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"562,083,383 _
Sign appeal for~-.
Peace Pact

One fourth of the human race
has signed the Appeal of the
World Council of Peace for a
Pact of Peace, according’ to an
announcement of the World
Council secretariat. Pee,

The campaign undertaken at ¥
the call of the World Council of
Peace and now: under way in
‘countries throughout the world
‘for a megting of the five great
powers, to conclude a pact of
Peace open to all states has now
Sained 562,083,383 signatures.

According to incomplete results
‘at hand on October 15, the figures ,
at this time for each country
are as follows:

In their travels throughout the Soviet Union, the Canadian trade
union delegation saw advanced types of new machines ond equipment.
They met women enginers and technicians, holding high positions, in
They found working conditions good, such as you
would expect in a land where working people own and operaie their
econmy, Qn Friday, November 9, three British Columbia members

Smith of Mine-Mill, Allister. Mc-

Advanced Soviet construction technique

Leod ofthe 1WA. and’ Pecl Wedro< of the Fur and Lathe

Union) will report on their trip at a mass meeting in Exhibition

Gardens. Officials of
is sponsoring the meeting,
pictures from the Soviet Union.
and evening of November 9 in
the main entrence.

.

the Canadi

an-Soviet Friendship Society, which
have arranged a ‘public showing of new
These will be on display all afternoon
the gallery directly to the right of

Albania ss. ec se tS 865,385
ps oN bg Ce Paar aie ER Be 100,000
Argentine ............. 1,500,000
AUStRANAN Wh) Me. ese 67,425
PROSURTE ety hts an ee 842,153
Béletum 30) is. wee. aoe 387,500
lide © Ie erate aero hore 1,493,725
Bulgaria 2. yo 5,627,000
Bra, os es oe 129,830
CANADA. Joao 270,000 As
aan ° Ries no figures sent Soviet industry.
Chile 665 ae = oon 1 500,000
‘Chi 057 ty, {Vv
Columbia ss costi ano of the Canadian delegation (Ken
Hig Costa Rica f...0...5.5 $4,000) 5° ues
eee 2 Cnba.. aia. Jade 786,778 3
Myprus Merk ew 103,824 \qyyr yy :
Czechoslovakia ©....... 9,020,522 WILLIAM KASHTON
124,724 ' ot ;
22,000
525,000
TANGO i we eee ca 8,000,000
Germany fs. siete 18,588,002
(People’s plebiscite against re-
Miliarization and for a peace
; treaty.)
‘Great Britain .......... 833,342
* Guatemala 22... 00... -: 65,073 Sh:
fe Hungery 4 \ oe 7,148,000 iPrauident Moghacte- Address sto
PAGS oto adn ee ae, the CCL convention he stated
pmones NAT eae SRP tite! ia Bepeoetiy ven pelt aale
erate eT cee alee BM hat ete, aarti rena ie ce
aire Wan Grates rene shortsighted as to’ be willing to
1 re LNs aan eee aap eg yee A hich Sercaments nibh Commun-
Bb: CC at Moai LOBOS AERC GU har gee Geri Cia eeng’ he.
Oana Yee Nek ey ak 5,693,301. AGE Int TRAGLG (cameos tuey can
ep doein ree ame re toss fe make a better bargain with a
Teaco eRe aN ce union which {fs on the defensive
ATER GD go suiewees eves Ws 160,000 — and trying at all costs to main-
Mongolia Dene etter ees re tain ibs existence.”
: Suture NE De 10,000 For Mosher to make the kind
- Norway NSO 40,000 of statement he did not only flies
Pakistan’ se ail no figures sent » in the fact. of fact, it was also,
Peru, {opine wes... 5578 in very poor taste. If any group
Ponda Ck 18,053,000 “of workers feel that the compan-

. ies’ “struck a very good bargain,”
it is the railroad workers who
are way down at the bottom of
the scale when it comes to wage
rates and take-home pay. The
Mosher and Hall settlement last
year placed them behind the
_ eight ball. That explains why
the demand for a wage opener

_ ranging from 25 cents to.30 gents _
is rising in crescendo in lodge

puter! lode eral vias MA ds
 ‘Mine-Mill and United Electrical
~ Workers blocked Mosher’s vicious

ae)
' UPN ve

}
cerned .

he More proof of Yankee domination ws
or “headlines, clipped from Toronto daily newspapers,

¢

-‘vand a substantial wage increase’ —

fog
nd\ barefaced lie quickly and — :
and oa hme: x 1 __~Ssvention who read the Mine-Mill’
pores _ and UE ad and the workers in
_the shops and locals will prob-

Country is growing and must be fought against by ie Lavage peoele, Ms

effectively. They published a full-

contrasted the wages gained ‘un-
der militant leadership and pol¥
cies to those achieved under
right-wing leadership. In .a seé-
tion of the ad entitled “who is
kidding whom about cheap settle-
ments?”, Mine-Mill and UE point-
ed out that base rates at the
Stelco plan were $1.27 an hour
while at Inco in Port Colborne

(Mine-Mill) they were $1.53 and
in Welland .

in Electro-Metals
(UE) $1.43 an hour.

