= Top secret report
plots union attack

By JACK PHILLIPS
Raiding of one union by an-
other has been condemned be-
cause it turns worker against
worker in the interest of the
employers.

But Dr. David McCord
Wright, Professor of Econom-
ics and Political Science at
McGill University, Montreal,
is in favor of raiding, in the
name of democracy if you
please. On November 21, 1961,
he participated in the initial
meeting of the National As-
sociation of Manufacturers’
Center For the Study of Un-
ion Monopoly Power (U.S.A.).
The following quotation is
from the official, confidential
report of that meeting.

Dr. Wright. “Going to the
source of union power, some
years ago the major labor
unions entered into a no-raid-
ing pact, which was very care-
fully designed to increase the
power of the major labor
unions. They explained it
very nicely by saying ‘If we
don’t raid each other then we
have more time and money
to devote to our real problem.’

“While I thought the no-
raiding pact would be con-
demneqd under any anti-trust
law as an elimination of com-
petition, instead it was widely
hailed as a great step forward
toward labor peace.”

TOP SECRET

The NAM report was
meant to be top secret, i.e.,
not for publication. This sum-
mary Should prove that its
sponsors had good reason to
fear public exposure.

What was the purpose of
the meeting in which our
Canadian professor joined
with NAM representatives
in the U.S.A., the U.S. Cham-
ber of Commerce and leading
spokesmen for big business?
It was to educate the public
to understand “the menace of
trade unionism,” to lay the
basis for more stringent anti-
labor legislation and ‘to find
and prepare witnesses for po-
tential Congressional hear-'

ings.

Because of thé dominant
role of the U.S. monopolies in
the economic life of Canada,
this sinister document is of
vital importance to Canadian
labor. It’s exposure is long
overdue!

J. Mack Swigert, Attorney,
Taft, Stettinuis and Hollister,
Cincinnati, Ohio, would abol-
ish picket lines! :

“If you can imagine a so-
ciety without the picket line
and the free collective bar-
gaining, negotiation of con-
tracts across the table would
not be a monopolistic device,
but perfectly consistent with
a free economic system. With-
holding your work from your
employer because you don’t
like the wage rate is a prefect-
ly proper act in our type of
economy. If a man doesn’t
like the wage any place in
America, whether he is a sal-
aried man or on an hourly
basis, he can go some place
else .... that’s the heart of
American freedom.”

In short, this Republican at-
torney would-take away from
labor one of their best weap-
ons against the greed of big
business, the picket line. He
would outlaw strikes and tear

' tria, Australia .

the mechanism by which un-
ionists exert monopolistic
pressure will be found in the
picket line and the strike. So
unless we address ourselves to
the elementary problem of
the picket line the strike, the
boycott and the related mani-
festations that lead to these
devices, we are not going to
have much practical effect on
union monopoly power.”

We can imagine what kind
of a hearing a union negotiat-
ing committee would get if
the strike and picket line as
we know them today were
outlawed! For every wage set-
tlement in the U.S.A. and
Canada as qa result of strike
action, at least 50 or 100 are
made because of the poten-
tial power of the unions con-
cerned to take strike action.
Eliminate this power and the
strength of monopolies in re-
lation to labor would increase
many times over.

WOULD BREAK UNIONS

John E. Branch, Attorney
from Atlanta, Georgia, would
break up the powers of the
big unions:

“In thinking about how we
can avoid having that as a
solution, (government regula-
tions of wages, J.P.) consider-
ation should be given to the
bill introduced by Congress-
man Martin of Nebraska
which carries the idea of hav-
ing a union represent only
the employees of one com-
pany instead of a nation wide
bargaining, where unions use
their combined force against
each individual employer.
Contracts would then be bro-
ken up; they wouldn't have
the spectacle of an entire in-
dustry being shut down...”

Charles A. Kothe, Vice-
President of the N.A.M. in
the U.S.A., spoke against the
compulsory check-off of union
dues, “Germany, France, Aus-
.. all of them
either have statutory, consti-
tutional or judicial prohibi-
tion against compulsory union
membership.”

There is much room for de-
bate within our labor move-
ment as to the long range
value of compulsory member-
ship and compulsory payment
of dues by non-members. But
we must never forget that the
aim of the N-.A.M. is to weak-
en trade unionism, not to
strengthen it. Mr. Kothe did-
n't tell the conference, for ex-
ample, that in Britain it is
a common practice for organ-

ized workers to refuse 10:54

work with a fellow worker

who refuses to join the union.

OUTLAW PICKETING

A number of speakers be-
moaned the fact that consum-
er boycotting, that is, the pub-
lishing of lists of employers
who have beén struck or who
have prevented union organ-
ization, is still legal in the
U.S.A. They would like the
U.S. government to do what
the Bennett government has
done in British Columbia, that
is, to outlaw the circulation of
unfair lists and the placing of
information pickets to inform
the public of the boycott. They
also spoke in favor of outlaw-
ing picketing where it might
induce workers of a second
firm not to cross the line.

