William Dodge, Sec’y-Treas.
of the Canadian Labor Congress
is reported as having told a
group of businessmen last week
that labor’s response to the
growth of multi-national corpo-
rations differs from country to
country. Nor was he optimistic
about a united labor movement
with a common policy being
prepared to battle monopolies
on an international scale in the
near future.

However, Mr. Dodge warned
his audience, including such
notables as Robert Scrivener,
chairman of Bell Canada, and
David Golden, president of Tele-
sat Canada, that — barring pro-
per behavior and actions of the
multi-nationals (sic) — mobil-
ization of world trade union
strength would eventually be
needed to prevent corporations
from pursuing programs which,
while enhancing their profits,
wreck national economies, dis-
rupt trade and monetary sys-
tems, and replace ~democratic
political systems with military
dictatorships and poison the
environment.

For Big Business

Speaking for big business at
the same meeting on business
outlook, and sponsored by the
Conference Board of. Canada,
Mr. Gary Cook, deputy assist-
ant secretary for competitive
assessment and business policy
for the United States Depart-
ment of Commerce, complained
of a low annual increase in out-
put per employee in Canada and
the USA from 1960 to 1972
when compared with other coun-
tries. According to Mr. Cook,
U.S. output per employee in-
creased 3.1% annually over the
12 years. Canada’s output per
employee rose at 4.4%, as com-
pared with Japan’s 10% rate.

However, this was offset by a
lower rate of increase in com-
pensation, including fringe bene-
fits ‘per hour, which increased
6.5% for Canadian workers, and
5.1% for U.S. workers com-
pared with a 14% rise in Japan.
Canada and U.S. had the lowest
increase in unit labor costs.
“Qn balance we haven’t done so
badly” stated Mr. Cook.

It must be noted that this was
a period of continuous mono-
poly propaganda that
union demands were pricing
Canada out of world markets.

Drop Complacency

It is high time, that organ-
ized labor in U.S. and Canada
drop any complacency, accept
the facts of the class struggle
and the responsibilities that
evolve upon trade union leaders
as a consequence to defend the
interests of its members who
are being mercilessly exploited
by monopolies.

The roots of our twin prob-
lems of inflation and unemploy-
ment are to be found in econ-
omic intervention>by the capi-
talist state for the benefit of
the corporations as well as in
public financing of a direct in-
flationary nature to reinforce
capital accumulation and_ to
raise profit levels. The growth
of unproductive expenditures
and, particularly the financing
of repression and counter-revo-
lutionary activities in Latin
America, Africa and Asia, is
eventually dug out of workers’
pockets.

We are now told that milita-
ry spending in Canada is to be
increased from $2 to $3 billion

BY BRUCE MAGNUSON

trade .

WUekShs sy World labor unity

and Canadian labor

dollars in the next five years.
This will stoke the fires of in-
flation at the very time when
the most powerful socialist
state in the world, the Soviet
Union, is heading up the strug-
gle for world-wide detente and
disarmament. Unlike the situa-
tion in the capitalist world, the
socialist countries, where the
working class holds both econ-
omic and politital power and
now embrace one-third of the
world, do not suffer from either
inflation or unemployment and
have nothing to gain from an
arms race and war, but every-
thing to gain from world peace.
Cold War Advocates

It is disgusting, therefore, to
read in UAW’s ‘Washington Re-
port’ of Oct. 1, 1973, and pub-
lished by this union’s Citizen-
ship-Legislative Department, a
defense of so-called dissenters
in the USSR who—although the
UAW bulletin hides the fact—
are traitors in their own coun-
try. They oppose international
detente and advocate continued
co'd war, a campaign for which
they are handsomely rewarded
by western. imperialists who
profit from the arms race and’
war. Yet these anti-social ele-
ments are free to carry on their
nefarious activities of issuing
senseless, irrational and provo-
cative statements to agents of
the imperialist news media, who
eagerly gobble up and publish

this rubbish.

Apparently. the UAW _ top
leaders think it consistent to
compare these traitors and so-
cial outcasts to the heroic peo-
ple of Chile who are being mur-
dered and tortured by the thou-
sands by fascist brigands who
have dissolved the workers
trade unions and murdered
many of its leaders, while im-
prisoning scores of others. “It is
entirely consistent to support
Soviet dissenters and the freely
elected socialist coalition in
Chile,” says the UAW. “Both
believe the people should have
ultimate rights, and both are in
danger of being crushed.” What
a damnable distortion and lie,
echoing the daily distorticns and
lies of the imperialist news
media.

Poorly Disguised

“No union in the U.S. has
worked harder for detente with
the Soviet Union than has the
UAW, but we just as vigorously
Oppose any cover-up of political
suppression inside Russia _ to-
day.” What is this but poorly

disguised UAW backing for U.S.
imperialist policy under cover
of a pretended ‘neutral’ stance?
This is stabbing the interna-
tional working class movement
in the back.

No gentlemen! This kind of
game, so long practiced by the
AFL-CIO right-wing hierarchy,
is rapidly coming to an end. The
truth and reality of class strug-
gle is asserting itself. What is
needed today is labor unity at
home and abroad, including the
powerful trade unions of the
socialist one-third of the world
where the working class enjoys
state power to plan both its
present and future development
free from capitalist exploita-
tion.

