CONGO INTERVENTION CONDEMNED ©

Last week’s attack on The Congo by Belgian paratroopers with U.S. and British support

cancellation of the event,

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Nazi Rockwell in Vancouver.

_ An attempt by the University of B.C.’s Special Events
officials to bring U.S. Nazi Lincoln Rockwell to speak on the
campus stirred up a storm of protest last week which forced

«The Ubyssey”, student paper, said “it ended up reflecting
more discredit on U.B.C, students,” Sharpest opposition was
expressed in a letter from Jewish groups on campus, The
letter protested on behalf of “six million dead,”

It said: *It was tolerance of suchinsanity that led to World
War 2 one generation ago. We are not opposed to free speech
but we are opposed to the Second Coming — of Hitler.” Dave
Yorke of the U.B,C, Communist Club said the invitation was
*a disservice to U.B,C. students,”

has been roundly denounced aro
opinion and from African and Socialist states

protests continue to mount.

It is expected that the African
states will call on the coming

session of the United Nations |

General Assembly to condemn the
act of aggression, Also this week
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selas-
sie has called for an extraordin-
ary African summit conference
on The Congo situation,

The Algerian government also
this week protested the foreign
invasion of Congo territory and

~ condemned outside interference, |;
It warned that if this continued j

Algeria might send aid, including

volunteers, to the Liberation 4%

Army,

Last Thursday the National
Executive of the Communist
Party of Canada issued the fol-
lowing press release:

«The Communist Party calls
upon the Canadian government

to protest in the strongest poss-

ible terms against the flagrant

intervention in the internal af-- 4

fairs of the Corigolese people on
the part of Belgian paratroopers
flown in by U.S. airforce planes,

«This intervention marksa new
and dangerous stage in the long
efforts of U.S, and Belgian im-
perialists to turn back the clock
of history in the Congo, It is they
who originally backed their pup-
pet Moise Tshombe against the
legitimate duly elected govern-
ment of the Congo and who allowed
its Prime Minister Patrice Lu-
mumba to be murdered by
Tshombe’s men,

“It is they who have brought

- Tshombe to power in the central

Congo government and allowed
him to unleash racist white mer-
cenaries against the Congolese

| Shooting
On Sight

STANLEYVILLE, The Con
-go (UPI) — Automatic rifles
Kready for trouble, Belgian
paratroops today stopped an
African riding a bicycle wit
a bunch of bananas balanced!
Won his head.
“Are you a rebel?” the sol-
Mdiers demanded.
“No,” the African replied. §
“You're lying,’ one of the#
# Belgians said. He shot the man
dead.

This was Stanleyville, 36
hours after Belgian paratroops
Mstruck with merciless powe

The Belgian troops are kill@
ing or arresting all suspected
Arebels or rebel supporters
Some of the shootings, as wit.
he bicycle-riding African,
ere summary.
-Once observers saw a squad
“of paratroopers kill three Afri

ans who came under their

guns. F
Another African was sitting
on a stalled tank. When he
saw the troops he called out,
“Stop!” He was shot.

“Pye seen a lot of bodies,
lan awful lot of bodies,” said
one witness. “There is no time
to count them.”

MERCY OPERATION? The above story
was carried on the front page of the
Vancouver Sun last week. Stories and

; pictures now coming out of the Congo

give a stark account of the mass
slaughter of Congolese by the Belgian
paratroopers and white mercenaries.

und the world. Although strong condemnation from public
has forced the withdrawal of the paratroopers,

people fighting for genuine in-
dependence,

“We agree with all respons-
ible African opinion that the
blame for the deaths of white
foreigners in Stanleyville and
Paullis must be placed upon the
U.S, and Belgian forces who un-
leashed this military adventure,
This action cut off the negotia-
tions which were proceeding for
the release of these foreigners —
and in which the Canadian govern-
ment was actively involved,

“It is noteworthy that even
U.S. Under-Secretary of State
George Ball did not find it poss-
ible to deny the claim that it
was the reckless actions of his ©
government which precipitated
these tragic events, It is now
evident that Tshombe’s mercen-
aries are spreading death and
terror far and wide throughout the
area,

«All European and Americal
forces must be withdrawn from

‘the Congo at once, and the Congo-

lese people given the opportunity
toworkouttheirown destiny for
themselves with the fraternal
help of other independent African -
states,”

In Brussels, the convention of
the Communist Party of Belgium
adopted a resolution demanding
the withdrawal of the paratroop~
ers from the Congo and payment
of indemnities for the death and
destruction they brought,

