LABOR SCENE

by

BRUCE MAGNUSON

Le SR Sees Sek

“The Canadian Labor Congres
believes that the development and
administration of an effective
manpower policy can and should
be a cornerstone of economic
planning and development, No
modern nation can operate effec-
tively in an age of burgeoning
technological and scientific de-
velopment with a haphazard ap-
proach to the employment of its
manpower geared to the needs of
the horse-and-buggy era.

“A national manpower policy
‘must be directed towards econ-
omic growth, development anc
stability, Such a policy cannot
stand alone, however, It must
be co-ordinated with other as-
pects of our overall economic
policy — trade, investment, fiscal]
and monetary policy,” (Editorial,
Canadian Labor, January 1966).

The CLC mentions some “fal-
tering steps towards some minor
aspects of a policy of manpower
development and deployment.” Ii
refers to the federal govern-
ment’s “Technical and Vocational]
Assistance Training Act, stim-
ulation of winter employment, en-
couragement of young people tc
stay in school, anda token gesture
towards assisting mobility of
labor,”

Then the editorial points out
that “little or nothing has beer
done to collect and assess, in a
co-ordinated fashion, informa-
tion which would define presenti
and future manpower needs, Nei-
ther has there been a serious
attempt to design training pro-
grams for the provision of 2
supply of skilled workers to meet
Canada’s future needs,”

The CLC looks, not without
skepticism, to the new federal
Department of Manpower to
tackle these shortcomings .with
vision and innovation,

The convening of a four-day
national conference, held in Feb-
ruary, in Ottawa, to study the
present situation and work out
proposals for the kind of man-
power policy Canada needs,
shows the seriousness with which
the CLC is tackling the man-
power issue as top priorityitem,

Presently, the Congress seeks
government co-ordination of all
programs on manpower, a mean-
ingful research on a continuous
basis to collect and analyze in-
formation as to the changing com-
position and needs for labor, im-
proved adult training programs,
and a labor mobility plan basec
on grants rather than loans, The
programs to be included in a

meaningful manpower policy have

been outlined by Russell Irvine,
CLC associate research di-
rector: ;

1, A continuing, up-to-date re-
search program to carry out
analysis and forecasting of
changes in the labor market,

2, A nation-wide network of
adult training centres to retrain
men and women for new jobs
requiring higher and different
skills,

3. A massive program of tech-
nical-vocational training for
adolescents and pre-employment
youth, to prepare them for the
kind of labor market they will
face on leaving school,

4, A program of financial and
other assistance to workers and
their families who wish to move
to other parts of the country in
the-pursuit of employment,

5. A program of financial as-
sistance to maintain workers
during retraining or during 4
transition period between jobs,

6, A first-rate placement
service,

7, A program for the recruit-
ment of immigrant workers, re-
lated to the Canadian labor
market situation, and for their
integration into the labor mark-

et,

8, A host of associated serv-
ices such as vocational guidance
and counselling, civilian rehab-
ilitation, programs for agricul-
tural and “transient” labor, and
special programs for women in
the labor force,

9, An education program to in-
form employers, workers, and
youth of the changes occurring
in the labor market and the
benefits to be derived from man-
power programs,

As Donald MacDonald, sec-
retary-treasurer, Canadian La-
bor Congress stated in an address
to a’seminar on Canadian-Amer-
ican Relations, University of
Windsor, November 4, last:

“We must give the forces oj
the market place direction, de-
liberately and positively, Thisis
what I would understand by econ-
omic planning.” . “Labor
planning, which is another way
of describing manpower policies.
can be significant only if it truly
is based on and forms an inte-
gral part of economic planning
generally,”

TAKEOVER OF STUDEBAKER
PLANT IN HAMILTON URGED

HAMILTON: A demand that the Canadian government take
over and operate the Studebaker plant in Hamilton was made
here by the local committee of the Communist Party. This
action followed a surprise announcement last week that the
Studebaker plant would close, throwing 411 workers, 200
office workers and 37 field employees out of work,

In a wire to Industry Minister C.M, Drury, Hamilton
Party secretary Harry Hunter said that production of motor
vehicles for government use is in itself a “ready-made

-market,”| .

HITS LBJ VIETNAM POLICY

Lynd urges more protests
to block U.S. aggression

A sharp, clear call toincrease
protests against the U.S, war of
extermination in Vietnam, was
made by Yale Professor Staugh-
ton Lynd to Vancouverites last
Friday night,

Speaking to a packed audi-
torium of over 750 people, Lynd
declared that there are many
indications that the U.S. govern-
ment is heading for greater es-
calation of its aggression against
the Vietnamese people, Steps
are being taken in the U.S, to
bring public debate to an end and
at the same time the government
is using the law to suppress or-
ganized opposition to its war
schemes,

The speaker gave the example
of recent government action to
undermine and destroy the Du
Bois Clubs of America; a youth
movement dedicated to the cause
of peace and democracy, He
noted that this action has had the
opposite effect, substantially in-

creasing the membership of that

organization,

Professor Lynd chronicled the
events leading up to what he

‘called an illegal, anti-democratic

and immoral war in Vietnam,

His starting point was the elec-
tion of President Johnson over
Barry Goldwater, Since that
time, the speaker went on, it

steep hill in a car that is out of
control,

It is a great thing in the
U.S., to see Senators and other
leading people fighting back
against the LBJ course to dis-
aster, Professor Lyndnoted, But
here he gave a sharp warning:,
that because of the crisis in
U.S. foreign policy, that the com-
mon people individually and
through their many organizations
must make their voices heard
before it is too late,

The speaker gave a detailed.
account of what he called LBJ’s
hypocritical ‘‘peace offensive” on.
Vietnam and showed how decep-

_ tive and two-faced it really was.

