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ES ves Better Business Bureau is apparently running out of easy

contacts who might be tapped for unsolicited testimonials about
the superiority of free enterprise over socialism and communism,
So it seems to be adopting the methods of the lowest form of
journalism, the methods of the Readers’ Digest. It has been known
for a long time to everybody in the journalistic game that that
magazine plants stories in reputable magazines and papers which
are written by its own unprincipled editors, men of the caliber of

CCF helps
Liberals
in Cartier °

MONTREAL

Rapid welding of Liberal-CCF
coalition on a national scale is
also becoming clearly evident in

Pritchett says Fadlinall
got hole-in-doughnut’

Harold Pritchett, president of the Woodworkers’ Industrial Union —
of Canada, this week accused IWA international president James E.
Fadling of “selling out’ 45,000 woodworkers in Washington and
Oregon by lining up with the lumber bosses to recommend rejection
of union demands.

“Fadling signed a joint recom-
mendation with the operators’ re-

Max Eastman, and then reprints them as_ the

opinions of a widely scattered

Whether the Better Business Bureau is copying
the Readers’ Digest or not, the methods are as

unsavory.

A few days ago, many people in this province
received in the mail from that organization a
“Canada’s
and You,” announcing a prize contest with $2,000

164page pamphlet entitled

in prizes ranging from $10 to

thing for nothing, many thought.

not quite as simple as that.

The pamphlet from beginning to end was de-
“our”

voted to “proving” that
System is the best in the world

body of opinion.

Business

$600. Aha, some-
But it was

free enterprise z
; that without the profit motive the

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production of wealth would ‘cease; that in this best of all possible
worlds it is the only system for getting work done efficiently and

producing all the things we need to make life worth living.

couse, coming from the Better
the political field ‘too.
claims for the kind of
fellow of the economic system.
people are ground under
have freedom to worship
any occupation or engage in a
welfare is not endangered, and

Of
Business Bureau, it steps over into

It is interlarded profusely with unwarranted
democracy

the Bureau thinks is the political
- In other places, it asserts the

the merciless heel of tyranny; here we
as we please.

We have freedom to choose
ny business $0 long as the public
freedom of contract.

These items will be interesting to the Jehovah's Witnesses who

fill the jails of Quebec and are
They will be equally interesting
student,

threatened in all other provinces.
to Gordon Martin, veteran and law

who is barred from following his chosen profession by

the benchers of the Law Society of B.C. and to the workers of
Asbestos and the members of the CSU, who are ‘clubbed by the

Police for attempting to enforce their contracts.
be interesting to the RCAF veteran who is asking
Council for a license to operate a sight-seeing bus

They will also
Vancouver City
and who has

been told that the BCElectric will fight him on every legal ground.
Such is the freedom of enterprise as boosted by the Bureau.
The pamphlet goes on to expatiate at length on the mainsprings

of capitalist production,
incentive, technology, money,
millions of capitalists. Anyone
Owns his home or the tools he

in a veritable spate of hooey. Enterprise,
capital, management, markets, labor,
but not a word about exploitation (except in Russia).

There are
who has a savings account, who

works with. These are all capitalists

and there is nothing to prevent them flourishing like the green

bay tree except the limit of

their own ingenuity and perseverance.

So they can all go ahead and make 19 million dollars a year like

Harvey MacMillan.

é
The economics of the Better

Business Bureau is even worse than

its political demagogy. All statistics too, are compiled by free en-

terprisers.

the contents of the pamphlet, the
apparently to find suckers

Now, the Bureau is not giving away $2,000 for nothing.
The prizes are offered for the best summaries of 500

words or less of

purpose of the contest is, therefore

to take the place of the clergymen, college

professors, backwoods editors, students and even unobstrusive house-

wivos who used to supply
enterprise.

The words will be the words
the ideas of the ‘Bureau. The

them with unsolicited testimonials for free

of the writers but the ideas will be

ideas will be put over like those of

the Readers’ Digest, undoubtedly to sow confusion, for those who are
to be propagandised will be mislead into believing they come from

the writers,
If the
Standards of business is true,

whereas they are put

Bureau's claim that its purpose

into their mouths by the Bureau.
is to raise the moral

what we need now is a Still Better

Business Bureau to raise the moral standard of Better Business

Bureaus.

The contest scheme may be cheaper too, for all entries be-

come the property of the Bureau whether they win prizes or not.

Here is my entry. If it wins
Tribune,

“The Canadian
in other
the class

in
These are always used, violen:
to better and make

$600 or less, I will donate it to the

any effort to do’ so. In this the

‘by a subservient and vena] press and such
Business

Bureau.”

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the election campaign in Montreal-
Cartier. Nomination ofA. M. Klein,
as CCF candidate, far from being
any serious effort to win the seat,
is in reality an expression of the
manner in which the CCF leader-
ship attempts to render service
to the Liberal party,

Klein has not the slightest
chance of election. This is common
knowledge in CCF circles as it is
among the people generally. He
was nominated in an effort to
head off some of the vote which,
disgusted with Liberal policies and
the Liberal candidate, Maurice
Hartt, will swing to Harry Binder,
LPP candidate and the only can-
didate who can take the seat from
the Liberals.

