TLC organ aims smear
campaign at CCL

By MAURICE RUSH

_ Wherever you look in Canada you see the pattern big
business is weaving in its drive to smash organized labor:
Everywhere it is the same: label a union as “communist-
led”; create divisions among the workers on this false issue,

then bring in company-backed
unions to start jurisdictional war.
Meanwhile, the capitalist sits back
puffing his big ssespem peu:
cigar and rubbing ©
his hands with ©
glee af the situ-
ation he created.

It is not a pretty
picture for the
workers; but it
is made to order
for the boss. It

is not a new
trick; it comes
out of the bag
ef tricks which

generations to divide and rule.

When spokesmen for big busi-
ness attack the trade unions and
call for “cleaning out the reds”
that’s to be expected. Naturally
they don’t like strong, militant
unions and they don’t like the
‘reds’ who are the most active
and self-sacrificing members of
the labor movement. But when so-
_ called labor men take up the torch
_ for the capitalists and carry the
: ery “oust the reds” into the trade
union movement well, that’s a
different story and needs much
more serious attention...

That's why every progressivé
trade unionist will be deeply dis-
turbed by an editorial in the Feb-
Tuary issue of the “Labor States-
man,” organ of: the Vancouver
Trades & Labor Council. Chair-
man of the press committee of
the council responsible for this
publication is Mr. Tom Alsbury,
_ former provincial president of the

, We are certain that this edi-

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torial does not express the senti-
ments of the great’ body of AFL
workers. It sets out to justify
collusion between the employers
of a Kelowna mill and ‘certain
leaders of the AFL carpenters’
union who were brought into the

.| Picture with a dual charter after
“| company stooges had stirred up

false issues to

disrupt the local
union, ° =

with the statement that “most of
the anti-union legislation now be-
ing proposed is a_ result of
Communist-inspired industrial
strife”, it goes on to say:

“Actually the workers have be-
come fed up with the Communist
leadership and where they have
had the courage to do so, have
switched to our organizations. It
may be quite true that the com-
panies have given assistance and
Support to the change, and we
welcome that assistance .. .”

Here you have it! Has there
ever been a more contemptible
demonstration of collaboration
with the bosses against the or-
ganized labor movement? This
editorial ig a call to reaction-
aries in and outside the labor
movement to start full-scale jur-
isdictional war around the false
issue of red-baiting. At the same
time it is an invitation to other
employers to accept the aid of
certain leaders in the labor
movement in B.C. who are pre-
pared to prostitute their organ-
ization to serve the bosses’ ends.

Not only is this editorial a call
for division in labor's ranks, but
it is also misleading. According
to the writer, it is not the mon-
opolists who threaten anti-labor
actions, but the Communists! The
conclusion, therefore, is that the
workers should fight the Com-
munists, not the big capitalists
and their reactionary political re-
presentatives. What judas-like ad-
vice!

Honest trade unionists of every
affiliation will condemn such a
policy. ‘It is against the interests
of-all workers to allow the growth
of inter-union conflict. Greater
unity, not. disunity is the need
of organized labor.. Red-baiting
must be exposed as the bosses’
game. It has no place in the la-

bor movement.

ASS

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BC teachers win
important gain

TORONTO — Toronto school
teachers, both public and high
school, are viewing the results of
the Buffalo teachers’ strike with
interest. The Buffalo strike, which
closed down the educational sys-
tem there, achieved substantial
Salary increases to offset higher
living costs—a demand that is
also being made by this city’s
school-masters.

-Advertisements have been in-
serted in newspapers here by
both the Toronto Public School-
masters Association and the To-
ronto Public School Women
Teachers’ Association’ in which
the wage demands of the teach-
ers have been placed before the
public. Th demands of both bod-
ies are supported by the Ontario
Teachers’ Federation.

The request of the teachers for
an immediate increase in salaries
has been turned down by the fin-
ance committee of the Toronto
board of education. The request,
made in a motion presented by
Trustee Mrs. Edna Ryerson, was
greeted “smypathetically” by
Some of the trustees but the di-
rect action needed to put the mo-
tion’ into effect was not forth-
coming.

What the trustees on the fin-
ance committee did was to em-
Ploy a delaying action. They .plac-
ed $200,000 in the estimates to
be used on specific recommenda-
tions from the special committee
on salaries. The minimum amount
needed to grant immediate salary
increases is estimated at $883,000.

The Toronto teachers estimate
that there has been a 28 percent
increase in the cost of living, but
despite this they have even had
a $100 cost-of-living bonus lopped
off their yearly salary total.

VICTORIA: The British Colum-
bia Teachers’ Federation has won
‘automatic maintenance of mem-
bership’ in an amendment to the
Public Schools Act, which pro-
vides that all new teachers enter-
ing school terms must join the
BCTF. The Federation has also,
lobbied for the ‘union checkoff’
of dues but this has been denied.
The new amendment will ultim-

ately lead to ‘a full union shop’ }-

for the Federation.

Adequate old age
pension sought.

NANAIMO, B.C.—With permis-
Sion granted by city council, a
petition sponsored by the United
Mine Workers (CCL), calling for
old age pensions of 50 a ‘month
at the age of 65, won mass sup-
port of citizens here. More than
two thousand names were secured
on the petition in the mass street
canvass last week.

The miners were aided in their
efforts by members of the Wo-
man’s Auxiliaries of the Interna-
tional Woodworkers of America
and the UMWA.

The petition, in addition to ask-
the increased pension
grant, requested abolition of the
‘means test’ and additional changes
in the Pensions Act. The petition:
have been forwarded to the pro-
vincial government.

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