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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1950

Delegation goes home .

, Peace ambassador Wu Hsiu-chuan, leader of the nine-member
Chinese delegation from Peking which visited the United Nations
in a vain effort to persuade the United States to abandon its
imperialist ambitions in Asia and get out of Taiwan (Formosa),
is now on his way home. Arriving in London this week, he told
newsmen that China will ‘continue to do its utmost to find a
peaceful solution of Far Eastern problems.

“BUT NO WAGE CEILING’

Price freeze needed,
auto union contends

TORONTO

Demand that prices be frozen immediately but that no
‘ceiling be placed on wages, which came from the District
Council of the United Auto Workers in:Toronto last week,
reilects the growing alarm among Canadian unionists over
the big business assault on workers’ living standards.

Other unions which have come
out with a forthright position in-
clude the United Electrical, Ra-
dio and Machine Workers whose
district convention demanded
“sovernment action to re-estab-
lish prices at the June 190° level

. While at the same time per-
mitting the full processes of col-
lective bargaining with no wage
Sonal. Je”

The danger of prices beimg con_
trolled at their present profiteer-
ing level, and of this being ac-
companied by a wage freeze when
pay envelopes have not the pur-
chasing power to gompete with
prices is especially acute at the
present time unless the whole
labor movement rallies in a ra-
tional campaign to stay the gov-

ernment’s hand.

It has been repeatedly hinted
at Ottawa that Canada must
closely follow U.S. policy on con-
trols and Washington has made
it dear that under President
Truman’s declaration of a na-
tional emergency that any price
controls will be accompanied by
a wage freeze. Reflecting the de-
sire of Canadian workers for wage
boosts and a roll back in prices
was the recent demand of the
Trades and Labor Congress of
Canada, the Canadian Congress
of Labor, the Catholic Syndicates
and the Railway Brotherhoods
for price controls. However, they
left their position on wage con-
trols vague.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

Peace on earth

bombers have destroyed.

What vile hypocrisy, what blas-

phemous insult to the Christian concept of God, and to the

intellect and dignity of man.

This Christmas breaks upon a world in which the :con-
cept of “Peace on earth” it symbolizes is imperilled by the

plots of the imperialist warmongers.

In wishing all our

readers and supporters the warm greeting of the season,
let us keep in mind through the critical months ahead that
the hope given to humanity 20 centuries ago—and renewed
by the millionfold Partisans of Peace in 1950—can be realiz-
ed. It is only for the common people to grasp that they.

and not the glib-tongued philistines of imperialism, are the.

artisans called upon by history to give genuine form and
content to the deathless pledge of “Peace on earth, good-

will toward men.”

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SEASON’S GREETINGS TO ALL OUR PATRONS 3
LOVE 5S CAFE
779 Granville *
“WE NEVER CLOSE”

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RABAAMABAR

Charging that the action of the Canada Labor Relations Board in revoking certi-

TORONTO

fication ofthe Canadian Seamen’s Union as bargaining agent for Branch Lines, Ltd.,
equals the Labor Front legislation of Hitler Germany” CSU vice-president Dewar Fer-
guson emphasized last week that the unioa intended to put up the “sternest fight” ‘to

reverse the Board’s action.

The CSU, under attack by the federal government and the

shipping companies (aided by employer agents in labor’s ranks) for many months now,
had its certification revoked by a board compelled to drag in the “red” cry in dn effort
to bolster the undemocratic decision.

Original request for. revocation of cer-ification cz.1e from Branch Lines, Ltd., a St.
Lawrence shipping company which said the CSU did not represent the majority of the

crew member's on Branch Line
vessels. The company was unable
to present any evidence to sup-
port its contention and it was
then that the board made its
illegal ruling which holds that
the CSU is not a union but a
political organization. _

“We intend ‘to take action
through the courts or in any other
manner deemed advisable to re-
verse the decision of the board,”
Ferguson said.

“The action of the board is
illegal and goes far beyond the
question of the CSU. It sets a
new pattern of labor relations
in Canada which almost equals
the Labor Front legislation of
Hitler Germany.” :

Ferguson stressed that the
board’s action is the most danger-
ous pracedent ever, established
against Canadian labor; that it
far outstrips the provisions con-
tained in the reactionary anti-
labor U.S. Taft-Hartley law and
is a club over the head of every
trade union in Canada.

“None but. fascist states,” he
emphasized, “have ever resorted
to such drastic measures to regu-
late the labor movement.”

