&

The Communist Party, which
bases itself on Lenin’s teach-
ings, will take special pains to
bring those teachings to the
Canadian public and has plan-
ned a wide range of events to
mark the centenary of V. I.
Lenin. :

High in the list of tasks set by
the recent Central Committee
meeting of the Party is the exhi-
bition and sale of books by Len-
in, as well as the organization of
lectures, forums, symposiums
and seminars on Lenin’s life and
work, and the relevancy of Len-
inism to Canada and the con-
temporary world. Tim Buck’s
books: Lenin—A Man for All
Time and Lenin in Canada will
be widely disseminated.

... in the Commumist Party

Efforts will be made to join
with other groups to mark the
centenary in addition to the
Party’s own meetings and affairs
during the week of April 15 - 27.

The organizing activity and
founding convention of the
Young Communist League are
geared to the Lenin centenary.

A resolution presented by
Norman Freed and adopted by
the Committee authorized the
Central Executive to issue a pub-
lic call to build the membership
of the Communist Party and
Young Communist League and
spread the progressive press and
periodicals as a vital part of the
Lenin centenary program that
will continue from Nov. 7 to
April 22, the 100th anniversary
of Lenin’s birth.

...in the United Nations

in 1970,

Resolution adopted on March 13, 1969 by the Commis-
sion on Human Rights: of the United Nations at its 25th

The Commission on Human Rights,

Having considered item 9 of its agenda on the realiza-
tion of economic and social rights, contained in the Univer-
sal Declaration of Human Rights and in the International -
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,

Taking into account the resolution adopted on 19
November 1968 by the General Conference of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific.and Cultural Organization,
according to which the Director-General of that organiza-
tion was authorized to initiate some arrangements on the
occasion of the centenary of V. |. Lenin and in particular,
to organize the symposium “V. |. Lenin and the problems
of development of science, culture and education”,

Noting the significant practical and theoretical contribu-
tion of Lenin, prominent humanist, to the development and
realization of economic, social and cultural rights,

Bearing in mind the centenary of Lenin, which will occur -

1. Welcomes the decision of the General Conference of
the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization to make arrangements on the occasion of the
centenary of Lenin and notes the historical influence of his
humanistic ideas and activity on the development and
realization of economic, social and cultural rights;

2. Requests the Chairman of the Commission on Human
Rights to enter into consultation with the Director-General
of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization on the participation, in accordance with the
procedure of that organization, of a representative of the
Commission in the symposium to be organized on the oc-
casion of the centenary of V. |. Lenin. ;

sion in Vietnam:

ment.

of arms to the U.S.A.

End Canadian complicity—C.P.

The Communist Party of Canada has issued the following
slogans for the November days of protest against aggres-

1. For the unconditional and immediate return of all
U.S. troops from South Vietnam.

2. For a broadly based coalition government in South
Vietnam, including the Provisional Revolutionary Govern-

3. End Canadian complicity. Stop the shipment and sale

: PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 7, 1969—PAGE 4

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WAR ON LAB

By BRUCE MAGNUSON

The Trudeau government has
declared war on the trade union
movement. Not just a war on
labor in general, but on the most
highly organized sectors of the
working class. This is the most
significant fact to come out of
the recent conference between
labor, management and govern-
ment — both federal and pro-
vincial — held in Ottawa on Oct.
26-27-28.

The official excuse for holding
this conference at this time was
the commemoration of the 50th
anniversary of the International
Labor Organization. This tri-
partite world class-collabora-
tionist body was set up after the
First World War and the Octo-
ber Socialist Revolution to buy
more time for capitalist exploi-
tation and imperialist intrigues.
It was initiated as a forum for
dialogue and proposals to ame-
liorate the worst effects of capi-
talist exploitation, whilst ob-
scuring the root cause — private
ownership of the main means
of wealth production by the cor-
porate elite of the few advanced
imperialist countries.

Despite all the efforts over
the past 50 years to obscure and
deny class struggle and class
politics, the historic process of
transition from capitalist exploi-
tation, through socialism to a
classless communist society pro-
ceeds at an accelerated tempo.
A Second World War has come
and gone, along with a stepped-
up frontal assault on commun-
ism, with the result that the so-
cialist world is stronger than
ever, while imperialism stum-
bles from one disaster to another
—witness the American war of
aggression against the people of
Vietnam.

Canada, which has become a
heaven for United States and
other foreign capitalist invest-
ors, is among the most backward
of all advanced capitalist coun-
tries when we examine conces-
sions made to the working class
at the expense of capital. It is
the only such country which
has, as yet, not a single cent of
taxation on accumulation of
wealth and capital gains. Canada

By BERT McCLURE |

HAMILTON

The last of a series of long
strikes has been settled. Follow-
ing Otis Fensom, Stelco and
Dundas Quarrie workers, the
construction workers have final-
ly wound up their strike. The
pipefitters’ and carpenter lock-
out and strike lasted about five

months, the electricians four
~ months.
Pipefitters improved their

$5.05 wage to $6.68 per hour by
Nov. 1, 1970 for a total package
of $7.53 per hour (includes 10¢
SUB and 15¢ Health and Wel-
fare). They have a 37% hour
week and nine percent vacation
and statutory holiday pay. Pack-
age increase was $1.98 per hour.
Expires May 3lst, 1971. They
also have 16¢ per -mile travel
allowance. :
The -carpenters went from
$4.25 to $6.25 per hour by Feb.,
1971 when their last increase of
70¢ takes effect four months be-
fore contract expires on May 31,
1971. They have a 40-hour week
and will get 9 percent vacation
and statutory holiday pay by
May 1, 1970. Total package will
be $7.10. Package increase was

has so far ratified only 24 out
of 130 ILO conventions on mini-
mum work standards, which in
comparison with the socialist
countries appear primitive. In
fact, if it were not for the com-
petition of the socialist part of
the world, we would not even
have the social legislation won
within the last four decades
through intensified class strug-
gle, and which the Trudeau ad-
ministration is now seeking to
tamper with, and if possible to
emasculate.

