Unity still the key
Jn its mounting attacks upon the hard-won standards of
organized labor in B.C. and throughout Canada, and

attempts to block further economic and social gains, big
business has gone all-out.

Reams of ex parte court injunctions, aimed at prohi- —
biting labor from exercising its unwritten and legal rights
under existing labor laws; the use of a monopoly control-

Share and Share Alike?

acon

&

led press to distort and confuse issues involved. The estab-
lishment of monopoly-controlled “hold-the-line” strike-
breaking agencies — with government approval, to block
labor’s drive for a greater share of the vast wealth it alone
produces. ized dissention in unions engaged in bitter
wage struggles by a handful of foreign international union
burocrats, who take their “political line” and their instruc-
tions from the U.S. state department.

These are only a few of the odds mounted against
labor by big monopoly in its “hard-nosed” attempts to
force labor to its knees.

Obviously labor has only one answer in such situa-
tion; unity and more unity. Unity against the monopoly
profit ghouls; unity against the international top brass
wreckers and their stooges in Canada, whose sellout aims
are based upon a determination to “rule or ruin”—in the
interests of big business.

The Lenkurt dispute drives home the lesson anew,
that “inner” union dissention, regardless of its origin, can
only end by the bosses becoming the beneficiaries — and
the workers the “sacrificial” victims.

Here again, unity and more unity is the only answer
on how to turn partial defeat into complete victory. When
a U.S.-based international executive interference in the
internal affairs of Canadian unions become intolerable
and destructive of Canadian union autonomy, such a situ-
ation can not be accepted with the idea that “nothing can
be done about it.” That way leads to abject surrender of
all that trade unionism stands for.

The “solution,” however, must have one basic prin-
ciple superseding all other considerations; the unity of the
workers in any given industry, whether in one or more
unions. Not two unions in an industry tearing each other's
guts out by membership “raiding,” dissention, etc, but
united in fighting a common enemy; uniting in seeing to it
that they, and not the boss, emerges as the “beneficiary”
from évery struggle.

With that degree of labor unity—even an exparte in-

he recent meeting of NATO ministers in Paris was

something less than a success. In point of fact, aside
from Canada’s External Affairs Minister Paul Martin’s
“eloquent appeal” to “save” NATO, the sessions revealed
this war Alliance as being little more than a most costly
“‘dead duck.”

On the issue of anew HQ for NATO — when final
marching orders comes from President Charles de Gaulle,
the French minister told his 14 ministerial colleagues
where NATO moves its headquarters to “France couldn’t
care less.”

When U.S. and British ministers, together with Herr.
Schroeder of West Germany, wanted to know what of the
future role of 70,000 French troops in Germany under
NATO, they were curtly told “that was for France to de-
cide,” but if they stay it will “not be under NATO com-
mand.”

What Mr. Martin’s “eloquent appeal” achieved was
merely to delay the NATO crack-up, not to bury it — in
the interests of the Canadian taxpayer—and peace.

Martin would have rendered a greater service to Can-
ada had he followed the advice of the Warsaw Pact lead -
ers, strongly urging the dissolution of both NATO and the
Warsaw Pact, and replacing these with the formation of a
European Security pact, dedicated to European goodwill

_ ways

junction loses its “legal” intimidation and awe.

INSESNSSSESES:

F or bosses only. Does anyone
need the “services’’ of a really
and truly “‘Big Man” ?“ True some
are shorter than others — but
they are just as big.” So the
prospectus from “Industrial
Overload”, “IO’’ for short tells us,
with the “Big” always in upper-
case letters,

Pictures of these “Big Men”
portray a lot of muscle, plus that
«sforward looking” look worn by
Junior Chamber of Commerce
“executive” types, looking for an
opportunity to display their tal-
ents, whether as a “‘captain of
industry” or just plain scab,

The “IO Big Man’ says the
prospectus advertisement, is
fully covered by *Workmen’s
Compensation,”’ **honded” to the
tune of $100,000, and “insured”
to $500,000. So, should the new
«Big Man” get himself mixed up
in the plant gears, abscond with

the company payroll, or drop
dead from “Big Man’? fatigue, it
doesn’t cost the prospective em-
ployer of “IO Big Man’ one red
cent extra, You can’t beat that
for a “sweet-heart” deal,

#IO”? lists six distinct “Big
Man’ services” (there may be
more) for a boss to “Use him
when you need” any of these ser-
vices, The “Big Man” can be had
at any hour of the day or night,
seven days a week, No worries
to the boss about overtime, pay-
roll costs, fringe benefits, in-
surance schemes, portal-to-por-
tal pay “or any other costs that
normally complicate hiring tem-.
porary staff.” “IO’’ looks after
all these worrisome items “and
users of the service can retain
a high degree of flexibility in
labor costs by not paying a full
time wage for a part time job.”