The CSU vice-president pointed
to the fact that there is nothing
in the law which justifies, ‘let alone
permits such an action and said
that the board had set itself up
above the law of the country.

“The 'CSU,” he said, “will con-
duct a campaign on a national
scale to acquaint labor. and the
public with all the facts..I feel
certain that all sections of the
labor movement will join with us
in the fight against this fascist-
like method of denying working
men the right to unions of their
own choice and the right to select
their own union leaders.”

The board’s ruling has far-
reaching implications for all sec-
tions of the labor movement and
could reach down into unions with
CCF leadership.

The point is emphasized by the
antilabor Toronto Globe and
Mail whose Ottawa correspon_
dent, Warren Baldwin, wrote:

“Carrying the same argument
(the reason given for the illegal
action against the CSU) into a
purely academic field, if the so-
cialist CCF party or any other
political party ‘should in the fu-
ture act so as to transform trade
unions into organizations whose
‘piiimary! -plinpd@se,’ ta use the’
words of the judgment, no longer
brought it within the definition
set, out in the act, the board might
have equal grounds for revoca-
tion of certification.”

iC. S. Jackson, Canadian direc-
tor of the 25,000-strong United
Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers Union, said last week
the Canada Labor Relation
Board’s action against the CSU
“would threaten every union’s ex_
istence.” A

“It is no accident,’ Jackson
wrote to Labor Minister M. F.
Gregg, “that the press has re-
ferred to affiliation of unions
to the CCF as included directily
under the threat contained in this
ruling on the CSU.”

Jackson said the boards report
implied that participation in an
industry-wide strike would de-
prive a union of all rights. He
said it was “totally anti-demo-
crati¢ and would deprive,the rail.

DEWAR FERGUSON
way workers of their long-
established union rights.”

Jackson said that the inference
that the political beliefs or affilia_
tions of the leaders of unions is
a basis for denial for bargaining
status or trade union statug “is
tantamount to establishing
thought-control over unions.”

Toronto Civil Rights Union last
week protested the action of the
Camada Labor Relations Board
in revoking the certification rights
of the CSU. TheeCRU said “a
very dangerous precedent was be-

ing established by the board’s-.

action.” :
C. H. Millard, Canadian direc-
tor of the United Steelworkers,
expressed the opinion this week
that the action of the ‘Canada

Labor Relations Board in revok- .

ing the certification of the Cana-
dian Seamen’s Union with Branch
Lines was questionable.

“There is a big question mark
in my mind about the decision,”
said Millard, who declined further
comment until he had read the
full text of the board’s report on
the issue.

Robert Haddow, a member of
the Nation Council. of the Cana-
dian Congress of Labor and Can-
adian director of the International
Fur and Leather Workers’ Union,
expressed the feelings of thou-
sands of unions when he protest-
ed the action to Prime Ministér
Louis St. Laurent and stated: “I

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ROBERT HADDOW

urge you if any semblance of
democracy is to be maintained
in this country to put an end
to this fascist-like infringement
of. workers’ rights immediately.”

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CHINA

e Strengthening the aggres-
sive bloc under the Atlantic pact
and a Pacific pact to prepare for
aggressive world war under
American command. The U,8.,
asserts the People’s Daily, is try-
ing to drag its sattelites into ag-
gression “in an American-made
machine which the U.S. wants
to put into immediate operation
on a trip around the world. But
the machine lacks motive power.
Although this war machine is de-
ficient beyond measure and cannot
stand the energetic upsurge of
the democratic forces of the world
and although all kinds of con-
tradictions exist between Ameri-
ca and its accomplices, the Ameri_
can warmongers are still determ-
ined to start up this ramshackle
vehicle. . .'.”

“Our conclusion,” the paper
states, is: “Shattering as the blow
that the American aggressors
have sustained
battlefield, this does not halt or
alter their aggressive policy. On
the contrary, after defeat, they
whip up war mobilization and
violent preparations all the more
desperately, with the aim of ex-
tending the war. All peace-loving
countries and peoples in the
would, therefore, must persistently
strengthen the peace campaign
against the American invasion.
They must press forward to check
America’s war plot. And this is
the only way to improve the
international situation... .

“Only the powerful democratic

forces, only the incessant crush-—

ing blows at the invaders can
force them to shrink from bloody
invasions. With the peoples ef
the world striving so much for
peace, it is still possible to over-
come the crisis of a new war.”

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