Labor must
Aight for
ight to job’

«@
5 ee unionists require to do
and les thinking on this issue,
nee to distinguish between

ca Zation and automation,”
ee was Nelson Clark,
inst Bae ter of the Com-
noe fe of Canada, at a
Riis ast week in the Pender
Sai, ae attended by some 25

€ union personalities,

«
he accelerated pace of auto-
Past ie U.S, industry over the
anada years, and its effect in
Us = a result of the growth
wee un in the Cana-
nomy, will undoubtedly

Pee
, d up automation here in order
Compete,

s

«
oa new techniques come
created € and new industries are
Thies such as TV, radio, elec-
Prhot 8 etc,, such industries
a sorb the labor displaced
‘ Sapa Thus we can see
them * of a permanent army of
i ‘Ployed, Probably the next
= a our industrial cycle will
army apid increase ina growing
'Y of chronic unemployment.”

ea, Speaker showed that in
Stallation were 64 computer in-
196 Ms in Canadian industry,

4 there is an estimated
Ala in the USA the total

eS... reached 13,500, This

Coupled ration of automation
aly at With the growth of monop-
an marks its greater con-
lon by the big monopolies

, Owing up the smaller ones,

Cent
§

«
a is the answer to this
t to the worker’s job by

aut ;
Smation? Management pre-.

panably has the ‘right’ to runits
Bess. Workers must
heir mae have the same‘ right’ to
Matio, Bes This means that auto-
She to become a boon for the
DUblig must be controlled by
and other bodies, upon

ich labor
Sented, must be fully repre-

«
‘ 4 the period ahead workers
unions and working class
eee ions must do a lot of
clug ing on this matter,” conv
€d the speaker, “in order that
peat curbs be placed on mon-
Men, - . . by labor and govern-
Work to safeguard the right of
€rs to their jobs,”

nEADs PEOPLES REPUBLIC. The na-
eel liberation army of The Congo
the Proclaimed a Peoples Republic in
stit Grea controlled by it, which con-
ae roughly one third of the coun-
ag Chosen as president of the new
By lic was Christopher Gbenye, 4
Soh vice-premier under premier
rice Lumumba.

CHRYSLER WORKERS
line set by the United Au
U.S., agreement was reac
feature of the pact, which
other monopolies in the a
workers with 30 years service.

LABOK ROUNDUP:

uto industry,

WIN HISTORIC SETTLEMENT.
tomobile Workers unio
hed on a new 3-year contrac’
will undoubtedly set the pattern for neg
is a retirement at ag

Minutes before a strike dead-
n at all Chrysler plants in the
t last Wednesday. Key
tiations with
e 60 clause, for

Mine-Mill leaders
seek to end strike

Mine Mill national president
Ken Smith, national executive
member Al King and a delegation
from Local 663 at Britannia
Beach left for Victoria as the PT
went to press last Wednesday

morning.

Island marks
Labor Day

Some 500 people attended the
Vancouver Island Labor Day Pic-
nic at Parksville last Sunday.
There was a good sportsprogram
for children and adults, including
foot races, tug-of-war contests,
a gymkhana riding display and a
soccer game.

On the cultural side, there was
a display of oil paintings by Van-
couver Island painters andtwelve
‘striking black and white paintings
by George Clutesi, a well known

Native Indian artist from Port,

Alberni.

George McKnight, a leading
member of the IWA from Port
Alberni, was Master of Cere-

monies.

Jack Phillips, secretary of the
Vancouver Civic Employees
Unien, was the guest speaker. In
his speech, Phillips noted the
tremendous gains made by the
trade unions in the past year, but
also drew attention to the rela-
tive decline in trade union mem-
bership as a percentage of the
jabor force. He advanced the
following targets for the coming
year:

* Organize the unorganized.

* A united labor congress for
all legitimate trade unions,

* Control the effects of auto-
mation, placing the interests of
the people before profits.

* Medicare for all Canadians.
* Curb the monopolies.

+ Strengthen the independent
political action of organized
labor.

* Defeat allattempts to impose
compulsory arbitration in place
of free collective bargaining.

@
«Labor united,” said Phillips,
«ean make Canada a truly pros-
perous and independent nation, a
free nation in a world at peace.”
He called upon all trade union
members present to rededicate
themselves to the crusade for a
stronger, united and more effec-

tive trade union movement.

The grcup had a two o’clock
appointment with provincial labor
minister Leslie Peterson to try
to resolve the union’s dispute with
Anaconda Mining Co. at Britan-
nia, where the local has been on
strike since August 8.

The union is fighting for a
clearly defined work week and
premium pay for weekend work,
along the lines of the settlement
it achieved recently with Cominco
at Trail and Kimberley.

Union news bulletins indicate
that morale among the strikers
remains at a very high level. A
Women’s Committee of strikers’
wives has been formed and is
helping to lead the fight against
this giant U.S.-owned monopoly
which is trying to treat Canadians
like second-class citizens in
their own country.

