—-cow— Once the USS.
“ne Soviet Union, ‘‘the
@ eat nations, are willing
_laborate and aid each
there will be no new
® Leo. Krzycki, vice-
= .t of the CIO Amalga-
Clothing Workers, stated
scently Krzycki, who is
airman of the Polish-
nm Labor Council, |ad-
ithe plenary session of
Union Central Council of
Unions. He came here
oland, where he attended
“azress of the Polish Fed-
tof Trade Unions.
American people are
« having become allies of
et people and-of having
/. know this great people,”
_ted. “No force can now
us from collaborating in
- Hshment of a real peace.
on the war, but we still
ivin the peace and it must
_ sting, effective and real
he masses of the people
_.er forget the sacrifices
iby the recent war. The
wild do everything that
uld not happen again.”
ci observed that ‘hope
en for the Slav people.
-)e is the Soviet Union.
_-mproving in Yugoslavia,
and Czechoslovakia.
come from Poland. For
time a government has
up there which repre-
> e entire nation. And if
--s closely allied with her
* other and neighbor, the
| Inion, it will be a great
1ent.”
_ing that when AUCCTU
“1 Wasili V. Kuznetsov
| the U.S. “our workers
‘prised to learn that there
eamployment in your coun-
* continued: ‘‘Your coun-
Fe only place in the world
there are no _ political
no economic convulsions
-2re the people are mak-
dy progress. Back in Am-
- will tell of all the things
seen here. I know that
-Mericans will be coming
-d shaking your hands as
-and more of your com-
} ill be coming to our coun-

“a

F

«CIO leader said that he
appy at this opportunity
‘ite the Soviet workers
you.” He conveyed fra-
greetings “on behalf of
00,000 members of the
nd the “fraternal greet-
‘d friendship of CIO presi-
Vhilip Murray.” He also
3; greetings from Sidney
1, chairman of the CIO
1 Action Committee and
nt of the Amalgamated
g¢ Worrkers.

I€ ADVOCATE — PAGE

Using a blow-torch, American soldiers demolish a Japanese
cyclotron at Public Relations Bureau of Japan at Tokyo.
U.S. atomic scientists denounced it as wanton destruction.

treal Lodge Scores Expulsions
Union - Busting Drive

CCF-Duplessis Agents
United To Behead Union

By REG. LOUTHOOD

Montreal, Que. —— The co-
alition of CCF-ers and Du-
plessis agents has executed a
third attack within the last
few days on the trade union
movement.

Last Saturday morning D. S.
Lyons, Canadian vice-president
of the Int. Association of Ma-
chinists, invited the officers of
Lodge 712 to a meeting. While
this meeting was going on his
hirelings staged a raid on the of-
fices of the union and with the
help of police took possession of
their offices-and padlocked their
doors.

The officials of the Grand
Lodge of the IAM suspended
four leaders of the 800-strong
Aircraft lodge 712: Adrien Ville-
neuve, Jean Pare, Robert.Had-

Murray Answers Truman Plan
Charges ‘Abject Cowardice’

Following are the most im-
portant sections of CIO President
Murray’s radio address from
Pittsburgh Tuesday night in
answer to the Truman labor pro-
posals:

. Industry has refused to en-
gage in collective bargaining. In-
dustry has refused to accept vol-
untarary arbitration in the auto-
mobile dispute. Industry has re-

PHILLIP MURRAY

fused to meet with the union in
the steel industry though speci-
fically requested by the federal
government.

To all this arrogance the
federal administration yields in
abject cowardice.

The recent message from
President Truman to Congress
calls for legislation which would
authorize the President to estab-
lish fact finding boards in major
industries where industrial dis-

$

putes may be threatened. In ad-
dition, it is recommended that
where such boards are establish-
ed it shall be unlawful for labor
to strike during the pendency of
the work of any such appointed
board.

I desire to make it perfectly
clear that labor has never feared
public disclosure of facts pertain-
ing to labor dispute.

Only recently a report of ex-
perts of the Office of War Mo-
bilization was being buried by
Mr. Snyder, its director. This re-
port fully disclosed all the facts
pertaining to the financial con-
dition of American industry and
the crying need for substantial
Wage . increases. It was only
through the determined efforts
of labor that this report became
available to the American people.

