UE: launches full-scale campaign
to. help win jpeace on earth’

TORONT lade the instructions of the 23rd annual convention of the United
Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (UE) a meeting of the union’s national legis-
lative committee has outlined a program based on giving broad PUL to UE’s

position on the key question

Noting the “new atmosphere
in the world today,’ C. S.
Jackson, UE president, told
the delegates that “the petition
campaign initiated by~ Univer-
sity of Toronto underlined the
general acceptance of the con-

Unionists
in USSR

MOSCOW — Three repres-
entatives of the International
Longshoremen’s and Ware-
thousemen’s Union are now vis-
iting Moscow at the invitation
of the Maritime and River
Fleet Workers Union and the

Soviet Ministry of the Mari-
time Fleet.

The three ILWU delegates
tare Louis Goldblatt, interna-
tional secretary-tre™surer; L.
_ B. Thomas, member oi the

Coast Labor Relations Com-
mittee that administers the

longshore contract, and Mike
- Mamaduroff, chief dispatcher

at the Local 10 longshore hir-
ing hall in San Francisco,

The invitation was a res-
ponse to the warm reception
accorded Soviet Premier
Khrushchev at the San Fran-
cisco longshore hiring hall dur-
ing his tour of the United
States. ? 5

United Steelworkers,

of peace.

cept long advocated by a
that nuclear bombs could ae
banned altogether and that an
age of reason could be won in
which universal peace. could
usher in a newera of full em-
ployment.”

As UE’s contribution to all
of the forces in our land work-
ing for peace, the delegates
agreed on a program which
would include:

® A pamphlet for distribu-
tion to all members of UE con-
taining the convention state-
ment on peace and the petition
of the University of Toronto.

@ A sticker calling for an
end to all tests and for the
banning of the bomb. The stic-
ker will be stamp size and will
be available for UE members
to affix to Christmas card
mailing, as well as being used
throughout the coming year.

@ A petition postcard on
which the union, will seek
signatures of all members as
well as their families and
friends.

These materials were rolling
off the printing presses this
week and will be shipped to
members as soon as the ink
is dry. =

US. steel

firms woo

men with bulky mail

WASHINGTON — Men who
make steel are getting the soft
soap. , ;

Steel Labor, magazine of the
reports
that company bosses are trying
to be as sweet as a Christmas
pudding to the workers who
are back in the mills under a
Taft-Hartley injunction.

Embarrassed with courtesy
on the job, the men are being

Civic election forgery
denounced by Morgan

Circulation of a mimeographed leaflet, purporting to
be a slate published by the Communist Party of Canada,

was denounced this week by

Morgan as a “bare-faced forgery;
the civic election campaign.”

introduce McCarthyism into

“Apparently certain reac-
tionary big business forces,
feeling their stranglehold on
the city administration _ slip-
_ ping, resorted to this deception
in. order to divert attention
_ from the real- issue of what

voting for genuine representa-
tives of the people, and in sup-
port of a Canadian policy. of
peace and disarmament, could
mean in terms of tax relief,
jobs for the unemployed, a bet-
ter deal for pensioners and
school facilities for our child-
ren,” Morgan said.

“As is well known, the Com-
munist Party enters candidat-
es in all provincial and federal
elections. And while members
of our party, like Mona Mor-
gan-and others take a lively
interest | in civic affairs and

CPC provincial leader Nigel
a feeble attempt to

participate in civic elections,
in accordance with Canadian
traditions and the practice of
all other political parties, we
do not nominate as a party in
the municipal field,” he stated.

“The Communist Party had
nothing whatsoever to do with
any such publication,” Morgan
concluded. “This latest fabrica-
tion is typical of the lies and
vilification the labor move-
ment is being increasingly sub-
jected to by vested interests
and their paid dupes. It is not
unconnected from the vile
campaign of slanders that or-
iginate with the trotskyite-re-
visionist elements, and the acts
of violence that have been
perpetrated against Commun-
ist leaders if the last couple
of years in this city.”

deluged with mail at home.
The letters are bulky, too,
much longer than the Gospel
according to St. Luke.

