Take peace into unions’

Reuther tells AWU parley

United Auto Workers presi-
dent Walter Reuther told 300
delegates from his union in a
peace seminar at the United
Nations that peace is not
apart from their problems in
the shop but must be worked
for or the world will be de-
stroyed by nuclear warfare.

“There are forces in the
U.S. who would like to de-
'stroy peace with the bomb.

~ They are the little men of the
John Birch Society who tell
America ‘Get the U.S. out of
the UN and get the UN out of
the United States; said Reu-
ther.

“We must go back to our lo-

cal unions, work in the com-
munities, mobilize the people
to defend the UN from attack
by the John Birchers,” he
said.

Reuther told the delegates
that in his opinion the real
answer to the arms race is to
change the present nuclear

contest from the ball park it
is in, to a ball park where
the contest would be an eco-
nomic one, of the system of
socialism and ‘‘our system,” in
competition.

“This is the kind of con-
test that I want to see the
U.S. get into, it’s that kind of
contest I think we can win.
Let us make it a contest of
peace and every one can win
in that ball park contest.”

Emil Mazey, UAW secre-
tary treasurer, told the dele-
gates they must study how to
achieve total disarmament so
that a peaceful world can be
maintained and joined with
other speakers at the seminar
in hoping for a negotiated nu-
clear test ban to come out of
the meetings between the
U.S., Great Britain and the
Soviet Union.

Total disarmament, he said,
is the only guarantee of peace.

British Communist Party
celebrates big advances

More and more people in Great -

Britain are listening to the Com-
munist party these days as the
country’s crisis grows deeper—
and many are joining the ranks.

Last week the Party hailed a
splendid victory in reporting that
the membership had now reach-
ed 33,008, which is an increase
of 2,553 members over last year.

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This chart shows the big gains
in membership being record-
ed by the British Communist
Party. Im February, 1958, the
Party had 25,000 members.
The goal for Easter of this
year, date of the party con-
gress, is 35,000 members.

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At the same time the member-
ship of the Young Communist
League has reached 4,064, a gain
of 817 members.

The goal of the Party now is
to reach 35,000 members and 5,000
in the YCL by the time of the
Party congress meeting on the
Easter weekend.

In a_ statement hailing the
Party’s growth the Political Com-
mittee last Saturday said:

“These advances are the result
of our Party’s campaigning
against Tory policy. They are a
sign of the rising spirit in the
working class. They come at a
time when the Government’s
policies are in ruins and the pos-
sibility of getting rid of the Tories
is on-the order of the day.

“The great and urgent need is
fighting, socialist leadership. A
more powerful Communist Party
and a bigger circulation for the
Daily Worker are essential . .
To transform the political situation
in our country and take Britain
into the Socialist Age needs a
mass Communist Party.”

The British Party has been
campaigning strongly for an al-
ternative to the European Com-
mon Market, against rising mass
unemployment and for an election
now. :

China and Poland.

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-ALL-IN UNITY URGED

B.C. labor prepares
for election battle

By JERRY SHACK

B.C. labor is on the move and
organizing its-ranks to play a
decisive role in the forthcoming
federal elections.

As reported in last week’s PT,
the Vancouver Labor Council on
Feb. 5 unanimously adopted a
resolution requesting the B.C.
Federation of Labor to .“‘immedi-
ately call a conference of inter-
ested unions for the purpose of
mobilizing organized labor’’ in
support of NDP candidates in this
crucial election.

Syd Thompson, President of
Local 1-217, IWA, who sponsored
the resolution, told this reporter
that, in his opinion, the confer-
ence should be called as soon as
possible and at a time when na-
tional NDP leader Tommy Doug-
las is in the province.

Local 1-217 has itself scheduled
a special membership meeting,
which will be held towards the
end of this month, to discuss
political action. Purpose of the
meeting will be to mobilize the
membership, raise money and in-
volve the members in canvassing,
Soliciting election itunds and
other day-to-day requirements in
the fight to win more NDP
representation in Ottawa. z

Thompson refused to comment
on whether the conference call-
ed by the B.C. Fed. should be
limited to affiliated unions only.
“That is a matter for the B.C.
Fed, to decide,’ he stated. ‘The
resolution passed unopposed in
the VLC and it is up to the B.C.
Fed. to interpret it as they see
fii
FOREIGN DOMINATION

He agreed that the issue of
nuclear arms for Canada would
undoubtedly be the main election
issue, but expressed regret that
it’ would relegate other import-
ant problems into the back-
ground.

“For example,” he said, ‘‘the

SYD THOMPSON, pres. of
the large Vancouver IWA lo-
cal, who sponsored resolution
ait VLC urging mobilization
of labor.