Chronic inflation is a sickness
of the capitalist system and is
a manifestation of the instabil-
ity and decline of this system of
human exploitation.

When the Trudeau adminis-
tration planned its tri-partite
conference, it invited the most
outstanding apologists for impe-
rialism in the persons of such
social reformist theoreticians as
Canadian-born Harvard econo-
mist John Kenneth Galbraith,
Louis Armand of France, profes-
sor at that country’s national
school of administration, and
Allan Flanders of Britain, Ox-
ford University lecturer and a
member of Harold Wilson’s team
of industrial relations experts in
Britain.

The aim of this conference
was simpiy to remove class
struggle and class politics from
the concept of our industrial. re-
lations. To do this it was neces-
sary to confuse the issue about
the cause of inflation in order
to justify the Trudeau govern-
ment’s economic and fiscal poli-
cies,

The answer which the intellec-
tual cabal came up with and
which the Trudeau government
is now committed to pursue is
the following absurd and diabo-
lical Baron von Munchausen
concoction: “The chief inflation-
ary pressures emanate from big
industries and big labor unions,
who enter into a conspiracy to
sign expensive wage settlements
and to pass the cost on to the
general public in the form of

~ higher prices,” In other words,

inflation is caused by a collu-
sion not between the big mono-
polies and capitalist governments

$2.60 per hour, including 30¢
Health and Welfare.

Electricians improved their
$4.69 rate to $6.89 by Nov. l,
1970 with a 36-hour week imme-
diately and 9 percent vacation
and statutory holiday pay for a
total package of $7.67 per hour
by Nov. 1, 1970, (includes 16¢
Health and Welfare). Package
increase is $2.50 per hour.
Breakdown of $2.20 wage in-
crease is 90¢ now, 70¢ May 1,
1970 and 60¢ Nov. 1, 1970.

They also have travel allow-
ance of 16¢ per mile with a $9.00
per day maximum. As of Dec.
31, 1971 this new contract will
also cover Brant and Norfolk
counties when the existing con-
tract for there runs out.

The huge Stelco property on
Lake Erie is covered by the new
contract immediately under the
Hamilton area jurisdiction. Press
reports indicate that Stelco plans
a complete steel producing plant
there within the next few years
that will almost double Canada’s
stee] producing capacity.

The new contract is somewhat
less than is required to restore
the purchasing power of Aug.
1965 and make modest improve-

to rob the working Pe
by a collusion betwee?
siness and big labor

respect to note that-
Company of Canada, W’
three years has penefite
the highest ever increase
ductivity of its wom
nounced a 6 percent im
the price of its produ
result of a paltry 390.
increase in wages tO!
this year. This annoum i
was made on the eve
above mentioned confere?
constitutes one of the Ma}
tant examples of pric shout
a giant corporation :
slightest reference to
tions with anyone oF rer se
public interest. Yet the alle
administration has NOt Tj)
a public inquiry into thi man
tion. And it has not ae
that the announced Pl publ
be withheld while ths
investigation proceeds. ay
It is now rumored ¢ nal
panies such as Internati
kel and other nické
are contemplating 4
increase in the pe
It is quite obvious
culprits in the infiation
— who makes all the é
who are at the losing © has
The Prime wie
slip some interestin,
sien he said that from vy
1964 the average yearly T
crease for all workers © a
but that higher prices
the effective incren ,
wer to $67 a year:
from. 1964 to 1968, ei ub!
pay increases almost © ¢
$205 a year, but price ~
cut this gain to $52. th
It is high time for =
dian Labor Congress Me
tion now to cone e
ency meeting tO *° out P
Situation and to work e
posals that labor can try”
and fight for. A ee ia
campaign should then
ed to expose the prey
dealing of the Trader
ment, and demand t ;
in the interest of the Fy
great majoirty of We
working people.

ments in the living stan
electricians as has put | i
in previous issues: ~~ ons
line with the bettef
tion settlements in
The electricians’ © A
completely rewritten ©,
ber of improvemen be
there is stil] muc
in the next round of
which are only 18 me
Starting Nov. 3, 19 -
yearly net income Mes ow
man with two childr tion
$8,032.83 after deduc
taxes. Starting NOV:
possible ines oc
enough to wor a
foune will be $10,308.27
ductions and an 1? a:
°$1,685.00—no doubt
more by then unles® it
tion is taken to pre¥ tha®
is - somewhat 1esS
$12,000 and $14,000
in some reports.
tricians in the past
averaged under ©l8 mak
work per year whic jivind
average standard of erst
lower than appears
The electricians
negotiating comm
business manager

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