i : i i ; ; i ; Quebec Labor Urges: | “SECOND FRONT IN WAR FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE’ The week-long convention of the 225,000 member Confederation of - National Trade Unions opened in Quebec last week with a call for a “second front in the war for social justice.’ Speaking to the 1,200-delegates, CNTU President Marcel Pepin stated: “The public is: not fooled. Modern social injustice is called unemployment, inflation, profits, finance companies and slums.” , He called: for an ideological struggle against the ruling classes who manipulated the masses through the media. “Not only do the ruling classes control the consumption of goods but they also determine, for all practical purposes, the consumption of ideas. “This is done through a simple technique which consists in letting people express themselves freely, but at the same time flooding the market with countless messages and images favorable to the wealthy. “So it hardly matters at all if certain isolated © individuals express ideas contrary to their own,”’ said ;Pepin denouncing what he called the ‘bogus democracy, of the - electoral system.” The convention is expected to discuss structural changes in the center’s leadership to facilitate AUUC BAZAAR The Vancouver Branch of the Association United Ukrainian Canadians (AUUC) is holding its annual bazaar on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 15 and 16 at 805 E. Pender St. A “bazaar shower”’ in support of the annual event will be held on Nov. 7. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 15 and 16 will feature a supper at 5 p.m. and bingo from 7:30 on, with a dance on Saturday starting at 9 p:m, Other features - during the two-day event will be home baking, Ukrainian sewing, food, and a special fishing pond for children. increased independent political action. Ina special report tabled by political action director Andre L’Heureux,..there is a proposal for the union to contest municipal and school board elections and to seek direct articipation in the administration of public corporations. The first session of the convention was also marked by a stormy reception given Quebec Solicitor-General, Armand Maltais. Alluding to Pepin’s earlier remarks. that the government’s handling of the Quebec Liquor Board employees strike ‘‘stinks of anti-unionism,”’ Maltain said: he realized that the Quebec Labor Department was coming under fire, but the Government was doing its best to bring labor and management together. The Labor Minister will present 16 bills to improve labor relations in Quebec during the next few months. But it was not sufficient to merely change - structures to improve relations. “‘Attitudes must be changed also.’’ He then spoke about irresponsible labor leaders and the booing began. Although invited to the convention, former CNTU president and now Federal Minister of Rural Development, Jean Marchand, showed the better part of valor and stayed in ttawa. Marchand is in conflict with the CNTU over the closure of the Lauzon shipyards. The union has been waging a vigorious campaign to have the ards opened again, and Marchand is held responsible for having them remaining closed. The problem of closures and workers’ rights was broadly dealt with in Pepin’s report. OBITUARY MRS. DAMICO MOURNED A crowded chapel paid final tribute to Mrs. Kathleen Damico in Vancouver October 16th. Born in Petro Petsia, Sicily in 1909, she immigrated to Edmonton in pe marrying Peter Damico.in A staunch pioneer supporter of the Communist and progressive movement, she has since coming to Vancouver in 1945 helped over a hundred families to immigrate and become established here. Her understanding of how her. life was linked to others in Vietnam and Africa; her selfless concern for others endeared her to all. She strove, one among millions to influence events — and to the extent the clamor for peace, freedom and security has been heeded — her voice was not unimportant. Nigel Morgan, Provincial * Leader of the Communist Party, paid tribute to her work in Vancouver’s Italian community, and expressed condolances to her husband, Peter; daughters Rita and Yvonne; son Antonia; 3 brothers and 17 grandchildren. A Communist funeral, with donations to relieve the suffering of others, was her final wish. IF ~ Your Sub Has Expired, Please RENEW NOW TOM McEWEN press” and TV of our stations which covered the PERSONAL SATISFACTION. All shipments postpaid. . of its kind, prepared he att No rumors, no pfo and during the crisis. From hundreds of sources. Dates, people, events, This is NOT a “dsy-@5; their actions . . . a fast-moving Did Czechoslovak people really face danger of counter-revolution? Or, as some say, did the USSR make up that story? 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Out comes the “expert” to do a job — invariably de- signed to shoreup the hopes, the apprehensions and fears of a decadent Establishment that has lived beyond its time. . This “expertese,” or as it is sometimes misnamed a “brain trust,” has little or nothing to do with basic knowledge -or learning, and should never be confused with genuine scho- lars, statesmen, or men and women of learning and sci- ence to whom knowledge is a weapon for human enlight- ment and progress, rather than a glib facility to bar the door against reason and rea- lity, . The modern “expert”? has a very special role to play in present-day society. Take the “labor relations expert” for instance, which organized la- bor has been pretty well ac- quainted with for a good many decades. Having ac- quired a working knowledge of labor organization because of having lived on labor for ‘ a period of time, a highly class-conscious Establishment looks this specimen over and readily agrees “this is the type we need, we'll make him an “expert,” a “specialist”... and at 40,000 bucks or more per annum he’ll be considered a bargain. The ultimate ob- jective of this “expert” job is never spelled out in full — but organized labor knows it by instinct — and experience. In the field of modern capi- talist government the fat-sala- ried “expert” is always in great demand. If, as it often happens, that public clamor On an issue reaches alarming proportions, why, set up a “royal commission” consisting of one or a bevy of “experts” at a good fat stipend and let them sit, like a broody hen on a nestfull of glass eggs until they hatch something—which will ultimately be stached away to gather dust. 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