BY WILLIAM KASHTAN

Big business, aided by the Diefenbaker government, is
Mg both Sides of the street with the aim of sucking the
€ union movement into forms of class collaboration with it.
unt ist there was the decision to establish a productivity
ish U. This has since been followed up by proposals to.estab-
0 @ Management-labor-government committee to study trade

ni
Ming Ployment difficulties. This is apparently what Labor
f he ster St

and th

‘ : Th view of th Ete e ‘ inidust
MS » e fact that productivity in Canadian industry
dee ene the highest in the capitetist world it is difficult to
an at the purpose of the productivity council will be, other
Poor ing On the workers to further increase their output
Ms er and materials either by accepting more extensive
be di Speed-up and exploitation, or by allowing themselves
th ¢ 'splaced by new machinery which would produce more
alleq st ewer workers. Either way the workers would be}
ord Ubon. to tighten their belts and sacrifice their. interests |,
aie to guarantee ‘high profits for monopoly.
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a i in fact. Th
eto Process has been going on all along in fact. The
oan €re isn’t one of increasing productivity but of en-
‘hg at the Canadian people are able to purchase the goods
re Produced, and, along with it, adopting policies leading to
se mee lon. of the economy. so as to ensure work for all
t ¢

@
Me Presen} u
Vity had
avail
tkers, speeding up productivity would only

e problem.”

ike Productivity council although nothing has happen-
ange th

atte recently Jodoin and the officers of most CLC
ate

F) me

,
| or és
i Gat is behind this latest proposal of the government? '
Pteady wettly, insofar as monopoly is concerned, it has au
Tade 9 d..its :position on how to deal with the question ©
£ Com Unemployment. The CMA, the Canadian Chamber
Clareg ¢ Tce and other spokesmen of Big Business, all have
Tesent ¢/ One way or another that labor is responsible for the
Hor @ +conomic Situation, for inflation, for high prices and
ine Present unemployment. It has publicly declared that
incomPetition can be coped with only if labor foregoes
ing c@8es and abandons its social and legislative mags;
“ty ideas of reducing the work week. It has re

Me and again that labor is pricing Canada out ©
Market,

Sement study, except to cudgel the trade union

has A pie accepting this kind of policy? If this is the Lae
w©doin and other officers of unions within the nee

9-Operate in objectives which can only be aime

Standards of the working class?
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alt .
Sbpose MAY be argu ld not very well
hts ed by them that they cou
ito the pP&ticipa on sui a being made to appear opposed
wteress onal interest. However, the national interest and tue
ame at ar ™onopoly, both U.S. and Canadian, are not the

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ins wre can thus be no community of interest between their
What the people need. =

v these cire Resta 4 ies, unless
, i umsta icipation in such bodies, une
a, rbracted to exponniy pears and advancing policies
| 2 moyePoWers, can only weaken the efforts of the trade
wen mil ment and of the working class at this critical Slane,
on a tant and united action is all decisive to protect t
2 the pes2inst the effects of economic crisis and win throug
. "Baining front this year.

RW. bog ct is that both the productivity council and ais
' cerned. 5 One aim, insofar as monopoly and governmen
St itive. at aim is to “make the Canadian economy more
’ndards, &" that is, to cut production costs by lowering living

nets

ee lage? 8long in such objectives is to propose that the work:
is * Seago, st’, Own. throat-in the interests of monopoly. Tht |
of sot to aa Street. The task of the trade union movener
fr, the Woe ve the contradictions of capitalism at the igs rane
“port the tkers but to find ways and ‘means to protect t ae
: litical sls of capitalism on the economic, legislative an

BOR FRONT

a, arr had in mind when he declared recently that ¥
ene over Hment has done all it-can to cope with unemploy- e |
at “it was now up to labor and management to act.” | §

VES

sual

PAUL BUNYAN

OR

PRESS BUILDER

OUR PRESS BUILDERS and sup-
porters are the modern PAUL BUN-

YANS of B.C.

THEIR efforts keep the P.T. itn’

the forefront for Peace - Jobs - Neu-_

trality and Socialism.

s YOUR elp is needed NOW!

Every moment counts.

clubs are over the

Vancouver Island,

‘Belgian

BRUSSELS — Belgium’s| The Party’s M.P.’s went up tres where Communists play-

Communist Party has
ed its vote from 100,
1958) to 168,
general election.

Quota $17,000 - Turned in $6,750 - To Go $10,250

Fifteen city clubs and five provincia} Delta, Dewdney and other Provincial
city. overall is just $500 short of 50% days to the end of the Drive.

of its $11,000 objective. The big lag is |
in the provincial points. What about it Club of the week is Powell River:

aE RT IT ITE eT

Communist vote soars as

half way mark.'The points? Remember, there are just 23

Okanagan Region, with $150 on $200.

government beaten

increas-|from two to five. It retained| ed a leading part in the month-
145 (Gn|its seats in Liege and gained long strike last December and .

823 in the recent | extra seats in Mons, Charleroi | January.

and Thuin, all industrial cen- Wisin accult cP the cieitine

was the defeat of the ruling
Catholic Social Christian Par-
ty, . whose leader, Premier .
Eyskens, was responsible for ,
trying to force on the country
the rotorious austerity law
which sparked off the strikes
and led to the dissolution of
parliament and the ‘holding o
new elections. :

The Catholics received 41.-
46 per cent of the votes com-
pared with 46.49 at the last °
election in 1958; the Socialists
36.73 per cent, compared with °*
35.79, and the Liberals 12.32 -
per cent, compared ‘with 11.05. °

The 5 per cent drop in the ~
| €atholic vote is regarded as
a. defeat for the. last govern-
ment’s policies and particul- ..

Mare in 10 000 ~tuilents in Rangoon, Burma, demon-|arly a warning that there -
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4 8tena,
| Cla
f ctedian mlaboration will neither curb or defeat U-S. and

and its anol it can only lead to defeat for the working

U.S. policies in Asia.
ried a coffin and a

trated before the U.S. Embassy on February 21 to oppose | will be resistance to. any new
Ss oe

The demonstrators shown above car-| attempt to impose the auster- .
n effigy of U.S. imperialism. ity laws.

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