He gave many examples to show
that each government announce-
ment for ‘*peace’?’ was accom-
panied by practical escalation
on the war front,

Hoy (Havana)

“Who Is it around here that

has seemed like going downa wants land reform?”

CIA plotters planned
assassination of Casiro

A CIA plot for the assassina-
tion of Premier Fidel Castro
came to an end in La Cabana
fortress in Havana last week with
the sentencing of the plotters.

This was the third plot un-
covered against Castro’s life, The
two previous attempts occurred
in 1961,

The present plotters were ar-
rested Feb, 26.

Two of them were sentenced
to 25 years in prison. They were
Dr. Rolando Cubela Secades, a
physician and Roman Guin Diaz,
Cubela and Guin formerly held
the rank of major, the highest
in the Cuban army.

Guin admitted in court that he
had been a CIA agent since Sep-
tember, 1963, Two plotters
were sentenced to 20 years, They
were Jose Gonzalles Gallarretta
and Alberto Blanco Romariz, Juar
Alsina Navarro was sentenced to
10 years,

All five sentenced had con-
fessed their guilt, Guillermc
Cunill Alvarez and Angel Her-
rero Veliz were released,

They had been accused of com-
plicity in procuring a get-away
launch and other peripheral ac-
tivities but denied knowledge of
the plot.

The government charged that
the plot called for Cubela to shoot
Castro with ahigh-powered rifle,

U.S. forces and mercenaries |

“from Latin American countries

were to land in Cuba within 48
‘nours after Castro’s death,

Following the overthrow of the
Cuban government, the top posts
in the government would be dis-
tributed among the participants in
the plot, including Manuel Ar-
time, exiled counter-revolution-
arye

Dr, Cubela visited Europe in
1964 to attend a student con-
ference, the trial disclosed, In
Paris he met Luis Enrique.
Traenco and Carlos Tepedino,
who worked for the FBI,

Odon Alvarez de la Campa,
counselor in the Cuban embassy
in Madrid, who turned traitor in
March, 1965, and Jose Luis Gon-

FIDEL CASTRO
March 25, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page

to eliminate the vices that gave

It was during this period, said
Lynd, that two appeals from the
North Vietnamese government to
the U.S, government on nego-
tiations, were ignored by LBJ.
These proposals only came to
light after the U.S, bombings
were resumed on North Vietnam,

. Professor Lynd outlined what
he considered some of the neces-
‘sary steps to peace in Vietnam.
These were: 1. Stop bombing
North Vietnam; 2. Implementa-
tion of the 1954 Geneva Agree-
‘ment; and 3, recognition of the
Peoples Liberation Front in South
Vietnam as a group that nego-
tiations must be held with if the
war is to be brought to an end,

He went on to state that the
protest movement against U.S.
aggression is growing around the
world, Mentioning developments
in Britain, he stated that there
were real possibilities that pres-
sures from the people could force

-a Labor government to take a

stand against the U.S. war.

In conclusion it was pointed
out that Canadians across the
country are more and more
putting pressure on our govern-
ment to condemn the LBJ war
and to act as a force for peace.
He urged Vancouverites to add
their voices for peace in Viet-
nam by joining in the demon-
stration that starts at City Hall,
1 p.m, this Saturday.

zalez Gallareta, second secre-
tary in the embassy, made con-
tact with two CIA agents in
Madrid, Hernan Enrques and
Agustin Alvarez Machado,

Alvarez de la Campa and Gal-
larretta received $100,000 from
Hames A, Noel of the U.S, Em-
bassy in Madrid to finance the
assassination plot,

Gallarretta, Alberto Blanco

- Romariz, and Jorge Robreno ar-

ranged the meetings in Madrid
between Cubela and Artime in
February, 1965, at which the
plot was completed,

Originally the prosecutor,
Major Jorge Segueira, had asked
death for four of the accused and

sentences of 32 years for the —

three others,

In summing up, however, the
prosecutor changed his demand,
following receipt of a letter from
Castro asking that the death pen-
alty not be imposed.

The letter said, “In this case,
despite its extreme gravity, it is
not necessary to ask for the most
severe sanctions,”

“We must be _ hard without
vacillation when needed, but never
unnecessarily, The revolutionary
sanction is an art ofdefense, The
revolution is strong,”

It added that there were indeed
aggravating circumstances but
that the aim of the revolution
was not to eliminate men but

rise to crimes,