‘Unions (ICFTU), better known as the
“Scab International” were compelled to
recognize MRA for what it is. Not that
a lot of them didn’t know, or were sur-
prised at what they may have learned,

ow, but labor fakers have also a “prestige”’
to maintain in their vocation of mislead-
ing workers, so they put on a fine show
of ‘indignation at the company unionism
and interference of MRA in the affairs of
their respective unions. It was there-
fore. inevitable that the MRA subject
should inject itself in the TLC conven-
tion.

Frank Hall, vice-president of the Bro-
therhood of Railway Clerks and chair-
‘man of the negotiation (sell-out) com-
mittee for seventeen non-operating rail-
way unions, is a strong adherent of
MRA. During recent railway wage nego-
tiations, “Brother” Hall told TLC dele-
gates that “an MRA colleague suggest-
éd moral strength through prayer,” so
Hall “prayed” — and the railway work-
ers got a wage increase (less ‘than
one quarter of what they were demand-
ing and justifiably entitled to) plus the
threat of Bill 93 and an Emergency
Powers Act — just in case Hall’s “prey-
ing” didn’t work out to the satisfaction
of the Railway Association.

ir tt te) it tt Tt

}-~ recent Trades and Labor Congress
Convention (AFL-TLC) appears to
lave 8otten into quite a heated contro-
“sy in one of its sessions on the sub-
ect of Moral Rearmament. A few of
‘te top labor fakers who would much
€r make loud red-baiting noises than
da struggle for wage increases (ex
Spt for themselves) found themselves
Setting a bit red in the face as the truth
-out.-

This _high-sounding Moral Rearma-
a Association, or, as it is better
sudan MRA, was organized some years

Bact a prime ideological weapon of
Riese especially designed to create
td, disruption and division in the

a of labor.’ The alleged parent of

a racket is one “Doctor” Frank
mean, who emerged in the early
heey Thirties as the chief poohbah of
“cong, Oxford Brotherhood” and bosom
the ante of the Hitlerite hierarchy of

decade. It may be recalled also that

late tory chieftain, R. B. “Iron Heel”

4 ett of slave camp fame, was also
yout devotee of the “Oxford” fel-
Wship gang,

Another TLC vice-president, “Doctor”
Carl Berg has also been very much im-
pressed with the philosophy and
“strength through prayer” of MRA, and
last year while on a junket to Europe,
paid a visit to MRA’s palatial headquar-
ters in Switzerland. But—“boys, if it is as
bad as all that, then by all means let us
have no more to do with it.”

Berg is one of those perpetual joiners-
uppers: Carl will join anything if it
looks like a ready aid to Carl’s meal
ticket. We knew him back in the ’teen
years when he joined the IWW to help
keep him in coffee and doughnuts. We
knew him when later he joined the OBU
or much the same reason, and we knew
him when the AFL gathered him up and
gave him a meal ticket for taking credit
for the trade union organizational work
done by the Communists and the Young
Communist League.

com, € the also late “god-damn-you-
ae €to-Jesus” Billy Sunday evangel
a €n, Buchman has sanctified police
at anti-Sovietism and bourgeois phil-
MRA m in one great unholy trinity. His
to » philosophy” has elevated stooling
ay highly remunerative profession and
Temoveq ° Pp é
the the necessity of blushing from
Cult of Judas. MRA has also pro-
_ 4 Vast crop of journalistic scrib-
Who fill numerous publications of
lige or another with their poisonous
: Viet anti-labor bile, larding the

