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gress and stated that its purpose is an all-out raid against
the Teamsters’ Union. Some readers of the column com-
Mented afterwards that perhaps I had been a bit too far-
Teaching in my estimate. Events since then, however, have
Shown that this is indeed the intention of the officers of

the CLC.

Discussions are on foot now
ate CLC headquarters as to
Who Will bell the cat and who
Will get the spoils. -In turn

€ Teamsters have invited
ames Hoffa to come to Cana-
ote a series of membership

S in different centres.

‘ Meanwhile, the first round
a may turn out to be a
Hight knockdown, drag-out
has already begun.

ey week the CLC sent a
a, to all unions in British
crane instructing them to
calle Picket lines of what it
Strikes” illegal wild cat
€s" in the CPR’s Pacific

®ast merchandise services.
oo President Jodoin in
Connection: “the strike at
Merchandise services is
y an illegal strike, the
eth Purpose of which is to
favor ‘to enforce a raid by
Cheng e amsters against the
8S; an affiliate of the

Clear]
Sole

went: on to say
clea wishes to make
ir that the picket lines
te by the teamsters
of Not legitimate. Members
° aa affiliated to the
Biopais not respect these
lines’’,

rae meantime, one of the
t ae officials has denied
Strike, 1S union is behind the

sate that as it may, the CLC

a } €nt quoted above goes
Seg €yond the immediate is-
= hand. What it says, in
ig s , and what it calls for,
bie, Studied policy of strike-
filiate When unions unaf-
Volveq to the Congress are in-
. in a strike.
Is going quite far. It
‘ eg is a new approach
Wort r Solidarity and will be
Rihana tte a bit of money to
It eaing employers.
doach hot the kind of an ap-
lightty Workers should take
Tehuse If it is legitimate to
When to respect picket lines
to 8 union is not affiliated
tate

is
“ertain]

tale (netess, how long will
efore those who advo-
bolicy will try to ex-
Ongresey unions within the
too he heated discussion which
Qi, Place at the Montreal
thi, “O8Vention on precisely
leg ievestion, arising from a
introduced by a
howe local from Winnipeg,
Joni; how strongly the ma-
ty 2 Of delegates and work-
it gj. ! about this issue. But

the i eevee how lukewarm

¢

'to advancing a sound work-
|ing-class policy of labor. soli-
darity.

The anti-working class ap-
| proach expressed in the above
iletter of President Jodoin is.
further re-inforced by a Can-
adian Press dispatch. from Ot-
tawa which states that “any
union outside the Congress
canopy as an independent out-
fit is open to organizational
forays by CLC affiliates.
While this amounts to raiding,
it is legal raiding in Congress’
eyes,.”’

“Legal raiding and tacit ap-
proval of strike - breaking’.
What has this in common with
honest trade unionism with
labor solidarity and united
action of ‘tthe workers in de-
fense of their common inter-
ests? :

I do not have the details
of the strike at CPR’s Pacific
Coast merchandise services,
but it would appear obvious
that the workers there went
‘on strike for legitimate pur-
poses.

Is it the duty of Congress
officers to help them win it—
or to smash it?

And is it not the duty of
Congress officers to exert
themselves and work for the
restoration of trade union
unity rather than setting up
“vigilante committees’ for
purposes of destroying unions
which are outside -Congress
ranks at the present time?

This “new approach” to la-
bor solidarity needs to be
strongly condemned by work-
ers everywhere.

What is ne€ded is a new
effort to restore trade union
unity.

POSTSCRIPT: After. writ-
ing the above, it is reported
that the Teamsters have asked
for a meeting with Congress
officers with a view to seek-
ing a solution to the dispute
which led to their expulsion
from Congresss. Whether such
a meeting takes place remains
to be seen.

Certainly everything pos-
sible should be done to pre-
vent an all-out jurisdictional
war, the end result of which
could be disaster for the en-
tire trade union movement.

