N brief... Union busting One ore ed and fifty-five men and women, members of the United llanson Ah of America, are locked in a bitter strike battle wih 2S in unin & Corp., a Toronto based electrical firm which special- The Union busting. 8 6 ie have been picketing the firm for six weeks while f scabs h 48 total factory force cross the picket line. A handful ikerg aie been recruited by the company, and five of the original othe ave been lured back to work. hen Strike followed unsuccessful bargaining efforts by the union lock in peecupany. arrogantly proposed wage increases for the cent € plant which opposed the union and wage cuts from 10 aH S per hour for union members. dunt | A Steelworkers’ representative told Metro Toronto Labor tike, yy elegates that police were acting as scab herders in the ring the called for all out support including mass picketing to ee company to terms. 1S the third union to tackle organization of the plant over the e ng 4 jo The company bust both other attempts to establish ‘ National Suicide Sm» eer is haunting Canada. It is the ghost of creeping colonial- 'esity i Matheson of York University told a symposium of uni- : P ofessors in Montreal last weekend. ‘Org o, rotting, which was studying the impact of foreign profes- peeadian university life, heard Canadian author Hugh Mac- ties as €scribe the massive influx of professors from other coun- Last 4 “program of national suicide.” hired eo only 14 percent of Canadian university professors from th Canadian institutions were Canadians. There were 1,013 362 cae States, 545 British, 722 from other countries and ns, - Australian workers strike alf a Walkout million Australian transport workers staged a mass | er eet week in protest against the jailing of Tramway Union town, larence O’Shea. Transportation in the country was shut Os Ding Was jailed for his refusal to present any evidence before “@ustrial court inquiry into the affairs of the Transport Union. Mice » demonstrations took place across the country, clashing with at some of them. r Anti-Communist clauses out ti Meg ommunist clauses were removed from the constitution of lac Toronto Labor Council at its regular meeting May 15. Ments Councils across Canada are in the process of similar amend- Made ty bring their constitutions into line with the amendments Vention. the Canadian Labor Congress Constitution at its last con- any di Toronto amendments were made unanimously and without 'Scussion, Metro Labor Council iggeUSing strikebreakers of being the real cause of violence on ‘lines, the Metro Toronto Labor Council last week asked the the 7" Federation of Labor to push for a law in Ontario outlawing The co! Strikebreakers. Reig, Council also asked for a go slow policy on the question of tee to logrowernment in Ontario and that the OFL set up 4 commit- k into the whole matter of Regional Government. a Steelworkers to S.U.. Steg} official monthly of the United for a orkers of America, announced a “Russian Winter Festival” ls anne’ worker group next December in the Soviet Union. The trip erate by the American Travel Association, a cooperative : The ¢d by the steel union and other unions. trip ;, UMion’s group will leave Pittsburgh Dec. 23 for a 16-day Sein, take part in “the famous Russian winter festival—for sight- the ©, theatre, ballet concerts in Moscow and Leningrad,” says * Union’s paper. The April issue of Steel Labor, Breakthrough by Food Workers ing Alor breakthrough in organizing the unorganized in the retail Cutter. of Ontario has been reported by the Amalgamated Meat dent TS and Butcher Workmen of North America. Vic Pathe, presi- Of the Ontario council of the Amalgamated, said the union in. PPlied for certification as bargaining agent in 21 A&P stores oe Ontario. In each case the union went before the Ontario fay ‘Ons Board with at least 65 percent of the employees. As Organs is known, this is the first time a union has succeeded in Abou wins an A & P store in Canada. The union estimates there are t 220 such stores in the country. Pathe expressed confidence ion will be certified in many more stores because the res- © of A & P employees so far has been “fantastic.” He said the Eas: E ion attitude is their lack of secu ed ite et Mile Pro Con ier sat ev asvioval In Britain political strike may be next step By MARK FORDHAM “What we have to be concern- ed about is that the TUC does not erect an alternative scaffold to the Government’s.” This comment was made by Ken Gill, national official of the Draughtsmen’s and Allied Tech- nicians’ Association, speaking on the special congress of the TUC on June 5. Like a number of other trade union officials and rank and file leaders he gave his comments while the Government and the General Council were meeting together last week. General secretary Vic Feather and his men were putting to the Prime Minister and Mrs. Castle their own set of “In Place of Strife” proposals. After the meeting, Vic Feather admitted failure to get the Gov- ernment to. change its mind on the