~

‘Moreover, UE at several plants, ~
-including General Electric, has

minimum earning rates for fe-
male labor of $1.07 to $1.12 an
hour. On_ skilled. rates, Mine-
Mill at Inco has tradesmen’s rates
of $1.85 an hour, while UE in
several plants has rates from
$1.90 to $1.95 an hour for tool-
makers. SEY hogy
After the add appeared no
More was said by either Mosher

or any of the other’ right-wing

leaders about “better bargains.”

_ The delegates to the CCL Con-

ably be asking — why and how

was it possible for unions like —

Mine-Mill and UE to achieve
much better settlements than
many under right-wing leader-
ship? And this, mind you, in a

» period when both unions ‘were

under attack by companies and

_. by the raiders! After all, CBRE,
_ Steel and other right-led unions
Were not being raided. Neither
_ “did they have a hostile capitalist

press or even hostile companies

_ to contend with. iss

It is not too difficult to find

the answer . The leaders of Mine-

Mill and UE relied on the
militance and unity of their
members. ‘They placed in the
forefront the basic role of the

‘page advertisement in one of the
‘Vancouver dailies in which they

the employers. And;

Wage settlements prove who :
wins the porkchops, and why

unions—to constantly advance the

; Well-being” of the membership.
_* On the other hand, the right

wing, rely, not on the militancy
of their membership which they

are afraid of, but upon the “good

will’ of companies and govern-
ment, and the “respectability” of
the unions. under their leader-
ship. They relied on red-baiting
and-on their complete support
of the war policies of govern-
ment to get a few crumbs from
in many
cases, the crumbs were few in-

deed.

It is fairly obvious who “struck
the better bargain” and which
policy paid off and will continue
to pay off for the workers. In
fact it is so painfully obvious
that the Calgary Albertan in an
editorial entitled “Exploiting the
Workers’ Loyalty,” had. this to
say: “According to the ads the
expelled unions have won consis-

‘tently better wages for their

members compared with the non-
Communist rivals within the

Facts are stubborn things. And
the fact indicated above, which
no amount of red-baiting and ly-

ing can hide, should serve as a

warning to the rank and file in

_ the right-led unions, that only
militant policies under militant

leadership can advance their real
interests. _ cea Sen

TK

It is particularly important to
bear that in mind in connection
with the decisions of both trade
union congresses to go after sub-
santial wage increases in coming
negotiations. If the resolutions
are to mean mora than the paper
they are written on, the rank and

file will have to insist that they

be given flesh and blood through

united, militant and coordinated

action, Or else the right wing
will again strike a “better bar-
gain” with the employers at the
expense of the workers. :

-

Dr. Scott Nearing —
Speaks here Monday

Dr. Scott Nearing, of Jamaica,
Vermont, will address a ‘public
meeting on “Peace By Negotia-
tion” at 8 p.m., Monday, Novem-
ber 12, in the Pender. Auditorium.
Meeting is snonsored by Vancou-
ver Peace Assembly.

Dr. Nearing is widely travelled
in Europe and Asia. He has made
Six journeys to the Soviet Union.

On Saturday, November 10, Dr.
Nearing will be guest of honor |
at a banquet at the Ukrainian
Hall, 805 East Pender, beginning

at 6:30 sharp. A dance is to
follow.

LLL U LOLOL uE CT it it ft iit iit tit tient tee

NovemberNAM
features 34th
anniversary

“The Soviet people are far ad-—
vanced on their ascent to the.
kingdom of freedom,” writes: Tim
Buck in the November National
Affairs Monthly, in an article on.
the USSR called Thirty-Four
Years of Socialist Achievement.

“In the course of ‘their plan
ning” and building,” says Tim

_ Buck about the Soviet people,

“their remaking of their country,
according to their own plan, to
enrich their own lives, without
capitalists, without exploitation
of man by man, they are’ trans-
forming themselves. The most

important product in the build-
_ ing of socialism is socialist man.”

November National Aftairs.
Monthly features the socialism :
which the Great October Revolu-
tion brought to one-sixth of the
earth. The Soviet approach | to
medicine is the subject of an
article by Ruscoe Clarke, FRCS.

_Stewart Smith tells about Stalin’s

New - Contribution to Marxism-—
Leninism in an article on Stalin’s

.€ssays on the nature of language.

Trade with the socialist sector —
of the world could mean jobs for
Canadians and freedom from
American domination, says Emil
Bjarnason in an article on the
history and possibilities ‘of Can-
adian-Soviet trade. — ae

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