Loggers ask 17c,
_ fear secret deal

on wage

demand

Loggers local 1-71, International Woodworkers of Am-
erica (CIO-CCL) held a one-day convention in Arcadian Hall

here last week and adopted a

resolution demanding that the

union shop and a 17-cent-an-hour wage increase be placed
at the top of the bargaining list for 1951.

(B.C. District convention of the;

IWA opens in Victoria on January
21.)

Much of the time of the conven-
tion was spent in tirades against
former Woodworkers Industrial
Union member who have rejoined,
or who seek to rejoin, the IWA.
Nigel Morgan and 12 others whose
names were not disclosed were
“barred for life.” It was explained
that Morgan had not re-applied for
membership, but that his name was
included in the banned ‘list us a
“precaution.” .

Another “precaution” was taken
by the officers when they rammed
through a resolution approving ‘a
two-year term of office for union
heads. It was argued by financial
secretary Fred Fieber that contin-
uation of the one-year term might
result in former WIU members
being elected to official positions
next year.

Frank Howard was re-elected
president and Fieber was returned
as financial secretary.

B.C. district president Stewart
Alsbury, addressing the convention,
declared that the IWA would fight
any government move to control
wages at their present levels. At
the same time he said: “If wage
controls must come, let them be
fair.” He advocated price and
rent controls to “stop the spiralling
cost-of-living.”

There is talk among loggers in
Vancouver that IWA executive of-
ficers are now carrying on negotia-
tions with representatives of the
woodworking industry for a wage
increase,

Woodworkers, caught in the bight
of: the line between rising prices
and taxes and’ inadequate wages,
need more pay and would welcome
€n interim increase now.

But they are determined that
there should be no strings attached
which would prevent the IWA from
opening the contract on wages and
conditions early this year. The
present contract expires June 15,
1951, and 60 days notice is needed
which places the opening date not
later than April 15.

There is also considerable criti-
cism among woodworkers over

the secret negotiations going on.
They feel that the union leader-
Ship should take the workers in-
to its confidence, tell them what's,
going on, and rally support for
the move to win more wages.

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U.S. stake in
Canada climbs
fo $7 billion

NEW YORK

How the Canadian government

is selling Canada lock, stock and

barrel to Wall Street, is bluntly

revealed in the current issue of

Business Week, magazine of JS.
big business,

In the past year Wall Street has
invested a billion dollars in Canada,
coincident with the St. Laurent
government’s decision to go all the
way down the line with Washing-
ton’s rearmament and war policies.
A great part of the investment
came after the U.S. launched the
Korean war. The amount is more
than U.S. investments in Canada
for the four years from 1946 to
1949 and brings total U.S. holdings
to nearly $7 billion.

Business Week, asking why Wall
Street is stepping up its invest-
ments in Canada, gives these frank
answers:

Canadian government pojicies
— tax laws in particular — have
‘encouraged expansion of U. S.
branch plants.

“In some lines, wood pulp, nickel,
other materials a Canadian plant
is necessary as a source of supply.

“Some overseas markets can be
served to better profit from Can-
ada than the USS. ‘

“The Canadian market for in-
dustrial products is growing fast.”

Thanks to “Canadian  econ-
omic policies,” U.S. big business
now looks upon Canada as a
48th state. Says Business Week:
“Mfost U.S. companies think of
Canada as almost part of the
U.S. Investment there, they feel
is nothing like as risky as the
“usual foreign investment. Thus
2,200 U.S. companies have Can-
adian plants and U.S. capital has
helped finance many a Canadian-
controlled company.”

In manufacturing, which ac-
counts for 31 percent of Canada’s
national income, 45 percent is
owned by foreign investors, three
quarters of whom are in the USS.
Between 1945 and 1950, Wall Street
bankers financed 147 new manu-
facturing establishments in Can-
ada, 30 of which are in key iron
‘and steel products, 22 in chemicals,
17 in transportation equipment and
‘13 in electrical apparatus—all dir-
ectly connected with the Canadian
and U.S. armaments program.

Business Week. explains how
corporations are given “a break”
by the government’s tax policies.
Corporate taxes are only 38 -per-
cent compared with 45 in the U.S.
y“What’s more,” the magazine de-
clares, “the Canadian law has a
number of features especially de-
signed to encourage investment in
new plant and equipment.”

Canadian capitalists, ‘who in-
vested $3.9 billion in 1950, are not
too happy about the trade situa-
tion, however. Business Week found
that 65 percent of our trade was
now being done with the [U.S. and
| that our markets in other parts
‘of the world were slipping serious-
ly.

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Citizens will keep a critical eye on him.

Charles Thompson, the Non-
Partisan Association mayor who
found that red-baiting didn’t
work, doffed his mayoralty robes
for the last time this week and

- handed over his duties to Fred
Hume, victor at the polls on
December 13.

Mayor Hume, elected on an
independent ticket, faces the
task of living up to the promises
he made to the electorate of
Vancouver prior to election day.
The 33,161 citizens — majority of
them workers — who voted for
Hume in order to end NPA dic-
tatorship at city hall will be wat-
ching the new mayor’s activities
with a critical eye.

