_ BCER profits cover wage boost

SPIES

foreign countries which resist the
onward march of American im-
perilism, does any sane: person
think Canada will be overlooked
by the men who direct the spy

network from Washington?

Direct

state department

Yankee imperialists are

pean countries.

Setting up of Comisco—the pink
Spy network organized by the
right-
wing Social Democrats to operate
the people’s democratic
governments of eastern Europe—
& move designed to
provide close teamwork with the
American intelligence ring. (The
name Comisco comes from the
recent session of the Committee
for International Socialist Confer-
ence, held at Clact-on-Sea, Eng-

British Labor party and
against

is probably

land, a few months ago.)

Yankee spies will receive their
training on home _= grounds.
They will serve their “appren-
ticeship” as spies operating with-
in American trade unions, How-
ever, American unionists are of-
fered the implausible assurance
that while receiving their train-
ing these agents will mot act
as spies against American la-
bor! Their only task while sec-
retly working within U.S. un-
ions, blandly explained Senator
Tydings, chairman of the U.S.
Senate Armed ‘Services Commit-
tee, will be to “learn the labor
lingo and so forth.” :

For example, Tydings said, “The
CIA sends a man to Germany. He
may never have had any affilia-
tion with a labor union. He is
going to associate with men of
(German) labor unions.

“Obviously, he would have to
be sent where those labor unions
méet, discuss questions and act.

“He would need to know the
technique, lingo, habits, and so
forth of labor union men, so he
would not stick out like a_ sore
thumb when he eeached a foreign
country—and so he could be ,an
undisclosed officer gathering in-
formation—without any idea on
the part of those giving it that
the information was being impart-
@d to the IU.S. government.”

So there you have it. American
spies will be sent into the labor
movement in foreign countries—
and Canada is a foreign country.
From Uncle Sam to Uncle Spam
to Uncle Spy. .

Any country sliding down the
road to fascism must either trans-
form the trade unicns into a gov-
ernment-directed labor front or
destroy them. South of the border
the Yankee imperialists have done
a fairly good job of winning over
many of the top AFL and CIO
brasshats to support of their sui-
cidal policies. Now they are tackl-
ing the job .of emasculating or
destroying the trade unions in
other countries, including Canada.

Canadian labor, which has learn-
ed a great deal about labor es-
pionage from employer and. RCMP
spies uncovered in its struggles,
needs to be alerted now against
this new enemy using the meth-
ods and technique of Hitlerism in
the service of American imperial-
ism.

interference by the USS.
in the current
world-wide strike of the Canadian
Seamen’s Union is proof that the
out to
subvert the principles and crush
the autonomy of Canadian trade
unions, as well as those in Euro-

‘American way of life’

“mass initiation”

ceremony at Stone

A burning cross lights up white-gowned and l:ooded members
Mountain, near Atlanta, Ga. Grand Dragon Samuel Green
had predicted 1,000 initiates. Actually 125 attended, including the woman at right and her child.

of the Ku Klux Klan during a

knife wounds,

of the SIU gangsters. Two SIU
men, Patrick John Crean and
Nick Choker, were charged with

-Britain,

back aboard

assault with intent to cause griev-
ous bodily harm. Port Alberni po-
lice are patrolling the streets day

and night with reinforcements
summoned from Nanaimo and
Parksville. °

Other CSU members in hospital
are Richard Kirkham and John
Saunders. Thev were viciously at-
tacked by the SIU hoodlums while
sitting in the beer parlor of the
Beaufort Hotel in’ downtown Port
Alberni. Glasses flew in all direc-
tions and windows were smashed
in the melee. The SIU scabs were
crew members of the SS Triland,
which was strikebound in Van-
couver for several weeks before
coming to Port Alberni.

Elsewhere in the great CSU
strike the spotlight focused on
where London dockwork-
ers continued to give their full
support to the Canadian seamen

despite “back to work” orders
from their right-wing union
bosses.

Earlier in the week the CSU

reached an agreement with ship-
owners covering ships in Britain,
which would have represented a
partial victory for the seamen.

It guaranteed (1) that CSU
crews be returned to their vessels
without discrimination: (2) that
no charges would be laid against
any seamen as a result of strike
activity; (3) that the seamen
would not be required to join the
strike-breaking SIU; (4) that the

wages and conditions which the

CSU crews were receiving before
the strike would still apply.

No sooner were Canadian crews
ships and English
dockers back at work, than the
Shipowners attempted to renege
on the agreement. The CSU boys
promptly walked off again and
7,000 London dockers quit work
and joined them on the picket
lines, tying up 42 ships.

One of the Canadian vessels,
the SS Beaverbrae, has been ly-
ing idle since Ms*ch 31 when
the Atlantic Coast deep-sea
walkout was called. Some 12,000

DPs have been affected by the

al

SIU goons knife CSU men,

one critically, at Alberni

Armed Seafarers’ International Union goons attacked Canadian Seamen’s Union men in a Port
Alberni beer parlor this week, sending three crew members of the SS Lake Canim to hospital with serious
as the bitterly fought seamen’s strike entered its fourth month.

At Pacific Tribune press time, doctors were fighting to save the life of Harry Smith, CSU ship’s
delegate, who was critically wounded in the stomach by a knife with a seven-inch blade, wielded by one

government-shipowner attempt
to smash the CSU, because of
the fact that the Beaverbrae
was in use to transport them to
Canada.