The 25 participants bemoan-
ed the fact that despite such
vicious legislation as the Taft-

fart organized labor

“icies being pursued by

CANADIAN COMMUNISTS SAY:

Job now to prevent nuclear arms
block pro-U.S. Liberal policies

The development of the wid-
est movement to force the
Liberal government to retreat
on the nuclear issue was plac-
ed as the central task facing
all Communists and _ other
progressive-minded Canadians
at the plenary meeting of the
Communist Party’s national
committee in Toronto recent-
ly.

“It must be the focus of all
our work at this time,” declar-
ed Nelson Clarke, national or-
ganizer of the party, in the
main report he made to the
meeting on behalf of the na-
tional executive committee.

The report drew four im-
portant conclusions from the
April 8 federal election:

(1! No political or eConomic
problems facing this country
have been solved by the
election.

(2) The pro-American pol-
the
Liberals will aggravate these
problems.

(3) The political situation
remains fluid because of the
relationship of forces in the
26th Parliament. ~

(4) What is needed now

above all is massive people’s

‘MATERNITY.
. WARD: -

in the U.S.A. is fighting back
and making gains. They also
criticise the Kennedy admin-
istration for not being reac-
tionary enough.

As one of their aims, the
conference will seek to “ed-
ucate” the public.

“There is also the need to
educate the general public,
because strikers and picketers
count on public sympathy and
if they didn’t have public
sympathy, they would not
have the power they have.”

Obviously, the US. trade
union movement will have ‘to
meet this evil plot by expos-
ing it to the light of day.

Organizeq labor in the
U.S.A. must explode the myth
of a labor monopoly. This big
lie is designed to turn the
wrath of the people against
the plundering of big business
in the direction of organized
labor. Without the power of
their unions, U.S. workers
would be helpless to maintain
their standards of living and
working conditions, leave
alone to make improvements.

In Canada, we'must see to
it that such ideas are fought
and defeated.

pressure on Parliament.

ln addition to the struggle
‘against nuclear arms on our
“Soil, declared Clarke, Canad-
ians face battles on a number
of major economic issues: for
new trade policies, to save the
Columbia River for Canada;
to develop Canadian industry,
to stem the anti-labor offen-
sive of the bosses.

Along with these, he said,
goes the fight for a recogni-
tion of the need for a new con-
federal pact guaranteeing full
equality for French and Eng-
lish Canada, without which
Confederation cannot endure.

Following a two-day dis-
cussion of the report, the na-
tional committee adopted a
policy resolution summarizing
the lessons of the recent elec-
tion and projecting the tasks
ahead (see text on Page 8) and
issued a call to action against
nuclear arms, which was pub-
lished in advertisements in
newspapers across the coun-
{try on the day Parliament
opened.

The national committee al-
so heard a report from the
party’s delegation to the Com-
munist parties of China and
the Soviet Union.

Early in his report to the
meeting, Clarke warmly wel-
comed the statement by New
Democratic Party leader T.
C. Douglas that in view of its
minority position in the House
of Commons and because it
did not get a mandate on ‘this
issue, the Liberal government
should not go ahead with nu-
clear arms; that there are
plenty of other urgent mat-
ters on which there is agree-
ment.

“We completely concur
with that statement,” stated
Clarke, ‘‘and our party pledg-
es itself to do all that it can
to support the position taken
in the House of Commons by
Douglas and the New Demo-
cratic Party MP’s.”’

Commenting on the NDP
vote in the election, Clarke
expressed the view that “in
the face of the intensive drive
of Big Business and the Lib-
erals, generally speaking we
must regard the fact that the
NDP held its vote as it did,
as representing something of
‘an achievement in this cam-
paign.”

“At the same time,” he add-
ed, ‘we also have to record

the deep concern our party
must fecl about the fact that
the long-term fundamental
problem of winning the work-
ing class for independent la-
bor political action clearly
still stands very much before
us.

“This is first of all a prob-
lem for the labor movement
and we know very well that
many unions are still led by
those who do not believe in
political action independent
of the old parties. We know,
too, and must take note of the
roles played by some of those
leaders who were at the for
mation of the NDP...

“But the problem, of course
goes deeper and it would be
mistake to blame it simply 9%
the labor leaders — or mi
leaders. Fundamentally, it i
the problem of winning work
ers to understand that just a
they would not put the boss
on the negotiating committee
neither should they vote £0
the boss at election time.

“This, while it may sound
simple, is one of the bigges
problems confronting us i
this country; it is a problem
for the NDP, a problem for
our party.”

The report paid tribute t
the important part played by
the peace movements and by
the young people in the recent —
election and within the latter
the ‘excellent work of th
Young Communist League.”

Later, at the conclusion of ©
its meeting, the national com-
mittee heard a resolution in
troduced by the party’s na-_
tional leader, Leslie Morris,
greeting the YCL on its 40t
anniversary, which i
celebrated this year,
ing note of its 16th nation
convention to be held on Jul
3, 4 and 5..

The resolution called on the
members of the party to hel
raise funds to send delegates
to the convention in Toronto
to take an active part in th
banquets and social affairs
celebrating the anniversat)
and to “help create the cond
tions that will make our YC
a stronger; more lively Of
ganization which will be th
spokesman for many mo0F
young Canadians
come to the fore in the fig”
for a socialist Canada in tb
coming years.”

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