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WITH victory over the axis in

Europe a matter of days, and
the United Nations preparing
for a history-making conference
in San Francisco this month,
freedom loving people the world
over have a right to be optim-
istically enthusiastic.

The cost of yetory in life and
material has been enormous.
‘The peace that will follow this
victory must bring security—
@ guarantee that never again
will this world be engulfed in
a devastating blood bath — a
guarantee that democracy will
live and grow to ensure the de-
termination of democratic
governments everywhere that
wil be representative of the
people’s choice — a guarantee
that the united effort which
made this victory over Hitler
possible will be. continued on
the basis of full co-operation
im the reconstruction of the
devastated nations, the indus-
trialization of the backward
nations, and the development
of free trade between all coun-
tries of the world—a guarantee
that organized labor, which
has played such an important
part in winning the victory,
will have a full voice in estab-
lishing the peace.

We are living in a period un-
like any other in history. This
was demonstrated at the world
international labor conference
in London, Efgland,<and in the
establishment of:an International
Labor Cogress. .

The Canadian Congress of La-
bor, in a recent special council
meeting, completed its proposed
amendments to Wartime Order-
in-Council PC 1003, that if adop-
ted will give labor in Canada the
assurance of dignified strength
the respect of employers and
the public generally. Arrange-
ments are snow being made “for
the representatives of organized
labor in Canada to meet with
the federal cabinet prior to the
dissolving of this parliament.
The importance of this national
lobby will be understood by the
membership of District No. 1 of
our union; for while industry-
wide negotiations were consid-
ered highly successful, our de-
mands for greater union secur-
ity were incomplete because of
the employers’ flat refusal at
this time to consider the union
shop and check-off.

Representatives of the people
in government, regardless of
what party they may belong
te, are receptive to the united
voice of the people. Outside of
winning the war, our first task
must be to mobilize our mem-
bership and the entire trade
union movement, backed up by
an enlightened public, for the
enactment of legislation em-
bodying full union security
now.

District No. 1, in regular
Council session, is on record for
an all-out campaign to send our
representatives to the National
Lobby in Ottawa who are to be
supported by resolutions, tele-
grams, and public petitions to
ensure the enactment of our just
legislative demands through the
federal government, as was ac-

lished by labor’s efforts
the provincial government

omen he Fateh Later Come tne

EP REM 2

Strategists of the rapidly re-
viving Klan movement plan an
all-out assault on Catholic labor
Teaders.

Within a few months they will
attack along religious lines such
men as Philip Murray
George Meany as intensely as
they hit Sidney Hillman with
anti-Semitic propaganda in the
November campaign.

The Klansmen, operating in-
dependently of their national
headquarters in Atlanta, Geor-
gia, will concentrate on the Asso-
ciation of Catholic Trade Union-
ists.

This will round out their pro-
paganda along traditional KKK
lines.

BLACK LEGION TERROR
FEARED

They already have “exploited
Hillman’s Political Action Com-
mittee and have warned that
trade union rules virtually will
turn American post-war indus-
try over to the Negroes.

Now the KKK men simply are
adding anti-Catholicism to their
anti,Negro and anti-Semitism
activity.

So they will be right back in
their old business again—but
this time as crusaders defend-
ing rugged individualism against
the unions and the big, bad
closed shop.

Some high Catholic clergymen
are aware of the coming cam-
paign against labor leaders of
their faith. And one important
member of the Detroit hierarchy
has said that the new drive might
even revive the Black Legion
type of terror organization. This
easily could be accomplished in
Midwest industrial areas which
have attracted many Southern

workers.

and'|

Klan Maps Attack On
Catholic Labor. Leaders -*

By VICTOR RIESEL

TIE-UP WITH MIDWEST
UNIONS

Strategy for this campaign
has been worked out with me-
thodical skill, The Klansmen,
after a futile attempt to revive
some of their old units, decided
to seek the support of some ac-
tive Midwest independent unions
for use as an operating base.

A tie-up with these unions
could serve to supply manpower
for all Klan purposes, and, most
important, could be used to prove
that the modern KKK is not
‘anti-union but rather an organ-
lization to protect the workers
| against the AFL‘and CIO.

So certain independent union
leaders have been approached by
the Klansmen. The independ-
ents have been promised certain
henefits supposedly to come from.
the weakening of the AFL and
IO, via.attacks on Catholic
leaders of both organizations.

This deal with some independ-
ent unions will not prevent the
KKK from negotiating with cer-
tain industrialists and wealthy
conservative propagandists for
funds with which to finance the
anti-Catholic drive.

The industrialists, of course,
will be told that the real purpose
of the campaign is to destroy
unions, wipe out the closed shop
and diseredit labor leaders in
many areas.

The plan then calls for the
coupling of the CIO Catholics
with AFL Catholic leaders. Then
it will be charged that men of
this faith are plotting to seize
the American labor movement.
The whole plan, is in effect, the
international - Jew - Communist-
banker technique in reverse.

