate against the new peoples
governments in the Balkans,
campaign for a greater Greece
double the present size and
proclaim their intention to
plant their flag in Sofia.

I believe from my conversa-
tion with N. Zachariades, Com-
munist Party secretary, and
other leaders that the EAM ad-
ministration is prepared to live
on friendly terms with Britain

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