who have gained control of the ties did not actually sit on Labor'sjhouse in peril jae big event for which the monopoly-controlled_ press (and, those -) whose policies it promotes) have waited with indecent anticipa- tion, has taken place. The daily newspapers gave it a good buildup. Now comes their reward. Another 6,000-strong fighting union, the International Union of Fur and Leather Workers, has been expelled by the Canadian Congress of Labor. i That is the kind of “news” the boss press likes to headline. It “shows that the labor bureaucracy and the social democratic top brass Canadian trade union movement, are doing a fine (if albeit, clumsy) wrecking job for the war camp of big business. ; While the need of every worker, grave times is unity and more unity within his union and his Class, to beat back ‘the attacks of the- warmongers, the CCL splitters and 2 raiders continue their shameful orgy of union disruption and wrecking. _ Every attack made upon their affiliated unions (or others) by these labor tsars of the CCL, is an encouragement to ' wWar-minded governments and union-hating employers to tighten the screws upon organized labor. All done under the false pretext of “fighting Com- - Munism’’! > vos oO These trade union lackies of big business, union. wreckers where they can’t rule with tsarist absolutism, are deaf to the warnings of such leaders as John'L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, who told 50,000 auto workers at Detroit: “I think now that American labor should awake to the fact _ that economic and social ‘peril lies not far down the road ahead. And, I think, in justice to ourselves and those we represent, that we should awaken to the fact, and take steps to promote: labor unity in America.” pe is a That message applies, with equal and pressing urgency, to Canada also. ae: Not one single problem is solved for Canadian labor by the _ expulsion of the Fur and Leather Workers from the CCL “‘House of Labor”. On the contrary, the problems are only accentuated, and the _ fighting potential of labor dissipated and weakened by the work of enemy agents within its ranks. : > Perhaps the “peril” _ the rank-and-file of CCL labor in the coming months to clean house __ of the splitters and raiders, and in so doing, find the road back to labor ‘unity and action—action against the enemies of working class _ welfare and peace, Pa gietas * And we foot the bill AST week, British Columbia's minster British Columbian published a front page editorial under the caption “Idiots’ Delight at Victoria’. In our opinion (and we feel sure in. this instance a large majority of the people of this province will agree with us) the British Columbian editorial is a literary master- piece in the annals of commercial journalism. Ris “With hospital insurance handsomely in the red and: citizens " seething over the way they are gouged at every turn, the overnment : me Brish Columbia is ‘re-decorating the ballroom of vernment of the job. The Indian motif which for half a century has made room unique has been removed and replaced by a gold ceiling and mirrored walls in which the creators of this idiocy will be able _ to see themselves, but not as others see them.” >: : Everyone knows, and too many from bitter experience, that Wi social security measures affecting the wellbeing of the people are concerned, the Coalition is parsimonious to the nth degree. Its, _ onerous taxation policies are applied on the principle that “‘if the want social security they will have to pay for it.” “There is a precedent,” concludes the British Columbian “for preparing for Royalty a ballroom that may not be used for this pur- - pose. In 1939 when the King and Queen. visited Victoria, two _ massive, hand-carved golden oak chairs were acquired. Their Majes- ; those’ chairs but they did stand in front __ of them for half an hour. Now the Princess and Duke will sit on them; the chairs will be used for the purpose for which they were made, after twelve years. profaned them in the meantime?) Similarly, perhaps the ballroom _ ‘te-decorated’ for this occasion may come eventually to be used by _ some visiting Royalty after a lapse of time. it is to be hoped the present cabinet will have with a sigh of relief.” ~~ Well and truly said, gouges the people as this unholy Coalition has done, and which gives 80 little to so many and so much to so few in return, deserves an early -. and quiet interment. ‘Such a happy event would assure a more. pros- Perous people, and consequently a finer rendezvous for visitors, royal or otherwise. people been politically buried \ h Bs Neve aninirepenaeeciel ees eum TTT e : emit Ta 'b (HUTTE a FN WV yy pea I tH} i] JICI ° ne HIM AT vi ill i) i | ali On: OES COTIN | =P lll Nom Sel ee ferment women et A _ Published Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver, B.C. Jott