‘Pass the crumpets: i T cannot be repeated too often that the prime labor formula for winning modest wage increases, is unity and more unity. The recent strike struggles of the shipyard and civic employees unions, forced upon both by a stiff-necked employer attitude, could not have scored the wage victories they did, without a wide degree of labor unity and solidar- ity. This unity around the wage struggle expresses a new solidarity in face of a common threat to all labor; that of employers and their monopoly - dominated government attempts to short-circuit collective bargaining in good faith; to even attempt scrapping the principle of “‘concilia- tion” in wage disputes (as in the case of the LWA), and:to impose a government-monopoly system of “compulsory arbitration.” Hence, every struggle for improved wage and working conditions, regardless of the union or unions involved, be- comes in fact a political struggle, in which all labor has a vital stake; to preserve labor's hardwon right of free collec- tive bargaining, and against the continuing threat of “com- -pulsory arbitration” with an ever-increasing unity and solidarity. ‘i On the issue of wage increases, all monopolies think alike, be it a shipyard operator, a real estate-dominated city council, a spokesman for Forest Industrial Relations (FIR) or a rail corporation. : Just last week CPR president N. R. Crump was feat- _ured in the Canadian press as seeing “‘a bright year ahead.” There was just one small cloud marring the Crump “Blue Skies” vision; that of wage increases. “The Canadian economy, quoth Mr. Crump, “has made a substantial recovery to compete, both here in Can- ada and abroad. We must ensure that this economy con- tinues to improve. This will be greatly jeapordized if wages are permitted to rise...” There it is in a nutshell, the voice of monopoly’s divi- dend collectors. The politicians and the coupon clippers can vote themselves fat salary and dividend increases with- » out creating “inflation,” but let the unions seek, or be forced to strike for an extra dollar in the pay envelope, and the monopoly howls go up to high heaven about “inflation, ’ and the need to hold labor’s wage demands in check by “com- pulsory arbitration. ’ As we have said, labor’s only sure-fire formula for put- ting a crimp in the Crump “vision,” is an ever-increasing ‘unity, solidarity and co-ordination in the conduct of its struggles to win fully justified and long-overdue wage in- creases. With that formula the IWA can win its five-point wage and fringe demands hands down. The shipyard 4nd civic workers strike victories confirm it! INTER Toraee THE pnd CUBE] _p [PESTRICT ee] STOP TRAD) c Legh = Ceres 4 “3 ~ Herblock in the Washington Post “Man, that guy is weird.” More punch more $$$ AST week’s “appeal” for financial help by NDP pro- vincial leader Bob Strachan to save the NDP from “going under’ was a touching appeal to say the least. Ac- cording to Strachan, there’s a big backlog of printing debts, resulting from a series of election campaigns, which hang heavily on NDP administration. Every workingclass party experiences that burden. While Big Business pours in millions in “slusk funds” to elect their tried and trusted political hacks of the oldline parties, the NDP, Communist or CCF must rely entirely on workingclass support for their financial “sinews of war.” And that, in turn, depends almost entirely upon perform- ance: what the party does and says to merit support in its fight against the forces of monopoly reaction. That is the nub of the question, the dilemma now fac- ing the B.C. NDP. Too much “soft sell” in the promotion of an otherwise good NDP program. People can get all the “respectability” and “‘soft sell’’ they need from the slick politicians of big monopoly. They do not see the need of making sacrifices to finance another party to provide them with more of the same. In this dynamic age of social change and transition, a militant presentation of NDP policies, coupled with the broadest unity on and off the hustings, can speedily restore _ a dwindling NDP treasury. Until that is done, however, | the Strachan “appeal” will remain as flat as its uninspiring announcer a series of slanderous articles utionaries, Trotskyites and. , Tom ~McEWEN | “HE Communists disdain to # conceal their views and aims. They openly declare their ends can be attained only by the forc- ible oberthrow of all existing soc- ~ ial conditions . . ."’