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“There are no genuine nego-

| tations in the railway industry.

No employer will bargain in

: Bood faith with unions that he
_ Reither fears. nor respects. He

Will only respond to unions that
Possess real power to hurt him
— unions that are entitled as a
last resort to strike for an un-
imited time to back up their

_ ©Ontract demands. While there

Is no real right to strike, there
Can be no real collective bar-
8aining. From the companies’
Standpoint, why should they
Make any concessions to unions
that they aren’t forced to
Make? .. .”

The above is a direct quote
from the address by D. N. Sec-
See president of the Canadian
totherhood of Railway, Trans-
Port and General Workers,
ag at its 29th regular conven-

On at Toronto, Sept. 17, 1973.

IS concedes quite clearly that

€re are no alternatives to the

it to use the strike weapon;
it. without it, collective bar-
ae becomes a ‘meaningless
re frustrating exercise in
Utility,
vA the Other Hand...
Wwever, three paragraphs
further on in his eorent of
ae Important issue in railway
€0tiations, Mr. Secord states
me following:
- . Throughout the media-
Sha and conciliation. stages, we
iene to impress on the govern-

: the need for a more’ ratio-
coll and effective way to make

€ctive’ bargaining work in

tion

~ «4° Tailway. industry. Evidently

sd Minister of Labor was in-
ay anc to some degree by our
his ™ments. He has announced
Intentions of setting up a
Scale inquiry into the whole
: T relations scene on the rail-
a8, out of which, hopefully,
aed some workable re-
Benui €ndations for establishing
‘ che eB otiations in place of
Out arade that has been acted
oie long. If the inquiry
will wishes nothing else, it
at least expose to public
repres just’ how arrogant and
nies? id the railway compa-
tually eg resations policies ac-

aig viously Mr, Secord is contra-
two 2 himself, seeking to face
and ays on the fundamental

Ndivisible democratic right

BY BRUCE MAGNUSON

Ws esha Surrender of the right to
strike means capitulation

to strike. He seems to have for-
gotten about the Freedman in-
quiry, and the subsequent in-
quiry into the findings of that
inquiry. He seems now prepared
to look for some miracles to
come from yet another inquiry
into the previous inquiry of yet
an earlier inquiry, the findings
of which have been pigeon-
holed and forgotten by the gov-
ernment. ;

The collusion between the
government and the railway
companies is clear enough in
the public view without any
further inquiry. Any new in-
quiry is simply a gimmick to
brainwash the public in prepar-
ation for a state and monopoly
assault on the right to strike by

_workers in all public service of

this country. It is a devise for
winning support for week-kneed
trade union leaders for state
and monopoly policies which
stab organized and unorganized
workers alike in the back. The
Liberal -Labor Minister, Mr.
John Munro,.has made his posi-
tion clear. He wants to break up
the limited progress toward bar-
gaining unity achieved ‘to date
by railway workers, and frag-
ment them even more than ever
before.
i ' Stanfield Plan

As for the Tory Leader, Mr.
Stanfield, who sought to appear
as a champion of the railway
workers by supporting another
4¢ in wages per hour to meet
increased living costs this year,
it is important to keep the rec-
ord straight. Mr. Stanfield also
stated that strikes and lockouts
are unacceptable weapons in
negotiations in essential ser-
vices. They must be replaced,
but simple compulsory arbitra-
tion is not the answer, says he.
Instead, he proposed the estab-
lishment of a “Public Interest
Disputes Commission” to do the
job of dictating settlements for
the workers. “This Commission
would advise which particular
services are essential” said Mr.
Stanfield. eae

Nor did David Lewis chal-
lenge the use of Parliament as a
strike-breaking agency. For an-
other 4¢ per hour wage increase
this year Mr. Lewis could have
been placed in the position ‘of
voting for the strike-breaking
bill, rather than against it. None

of the parties in the House of
Commons defended the right to
strike nor challenges the right
of Parliament to  legislates
against that fundamental demo-
cratic right.
Straightforward

The only truly country-wide
party — but which at present
does not have any member in
Parliament — which defended
the right to strike in a straight-
forward and unambiguous man-
ner was the Communist Party.
It said that “the non-ops are
perfectly justified by a parlia-
mentary majority.”

The attack on the right to
strike is not confined to public
service workérs alone. It is be-

ing pushed in the private sector ~

as well.

It is being posed as a question
of finding a better way to settle
contractual relations between
employers and unions. The Unit-
ed Steelworkers of America is
presently pushing its ‘“Experi-
mental Negotiation Agreement”
in the U.S. steel industry, (ENA)
as “a better way.”

The main point in this agree-
ment is to eliminate the pos-
sibility of a nationwide strike or
lockout in the Steel Industry of
the United States. This has been
done by a class collaborationist
capitulation to the steel com-
panies; by voluntary surrender
of the strike weapon in favor of
so-called voluntary arbitration.
In fact, it means the integration
of the USWA with the U.S.
Steel Industry on a program of
safeguarding and increasing in-
dustry profits at the expense of
the workers who are members
of the USWA in the United
States.

Any and all efforts to bring
this policy of class collaboration,
and sellout of workers’ interests

into this country must be resist-

ed‘ by the combined strength of
the Canadian trade union move-
ment.

It is of interest to note that
the USWA still remain a Mc-
Carran Act-imposed discriminat-
ory clause in its constitution
against Communists to intimid-
ate those who oppose the so-
called “BETTER WAY,” as a
snare and delusion to deceive
union members and all working

people.

