Nova Scotia labor arms for Vietnam i FRGATES to the Nova Sco- €deration of Labor Con- nat Ve : ded oc held in Halifax at oft ig eee ber , condemn- i pot war material a a to the United : nd Teendorsed their Solution calling for an eral War. They called on that thewernment to make Us we flow of arms aiding hog vet Stops. hy e. action at the conven- ‘ident Fe acDonald, acting Petess the Canadian Labor tty ane Workers are right Nport law and go to jail Mang pct, their basic union Teedoms. He cited the and the law as to- €st enemies of organ- i! ‘t 4 fe Ny ny Jy (reat | ( labor. HMaep, hy thinner’ Slammed compul- = 10n and court injunc- |Rtedly wine workers whole- ise ho defied the court ft Jip have Seen workers go Ri Ong process of or- Mselves and seeking thein bargain collectively have : ™Mployers. He said, titra “en efforts to organ- bith my Y €very contempt- Phe a available. After iver: ui : Cles and becoming Lble g Y get to the bargain- Mryy,. “Y to find their em- ite eng Conciliation, and ty TC i 1 Werf) €d to use their PY te, Weapon—a legal aa sgt aking injunctions and ittby tha Ditration were at- 8 the © delegates, and fol- hs Manimon of MacDonald, Being ULY Passed resolu- Ney Geet both. I Labor qeow and Cape Bret- Pitticon ncils combined on In Pulsory arbitration %,, te . x ution spoke of “pro- §tinin syubulsory arbitra- Teg; “UPPort from some hte 8 edi m tors, the .-© Union movement pl the eu a informed employers have taken a definite stand against any infringement of third party intervention in our free collective field. “Be it resolved the executive of this federation arrange for a labor lobby to meet the minister ... to make it known the Nova Scotia trade union movement will not tolerate third party in- tervention into this democratic form of collective bargaining.” e A Cape Breton council move to oppose any local that con- dones illegal work stoppages, was turned back for further con- sideration. Steelworkers’ leader Martin Merner said: “I am against ille- gal work stoppages—but some- times you are pushed beyond. ..” Other delegates spoke against the motion — with warnings about the difficulty of defining illegality. The steelworkers got through a resolution urging the province to apply the Freedman formula —by amending the Trade Union Act to provide the right to strike during a collective agreement, when the employer refuses to. bargain in good faith in vital matters outside of the contract. A resolution calling for the minimum wage to be raised to $1.75, also called for abolition of the wage zoning system, eight- consecutive-hour working days and five-consecutive-day work- ing weeks, time-and-a-half for overtime, and the final decision to prosecute offending firms to be shifted from the labor minis- ter to the Minimum Wage Board. e Mr. John Lynk, re-elected as president, called for a political solution to the problems of the workers, in his closing remarks of the convention. He summed up feeling of most of the dele- gates when he said, “This is a political situation. “Until we decide to do some- thing politically, however many resolutions you pass — you can pass as many as you like—until the people of Nova Scotia decide to take action you are going to have to take what big business gives you.” | Canada. U.S. INVESTMENTS IN CANADA Direct investment. is foreign investment in controlled enterprises. In the nineteen years, 1946-1964, the total book value of foreign direct investment in Canada increased from $2.7 billions to $15.9 billions. Nearly 13 billions of this, or 81 percent, is U.S. direct investment. The increase in U.S. investment during this post-war period was $10.6 ‘billions. Where did these billions come from? Based on information culled from Dominion Bureau of Statistics publications on “The Canadian Balance of inter- — “national Payments” it is possible to make a good estimate. The D.B.S. figures show that over the 1946-64 period the $10.6 billions was made up inflow plus $5.4 billions of undistributed profits held in | Canada and various accounting adjustments and revalu- | _ ations. From a sample of eight out of the 19 years, however, ~ it appears that dividends remitted from the U.S.-controlled corporations in Canada must have totalled about §5. billions. So more than the equivalent of what gets into ¢ _ Statistics as “net capital inflow” was covered by dividend _ going out of Canada to the U.S. owners. In other words, | more than the total increase in U.S. direct investment in _ _ Canada since the war was covered by. profits made in. _ Note what this does to the argument that Canada must have foreign investment to. develop. Since the U.S.-co _ trolled corporations generated more profits (after taxes) ~ Canada than the total increase in direct investment, th h bulletin of United Electrical of $5.2 billions net capital f Aneta CQ “What do you mean there are no injunctions up here?.! thought you said this was heaven?” —Labor Statesman AGAINST WITCHHUNT HE Communist Party in On- tario this week categorically denied charges that it was conducting any underhand activ- ities in Teamsters Local. 938, or any other union in this Province. In a letter to the editor of the Globe & Mail, Bruce Mag- nuson, Ontario leader, stated: “Any Communist activity carried on anywhere in this country is open and above board and does not require the kind of so-called investigation committees as re- ported to have been set up in Local 938 of the Toronto base Local of the Teamsters Union. It may well be that others, who may carry on subversive activi- ties in labor unions — such for . example as the RCMP—are inter- ested in such publicity to cover up their nefarious work of con- tinuous spying and intimidating labor activists. The letter goes on to criticize the Globe and mail for printing such statements about the Com- munist Party without seeking any explaination from the party while at the same time refusing to even mention the party’s plat- form and activities around the current election campaign.’ Mr. Magnuson’s letter was prompted by a story which ap- peared in the Globe and Mail last week, under the by-line of Wilfred List stating that the head office. of the Teamsters union was moving in on Local 938 to deal with charges that a “red cell” is operating within the Local. The charge was made by Local Vice President Charlie Thibault, who along with President Lloyd Meritt had teamed together to defeat the administration of Kenneth McDougall last year and assume leadership of the 5,000 member union which stretches east to Cobourg and north as far as Sault Ste. Marie. A four man committee has been set up to conduct a hearing into the charges and so far three members of the union have been fingered. Notices has been posted in trucking terminals ask- . ing members who have any infor- mation about. Communist activi- ties in the Local to appear before the Committee. i dewhurst tiie ct. Sa SHARP ATTACKS WAGES A Minister Sharp’s tai, © impose wage re- Hy to S@s an the U immediate ited Auto Work- parity be- aaa U.S. work- Oe Industry. Speak- a4 a € of Commons on tlintac® Minister called Wage restraint. 10n by labor he Blire ‘3 measures to fchasin ower, “on Ployment ea peace Shar» Wes : avowed goal is to ain” are Peoples’ incomes With 'S true he couples § a, @ Sally against ris- Profits. But it is re pect the prices . © Not the prices Derma lan Feteeaives in \ ° Which Rather, it: is for in Ca Perat t nadian prod- © world mark- pill be allegedly tbe taxation which ~°Y knows is im- mediately passed on to the con- sumer. So, stripped of its sugar coat- ing, Sharp’s attack is against wages. The winning of wage par- ity constitutes the most imme- diate threat to the federal gov- ernment’s plan to keep wages and small incomes down. The auto manufacturers, U.S. companies, are naturally against paying Canadian workers the same. wages as_ their workers in the USA, because they make additional profits over and above their normal profit by paying their Canadian employees 41 cents an hour less. The same is true of all companies operating in Canada. The federal govern- ment, functioning on behalf of the big employers in their pursuit of wage restraint, are fighting, and will fight harder yet, to pre- vent the Auto Workers from winning this all-important de- mand. . To cover-up their big-employ- er bias, government spokesmen raise before the workers the bogeymen of possible unemploy- ment and industrial stagnation, caused by Canadian workers get- ting paid the same wages as their counterparts in the USA. This, they claim, will result in Canada pricing itself out of world markets. So, instead of an econ- omy based on a higher mass pur- chasing power, these public guardians of corporate wealth offer Canadians an economy of want based on a closed com- pound of low wages. In short, the federal government aims for Canada to win a place in world markets, subsidized by low wages paid to the workers and poor prices paid to the farmers. Will wage parity bring unem- ployment to workers in the auto industry in Canada as alleged by economic experts? This ques- tion can be best answered by posing another. Has the absence of wage parity served to prevent unemployment in the motor in- dustry in the past? The answer to the latter question is a loud NO. Rather, unemployment comes about when manufactur- ers cannot sell their products at what they consider a desirable level of profit taking. Given average market condi- tions what really counts in de- termining employment possibili- ties and the expansion of manu- factoring is the cost of produc- tion. It is in this area of course that the opponents of high wage and farm income argue that these items are the determining factor. But this is just not true. The determining factor is man- hour productivity. How does Canada stand in re- spect to gains made in man-hour productivity? According to a sur- vey conducted by the U.S. Bu- reau of Labor Statistics physical output per man-hour in manu- facturing registered in Canada was an increase of 69.4 percent in the 14-year period between 1950-1964. The increase in the U.S. for the same period was 55.4 percent. Canada bested the U.S. by 14 percent in that period. This process will continue, given average conditions, wheth- er Canadian workers win wage parity with U.S. workers or not, for the big manufacturers, for reasons of profit, are interested in-cheapening the cost of produc- tion in their competition for a place in the market which is at once domestic and international. The absence of wage parity will only mean that the competition in the world market will be con- ducted at the expense of the workers. The battle between the cham- pions of enlightened economic policies and those who visualize Canada as a low-wage area has reached a new high peak with ° the placing of wage parity as the main demand of the UAW for its Canadian membership in this"year’s negotiations. And the trade unions, commencing with the Auto Workers, need to mar- shall all the solid facts available for the consideration of the pub- lic to offset the erroneous argu- ments of wage parity. In so do- ‘ing they will be striking a telling blow against the government- monopoly plan to faster wage restraint upon all workers and help ensure: wage ~parity.