By NIGEL MORGAN, Legislative Director and International
Board Member, IWA-CIO District One
FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR AMENDMENTS TO P.C. 1003

1) BENG in executive board session last week, B.C.

istrict Coun-

MM cil No. 1 IWA-CIO, laid plans for a streamlined political action
program to mobilize public support for amendments to P.C. 1008,
the Federal Labor Code. Proposals of the executive board, embodied
in the directives sent out by your District IWA-PAC, have been
planned to synchronize with proposals of last week’s meeting of the
national committee of the Canadian Congress of Labor for a great

national campaign. /

Serious consideration has been given to the amendments put -
forward by all CCL affiliates and an excellent program is being pre-
pared, with the expert advice of J. L. Cohen, K.C., Canada’s out-
standing labor attorney and former labor representative on the

National War Labor Board.

Clarification of collective bargaining

rights; simplification of certification procedure; decisive action to

outlaw company unions; as well

as provisions for union security

clauses, such as the union shop and the check-off, are being asked.
Similar action is being taken by. the Trades and Labor Congress
(AFL); and it is hoped a joint demonstration, with participation
of both national labor organizations, will conclude the campaign
with a powerful lobby of several hundred trade union representa-
tives in Ottawa before the Federal Parliament is ‘dissolved about
the middle of this month. Arrangements are being made by the
IWA B.C. District Council for adequate representation of our union

in the Ottawa lobby.

We have now reached a critical stage in labor relations in Can-

ada.

Cunning manoeuvres are being made to frustrate and defeat

the democratic aims of working people; to provoke them into strike
actions which the trade unions do not desire; actions which will
satisfy only those who wish to cause disunity and disruption for
political parties; strike actions from which only the fascist war
criminals and their accomplices can take comfort. We have reached
a stage where trade unions, confronted with obstruction of reaction-
ary employers, after they have taken every step prescribed in the
present P.C. 1003, find that there is no provision for compelling

genuine recognition of their union.

It therefore faces the alterna-

tive of either going out of business; violating the no-strike pledge

or going before the government

urging more effective legislation

that will compel defiant employers to conform to the democratic
processes of collective bargaining. The IWA recently decided on
the last alternative and now is our opportunity to act in consort
with a great national campaign of all Canadian labor.

It is obvious that P.C. 1003 must be made more effective.

It

must-be-given teeth to deal with those employers who flaunt gov-
ernment policy; the will of the people; and who will only comply

when compelled to do so.

Our collective bargaining legislation must

be amended to frustrate that small defiant group that is now
threatening us with industrial strife and national disunity. Labor
today has responsibilities; the like of which it has never had before.
Labor has shown by the constructive, statesman-like policies it has
advanced in war, it is prepared and capable of accepting those re-

sponsibilities.

As Minister of Labor Pearson so correctly pointed

out, Canadian management should accept labor as a full partner in
our common effort to establish a peaceful, secure and prosperous

Canada.

The District PAC stands instructed to mobilize all Local and
Sub-Local committees behind the demand for adoption of labor’s

requests.

sized—and as you can see THE TIME IS SHORT!

ACTION IS REQUIRED!

The importance of this campaign cannot be over-empha-

IMMEDIATE

Roosevelt Orders Study —
Of Guaranteed Wage

WASHINGTON (ALN)—President Roosevelt this week directed
the advisory board of the Office of War Mobilization to investigate
the question of establishing a guaranteed annual wage for U.S.

workers, ‘
out that the move was in

Jong a goal of the labor movement. The President pointed
line with a recommendation made last De-

cember by the War Labor Board-and “is closely connected with the
problems of reconversion and the transition from a war economy

to a peace economy.”

The WLB report urged that
“the whole question of guaran-
teed wage plans and the possib-
ility of their future development
in American industries as an aid
jn the stabilization of employ-
ment and the regularization’ of
production, should now be com-
prehensively studied on a nation-
al scale.” It declared that a guar-
anteed wage “is one of the main
aspirations of American workers”
and that “the search for it is part
of the search for continuity of
employment which is perhaps the
most vital economic and social
objective of our times.”

The WLB recommendation was
a direct result of its decision last
November to reject demands of
the United Steelworkers (CIO)
that 86 steel companies guaran-
tee “each employee a minimum

weekly wage during the life of
the contract” on the grounds that
it did not have sufficient infor-
mation about the operations of
assured wage plans. In proposing
that the President appoint a study
commission, the WLB stated that’
fear of unemployment has led to
annual wage guarantee demands.

Estimating that there were only
some 50 or 60 guaranteed annual
wage plans in existence in U.S.

industry, the Board observed that
most of these plans were initiated
by employers themselves and that
some were tried and abandoned.
No such plan was attempted in
the steel industry, where the de-
mands for labor “has fluctuated
widely from year to year,” it
added.