| of Kissinger ‘lies

Sept. 11, the first ‘anniver-

AW the fascist coup in Chile,

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a led on the U.S. Congress

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Clary of State ‘Kissinger
potave lied” when he said
oyement had no hand in
erthrow of Chile’s govern-
; and the murder of presi-
Allende.
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Tihistes &xamine the Ford Ad-
{ease ation’s. proposals to in-
to = nllitary and economic aid
dictatorship in Chile. He
‘the a Chile’s junta “one of
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| mer aay existence” that should
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tree! the Beecny of CIA
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“| alist ®s of U.S. global imperi-
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if} Reak fe of the largest unions
Vepartme cn the CIA and State
a) ih tj €nt role in Chile. It is

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LEONARD WOODCOCK
ment was concerned about CIA
operation in Chile, as well as its
global activities generally. Wood-
cock’s position — plus the loud
public outcry after president
Ford’s arrogant admission of
CIA subversion during his Sept.
16 press conference—undoubted-
ly helped push the Senate Fore-
ign Relations Committee | into
moving to a new investigation of

the CIA.
George Morris, Daily World

Ontario CP voices support

Civil servants demands are justified

charged that the Davis govern-

“The people of Ontario view
with alarm a possible shutdown
of all government services on
January 1. They will hold your
government entirely responsible

for such an eventuality,” said

Ontario Communist Party leader
William Stewart in a letter Sept.
30 sent to premier William
Davis.

Delegates representing 20,000
civil servants voted Sept. 23 to
strike on New Year’s Day if the

| government doesn’t reach agree-

ment with them to bring civil
servants parity with wages paid
in private industry and protect
them from inflation. The union is
asking for a 61.5% hike over one
year. :

Under the provincal Crown
Employees Collective Bargaining
Act, civil servants are forbidden
to strike under penalty of $500
per day for an individual and
$5,000. per day for the union.
The union wants an end to past
practice of taking its case before
a stacked arbitration ‘board
which comes down in favor of
the government.

The Communist Party letter

ment has “systematically used
(its) combined position as em-
ployer and legislator to tie the
collective bargaining hands of
Ontario civil servants to the
point where their wages lag
some 60% ‘behind comparable
levels: in other industries and
services.”

The letter to Davis goes on:
“You have long been warned by
the trade union movement, the
Communist Party, the NDP and
other genuine democrats, that
this arbitrary attitude towards
government employees was in-
consistent with democratic prac-
tice and would not be tolerable
in the long run either toward
civil servants or the working
people as a whole.

“Your answer to these warn-
ings has been to tighten up the
noose and allow the gap be-
tween the incomes, fringe bene-
fits and‘ working conditions of
civil servants to drop even
further behind.

“In the past two years your
government has faced crises in
the education field, hospital field
and now in your own backyard,

the civil service, all for the
same reason; deliberate attempts
to deprive the workers in these
areas of much needed wage in-
creases to keep up with the
spiraling cost of living.

“The demands of the Civil
Service Association are com-
pletely justified in their intention
to. strike if these demands are
not met. The law that prohibits
them that right is a complete
abrogation of their democratic
rights and they do the whole.
democratic process in Canada a
service by choosing to ignore it.

“We voice our full support for
the responsible: demands and
plans of the Civil Service Asso-
ciation and suggest that the way
out of the situation is to meet
these demands and to amend
legislation affecting civil ser-
vants granting them the right to
strike and also to bargain col-
lectively for the whole range of
working conditions effecting
them. :

“We repeat, if you fail to do

.this your government must ac-

cept full responsibility for the
shut down of public services on.
January Ist.”

Special to the Tribune

of pean delegates to the 30th
tothethon of the International
Ms jp Od Of Electrical Work-
“Moup,, "Sas City in September,
Yue. * ONe-sided battle on the

esti,
“N of Canadian autonomy,

tig, P&NSions geared to Cana-.

Condit;
bpecitions. Two autonomy

}
dig, os and one favoring two
| the One Mm Canada (instead of
J try Now covering the whole
an Ds Presented by the Can-
MY the Cals; were voted down
Werwh Convention made up
Om ;Mingly of delegates
‘the, aa locals. They backed
Bing, mational’s resolution
“a, ° ken recognition to Can-
Hou 300 | delegate ratio was
4 & Us A) for Canada, 2,700 for

hag (gine Over the Convention

" 8009 - fact of withdrawal of

s Bebec wiremen from the

ang any Ver pension problems,

breay. ™plied-danger of further

awa: . :

| Jers aane if Canadian mem-

throw nue to be hamstrung

“al with ack of autonomy to
Th Canadian realities.

e

as ononvention’s key speaker
{ Yeeyy. ime IBEW member,
YS in &ckasey, postmaster gen-
(t hee Canadian govern-
ates ,, © Cautioned U.S. dele-
talionay Canada-U.S.  “‘inter-
a Unionism could be kill-
j| jtiona) «©. Many of the inter-
Poggi rons refuse to make
i thin, for Canadians to “do
da j 8" by “insisting that

S$ not a nation. . .”

Unique Problems

i & adie On the international’s
\@e sharp resolution brought

‘P focus the differences
stist between U.S. and
: vlewpoi =
Atonomy on Cana

or dian delegates appealed

lemeenition of the unique
ang trade unionists face in
eee Where they live under
i €n into account in

at ma’ Constitution,
Oroneey® Walter Majesky (353,
Spoke for a majority

anadian IBEW

of Canadian members when he
said:

e We have certain problems
that have to be dealt with at the
Canadian level. ~

e I would like to see... . some
sort of convention (in Canada)
every two years.

e And some forum where we
can put forth our opinions ...
we are talking about problems
that are unique to Canada.

e I don’t think this’ (resolu-
tion) is coming to grips with
Canadian autonomy.

