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e BY WILLIAM KASHTAN &

Despite the efforts of the Diefenbaker government to
prove the contrary, it is fairly evident that one of the results
of the devaluation of the Canadian dollar will be a lowering
of living standards for the working class.

This process has already started, expressed in a rise in
the price of bread and in the price of gasoline. Before too long
it may be felt in all segments of the econ-
omy in view of the fact that Canada im-
ports goods of various kinds annually
amounting to billions of dollars. :

Now these items, in relation to the
new value of the Canadian dollar will cost
more than in the recent past. And mon-
opoly is not likely to absorb these increased
costs by accepting a lower rate of profit.
On the contrary, as in the case of bread
and gasoline, it is passing it on to the
Canadian people in the form of rising prices.

Thus, it is not monopoly which will suffer the conse-
quences of devaluation. Its main victims are the Canadian
people and in the first place, the working people, who are
now being confronted with a rise in living costs. For them
devaluation constitutes an indirect wage cut all across the
board, wiping out whatever limited gains the trade union
movement has been able to achieve in recent negotiations.

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This is the reality and while Diefenbaker may raise his
voice against those who have jacked up already high prices,
this reality remains, confronting the trade union movement
with the need to develop an effective program to meet this
threat to living standards.

It adds new significance to the wage movement and to
the need for coordinated and united action to enable every
section of organized labor to make new gains in negotiations,

as the Teamsters are doing in the course of their current

strike.

Re

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Indict 10 more in US
‘Why the big hurry?’

The Gus Hall-Benjamin J.
Davis Defense Committee has
called for letters to President
Kennedy and Attorney Gen-
eral Robert Kennedy asking
a halt to all proceedings un-
der the McCarran Interal
Security Act of 1950 and the
quashing of indictments
against the Communist Party
and Hall and Davis.

The call for letters was in
response to the attorney gen-
eral’s May 31 petition to the
Subversive Activities Control
Board to label 10 persons as
Communists and order them
to register under the law.

Kennedy contended that
the 10 were elected to the na-
tional committee of the CP
in December, 1959.

They are William L. Patter-
son, Betty Gannet Tormey,
William Albertson, Arnold
Johnson, Miriam Friedlander
and Louis Weinstock of New
York; Albert J. Lima, Roscoe

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Proctor and Dorothy Healey
of California; and Burt Nel-
son of Seattle.

The petition to the SACB
is the third enforcement step
taken by the justice depart-
ment since last Oct. 9, when
the Supreme Court refused to
review the June 5, 1961 de-
cision upholding the law.

On hearing of the attorney-
general’s new petition, the
defense committee. for Hall
and Davis said: “With the
constitutionality of the Mc-
Carran Act yet to be decided,
with Gus Hall and Benjamin
J. Davis out on bail and pre-
paring a defense of their own
liberties, why the rush to add
to the list of victims?”

The Communist Party it-
self was indicted on Dec. 1
for failure to register as a
“Communist-action” organiza-
tion, and Hall and Davis were
indicted on March 15 this
year for failure to register.

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seek agreement on dis

By PROF. J. D. BERNAL
Chairman of the
presidential committee
of the World
Council of Peace

The forthcoming Con-
gress for General Disarm-
ament and Peace in Mos-
cow has already received
wider notice in the press
than any previous con-
gress initiated by the
World Council of Peace.

This is, in part, thanks to
the precipitate action of the
‘organization sub-committee
of the national executive of
the (British) Labor Party in
attempting, in the first place,
to make support for it in-
compatible with party mem-
bership.

The firm and reasoned re-
plies of Earl Russell, Canon
Collins and Lord Chorley to
this pressure showed they
gauged rightly that this con-
gress was being called with
the definite purpose of mo-
bilizing the majority of
world opinion in favor of
rapid progress on disarma-
ment and the abolition of
nuclear weapons.

It is expected some 2,000
delegates, observers and
guests will assemble in Mos-
cow on July 9, drawn from
some 90 countries (including
those only recently or parti-
ally liberated), and that for
the first time all the contin-
ents will be adequately repre-
sented.

It fell to the World Coun-
cil of Peace to initiate the
idea of such a congress, but
they were far from wishing
to monopolize or direct it.
PRESSURE ON GENEVA

They have shown this by
their willingness to join in
all efforts initiated by other
bodies for such international
consultations.

However, this year of the

17-nation Disarmament Com-
mittee in Geneva it was felt
that a great effort was urg-
ently needed to bring deci-
sive popular pressure behind
the work of the negotiators at
Geneva.