Police strike role criticized

To
| lic,

RONTO — “The fact that

e :
Ven have been caught active-

; break ene in industrial strike-

Reg, & @Spionage, as in the
path Strike and others,
asig 2 the anti-union em-

Police n Police directives to

Situationg » assigned to strike

: 8," read a harshly-word-

Co) iene by the municipal

Counc} €e of the Toronto Labor
The at its meeting last week.

by contr ement was prompted

Of deac ‘Nuing police harrasment

Istic €ful picketers at the Art-

Toronto -Uwork Co., a plant in

for more Nat has been struck

Course ,; an a month. In the

ang ah the strike, 37 strikers

Testeg PPOrters have been ar-

The ;
"esoluti Municipal  committee’s
Unanimou2y, wuich was passed
legates Usly by the council de-
tions tal, SO welcomed the ac-
EXecutiy €n by the Toronto City
© in demanding police

explanations and accountability
in strike situations. In another
motion at City Hall, Alderman
Karl Jaffary advised the police
commission that the police
“have a duty to ensure that
those on picket lines are given
an opportunity to present infor-
mation to those attempting to
cross the lines.” :

The resolution at the Labor
Council instructed the delegates
“that when they have trouble
with the police on picket lines
they should document the situa-
tion.

In other actions taken by the
Labor Council, the Executive
Board recommended that the
council restate “this council’s
support of the 1973 United Way

Campaign.” The executive-

board’s recommendation was
adopted by the council on the

same evening that the trustees’

of the Toronto. Board of Educa-
tion refused to give their endor-

sation of the United Way Cam-
paign, “because the United Way
is ineffective and actually per-
petuates the conditions it claims
to be alleviating.” __

Condemn Coup

In an Executive Board state-
ment entitled “The death of a
Democracy” the Toronto Labor
Council condemned the over-
throw of Dr. Salvador Allende
by the military coup d'etat and
urged that the “labor movement
in Canada must oppose the
crushing of this government of
the democratic left.”

The statement also recom-
mended “that this Labor Coun-
cil call on the CLC to urge the
Canadian government not to ex-
tend recognition to the present
regime. It is further recom-
mended that the CLC request

the ICFTU to give all possible .

assistance to whatever remains
of the legitimate trade union
movement in Chile.”

“s

‘THE SATRAPS’

Pablo Neruda is dead.
This man, a Communist,
Nobel Prize-winning poet,
senator, ambassador, was a
source of inspiration to the
people of Chile and mil-
lions more around the world
through his poems.

Born 69 years ago. Neru-
da began writing poems
while relatively young; his
first verses, Twenty Poems of
Love and Song of Despera-
tion, were published when
he was in his twenties.

The poem below is _re-
portedly his last, written a
few days after the coup. It
first appeared in an Argen-
tinian newspaper last week.

Of the year 1973

Voracious hyenas

And sellers, incited

Neruda’s last poem

Nixon, Frei and packet
Until today, until this bitter
Month of September

With Bordaberry, Garrastazu and Banzer

Of.our history, rodents

Gnawing the banners conquered
With so much blood and so much fire,
Muddied on the estates,

Infernal depredators.

Satraps a thousand times sold

By the wolves of New York.
Machines hungry for dollars,
Stained in-the sacrifice

Of their martyred peoples,
Prostituted merchants

Of the American bread and air,
Murdering quagmires, herd

Of whoremongering chiefs,

. With no other law but torture

Sas hunger whipping the people.

y,

Aid democratic Chile—

‘ed is that there must be wide

REGINA — A demonstration
in support of the Popular Unity
government of Chile brought out

about 100 demonstrators here

Sept. 22. After parading through
downtown Regina, a meeting
was held in Victoria Park. There
were speakers from the organ-
izing committee. Voice of Wo-
men, the Saskatchewan Peace
Council, National Farmers
Union, The: Wholesale Retail
Employees, the Metis Society,
and the Communist Party of
Canada. :

All speakers emphasized the
need for continued pressure on
the federal government not to
recognize the fascist junta; and
called for further efforts to assist
the democratic struggles in Chile.
The meeting agreed to petition
all levels of government not to
recognize Chile, and or an em-
bargo on Chilean goods.

William Beeching, speaking
on behalf of the Communist
Party of Canada, said that his
party fully supports, and is
working for, the demand that
the federal government shall not
recognize the junta, and that the
Popular Unity government should
be restored to office.

Some people, he said, at this
meeting, are talking about the
lessons to be learned. One of
the cardinal lessons to be learn-

and solid unity between all de-
mocratic forces in order to en-
sure the victory of the Popular
Front. Allende understood this,
and therefore understood the
need for close Socialist and
Communist unity. No one, he
said, should ever have illusions
that the military are a neutral
force during moments of great
social change and upheaval. The
fact is that the military in Chile
were always a potential counter-
revolutionary force, and main-
tained their contacts all through
with the U.S. military people, he
said.

Propose world -

‘Allende Day’

HELS!NKI—The World Peace
Council proposed today to de-
clare Oct. 11 as Salvador Al-
lende international memorial
day.

“President Allende, as sym-
‘bol of popular unity, was an
embodiment of the striving of
Chile’s popular masses for a
better life, for a more just soci-
ety — socialism,” says a Coun-
cil statement.

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