World Meet

The World Federation of
Trade Unions with more than.
two-thirds of all the world’s
organized workers in its ranks
from both socialist and capital-
ist countries is meeting this
week in Varna, Bulgaria. This
would be a good time for Don-
ald MacDonald, president of
the CLC, who is also president
of the International Confedera-
tion of Free Trade Unions
(ICFTU), and Marcel Pepin,
president of the CNTU, who is
also president of the. World
Confederation of Labor, to greet
this WFTU world gathering and
at the same time call for a
world-wide - gathering. of ll
‘trade unions to discuss a com-
mon policy and program to com-
bat the giant corporations and
capitalist monopolies now. oper-
ating in both developed and
under-developed capitalist coun-
tries on all continents.

Such an approach, it seems to
us, which would be based upon
the truth and objective reality
of the. class struggle, and pur-
sued in the direction of detente,
disarmament and world peace,
would be worth much more
than all the after-dinner speech-
es to U.S. and Canadian- multi-
millionaires who make exploit-
ation of labor for super-profits
their highest aim of achieve-
ment, and who are not open to
verbal persuasion or atonement
for their imperialist crimes com-
mitted against humanity.

Only unity and -struggle by
the workers of all lands for
common objectives can free the
world for human progress, peace
and a socialist future for all
mankind, putting.an end for-
ever to imperialist wars and ex.

ploitation. ;

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1973—PAGE 8

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fe ‘Communist Party Grows in Action

90,000 broadsheets

on prices given out
across the country

By ALF DEWHURST

Communist.*Party clubs from Montreal to Vancouver
have distributed 90,000 copies of a four-page Canadian
Tribune Supplement of June 20, ‘Curb Monopoly, Roll
Back Rising Prices.” The Supplement, prepared by the Cen--
tral Executive of the Communist Party of Canada, was
published also by Combat and the Pacific Tribune.

B.C. clubs distributed 28,000 copies of the Supplement;
Alberta, 10,000; Saskatchewan, 2,000; Manitoba, 2;000; On-.
tario, 38,000; Quebec, 10,000. All clubs report a most favor-
able shopper reaction to the Supplement,

In addition to distributing this important piece of Com:
munist Party literature, clubs picketed shopping centres.
atures on petitions demanding
(1) extend the jurisdiction of
the Food Prices Review Board to cover all essential con-
sumer goods: (2) invest the Board with the regulatory
authority to refuse price increases and to roll back prices.

The distribution of the Supplement was of great signifi-
cance in helping to stimulate united mass action to stop”
price hikes and to roll back prices. In a number of impor-
tant centres across the country concerned organizations
have joined their efforts in common action to compe] the
federal and provincial governments to act to roll back
prices and to. curb the monopoly profiteers. In some areas
these joint efforts have assumed organizational forms, such
as the Coalition to Roll Back Prices in Southern Ontario.
Local Communist Party organizations participate in these
common actions and coalitions.

This brief glimpse of the Communist Party in action on
an important front of people’s struggle against monopoly’s
profiteering policies shows the close affinity of the Party,
its clubs and members with the Communist press in devel: -

They are canvassing for sign
that the federal government

Reports from the Party’s provincial committees show
growth in the numbers of new members recruited and an
extension of the Party’s political influence. The reports
serve to underline that Party recruitment is inseparably.
linked with willing new readers for the Communist press:

This being the case the Communist Party calls upon
every Party member to give all-out support to the Cana-
dian Tribune’s current campaign for new readers. Given
more readers the press will be able to play a bigger part 0
mobilizing mass people’s action against the effects of mond

poly rule and in popularizing the Party’s program for 4 ~

Labor council removes

anti- communist clause

OAKVILLE—One of the three
motions passed at the recent
meeting of the Oakville and
District Labor Council was for
removal of the anti-communist
section in its constitution.

If approved by the Canadian
Labor ‘Council executive, the
new section will read the same
as the CLC’s, deleting the words
“communists and nazis’. This is
significant because Jim BPidge-
wood, a well-known Communist
has been a delegate to the Oak-
ville council from Local 707,
United Auto Workers for more
than 12 years. Bridge wood
fought and won a case against
the same clause in the UAW
international constitution in
1969 when the local removed
him from an elected position.
The case went before a public
review board of the UAW~and a
subsequent favorable decision
was handed down, based on the
Communist Party’s status as a
legal party in Canada.

The Oakville council deleg-
ates passed the resolution with
only two dissenting votes. The
motion was introduced and sec-
onded by two delegates from
Bridgewood’s_ local, both of
whom are stewards in 707.

Another . motion, passed un-

animously, called
and the Canadian Unio
lic Employees for unity af?

the question of the Civil LC.

Workers entering into the c ries
The letter sent to both Perrott ;

said: “A CUPE withdrawal

the CLC would be a cripplitt
blow to trade union unity, ests
pointed out that “the intet at

of the trade union movem dia

a
and the working class of Can '
demand that such a calamity
must be averted.”

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The letter pointed out a
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there should be no avoiding
poirtt that “established jun ins
tions of the affiliated UP pect’
within the CLC must be Fert ied

ed.” The council also

upon both parties to re the
their differences in
LG:

Another motion was adoPe
that a telegram be sent bi ell
ternal. Affairs Minister ©. re
Sharp condemning Canacé
cognition ‘of the military a
in Chile. The telegram ¢7 Uy,
ed Canada speak out in the ine
calling for sanctions tO "“spat
voked against the junt@ J».

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