ey ll | Wh PROPHETIC ‘a FOR “a balga: SCctiton pas UROPEAN CARTOON | EGRATING | | TEE EUROPEAN CONTINGENTS ~ ‘“ (East Berlin) on Jan. 22, of West Germany was only in the discussion stage. Today, as the cartoon predicted, the West German Wehrmacht is the largest army in western Europe. , WEST ERMAN ARMY '. This cartoon was first published ‘ in the German Report 1954, when the rearmament BERLIN—It. it stili needed a. confirmation that the case of *} Vracaris, the Yugoslav parti- san who was arrested in Mun- _ ich, was not a mistake but a ' symptom of the renazification of West Germany under the Adenauier-Globke government, it has been supplied by the justice minister and the police » depariment of Stuttgart, pro- vincial capital of Baden-Wuert- emberg. Justice Min- _ ister Hauss- man declared on. Nov. 24 in the. provincial parliament in Stuttgart, that Vracaric’s. ac tion was mur- der, because: “Partisans and _ fighters, wearing. no military insignia, and moving against military units are... by right subject to punishment as insurgents. This nazis immediately fell on good soil and was acted upon the following day. A large band of fascist Yug- _oslavs who had fled to Ger- | Bonn arrest of partisan _renazification symptom By MAX REICH ‘Pacific Tribune Correspondent mesistance}] encouragement to the|_ many after the war attacked a performance. of the Yugoslav dance and song’ ensemble “Lado” from Zagreb, giving a guest performance in Stuttgart in honor of Yugoslavia’s na- tional holiday on Nov. 25. Carrying banners: “The mur- derer Vracaric must be pun- ished,” the fascists were al- lowed to attack guests for 45 minutes before the police -ar- rived. A few people were in- jured by the fascists, one of them seriously. The Yugoslav consul general, against the outrage. . The Stuttgart police, he stat- ed, had been informed of the planned: provocation, but had failed. to take any measures whatsoever to protect the guests. Krstic also stated that it had been impossible for him to reach either the police presi- dent of Stuttgart or the inter- ior minister or any of his as- sistants. RE, The days are back in West Germany when fascists may openly terrorize whoever they please and find indulgence and understanding from the author- ities. - Special.to the Pacific Tribune MOSCOW — Haited as the world forum of labor, _ Fifth World Trade Union Con- . gress cyened here with 1,000 _ delegates from over 100 coun- Bris ts i In addition to the represent-; atives of 107. million workers q in uniens affiliated with the: _ WFTU, . representatives came from tHe big national federa- - tions of Cuba, Japan, Algeria, the United Arab Republic, Chile and Uruguay, delegates. from independent unions, and Observers from unions affiliat- _ €d wiih the International Con- 8ress of Free Trade Unions. Granting all delegates equal and participate in commissions, H the Fisth Congress was a great, Step towards healing the split) “in the vorld trade union move-! “™ent, ‘nitiated by the Ameri- fan, Federation . of. Labor .in Delegates from 100 countries at Trade Union Congress © the! Tights: to express. their views | | The congress elected top trade union. leaders. grom all parts of the earth to the praesidium, among ‘them, C..S. Jackson Slobodan Krstic, has protested |. BeVERSE AT PORT COLBORNE ~ Mine-Mill says * — will not be fost to Steel’ Union raiding got a shot in the arm last week at Pt. Colborne when the United Steelworkers scored a 1,033 to 736 victory over the Mine Mill and Smelter Workers Union Local 637 in a government supervised certification vote. There were 1834 workers eligible’ to vote and 1796 cast their ballots. Under the terms of the act the Steel Union. re- quired a majority of those eles- ible to unseat the Mine Mill as bargaining unit. Wm. wongridge, National Secretary of the Mine Milt Union issued’ a statement in hich he referred to the resul of the vote as “a temporary victory for Steel. ; “However,” he said, “it will only be temporary the rank and file of Steel and CLC members are already in revolt against this attempt to legalize raiding in the labor move ment.” : Western President of the Mine Mill union Harvey Mur phy, said ‘“‘we lost a battle in the middle of a war ...Iam absolutely convinced that Locai 598 (Sudbury) the main. battle ground now in this war, will not be lost to the Steelwork- ers.” “We are going to carry the battle into the Steelworkers Union in Hamilton, Sault St. Marie, Nova Scotia and Kiti- mat, and show the facts to the members.of the USWA who are in the steel industry, where Steel has inferior contracts and the workers are paying the cost of raiding isa heve. suf- fered themselves,» te. Rie he Murphy Ea criessd: the opin: ion that these raids are the re- sult of a made-in-the-USA can- nibal policy being thrust on Canadian unionism. He .refer- red to the brazen interference of U.S. Secrétary of State Goldberg, who on a_ recent visit to Canada advised. Mine Mill workers to join the Steel Union. Goldberg is an ex- lawyer for the Steelworkers union. “We are determined that the control of Canadian unionism is not going to be allowed to fall into the hands of Americans”, he said. “We shall make it our busi- ness to demonstrate to the Steelworkers membership the importance of autonomy in Canadian unionism. We shall fight U.S. domination of Can- adian union affairs wherever) | we find it.” from Canada. In his report on the work of}! the WFTU and the tasks of the | working class in this new stage of history, Louis Saillant, gen- eral secretary of the WFTU, i Stressed that if united, the power of the world | movement is invincible, and to- gether with other progressive forces can assure peace and progress. | He called for snide mobo around a program of workers’ | economic and social demands | including support of national- ization of key industries to curb the monopolists. The reporter urged the na- | tional federations and indepen- ! dent unions to join the WFTU, the. largest world union body;. }and thus- strengthen the . te | for unity. labor | Open city lena for Cuba aid A campaign is under way in Canada to coilect mil- lions of pencils and cotton diapers for the children of Cuba. A depot has been set up at the Fisherman’s Hall, 138 East Cordova St., Van- couver 4, B.C., and people are urged to send their don- ations (either diapers or pencils or money to buy same) to that address, or if you live in Vancouver take it to the top floor business office of the Fisherman’s Union, same address. The depot. will be open / Monday to Friday. between 9 am.and 5 p.m... ° ‘bury. Murphy told the Pacific Trib- une that while the loss in Pt Colborne was a disapoinimert it was not a compiete surprise. He explained that the ‘Steel tactic of raiding Pt. Colborne || first was based on the fact that in previous Steel raids the Pt. Colborne membership had wav- ered and it had been the re- jection of the Steel raiders by the Sudbury membership which had finally decided the; issue. Steel’s tactic this time was to hit ‘Pt. Colborne first and hope to use a victory there to influence the workers in Sud- However, he maintained that the outcome would have little effect in Sudbury where the majority have already ex: pressed themselves against the raiders. The result of the Steel vic- tory in Pt. Colborne, predicted Murphy, would merely be tc split that group away from the main body of the International Nickel workers. When this be- Steel raids Uranium City i URANIUM CITY, Sask.., —In a wire from Local 913 Mine-Mill aithis Northern mining centre to the West- ern District Office in Van- couver, Steel’s attempted raiding of this local has been unanimously declared by officers and members as “a propaganda move to in- fluence Sudbury.” and as such “‘a cOmplete failure.” The Uranium City local has set up a 40-man Mine- Mill Defense |. Committee designed to bring Steel’s in: lerference and raiding “to a speedy conclusion.” Local 913 is confident that Mine: Mill will emerge ‘’victor- ious” against Steel raiders. comes apparent to those -work- ; ers they: will come back into — the Mine Mill union, he stated. Steel has applied for a vote in Sudbury and it is estimated that the Ontario Labor Rela- tions Board will order a vote for the 17,000 workers involv- ed in early January. US seeks Ottawa OK for Georgia Strait sub test The United States has - asked: Canada ‘for permission Re to conduct submarine tests in- Georgia Strait. ie This was revealed a few.days ago in a story by the Van- couver Sun’s Pete Loudon. According to the story, if Canada approves “the experi- Election roundup in next issue Vancouver civic election: results were not available as the Pacific Tribune went to press. Next week we will bring our readers a round-up and analysis of civic election results in both Vancouver and other municipalities and cities. WATCH FOR IT. GONE aaents “would be neds with ships and personnel of the Royal Canadian Navy also par- © ticipating.” : So far Ottawa has remained mum .on the highly-secret ne- gotiations. Loudon reports in his story that “reports filtered - through an RCN security screen indicate the tests would be a follow-up to other U.S. experi- ments already classed as highly successful.” This report adds to the growing list of military pro- jects by which Canadian terri- tory is being used for U.S. military purposes, and Canad- ‘ian armed forces “‘integrated” | with the U.S. ARE THE DAYS... Old faithful — the automatie U.S. majority in the United Nations — has finally run out of steam, And all the king’s men will never put it bopeiiet again... —KUKRINIKSI in Drasda December 15, ‘1961 PACIFIC i cases os a 3