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responsibility for the welfare
of the workers? As a matter of
fact, we urgently need the
greater strength of labor to
act as a check on the irrespons-
ibility of soulless corporations.
Our democracy thrives onl:
when We develop a proper
tem of checks and balances.
These warnings about labor,
just another form of the anti-
labor propaganda, which has
been poured out on the people of
this country, ever
unions were formed. At first,
trade unionists were regarded as
conspir inst the state,
and our early pioncers in trade
unions were jailed, shot and ex-
iled, Later, the political servants
of our employers tried to legis-
late us out of existence. Now
they are trying to convince the
public that we are creating (a
dangerous monopoly.
Remind Them

When
these sentiments, remind them
that the trade union movement is
a fully democratic movement,
which exists only to promote the
well-being of its members and
the community in a fully demo-
ratie way,

we form the larges
the community in which we live,

and on which we depend. The
better the condition in the com-
munity, the better off are the
workers.

sinee trade |

your neighbors echo |

RTER"

| Ask your neighbors, when they

repeat the words of the employ-
ers, whether they prefer greater
profits for the few, or better

wages for the many. They ean-
not deny that wages passing
the counters of commun-

ments, are
prosper-

business establ
lifeblood of busine
ity in any community.

mmunity Benefits
| If we seek better health serv-
ices, better housing, and better
education, will trade union mem-
bers benefit exclusively? Cer-
tainly not. We can only enjoy
these thi that the workers
need and want, as every’ member
of the community in their
joyment. In the ie unions
by sharing with

been shared
with u: in no other ¥
we liye happily and  seew

| Your neighbors should know th:
the pe
by

it not for
Je waged
, the living s

were

the +:
andards

s would soon be replaced
by inferior standards. Be on your
| guard. Never allow big business

to convince anybody that trade
union members are to be treated
as second-class citizens. We are
ed in helping to build con-
ditions of equality, that eve:
one may find not less, but more,
of the privileges of an enriched
| democracy, ~

PAPER MAKERS MERGE

NEW YORK (CPA)—Two

unions in the papermaking indus:

try which haye a combined membership of 130,000 members have

announced plans for merging it
International Brotherhood of
United Paperworkers (CIO) wi

nto a single group next year. The
Paper Makers (AFL) and the
ill submit a merger agreement to

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Source, CLC Labour Research

From Page 3

“SUEZ CRISIS”

he United Nations, which
already exerted itself to
ensure the observance of the
armistice between Israel and
her neighbors, should now use
all the powers at its disposal to
make it clear that the continu-
ous threat to world peace, re-
sulting from th unresolyed
tension in that vital region of
the world cannot be tolerated
any longer. A fundamental
solution to the Middle East
problem must be found.”

Next War Devastation
Thes well as

ements, as

those made reeently by the Cana-
dian Labour Congr
lar

along simi-
lines, makes it abundantly
¢ that the free trade union
movement of the world i
to the fact that world pe;
danger, as an outcome of develop:
ments in the Middle East.

Time and again, the trade
unions, who have access to the
facts, have warned the public
that another war with the use of
thermo - nuclear weapons would
mean destruction of human life
and its means of sustenance, on
a scale that makes imperative the
honest acceptance of the rule of
law instead of the rule of force
in international disputes.

This evening, I intend to out-
line a portion of the faetual
background, which accounts for
the vi great concern felt by
trade unions at this time. I als
hope to direet attention to the
need to support the United Na-
tions and strengthen it as an in-
strument for the preservation of

special conventions of their organization early in 1957,

world peace.

Packed with Pride in B.C.

UNDER THE UNION LABEL!

YLMER

BOSTON BROWN BEANS

IN 5 CONVENIENT SIZES

Produced, by Canadians for Canadions in the
gultra-medern Vancouver plant recently selected
by members of the L.W.A, Women's Ausiliary,

in co-operation with the

U.P.W.A,, for the plant

tour featured in the “B.C. Lumber Worker” of

April, 1956.

A delicious moa!

in minutes!

Suez Timetable
, let us give brief consid-
eration to the timetable, which
a great deal about the
factors in the situation,

In September, 1955, Colonel
Nasser, Egyptian dictator, an-
nounced an arms deal with the
Soviet Union. To pay for these
arms he mortgaged half the
Egyptian cotton crop for years
to come. The arms were intended
for the destruction of I Ip

In June, 1956, the last of the
British troops left the Suez Ca-
nal zone, under pressure from
the United States. In the follow-
ing month, the United States,
Britain, and the World Bank
withd: the offer of a loan to
help finance ypt’s Aswan Dam.
That dam w pected to add
one third to Egypt's area of i
vigated land and to vastly in-
crease its clectrie power output.

One reason given for this ac-
tion was that Egypt was so heay-
ily in debt to the Soviet Union
for the payment of arms, that it
could not finance its share of the
Aswan Dam, An attack on Israel
was also feared.

One week later, Na:
the canal, and nationaliz
though the treaty granting the
concession to an international
y does not expire for ap-
mately nine years.

There followed several months
of negotiations in an attempt to
settle the dispute and protect the
of the canal.
ye it should be said. that Great
Britain and other Western Ei
pean countries require three mi)

|lion barrels of oil a day for the
satisfactory operation of their
economies. Of this total, nearly
2 million barrels must come from
the Middle East, with 1.2 million
barrels transported through the
Suez Canal, and 800,000 barrels
carried to the Mediterannean in
pipelines. To route the transport
of oil around the Cape of Good
Hope would mean an ocean y
age of an additional 4,600 miles,
and the construction of a fleet of
the larger §0,000-ton tankers.

Incidentally, Egypt had blac!
listed ships of all nations, 103 in
number, carrying goods or pas-
sengers to Israel.

Increased Conflict

Quite obviously, the arms sup-
plied to Egypt stepped up the
tempovof events in the area, Bor-
der clashes between “suicide”
Arab squads and Israeli frontier
forces increased, and the Israeli
Government declared on Oct. 17
that the country was faced with a
full-scale attack by Egypt.

That the Israeli prime minister
was justified in this statement
has since been shown in doeu-
ments eaptured and now trans-
lated. T have a copy of such a
document issued to Egyptian
army commanders, from whieh I
will’ quote one or two instrue-
tion: .

| ‘y commander is to pre-

pare himself and his subordin-
| ates for the inevitable cam-
| paign with Israel for the pur-

pose of fulfilling our exalted
aim, which is the annihilation
| of Israel, and her destruction
| in the shortest possible time in
| See “CRISIS” Page 12