Delegate Terry Fraser (105,
Hamilton) pointed out the move-
ment in Canada to break entire-
ly with U.S. unions, He warned
of “a fragmented IBEW in Can-
ada if we aren’t given the forum,
the authority to deal with Cana-
dian issues. in Canada.”

Fraser stated:

—We can’t wait another four

or these concessions.
vee eae: want the 8,000-
member weakening in Quebec to
happen all across the country.

—We have to come out of
this Convention with a little
more than a change in words in
our Constitution. -

“CLC—Go to Hell”

“Canadian Vice-President Ken
Rose spoke against all of the
Canadian locals’ autonomy reso-
lutions, and in favor of the Inter-
national’s, which generously
changes “First District’ to “First
District — Canada” and offers
other such blandishments “to
give identity to the Canadian
membership.” ;

Rose, particularly vexed at the
Hamilton and Vancouver locals
for their insistance on recogni-
tion of Canadian conditions and
needs, turned his wrath on the
Canadian Labour Congress, de-
claring: . they can go to
hell.” :

The official report says:

“Qne of the members mention-
ed the Canadian Labour Con-
gress. Because of this unique sét-
up, because they felt it had
to be different, the Canadian
Labour Congress and its dele-

gates decided just this year that
they should have the power to
tell the members of the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers in Canada how their
Constitution is going to read and
— pardon me, Mr. Chairman —
they can go to hell.” (Applause)

The mood of Canadian locals,
the Tribune was told, is that if
Rose pulls out of the CLC —
and this forecast is circulating—
then he will face more break-
aways.

One delegate, C. R. Peck of
Vancouver was moved to ask
him point blank whether “the
IBEW has ceased to pay affiliat-
ed dues to the CLC,” as “a story
going round” says.

Rose replied that, “we have
not stopped paying per capita to
the Canadian Labour Congress.”

Need Canadian Forum

A resolution submitted by Lo-
cal 213, Vancouver, called for
the holding of ‘a Canadian Con-
vention of the IBEW in 1975,”
which would deal with pensions,
and draft recommendations on
“Canadian Autonomy, Canadian
Economic Needs, Canadian So-
ciological Needs, Canadian Labor
Law, Canadian Unemployment
Insurance Needs,” and that the
decisions would be taken to the
next IBEW international conven-
tion. For one thing, “the IBEW
pension for the younger mem-
bers in Canada is impractical,” a
delegate pointed out, in view of
the Canada Pension Plan and in
B.C, the Minicome plan.

Toronto. delegate, Majesky
pointed out that “. .. the form of

the caucus here as it is set up .

is not the forum to discuss some
of the things we (Canadians)
would like to discuss with some
of our delegates across the coun-
try.” Presently the IBEW holds
in Canada what it calls “progress
meetings,” at which Canadian

*Jocals are informed of develop-

ments.
Vice-president. Rose objected
to the Vancouver resolution, say-

‘ing: “Can you imagine what

that would do to the Conven-
tion?” He suggested the unity of

the IBEW was at stake.

“Nothing is further from hav-
ing a splitting effect on our orga-
nization,” said L. Popovich, Lo-
cal 1687, Sudbury, than the pro-
posed Canadian convention.
What we want, he said, is “a
forum to bring resolutions,” to
the IBEW convention. He point-
ed out that at “those progress
meetings we are not allowed to
take resolutions or recommenda-
tions.”

TV's Archie
honors IBEW
picketline

HOLLYWOOD — Carroll
O'Connor, television’s Archie
Bunker of the’ “All in the
Family” series, refused to re-
port to work earlier this month
for the third week by observ-
ing a picketline in a labor dis-
pute between CBS and the In-
ternational Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers union.

O'Connor, who resolved his
own contract problems with
CBS producers earlier this
summer, has been honoring an
IBEW picket-line which went
up last Aug. 21.

members in autonomy fight

With discussion shut off by
the chairman on each of the
Canadian resolutions, while dele-
gates were lined up at the mic-
rophones, delegate Peck of Van-
couver demanded: ‘How are we
in Canada ever going to aspire
to get some of our national ideals
and ideas across at this Con-
vention when the question is
called for and we are continu-
ally outvoted by our (U.S.)
Brothers . . .? The whole Cana-
dian delegation just stood (to
vote against ending debate) and
we were outvoted.”

A resolution submitted by Lo-
cals 105, Hamilton and 213, Van-
couver, “resolved that the Cana-
dian section of the IBEW be
granted the right to self govern-
ment within the IBEW,” and
called for a convention to elect
officers in 1976. E

The Law Committee recom-
mended defeat of the motion, and
Terry Fraser (105, Hamilton)
urged that “the incoming execu-
tive . . . consider adopting the

same policies as the United

Steelworkers Union uses in Can-
ada and the United Auto Work-
ers uses in Canada and... al-
low the Canadian section of their
membership to meet and form
Canadian policy .. .”

A resolution of the Sudbury
Local, proposing that the huge
IBEW district embodying all of
Canada be divided into two, was
over protests, lumped together
with the foregoing resolution,
and both were defeated by the
weight of U.S. votes.

Resolutions: by the Canadian
locals on pension provisions to
end the penalizing of Canadian
members under Canadian law,
were. likewise defeated because:
“Your Committee views these
problems as non-solvable.”

The setting up of an all-Can-
ada “progress meeting” next
spring is seen from the top as
a means of heading off Canadian
autonomy moves, but it will
have “no authority,” a delegate
told the Tribune. ~ “We didn’t
gain anything there; it’s just a
lot of talk.”

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