In Nairobi, Thomas Kanza,
Foreign Minister of the Cong
Revolutionary government, said:
“The struggle of the people ofthe |
Congo will continue .,, ours is
a true people’s revolution,”

‘Labor Code marks big step ahead

By CHARLES CARON
The new Canada Labor Code
— Bill No, C-126 introduced in
the House of Commons on October
18, by Hon, AllanJ, MacEachern,
is a most significant piece of
legislation,

It would be wrong and self-
defeating for us to waste time
speculating why such legislation
has been introduced, or not to
actively support the new legisla-
tion because it does not solve
all of labor problems, The im-
portant thing at this time is to
recognize its merits and to fight
for its enactment, .

The merits of the proposed le-

gislation are clearly outlined in ©

Bill C-126, As the Minister of
Labor correctly stated in his
introduction of the Bill, “for the
first time in Canada’s history
a package of minimum standards
covering basic working condi-
tions” is being advanced,

The code provides for a min-
imum wage rate of no less than
$1,25 per hour, a standard eight-
hour day and forty hour week,
with time and a half for overtime
(which is limited under ordinary
conditions to eight hours a week);
eight general holidays with pay
and two weeks annual vacation
with pay after every completed

year of employment,

The new code covers business
under the legislative authority of
the Parliament of Canada, This
includes shipping, air transport,
inter-provincial, rail and high-
way transport and communica-
tion as well as banking, uranium,
grain elevators, feed mills and
certain crown corporations,

Although the Bill does apply
directly to employees of the gov-
ernment, the Minister of Labor
stated in the House of Commons
that until the government enacts
legislation relating directly to
civil servants the provisions of
the new Labor Code would apply,

Amendments are under. con-
sideration to amend the Fair
Wages and Hours of Labor Act,
Minister of Labor MacEachern
proposes that here also federal
contacts, that usually come under
the Fair Wages and Hours of
Labor Act, should reflect the pro-
visions of the Act,

Frank Hall, chairman of the
non-operating running trades,
criticizes the new act because
it does not resolve the problem
of the shorter work week as it
relates to wages, True it does not,

but a deferrment period of two

years is provided for to allow
for such contingencies, It will be
up to the unions to solve this
problem in that time,

, Usual procedure has been for
governments to enact labor leg-
islation to cover measures al-
ready in effect in contracts be-
tween employers and unions, Bill
C-126 isa departure of past prac-
tices in this respect,

The new labor code would pro-
vide gains for all labor, For
example, in Quebec and the Mar-
itimes all four proposed mini-
mums would constitute great
gains for the workers in that

CHARLES CARON

part of Canada, In British Col-
umbia, where some of these min-
imums already exist in some ind-
ustries, the new national mini-
mum can serve as an incentive
for the enactment of legislation
covering all industries and serv-
ices going beyond the provisions
of the new Canada Labor Code.”

The Financial Post statedinits
headline November 21: “Break
for labor may turn into a major
problem,” The second heading
was “Labor Minister Mac-
Eachern is under terrific pres-
sure to dilute his proposed labor
code,”

No clearer inference could be
gained from those headlines as
to the intent of big business, Their
plan is to try to convince the
public of the impracticability of
the new labor legislation and
leave the impression that wide
opposition exists to it, At this
very moment there is an aval-
anche of employers descending

~ on Ottawa to kill the new labor

code,

Against that, the significance
of the new legislation does: not-
appear to have registered on
the labor movement. No other

December 4, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page u

conclusion can be drawn from
the almost complete silence from
this quarter on the matter. Iron-
ically, it has been big busines
that has called for public heat-
ings, The labor movement which

normally would have called fof

public hearings, has remaine
silent,

Considering all ‘the positivé
features of the proposed legisla
tion the Canadian Labor Congres®
and other labor organization®
cannot but welcome the propos
measure, So, we must ask, W
the silence? Perhaps the reaSo”
is that the leadership of the labor
movement hoped the new legisla
tion would be adopted without P
business knowing what was takim!
place,

If this is the reason for thei!

silence the leadership of
Canadian Labor Congress
other sections of the labor mov
ment must get out of dreamlam
and speak up, to mobilize
labor ‘movement to repulse.
attack of the big monopolie®

Time is running out, No effort
should be spared by labor to de”
elop the widest campaign for
quick enactment of the new Cane
ada Labor Code, Bill G-lem