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The booklet draws attention
to the increasing economic and
political subordination of our
country to United States’ im-
perialism. ‘‘More and more Ca-
nadians are recognizing the grim
portent of the hard-faced drive
by U.S. imperialism to stop the
great historic democratic change
now in progress on a world scale
and the devastating consequences
it will bring to Canada if it is
allowed to continue unchecked,’’

This is not a book review. My
point is that such books should
be read and studied by all Com-
munist and progressive-minded
union members who are search-
ing for new perspectives and new
policies,

Many labor leaders in both
Canada and the U.S.A. are now
saying ‘(off the record in most
cases) that the labor movement
has suffered too much because of
the cold war persecution of Com-
munists. Organized labor needs
the stimulation of a strong left-
wing current with its challenging
ideas, its bold projections and its
unselfish dedication to voluntary
service. The closed shop on poli-
tical ideas, all too prevalent in
some labor circles, must be
smashed,

The mounting opposition to
anti-Communism as a Sterile,
negative dogma is exemplified in
the decision of the recent con-
vention of the Quebec Federation
of Labor to remove the anti-
Communist clauses from its con-
stitution, Here, in British Colum-
bia, where there isa long tradition
of socialist and radical thought in
the labor movement, we have been
unable in recent years to do what
Quebec did, The combined
strength of right-wing Social
Democracy and the right-wing
craft union leadership has block-
ed such a development.

On the other hand, those who

‘have blocked this development
‘have had to go along with many ©

of the important ideas the left
has advanced, Further, Com-
munists hold some important
positions in the trade unions
and the right-wing bureaucrats
have been unable to dislodge them
because of the standing they enjoy
among the workers they serve.
In short, many Communists
in B.C. enjoy democratic rights
in fact, despite unfair restric-
tions in certain trade union con-
stitutions,

All the indications are that
the official policy of excluding
Communists from holding office
is becoming inoperative and will,
before too long, be rescinded,
This is tied up with the rising
militancy in the labor movement
and the new searching for per-
spectives and policies.

In the next article I shall deal
with the kind of resurgence that
our time calls’ for, and with
what Communists and progres~
sive-minded' workers can do in
the development of new ‘goals,
forms and tactics,

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LABOR SCENE:

PACIFIC PRESS SCAB HERDING
‘NEW LOW’ SAYS BCFL HEAD

Pacific Press, publishers of
the Vancouver Sun and Province,
have been served a 48-hour strike
notice by the Typographical Un-
ion, the Vancouver Mailers
Union, Stereotypers Union, and
the Newspaper Guild, the latter
covering the editorial, advertis-
ing, circulation, etc. staff,

Under B.C. labor laws such a
notice is mandatory on the part
of the unions involved, but does
not necessarily mean that strike
action follows immediately when
the time notice expires.

At PT press time there was
no indication that Pacific Press
intended to consider ITU proposi-
tions for a return to the negotia-
ting table, Some 400 workers
through their respective unions
are involved in the dispute, In
the event of a strike approxi-
mately 1,000 employees of Pa-.
cific Press will be affected. The
Printing Pressmen’s Union is not
involved in the present ITU dis-
pute, It has its own wage dis-
pute with the company and the
‘latter is demanding that it must
be settled by negotiation or bind-
ing arbitration before Pacific
Press seeks a settlement with

the ITU and the other mechanical
unions, :

Meantime BCFL secretary Ray
Haynes stated this week that the
management of Pacific Press
is employing ‘‘antiquated labor

policies’? in present-day collec-.

tive bargaining processes, and
accused it of ‘‘recruiting strike
breakers’’ to replace its 1,000
or more employees in the event
of a strike. This Haynes char-
acterized as ‘‘a new low in em-
ployer-employee relations,”

In the event of a strike at Pa-
cific Press, Haynes declared that
‘tthe workers of B.C, will not
tolerate scab-produced news-
papers’’ but on the contrary,
will exert the maximum labor
unity and support to all Pacific
Press unions involved in the
struggle for a satisfactory wage
contract in keeping with the de-
mands of the unions affected,

This much-needed unity will
however be greatly strengthened
by a full comprehension of what
they face in a showdown with
Pacific Press,

