LEGENDARY SOVIET HERO

Marshal Voroshilov dies

With. the death on Dec. 2 of
Marshal Kliment Voroshilov at
88 years of age, one of the last
participants in the formation of
the Communist Party under
Lenin’s leadership has departed
the scene. Legendary hero of the
civil war and the defeat of inter-
ventionist forces of 14 foreign
countries following the October
Revolution, Voroshilov was also
a member of the five-man State
Committee for Defense that
guided the Soviet Union to vic-
tory over the German fascist
invaders in World War Two.

Voroshilov was born on Feb.
4, 1881 in Ukraine in the family
of a railroad watchman. He
went to work in the Donbas
mines as a child. In his early
teens he became a revolutionary
socialist and was elected by his
comrades in the Ukrainian city
of Luhansk to the first congress
convened to establish the Rus-
sian Social Democratic “Labor
Party. This first attempt wasn’t
fully successful due to tsarist
repression, but soon after this
first communist party. was or-
ganized along lines advocated by
V. I. Lenin. Voroshilov consist-
ently supported Lenin’s policies
and engaged in underground
party activities for which he was
many times arrested and exiled
by the tsarist regime.

While his formal education
was limited to two years at
school, “Klim” Voroshilov read
and studied assiduously and at
18 he was already a seasoned
revolutionary Marxist.

Voroshilov headed Red Guard
workers detachments during the
civil war and became a top lead-
er in the struggle to drive the
German troops of occupation
from the Ukraine and smash the

Power

By BRUCE MAGNUSON

The power base in the trade
union movement is once again
in the process of shifting back
to the rank-and-file membership
where it belongs. Recent con-
ventions of provincial federa-
tions in Ontario, Quebec and
British Columbia point up this
trend. (For reports, see last
week’s issue of the Tribune.)

The fight against austerity,
against loading the cost of infla-
tion on the working people, for
democratic rights, and to unify
organized labor under one cen-
tral body in English and French
Canada, will loom large next
spring when the Canadian Labor
Congress convenes in Edmonton.

The foremost economic issues
are. job security, wages, taxes
and the freedom to strike.

As the pressures of employers
and governments mount, the
process of radicalization and mi-

litancy opens the door to left -

unity in action, a unity which
includes the communists.

Wage earners in all occupa-
tions are beginning to realize
that they do occupy a position
of a distinct class in our society.
They are beginning to see more
clearly what separates them
from their employers and from
those who make their living
from industrial stocks, bonds
and real estate; the fact that
drawing wages is entirely dif-
ferent from income derived from

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DECEMBER 12, 1

White Guard forces that sought
to restore the old regime in
Russia.

Voroshilov became a member
of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union in 1921. In 1925, following
the death of Frunze, he became
People’s Commissar for Military
and Naval Affairs and Chairman
of the Revolutionary Military
Council. In this post from 1925
to 1940 he was credited with re-
organization of the general staff
of the Red Army, mechanization
of the armed forces, develop-
ment of an air force, and organi-
zation of Far Eastern Red Army
units.

An outstanding event of Voro-
shilov’s years as president was
his visit to the Democratic Re-
public of Vietnam in 1957. In
the light of subsequent history,
the occasion was _ prophetic.
Speaking in Hanoi along with
President Ho Chi Minh on May
23, Voroshilov pledged the sup-
port of the Soviet Union to the
new socialist nation in South-
east Asia.

of rank and file grows in unions

profits, interest and rents.

They are also learning that
the different levels of income
and standards of living among
workers do not alter the fact
they are all wage workers ex-
ploited for the profit of their
employers. Nor has the new
technology abolished wage slave-
ry despite an immense increase
in the number of professional
and technical workers.. White
collar technicians are becoming
more and more involved in pro-
duction, while semi-skilled and
unskilled manual workers are
increasing in numbers, although
more slowly than are _ skilled
workers.

What is taking place is a clos-
ing of the gap between mental
and manual labor. Intellectuals
and technicians are moving
closer to the industrial workers
all the time. More solidarity is
developing in the _ struggle
against their common exploiters.

Many of us remember the
great sit-down strikes of the
1930’s which brought the power-
ful industrial unions of _the
C.I.O. into existence. That gi-
gantic movement of class strug-
gle arose from rank-and-file in-
itiative until it reached the
scope of an uprising. Union
leaders who opposed the mili-
tancy that arose from belaw
were swept aside.

The grass-roots work which
preceded the new kind of labor
movement that arose with the
969—Page 4

tT at HA

okays sell-out deal

By DON CURRIE

The biggest resources sell-out
to the United States in the his-
tory of Canada is being planned
by the Trudeau Government in
collusion with the Nixon admi-
nistration. The plan for the sell-
out of Canadian oil, natural gas,
coal and hydro resources was
worked out in Washington by
the U.S. interior secretary, Wal-
ter Hickel, and handed to Cana-
dian Minister of Energy Mines
and Resources J. J. Greene.
Green immediately hailed the
made-in-the-U.S.A. plan for the
take-over of Canadian energy re-
sources and called for its endor-
sation.

Greene is quoted as stating
that an agreement would be
signed to turn over Canadian
energy resources to the U.S.A.
after presidential-prime minis-
terial conferences. No reference
was made in his statement to
seeking parliamentary approval
for the plan of betrayal.

