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—ECCLES IN Br. Daily -Worker

To Our Readers

_ Because of the attendance
| Of editor Tom McEwen. and
' | associate editor Maurice
‘Rush at the C.P. National
_ | Committee meeting in Tor-
Onto last weekend, the PT
this week is an 8-page pa-
_ | Per instead of 12.
} Next week's edition will
“| be 12 pages and from then
.On will alternate in 8 and
12 pages.

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Youth of Canada urged to
act now for world peace

An appeal to the youth of

Canada to press Prime Minis-
ter Diefenbaker for sane peate-
ful policiés was issued this

‘week by the Young Commun-

ist League of Canada.

“The prospect of nuclear
war alarms every: young per:

son in our country,” says the).

YCL statement. It calls on
youth to demand immediate
negotiations to settle the ques-
tion of Germany and _ Berlin,
and for universal disarmament
under inspection and control.

Ne war over Berlin

Cont’d from pg. 1
Ment.

___- Let’s press the people of the
| NATO countries to join with
' them to stay the hands of the

Us. ‘generals.

What is

Peace?

cA. peace treaty with neutral-
izeq Germany.

-Recognition that two states
€xist on German soil. .

- Establishment in central
_ Surope of a nuclear-free de-
_ Militarized zone and West Ber-
lin as a “free city.”

This will guarantee normal

needed to save

i access: to: Berlin. ©

e
i “The Communist Party calls
_ Upon Canadians to join in the
 Sreatest campaign’ for peace
Our country has ever known:
- We appeal especially to the
Many peace movements, the

} trade unions, the New Demo-

' tratic Party, farm bodies and
all organizations to quickly act
to compel the Diefenbake>

S80vernment to take ‘a public)’
| Stand for the peaceful solution

°f this menacing war crisis.

- Communists: fight for peace
88 for life. We shall work: side
i "Side with all Canadians who
} Want peace, regardless of dit-
ferent views of the causes of

World crisis or how peace can
be secured. The broad desire

for peace, an end to tests, and
Or disarmament should unite
the strength of all Canadians.

-The peaceful settlement of
the Berlin crisis would change

the present situation of acute
danger into one in which new
possibilities would be opened
for winning general and com-

plete disarmament under cor- WY

Conspiracy Against Consumers”

trols —~ including the ending

forever of making and testing

nuclear weapons.

That would open a new era
for. mankind ‘in which peacefii
coexistence will triumph in a
world without weapons and
without war.

No war over Berlin! |

Negotiate now!

General and complete dis-
armament, under controls, and
an end. to the arms race}

_ —National Committee, Com-
. munist .Party of Canada.
(Members from: B.C. attend:

ing the plenary sessions of the

National Committee were N.'

Morgan, T.. McEwen, M. Rush,}:
C. Caron, H.. Pritchett: Next
week the PT will carry a fuil
report of the National Commit-
tee deliberations.) . . |.

BRAZILIANS: ILL-HOUSED.

One-third of the poptilation:
in Rio de Janerio are terribly’
housed, with 800,000 people
living in shacks and another

running’ water, no sewage sys-|~
400,000 in dilapidated houses.

In the slums there is no
tems and the infant mortality
rate is very high. Aithough 80
percent of the people pay
social insurance fees, the gov-
ernment has done nothing to-
wards solving the problem.

udbury Mine-Mill members
fight raid by Stee! union

The president of the Canadian Labor Congress was booed off the platform of

‘the Sudbury Arena last Sunday when he attempted to speak at a rally sponsored by

the breakaway leadership of Local 598, }

The meeting climaxed a
week which saw Chief Justice
‘McRuer of the Ontario High
Court, dissolve a_trusteeship
placed:on the local by the na-
tional office of the union, and
Port Colborne local of the Mine
Mill Union, also an Interna-
‘tional Nickel- operation, stop
payment of per-capita tax to
the national office.

Sunday’s meeting was called
by the executive of Local 598,
headed by President Don Gillis,
to announce théir stand on the
question of affiliation to the

‘| CLC ang the Steelworkers

‘Union,

Thé executive Board of the|

local’ have been. meeting sec-

retly with leaders of the CLC].

including. President Claude
‘Jodoin and some of the heads
-of° the’ Steelworker’s Union.
“ Jodoin' had- to be - escorted
to thé platform of the Sudbury
Arena’ by the local: police.
‘More than 5,000 workers
stayed outside the hall while
some five hundred were in at-
‘tendance inside. It is reported
that the’ workers were _in-
censed over the refusal of
Gillis to allow Ken Smith,
President of Mine Mill and
Secretary-Treasurer Wm. Ken-
riedy into the hall.

