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Neve under-estimate your opponent.

In the current and growing struggles of organized
labor to win new wage contracts, in which thousands have
already been forced into taking strike action, or faced
with the ultimate necessity of such action, that is one
good old piece of advice which should not go unheeded.
To do so is to invite defeat.

Labor’s ‘opponent’ today more so than ever before, is
a combination of powerful monopoly forces, with the full
backing of reactionary government at all levels, plus a
high-salaried well-entrenched coterie of ‘labor’ burocrats
and fakers, conspiring together for a common aim—to ‘do
a job’ on labor.

The Commercial and Industrial Research Founda-
tion, CIRF for short, with its nerve centre located in Van-
couver, reaches out into every managerial office of every
monopoly enterprise in B.C. — and Canada, as well as
into the offices of government at all levels.

The ‘board of governors’ of CIRF include the top
kingpins in the multiple empires of banking and finance,
lumber, mining, transport, communications, press and sun-
dry other Big Business enterprises, with millions of dol-
lars at their disposal to do the job CIRF was spawned for
—smash organized labor in B.C.—and Canada.

Thus on the average strike picket line of today,
where strike action has become necessary as a last resort
to win a decent wage, the worker and his union are no
longer just facing a single tight-fisted profit-hungry em-
ployer, but a powerful and ruthless combination of Big
Business, allied with reactionary government, and using
all the repressive agencies of the courts, police provoca-
tion and violence, plus a most flagrant misuse of the
courts to strip labor of its rights and hard won gains —
economic and political; to drive it back to the era of ‘open
shop’ wage slavery and exploitation, via the ‘injunction’
route.

(Events in the Lenkurt Electric dispute provide a
classical example of this vicious monopoly-government
labor renegade conspiracy against union men and women
standing up for their rights).

In today’s sharpening struggles of labor and the
people against monopoly and its subservient reactionary
governments, the truth of ‘never under-estimate your op-
ponent’ becomes more and more self evident — and the
only answer also self-evident; to match his conspiracies,
repressions and injunctions with the more powerful
weapon of labor unity to put an end to these evils!

Tom
Mc EWEN

- office —

“We live in a changing world,”
How often one hears that over-
worked cliche, frequently trotted
out in monotonous repetition and
air of “profundity.” ;

Since “change” and the essence
of change is inseparable from the
dialectical science of Marxism,
the “discovery” of change in
Nature andSociety shouldn’t come
as a shock or surprise to any
intelligent person, It is a fact of
life, all life,

What was “good enough for
grandfather” doesn’t hold good
for today, even if Canada’s par-
-liament — and far too. many
Canadians still seem to cling to
that hoary concept, “Grandfather”
- undoubtedly had “his day”, also
with its “changes”, but his day
* is not today.

_ From the new-born babe tothe
octogenarian, the cycle of life is
cycle of constant change. Even
when the cycle has run its full
course, the “dust” that was Man
returns to the good Earth which

mark” of political sagacity and

pear to be slow, but in actuality
it moves with tremendous rapidity
in this modern era, After 181-
years the venerable “London
Times” recently moved its tradi-
tional front page advertisements

.display to the inside pages, It

now looks like a modern news-
paper,

That “change” no doubt con-
sumed many hours of deep deli-
beration (and many “spots” of
tea) on the part ofits distinguish-
ed stockholders and publishers,
but it had to come,

The parliaments of bourgeois
“democracy” in many capitalist
countries are also going through
the purgatory of “change.” Now-
where is this more evident than
in Canada, The old two-party
system of government which once

held unchallenged sway, is now -

reeling before the pounding tor-
rents of “change”, The partisan
charge and counter-charge of
political misdemeanor and worse,

now the vogue between the Tory |

Diefs and the Liberal Pearsons,
no longer serves as the “hall-

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4 ust prior to the recent 19th convention of the Commu-

nist Party of Canada, a number of frateral delegates
from Communist and Workers’ parties of other countries
were refused visas to enter Canada by the Pearson gov-
ernment.

No reasons were given for the refusal of such visas,
other than the stock explanation that these fraternal dele-
gates “were unable to meet requirements’’, whatever that
means, and all such applications from abroad was “a mat-
ter for the Citizenship and Immigration Department” to
decide.