Following the Trudeau gov-
ernment’s week-end stand on
the U.S. take-over of the Cana-
dian Arctic, the plan to sell out
Canada’s energy resources fully
exposes the continentalist policy
of the Trudeau administration
and its servile attitude to U.S.
monopoly interests. Resources
minister Greene’s assurance that
Canadian interests would be pro-
tected simply cannot;be believed
in the light of the Liberal Gov-
ernment’s record of sell-out.
Greene would leave the future
development of Canada’s energy
resources to the tender mercies

C.I.O. was done by communists
in the Twenties and early Thir-
ties. Combatting the ‘higher
strategy of labor” which preach-
ed class collaboration and even
partnership with the employers,
communists never tired in ex-
plaining patiently the true na-
ture of class exploitation and
class struggle.

But immediately after the
Second World War a new kind
of war was started, commonly
known as the Cold War. Big
capitalist corporations and their
governments engaged in total
mobilization to save the world
from a supposed “menace of
communism.” American imper-
ialism embarked on total war
mobilization, to become _ the
gendarme of the capitalist world.

A witchhunt against commu-
nists was used to whip labor
into line. Everyone who opposed
the Cold War was purged. A
major defeat was suffered bv

the left.

During the Fifties and early
Sixties these policies all but
crippled and destroyed the mili-
tancy of the trade union move-
ment. A serious gap developed
between the workers and their
leaders who assumed the role
of “respectable labor statesmen”’
and negotiators rather than mili-
tant strike leaders. (As a result
of more and more government
intervention in union affairs,
these leaders achieved collective
bargaining not through picket
lines but by means of Labor

of the big U.S. oil, gas and pipe-
line monopolies.

An emergency debate in the
federal Parliament should imme-
diately take place and a full pub-
lic report of the Washington
meeting between Greene and
Hickel be given to Parliament.
There must be no back door
deals. The public has a right to
know the full details.

The labor and farm move-
ments, the business community,
all Canadian people who stand
for Canadian independence and
for the development of our
energy resources to power an
expanding Canadian - industrial
base to provide jobs, should op-
pose this sell-out. Canada needs
a national energy policy, an
East-West hydro power grid,
and integrated use of all the vast
energy resources of the country
for industrial expansion and na-
tional-building projects. After
these Canadian needs are fully
met, it will be time enough to
consider the export and sale of
surplus power resources.

Halt betrayal

rea tl

The Communist Party of Can-
ada sent the following wire to
Prime Minister Trudeau and the
provincial premiers attending
the Dominion-Provincial Confer-
ence at Ottawa, calling for an

Board elections and officially
sanctioned certifications. Legal-
ism pushed the rank-and-file
aside and substituted the clever
negotiator, or the so-called labor
lawyer.)

Today we stand before a new
watershed, with new rapids and
portages to be conquered before
the historic journey can proceed
more smoothly.

In today’s struggles there are
those on the left who would
brush aside the workers’ econo-
mic demands and the populariza-
tion of immediate gains on the
grounds that these are not “re-
volutionary.” They would coun-
terpose abstract slogans about
“management’s prerogatives” as
the ultimate solution for all prob-
lems.

The popularization of econo-
mic needs and demands must
proceed alongside the struggle
for democratic reforms, both of
which become powerful weap-
ons in mobilizing workers for
greater class battles, for more
far-reaching demands. Wages
and other economic concessions
can only be obtained at the ex-
pense of capitalist profits. To
place it any other way means
in effect the promotion of class
“partnership.”

Two objectives stand forth
today in the minds of working
people everywhere. They are: a)
full employment, and b) a guar-
anteed income for all to live a
life in decency and self-respect.

. tions for this are maturing

emergency debate and oppositid §
to the latest plan for betrayal
Canada’s interests: ik

“The made-in-Washington plat”
to take over Canadian ene!él”
resources is a grave threat ©

Canadian independence, futul@ (is

nd UF im
vanadiat ti

economic expansion,
jobs of millions of Cana a
young people. The U.S. plan =

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grab Canadian energy resources i d

is the continuation of the ee
tinentalist policy of your 8%”

ernment and runs counter t0 the a
interests of all the Canadit th
people, except for a handfu je
U.S.-Canadian monopoly intel) ot
ests who stand to make fabulov® jw
profits out of the export a jth
sale of Canadian national P” i
sources. S fe
“U.S. control over Canadial c
oil, gas, coal and hydro resouly ;
es would prevent the constil@ |S
tion of an integrated east- We a!
hydro and thermal power 8!) ‘tt
to provide for future industl® jo
expansion on the prairies le
other industrially under-de™ 'n
loped regions of the country: —
“We demand that your ed y
ernment act for Canada, and 1 {ii
the big U.S. monopolies. “il a
“Parliament should be callé® jin
into emergency debate so that
it can repudiate the servile P&! |
cy of J. J. Greene, Mines, Emel )li
gy and Resources Minister |
your government, who is enthv
siastically recommending Catt
dian agreement with the Nix0™ |
Government’s proposal. No ba jf
door deals! Parliament must act {
now! Stop the sell-out of Cala” ne
dian energy resources to @

interests!”

Maintaining the uninterrup™
development of industry and
sources to realise these dem@ he
constitutes a challenge t0 Hf
system of private owners!
based on human exploitatio™
While the question of abollé ti
ing ownership of industry 15 tue
yet on the agenda in our Bei
ation, the objective COP)”

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pidly, and the process for a
development must be facilitate

The influence and powe! fe
labor are extending. There et
need to extend the proces?
collective bargaining into mee
areas. This must be done 0? ye
basis of uncompromising OPP y”
sition to any and all forms

class collaboration. It is Of 44 |

most importance to win i
whole community in suppo!
the workers’ demands.
Today’s attempt by the
class to make labor the V!" 4 —
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more essential than ever.
the real relationship betWe:
labor income and profits of Cy
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