B.C. LUMBER WORKER

ist Issue December

“LABOR SHOULD

UNDERSTAND”

“The future of free Asia is right now hanging in the
balance,” Chester Bowles, former U.S. ambassador to
India told the recent Cleveland CIO convention.

“Tf any group in America
understands the hopes and
fears of the Asians, it is the
men and women of the labor
moyement,” Bowles said. “In
their time, they haye seen
enough of adversity to under-
‘stand its effect on others.”
Few Americans have ever gone
hungry, the former envoy told
the conyention, but “it is not so
long ago that American working
people knew the stark facts of
unemployment, the fear of an in-
secure old age, the wrench that
comes when they saw their chil-
dren leave school before their
time. American working men, too,
have faced harsh anti-labor legis-
lation and many of them have
known racial discrimination.”

Security Essential

He warned that “flat tops, long-
range bombers, tanks and ma-
chine guns are essential to our
security. If we drop our military
guard, the Soviet Union may be
tempted to attack.”

Bowles argued that American
military power will not stop this
gnawing of hunger in millions of
Asian stomachs.

“Tt will not stop the ravages of
malaria and other diseases in
Asian villages. It will not help
Asian people to read and write.
It will not stifle the insidious
propaganda of the Communists,”
he said.

Labor’s Role

He expressed the hope that the
U.S. labor movement would con-
tinue to throw its great weight
behind “every constructive pro-
posal for creating a more dynam-
ie and secure democracy here at
home and furthering peace and
greater stability abroad.”

Bowles recalled that it was 91
years since Abraham Lincoln set
the stage for racial equality in
the Emancipation Proclamation.
But, he warned:

‘Discrimination still exists
in most parts of America, which
is not only a blight upon our
community life, but is danger-
ously destructive to our influ-
ence among the two-thirds of
the world which is colored. We
must join finally to erase this
discrimination so that all our
people may become truly free.”

4-Point Program

He called for support of the
Point Four Program in Asia and
Africa where “it can effectively
help to eliminate poverty, misery
and frustration which leads to
Communist upheavals.”

Finally, he said, “We must keep
our people, our capital and our
machines fully employed in the
creation of an expanding Amer-
ica dedicated to peace and plenty.”

HOW TO GET AID FROM U.S.

Former U. S. Ambassador Bowles told this story to delegates:
All oyer Asia there is a story of the Prime Minister of the little

~ country of Monaco, who under the Marshall Plan asked for $10

million, and was told: “We can’t get you that, that is not a big
amount: How is your Communist problem in Monaco?”

He said, “We have no Communist problem, we are poor but
sensible people!” This man shook his head and said, “How do you
‘expect us to get the American Congress to give you the money if
you have no Communists?”

He went all the way to France and said to the Foreign Minister,
“My friend, I’m in trouble. We haye’a desperate economic problem.
Our people are hungry. We have no money. I can’t get a loan from
the United States on the Marshall Plan.

“{ haye no Communists. I can’t get the money. Could you loan
me a few Communists for a few days, and let them come to
Monaco and shake their fists and march behind banners, and the
American newsreel photographers will take pictures, they will be
shown all over America, and I will get my $10 million?” a

And the French Minister stroked his beard and looked out the
window and said, “No, we would like to be a good neighbor, but
France needs every Comriunist she has.”

COMBINE BARED

OTTAWA (CPA)—Ten Can-
adian electrical wire and cable
manufacturers, producing 93%
of Canada’s wire and cables,
have been accused of partici-
pating in a price-fixing com-
bine for a period of 41 years.

A report on the companies,
which followed an 18-month in-
vestigation, charges that the

by an arrangement to submit
identical bids on tenders.

May 1952

Special Combines Commission- | }
ev H. C. Goldenberg of Montreal | :

started his investigations in May
1952 following complaints from
Ottawa and Winnipeg hydro com-
missioners that they were re-
ceiving identical and non-com-

companies “vitiated and made a| petitive bids on tenders for elec-
mockery” of competitive bidding! trical equipment,

Publication date of the next issue of the B,C. LUMBER WORKER
is December 17th. Deadline for ad copy is December 10th and for
news copy December 11th,

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Note the “tailored”? de-

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away down at back. (Also
made without iorelin-
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STANDARD PANTS

See the extra depth of
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and back, and interlining
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of pockets, too. (Also
made without interlin-
ing.)

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Levinson’ said here.

Martin Levinson told members
of Hamilton Labor Council that
“the kind of treatment that some
of them (Canadian companies)
are giving Latin American work-
ers is disgraceful.” While tak-
ing huge profits, the companies
“virtually starve their employ-
ees,” which leaves little cause for
wonder why communism and
anti-North -American feeling is
spreading below the Rio Grande,
he said.

Fixed Production

Workers at Compania Minera
La India and Empresa Minera de
Nicaragua, two Nicaraguan gold-
producing subsidiaries of Nor-
anda Mines, receive only 74 cents
aday, a Nicaraguan labor leader
told Mr. Levinson recently. The
payment of 74 cents is condi-
tional upon the worker turning
out a certain fixed production,
even if the miner has to work 10
or 12 hours a day to achieve it.

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The CCL Director said that
working conditions in these mines
were extremely bad and “a fan-
tastic number” of the miners are
suffering from tuberculosis and
Silicosis as a result,

Workers Fired

In May of this year, employees
at Empresa Minera de Nicaragua
attempted to organize, but com-
pany manager Donald §;
fired 80 workers and refused to
bargain with union officers, des-
pite a law which required this,
said Mr. Levinson.

As a result of protests against
Spencer's actions and the condi-
tions in the Canadian - owned
mines, the Nicaraguan govern-
ment set up a three-man com-

HAMILTON, Ont.—American and- Br:
are generally blamed for colonial exploitation abroad, but
we don’t realize that “Canada has a few international
buccaneers of its own,” CCL International Affairs Director

ish capitalists

mission to investigate the situa-
tion.
Noranda President

“Tt seems that Canada is not
a large enough field for Mr. Mur-
doch (J. Y. Murdoch, President of
Noranda Mines) to express his
reactionary anti-trade union in-
stinets,” said the CCL, Director.
“He has got to do it-on a world

CANADIAN PIRATES SEEN

basis.”

Mr. Levinson said he was sure
that Mr. Murdoch could be beaten
in the present northern Ontario
and Quebec gold mine disputes
and he hoped that the Nicaraguan
workers would win their fight
also. Once the fight in Canada
was won, Mr. Levinson said he
hoped that Canadian workers
would help their Nicaraguan
counterparts.

Profits High
The profits of Noranda’s Nicar-
aguan subsidiaries were described
by the International affairs Di-
rector as “out of this world.”

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