penal. clauses. In the week before the meet- - ing, there was considerable spe- culation in the press that Wilson was hoping that the TUC Gener- al Council would “get him off the hook.” This speculation follow2d the developing crisis in the Labor Party, with the build-up of op- position of the Bill among trade unionists, their leaders and the Parliamentary back- ~ bench. But those who saw the possi- bility of an easy victory against the penal clauses, over tea and biscuits at No. 10, completely underestimate the type of strug- gle needed. It is easy to understand how such a misapprehension might arise in the atmosphere of the first week in May, when Labor was suffering disastrous defeats in the local elections and Wil- son’s position was being queried. But this misjudges what the anti-TU laws are all about and why the Government fights 50 stubbornly for them. Although the Donovan Report on trade union reform doubted whether penalties and compul- sion would work, the Govern- ment picked up its cue from the evidence submitted to the Royal Commission by a group of Tory lawyers. It is a new means of trying to make the pay freeze stick by threatening the shop stewards and rank and file militants who have helped workers to win in- creases with industrial action, despite the incomes policy, Wages freeze, the incomes pol- icy, is the madhouse alternative to a sane and. possible policy of cutting the arms bill, restricting overseas investment, and halting inflation with tough taxes against wealth. These were the alternatives the Government had’ on assum- ing office in 1964. It chose the first, to the benefit of big busi- ness and so Britain slid further and further into debt, putting it- self into pawn to the interna- tional bankers. In telling the General Council on Monday that the Government would press ahead with its penal laws, Harold Wilson was heeding not the voice of the labor move-— ment, but of the International Monetary Fund. And while Wilson and Castle in their two and a half hours of argument with the General Coun- cil were trying to persuade them that “In Place of Strife” was in litheninterestaxfosbe mMonty, Of no the workers, news was coming through of a further IMF loan to Britain. MPs failed in their attempts to get an emergency debate on the new loan, to press the Govern- ment on the terms being deman- ded by Washington. These are said to include an even more savage squeeze on the people’s standards of living, including cuts in the health services. Appeasement of the IMF ex- plains the Government’s stub- born drive to make the “In Place of Strife” proposals into laws. It is a main reason why the Government has bulldozed ahead despite the protests of the TUC, union conferences, and Labor MPs. It has begun to get jittery Iron ore about this opposition, but the thing that has really made an impact has been the two one-day strikes of workers, on February 27 and May 1. Many trade unionists now feel that the political strike is the only language that will make the Government sit up and take no- tice. The Society of Graphical and Allied Trades has asked the TUC itself to call a one-day strike against the Bill. A-.great lobby and day of ac- tion is being planned to coincide with the meeting of the TUC on June 5. It is being argued that the strike weapon is the only recipe ee victory against the anti-TU aws. workers united in strike 2,600 iron ore workers of three companies in Quebec and Labrador, which together ac- count for 65 percent of all Cana- dian iron ore production, have united on strike with the com- mon wage demand of one dollar per hour increase and a three year contract. Members of the United Steel- workers of America, the iron ore workers were faced with a com- mon offer by Quebec Cartier Mining (1,100 workers), Iron Ore of Canada and Wabush Mines (combining 1,500 work- ers) of 28 cents to 37 cents an hour for a three year contract. The strikes started May 7 at Wa- bush Mines, and then at Iron Ore on May 11, followed by Quebec Cartier on May 13. District 5 USWA _ Director, Jean Gérin-Lajoie cited Wabush Mines as typifying “the combi- nation of arrogance and stingi- ness” of the employers. At Wa- bush Mines alone, there were 300 grievances in one year and seven wildcat strikes in three years. : Not only are the 2,600 USWA members themselves united against the three iron ore com- panies. Their picket lines are re- spected by the 1,500 workers of the Quebec North Shore & Lab- rador Railway, running from Seven Islands to Schefferville, Wabush and Labrador City. These running and shop trades- men hired by the railroad have all refused to move across the striking Steelworkers’ lines. The iron ore strike has al- ready tied up several of the Great Lakes bulk carriers, as all shipments of iron ore have been stopped from Seven Islands, Que- bec. In addition to the iron ore workers, 700 USWA members are now on strike at Gaspé Cop- Pe Mines in Murdochville, Que- ec. Sipe GOODNESS WE FINALLY GOT HIM OFF OUR_BACK sh sibs oo nina SRNR