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Hastings St., Vancouver 6 B.C. PY - 253-1291 PH. 254-2313 Labor must find way to join in fight for peace By OBSERVER _ When will trade unions play a more active role in the fight for peace? How many times have you heard that question? While the Canadian Labor Con- gress has adopted a better posi- tion on Vietnam than the Ameri- can Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organi- zations, it has refused to brand the United States as the aggres- sor. This, to a great extent, is due to the pressure the leaders of the international unions are able to exert, Another factor is the political orientation of many top leaders of the C.L.C. A third factor is the unclarity, confusion and lack of cohesion on the part of the lower echelon leaders and the membership. It is a fact that no convention of Canadian labor has endorsed the American presence in Viet- nam, At the same time, there is a reluctance in most unions to brand the U.S, as the aggressor, The demand to end the U.S, bombing and to settle by nego- tiations based on the Geneva Accords of 1954 has wide support among active trade union mem- bers, In British Columbia, it is to the credit of the leadership ofthe Provincial Federation and the Vancouver. Labor Council that they have supported and spon- sored peace actions, Their prob- lem is to involve the membership in larger numbers, In respect to the rank and file, the main obstacleis apathy, Many members tend to resist personal involvement, except on issues like wages, working conditions, trade union rights and social legisla- tion. That is especially true in the more conservative craft unions, It is obvious that abetter job has to be done in explaining how the war in Vietnam affects Canadians, : For example, to what extent is the sharp rise in the National Housing interest rate due to American inflationary pres- sures? This, of course, does not mean that we should overlook the powerful appeal of interna- tional solidarity or the moralis- sues involved, What is needed is a rounded-out approach, a com- bination of all factors, Recent developments of a pro- gressive nature in the U.S.A, could have a positive influence on Canadian labor, Trade union chapters of apeace organization known asSANE (For A Sane Nuclear Policy) have been established in key Ameri- can cities, Prominent leaders of the United Auto Workers, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the United Packinghouse Work- ers, the International Longshore-. men and Warehousemen’s Union, the Teamsters and many other unions have participated, This development was preceded by years of hard work at the grass roots level, Leffel in Le Canard, Paris “A hundred thousand men, Gen- eral? | can spare 20 million Ne- groes right away.” Three top leaders of the AFL- CIO recently issued a call for a National Labor Leadership As- sembly For Peace, to be held at the University of Chicago on No- vember 11 and 12, They are na- tional secretary-treasurers of their unions: Emil Mazey, United Auto Workers: Frank Rosenblum, Amalgamated Clothing Workers; and Patrick Gorman, Amalga- mated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, The meeting will be held under the auspices of the trade union division of SANE, Some 450 full- time trade union leaders and staff members are expected to attend, The following is a quotation from the call to the conference: “Within most of the Third World our Vietnamese adventure is viewed as a classic example of a powerful white nation pitted against asmallcountry of colored people. “The annual cost of the war to America will soon reach $30 billion a year, This enormous diversion of human wealth and energies into war has grievously undermined every program to meet the needs of our cities and has intensified the under- currents of violence in our own land, “Young men who deserve bet- ter are dying in a war whose purpose they do not understand, The culture of our country is being brutalized by a logic which seeks to justify the use of the most inhumane weapons of war whose primary victims inevitably are the population of Vietnam — both North and South, “We share UN Secretary Gen- eral U Thant’s view that there is an alternative creative role for America in the world today and that “the labor movement can be a very powerful force in pro- ducing the changes in attitude which will be required.” Scheduled to address the as- sembly is Harvard Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, a critic of the Johnson policy in respect to- Vietnam, He will speak on “Alternatives to American For- eign Policy”. Dr. Martin Luther King, the civil-rights leader who has publicly taken the position that the war on poverty can only be won if the war in Vietnam is ended, will also address the as- sembly. It would be wrong to apply this American experience to Canada mechanically, It would be equally wrong to disregard the key ele- ment of that experience: the need to introduce methods and forms that labor will accept as its own, What is proposed is not design- ed to isolate trade unions from other peace forces, It means helping the reclining giant to stand up, ‘so that the working ~ class, the decisive peace force in the long run, can move into action. 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