Great Lakes Steel Corp.,
for instance, has sent all its
employees a seven-page letter,
telling them why they should
vote for the steel corporations
‘final offer,’”’ which would do
away with existing ‘work rules.

“Other steel companies,”
reports the Wall Street Jour-
nal, “said this was the opening
of an -industry electioneeriag
drive, to be furthered soon by
letters from other steel com-
panies, seeking rank-and-file
approval of the proposals in
the January election.”

Twenty days before the in-
junction’s expiration the work-
ers are supposed to vote on a
“final offer” from the com-
panies. :

CPC statement

on Al Haystead

POWELL RIVER, B.C. —
The Powell River club of the
Communist Party of Canada
this week isued the following
statement:

“It has been brought to our
attention that Al Haystead has
suddenly left Powell River,
leaving behind a number of
personal loans owed to various
individuals without any assur-
ance of payment. The Com-
munist Party club dissociates
itself from Haystead’s actions
and condemns such irresponsi-
bility in financial matters. Al
Haystead has not been a mem-
ber of the Communist Party
for some time past, having
dropped his membership
through non-payment of dues.”

High profits price
us out of markel

Recently, Vancouver Converters Local 433, Pu
Sulphite Union, asked the Trade Union Research RF
to draft a brief financial history of the “Big Three”
B.C. forest and pulp and paper industry, namely,
Millan and Bloedel, Powell River Company and Cro
Zellerbach. The report, published in the current j
Western Pulp and Paper Worker, makes it clear w
happening to the economy of British Columbia,
proves that huge corporation profits are the main
for prices being so high. Here is the Trade Union Re
Bureau report:

The past ‘Seven years have seen a striking growth
big monopolies in the forest industries. These have gro
only by the accumulation and reinvestment of profits, b
by mergers of the larger companies. 3

Eight years ago, H. R. MacMillan Export Compan
Bloedel, Stewart’ & Welch merged to form MacMi
Blodel, now the largest of the forest giants. A further p
is now under way between that company and Powell
Company.

At the same time, Crown Zellerbach formed Croan Ze
bach of Canada to take over its existing interests in B.C
merge them with newly acquired holdings. In 1956 on
step was taken by taking over the giant Canadian We
Lumber Company and its subsidiaries.

Parallei with this merger process, all of the compa

_,eoncerned were growing rapidly through the investment

accumulated profits. The total picture, which combines”
effect of both mergers and profit accumulation can be se e
the po ewing tabulation of the assets of the big three:
MacMillan- Powell
Bloedel . River _
Total assets 1951 _- $ 95,000,000. $ 91,000,000 $ 57;
Total assets 1958 -_ 287,000,000 139,000,000 194 ;000

Increase $192,000,000 $ 48,000,000 $137,
(all assets figures quoted before depreciation and deple

In the total, then, two of the companies have tripled
and the third has increased by half, in a period of seven y
In the case of MacMillan-Bloedel, about one-fifth of th
crease is due to the merger between the two companies, 2
in the case of Crown Zellerbach about half the increase
sents the taking over of Canadian Western Lumber. j

For MacMillan-Dloedel, that still leaves about $152,001
000 of actual expansion to account for. In round figures
source of this accumulation can be seen as follows:
Net Earnings (after bond interest

and amortization)’
Less, Income tax =-----___--______$92;000,000
‘Dividends : 34,000,000

$246,00

Earnings available for expansion ___
Plus, borrowed funds
deferred income tax

Total A
Powell River Company’s expansion has not been SO §

tacular, but it has been financed entirely out of earnings:

Net Earnings 167,00

Less, Income Tax -
Dividends

65,000,000
45,000,000

Earnings available for expansion __

Crown Zellerbach’s expansion was mainly by way- of x
ger, but there, too, the accumulaon, of profits was a hands
source of capital: ‘
Net Earnings -_-
Less, Income Tax

Dividends

29,000,000
20,000,000

Available for expansion
Funds borrowed
Acquired by merger

$137,000,
To summarize, apart from the growth of these monopo!
by merger, and by investment of borrowed capital, the th
companies have accumulated and invested $215,000,000- out
earnings. This was accomplished after paying out $99,000,00
in dividends and' $186,000,000 in taxes.

| December 11, 1959—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—