= 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 TOP SECRET The NAM report was meant to be top secret, i.e., not for publication.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.” New menace to Cuba SUANTANAMO BASE ea ere Map shows the location of a new for joint U.S.- British submat! base on Cuba'sdoorstep.It is to be built on Andros Island in th hamas at a cost of over $100 million dollars. U.S. authorities $ will be used to develop ‘‘tactics for hunting down enemy who ‘Wile