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led, skilled and professional
workers to Canadian employers
“at very low wages”.

In his letter to the Prime Min-
ister the CLC Secretary-Treas-
urer said:

“The Canadian Labor Con-
gress has never opposed immig-
ration and has consistently

fought against any form of dis- |

crimination in Canada’s immigra-
tion policy. However, the Con-
gress has also always held that
workers in Canada, whether nat-
ive or foreign born, are entitled
to adequate compensation for
the services they perform for
their employers. We resent this
effort to undercut the hard-won
wage standards that workers in
Canada have achieved through
long years of collective bargain-
ing and legislative action.”

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and such advertisement not be
repeated in any Canadian pub-
lication.”

John Dobson, Local 512 presi-
dent wired Premier Robarts and
Prime Minister Pearson request-
ed “urgent action by the govern-
ment. “Our Local,” the wire
said, “considers this a serious
threat to the job security of all
Canadian labor.”

George Morley, president of
Local 505, at Square D, Mount
Dennis, told government heads
that-members of his Local were
“up in arms over the advertise-
ment offering:a cheap labor sup-
ply to Canada. Our member-
ship,” he said, “sees dangerous
repercussions. Request immedi-
ate action on part of your gOv-
ernment on this serious ques-
tion.”

“40 HOUR WEEK

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Teamsters continue struggle

N THE long and stormy his-
tory of American labor man-
agement relations the most

violent and stubborn chapter is
reserved for the struggle of
workers to shorten their hours
of work.

While corporations never shell
out anything without -the com-
bined pressure or organized
labor, least of all are they pre-
pared to discuss the shortening
of the work day or week. And
for good reason — it shortens
the length of time that each
worker is available for exploita-
tion.

Canadian truck drivers are
caught in the sights of this bit-
ter reality today in their efforts
to secure implementation of the
provisions of the Canadian
Labor (Sandards) Code (High-
way Drivers) Part 1.

Teamsters Joint Council No.
52 representing Ontario truckers,
who constitute more than half
of Canada’s highway truck driv-
ers, presented a brief last week
to the C.A.L. Murchison Com-

mission of Inquiry opposing the
trucking industry’s application
for deferment of the introduc-
tion of the 40 hour week into the
industry.

Joint Council No. 52 struck the
Ontario trucking industry for 14
weeks in 1966 to compel the in-
dustry to agree to impliment the
Labor Standards code over the
period of a three years agree-
ment. This, however, applies
only to Ontario and to the or-
ganized section of the truckers.

In their brief, which was pre-
sented by President Ray Tag-
gart, the union argues that what
the firms are lobbying for is
deferrment in perpetuity of the
provisions of part 1 of the Act.
They agree that the 40 hour
week cannot be implemented
overnight without some disloca-
tion to the industry, as well as
a drastic cut back in earning
power of the drivers.

However they insist that any
deferment, if granted, should be
of minimum duration and accom-
panied by strict enforceable

directions to make the necessary
adjustment within the industry
to reduced hours to conform to
the labor code.

The brief rejects any proposi-
tion that truck drivers should
have to work schedules out of
line .with those prevailing for
other Canadian workers and sug-
gests that if reducing hours and
maintaining the present take
home pay of drivers can be
proven to be beyond the capa-
city of the industry (which the
union hotly disputes) the gov-
ernment may have to consider
subsidization as they now do in

the rail industry which is a
major competitor.
Finally the brief strongly

urges that the provisions of the
act be made stringently applic-
able to owner drivers in the in-
terest of safety and the protec-
tion of the jobs of working
truckers. They also ask that the
government look closely into the
sometimes illegal and often
hazardous form of sub-contract-
ing through owner-drivers.

Working_without a contract

Auto bosses put screws on union

By WILLIAM ALLAN
DETROIT

“What’s it like in Chrysler’s
and General Motors shops, with
no contract?” I asked a UAW
steward in Chrysler and a plant
chairman. in a General Motors
shop. When midnight came,
Tuesday, Sept. 6, and Ford forc-
ed 160,000 UAW Ford workers
on strike, General Motors, Chrys-
ler’s contracts also expired. At
that time and they informed the
UAW they would not extend the
contracts as had been the prac-
tice in the past.

The Chrysler shop steward de-
scribed the situation in his plant
thus: :

“When we came in, notices
were on the company bulletin
boards that informed us union
committeemen could process
grievances, that all fringe issues
like hospitalization, Blue Cross,
vacation money, etc., would con-
tinue as usual, but, the dues
checkoff was discontinued and
maintenance of membership (a
new man has to join the union
in 45 days or lose the job) was
ended.”

The Chrysler UAW steward
then pointed out that this would
mean shop leaders like him
would ave to collect dues. He
said at an East Side Detroit
meeting of Chrysler shop stew-
ards the UAW leaders told them,
they must collect dues, on the
line, in the lunch rooms, the
toilets, anywhere.

This can become the first ma-
jor clash between the UAW and
Chrysler and GM, because a
strike assessment of a dollar a
day on those not striking to help
the 160,000 Ford strikers is also
soon to be involved.

It also has another motive, the
Chrysler steward said. “It means
that I have to spend all my time
collecting dues and strike assess-
ment and won't have any time
for grievances and shop issues,
which of course will make
Chrysler in my department very
happy. And if I don’t service
my lines then I'll have trouble
collecting dues and assessments.
Most of the production workers
are young workers, with only a
few years’ seniority, and let’s

face it, our union hasn’t done a
job unionizing them. As I see it,
the plot, or conspiracy, if you
want to call it that, is on, to
bring us to our knees, yes, even
smash this union and provoke
us into wildcatting, walkouts,
then they can close down their
plants. Chrysler for example,
could try to provoke walkouts
at their 9 Mile Road plant and the
Twinsburg plant in Ohio and tie
up the whole chain, that way
they shut it down, don’t have to
pay unemployment compensation
and blame the union.”

In the General Motors plant,
the UAW chairman told us they
too had gotten notices pinned on
the bulletin boards by GM, say-
ing almost exactly the same as
Chrysler, including the orders to
union committeeman. We des-
cribed to him the conversation
we had with the Chrysler ste-
ward and he said in GM he
thought the provokations would
come similarly in key plants,
like Mansfield, Fisher Body
shops, to shut down the GM
chain.

Both UAW shop leaders were
asked if they thought a big drive
is on to smash the union with
government _ strike-break-

ing, such as President Johnson
moving in with a Taft Hartley
80 day “cooling off’ move?
“Yes,” they replied, “look what
happened in the machinists, the
lockout of Teamsters, the threat
now to the copper strikers, so
it can happen to us.”

The GM shop chairman point-
out that in GM the UAW com-
mitteemen get only 4 hours a
day to handle grievances where-
as in Ford’s and Chrysler they
get a full eight hours a. shift.
UAW-GM union committeemen
usually have twice the number
of workers to service (500) as
Ford and Chrysler stewards.

Meanwhile the Ford company
was increasing its supply of
1968 new cars and trucks in U.S.
showrooms by bringing from
Canada vehicles made in the
Oakville, Ontario shop, via Buf-
falo, N.Y. This was learned from
UAW officials here who said that
production in Oakville saw 58
percent of all vehicles made
going to the U.S.

Ford company Officials piously
said they would not “increase
Canadian production because of
the UAW strike in the U.S. and
will not step up shipments of
cars across the border.”

September 22, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

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