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sons will have been learned, and
the new government elected can
be taught to respect the fact that
the potential exists as the struggle
to make of it a. politically effective
force continues.

In this historic election only the
candidates of the LPP have brought
the fundamental issues of peace
and war into the open. In many
instances the old-line _ politicians
could not evade these issues, and
under pressure by the people,
feigned agreement. In parliament
pretense will be less easy; because
the people’s insistence for jobs, mat-
kets and peace will grow steadily.
Moreover, in an election where the
“esser evil” too often dictates the
choice, the votes cast for this or
that old-line* party do always ac-
curately measure the people’s senti-
ments.

Every vote cast for the LPP can-
didates on March 31 is a vote for
the things the people desire and
need most: remunerative jobs, pros-
perous world-wide markets, and a
country free from the fear and
horror of nuclear destruction.

No 'dog-collar’ for labor

QRGANIZED labor and the pub.

lic generally will welcome the
termination of the three-week long
electrical workers’.strike, which had
been seized upon by employers to
raise a clamor for compulsory arbi-
tration. Action of Vancouver Labor
Council in bringing the parties to-
gether has headed off this cam-
paign although there is no doubt
that the employers will continue to
seek ways and means of promoting
it.

While the International Brother-
hood of Electrical Workers won im-
portant concessions as a result of
the strike, it should be noted that,
in the final settlement, “impartial”
judical arbitration has been intro-
duced to settle some of the points
at dispute, with the agreement that
such judicial decision shall be “final
and binding” on the union.

At Vancouver Board of Trade’s
“management institute” forum this
week, a number of legal and other
employer spokesmen marshalled

their arguments for compulsory

arbitration, which in effect would
abolish existing labor legislation
governing collective bargaining, out-

lawing strikes and picketing. This
would be done by the setting up of
labor or industrial “courts” with a
number of judges to act as “judi-
cial” arbitrators, appointed for life.

In an editorial on March 26 the
Vancouver Province “thanked”
Vancouver Labor Council for its

assistance in settling the IBEW.
strike and used the occasion to en-
large on the merits of compulsory
versus “voluntary” judicial arbf-
tration, lauding the voluntary “pre-

cedent”’ set by the IBEW.

In welcoming the contractual
concessions won by the IBEW
strikers, organized labor must also
be alert to the dangers of “dog-
collar” legislation for which em-
ployers are clamoring and for which
they must be given no further con-
cession that enables them to do by
the back door what they cannot ac-
complish by the front.

Tom
~ McEwen;

REE ENTERPRISE! With the
# flood of political oratory run-
ning high one hears the term
very often these days. Sometimes
it is spoken of with deep rever-
ence. At other times, when the
subject of profits, exploitation, or
socialism is mentioned, it is
trumpeted with all the fury of
a stampeding bull elephant,
challenging all who would ques-
tion its sanctity.

Liberals, Tories and Socreds
are all strong boosters for free
enterprise. In fact, the Socreds
made it one of their very special
key planks (or should I say
shutes?) along which they could
slide some of their most notori-
ous resources giveaways.

All the glittering promise of
the “Pearson Plan” and Diefen-
baker’s vision of “Utopia Un-
limited” is essentially a shot-in-
the-arm for free enterprise. Even
in the CCF’s 9-point program
there is nothing that would sug-
gest the remotest hint of social-
ism ... and nothing that the
most ardent free enterpriser
wouldn’t go along with as a
profitable venture—for him.

“Free. enterprise,” said Mr.
Hinnissey, as he explained its
intricate workings to his friend
Mr. Dooley, “is a foine institu-
tion. It permits yer naybor t’
pick yer pockets clean, an’ all
strictly in accordince wi’ the
law.”

at bes 503

A PT reader from Coopers-
burg, Pennsylvania, sent me a
clipping this week from the New
York Times of March 18 contain-
ing an article by staff writer
Harry Schwartz. This article
shows the steady increase of
aiuminum exports by the Soviet
Union, with special reference to
the USSR’s growing market in
Britain. So much so that the
Aluminum Company of Canada
(read U.S.) has requested ‘that
Britain impose an anti-dumping
duty on aluminum imports from
the Soviet Union.”

Following some observations
on the rapid growth of the Soviet
aluminum industry, and its drive
for a share of the world’s ‘“West-
ern” markets, Schwartz presses
nis thumb right on the Adam’s
apple of free enterprise; “. . . no
dividends or interest on capi-
tal have to be paid by Soviet
plant managers.”

There you huve the “secret
weapon,” plain for all to see:
no interest, no dividends, no
fat profits going into the pockets
of enterprising free enterprisers.
While Schwartz repeats the old
gag that “Soviet workers are
paid substantially less than

United States or Canadian work.
ers,” we haven’t heard of Soviet
aluminum plants in Karelia, the
Urals, Kazakhstan or Siberia
throwing their workers on the
jobless and homeless list as in
the Alcan empire at Kitimat.

The reason is obvious. In one,
the ,working class owns and con-
trols the productive means of
its own livelihood. In the other,
the free enterprisers and their
political Charley McCarthys run
the show in a free enterprising
Tory - Liberal - Tory - boom-
and-bust fashion which remains
essentially the same whether it is
planned by Diefenbaker, Pear-
son or Low.

59 bos 50

Hon. Paul Martin to Parkdale
(Toronto) Liberal Association:
“If the aviation industry would
suare missile production with
auto manufacturers, it would
heip to relieve unemployment.”
Martin, incidentally, is “Man-of-
Peace” Pearson’s sidekick.

Speaking in Toronto on the
same day (February 19) and to
the same gathering Pearson said
he “wants international tensions
cleared for a ferment of freedom
in the satellite countries behind
the Iron Curtain, and the event-
ual liberation of millions who
have been subjugated by Russia.”

That, together with Tory sanc-
tion of U.S. missile launching
bases in Canada’s northland
doesn’t exactly indicate peace-
tul intent, but it’s right in the
“free enterprise” groove.

March 28, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5