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EDITORIAL |
‘Hold the fort...’

o more phyrric ‘‘victory” for reaction was chalked
up this week in a British Columbia courtroom, Once
again the exparte anti-union injunction has exacted its toll of
union men, union finances, and union principles,

This week three executive officers of the United Fishermen
and Allied Workers Union, President Steve Stavenes, Secretary
Homer Stevens and Business Agent Jack Nichol were sentenced
to a one-year prison term and their union fined $25,000 for
alleged “contempt of court”,

While the millionfold trade union affiliates of the Canadian
Labor Congress have tended to slacken up in their anti-
injunction struggles lately, the action this week of the Van-
couver and District Labor Council (VLC), (See story Page 1)
in protest against this attack upon the UF AWU, its leadership
and union, and that of B.C, Federation of Labor spokesmen,
indicate an awakened consciousness to the danger still facing
all labor. The silence has now been broken,

This silence however added another shameful handicap to
unity. Some scores of members of the Prince Rupert Deep Sea
Fishermens Union, a small affiliate of the Canadian Labor
Congress, together with representatives of the Vessel Owners -
Association, were also signatories to the exparte injunction
attack on the UFAWU, This despite CLC vice-president T.C.
Gooderham’s advice to his Prince Rupert affiliate not to seek
injunctions against the UFAWU,

Thus we had the sorry spectacle of a CLC affiliate, in
opposition to its parent organization’s anti-injunction policy,
permitting itself to become involved in an unprincipled and
shameful action against a sister union. The DSFU action
points up the need of the CLC to reiterate again and again
its strong opposition to anti-union court injunctions, whether
used against its own or non-affiliated unions, Also, in the
immediate interests of greater trade union unity to meet the
mounting attacks upon labor, to open its doors for the speedy
entry of all unions now outside CLC ranks,

The fact is well known in B,C, and throughout Canada that
whatever progress, economic gains, stability in the industry,
safeguards for its preservation, or other advances over the
years for the thousands of men and women who earn their
livelihoed in its complex and often hazardous operations, the
UFAWU, its members and elected officers are the people,
often standing alone, who have made these advances possible,
This is the union that the big packing monopolies and the Vessel
Owners — with the aid of exparte court injunctions, now seek

~The savage prison sentences and fines imposed upon the
UFAWU leaders and their union gives the ‘‘first round’’ to the
bosses, Labor unity, mobilized to carry out the CLC’s anti-
injunction fight, to which it is already long pledged, can give
the final verdict to labor — and remove court injunctions as
‘tq deterrent” element in modern collective bargaining under
which good union men are sent to prison,

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McEWEN

© exact parallels can be
Nidrawn between factors
which led to the demise of the
old League of Nations and simi-
lar symptoms which bedevil to-
day’s United Nations in its char-
tered function of preserving
world peace, While the relations
in world forces have drastically
changed since the days of the
League, the aims of predatory
imperialism remain substantial-
ly the same; that of exploitation
and conquest of the peoples of
other nations, with war and ag-
gression as its prime weapon,

The League of Nations expired
over 30-years ago, primarily
because the big imperialist pow-
ers of that era refused to unite
on any collective action to* quar-
antine the aggressor”, These big
powers, then as now, were much
too busy arming a potential ag-
gressor (Hitler), in the fond hope
they could turn his aggression to
their own advantage — in that
instance, against theSoviet Union,
Thus all the impassioned and
reasoned pleas of Maxime Lit-
vinov, representative ofthe Soviet
Union in the League, for “collec-
tive security against aggression’’
fell on well plugged-up ears,

In lieu of League unity against
aggression, the imperialist pow-
ers, then as now, relied on deceit,
doublecross, doubletalk and open
betrayal of the League Covenant
to attain their objectives. The
final betrayal of Munich and the
throwing of the Czech people to
the Hitlerite wolves was their
crowning achievement for “peace
in our time’’,

The Covenant of the League of
Nations was consumed in the
flames of Hitler aggression, but
the Nazi Frankenstein they had
created, turned upon its creators
— and the Soviet Union which they
had conspired with Hitler to des-
troy, became the only power
capable of saving them from a
maelstrom of disaster of their
own making, Ironic, but History
sometimes moves that way.

Following World War I, the
League of Nations was created,
and the Articles of its Covenant
designed to make that war “the
last war”,

In Geneva, in one of his final
addresses to the League Assem-
bly, Maxime Litvinov said: ‘‘A
fire brigade was set up in the

June 23, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2.

‘Stop giveaway of jobs”
and resources’ —Labor

The B,C. labor movement has
lodged a strong protest with Pre-
mier W. A. C. Bennett against
policies which hand over
the province’s resources to for-
eign companies under agreements
which have led to mass unein-
ployment among B.C, workers,
especially in the steel fabrica-
ting industry.

In a Brief presented last week
to the B.C. government by the
Vancouver and District Labor
Council, it is charged that. many
local steel companies have been
forced to cut their work force,
in some instances by as much as
50 percent, because of contracts
signed with foreign companies --

- mainly Japanese -- under which

they not only take our resources
but also retain the rights to do
all or part of the engineering
and supplying of the major equip-
ment for new plants,

The Brief, which was prepared
on behalf of the Ironworkers
International Union (Local 712),
International Boilermakers
Union (Lodge 359), Marine Work-
ers and Boilermakers. Union
(Local 1), and United Steel Work-
ers of America, Western Area; ©
makes the following charge:

“These operations obviously
deprive British Columbia of op-
portunities for refining and smel-
ting of metals, and for fabrica-
tion of the finished products,
which we have all ofthe facilities
to do, The whole process, from
raw ore to finished pulp, is under
the control of Japanese capital,
either through direct ownerships,
long term contracts, or agree-
ments with the Government of
B.C, In the meantime, our steel
plants stand practically idle.”