In the Pacific Tribune edition

UBC SIT-IN. More than 300 students

Dow Chemical Co. repr
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staged a sit-in Tuesday at UBC to block

tatives from recruiting students. Dow Chemical pro-
hich is used extensively in the Vietnam war. Simon Fraser Uni-

versity students also took part in the protest which was backed by the Univers-

ity Teachers’ Committee on Vietnam.

of April 7, 1966 when the ‘‘Com-
mercial & Industrial Research
Foundation’’ (CIRF) was launched
Associate Editor Maurice Rush
wrote a full expose of this mon-
opoly union-busting conglomera-
tion, together with the identity
of a number of its key pro-
moters, Most vocal among these
was Ed Benson, vice-president
and general manager of Pacific
Press,

Some of the key objectives
of CIRF included the gathering
of data designed to serve mon-
opoly concerns faced with pos-
sible strike actions; how best
to shift taxation in toto onto the
backs of working people;’ to
influence public opinion on ‘‘un-
reasonable’’ union demands; a

greater use of the court (injunc-.

tions) during ‘‘labor unrest,’’
etc., etc. The exparte injunction
epidemic directed against labor
in the exercise of its right to
withold-its labor, indicates con-
siderable success by CIRF in
that direction.

The financial assets of mon-
opolies connected with CIRF, as
studied by editor Rush totalled
close to 10 billion dollars, with
sufficient millions earmarked to
enable these big monopolists on
its leading directorate ‘‘to put
labor inits place,’’ viz, tothrottle
its wage and working demands.

With such a setup arrayed
against them in the Pacific Press
dispute, the ITU, the Guild and
other printing trades unions will
require all the unity, support,
and militant assistance the BCFL
can muster. Anything short of
that could end up with a similar
disaster as took place over a
year ago when the Toronto Star,
Globe and Mail and Toronto Tele-
gram, with the aid of union wreck-
ers like CIRF — and a divided
labor movement, all but smashed
the printing trades unions in that
long and bitter dispute,

In the event of strike action
at Pacific Press to win a new
wage contract satisfactory to the
unions involved, the lessons of
the Toronto newspapers’ strike —
and the origin and purpose of
CIRF and its founders, are of
vital importance for the ultimate
victory of the unions concerned,

CENTENNIAL AWARD OR CENSURE?

MacFarlan fights school freeze

Jim MacFarlan, Vancouver School Trustee and
Burnaby teacher has been awarded the Centennial
Medal by the Canadian Government,

The citation accompanying the award reads as
follows: ‘On the occasion of the one hundredth
anniversary of the Confederation of Canada the
Centennial Medal is conferred on James D.
MacFarlan Esq. in recognition of valuable service

to the nation.’’

MacFarlan is believed to be the first Vancouver

Trustee to be so honored.

Ironically, MacFarlan was threatened with
censure by two NPA backed Trustees at last
Monday’s Board meeting. MacFarlan told the
Board that he would continue to attack the new
government freeze on school construction and
would seek support of all P-TA, community and
labor groups, Trustees Fred Rowell and Con-
stance Spring threatened MacFarlan with censure
if he acted ‘‘unilaterally.’’ Mrs. Spring, unlike
the Canadian government, suggested that MacFar-
lan ‘‘did not have the Board’s best interests at

heart.’’

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two badly-needed school annexes — Nelson- Begbie
and John Henderson, MacFarlan moved that the
Board ‘‘deplore the new freeze.’’ The motion
failed to receive a seconder from the NPAa run
Board, A second motion to enlist P-TA support
was defeated by the right wing majority. The
Board did accept MacFarlan’s third motion to
contact Education Minister Peterson and request
that the freeze be lifted,

In an interview with the PT MacFarlan said,

¢‘Rowell and Spring can threaten all they like. The

answer to this type of personal threatisa vigorous
protest campaign on the part of the people of
Vancouver against Victoria, The Provincial
Government listens only to mass pressure,
Asked about his Centennial Medal he com-
mented, ‘‘It is a very great honor and I’m proud
to be regarded by Ottawa if not by the NPA as
having made a modest contribution to education,”’

In addition to serving during the past year on
the Vancouver School Board, MacFarlan has been
active in B.C. Teachers Federation affairs for

some eight years, He has held executive office

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