The choice of Moscow was
deliberate. It was at the
heart of one of the great nu-
clear powers that the great
debate should be held.

Washington would in many
ways have been preferable,
and the time may well come
when such a congress can be

held there on an _ initiative
from America.
The aim of the World

Council of Peace is now to
find the maximum basis of
agreement among all those
anxious for peace; pacifists
and unilateralists in some
countries, seekers for real na-
tional independence in others
but all threatened and op-
pressed by the dangers of nu-
clear war and by the burden
of preparation for it.

At a meeting in Sweden
on May 19, the task of pre-
paring for the congress was
taken over by a Preparatory
Committee in which organ-
ization and individuals out-
side the World Peace Move-
ment are playing a decisive
part.

The provisional arrange-
ments of the congress will
give the -greatest opportunity
for thorough discussion.

There will be only three
plenary. sessions, and most
of the work will be carried
out in commissions, and

BOR FRONT $ World congress to air views,

armament

small groups with com
interests from different ¢
tries.

There will be specia
phasis on discussion of
tive popular action 1t0
mote disarmament. Dis¢
will be completely ff
AIM—COMMON ACT!

The aim will not
achieve resolutions by ®
ity vote — especially
they are liable to
divisions—but rather 1:
for an agreement on
degress of common @
cooperation.

Any record of ©0
proceedings must includ
note of minority opini?

The topics
will include the technical ®
military aspects of dis
ment, its economic ~—
quences, and its relation
the problems of nation®
dependence, including ©
mic independence.

The endless delays and

structions that have
out the disarmament
sions for years and

have led people to think’
are fruitless.

This is a view ceaselé
propagated through all ?
media by anti-disarmé@
factions.

This attitude has to >
sisted and replaced bY,
of confidence that give
will; disarmament 2?
end of the nuclear night
can be achieved withi?
few years. It is for
people of the world, 1
that will in an unmist@®
way. :

The differences pet¥
the American and the $0
plans for disarmament
at first sight unbridse
Old objections and susp!
have not been overco™

These are some ®
problems we shall nave
examine at Moscow:

wine Mill officials have
expressed contidence that
once alleged irreguiarities in

voting at the INCO operation:

in Sudbury have been clear-
ed away, their union will
continue to represent the
workers there.

Kirst results of the voting
seemed to indicate a victory
for Steel, as they required
7,167 votes in order to win
certification and appeared to
have received 7,182 votes.

However, Mine Mill chal-
lenged the results on three
points:

e One whole baiiot box
which had not been identified
was challenged at the out-
set but the Registrar allowed
it to be counted. It later
turned out that 71 ballots
did not have the Returning
Officer’s stamp on them. Of
these,32 were for Steel and
are challenged;

e Four. spoiled ballots
were given to Steel. Mine
Mill claims they should have
been disallowed, thus making

a total of 36 questionable |

ballots. Should Mine Mill’s

challenge of the ballots be

‘upheld, it would leave Steel

21 votes short of the required
total, and Mine Mill would
retain bargaining rights;

e Of major importance is
also the fact that there were
five more ballots in the boxes
than voters, which in itself
is enough to invalidate the
entire election.

Meanwhile, Steel’s applica-
tion for certification at Fal-
conbridge (also in Sudbury)
has also gone awry when a
well-known handwriting ex-
pert, retained by Mine Mill,
was able to prove in court
that a number of alleged
Steel application cards had in
fact been forged.

This development, coupled
with the INCO results, show
that Steel is in a very shaky
position at best.

‘Harvey Murphy, Canadian
Vice-President of Mine Mill,
told the PT shortly after re-
turning to Vancouver from
Sudbury:

“Against terrific odds, the
workers of Sudbury have
shown that they want Mine

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gees. we E pom Me’ tc

is Mine Mill confident
<> *_ of victory in Sudbury

Mill to represent them
you consider the fa¢
their union hall a%
closed since: Novembe!
the local hasn’t. met sin®
time because they W&
pidden to do so, whey
local’s executive has
openly in the employ
Steel, the vote must qe
garded as truly remat
“Steel has poured fe nt
000 into Sudbury and ©
result has been to spl
workers down the ut!
but they’ll learn that j
out us, no mining is
You don’t mine nick®
phony propaganda.”
“Local 598 is elect”
new executive and 1§
mined to protect thé
‘and rights of its
ship,’ Murphy conclud

A group of soviet
gineers left for the as
cratic Republic of wo
recently to render
‘assistance in the rec?
tion of the big Vat {i
liery and the constru®’
an ore-dressing plant!

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June 22, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUN

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