The Brief points out that, “Can-
adian iron ore is being shipped
to Japan in raw, or concentrates
form at a value of $9.50 per ton
and it comes back to us in

innocent hope that by some lucky
chance there would be no fire,
Things have turned out rather
differently. Fires have broken out
in defiance of our hopes... and
the responsibility for these re-
grettable facts lies with those
states who restrained the League
from resistance tothe aggressors
when they were still weak and
divided, They have since attempt-
ed to break the peace, and, thanks
to the policy of concession, ne-
gotiation and backstage intrigue
with them, they have now become
strong.

‘¢There is no room for bargain-
ing or compromising. They can
be restrained from carrying their
evil designs into effect, if at the
least attempt to carry out ag-
gression in practice there will
be an appropriate measure of
retaliation, according to the ca-
pacity of each member of the
League, for collective actions as
provided by Article XVI, In other
words the aggressor should be
met . . . resolutely, persistent-
ly, and without hesitation,”

That was 29-years ago and
the. world had changed; and yet
Vietnam burns in the searing
flames of U.S, aggression; the
sands of the desert are satu-
rated with the blood of its peoples,
Jewish and Arab alike, In Latin
America, Africa and Asia, the
victims of U.S, armed aggression
cry out in their millions, while
the UN, the last hope of Mankind
for the preservation of peace,
has not as yet down to this mo-

structural shape at $90 per ton—
as tubing at $200 per ton — or,
finally as machinery, at many
times that figure — to be used

in a pulp mill, which under Japan- ,

ese ownership, will convert our
forest resources into raw pulp
to be shipped to Japan for the
manufacture of paper.’’

It says that here ‘‘we have
another example of the ‘junior
partner’ relationship Canada has
had with the United States for so
long, except that this time the
senior partner is Japanese,” The
Brief says that the importation
of fabricated steel for two large
pulp mills from Japan is an im-
portant aspect of the relationship
that is growing up between B.C,
and that country, namely, the
export of raw material for Japan-
ese manufacture, much of which
will be sold back to the citizens
of B.C,

Japanese financial interests,
namely, Honshu Paper Manufac-
turing Co, Ltd., and Mitsubishi
Shoji Kaisha Ltd., recently pur-
chased a 51 percent interest in
Crestwood Timber Ltd., a forest
combine formerly under U.S.-
Canadian ownership, which has
large timber holdings in the Koot-
enays,

This group of Japanese busi-
ness firms have under construc-
tion a new pulp mill in the Koot-
enays with an initial capacity of

Taggers needed

Volunteers for the Van-
couver tag day to help the
children of Vietnam will be
needed up till the time tog-
ging stops at 9 p.m. this Fri-
day. Last minute volunteers
should report to the Pender
Auditorium, 339 W. Pender
St.

ment, put the ‘‘brand Cain” upon
the gun-toting warhawk aggres-
sors of Washington, D.C. and
their British and Commonwealth
accomplices in crime,

When Mussolini invaded Ethi-
opia with his black-shirted cut=
throats in 1935, the Mackenzie
King Liberal government of Can-
ada publicly repudiated the action
of Canada’s delegate on the
League for supporting sanctions
against the Italian dictator,

In 1967 Lester B, Pearson,
Prime Minister of Canada, this
week told the House of Commons
that ‘‘Canada would not support
a resolution before the UN de-
nouncing Israel as the aggres-
sor’’, The world’s stage scenery
has changed, but the ‘‘villains of
the piece” are the same under
their suave “polite” skins, The
responsibility for aggression
still rests upon those states in
the UN, as described by Lit-

350 tons per day which wil
$35 million — with @F oo
expansion to 700 tons for ®
penditure of $60 million a
government has comm «it!
to supply crown timber to
ever extent is necessal) i,
mit full scale operation. of
signing, purchasing of ed if
and some of the engineer me
being done in Japane

Pointing to the large 5
takeover by Japanese It
of mineral resources i
the Brief points out tha! a
bishi-Cominco smelting ©"
operating a lead smelter i? poi
to treat the ores from ie
Mines, C.M.&S. also ag
Wedge mine in New Bra!
which ships more thal a
tons per year of iron concell
to Japan.

Ce M,&S- owns

Likewise, ore

percent of Coast CopP
couver Island which
contract to ship 80,000
iron concentrates +0 :
nually, Japan also MM
shareholdings in cranisle ast |
whose output for thé mp
years is earmarke 50!

The Granby Milliné a ;
also has to supply
with 2 million tons °
centrates during the
years, Sumitomo has ion
ling interest in Bethle
per and has contracted of oo”
of its output, in raw forms it
per, gold, molybdenum 4 ;
ores, a) oe

Most ofthe ore from ots
Copper goes to Japall, ¥ joist

Mascot is‘under contra’ i pi# J %

its nickel and cOpPe? ‘seis 4
pan, The large Brenda h
being developed under P ont >

ese ownership, to 5™* 400
trates of molybdenum , |
to Japan. a,
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Editor—TOM McEWEN

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