By WILLIAM KASHTAN

Manitoba has entered the growing list of provinces afflicted
with anti-labor legislation. Before its government there ari
now proposals for amending the Labor Relations Act in a
way that would seriously restrict the rights of the trade union
mévement. These proposals stem from the Tritchler Report,
named after Justice Tritchler who held a one man judicia!
inquiry into the Brandon Packers strike of 1960.

Briefly the Tritchler Report recommends that laws be
enacted to make unions legal entities, capable of suing and
of being sued, that would restrict picketting to the struck
employers’ place of business, outlaw secondary boycotts and
impose gOvernment-supervised strike votes.

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There is a striking similarity. between these recommenda-
tions and those already enacted in other provinces. There may

~ not be collusion in this but it does show'a meeting of minds
on the need for “putting labor in its place.”

These recommendations fit in exactly with what the Can-
adian Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Manufacturers’ As-
sociation and the construction industry have been clamoring for.
_ The fact that they arise from the Brandon Packers strike is
incidental. Had there been no strike these recommendations
- would still have been made and in fact were made. by rep-
resentatives of monopoly over the past few years. This. is
borne out by capitalist press comment on the Tritchler recom-
mendations which make the point that in their sum total they
- are aimed at labor, not at management.

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It is part.of the times we live in that courts, judges, mag-
~-istrates et al have more openly become the voice of monopoly.
One has only to read the highly political speeches being made
and the “legal” arguments used to note the bias and anti-labor
' prejudice which oozes out of recent judgments. These bodies
are definitely not on the side of the workers. Their purpose
- is to protect capitalism and defend the interests of monopoly
not to “protect the weak against the strong.”

The various judgments which have come out recently Sent
to hélp dispel illusions therefore about the “neutral” and * ‘un-
biassed” attitudes of these august bodies.

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The Tritchler recommendations ought ‘to Serve as another
warning to the trade union movement on the “need for united
action on the economic, legislative and political fronts to Sefeat
_ the reactionary drive of monopoly. :

There is no gainsaying the fact that monopoly has gone a:

long way in its efforts at placing the trade union movement in

. legal chains. And if the trade union. movement today is on/j'

the defensive, no little responsibility for that situation lies on
the sheulders of the leadershiv.of the Canadian ‘Labor Congress.

_. That leadership, ‘headed, by President Jodoin, has shown a/!

congenial . inability and lack of desire to mount. an effective
; counter-offensive sh monopoly.

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Instead of concentrating on this job- as an A-1 priority job,
President Jodoin and all the other “labor statesmen” have been
busily engaged. in “liberating” workers, ‘disorganizing _ the
organized and union. wrecking. ‘If one thinks about it there
isn’t too much difference between. this and the kind of “libera:
tion” monopoly is trying to impose on ‘the’ trade union moye-
ment through amendments to the labor acts in _various parts
of the country. Jodoin and. Company. do it “dlegally-’ while
monopoly is trying io cover up its anti-labor actions. through
legal measures.

Jodoin, ee Sefton and Company. Fcamt got a mon- |:

’ epoly on “liberation.” Monopoly has been trying to “liberate”
the workers for many, Many years — “liberate” them from
the trade union movement, that is, in the name of democracy.
It has been trying to “liberate” the workers from the closec
shop and the checkoff. It has been trying to “liberate” the
workers from the concept of unity and of solidarity. More

recently it has been trying to “liberate” them: from support of

the New Democratic Party. All the anti-labor legislation on the

statute books of various provincial governments are part and’

parcel of this process of “liberation.” a

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It points up an ever present lesson—appeasement and re-

treats won’t ward off or defeat moncpoly’s attacks on the trade

union movement. What can and will do it is the united action!’

of labor and the trade union movement.

A solid united front of labor, the trade union movement and
democratic opinion in city and countryside, can still preven‘
the Tritchler recommendations from becoming law in Manitoba.
By the same token such unity on a nation-wide scale car
transform the situation and make it possible to uphold and
expand the democratic rights of the workers.