HOMER STEVENS, sec.-treas.
of the powerful UFAWU, this
week called for an all-inclu-
sive conference of unions.

question of foreign domination of
Canada’s economy has snowball-
ed to the extent where something
has got to be done about it. Also
tied up with this question is the
problem of unemployment and
many other such problems. It’s
unfortunate that these key issues

will be pushed
ground.”’

(Both the IWA and VLC have,
over the past period of time, has:

repeatedly taken stands again
acquisition by our country of n

clear weapons and have stated

that Canada should withdra

from NATO rather than have
these weapons forced upon her).

United Fishermen & Allie
Workers union secretary Home
Stevens told us that the Executiv:
Board of the UFAW has also dis
cussed the proposed conference 0
B.C. unions.

ALL-IN UNITY NEEDED

“Our basic opinion is that suc
a conference is necessary and i
should be an all-inclusive con

ference, so that unions like ours, ~

which have gone on record a
supporting the NDP, are in
volved,’’ he stated.

The NDP, Stevens said,

vital questions as no _ nuclear

weapons, U.S. domination of our —

economy and the sellout of Can
ada’s natural resources.

He stated that his union wel-
comes the NDP position on all
these questions and that it would
also welcome the opportunity to
throw its full weight behind the
NDP, together with the rest of
organized labor.

Orville Braaten, (Pulp & Sul-

phite) also expressed the opinion —

that the conference should be
all-inclusive. ‘I think,’ he em-
phasized, ‘‘that in this election,
of all elections, we have to cast
aside whatever personal differ-

ences we may have and unite ©

to the fullest.

“When such vital issues as the |

nuclear arms question, U.S.

domination over Canada (and one

of its offshoots—the giveaway of
the Columbia River) are at stake,
labor needs to unite in order to
see that. its needs are satisfied.’

Archer, president of the Ontario
Federation of Labor, Magnuson
called for solidarity action ‘‘to
press home the need for govern-
ment action to get to the bottom
of the situation and secure the
kind of, settlement which the
LSWU is entitled to without any
further delay, or what would be
worse, further bloodshed.”’

He urged delegations to the
telegrams
from local unions, public meet-
ings and all forms of public
action.

BACKGROUND

The contract between the bush-
workers and the companies ex-
pired last Aug. 31. The union

‘states that Spruce Falls has not

made a satisfactory offer on a
40-hour week arrangement. It
wants Spruce Falls and Kimber-
ly-Clark to sign contracts with
the same terms, refusing to ac-
cept a two-year status quo agree-
ment with the latter company.

The companies refused the
union’s demands. On Jan. 14 the

1,000 bushworkers employed by

Spruce Falls refused to work
without a contract. They were

Union bushworkers
Shot by scabs ©

Cont’d from pg. 1

subsequently joined by 400 bush-
workers employed by Kimberly-
Clark at Long Lac.

On Jan. 25 union representa-
tives met company negotiators
and Ontario Labor Department
officials for talks but no settle-
ment was reached.

The so-called ‘‘independents”
who were engaged in the shooting
of the workers are not independ-
ent in any real sense, but are in
fact. sub-contractors working

‘under varied arrangements with

the companies to cut and haul
pulpwood off Ontario crown lands.
The bulk of the timber limits are
under lease to the ‘Kimberly-
Clark Corporation with head-
quarters at Ninah, Wisconsin.

Magnuson charged in’ a recent
statement that the U.S.-controll-
ed corporations took advantage of
the newspaper strikes in New
York, Cleveland, where the news-
print is largely supplied by
Spruce Falls, to stiffen their re-

sistence to renewal of contracts
which expired Aug. 31 and ‘hus

eliminate the union from the bush

camps in northern Ontario.

_ seale of exports. 2

U.S. Pressure

Coni’d from pg. 1
ing Act. FHA loans were used
in about 18 percent of all
housing starts in the U.S. last

year, and if adopted would be —

a sharp blow against lumber

production in B.C. and the —

rest of Canada.
However, these

seen as the first step toward

legislation restricting the use

into the back-

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sresses most clearly the wishes
of the UFAW membership on such ~

bills are | ~

of B.C. and Canadian lumber |

on the U.S. market. Once
the principle is adopted it
will be extended to
“buy American’’ legislation.
Large lumber interests in

the U.S. have carried on 4 —
campaign for ~

high-pressure
months seeking to cut Cana-
dian lumber imports in half.
The bulk of this

umbia lumber exports to the
U.S. have exceeded $250 mil- —
lion a year recently.
Also pending before
U.S. tariff commission in
Washington is a decision on
a petition submitted by U-S.
lumber interests seeking high-
er tariffs on Canadian lum-

ber to restrict sales on the —

U.S. market.

A decision by the tariff —
commission is expected in the —

next few weeks. So far Presi-
dent Kennedy has not with-
drawn a proposal made to

Canada last July that Canada ©

accept a voluntary quota for
lumber which would be con-
siderably below the prese

lumber —
comes from B.C. British Col-_

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