The specific facts involved in
the automobile and steel indus-
tries have been thoroughly an-
alyzed and made public by sever-
al government agencies.

This should make it clear that
President Truman’s requested
legislation cannot be justified on
the grounds that it is facts which
are sought. There is some other
design which prompts its recom-
mendation. .

Recently the Labor-Manage-
ment Conference held in the City
of Washington unanimously
agreed that there was a joint re-
sponsibilty to engage in gen-
uine collective bargaining and
where this fails to cooperate with
conciliation and mediation.

On the basis of this agreement
between prominent representa-
tives of labor and management—
why did not the Secretary of
Labor and the Fresident en-
deavor to bring the General

Motors Corp, or the United
States Steel Corp. into collective
bargaining conferences with the
the union.

Instead—legislation is request-
ed. Legislation that can have but
a single purposé — the weaken-
ing of labor unions—the curtail-
ment of the right of free men
to refrain from working when
they choose to do so.

I am profoundly disturbed at

Continued Page 12
See ‘MURRAY ANSWERS’

dow and Irving Burman. These
men had tripled the membership
of the IAM in Montreal in the
last three years. :

Following this suspension,
with no specific charge made,
Lyons released to the anti-labor
press a vicious red-baiting at-
tack on the leaders of Lodge 712,
combined with wild accusations
of attempting to swing the
Lodge over to the CIO and hints
of mismanagement of funds: The
affairs of the Lodge were “taken
over’ by the Grand Lodge. and
handed to Romeo Desparois,
well known CCF-er and right-
hand man of the Duplessis agent
Paul Fournier.

Commenting on the reports of
his suspension for allegedly con-
spiring to take Aireraft Lodge
712 anto the CIO and for having
“given support to Communism,”
Robert Haddow, organizer of the
aireraft. workers, gave the fol-
lewing statement to the press: .

HADDOW’S STATEMENT
“The moves initiated ever the
weekend by D. S. Lyons, Cana-
dian vice-president of the IAM,
are serving directly those
forces which seek to divide and —
destroy the Canadian trade union
movement. The aim of these
people is to bring about the re-
turn of those conditions which,
in pre-war days, found the work-
ing people of this country leader-
less and powerless against «the
rapacious policies of big busi-
ness. See
“Lyons’ use of the familiar
red-baiting theme is. net new.

Continued Page 12
See ‘BEHEAD UNIQGN’

Communists Make Gains In
Brazilian Congress Election

RIO DE JANEIRO.\With re-
turns from the Dec. 2 election
still incomplete, former War
Minister Gen. Eurico Gaspar
Dutra, who was conceded elec
tion as president last week, con-
tinues to gain over his two prin-
cipal opponents. Congressional
election returns likewise  indi-
cate that the parties which back-
ed Dutra—the Social-Democrat
and Workers’ parties—will dom-

‘inate the new Congress.

The important states of Rio
Grande do Sul, Sao Paulo and
Minas Geraes gave Dutra a
smashing victory, with 860,000
votes for him against 420,000 for
his major opponent, Gomes.
Fiuza polled a considerable vote
in the big cities with industrial
populations, especially in Rio de
Janeiro, where he received 115,-
000. He also won a majority in
Santos, Natal and Aracaju.

Greatest election surprise was

the large congressional vote

polled by the Workers’ and Com-
munist, parties, which’ based
themselves on labor. In the city
of Rio de Janeiro, the senatorial
candidates receiving the most
votes were the Communists Luis
Carlos’ Prestes and Abel Char-
mont. Workers’ party candidates
for deputies won first plaee,
polling 110,000, and the Com-
munists second with 87,000. In
the city of Sao Paulo, Commun-
ist deputies won first place with
80,000 votes, Workers’ party can-
didates running second with 70.-
000.

In all, 286 deputies and 42 sena-
tors, who will form a constitu-
ent assembly, will be elected.
Latest returns indicate that Wor-
kKers’ party will elect about 40
and the Communists about 20.
The constituent assembly, will
be charged with framing a new
constitution to replace the cor-
porate one of 1937. Labor has
insisted that the new constitu-
tion be thoroughly democratic.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1945