The local has been greatly
helped by donations of fresh fish
by the UFAWU and by the Cana-
dian Ironworkers Union, which
has found work for some of the
men out on strike.

Two conventions of particular
significance to B.C.’s labor
movement will soon be taking
place. The 27th annual regional
convention of the IWA will be
held Sept. 28-Oct. 2 at the Geor-
gia Hotel. A few days later, Oct.
5-9, the B.C. Federation of Labor
will be holding its 9th annual
convention ar the Bayshore Inn.

Public warning is issued
about ex-RCMP agent

isiting Vancouver at present
is the self-confessed RCMP
stool-pigeon Calvin M, MacDon-
ald, who is being widely publi-
cized by the local press and radio,

Last week wide play was given
to MacDonald on the radio pro-
gram “Open Line” conducted by
Pat Burns, In the course of the
program some unauthorized per-
sons phoned to express “the Com-
munist point of view.” Their
views were not the views of the
Communist Party on the issues
under discussion and not one
single Communist spokesman
was called on to express an
opinion,

The Pacific Tribune is aware
that in addition to many honest
people who phone the program,
Trotskyists and many other ultra
leftist elements take advantage
of this program to speak as
*communists.” Readers of the
PT should be on guard against
these elements, who have the
same purpose as MacDonald, and
that is to distort what the Com-
munists really believe and stand
for,

Insofar as MacDonald is con-
cerned, the PT recalls to our
readers sthat in July 1962 his
charge that there is widespread

Communist ifiltration of re-
ligious, peace and social organ-
izations and trade unions were
branded as “irresponsible and
insupportable” by Dr, Abraham
Feinberg, rabbi-emeritus of Holy
Blossom Temple in Toronto,

MacDonald's statements at that
time were given wide publicity
by the CBC and the capitalist
press in an attempt to discredit
peace organizations and other
people’s organizations,

The Ontario Communist Party
on July 26, 1962, issued a state-
ment branding MacDonald as an
agent of the RCMP’s “Special
Branch” for spying on labor and
democratic organizations, He
carried on his spying activities
for a number of years in the
Communist Party and was finally
exposed and expelled from the
Communist Party.

Apparently his usefulness to
the RCMP was ended when he be-
came discredited and exposed, .
and he was cast aside by them,
Attempts now to use this ex-
RCMP agent to stir up sympathy
for him will be to no avail, PT
readers should be aware of the
facts and on guard against the
activities of this person and those
who would utilize him.

NORTH VIETNAM CELEBRATES 10th ANNIVERSARY. The Democratic Republic of
Vietnam was born Sept. 2, 1954. In contrast to chaos in South Vietnam, North
Vietnam is rapidly industriclizing and living standards are rising. Photo above

testi re

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shows a new transformer ing

Pravda charges China seeks
slice of Soviet far east

Ts charge that China’s lead-
ers are questioning Soviet
rights to more than 1,500,000
square kilometres of Soviet ter-
ritory — more than six times the
size of Britain — was made in
Pravda last week.

The Soviet Communist Party’s
newspaper was commenting on a
report published in Japan of an
interview which Mao Tse-tung
gave to Japanese Socialists visit-
ing China.

Peking had not denied the re-
port, anda Chinese Deputy For-
eign Minister who was asked by
the Soviet Union for an explana-

“tion, said: “If Mao Tse-tung

said so I agree with him.”

Pravda said that Mao Tse-tung
declared in his talk: “About 100
years ago the area to the east
of Baikal became the territory
of Russia, and from then on Vladi-
vostok, Khabarovsk, Kamchatka.
and other points are the territory
of the Societ Union.

“We have not yet called for an
account on this roll!”

Mao Tse-tung had also stated:
“The places occupied by the
Soviet Union are too numerous,”
and had argued along “Lebens-
raum” lines that “justice de-
manded the reallotment of terri-
tory because the population of the
globe was unevenly distributed.

“We are faced with an openly
expansionist program with far-
reaching pretensions,” com-
mented Pravda.

“One can only be amazed that
there are people questioning the
right of workers and peasants to
the land where they have lived
and worked from ancient times,
on the grounds that once upon
a time one emperor defeated
another...

“Do those who question the
belonging to the Soviet Union ofa
territory of more than 1,500,000
square kilometres think how
these claims will be taken by

Soviet people who have been liv-
ing and working on this land for
several generations, and con-
sider it their homeland?”

It warned “any attempt to re-
carve the map of the world”
could lead to the “most dangerous
consequences.”

But, Pravda said, “China has
every right to press for the lib-
eration and reunification of Tai-
wan (Formosa) and Hong Kong
which are part of that population
are Chinese,”

Pravda pointed out that as long
ago as 1954 a history textbook
was published in China witha map
showing China's supposed bord-
ers before the first Opium War.

The paper said that in 1954
the Chinese leaders suggested to
Khrushchov and other Soviet
leaders visiting Peking that they
should reach agreement on mak-
ing Mongolia “a Chinese prov-
ince,”

September 11, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3