EDITORIAL Good Advice ‘THE Provincial Government now knows unmis- takably the attitude of organized Jabor toward the newly-enacted Labor Relations Act. The re- | cent conference in Vancouver was fully represen- tative of the Unions, and most emphatic that the Act should not be proclaimed. If the Government now proclaims the Act, it will be evident that it intends to penalize labor vindictively, and restrict its traditional freedoms. There is no situation on the horizon that re- quires any haste in the matter. As a matter of fact, the experience this year in Jabor-manage- ment relations, points up more clearly than.ever labor’s contention. that the emphasis should be placed on expert conciliation rather than on increased penalties. The Government would be well advised to heed the advice of labor at this time. Proclamation of the Act this year would only throw the negotiations now pending on all sides into complete confusion. The almost inevitable result will be that the Act will be tested in the courts. While court pro- ceedings are under way, delayed settlements will incite the last stage of exasperation among the workers affected. The commonsense procedure would be to put the Act in cold storage until it can be overhauled by more experienced law-makers. KEK “Indecent” ‘THE people of the United States and Canada, who are following the McCarthy vs. the Army imbroglio on television or reading about it in the newspapers, must be coming to the conclusion that McCarthy is a nuisance as well as a menace. He has shown himself a reckless and ruthless antag- onist, ready at a moment’s notice to accuse other pepole of the very practices of which he himself is notoriously guilty. Millions of words have been spoken and written about McCarthy, but very little need be added to the comment made recently by the Most Reverend Bernard James Sheil, one of the most influential Roman Catholic church- men in the United States. Speaking to an educational conference, held in Chi- cago under the auspices of the United Automobile Workers of America, Bishop Sheil said, “The nation must cry out against the phony anti-Communist that mocks our way of life, flouts our traditions and demo- cratic procedures and our sense of fair play, feeds on the meat of suspicion, and grows great on the dissension among Americans which it cynically creates and keeps alive by the mad pursuit of headlines.” There was no question but that all decent Americans were against Communism, but Bishop Sheil asked, “Are we any safer because non-conformity has been practic- ally identified with treason?” and he answered, “I think not.’ Bishop Sheil said that he was expressing his personal opinion, but he added, “Although the Church takes no position, and will not, on such a matter of public contro- yersy, the Church does take a position on lies, calumny, the’ absence of charity, and calculated deceit. These things are wrong . . . They are morally evil, and to call them good, or to act as if they were permissible under certain circumstances, is itself a monstrous perversion of morality. They are not justified by any cause—least of all by the cause of anti-Communism, which should unite rather than divide all of us in these difficult times.” Those are heartening words, and should help to drive out of public life a man who has been able, by playing on fear and ignorance, and by deliberately disregarding every principle of decency and justice, to do tremendous harm to his own nation, both at home and abroad. —Canadian Unionist. << t Recommenpen | ‘prekage! i PROPOSAL Your Space Boys! 52ic Readers TONY SEES WEDGE TRIED The Editor: | workers away from ‘their own Mr. Bennett’s flippant remark | organizations. that recent criticism of the new| ‘This “educational program” by labor relations act by the united) the government will attempt to voice of labor is just “certain | convince us that with Social Cre- politicians talking”, exposes a|dit at Victoria we need not Social Credit plan to drive a bother with such pesky things as wedge between the membership| unions. Such a plan is based on of B.C.'s trade unions and their| ignorance of basic union prin- leadership. ciples and i doomed to ‘failure. Such a ‘short-sighted policy by] B.C.’s trade union movement is the government will be the es-| thoroughly democratic. tablishment of an “educational| Such remarks by George ‘Tom- program” to further wean the|linson (Socred, North Vancou- yer) that unions are controlled by “parasites and pyrotechnic organizers” is false and an in- sult to the rank and file union- ists throughout the province. ‘The government’s incompe- tence to handle labor affairs threatens industrial harmony. The trade union movement is part and parcel of our democra- tic society. The social eredit's attitude to labor is a dangerous one, Tony Gargraye, M.L.A. ANNUAL WAGE NEXT ISSUE Management was given another” warning recently that the next major demand of labor will be for the Guaranteed Annual Wage, as necessary to maintain labor’s security. The setting was a two-day lec- | ture symposium on labor rela- | RACISM tions and law sponsored by the | 2 Law Society of Upper Canada. | CAPETOWN (CPA) — A white man who is married Eamon Park, legislative direc- | a 5 tor of the United Steelworkers || [0 am Indian woman will be- of America (CIO-CCI), gave the || come in India from eae hint on GAW. Canadian unions, || Ooh Government Garetin he said, were preparing the |! ‘thy ‘definition incaded in bien eS aE demands ||"; exes Mcontainca niente j terms of the Group Areas This demand for a new form|| Act, has recently been made of a guaranteed annual wage | official by the Malan goy- was based, he said, on labor | ernment. | thinking “that a great deal more Prior to the proclamation can be done to level out the || of. the Act, there had been peaks and valleys of employment || no specific definition of the which occur in many industries.” || race group to which a white GAW, he urged, would help || man belonged if he were management because, “we believe | the existence of a guaranteed | annual wage plan will give man- agement the incentive to find ways to level out production on a, year-round basis.” If business conditions in basic industries improve, GAW de- mands will gain some ground, one observer indicated. “But if | the reverse happens the unions will have to face the harsh fact of economic life that there is no insurance to guarantee sales for industry.” married to an Indian, Chin- ese or Malay woman. “OLD DOC” Dr. R. 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