‘Stop union raiding’

Cont'd from pg. 7
with CLC President Jodoin
backing the raid of the Steel
union’s leadership under the
guise of “liberation” of the
Mine Mill members.

WHO BACKS ‘LIBERATION’

Kashtan states it is “worth-
while noting the various for-
ces that have rallied behind

this movement of ‘libera-
tion’.”’
These include the press,

the courts, the RCMP and
“coming up from the rear,
but not the least important,
is U.S. Séeretary of Labor
Goldberg, likewise calling
for ‘liberation’.”

“The kinship that is felt
among some of them arises
from the fact that a policy of
class collaboration and anti-
‘Communism has replaced the
time honored principles. of
the trade union movement —
working class and trade un-
ion solidarity and unity.”

The argument used by the.
Steel leaders that Mine Mill
cannot effectively represent
workers because it is a ‘‘small,
divided organization” is
shown by Kashtan to be a
“theoretical justification” for
raiding any union.

JOINT PROGRAMS :
NEEDED

“Tt is true,” says. Kashtan,
“that in the face of the pow-
er of monopoly the workers
need strong militant unions
in each industry to defend
them.”

_ But the way-is not through
so-called “liberation.” It — is
“by unions in each particular
union ‘together formulating
joint programs of common
interest to the membership,
conducting joint negotiations

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as the railway workers have
been. doing, pledging mutual
support and assistance and
finally arriving, step by step,
to the stage where they could
unite on. a democratic basis
into one union. for each in-
dustry.”

How can raiding be stop-
ped, Kashtan asks, and he
answers as follows:

“What is required is that
the Canadian Labor Congress
solemnly. declares that it is
unalterably opposed to raid-
ing of any union whether af-
filiated' to Congress or not,
that it considers it a crime
against the working class and
trade union principles, a form
of cannibalism which ‘the
workers, irrespective of the¥fr-

gorically reject: ee F
' “What is required is “that
the CLC undertake a -wide-
scale educational campaign
throughout the.trade union
movement directed to restor-
ing.and strengthening the
concept of working-class and
trade union solidarity, of un-
ity and ,co-operation as the
basis of trade union activity.”
AMEND CLC
CONSTITUTION

With these objectives. in
mind, the CLC -constitution
should be amended: to open

ALL UNIONS, with an end
put to attacks and raids on
unions not affiliated to the
CLC, and immediate negotia-
tions should be opened for
inclusion of unions now -out-

|side the CLC without any

discriminatory clauses in the
CLC constitution.”

launch a campaign all across
the country to-organize the
unorganized, and unions in
every industry should be en-
couraged to work together for
common. objectives with the
aim of creating the most fa-
vorable conditions for event-
ual mergers or federations in
each industry on a fully de-
mocratic and autonomous
basis.

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CORRECTION

the door of the Congress. to |.

In addition, the CLC should |

800 factories

in one year

MOSCOW — More than
800 big new industrial un-
dertakings came info op-
eration in the SoOviet Un-
ion last year, said Pravda
recently.

Reporting on the 1963
plan fullfillment figures,
Pravda said:

“During 1961 our indus-
tries produced almost as
much as during the entire
first postwar Five Year
Plan.”

In the first three years
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industrial production in-
creased by 33 percent in-
stead of the 27 per cent
planned, said Pravda. -

Civic Employees Union

secretary Jack Phillips writes
to correct.‘a.story last week
in our “Labor Briefs”

{ column.

“In your issue of January
26, 1962, you incorrectly re-

members being excluded
from our January 19 mem-
bership meeting.

“The facts areas follows:

“One member is facing
charges and could not attend
because his membership had
been suspended pending the
report of the Trial Commit-
tee. Two 6ther members were
excluded from that particu-
lar meeting, on grounds of
misconduct. The exclusion
was by membership vote and
applied to that meeting only.
Your account says this “. ..
three others suspended from
attending union meetings
pending apologies .. .”

“In our Union Newsbulle-
tin of January 26 we refer to
two members as being re-
fused admittance to the Janu-

not as suspended members.

*As to the fourth member,
he was ordered off
premises when he became un-
ruly outside the door of the
Union hall.

“To conclude,. only one
member has been suspended,
because he is facing charges.
The other three are members
in good standing, entitled to

ported on the matter of four.

full membership rights and
privileges, including attend-
ance at Union meetings.’

Morris attacks answered
by woodworkers c’ttee.

“TWA president Joe Morris’ reaction to the con

| demands advanced by woodworkers is not surpris
stated the Communist Party Lumber Workers Com

| tee this week.

j
|
|
|

“Morris’ reaction as ex-

| pressed through thé Vancou-

ver Sun on January 25, is to
threaten those who want new
policies for the union — pre-

| cisely the reaction of an em-

ployer.

“Mr. Morris runs true to

, form with his threats and red-

‘| baiting. Woodworxers do not

intend to be intimidated and
will continue to advance
contract demands that cor-
respond with the needs of
the time.

“Conditions of the industry
fully justify the contract de-
mands suggested. Results of
widespread mechanization in
the industry have had a dual
effect: They brought about
greater production with im-
mense profits for the employ-
er and, inversely for the
workers, — speedup, unem-
ployment and cutback in their
standard of living.

“The seven hour day with
an increase in take-home pay

is one of the demands ad
ed and is an imperative |
Facts are that profi
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about $4000 for each
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ting savings. In- other w
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“In light of. the ab?
facts it is clear who is
alistic, not the -wood
ers of the camps and mi
this. province, but Joe
ris, who in the last an
is not prepared to figh
the workers he represen
win a wage standard
to his own.’”

Communist salutations”
were. sent by the 17th na-
tional convention of the
Communist Party of Canada
to its. embattled . brother
party. in the United States,
under severe attack by the
Kennedy administration and
the forces of ultra-right re-
action in that country.

The convention pledged to
do “all in its power to arouse
public opinion in Canada for
the defense of the rights of
the CPUSA to conduct its

ary meeting (singular) and) ation of the American peo-
| ple.”

the| President

work as a democratic organiz-

It also sent a telegram to
Kennedy urging
him “to drop all actions
against the Communist Party
of the USA, to initiate steps
to repeal the McCarran and

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