By WILLIAM KASHTAN

U.S. Labor Secretary Goldberg was a recent visitor at
Ottawa where he and Labor Minister Starr conferred on the
state of the United States and Canadian economy. The press
does not report about any other discussions these gentlemen
may have had. One wonders whether matters such as the Taft-
Hartley law or the Labrum-Griffin pill were given any con-
Sideration at all, either by Mr. Goldberg or Mr. Starr. As is
Known, both these U.S. laws — anti-labor in their letter and
Spirit and in no small measure responsible for imposing a
Straight-jacket on the U.S. trade union movement — have also
been imposed on Canadian trade union officers and on local
union executives.

There is no record of Mr. Goldberg having deplored this
situation. Nor is there any record of Mr. Starr drawing attention
to an infringement of Canadian sovereign rights or the demo-
cratic rights of Canadians.

Neither was anything said about the fact that many union
‘constitutions in the USA prevent union locals in Canada from
participating -in political activity and throwing their support
behind the New Democratic Party.

* *% *

| While Messrs. Goldberg and Starr sidé-stepped such rather
important matters, Mr. Goldberg nevertheless took time off to
Speak about things closest to his heart and, presumably, closest.
to.the heart of the Kennedy administration.

Said Mr. Goldberg, as reported in the daily press: “I am
highly critical of the proposed alliance (read: mutual assistance
pact) between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and
thé International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.”

Further: “In a few brief remarks at CLC headquarters, Mr.
Goldberg underlined the need for organized labor to keep its
house in order by preventing the infiltration of Communists.
The expulsion of Communists from the labor movement is not
4 violation of civil liberties, but a necessary measure to preserve.
free and independent unions.” :

And still further: “During the course of the press con-
ference later, Mr. Goldberg said that labor should seek to under-
mine those (unions) that are Communist-dominated by expelling’
them from their ranks-and then seeking to win back the rank
and file into legitimate unions.”

: Quite a mouthful.
* % *

_ . These remarks obviously have serious overtones, indicating
that insofar as U.S. monopoly and the U.S. government are
concerned, the cold war in and outside the labor movement is
to be pursued with renewed vigor.

When President Kennedy came to Canada some time ago,
the used the occasion to outline the Kennedy Doctrine — an
open declaration of intervention in the internal affairs of other
countries, not only in Latin America but in Canada too.

Now Kennedy’s labor secretary comes here to outline the

students
Some are immature. A lot are
hypocrites.

Addressed as an open letter

to Bruce York, the editorial,
which was entitled, “We Apol-
ogize,” read as follows:

“Mr. Yorke:
“You'll have to excuse the
at this University.

“We thought that in an in-

stitution of this type, the stu-
dents would at least attempt to
assess the arguments
speaker whose ideology is dif-
ferent from theirs.

of a

“The Campus Communist

club and yourself were appar-
ently under the same mistaken
belief.

“We also assumed that when

the students had assessed the
arguments, they would propose
counter arguments. It’s called
intellectual discussion.

“And we honestly believed

that most had probably acquir-
ed the most basic of manners
before coming here,

“Your visit Friday proved

us all wrong.

“A small number of students

threw things at the speaker
and the. chairman. They are
immature and bad-mannered,
They don’t deserve comment,

“The most disturbing thing

was the attitude of the rest of
the audience,

TRADE ONE-SIDED
Government statistics show

that 56.3 percent of Canada’s
exports go to the SRS pees Brag!
percent to Britain, 6.2 percent
to other Commonwealth coun-
tries, 8.1 percent to the Com-
mon Market (Western Europe
under W, Germany’s . domin-
ation)
Japan. Only 9 percent go to
other countries.

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and 3.3 percent to

UBC paper blasts attack on
free speech in editorial

Strong criticism of the behavior of a small group of students at the University of
B.C.; who tried to disrupt a recent meetin g addressed by Bruce Yorke of the B.G
Communist Party, was voiced in an editorial in the October 11th

edition of The Ubysseye

“They laughted. They thought
it was funny that twenty or
thirty idiots, protected by a
group of nearly a thousand
could throw things at two peo-
ple on stage and get away
with it.