By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY BEDE sai ae Telephone MA. 5288 os Tom McEwen ; _ Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, $1.35. _ Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 650 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C, é Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Dept., Ottawa Pe every trade unionist in these’ John L. Lewis Dike of will serve to steel pioneer newspaper, the New West- “Re-decorating is hardly the word: it fails to indicate the scope —coscaeo oer oan ‘As We See It by TOM McEWEN OOOO CTC HACMNUUKRHERHNRNEN J AST Saturday’s Vancouver Sun gave special promi- nence to a bevy of top-levél Canadian Gongress of Labor (CCL). celebrities, now in Vancouver attend- ing the annual convention of that organization. That, of course, is as it should be, since organ- ized labor and the working people it represents, despite opposing viewpoints, is the only section of capitalist society deserving of such prominence. The Sun however had other ideas in mind than - just “popularizing” a handful of OCL. top brass. It scented an anti-Communist witch-hunt in the delib- erations of this convention, and its art gallery of labor leaders—and misleaders—together with the fictionalized captions, was intended to be a sort of pre-convention “morale” builder to keep the anti- Red (and resultant union-splitting policies of the CCL) well to the fore. A specialized “hurrah” to: keep up the good work on behalf of the Canadian : Chamber of Commerce and the coupon clippers. Take our old friend and trade union comedian, Bill Mahoney, who is credited with being “. . . the man who forced the Communists out of the west coast IWA in the ‘October Revolution’ of 1948.” Any worker who knows Bill intimately knows that he never organized a Like “socialist” Carl Berg of the Trades and Labor Congress, Bill has spent most of his time as a hatchet man for professional labor fakers, splitting and disrupting unions already established, and keep- ing closely allied, and without any superflous scruples, to a good meal ticket. : Ses The very mention of “Moscow” sends Bill ber- _ serk even quicker than it does the Canadian Manu-_ facturers’ Association and its kept press, which often finds occasion to heap’ fulsome praise upon Bill. in-trade, ‘but Mosher failed to endow him with the finesse of a Dublin fishwife in hawking his wares. As a result, Bill’s antics often make him appear -More than a little senile, but that doesn’t disturb @ man of his calibre, who has reached the top rung of the fakeration ladder by sheer misleader- ship, Te be ( a} 1A 8 , ° | ‘Then there is our old smiling friend, Sam Baron _ of the Textile Workers of America (CIO-CCL). The | Sun’s scribe gives Sam a real “hero’s” buildup, but somehow or other failed to tell the whole story. _ The Sun’s romance runs like this: “Sam Baron sat in a Communist,death cell in Spain one lonely night more than eleven years ago while the firing squad lounged in a room «down the hall and oiled its guns for his execution. But the big wheels of government moved in three countries and Baron, without even a powder burn on his shirtfront, es- caped to fight the Communists again.” Ms It doesn’t take a Sherlock Homes to make some very obvious deductions from that fictionalized, pro- “vocative blurb. First, that Sam was operating in Spain as an ally of “Butcher” Franco against the people of Republican Spain. “freelance” newspaper reporter, Sam’s. semi-literate blurbs were against the interests of the Liberals, — Democrats, Socialists, Republicans and ‘Communists, © who made up the people and the government of Republican Spain. hoosegow, ‘not a “Communist death cell,” but a Republican prison, to await the measure of justice his crimes merited. . _~ a8 re, Ny Thirdly, the POUM (Workers’ Party of United Marxists), the Spanish Trotskyist organization, which actually aided Franco in that its members did everything possible to obstruct the anti-fascist war of on “war correspondent” * Sam as a real ally in carrying through its program — the Spanish people, looked of national disruption. = union in his whole lifetime. A very stale red herring is Bill’s main stock- Secondly, that as a~ apne they tossed him into the — ¥ Veg Fourthly, and perhaps the best criterion of one Ly great worth to one segment of society, the a MacKenzie King, who Was never known to tu vile,” and inter alia, as the lawyers say, tenderi& the Republican government of Spain the tome e “recognition” of Mackenzie King in exchange ag Sam—a bargain in which both sides .got gyppe? We have it on Zood authority that the closer Sam ever came to a “firing” squad was when t TWA-CIO decided to dispense with his services | Canadian director of that union. But, as the ie Says, this “quiet-spoken Textile union leader. Wie be battling the Reds.” Pathetic, isn’t