"ole With
a heavy dose of scripture. Sb
1, z : change-them” lads, so it is not more

omPany unionism is also a strong difficult to understand his noisy fulmin-
C0 With these MRA hacks. For them ations against MRA this year, than it was
to understand his noisy praise for it last

isioy Pany union under the strict super- ‘ *
N of the boss is the highest “ideal” year! Carl is a strong believer in “prey-

la unity against all the oe ing”!
Togress. Thus we find char- ee 2 ee
S like Pon Gostick, Professor Wat- The “moral” power _of the — i us
Kirkeonnell and others of that kid- prey’ boys is seen at its best in their
all whooping it up for MRA — for stupid harrangites against communism
Working people! —or what they call “communism.” In
ae ane this their moral rearmament is cut from
atever the “ideological” differ- the:same cloth as Senator McCarthy me
petween the numerous top adher- with a Buchman “prayer” added to rein-
of , it has provided them with force the cracking seams. Never noted
Wigton platform, together with the as union builders, their main forte is
Caste of the whole capitalist union wrecking, union raiding, per cap-
— how to slow up the forward ita collections,.and capitulation to the
f the common people. The U.S. boss’ demands for lower wages and long-
Partment’s “Project X” for the er hours. -

ae of espionage, sabotage, assas-
-},..°2d counter-revolution in the
— of rising socialism, and the
fe targ of MRA are beamed on the

arget, :

Berg is one of those amiable “if-you-

the trade union burocracy of today is to
hoist their salaries and “expenses” to
the level of a corporation director. Hav-
ing achieved this, they ultimately act
like one, thus completing their total
separation from the working men and
women who provide their salaries. Thus
morally rearmed, they can sell out a
union at the negotiating table, smash an
old established union without a blush
“of shame, or, like a hungry coyote, howl-
ing at the moon. shout “communism”
as loud as McCarthy. ;

Their present quarrel with MRA is
not with its “ideals,” but simply because
it threatens to outstrip them in the game
of “preying.”

aty
nally Such a cult as MRA has a
Manet to the professional swivel-
bip , t2ker. They too want to “do
0 it ave the cold-war, so how better
dlie an by turning on the prayer-
tile tan-thou recordings of MRA
€y stick their fellowmen in the

ed Prey.” It appears that some
,, trade union burocrats who at-
© convention of the Interna-
‘~Snfederation of Free Trade

don’t-like-my-principles-gentlemen - ['ll-.

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The great French strike

Tre French workers are resisting a government-ed attack on their
wages and conditions.

Workers in the state industries were the first to be attacked and
are foremost in resistance. The workers in privately-owned industry, how-
ore realise that they will be the next to be attacked and are joining the
strike;

At the root of the attacks on the workers there is the fact that the
French budget is running an enormous deficit, which the government is
trying to close by attacks on the state employees.

The principal cause of the deficit is the enormous burden of milit-
arism, particularly the ever-mounting war expenditure on Indo-China.

Accentuating this deficit is the large scale expert tax evasion by
all groups of business people, large and small.

In every country the capitalist class seeks to evade taxes and, of
course, meets with a measure of success.

The success of the tax evader in France far exceeds that of his
contemporaries in other capitalist lands.

The wage and salary earners are, however, enmeshed in a system
of taxation at source and pay to the full.

The budget deficit means inflation and prices rising faster than
wages. ; weg
The French government, led by the millionaire Laniel, does
nothing: to stop the war in Indo-China; nothing to stop the monstrous tax
evasion, and: calmly proceeds to operate a series of sweeping economies
at the expense of the workers. .

Food subsidies have been abolished in France, and there is in
process a step-by-step raising of rents with a view to the ultimate aboli-
tion of rent control.

In face of this sweeping attack, the workers are ‘calling for a
withdrawal of the governmerit’s economy measures and for all-round
increases in wages. ; ot

They are also calling for the recall of the National Assembly in
order that a new solution of the crisis can be found.

In the past great and justifiable strikes of the French working ;
class have been meanly slandered by sections of the trade union bureau:
cracy in Britain and Canada. ‘

Endeavors to push wages up to the level of the increased cost

of living have been depicted as Red plots to wreck France,

This has only emboldened the French employers and their gov.
ernment. erro a
Now, however, all sections of the French working class are in the _ :
struggle. :
_ The Red hogy can no longer be used to create divisions between
the workers of France and the workers of other capitalist countries. .
Therefore, the workers of all lands have every interest in help-
ing the French workers to defend their living conditions’ and to bring the
reactionary Laniel government to its knees. |

The defeat of reaction, in France will be a great victory for :

peace and social advance, and the workers ofall countries must help
their French brothers to achieve this aim. a ;
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