Vancouver voters showed that
they wanted the franchise ex-
tended to spouses immediately,
by voting almost five to one for
this move in a plebiscite, Hume
must press for legislative actinn
to permit this limited easing of
civic voting restrictions.

“wide open” Sunday demonsrates
that voters are heartily sick of
the “blue laws” and desire mo-
dification of the present Victor-
ian legislation.

Ald. Archie Proctor, whose
adyocacy of limited Sunday

Hume under pressure
to live up to promises

The 25,000 ballots cast for a

sports won him re-election as
an independent after he had
been discarded by the NPA ma-
chine, is launching a new cam- |
paign for a plebiscite on the
question within the next few
months. Labor. will support
such a move, and Mayor Hume
must take a position on an issue
that Thompson evaded consis—
tently.

The last minute post-election
statement made by Thompson
that he intended to “screen” ali
civic workers for evidences of
“communist sympathies” arous-
ed a storm of protest from la-
bor, and contributed in some
measure tio his humiliating de-
feat at the polls. Mayor Hume
has an opportunity to dissoci-
ate himself from his predeces-
sor’s reactionary policy and end |
“red-baiting” at city hall.

Other tasks facing Mayor
Hume include the need to block
the NPA scheme of rushing an
ill-conceived new city charter
before the Provincial Legisla-
ture this coming session; ending
the notorious secret meetings of
council in Mahogany Room;
finding a suitable site for a new
police station; and beginning
work on many badly-needed
civic improvement projects.

|| itself white.

French Canada
eaifor scores
Brussels meet

MONTREAL

“All efforts for peace should be
centered on the United Nations—
that is, on the international society
.. .’ to safeguard world peace, de-

Le Devoir, in a recent lead editorial.

Scoring the recent meeting at
Brussels.as a precursor to “auto-
matic” involvement into a war un-
‘der terms of the Atlantic pact,
Laurendeau charged that accept-
ance of the Atlantic pact meant ac-
cepting “the idea that the world is
torn by Russian-American rivalry.”

“Not only do we take sides, but
we take sides completely with one
of the blocs,” writes Laurendeau,
“without hope of change.”

“But it is above all the automa-
tic character of the pact to which
we object most strenuously,” writes
the editor. :

“Imagine for a moment, to bet-
ter understand the peril, that to
the Atlantic pact was added a Pa-
cific pact, to which the United
States and Canada would be par-
ties.

“Already, through the fictions of
a ‘UN temporarily bound to Wash-
ington, we have believed ourselves
obliged to intervene in Korea.

“But the U.S. at the same time
has installed her 7th Fleet’ be-
tween Formosa and continental
China. On this, we have not gone
along; neither has England nor
France. The U.S. thus finds itself
isolated in the most flagrant ille-
| gality; they are intervening in the
Chinese civil war and are prevent-
ing its termination... .

“What we are avoiding (for the
moment) in Formosa, we are risk-
ing falling into in Europe—thanks
to the Atlantic pact. Our strate-
gists have already gone far along.
They wish to set up the Army of
‘the Pact.

“The latest reports are full of
big words on this subject. The pre-
sent projects, they say, will allow

sions in Europe by 1953. > These
effectives will comprise Americans,
British and Canadian divisions

| which will be shipped there to the
, extent to which it is felt they are

needed and we have them organ-
ized, /

“At the present moment, the
pact countries have 19 divisions in
Europe: two Americon, two Brit-
ish, five French, two Benelux, and
eight Italain. (The Yugoslavs have
30).

“To realize this military expan-
sion each nation will have to bleed
Germany, willing or
not, will furnish 150,000 men, be-
ing more than one-seventh of the
total. And they will allow THREE
YEAR'S to achieve this result. Mo-
bilization can only be effected bit
by bit, division by division.

“The project seems headed for

‘| failure, 2 77?

now in

SAN FRANCISCO

Three hundred and twenty former
Japanese officers passed through
here recently on their way to U.S.
tank officers’ school at Fort Knox,
Kentucky, an artillery school at
Fort Sill, Okla., and an infantry
‘school at Fort Benning, Ga.

'They were selected by General
Douglas MacArthur’s staff in Tokyo
to receive special training in the
USS.. After their return to Japan
they will be appointed to high posts
in the future Japanese army.

Most of the officers in the group
have been members of the officers’

corps of the Japanese armies in
China, in particular of the Kwan-
tung Army. They include artillery,
infantry and tank specialists and
the group is headed by-Senichi Ka-
mada, former lieutenant-general of

the Japanese Army.

The officers will undergo special
training in modern warfare includ-
ing the experience of the Korean
war, and they will be instructed in
the use of new types of American
weapons, in. particular those al-
ready in use in the Korean oper-
ations,

PACIEIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 5, 1951 —

Lieut. General heads _
300 Japanese officers
in U.S. for tr

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Hongkong businessmen
angered by American,
Canadian embargoes

HONG KONG

The embargo on all Canadian
and U.S. exports to the British
Ccdony of Hong Kong, the Portu-
guese colony of Macoa and China
announced by the Canadian and
U.S. governments has caused
considerable resentment . here.
The U.S. consulate is virtually
mobbed by irate merchants com-
plaining at this serious threat to
Hong Kong’s trade.

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clares Andre Laurendeau, editor of.

for the setting up of 55 to 60 divi- ~