LABOR

FRONT

By WILLIAM KASHTAN

,. event of great international significance is the forth-
Congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions
cheduled to take place in Moscow December 4-11 of

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ted by the Congress will be that of strengthening and
Ng national and international trade union unity. Life has
this. at the top of the agenda for workers everywhere
who ignore and try to side-sitep it, do incalculable
© the working-class movement. :
de nity of action around common aims and a united world
lon movement. could radically
Ipis and open the door to a great sweep forward on

alter international

Such unity around a sound working-class policy of peace

In Tero” place the cold and hot warriors on the defensive and
eat and would open the door*to total and*universal dis-

his in turn would make possible the utilization of

@ «OW spent for arms for socially useful purposes.

ent t uch unity would enable the national liberation move-
tic, Sather new strength and facilitate the complete de-

ch unity would place the working class in the capital-
ta far better position to defeat monopoly’s offensive,
Nits fight for improved social security legislation. and
ion rights, and advance the movement for reduced
Nechani Work with no reduction in take home pay in face of
® qtion, automation and ruthless speed-up. é

Ch unity would strengthen the role of the trade union
in the political life of each country. -

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S the present divisions in the world trade union
ard are being put to good use by monopoly to undermine
One of it and weaken trade union rights in the capitalist world.
<8 favorite tricks is to play off the trade union move-
or one country against that of another, at the expense of
Some ie Class of both. This process has been going on for
Weare , OW in Canada around the fallacious argument that
The cing ourselves out of the world market.”
F a? co growing contradictions within the capitalist world and
the jpublex problems that arise from it cannot be solved by
| ©ts of each country separately; they can only be re-
the workers unite their efforts internationally around

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Of the uch unity has not been achieved this is not the fault
) which from its very inception has striven for it.
for a divided world trade union movement rests
oMpans- Shoulders of those, particularly. George. Meany and
x e Y; who placed ‘the interests of U.S. imperialism ahead
oe... dt i. t S of the working class.

fr dire hey who have built up a U.S. State Department cur-
" Cted at Separating the workers of the socialist countries

nN the capitalist world. :
On the » Who have foisted a discredited trade-union leader-
© workers of Latin America and in some other areas

time the Meany curtain was torn down in Canada also. |
CUlateg he control of many international union offices a
Policy has been and is being pursued. directed at
Of Kops fr the Canadian trade union movement and Canadian
a em developing unity with the trade union movement
€s. And yet if there is a working class and trade

8 Precisely the Canadian trade union movement.

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ang. Often been said that Canada is a bridge between the
Britain. In this case the Canadian: trade union
Derfo he Majority of which is affiliated to the ICFTU,
‘. an invaluable service in acting as a “bridge
tp Rion yrs and ICFTU to help to restore international
I the he pag unity, Needless to say such unity cannot be achieved
a cold war program; it can only be achieved.on
defending the true interests of the working class
an international scale. :
is direction it would be of great value were
Canada to the Congress of the WFTU, to
opinions on common problems with dele-
er the world—from the socialist countries,
Y liberated countries, from -the capitalist coun-
use the Congress is being held in Moscow, to see
how Socialism works and the role of the working

RCing 2 rose union movement in a socialist society now
~© the building of a communist state.

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RMAN PENNER RETIRING

Nipeg? 3 :; :
"ities § Labor Election|labor spokesman and school

trustee for many years, to Fun
as candidate for the Ward 3
seat vacated by Alderman
Penner. :

Andrew Bileski, former
school trustee for seven years,
was nominated to run for the
school board from War 3 in
place of Zuken.

!lution deploring the

scale killings”

“repressive measures.”

pression to worldwide

Angolan people — a repression
that has so far cost the lives
of at. least 30,000 to 50,000
Angolans, according to the
correspondent of the London
Observer in Luanda, capital of
Angola,

. Britain and France abstain-
ed from the vote while the
United States. after trying for
a watering down of the reso-
lution, finally joined the So-
viet Union tin voting for it.
Portugal made it clear that
it would reject UN “interven-

‘Gnternal affair.’’ Indications
were: that it would not admit
the investigating committee of
Bolivia, Dahomey, Malayza,
Finland and the Sudan, which
was ‘created at the last Gen-
eral Assembly session.

Behind the U.S. vote and the
abstentions of Britain and
France, however, was the fact
that the troops of Portuguese
dictator Salazar in Angola are

“large-
in the Portu-
guese colony of Angola and
called on Portugal to cease

The UN body thus gave ex-
con-

demnation of the savage re-
pression by Portugal of the

tion”. in what it regards as an |

being supplied with arms by
these countries through NATO,
cannot avoid its share of re-
sponsibility for the present sit-
uation in Angola.

How severe Salazar’s repres-
sion of the Angolan’s is has
been reported by the ‘London
Observer’s Luanda correspon-
dent.

“Villages and towns are
gutted ruins,’ he writes. ‘For
hundreds of miles, as seen
from the air, the only sign of
life is here and there a rising
smoke trail.”

He continues that “wave
after wave of Africans have
been -‘arrested,”’. resulting in
their ‘total disappearance.”

The Obesrver’s correspond-
ent in Leopoldville in the
Congo, after interviewing hun-
dreds of Angola refugees who
fled across the border, cities
these examples of atricities:

“In Kimpese Hospital, run
by British and American mis-
sionaries, I found a seven-year
old boy. The front of his body
was three-quarters raw with
third - degree burns from a

phosphorous grenade. He had

been brought in covered with
mud and filth in a wicker
cradle.

“Another boy of eight had
a buttock shot away. He was
rescued after seeing his father
and brother shot dead by a

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Though thousands slain,
Angola still fights on

The United Nations Security
Council recently voted 9-0 in
support of an Afro-Asian reso-

Portuguese raiding party.”

The correspondent continués;
“Of all those I met only one
admitted to ‘having been in-
volved in any way with rebel
operations.”

Portugal’s big worry now is
economic. Dependent on its
colonial profits, the biggest of
these in Angola come from
coffee, and the coffee is. gath-
ered in northern Angola where
the revolutionary forces are
strong.

Beginning in June, the cof:
fee harvest must be finished
by August. “If it fails,” writes
the Observer’s correspondent,
“the Angola economy will be
virtually destroyed.”

And the Observer points to
another aspect of the Angolan
economy which has already
been severely drained. :

“The transfer over many
years of all business profits to
Portugal and the United States
has left the country without
any recuperative resources,”
it states,

The American profits come
from the rich diamond and
manganese mines and many
other Angolan enterprises.

For 30 years, the Portuguese
Gestapo in Angola has main-
tained a suppressive apparatus
of the most brutal nature
against any. nationalist move-
ment in the colony.

Despite this, nationalist
movements in Angola, as well
as in the Portuguese colonies
of Mozanbique and Guinea,
are growing very - quickly,
with the support of the inde
pendent African countries.

Tons of fish caught

in man-made seas
About 100,000 tons of fish a

year are now being caught in

a sea which flows where,

fewer than 10 years ago, water-

less plains stretched: for hun-
dreds of miles.

This news came from the
124-mile-long Tsimlyansk Sea,
which filled. in 1952, behind
the’ great dam which formed
part of the Volga-Don canal.

Fish. from: Soviet’ man-made
seas are expected to: provide
from 600,000 to 800,000 tons
of fish a year before very long:

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