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s LABOR FRONT

BY WILLIAM KASHTAN

I came across an article by Larry Sefton in the Miners’
Voice, a publication of the United Steel Workers in Manitoba,
which I found rather interesting. The article, entitled, Ty-
coons Promote Civil War Between Industry and Labor, points
to the decline in membership in the union arising from auto-
mation and technological developments, the rise in unemploy-
ment and the growing offensive, legal and otherwise, by mon-
opoly on organized labor.

To quote Sefton: “Perhaps we in the
labor movement are partly at fault for the
present uneasy relationship between the
privates in the industrial army on the one
hand and the captains of industry and gov-
ernment on the other. After a massive
drive in the mid-thirties to establish our
unions, with the war intervening, which
turned our efforts to containing and des-
troying fascism, we longed for a rest from
the hectic, bustling years. We took it a
little easy in the mistaken belief that our foes would let us
live in peace.

“Organized labor now faces another combined employer-
government offensive aimed against its hard-won rights. If
we don’t soon take the counter-offensive we will find our
ranks decimated and our cause in jeopardy.

‘“LLabor’s numbers, and the key place unions hold in our
social structure do not fit us for the role in which ‘‘Operation
Freedom” would cast us — as suppliants at the knee of the
employer. The Labor movement has a proud and fighting tra-
dition. Let us gather our hosts and do battle with those who
would injure or destroy us.”

os * *

So far so good. But how do these words coincide with
the deeds of Sefton and the right wing leadership of the Un-
ited Steel Workers?

Does Sefton seriously believe that it is possible to go on
the counter offensive with a policy which declares “strikes
to be obsolete?’’ The trade union movement has yet to hear
either Sefton, Mahoney or other leaders of the Steel union
repudiate that position.

Does Sefton seriously believe it is possible to go on the
counter-offensive against monopoly’s union-wrecking drive
by undertaking to wreck other unions? Does he believe that
the way to stop monopoly in its tracks is to become the big-
gest union wrecker in the country?

Does Sefton seriously believe it is possible to go on the
counter offensive by a calculated policy of dividing the trade
union movement when history has proven time and again that
it is precisely that division which opens. the door to reaction
and to the drive of the neo-fascists to curb and destroy the
trade union movement?

Does Sefton seriously believe it is possible to go on the
counter-offensive with the weapons of red baiting and anti-
Communism, precisely the weapon monopoly uses to divide

the workers and the trade union movement?
* * *

Is it not a shameful thing for a paper which is supposed
to be a trade union paper, to be filled with vicious anti-com-
munist propaganda, to play up the anti-communist line of a
paper like the Sudbury Star which it pretends to oppose, and
then to have an anti-Communist stool pigeon type editorial
of its own and expect serious minded workers to believe in
Sefton’s words? ”

And yet the logic of events does in fact demand that or-
ganized labor go on the counter offensive. But to go on the
counter offensive means to adopt two simple and yet pro-
found words—unity and solidarity. No counter offensive is
possible without it and unless that becomes the basis of the
work of the entire trade union movement, monopoly’s of-
fensive against organizd labor will succeed. This ought to b¢@
clear enough by now, and no amount of appeasement of mon-
opoly or retreat from it, no amount of red baiting and union
wrecking can long ignore that vital fact.

That is why the word and the deed needs to be united.
If Sefton is really serious about the need for a counter-offen-
sive against monopoly and its governments all the conditions
are here to bring that about. The first step is for the leaders
of the United Steel Workers to change course and to give a
lead for genuine effective unity of all sections of the trade
union movement. :

Photo shows a recent demonstration of Uruguayan metal
workers in the capital, Montevideo. 8,000 have been on strike
since March 5 for higher wages.

Cg 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2

1g CANADIAN TRAGEDY

s Tory, Liberal policies force
" many skilled to seek U.S. jobs

By MAURICE RUSH

One of our great na-
tional tragedies is to be
found in the large number
of Canadians, including
some of our most skilled
workers by hand and
brain, who leave Canada
each year to find employ-
ment in the United States.

Just how serious is this
problem?

Last week a small item ap-
peared in the Canadian press
from Washington, D.C., which
reported that a recent survey
made by the U.S. Immigration
Department showed that in
the 12 months ending June
30, 1961, a total of 47,470
Canadian residents crossed
the border to live in the U:S.
This is compared to 46,668
for the previous 12 month
period.

The February 24 issue of.
the Financial Post reported
that since 1956 over 120,000
workers have emigrated from
Canada to the U.S. More than
one quarter of this total con-
sisted of professional, tech-
nical and managerial persons.