“Yet, to condone such behav-
ior is contrary to their desires.

“They say they want freedom
of speech, yet they tried to sil-
ence one whose ideas are con-
trary to theirs.

“They say they want acade-
mic freedom, yet they refused
to all others the same right.

“They knew the attack was
unjustified and yet they
laughted.

“These students refused to
look at your party’s plan for
developing the Columbia in an

“LAND OF THE FREE”

Charging that the violent at-
tack by New York cops upon
a member of the Chilean UN
delegation, Diallo Telli, Chil-
ean representative on the UN
told a press conference that the
brutal treatment of Michel
Collet by New York’s ‘finest?
“could be compared to that of
a lynching incident.”

The incident occured when
a Harlem Taxi crashed into the
Chilean ‘car in which Télli and
Collet were riding. Telli told
the press of insults, threats,
attacks and humiliation by the
police, a continuation of the
“constant and painful threats
to the security and dignity of
colored diplomats in the Unit-
ed States.” The police attack,
stated Telli, “manifestly had
all the aspects of racial dis.
crimination.”

meeting probably

‘gram is essentially the same

intellectual light.

“The calibre of the questions
asked indicated that most stu*
dents know little of the back
ground of the Columbia Rive!
treaty. Many who were at the
still don't
know that your party’s pro-
program proposed for the Libs
eral government by Gen. A. G
L. McNaughton.

“And_none of them had thé
technical knowledge to trap
you, as other politicians are s0
often trapped when they ty
to defend their policies. :

“Thus the demonstration
boils down to the fact that it
was planned by a few imma
ture students who wanted 10
see UBC in the downtown pa*
pers, and was condoned by 4
greater number of students
who refused to do what is theif
right and duty — listen to yout
program, assess your argu
ments, and then discuss them ;

“No, unfortunately, Mr
Yorke, you - didn’t have 8
chance.

“The immature brought su‘
gar cubes.

“The hypocrites brought on
ly themselves.

“You deserve an apology.

“They probably also lack thé
guts to give it to you.”

The Pacific Tribune is glad
to see that the editors of thé
University paper have thé
courage to speak out against”
those who would wipe out fre?
speech on the campus. E

We are still looking for somé —
small sign from members of
the Board of Governors 9f
UBC professors that they at
least share the viewpoint of the
Ubyssey editorial.

labor doctrine of the U.S. government — open intervention
in the internal affairs of the trade union movement, not only
in the U.S. but in Canada as well.

What Mr. Goldberg has said in effect is that the US.
government will decide which union can or cannot exist in the
USA and in Canada.

What he said is that the government will decide which union
a worker may join and whom that union may elect as their)!

officers,
* % *%

All this is being done in the name of combatting “Com-
munism”. But it should fool no one. What is involved is the
determination of the U.S. government to regulate trade unions,
to control them and to foist government preferred leaders on
them.

Is there a connection between the speeches of Mr. Goldberg |!
and the decision of the CLC leadership ‘to raid Mine-Mill? Is
there a connection there with the stepped up efforts to defeat
progressive trade unionists in various unions? Is there a con-.
nection with the recent expulsion of the Electrical Trades Union
from the British TUC Trade Union Congress, the British Labor
Party? Is there a connection there with the drive on living’
standards and trade union rights? And not least, is there al!
connection there with the arms build up, the sharpening of
international tensions, the attempt on the part of the USS.
Administration to spread nuclear arms and make them avail-
able to the West German militarists? -

* * *

Mr. Goldberg’s effort to step up the cold war ought to be
categorically rejected by the Canadian trade union movement,
Tt has already done more than enough harm and will do more
if not defeated. It is not division but genuine unity and solidarity
which the trade union movement needs to repel the employer
offensive on living standards, jobs and trade union rights. It
is not a sterile anti-Communist program which the trade union
movement needs but an effective program which would curb
the powers of U.S.-Canadian monopoly. Not least the Canadian
trade union movement needs to assert its autonomy and sover-
eigniy as a fitting reply to Mr. Goldberg and the policies he

atid “the U.S. administration advocate.

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