Persecution of DuBois scored by Endicoff TORONTO A protest has been sent to the American Embassy in Ottawa by Dr. James G. Endicott against per- secution of Dr. W. E. B. Dubois and his associates of the !U‘S. Peace Information Centre accord- ing to officials of the Canadian Feace Congress. Dr. DuBois, famous anthropol- igist and advocate of humanitar- ian causes (including the cause of eraancipation of his own Negro people), has been indicted for failure to register under the U.S. Foreign Agents’ Registration Act. He is claimed to have fallen under the provisions of this act when the Peace Information Centre cir- culated information and copies of last year’s worldwide petition against the atom bomb, a petition which became famous as_ the Stockholm Appeal. Dr, Endicott’s letter follows: | “On behalf of the Canadian Peace Congress I submit a request that you forward to your govern- ment an expression of protest against the treatment of Dr. W. E. B. DuBois and his associates of the American Peace Information Centre. Those who are working and praying for peace throughout the world are astounded that any work for peace in any country could possibly be construed as em- ployment by a foreign power. “Tf the cause of peace, as ad- vocated by Dr. DuBois, should be- come a crime under American law, then all mankind will know that the policy and purposes of the government of the U.S.A. are a serious threat to international peace. The eyes of hundreds of millions of men and women all over the world will be watching this case with detailed. interest.” Union-busting places Bulova on unfair list Bulova, one of the most adver- tised names in watches and one of the most. openly anti-labor cor- porations on this continent, is on the unfair list of the American Federation of Labor, according to advice received here by Vancouver Local 59 of the International Jewelry Workers Union. | Behind the action in placing Bulova on labor’s. unfair list lies the story of the International Jewelry Workers Union's efforts to organize employees of the Bulova Watch Company, the majority of whom are women, in face of in- _ timidation, use of ‘company spies, and discharge of active union members. Arde Bulova, chairman of the board, who -expanded .the small company established by his father in 1875 to a $28-million . industrial empire which today controls many subsidiaries in the U.S. and Swit- zerland, is estimated to have spent upwards of a quarter-million dol- lars in union-busting activities. Testimony ‘given by one ad- admitted company spy, Stephen Polichano, has: led to charges be- ing laid against the company under the Wagner Act. Polichano stated that Arde Bulova vaid him ‘$500 and $50 a week for 10 months to spread anti-union talk around the plants, meeting with Bulova periodically to receive the money and instructions. — é is Conditions in Bulova plants, where speedup is the order of the day, explain Bulova’s desire to prevent organization of poorly- paid workers who put in as high as 48 and 52 hours a week and frequently find themselves fired just before they become eligible for pensions. the terror unleashed in the Amer- ican continent by the warmongers.” The aim of+this terror, the two writers charge, is “to crush, all de- mocratic liberties and spread a policy of fascist violence through- out all countries of America.” “Following the criminal decision of the United States Supreme Court upholding the conviction of the leaders of the United States Communist party,’ Neruda and Amado state, “and following the legal assassination of innocent Negroes, a trial, is now being pre- pared against Dr. W. E. B. Dubois, a venerable figure of continental culture who, at the end of 83 years of a life worth the greatest respect, is, now dragged before a court of justice for the only crime of being an illustrious Negro citizen and a valiant peace fighter.” The two writers further denounce the persecution of democrats by the U.S.-dominated regimes of many Latin American countries. “Vargas orders the killing of starving peasants in Brazil. In Venezuela, the oil workers leader Jesus Faria and the intellectual Gustavo Machado are held in pri- son, incommunicado, without trial or defetise. Gonzales Videla sends roops against Chilean | strikers and deprives 50,000 citizens of their electoral rights, In Bolivia. strik- ing miners are executed and a fas- cist military coup annulls the re- sults of the presidential elections to perpetuate the rule of American tin monopolies,” Neruda and Amado charge. The writers’ statement condemns “the recent decision of the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil upholding continuation of the infamous trial of Luis Carlos Prestes, great hero of Brazil's liberation, and of other popular leaders, as showing ‘the true face of Getulio Vargas, old time admirer of Nazis,” “People of America, despite the betrayal of almost all their gov- ernments, have always expressed their adherence to the loftiest and most noble causes of humanity. Today, in these dramatic circum- stances, we ask, because we deem it necessary, that world solidarity be expressed with those who in our vast continent are an example of heroism and in man’s unfalter- ing march towards the future,” Latin-American writers denounce American terror Two of the greatest living Latin American writers, the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and the Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado, living in Czecho- slovakia after having been exiled by the reactionary governments of their countries, have issued an appeal to “intellectuals, progressive people and cultural and mass organizations of the whole world to denounce PRAGUE Rail workers pressing for higher wages By MEL COLBY TORONTO , Rank-and-file pressure from rail union locals and lodges for the im- mediate reopening of contracts to win wage boosts is forcing the top leadership to agree to “review” the issue. Al R. Mosher, president of the Canadian Brotherhood of