One thing: is certain, the
workers will not benefit from
such a conflict.. They would
benefit immeasurably were
the trade union movement
truly united around policies
capable of effectively defend-

atform felt when it cameing their interests.

L 1B il LI

evens urges takeover

B.C. herring

FRANCIS: G. POWERS
... in the dock.

Pravda comments
on Powers case

Commenting on the recent
trial of U.S. spy Francis G.
Powers, Soviet newspaper
Pravda said countries placing
their territories at the disposal}
of the United States for pur-
poses of provocations should
think it over in the light of
Powers’ trial.

“The peoples and the gov-
ernments of these countries
should once again seriously
ponder over the fact of how
dangerous it is to have an
American hornet’s nest in
their -midst,’’ said Pravda.

In a stinging comment on the
insolence of those in Washing-
ton who refer-to the sentence
as being “‘severe,”’ Pravda says:

“Those who sent Powers off
to almost certain death and
who had given him a pin with
poison are muttering some-
thing about ‘clemency!’ Phar-
isiasm unparalleled!”

a
NANAIMO

HEAR

TIM BUCK

PLAZA
BALLROOM

WED., SEPT. 7

Here are some notes and
comparisons of the election
platforms of the various poli-
tical parties in the September
12th provincial election:

The CCF platform makes
no mention at all of crop in-

demand of farm organizations
in this province. Is this an
oversight?

The Conservatives propose
to| “increase the present
amount of land under cultiva-
tion”. One wonders why.

or solutions for present sur-
pluses (except that farmers
should produce less), then
why produce more?

Only the Communist plat-
form deals with the all im-
portant issue of guaranteed
prices. None of the other par-
ties even mention it!

The Liberals say they will
“provide a new ‘deal for agri-
culture” and the Conserva-
tives say they will
the status of the farmer.” Since
the Liberal and Conservative
governments at Ottawa are
largely responsible for the de-
clining income.and ruin facing
Canadian farmers, one can
only wonder at the hypocrisy
and cynicism of these parties.

The Social Credit, Liberal
and- Conservative platforms
say nothing about stopping the
dumping of U.S. farm produce
into B.C. Nor should they,
since governments of these
parties have consistently  al-
lowed and in fact suported
such. dumping at the expense
of our farmers.

surance, which is an important |

Since they have no proposals |

‘restore |

Terming the shutdown of
the herring operation in B.C.
as an “illegal lockout’, by the
operators, Homer Stevens, sec-
retary of the United Fisher-
men and Allied Workers Un-
lion, has called on the govern-
ment to take over the idle
|herring plants.

Stevens presented ‘the de-
ijmand to aé_ special meeting
|ealled by the union of M.P’s,
|M.L.A.’s candidates in the
forthcoming elections.

The companies are refusing
|to operate the herring fleet on
the grounds that they cannot
jcompete on the foreign mar-
|ket. They are attempting to
force the workers involved to
jaccept a price lower than
jthat negotiated last year for
1a two-year agreement.

The Union claims that the
|operators plan to move their
joperations to Peruvian waters
where low-wage non-union
labor is available, in order to
increase their already substan-
itial profits.

Harold ‘Pritchett,
of the Communist
Burnaby, speaking at the
meeting, supported the de-
{mand of the Union and point-
led out that if we were to open

candidate
Party in

\trade with China it would pro-
vide a market for millions of
tons of herring.

Albion All-candidate Meeting
Best wishes to the farmers
of the Dewdney -Constituency
where their locals of the
Farmers Union of B.C. have
aranged an all-candidate meet-
ling at the Albion Hall for
Tuesday, September 6th. It’s
a good idea. This is one way
to compel recognition from
|all parties of the serious crisis
|facing agriculture; at the same
\time it will enable farmers to
|hear the farm platforms of
‘each party and candidate.

Paes
aaa ee Wow :
eee eS ere Speman coosonose
BERS ESE RE BRE 0:

to operate on their extensive

8 P.M.

September 2, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7

The Soviet Union is building a large fleet of river boats

river system. Above is a new

ship recently launched. It carries more than 300 pas-