A recent survey made by
the U.S. Department of Immi-
gration covering an eleven
year period (1950-1960) show-
ed the following categories,
among others, of skilled men
and women who received
their training in Canada and
emigrated to the US. for
employment:

Architects, 288.
Engineers, 7,874.
Scientists, 1,821.
Educators, 4,563.

e Physicians and surgeons,

2,124.
e Designers’ draughtsmen,
2,880.
* * *

The loss to Canada from
this mass migration is enor-
mous. Each year many mil-
lions of dollars are spent by
Canadians to provide educa-
tional facilities, only to lose

our trained men and women
to a foreign country.

It’s not many months ago
that our leading old-line poli-
ticians and the capitalist press
were whooping’ it up about
the large numbers of skilled
persons leaving East Ger-
many. It served the purposes
of the cold war to exaggerate

‘and inflame feeling against

the German Democratic Re-
public.

But how much has been
heard from this same gang
about the exodus of Cana-
dians to the United States?
Extremely little. This ques-
tion is -being hushed up .be-
cause behind it lies the whole
policy of national betrayal by
the Liberals and Tories—the
policy of “integration” with
the US.

Under this policy Canada’s
natural resources and skilled
manpower are drained off to
the U.S. while Canada re-
mains largely a producer of
raw materials and semi-manu-
factured goods.

Thousands of our most tal-

Mrs Diana Collins, wife of Canon
John Collins (left), Chelsea house-
wife Mrs. Diana Leslie, carrying a
picture of a woman scarred by the
Hiroshima bomb, and the Marchio-
ness of Queensbury, (not on photo)
leading a ‘Women act Now Against
War” march to present a message
containing three very pertinent
questions to Britain’s Prime Mi-
nister, Mr. Macmillan through the
streets of London:

ented scientists and tech!
ians coming out of our ul
sities find little opport in
in Canadian industry
scientific institutions for
talents, while the more
vanced industries and §
tific fields in the U.S.
out many inducements
them.

* * a

During the current ele
campaign John Diefen?
and other old-line politi
have repeated many
that Canada has large
unemployment because
lack of skills among W®
which today’s technolo!
advances require.

The mass exodus of §
Canadians to the U.S. sh?
that even if many thou
of Canada’s jobless were
nically skilled, our econo?
with its raw material
provides _ little
for them.

The exodus of our rn
skilled citizens will conv
so long as the present n4
al policy of betrayal of
ada’s interests to the U.S:
tinues. ast

That is why the proP®
of the Communist Party
new national policies 1 *,
Canada first, to develo?
own manufacturing i”!
tries, and build up Cam
offers the only long-ran8®
swer to halting the. e™
tion of our most talented °
and daughters. ,

Under present. policies
ada provides no place
them. New national po
such as advocated bY —
Communist Party, W ou
open new fields of opP®
ity and advancemes
thousands of young scie?
engineers, architects
other skilled men and w®

Their homeland will °
them a life with a future
here in Canada, where tp
talents would contribute
mee Canada great.

Soviet people

By JOHN BOYD
Editor, Canadian Tribune
The entire population of a

country pours out its love
and respect for a newspaper.
It’s something difficult for
most Canadians to imagine.
Yet that is exactly what hap-
pened here in Moscow when
the Soviet newspaper Pravda
celebrated its 50th anniver-
sary.

Why the Soviet people feel
that way about their news-
paper was effectively explain-
ed by Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev when he opened
the great meeting held May
5th in the new 6,000 seat
Palace of Congresses in the
Kremlin.

Said Khrushchev:

“The conscious life of all
Soviet people is closely bound
up with Pravda. Every day
they open up Pravda and see
what the party says, to what
deeds it calls them, what it
warns them against.

“Pravda has permanently
become a part of the life of
the Soviet people, has become
an inseparable part of the
spiritual life of Soviet society.
Pravda has played and plays

love their paper, Pravda

an important role in the dev-
elopment of a new Soviet
man — the conscious builder
of communism. For all this
the people regard the Lenin-
ist Pravda as their dear and
most beloved newspaper.”
Here in Moscow on the in-
vitation of Pravda are gath-
ered editors and. journalists
from more than 70 countries.
The meeting in the Palace of
Congresses was attended by
hundreds | of Soviet and for-

“Wow! ook at the shooting

star... I hope.”
— St. Louis Post Dispatch

eign newspapermen, print
radio and television w
and representatives of 2

tions of the Soviet publi

Following Khrush¢
opening address, the mee
heard a report by Pravd@
itor P. A. Satyukov and ss
ings from the editors 0 — 4
ernal papers of several
tries. After the meeti
6,000 guests were treaté
a grand variety concer
turing some of the top #
and talent of the
Union.

By the decision of thé
iet government Pravd4
awarded the Order of
for the second time si?
war.

Greetings are pouriné
from all over the counttY
from abroad honoring ;
newspaper which the ©
committee of the Soviet
munist Party described ® x
tribune of the party, 2 @
of the ideas of sci
communism, an active |
for peace and frie nd&
among peoples, for th i
ciples of working class ©
nationalism in the W
Communist movement:

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