| HOW ABOUT fT,

‘MR. JODOIN ?

By LESLIE MORRIS
Pee Jodoin, president of
we Canadian Labor Congress,
8 fond of saying that Soviet
trade unions are not really
a at all. We should like to
- vi Jodoin if a single trade
feo in Canada enjoys rights
ike those listed below, which
ees in the uabor Code
1999 € Soviet Unions since
oe How do you judge
Whether a union is a union?
Trade unions are not liable

ra 2 their property for breaches

oe ttive agreements; they
7 “YE to be regi :
State. : gistered by the
Transfer from one job to an-
ae the same factory, or
ace One place to another, is

Swed only with the agree-

; Ment of the worker concerned

and at his previous wage.

Bee tut quotas or time taken
a job must be agreed on

ef Management and _ trade

~ “lon, to be valid.

imettime must be paid at a
eee for the first two
after and at double-rate there
‘i (and for holiday work),
a can be worked only with

eS union sanction.
is people from 16 to 18
aid a Six-hour day but are

for eight hours and get
€ rate for the job.

Ae anid elected to public or
teed } posts must be guaran-
sina oth their previous (or

& ar) jobs on relinquishing

- € posts and their average

ma while performing public

l€s in working time.
(hee absent sick ‘have
a. guaranteed at their
a §€ wages for at least two
oh 8; Or on maternity leave
Sur months.
Minimum annual paid
= Y Or.g fortnight for all
rs co One month for work-
aaa 18, who are not al-
on the night shift.
ets Tegnant and nursing moth-
Not allowed on night shift;

holida

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ben nity leave of eight weeks

chita® and eight weeks after

{ birth, without loss of
fants ~ off for nursing in-
aa Wice daily, with pay.

y th Sry committees elected
COnits Workers to have full re-
“free ton by management, with
ang meenises, lighting, heating

i ight of inspection.
€mbers of factory commit-

bees i
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out the sanction of the union
concerned,

Social insurance is non-con-
tributory—i.e., the amount to
be paid to the insurance fund
(calculated as a percentage of
the wages bill) may not be. de-
ducted from wages.

Equal pay for equal work.
No worker under 18 to work
nights.

Now the two houses of the
Supreme Soviet—the Parlia-
ment of the :USSR—have pub-

lished a draft bill for public|

discussion and all citizens are

asked to send in their remarks. |°{

The bill confirms and im-
proves all the points set out
above, and adds new points, in-
cluding the following:

A maximum _ seven- hour
day and 40-hour week, the first
to take effect by the end of
1960, the second in 1962. (The
six-hour day for miners and
others in hazardous occupa
tions).

Five days of eight hours may
be established where special
conditions require it, otherwise
five days of seven hours, with
five hours on Saturdays.

The period of sick leave is
increased to four months. Up
to two hours may be allowed
for meal breaks. Wages are to
be paid during working hours.

Internal regulations must be
approved by the factory com-
mittee to be valid. Breaches
may be referred by manage-
ment to discussion by the
workers organizations.

No factory or department
may start operating without
the sanction of the trade union
factory inspectors.

A shorter work day, at full
pay, for workers engaged in

study.

Workers elected to trade
union posts, factory committees
or as shop stewards and volun-
tary (shop) part-time factory
inspectors, may not be dismiss-
ed or transferred without the
agreement of the union.

No worker may be dismissed
without the sanction of the
factory committee.

It is not true, as Messrs. Jod-
oin and Co. say that strikes are
prohibited in the USSR. But
let any worker read through
this code and ask himself: who
wants to strike with ‘these

tights?

The Soviet government plans
to introduce the six-hour day
by 1965 and says it is looking
forward to the five-hour day—
at higher pay- And there hasn't
been any unemployment in the
Soviet Union for more than 30

years.

“So you'd like a steak once
in a while! ... ll tell our
maid to have our chauffeur
pick some up!”

THE COST
OF WAR

Not a single decade in
the past hundred years
has been free of sanguin-
ary conflicts or wars.

More than 70 million
people fought in the First
World War, and in the
Second World War the
number rose to 110 mil-
lion. The First World War
claimed 20 million crip-
ples and 10 million dead.
Incomplete data for the
Second World War show
that 22 million people
were killed and more than.
34 million wounded. This
does not include losses in
China and the people but-
chered in Nazi concentra-
tion camps.

The two world wars
claimed an incredibly
large sacrifice of mater-
ial values. Economists tell
us that the money spent
in the first of these wars
would have been enough
to buy each of the 74
million mobilized soldiers
a good house with a large
plot of land.

The direct expenses in-
curred in the Second
World War alone run into
a sum that would have
sufficed to give all the
children of the world a
secondary education, to
build a five-roomed house
for every family in the
world and to equip a
splendid hospital for
every 5,000 persons living
on our planet.

FARM
NOTES

Strachan’s Slanders
Against Tim Buck

The CCF has distributed an-
other large 4 page election
paper to voters in which no
[less than 435 words are de-|

voted to agriculture. Yet it|
[seis not a word about three}
basic issues facing B.C. farm-
ers — guaranteed prices, stop-
ping the dumping of U.S. farm}
produce into B.C., and curbing|
the profiteering of the big|
monopolies who cheat the far-
mers coming and going. Nor|
does the whole platform say a|
word about peace, neutrality]
and disarmament upon which|
depend the solution of most of,
B:C.’s problems. In spite of}
this the platform ‘states that
the CCF is for ‘maintenance of
farm income” and “farm se-
curity.” |

This failure to face up to the}
main issues is like inviting a
friend to dinner and offering
him all the trimmings but no}
main course — no meat and|
potatoes! |

This failure is no accident. |
To deal with these main issues|
involves a fight against the)
monopolies and their war
policies. This the CCF leader-|
ship will not undertake. Its,
election strategy . consists of|
promising working people|
some reforms and at the same
time assuring big business that
it has nothing to fear from the
CCF.

The campaign by Communist |
candidates for peace, jobs and)
security exposes this two faced |
policy pursued by right wing
CCF leaders and drives them
into a rage, particularly at this

K. going to UN Assembly:
Why not Diefenbaker?

The announcement by the
Soviet government that Pre-
mier Khrushchey will head
their country’s delegation te
the meeting of the United Na-<
tions. General Assembly open-
ing Sept. 20 has thrown all
the Western leaders into a
dither.

Khrushchev’s decision con-
fronts all the Western leaders
with an immediate dilemma:
to go or not to go. And if not,

\how to explain to their peo-

ples that ‘they are avoiding
this opportunity for taking up—
the disarmament and other
East-West discussions which
were halted by the U-2’s kill-
ing of the Summit?

Soviet sources at U.N. head-
quarters in New York indi-
cated that Khrushchey might
remain there throughout. the
Assembly’s debate on disarm<
ament.

People see in the Soviet de-
cision further proof that the
Russians mean business with
their disarmament proposals
and that they are determined
to overcome the obstacles put
in the way of peace by the
cold-warmongers and are’ tak-
ing up the fight in the U.N.

time when their avid desire
for power and the spoils of
office appears to them to be
within reach. This is why CCF
leaders such as Strachan and
O’Neale make such violent and
slanderous attacks on Tim
Buck.

Communists, with their clear
recognition of the real issues
and with their forthright ex-
posure of monopolies and their
various political servants, are
making a vitally necessary con-
tribution to this election cam-<
paign, the full effect of which
will be seen not only at the
polls but in the struggles which
must ‘inevitably come in the
months ahead.

See

“Jenny, when you have a little time I’d like you to read
this Theory of the Leisure Class.”

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