a a SY) A.A A IRIE “af eett Destuusey Friday, September 15, 1950 High prices impel ! Mine-Mill move for wage boosts Sparked by the Port Colborne local, International, Union . of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers in Canada is preparing to hit back at rising living costs by reopening wage talks with * all companies where union contracts exist. MADELEINE PARENT :TLC barring of the United Tex- +tile Workers was used by boss- ‘es and raiders. Tu bar used fo fight union ‘in negotiations ; MONTREAL “T am not at this convention to ‘listen to International officers tell jme whether they do or do not ‘like ‘communism’,” delegate John ‘Martin (AFL Rail Clerks, Win- ; nipeg) Congress Percy Bengough on the first day of the Congress conven- ‘tion. : Martin’s complaint arose out of the report of the rules and orders committee which announced that delegates would be limited to five minutes. He asked if .this applied to guest speakers and -said that previous conventions had not given the rank-and-file enough opportunity to express their views. Montreal newspapers quickly ‘picked up the Congress announce- tment that the ‘United ‘Textile ‘Workers delegation would not be .seated to use it as a weapon ‘against Textile Workers who are mow in the midst of negotiatios ‘at Valleyfield and who are suc- ‘cessfully fighting off CIO raids tled by Sam Baron. -All Montreal mewspapers tried to use the un- democratic TLC debarrment pro- ‘eedure on behalf of the com- ‘panies and the raiders. Madeline Parent, UTWA official was arrested outside a Dominion Textile plant following the news- paper stories. She was released on bail. Twelve of 15 resolutions de- manding peace were scrapped by the TLC executive, which used its pro-Korean resolution as a substitute. Two of the resolutions demanding the banning of the A-bomb and mediation in the Korean war came from Winnipeg Local 712, Brotherhood of Fire- men and Oilers. told Trades and Labor | “declining and “We are fully justfied in tak- ing this action because the sit- has since last June, when most of uation changed rapidly our contracts were signed,” said western regional director Har- vey Murphy this the one hand living costs have the time lead and zinc prices have week. advanced while at same jumped and companies = are earning greater profits than ever before.” Mine-Mill’s international presi- dent, John Clarke, ehphasized the need for immediate wage hikes in his report to the Denver con- vention of the union this week. He read a report of the execuive board which said that “a sub- stantial wage increase is needed immediately for the 90,000 mem- bers of the union in the United States and Canada.” The board report called upon the convention to endorse a pro- gram off immediate vigorous action on the wage front. “And we want that wage increase now —not next January, or next June, but now.’ “Our wage increases of the past year have been more than cancelled out by increased liv- ing costs,” the board report said. “Our members now endure ser- ious hardships and face mount- ing debts and actual privation because of drastic cuts in their purchasing power.” The executive board called at- tention to the fact that Mine- Mil’s fourth round _ contracts were negotiated in 1949 and early 1950 “during a period of slowly relatively stable living costs. No one could then possibly forsee the sudden out- break of war (in Korea) and the drastic econdbmy changes that followed.” demand that the Security Council, which is composed of the legal representatives of the five great powers, should occupy itself at the earliest moment with the settling of this question in peaceful fashion ‘by enabling both par- ties to the dispute to state their points of view. “The Defenders of Peace demand the banning of all forms of war propaganda in all countries. “We call upon all people who long for peace through- out the world to arrange pub- lic discussions of these pro- posals and elect their repre- sentatives for the second World Congress to give ex- pression to their will.” $On = There ts greater sorrow in Korea The grim realities of what U.S, intervention in Korea means is brought home to these American wives, mothers and sisters as a troop train starts on a long journey whose end will bring new tragedy and sorrow into thousands of bombed and war-shattered Korean homes. US ‘creeping fascism’ closer with new bills WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate this week voted 70 to 7 for the McCarran registration bill, ostensibly aimed at members of the Communist party but actually directed at the majority of the nation’s people, regardless of their political views. Only a presidential veto could halt the bill becoming law, but the vote indicated that the chamber might override any veto. The McCarran bill, with othet provisions added to it to make it “tougher’ (such as a rider nuvnorizing a mass roundup c “communists” in the event of war or insurrection”) moves the ‘United States further along the road to fascism. The measure, sponsored by Sen- ator Pat McCarran (Dem., Nev.) is the most drastic ever offered to Congress. Its basic provision would outlaw any “conspiracy” to establish a “foreign-dominated dictatorship” in the U.S. and punish “violators” with a maxi- mum $10,000 fine and 10-year sen- tence. It would require “communists” and “communist fronts’ to reg- ister with the justice depart- ment, (There is little doubt that such organizations as the Pro- gressive pary would be listed as a “communist front” by the in- spirers of the bill). “Communists” would be requir- ed to “label their propaganda” and federal jobs and passports would be denied to all “commun- ists.” “ In addition, the bill would permit the justice department to expel second string diplomats held to be subversive. If the police-state bill be- comes law, President Truman will set up a “Subversive Act- ivities Board” which won’t be — responsible tio amybody ex- cept the heads of the political party in power, who gave its membership their jobs. What will this board do? It will decide what organizations may consider themselves patri- otic and useful to the community —they may be able to prove they’ve never broken any laws —but if the board says so, they are going to be branded as “sub- versive.” That’s what some- body called “lynching by label.” It will try to confuse people into thinking that opposition to the program of an administration © that temporarily controls the government is the same as an attempt to destroy the govern- ment itself. The McCarran bill and its companion the Wood bill, are also aimed against the 4,000,- 000 Jews in the United States. A speech by one of the prin- ciple sponsors of the Wood bill, Representative E. Rankin (Dem., Miss.) last week on the House floor, made it clear that the bill intends Jews, trade unions and Negroes to be among the real victims of the “anti-communist” legisla- tion. Reading a list of persons un- der indictment in the current wave of hysteria and spy-hunt- ing, Rankin declared: “Mr. Speaker, there is not a single Christian or a single white gentile among these Communists which I have just named, who have been plotting the over- throw and destruction of this government and the destruction of our Christian civilization.” At the same time the Mis- sissippi congressman deliver- ed a glowing eulogy of fas- cist and anti-Semitic ‘subver- Sives, including Silver Shirt William Dudley Pelley, George Deatherage, Gerald Winrod and Elizabeth Dilling, who was in- dicted by the government for sedition in 1944. Rankin said that these people, charged with issuing anti-Sem- itic and anti-Negro hate sheets and impeding the war effort were “the real Americans.’ He shouted that they “were persecuted by the government” for merely trying “to expose communism.” : A nationwide campaign for @ presidential veto of the Mc- Carran bill is the only method available to American citi- zens to prevent the legislative installation of a police state. The “creeping fascism” in the United States has crept a long way towards seizure of poweT by “legal” means. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 15, 1950—PAGE