LABOR FRONT 3 . SY. WILLIAM KASHTAN When this appears in print the motorcade to the Ontario government organized by the Windsor auto workers will have taken place. Its purpose was to demand government legisla- tion to prevent companies from pulling up stakes in one community and moving to another. i For some time now the Ford Motor Company has been undertaking such piece meal operations and it is rumored that other auto companies may do like- wise. Nor is it only the auto workers who are affected by run-away plants. This has become a widespread phenomena in industry after industry as monopoly strives to maintain and increase its pro- fits at the expense of standards won by ,trade unions in these industries. The issue raised by the auto workers is therefore of great importance for all workers, * * ~ Some workers have tended to hold up their hands in face of such developments and say: What's the use of fighting it. You can’t prevent com- panies from moving out of one community and into another. After all, monopoly is interested in profits not in people and it will do what is profitable for it.” True enough, monopoly will always try to do what is profitable for it. : But it is also true that were the working class to adopt a fatalistic attitude to this or any other question, it would be ground down. In real life the workers are compelled to fight poooescooovecoooooores - & & for a greater share of the social product they produce. In real life they are compelled to build their unions to defend their economic interests. In real life, depending upon their strength } and militancy, they can also compel governments to adopt legislation which gives them some measure of protection against the consequences of capitalist rule. In this case the demand being raised by the auto workers is a sound one, and, from the standpoint of the working class, one uf principle: that legislation be adopted by the federal and provincial governments prohibiting any company from indiscriminately moving out from one city or town to another. It may be argued that this is quite a far-reaching demand and unlikely to be achieved. But such legislation already exists in a number of capitalist countries and ought to be enacted in Canada as well, : * * * Undoubtedly monopoly will raise its voice and say that its “management rights” are being usurped. But so-called management rights which operate against the national interest need to be curbed. In the case of auto as in other industries, management, having amassed huge profits out.of the exploitation of work- ers, is quite prepared to turn cities and towns into ghost areas in its insatiable drive for even greater profits. The trade union movement in Ontario, and in all of Canada for that matter, needs to support the auto workers in their effort to achieve such long overdue and necessary legis: lation. * a * But together with such legislation there is equally the need for autoworkers, backed by the rest of the labor move- ment, to press for a truly national automotive policy based on the production of cars and trucks with a 100 percent Cana- dian content. : The various proposals for integration which have been advanced in various quarters, including leaders of the United Auto Workers union, lead nowhere for auto workers, nor do they strengthen the industrial base for the Canadian economy, thus assuring more jobs for more workers. It has now been established for example, although it has always been true, that automatic transmissions could be pro- duced in Canada. Why is it not done? Are the rights of management, USA, the obstacle? Is the government’s con- genital inability to stand up to the USA the reason? The fact is that the interests of the working class and the national interest make it imperative for the trade union move- ment to come forward and fight for economic programs dir- ected to decisively weakening the economic and political con- trol of our country by U.S.-Canadian monopoly interests. The struggle for Canadian independence and jobs depends upon it. NEGOTIATIONS ONLY SOLUTION What's behind China: By IVOR MONTAGU — British Daily Worker A terrible tragedy is developing along the In-— dian - Chinese frontier. Two great peoples — to- gether they total more than one-third of the hu- man race — are being set at loggerheads. Though by tradition, desire, interest and policy they stand most bellicose. That is, the Indian Army will endeavour to establish Indian ideas about the frontier by foree. ‘ Why should there be 2° quarrel about the frontier? Why should Chinese and Indian ideas of where it runs differ in some parts by many hundreds of square miles and, at least in some de. gree, here and there, all along its immense length? To understand the position, we should appreciate that this is not Lf, N 4, GQ © pment] © pommel International boundary Boundary line claimed by India uniloterally YOUR COMPLETE TRIP CAN BE ARRANGED WITH US INCLUDING RESERVATIONS AND _ Hotel — Air — Rail —Steamship Bookings SPECIALIZING IN TOURS TO: @ USSR @ RUMANIA @ BULGARIA @ HUNGARY @ CUBA @ CHINA | For Details Phone or Write To: GLOBE TOURS 613 Selkirk Ave. JUstice 6-1886 Winnipeg 4, Man. _ ; perenne a SNE WHERE DISPUTE CEN'IHES. Map above shows the Inter- national boundry. It also shows the McMahon Line unilater- ally claimed by India. Shaded area in between is territory claimed by China but occupied by Indian troops in the re- cent period, The McMahon line was arbitrarily set by a Brit- ish officer and was never recognized by any Chinese govern- ment. Even Nehru at one time strongly protested the setting of the line arbitrarily by British imperialism. in the forefront among peoples for peace, a third party, deeply implicated, is pushing toward war. Its hand is pushing from thousands of miles away — from Washington. The openly declared policy of the U.S. State Depart- ment—its dearest wish—to ‘‘make Asian fight Asian’’ is in danger of bearing fruit. The spirit of John Foster Dulles stalks the passes of the Himalayas. BELLICOSE Until recently, military inci- dents along this frontier bore at least an appearance of accident. Mistaken location, mistaken. in- structions, misunderstanding of the other fellow’s intentions could account, or seem to account for warlike gestures and shootings. 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