There are about 25,000 dockers
in the London area and any at-

tempt to use scab labor to load/|

the struck vessels will result in
an appeal for a general walkout.
Meantime dockers are handling
other foreign ships, but refuse to

touch the “hot” Canadian vessels.
Late reports indicate a. general
sympathy strike will be called

this weekend.

Proposed UE ouster
before CCL council

-By MEL COLBY

OTTAWA.

The executive council of the Canadian Congress of Labor meets
here July 5 and thousands of rank-and-file CCL-CIO members across
the country will await its decisions with the hope that Congress leaders
will take the first step toward ending the disunity policies which have
been pursued during past months and which, in the opinion of many

labor leaders proved
on June 27.

Highlighting the executive coun-
cil agenda will be the proposed
suspension of the CIO United
Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers of America.

If such a drastic step was taken
on the basis of a flimsy “slander”
charge it would be construed by
thousands of rank-and-filers as the
opening wedge which. would
launch a raiding program against
the UE. Speculation, based on the
experiences of the CIO Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers, leaves no
other outlook. . :

The suspension proposal stems
from an “investigation” by a five-
man CCL committee which found
the militant UE guilty of “slan-
der,” a charge which was based
on criticism levelled at the Con-
gress leadership for its support of
the Marshall plan, the Atlantic
pact and other government pol-
icies, The UE’s main criticism, as
it appeared in the official publi-
cation of the union, was that sup-
port behind such policies was, in
effect, support for a government
war program.

The IUE, one of the founders of

so disastrous

the Congress, has pointed to the
major contribution it has made in
building the CCL, in raising living
standards and wages for tens of
thousands of workers, and has
stressed that the issue is not that
of “slander,” but of the right of
a CCL affiliate to constructively
criticize the elected Congress lead-
ership.

The chief issue as far as the
UE see it is not the criticism the
union expresses on behalf of its
membership, but its democratic
right to express an opinion.

What worries a large section of
the CCL-CIO rank and file, and
this includes thousands of mem-
bers outside the electrical union,
is the fact that both President
A. R. Mosher and Secretary-Trea-
surer Pat Conroy issued  stated-
ments before and after the “slan-
der” charges were laid, which in-

timated that the UE was con-!

demned in advance. One such
statement appeared before’ the
special] Congress committee was
appointed to investigate the “slan-
der” charge, Another came while
it was sitting, and a third was re-
leased after the committee brought
in its “guilty” report. /

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 1, 1949 7

—EFFIE JONE

BCElecric’s claim that its
agreement with the Street Rail
men’s Union will boost costs 9!
000,000 a year is nothing >!
sheer distortion of the facts,
cording to Effie Jones, who PI
duced figures this week to s
her contention.

“BCElectric got back “most °
that million dollars before #
even opened negotiations with

union, and here’s how they did th
declared Mrs. Jones. ae

“During the three months from
December, 1948, to February, **~
the BCER carried 475,000 more
passengers than in the same Pe
iod last year. At three tickets
for 25 cents that’s $40,000 moe
in revenues.

“During the same _ period they
operated 75,407 less vehicle mile’
At 17 cents per vehicle mile, of
is a reduction in wages alone
$12,750—to say nothing of ie
saving in fuel, wear and teal, an
so on. “

“What's more, they had awitoned a

-|over part of their equipment A
P quipment an

two-man street cars ty tra

trolleys. A total of 556,000 a
were switched to the trolleys, KS,
ing one man’s wages for nine
distance. At an average of
and one-half cents per mule
knocks another $53,000 off
wage bill. :

“Add that up: $40,000 mor
revenue and $66,000 less vat
—a total of $106,000 gain
three months resulting from: of
conversion of one-fourtee! is
the system. And the com) :
working furiously puttin® nes
wires for new trolley
Eventually the whole 5¥ b

will be converted.” i
Effie Jones is sometimes ee
“BCER Public Enemy No. 1 ig
has often been referred as
BCHlectric executive meetind™ inte
“that woman who is resP® pu

for much of the unfavorable
licity the company receives
ways
ade Fe

thar
the

“Let me teli vou of three
in which BCElectric is takit
vantage of its conversion pro: rs
to cut costs,” continued ;
Jones. ;

en

“First: carrying more ee
gers per vehicle mile. That ? jc¢
complished by the simple
of putting fewer cars on #
line per hour. Proof 15 i
in the fact that total vehicle ne
for the three-month periods Jes?
cember to February) We ore
than last year, although
passengers were carried.

aD
“Second: substituting one-Tis
for two-man equipment. jalf
means, of course, that 0? oe
as .many men are neede at
given number of trolley . st?
as on the same number °
cars.

“Third: travelling faster
gary, where all street ©
one-man cars, the wages
hicle mile are nevertheless
cent higher on the stre@’ og
than on the trolleys. Te
that they get 50 perce? fs
mileage per wage wou
trolleys. In Vancouver, W!
street cars have two 7 *
saving will be even grea

“The shorter hours finally
by the street railway™
fore merely concede a
part of the benefit “are.
logical change. They ower
to leave wage costs lov

before.” ot to
Should 3BCElectric atteriniEhe,
boost transit fares, U cae M t
wage costs” as the °X° tiod a
Jones will use every My, ttU,
her disposal to bring organs
facts to the public, 20 upping
a crusade against @ny
fares. : pack e