Cries of ‘we want Smith”
and “Let’s héar Smith’, ac-
companied with lusty boos
prevented Claude Jodoin from
addressing the rally.

From the welter of confu-

sion’ surrounding events in
Surbury the fqlowing facts
emerge.

® More than 6000 members
of the .17,000 member local
signed a hurry-up petition call-
ing on Presidént: Smith to. es-
tablish an administration over

CLC PRESIDENT CLAUDE
JODOIN. Booed of the plat-
form last Sunday by Sud-
bury workers when he at-
tempted to intervene to help
Steel raid.

the affairs of the local. to stop
what appears to be a headlong
dash by the officers of Local
598 into Steel. ;

® Officers of Local 598 have
deliberately. concealed their in-
tentions from the membership
because they are aware that
the majority of the members
are opposed to dropping affi-
liation from Mine Mill.

e All the present events are
a curtain-raiser for a full scale
invasion by the United Steel-
workers of America in Novem-
ber when the current agree-
ment between International
Nickel and Local 598 comes up
fcr negotiations.

@ The Sudbury action clim-
axes 11 years of raiding of
Mine Mill locals by the United

Mine- Mill and Smelter Workers Union.

Steeworker’s Union.

One interesting aspect of the
struggle is the decision handed
down last week dissolving the
trusteeship set up several days
earlier over the rebellious
local. This marks the first time
a court has invalidated a union
constitution. In ali other cases
courts have ruled that local
unions are the creature of na-
tional or international parent
bodies and must comply with
the constitutions of those
bodies.

In this case the judge did
not even hear argument on the

| allegations of violations of the

constitution but satisfieq him-
self with ruling that the local
officers were not given the
right of a proper trial before
the administration was placed
on the local.

As one official of the Mine
Mill Union stated, “that is like
saying a man cannot be arrest-
ed until he has stood trial for
an offence.”

Early this week several top
officers of Mine Mill, including
President Ken Smith, were ar-
rested and charged with un-
lawful assembly in connection
with their participation in the
demonstration. outside the Sud-
bury meeting.

The Pacific Tribune is in-
forméd that 17 tables were set
up inside the Sudbury arena
on the night of the Jodoin
meeting where it was intended
to sign up members for the
Steel Union. Wm. Mahoney, of
the Steel Workers has since
announced that the raid is on,
and according to latest reports
the membership is beginning
to swing into action behind the
Mine Mill Union.

folder spikes anti-labor myth

_ “Tam sure that we now
have the power to control pric-
es and sales practices of the in-
dustry and while it may be
nécessary for us to start local
price wars here and there to
‘discipline a small competitor, I
am‘ suré the profits will prove.
jhost gratifying to the share-
nolders.”’- (E. P. Taylor, who
controls all but one of Canada’s”
major preweriés.) = ee
“THE above is a quote from a
‘convincing 12-page tract issued
by the B.C. Federation of La-
bor entitled, -‘“The Conspiracy
Against ‘The: Consumer.” Ac-

| cording to Federation officials} -
it} ig: their intention ‘to’ -distri-} -

‘bute at least: 100,000: copiés of’
the tract’ as part of -labor’s

drive to pin down the lie that].

workers’. are- pricing them-
iselvés out of jobs.:.

‘tion of the price rigging and

profit figures of key corpora-}.

tions the well illustrated docu-
ment’ sets about to separate
facts from fiction and to prove
that a deliberate and serious
‘conspiracy exists to deceive
‘the public and enable big busi+

ness to increase its already

By a documented examina-|

swollen profits.

Here are a few quotes from
the “Conspiracy Against The
Consumer”: “The price of a
washing machine — Where
your money goes: material
$74.88; transportation, distri-
bution, demonstration> $37.59;
office administration and mis-
cellaneous $35.50; Owner’s and
‘manager’s salaries and profits
$32.40; labor, office workers*

BERTRAND RUSSELL:

and servicemen’s wages and
salaTies $29.90; salesmen’s sal-
aries and commissions $29.87;
advertising and promotion
$18.52; taxes $18.37; research
and development $12.32; fac-
tory overhead $10.61. Total
Price $299.95.

“One of the first things
which catches the eye is that
the total salaries and wages of
office and plant workers is
only 10% of the’ total cost of

: Rie washing” machine.”

PEACE COUNCIL
URGES RELEASE
FOR RUSSELL

The B.C. Peace Council this
week cabled: the British Home
Secretary urging the imme-
diate release of Bertrand Rus-
sell, leading British scientist.
who was senfenced to seven
days in prison for taking part
in demonstrations against nu-
clear weapons.

In handing out sentence the
judge said he would have giv-
en a stiffer penaliy but for
Russell's advanced age.

September. 15, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

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