This coldwar McCarthyite goobledegook will fool no
one. NDP national leader T.C. Douglas in a letter to the
C.P. stated; — “I know of no reason why fraternal dele-
gates from other countries should be denied the right to
attend your convention . . . I am therefore writing to the
Honorable'Jean Marchand, Minister of Citizenship and Im-
migration seeking some clarification.” . ... > «.:

A relative new comer to Liberal ministerial circles,
and with a high reputation asa former labor and trade
union leader in the Province of Quebec, the question nat-
urally arises; does the Minister of Citizenship and Immi-
gration, Jean Marchand — or the RCMP run this depart-
ment, as they would appear to do in most others?

The refusal of such visas, following the custom of the
U.S. state department, would indicate that they do.

“old” and dying ‘‘order’’ prevents
the universal distribution of that
abundance — but that too is chang-
ing and the process already surg-
ing forward in “seven-league
boots.”

brilliance, designed to woo the
voters,

On the contrary, it becomes
the open evidence of the “old”
seeking to perpetuate itself in
against the vitality,
strength and challenge of the
“new”,

The “sacred rights” of private
ownership of the means of life
are no longer held “sacred.”
The old Socialist slogan about
“he who owns the means whereby
I live, owns me” is outdated,

What is this murderous evil
we call the “coldwar” if not
precisely that? A decrepit and
homicidal Canute frantically
striving to hold back the rising
and “changing” tide of human
progress — now riding the crest
of the onrushing waves of
social change and challenge!

In our “changing” world the tenure
of that “ownership” is alsonear-
ing its inevitable end — nor will
a pile of court “injunctions” the
height of Grouse Mountain stop
the inevitability of that “change.”

Sure, “we live in a changing
world” in which age-old dreams
are now becoming realities. Man
no longer gazes at the stars in
wonderment, with his feet on
terra firma, Instead he rockets
himself out into Space to fathom
their “mysteries” — and their
potential for life in a Universe,
of which our Earth is but asmall
speck in a boundless Infinity,

Old social structures and forms
of organization, once regarded
as unchangable and unchanging,

| Pactfce

Our “changing world” has be-
come a world of electronics,
cybernetics, the computer and
automation, almost overnight,

Man’s ability to produce the things
of life in abundance is limitless,
the so-called “population explo-

and C wealth

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Understanding the power of the
ballot in this critical year of Congres-

_ sional elections, the People’s Conven-

tion is set to arouse the American
people to use that power to guaran-
tee the election of peace candidates
and force ihe Congressmen now in
office to declare their support of the
people's demand for an end fo the
Vietnam war...

—THE WORKER (N.Y.)
May 15, '66.

*

Some Archbishops have been known
to talk sense on social questions. More
have talked rubbish. The present Arch-
bishop of York, Dr. Coggan, pui him-
self in the latter category by his re-
marks recently.

He said that among the signs that
Britain is progressing maieriallly, but
regressing spiritually, are ‘‘unofficial
strikes, and increase in crime, and
obsession with sex.”

The confusion of thought betrayed
by this sentence is hair-raising. It is, of
course, in the interests of the Establish-
ment to conjure up a picture of a
working class composed of wealthy,
light-fingered, wildcat sex-maniacs.

—MORNING STAR, London,
Eng. May 11, *66.

*

At a summii meeting of DeGaulle,
Wilson and Johnson, the French presi-
dent announced that he had that very
day a letter from God appointing him
leader of the Wesfern block. This

caught Britain’s Mr. Wilson a bit off,.'

for he protested that his secretary had.
advised him of a similar letter—desig-
nating himself as leader.

All of which Mr. Johnson heard with
some impatience, inierrupting the en-
suing argument with the statement,
“Hold it boys, | can’t recall writing

. either of you.”

—THE LEAFLET, Pulp & Paper
Workers of Canada, May ’66

are today breaking up under the
impact of social change, The
“coldwar” with its intrigues, con-
spiracies, violence and blood-
shed, (as in Vietnam) was and is
designed by an “old order” to
hold back and obstruct the emer-
gence of the “new”, At best it
can only retard and delay —

but cannot stop the process of»

change that moves relentlessly
forward — regardless,

Yes, grandfather’s day was
good as the historic fore-runner
of today — but “not good enough
for today.” In his day people
hoped and dreamed of “life, lib-
erty, and the pursuit of happi-
ness.” Today millions in the
lands of Socialism are making
that dream a reality — and mil-
lions more sacrifice and struggle
and die — that it may become
universal,

Trtbune

MAURICE RUSH

sion’ notwithstanding, Only an —

ole

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