The entire trade union miovement needs to concentrate or.
solution of this task. =

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Reports indicate early
invasion of Cuba plot

Indications that anti-Castro forces, backed by the
United States, will try a new: Cuban invasion soon, have

been coming from a variety
weeks.

Charles Walter, writing for|
the United Press Internetional
reported that “young Cuban
aristocrats’ form the vanguard
of “volunteers” taking speeded

up courses on methods of guer- | -
rilla warfare at Fort Jackson, |

South Carolina.

He wrote also that since
August, U.S. Army intelligence
has been. working among Cu-
ban “refugees” in Miami select-

ing, investigating and recruit- |.

ing men, “legitimate foes of
Castro,”’ to send them on two.
year training courses.
SECRET TRAINING

One correspondent for the
Chicago Daily News, writing
from Havana, said that. al-
though his report would pro-.
bably be.castigated and denied,
“there are unmistakable. signs
that some anti-Castro Cubans

are once again undergoing
secret military training, in
Guatemala.”

Writing from Havana also,
Cedric Belfrage of the Nation-
al Guardian reports that “‘it. is
now generally believed here

‘that a further invasion attempt

sponsored by the. U.S. will be

of sources in the past ee

tried soon.”

Bakessfrimiewhichan all-out

invasion of Cuba would. be!

launched.

He describes U.S. .attempts
to line up Latin American
countries, members of the Or-
ganization of American States,
against ‘Cuban “Communism”
on the pretext of Cuban “inter-
ference’ in those countries’ in-
fernal affairs. ~

“This campaign,” writes Bel-
frage “gets propaganda am-
munition from the popularity
of Fidel Castro’s revolution

Hungary on, _ Oct. 4-8.

| the reactionary press.”

‘any OAS member

‘action against Cuba comes
‘from the right-wing regime in
/: Peru, “a virtually U.S.-owned

‘and operated country,

‘ believed training hundreds of |

{in ‘southern Puerto. R
| transport and ‘bomber ~ planes

| insignia.

| be .a_ bigger scale than last

: | time, the Cubans are “militarily... ae

bs a "| stronger now. They’
Photo “shows Mrs. abate Buller (left) aha Mrs. Nora Rodd, |

Canadian delegates at the Council meeting of the Women’s est attack which, in light of the’

| International Democratic Federation, which met in Budapest, | ‘ world situation, the U.S. would —

througnout Latin America: any
manifestation or suoport for it
can be portrayed as ‘Cuba
, interference’ or ‘subversicn’ by

PERU'S ROLE
The most open support from
for direct

where
10-year olds work for hali a
-cent a day, estates are sold to-
gether with Indians and cattle
rand about 90 ver cent or the
people: are illiterate, starving is
and diseased.” 49
Belfrage says Cubans’ know
“of a-600-man army of “mercen-
| aries, mostly Cubans but n=
cluding various nationalities,
recruited into the Guatemalan
army and trained on land own- ~
ed by the farh{ly of Exesident F
Sitenras:
“U.S. INSTRUCTIONS
“Batista war criminal Eleu-
-terio. Pedraza reportedly shut- —
tles back and.forth from the —
U.S. with State Department in- —
structions for these and similar ~
training camps in Nicaragua ~
and El.Salvador.” — E
Experts” fron. the ‘USS.

are@

parachutists in guerilla war-— F
fare in Panama “and at the ~
camp and. naval. base near |
Constanza, Dominican Resep a
lic.

Informants ; say ‘that at land 4
ing fields around Santa Asabel,.

‘crews © are practicing: Sowith

bearing fake Cuban, air -f

sembly,” wri te s
“when it would be easi

pou er iat
“While it would amdoubtediym

“‘yemain~
confident of routing the strong- ” :

dare ue mount.

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Winnipeg 4,
Manitoba

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