The more we dug around in

and the unarmed promotion of peace.

this *IO Big Man” prospectus,
the more we became suspicious
that “IO” which boasts a “Big
Men” office in ten leading Cana-
dian cities — and “Now in Van-
couver at 571 Homer Street,”
which makes eleven, that *IO”
has all the earmarks of anation-
wide, anti-labor scab-supply and
scab-herding agency; in British
Columbia the 1966 edition of the
anti-union ‘Black Agency” of the
20’s and 30’s, which specialized
in blacklisting and hounding union’
men out of the woods, the mines
and the mill of B.C.

B.C, Labor will recall (how can
it forget?) that just a few short
months ago the “Commercial and
Industrial Research Foundation,”
(CIRF) was spawned by B.C,’s.
leading monopoly tycoons as a
‘¢social force” in a provincial and
nation-wide attack upon labor’s
hard-won social and economic
standards,

This CIRF, with unlimited
funds in its coffers andits politi-
cal pipeline into every manageri-
al and government office in the
province and country — demand-
ing “open shop” and a legislative
ball-and-chain on labor advance,
could, relation- wise, be the pro-
geniator — or the twin-brother
Oh ied (S48

Now we see “IO” with its elev-
en incubators going full blast,
producing what? A product that
looks and smells very much like
‘¢professional” scabbery, draped
by a buccaneering balderash“ Get
a Big Man from Industrial Over-
load’? — to help along with the
dirty work, :

“It is pretty well accepted now
that using temporary male help
(whenever possible),” says “10,”
“is the smart way to keep labor
costs at aminimum, Management
has only two decisions to make
in this area, Where to get tem-
porary male help. When to use
it. We can supply the best avail-
able —. the type of man you’l

Pacific Tribune

"Editor — TOM McEWEN
Associate Editor — MAURICE RUSH
Circulation Manager — JERRY SHACK
Published weekly at -
‘Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St.
Vancouver 4, B.C.
Phone 685-5288
Subscription Rates:

Canada, $5.00 one yeat; $2.75 for six months. North and South America
and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. All other countries, $7.00.
one year. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department,
Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash.

Worth
Quoting

In Vietnam the Americans have
used every conceivable horror weap-
en, including napalm, poison gas and
Lazy Dog missiles. But all have failed
to bring them victory. So now they
bring up their last reserves—bedbugs.

The theory is that the bedbugs' lust ~

for human blood means that they can
be used to sniff out Vietnamese in the
jungle.

This latest achievement of Ameri-
can science has its grimly appropriate
as well as its ludicrous side. For the
biggest bloodsuckers of all in Vietnam
are the American militarists them-
selves. They exceed the bedbugs in
their lust for human blood.

—Editorial, MORNING STAR,
June 8, '66.
A society in which the difference
between truth and lies disappears is a
societly doomed for debasement...

This is what happened in Germany,
enough people came fo believe illu-

sions about the Jews. This is one ser- ©

vice the protest movement must per-
form in this society. It must break
through the curtain of lies and half-
truths and tell what is really happen-
ing in Vietnam. For we will be truly
lost if we bring up our children ina
society where lies are not called lies.
—Professor George Grant in
CANADIAN JEWISH
OUTLOOK, June, '66

*

The ordeal of Vietnam and the un-
related failure of the White House to
project a truer picture of the man be-
hind the Stetson will together, | be-
lieve, exact a high price af the next
elections. There will certainly be a
dramatic defection among Republicans

. — who vote for Johnson because they

could not stomach Goldwater. Now

they will stomach almost anybody

else... - —CEYLON NEWS REVIEW,
March 19, '66.

Let no one forget that the Yankee
imperialists, exactly like their predes-
sors, the Nazis and Fascists, have al-
preceded their aggressions
against other peoples by imputations
similar to these, lacking an atom of
truth. In that case those sons-of-bitches
may be very certain that they will not
take us by surprise.

—Mgjor Fidel Castro Ruz, in
GRAMMA, May 29, '66.

like to have working full time for
you — a ‘Big Man’.”

That last punch-line of “IO”
just about clinches it — a “Big
Man,” or as the IWW poet Joe
Hill said of such ‘‘Big Men” —

a 100-percent sizzorbill — with.

an inbred ambition to scab on
his fellow men!

“CIRF — IO” reads like a for-
mula for rat poison. A powerful
union-busting combination, but
not invincible to a decisive “KO”
— if organized labor swings with
a united wallop, and proves again

the old adage that “the bigger ©
they come (from ‘‘10’?) the hard-

er they fall,”

June 17, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4

3 —