This fact is most clearly seen in
the issues which Klein discusses.
There appears to. be a “gentle-
man’s agreement” to obscure the
real issues of national policy, of
war and peace, of the growing
threat of economic crisis, of the
government’s failure to  puild
homes, of the tremendous battle
of the labor movement and particu-
larly of the Canadian seamen in
defense of the trade labor move-
ment.

The abject failure of the CCF
candidate to deal with any of these
real issues or even to any serious
attack on the St. Laurent govern-
ment’s record, results from a con-
Scious and deliberate effort to aid
the Liberals.

Why did the ccr nominate in
Cartier? It withdrew in 1945 under
pressure from rich interests when
it was believed that a CCF candi-
date would endanger the possibil-
ity of a Liberal win. The CCF is
running in 1949 because it thinks
a CCF candidate in the field would
help a Libera] victory. The follow-
ing facts show that: ;

@ Over one-third of the constit-
uency is now French. The CCF has:
not even any membership among
French-Canadians, It cannot get
any French votes whatever. On
the other hand, the LPP under the
leadership of Gui Caron who has
campaigned actively in this ‘dist -
rict and has receyeq considerable
support from French - Canadian
workers, is winning support from
many French Canadians,

@ Ten percent of the voters are
Slavic and Hungarian Canadians.
The CCF will win few votes among
these people. On the other hand,

the LPP will get the overwhelming
majority of the votes of these work-
ers,

@ Some 40 percent of the voters,

by this reckoning, wiil net almost
nothing to the CCF.

@ In the Jewish areas the CCF

Can poll only a small percentage of
this vote as past figures indicate:

In 1943, the strongest COF candi- |
date, Davie Lewis, polled only
Slightly over 3,000 votes; in, 1944,

Kalmen Kaplansky got 1,241 votes;

in 1945, A. M. Klein withdrew from

the campaign; in 1947, the CcoR
didn’t even nominate a candidate;

in 1948 Resin, running against Gui

Caron, polled only around 1,600
votes. os

This shows clearly that the CCF
cannot possibly have any chance
of election. It is too clear that in
both policies and tactics the CCF
leadership in Cartier, as in the
rest of Canada, has entered into a
junior partnership with St. Laurent.

presentative urging the workers to
accept last year’s contract with-
out any gains except a one-cent
an hour (eight cents a day) in-
crease for night shift workers,”
commented Pritchett. “The rest of
the workers get the hole in the
doughnut.”

By his sell-out across the line,
Fadling has set a wage pattern for
both sides of the border, and has
virtually told the lumber operat-
ors of B.C, to make no concessions
here when negotiations begin,
Pritchett pointed out.

The only way a sell-out can be
prevented here, stressed the WIUG
leader, is for woodworkers to en-
sure that the men who have fought
Fadling’s betrayals in the past
have sufficiently powerful backing
at the conference table to block
any penny-an-hour plan.

“Only, one barrier stands be-
tween B.C. woodworkers and an-
other Fadling betrayal in the
coming negotiations,” said Prit-
chett. “That barrier is the Wood-
workers’ Industrial Union of Can:
ada.”

Pritchett urged woodworkers to
revoke IWA checkoff in camps and
sign up with the WIUC. At the
present time the WIUC has ten
certifications and 40 more are
pending, as the union carries on
a militant organizing drive in the |
industry.

Thousands of copies of a WIUC
leaflet outlining the facts of the
Fadling~ sell-out are being distrib-
uted to B.C. woodworkers this
week. The leaflet reprints the de-
mands of Washington and Oregon
woodworkers, drawn up at the
Northwest regional conference of
the IWA in Portland, Demands in-
cluded the six-hour day; a com-
prehensive welfare plan; a sub-
stantial across-the-board increase;
higher night shift differential
rates; extension of paid holidays
to cover all woodworkers.

“This program was laid down by
211 delegates representing 105 IWA
locals,” says the leaflet. “It was
laid down by men from the job—

a
HAROLD PRITCHETT

“Only the WIUC stands between
the woodworkers and betrayal.

men who knew what they wanted
and were prepared to fight for it
One of the men entrusted with the
task of putting the program into

effect was James E. Fadling, in-
ternational president of the IWA-

“When the negotiating commit-
tee met the employers and thé
bosses held out against granting
any concession, Fadling wilted.
He dumped the entire union pro-
gram, threw out the general wag
increase and ‘everything else, 2
lined up with the operators.

“When Fadling attended thé
IWA conference in Vancouver #
couple of months ago, he assu nt
delegates that this year there W?
be only ‘firm, realistic and toug?
bargaining . .. We will not retreat,
but will press forward to secure
for the lumber workers every
single item of their program’.
weeks after he made this promise
Fadling sold out 45,000 Jumber
workers in the American North-
west,”

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