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MAURICE RUSH

AST week two events took
place which ought to serve
as a serious warning to British
Columbia’s labor movement of
the new attacks anti-labor
forces are unleashing against
the workers. Significantly, both
attacks were aimed at the heart
of the labor movement in this
province, the organized ewood-
workers,

Early last week, Chief Jus-
tice Wendell B. Farris handed
down the most vicious court
ruling to be delivered against
a union in this province in re-
eent years, when he sent an
IWA «business agent to jail for
three,months, fined him $3,000
and imposed a $300 fine on four-
teen other IWA members. This
mass fining of workers arose out
of the refusal of Nanaimo wood-
workers to break their picket
line during. the recent strike
after the bosses had been grant-
ed an injunction by the courts.

In his judgment, Chief Jus-
tice Farris spoke not only to
the IWiA but to the whole labor
movement.
unions that they will ‘have to
knuckle down under anti-labor
laws and oppressive anti-labor
injunctions, or face long pris-
on sentences and mass finings
of their memberships. It should
be quite obvious to all trade
unionists that they cannot ig-
nore this challenge to their
right to strike and picket.

\What, makes the Farris judg-
ment even more vicious is the
fact that this punitive~ action
against labor is taken in face
of widespread recognition that
the use of injunctions in labor
disputes has become discredited
throughout the world.

In the United -States, Demo-
cratic candidate for president,
Adlai Stevenson, was recently
compelled to denounce injune-
tions in labor disputes and to
come out for an end to their
use.

In British Columbia, the ICA
Act ‘Inquiry Board was also
compelled to recognize the un-
fairness of anti-labor injunc-
tions by proposing a mild form
of curbing them. The Inquiry
Board’s proposal is that no in-
junction be permitted in a labor
dispute unless permission has
first been granted by the Labor
Relations Board.

Chief Justice Farris’ judg-
ment flies in the face of public
opinion and the recommendation
of this government appointed
board which is now before the

legislature, waiting for a much-.

needed session to be dealt with.

It’s obvious that the employ-
ers of B.C., the attorney, gen-
eral of the Social Credit gov-
ernment, the capitalist courts,
are bent on _ strikingy back
against the workers for their
united militant struggles this
summer, which smashed the
CMA ‘hold the line’ policy on
wages to smithereens.

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The second important event
was the barring of seven IWA
delegates at the border. These
delegates came from the four
largest locals in B/C. and were
elected by their memberships to
attend the international conven-
tion in Portland. And George
Mitchell, DWA district secretary,
was singled out for grilling by
immigration authorities before

‘he .was allowed to proceed.

Long ago the LPP warned
that if the U.S. government

Farris judgment, U.S. bar
warnings to B.C. labor

He warned the :

policy of halting left-wing dele-
gates from crossing the border
on union business was not stop-
ped, it would: be extended to
cover unionists of all shades of
opinion. Unfortunately, the
present top leadership of the
IWA and other union leaders
did not believe this. They
thought the U.S. State and Im-
migration departments were
only after ‘“Reds,’’ so they
didn’t join in the protest.

Now the labor movement is
beginning to understand. that
the aim of the U.S. government
is to turn the trade union move-
ment into an instrument of sup-
port for their war-making poli-
cies. Everyone about whom there
is the slightest suspicion that
they do not enthusiastically em-
brace American policies may be
stopped on the grounds that it
is ‘“‘not-in the best interests of
the U.S.”

In effect, what the banning
of, elected union delegates at
the border means is that thous-
ands of workers are denied a
say in determining the policies
of their international unions, It
means that workers will only be
able, to send those members as
delegates who are ‘approved’
by the U.S. State Department.
It’s quite clear that the Can-
adian workers can never sub-
mit to this kind of dictation. If
they do it can only lead to the
complete loss of any say what-
sover in determining policies af-
fecting them.

e

The action in blocking IWA
delegates is a further. demon-
stration of the extent to which
U.S. domination of Canada is
being extended. It points up
most clearly the need for Can-
ada’s labor movement to work
toward autonomy for Canadian
unions, so that policies affect-
ing Canadian workers will be
decided in Canada, at Canadian
conventions.

The time is rapidly approach- ,

ing when Canada, the anly coun-
try in the world in which ma-
jor unions have their policies

decided in another country, will

have to ‘establish independent, £

Canadian trade -union centres
which will retain fraternal ties
with other countries.
ning of the IWA delegates at
the border points to the need
for such a development in the
Canadian labor movement in
the near future,

Both events of last week
prove this need for organized
labor to close its ranks. Unity
is of prime importance for the
trade wunions today if the
schemes of the bosses and their
stooges are to be defeated, and
the labor movement saved from
serious setbacks,

thee antine labor and pro-
gressive movement should rally
behind the right of the wood-
workers against the court ac-
tion. They should send their
protests to Attorney General
Bonner demanding that the
court ruling be rescinded and
that an early session of the leg-
islature he called to amend
the ICA act and remove the use
of injunctions in labor disputes.
Every union should join in the
protest to the U.S. government
against the banning of the TWA
delegates at the border as a
gross violation of the rights of

Canadian workers.

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