. (Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels, 1848.) **Dear Editor; I would like to know what your bourgeos reform policies have in common with these ringing words of the found- ers of our philosophy? Signed, Jack East and Martin Amiable’’. *¢Comrades’’ East and Amiable’ also enclose together with the above letter and quotation from the Communist Manifesto, twelve double-column inches from ‘*The Columbian’’, scalped from the Tory ‘‘Toronto Telegram’’, en- titled, ‘‘Our Tame Communists’, written by one Frank Drea. Writing on the recent 18th national convention of the Com- munist Party of Canada, this Drea voices his strong disapproval of that historic gathering. To this _ that Drea is the same lad who wrote anti-labor garbage collector the. party has become too ultra ‘‘re- spectable’’; nobody wore ‘‘beards or berets’’, showed up ‘‘with a bomb’’,. Everyone looked ‘‘well scrubbed and contented, ‘‘so much so that even the RCMP were getting - *fanprehensive’’ about their own job security, since there seemed to be nothing to snoop on or ‘tattle’? about. : This provocative literary filth for which Drea is already notor- ious, seems to fascinate Messrs East and Amiable, much as a dunghill attracts flies. Hence we are no longer ‘‘revolutionary’’, either in terms ofthe great Com- munist Manifesto or the Drea Diarrhea, which our team-work correspondents dutifully link to- gether in their portrayal of our **bourgeois’* image. It may interest our ‘‘revolu- tionary’’ correspondents to know their ‘‘inspiring’’ Frank and worse, no one © against Mine-Mill Union leaders in Sudbury, which were published in the Toronto Telegram during the Steel union raiding on Mine- Mill, Aside from his assignment by the reactionary Tory ‘‘Tele- gram’’, Drea also posed in the capacity of ‘‘assistant public re- d lations director’’ for the Steel raiders, Caught on the horns of aslander and libel suit by Mine-Mill, the “Telegram’’ had to plead for an ‘fout of court’’ settlement in favor of Mine-Mill for the lit- erary filth of its ‘‘labor’”’ re- porter Drea. ‘Now we have the sorry picture of a couple of ‘‘revolutionaries”’ just itching to ‘*mount the barri- cades’’ in Burnaby, and dredging up a Drea to illustrate how the Communist Party is holding them back. Mr. Amiable was so anx- ious we wouldn’t miss the Drea drivel that he~. graced it with his own ‘Sent to you by Martin Amiable,’’ with address anc phone number complete. We would hesitate to suggest that ‘*Comrades’’ East and Amia- ble are unduly anxious to get themselves into the anti-Com- munist camp of pseudo-revo- similar species of agents provoc- ateur, but their ‘‘covering” letter and selection of literary ex- -tremes, from the glorious Com- munist Manifesto of 1848 down to the 1964 excrement of a mon- opoly press hired seal, leaves little doubt of a ‘‘philosophical’’ hallucination of the most danger- ous kind to workingclass unity, progress and peace, If Messrs Easi and Amiable want to ‘‘raise the barricades” in Burnaby, that is their priv- ilege, but please ‘‘comrades’’, don’t blame the party or wail about ‘“‘bourgeois reform pol- itics’’ if the Burnaby citizenry toss you out with the morning garbage. Realism also happens to be one of the many cardinal 7 mo a oA iPa Gl i a C (MN inmasd cena Ay ? ul WR I TW sat Ressi-77e AT ge cr AY p> 5 i ey PEM... ee i “The people of this coun their government must realize not have it BOTH ways. Every spent on new military equipme dollar taken away from disarman efforts, peace research, foreign and the country’s own develop “We would like Canada 19 ONE road to disarmament. Le so without reservation, not ha : edly We mean a complete brea the immoral arms race and the war. We mean joining the non= club of nations and turning Pe fense budget into a peace bud budget investing in the future © kind: feeding the hungry (four peopl hunger every minute of the ‘Latin America alone), healing th (one person dies of malaria ever seconds), educating the ignorant than half the children in Latin Am do not go fo school). “Haven't Canadians had enoug" moral hypocrisy and double-talk —Editorial article in 5 published by the mf Campaign for Nua Disarmament. x ‘We hear talk to the otese this part of the world (South Vie! —Ed.) will go down to communis” we do not kill some more AM boys in South Vietnam. “Tell it to the American peoP “If the American people W& lowed to vote in a referendum 0 ; issue, the vote against the unite able killing of American boys Ld Vietnam would be af a minimum to one against it. | believe tht against it would be larger than —Senator Wayne Morse ee — Washington), speaking !" # ast Senate last week. 3 x “I remember Ross tellin secret of politics,” says an © “He used to speak on nearl subject that came up at (Moose council. He said you didn’t ule know much about the subject — speak long and loud and m to get your name in the pape —Ross Thatch Toronto ° me a frie’ y eve principles of living Marxis a principle also well jllust®?! in the historic Communit festo of 1848—and brought date for Canadians in the CO munist Party’s ‘Challeng the 60’s’’. * * * We note where Alderman? lip Lipp has just returned fro junket to West Germany, ped up about how trade union® ‘run’ by the Bonn govern Here, says the alderman ut! leaders have too much pow Another Lipp ‘idea’ is civic works should pe ‘cont ed out’? to private enterP? Mayor Rathie should nail 5 ‘idea’, He tried it hims couple of years ago! Ath _ Vancouver 4, B.C. $4.00 one year. Australia ~ of postage in cash. _ Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor — Circulation Manager — JERRY SHACK Published weekly at Room 6 — 426 Main Street Subscription Rates: a Canadian and Commonwealth countries (except Australia): countries; $5.00 one year. 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