it, and ¥' so romantic. f i 4h No such lineup of the glamor boys of the © at by the bosses’ press would be complete wie something on Eamon Park and the CCF’s top bral truster, Dr. Eugene Forsey. “Irish-born sees ‘says the Sun, “who looks like a successful bus ‘man” (and, we may add, speaks and acts like et is “public relations director” for the (United sy workers Union. When CCL president A. R. Mon “sold” Charlie Millard the Mine-Mill jurisdiction ee Canada, Eamon undertook the job of trying “sell” his union-splitting “public relations” prow : to the Trail smelter workers. With unlimited fun f and a choice stock of red bogeys, and aided by suc? — : CCF stalwarts as Herb Gargrave, Bill Mahoney: ; and similar “socialists”, the job should have tie a cinch. But hardrock miners and smelterworker™ as well as others, have a feeling based on hard © 4 perience, that the union that gets things done ae them and their families is preferable to one wie : “buys” their jurisdiction—and which acted on id Parkian “labor relations” assumption that it ct “buy” their allegiance for the same coin. No CCF or CCL convention would be complet a without the debonaire Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Bue Forsey. High up in his “ivory tower’ the Docto has propounded over the years, ‘many and vari political nostrums for sugar-coated “socialism”. é a mathematical genius‘ the Doctor is definitely eae vinced that two-and-two make four. As a political forecaster, he invariably reminds us of the V@ couver weathermen, and more often than not, ge cheap publicity out of his numerous and profoun! vacuities, than our own notorious publicity houn? “Leo Sweeney, gets from his: bum weather forecas The Doctor has the reputation of having sired the historic “Regina Manifesto” of the CCF in) does and then seventeen years later, kicked his progeny > face in because it didn’t have the cold “new look ie of the CCF hierarchy‘s later brain-children. © ____ A few years ago the Doctor won fame in British Columbia by representing the IWA on a conciliatio™ board and agreeing to a seven-cent wage increas& which the lumberworkers promptly tossed back 1 him and won 12% cents themselves without a ivory tower advice. - Merry ‘gentlemen all, capable when worl collectively in convention, of silencing any rank-aM file opinion which might express itself. Labor “leaders” who have won their spurs to fame lone the red-herring route, and who have to learn that the most masterly red-baiting and anti-Communis ba never put one extra penny in a worker’s pay envel” ope, not an extra loaf of bread on his table; mimics of a boss-class philosophy, aimed at keeping clas divided, confused, and ‘above all, disorganized. (But who knows what plebeian posteriors . efore then, however, British Columbian!’ Any government. that 2 a War | propaganda : Aone the printed materials issued to the déle- gates at the opening session of the CCL conven- Brothers Communazi.” It is reprinted from the New Leader of January 1, 1951. This is a Yankee publi- cation, devoted to political muckraking, ivory tower “intellectualism”, and “Socialist” half-tones. ‘ This leaflet is a series of alleged quotations from. Soviet spokesmen and journals, with a like number _ of quotations from Adolph Hitler and other Nazi _ organs, designed to nurture the slander that the ‘Communists and Nazis are both alike in every respect; that whatever the Soviet Union may say about peace today, the “Nazis said it. all before.” The author is one Louis Jay ‘Herman, A The distribution of such filth at a CMA or Can- adian Bankers’ convention, or at a John Foster Dulles “peace” conference, would be easy to under- stand. The warmongers must wallow in such slime i shaded with rosy-tinted in labor's ranks _tion this week is a one-page leaflet entitled ‘The — to conceal their real actions from all decent peopl For a trade union ‘convention, acting in the nam of hundreds of thousands of workers, to soil its hands in such a manner, is much less easy to grasP- It denotes an abandonment of common decency, and an open resort to the current warmongering practic? of deliberate deceit. It also denotes that those responsible are 10 longer being pressured into the anti-Soviet war camp by cajolery and threats from’ the Vatican and the U.S. State Department, but are now volun- tarily picking up whatever filth of this sort they ean find, and assiduously using it to demonstrate — their bona-fides for full partnership in the bosses’ “war camn, | oe ; ue “The Brothers Communazi” distributed by the — CCL leadership is a policy document. It acts for” the camp of war—while its promoters. presume t0— “speak” for the things of peace. It dirties the hands of every honest trade unionist who found it smuggled into his convention deliberations. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 21, 1951 — PAGE