Rail- way Employees (CCL), says that it is probable that top level talks will take place between the CBRE and Frank Hall, spokesmen for the AFL Brotherhoods. But the rail workers want more than “reviews” and “talks”. They want immediate action — and now. This is reflected in a unanimous resolution passed by the Maple Leaf Division of the CBRE which: 1. Demanded that President Mosher and the leaders of the CBRE at once press for a rail- way wage increase of at least 80 cents an hour. : 2. Called for reopening of the contracts. ; ; 3. Voted for a coordinated wage drive. Other lodges which are demand- ing that the rail contracts be opened to win increased wages in- clude the carmen and machinists in Regina, the CBRE in Saska- toon and Regina, the big Queen City local of the CBRE in Toron- to, the carmen in London and the trainmen in Port Arthur. _ The railways, the biggest indus- try in Canada, is the only industry in which pay is frozen up to Sep- tember, 1952. Since the seven cent Kellock arbitration award which went into effect last September, the cost-of-living has jumped 143 points from 169. 8 to 184.1. | There is no question of the ability of the railways to pay. Net CPR earnings, for example, were $9,747,189 from January 1 to the end of May, an increase of $4,038,- 364 over the same period of last concludes the statement. : : LU vear. Front page of June issue of United Mine Workers Journal SCORES ‘ESCALATOR’ CLAUSES va Fight for wages, hours | now,says John L. Lewis sat DEARBORN Invited as guest speaker to ad- dress between 50,000 and _ 60,000 Ford workers and fellow unionists celebrating 10 years of union or- ganization at Ford’s huge Fort Rouge plant, John L. Lewis, presi- dent of the, United Mine Workers of America, declared that the U.S. would have experienced the great- est depression of its history had it not been temporarily halted by present arms spending. He ad- vised the auto workers to fight for shorter hours and higher wages now. . Lewis called for a labor move- ment of 16,000,000 united workers and said if 40 unions from the AFL and CIO would put a million q the Dominion Bureau of Statistics 1936-39 period. But the end to at record figures have obtained rate increases amounting to near- ly 60 percent in the last two years. In March of this year, accord- ing to official government (DBS) figures, railway operating revenues in March (latest available report) were at their highest since the war of 1945. Freight receipts were up 12 percent, passenger fares up 25.8 percent and mail income in- creased 25.5° percent during the month. CPR net earnings:for the first five months of the year were $9,747,189, an increase of $4,038,234 over the same period last year. The new increase in freight rates which will yield the rail cor- poration an additional $54,000,000 the same day the new index was announced, the fed rail companies another 12 percent increase in freight rates. announced July Living costs reach new record high, expected __ to continue upward cli The cost of living took another big jump of 2.1 ciate in May ahd: steed at 184.1 as of June 1, 4. The index is based on’ living costs during the mb higher prices is not in sight according to economic experts here. On eral Board of Transport Commissioners permitted the The corporations, whose profits are now in revenues, will be reflected in the months to come in this amount being added to prices. The rail- ways demanded the increase on the grounds that ‘this would be the amount they would have to pay out in the 7-cent wage in- crease and 40-hour week won by the rail unions after their strike last August. But the wage boost granted the workers was wiped out by increased they received it. ; Additional burdens on wages came this week when income taxes increased with the government’s war tax that pushed taxes up an additional 20 percent, prices before | How the war budget of the government is charged against the wage-earner is illustrated in the case of cigarettes. For every package priced at 40 cents for 20, the government takes 26 cents in taxes. When the remain- ing 14 cent is split up among grower, processor, manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer—and the profits of Imperial Tobacco, en- Joying a virtual monopoly in the field, are increasing steadily—it fan be seen that the actual cost of a package of 20 cigarettes could be scarcely more than a few cents, PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 13, 1951 — pach -| week with 40 hours pay now: OTTAWA | to. ‘protect unions against attac Es by Taft-Hartley laws or any oe repressive anti-labor legislatiO?” the UMW would’ give ten millioP: Lewis, who referred to Waltet Reuther, United Auto Worker leader, as a pseudo-intellec “nit-wit”’, ripped into the ther-sponsored escalator clau! and urged that the auto worker scrap such clauses and get oU% and fight for wages. 1 ag Carl Stellato, president of big UAW Ford Local 600 urs®) here that UAW members back demand in, the auto industry 7. a 30-hour work week with 40 how) pay to meet the pending 1) t layoff at the River Rouge P* — because of war preparations. He said that the UAW members ship would not wait. ae when the Reuther fivd-year Cf. tracts expire, but wanted a 8U4 -hour anteed annual wage and a 3 the ‘AW nation nion PE” Stellato proposed that international officers call al meetings of all loca] unio? sidents to work out such 4 P gram and to tie it in with 1aP, fight for FEPC and against 2% — labor legislation. ase The issue of layoffs and ne were linked by Local 600 * president Pat Rice who streaie that into all proposals being Pair must go one for building’ 4 ante party in the U.S, whic . fight for peace as both the tw? pie parties were parties of Wall ster Rice urged the great audienc® ju support Senator Johnson’s ?°"ind tion! for a cease fire in Kore? also urged that they join the Pe : ing American peace : LAA -PENDER) AUDITORIUM *(Marine Workers) 339 West Pender st : LARGE & SMALL HAL FOR RENTALS Phone PA, 9481”