oo : New wor

d union

_ pledges support
to striking CSU

Striking Canadian seamen

seamen and dockers this
Seamen and Dockers,
passed a resolution aimed at bringing
the CSU

gained world-wide support from 750,-
week, as the newly created Union of

set up by the World Federation of Trade Unions,

a3

immediate and effective aid” to

In half the ports of the world scab-manned Canadian ships _ will

now be declared “hot” as a re-

sult of the IUSD action. Head of
the giant international organiza-
tion is President Harry Bridges of
the Longshoremen’s and Ware-
fhousemen’s Union (CIO).

British dockers returned to work
this week, after calling off their
Steat strike on the advice of CSU
president Harry Davis, who paid
glowing tribute to the internation-

ily

ment in a score of countries is
defeating’ this strategy.

Despite the unwarranted suspen-
sion of the CSU by the Trades
and (Labor
rank-and-file
striking seamen is growing stead-

Congress
support

executive,
for. the

Stronger in Canadian unions.

Vancouver unionists and the gen-
eral

public will have an oppor-

al solidarity demonstrated by the tunity to demonstrate their ad-
Sympathy strike which had par- miration for the CSU at a big
alyzed the port of London for 30 “seamen’s shindig” in Pender
days. The dockers returned to Auditorium on Friday evening,
work with ranks unbroken, and July 29.

pledged to continue giving sup-

port to the Canadian seamen, who Defying the Congress CSU

have now been on the picket lines
for four months.

In other world ports the strike
Soes on. The Australian Seamen’s
Union has put a ban on all ships

Suspension order, Regina Trades
and Labor Council has again
called upon the federal govern-
ment to step in and force ad-
amant shipowners to settle the
deepsea strike on terms

pro-

bringing coal to Australia, where posed by the Canadian Sea-
coal miners are on strike, and men’s Union,

is continuing to tie up all scab-

manned ‘Canadian vessels. One| The CSU, in a last effort to
struck Canadian ship has already/}reach an amicable settlement,

had to pay more than $120,000 in
dock fees.

Canadian shipowners, having
lost millions of dollars already in
their abortive attempt to destroy
the Canadian Seamen’s Union, ap-
parently are determined to flush

this week sent
seamen’s delegation to Ottawa to
attempt to discuss just terms with
government officials
ously had refused to take a hand
on the grounds that certain union
Meaders were .“ved-tinged.”

a rank-and-file

who _previ-

a few more millions. down the
drain in the hope of bankrupting
the CSU. Support from the WFTU,
the ITUSD, and the labor move-

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the Non-Partisan civic adminis-
tration for being largely respons-
the increases. “They are
accessories to the crime of rook-
ing the public,” he said. “Whether
they are accessories before or af-
ter the fact is immaterial. It is
a strange situation when the PUC
srants every increase the BCElec-
tric asks for, on an interim basis,
and then closes its eyes and ears
to the rightful protests of the citi-
zens of Vancouver, who have to
pay the shot,

“Things should. be called by
their rightful names, An interim
fare increase by the PUC means
a permanent increase, unless the
public compels the PUC to act.
Instead of protecting the interests
of the public, the boarq has, in
the last few years, become an in-
strument of the ruthless BCElec-
tric combine.”

Vancouver Housewives’ Consum-
er Association is conducting a
“telephone campaign” askin g
housewivés to save carfare by
shopping in their own districts,
The HCA has asked for a public
hearing on the fare rates and is
pressing for a “public Ownership”
plebiscite next December,

Social credit and veterans’ or-
ganizations have gone on record
against the unjustified fare hike.
Many trade unions are taking a
similar stand.

“Vancouver citizens have just
begun to fight,” said Effie
Jones. “The battle has yet to
be won. Let’s all do our part
in our respective organizations
and we can defeat this latest
move on the part of the BCElec-
tric, What’s more, we can arouse
such a storm of resentment that
a plebiscite next December will
result in an overwhelming ma-
jority vote to take over th
BCER and operate it as a pul
lic service.”

CRISIS

dollars, with which Canada helps
to cover her own trade deficit
with the U.S,

Mass layoffs have started in
Massey-Harris plants in eastern
Canada—but not in Massey-Harris
plants in the U.S. (See back page.)

These developments demonstrate
that as the crisis deepens in the
US., Canadians, forced by their
government to rely increasingly
on U.S. trade, will be the first
victims of made-in-America de-
pression policies.

The Canadian pulp industry is
already hard hit by British cur-
tailments, other industries to feel
the immediate effects of the crisis
being lumber, aluminum and cop-
per. But American Pulp produc-
ers, facing shutdown of their own
pulp plants in Washington state,
are now seeking to cut into Can-
ada’s reduced trade, using Mar-
shall plan dollars as a lever, and
so transfer the unemployment
crisis to Canadian workers.

In the meantime, the new China,
with its ambitious program of
railway rehabilitation and recon-
struction, the Soviet Union and
the New Democracies needing ma-
chinery and goods for their own
reconstruction, could keep Cana-
dian plants humming—if the gov-
ernment would allow them to ac-
cept the orders, This, and not WS.
arms spending in Canada which
will enrich only a few munitions
manufacturers and heighten the
is the solution
increasingly gaining acceptance
among the people which must be
forced on the government.

CLU gets invite to

Human Rights meet

—TORONTO.

The Civil Rights Union here
has received an invitation to at-
tend a World Congress on Human
Rights in Czechoslovakia at the
spa Marianske Lazne (Marienbad)
in September.

Organizations wanting to be rep-
resented at this congress or wish-
ing further information should
write to the Civil Rights Union,
66-68 Fraser avenue, Toronto.

labor MP expelled;

haw attacks gov't

—LONDON.

The Labor party executive has
expelled still another left-wing
Critic of its Atlantic pact poli-
cies. He is Lester Hutchinson,
ne€wspaperman and author and
former trade union organizer,
MP for the Rusholme division
of Manchester, a seat he won
in the 19455 general election.

Hutchinson thus joins Konni
Zilliacus, Leslie J. Solley and
other MPs expelled by the La-
bor party who recently formed
a Labor Independent group in
the House,

In @ typical Shavian comment
his week, George Bernard
Shaw, celebrating his 93rd birth-
day, observed that the Labor
government, “faced with nation-
al bankruptcy, politely called the
dollar crisis, and an epitiemic
of strikes, assures us that not
only the strikes but all the criti-
cism of their own follies are the
work of Communists,” wrote to
Zilliacus that a “vote against
you is a vote for another war.”

Board accused
in layoff ruse

Fifty Scott-Bathgate employees

are out of jobs today bécause
they fought for the right to be-
long to union of their own
choosing,

Local 4168 Bakers and Confec-
tionery Workers, organized the
company’s employees, then applied
for certification. Three days later
25 workers were laid off. The fol-
lowing week Labor Relations
Board told them their union did
not have jurisdiction in the plant.

In an effort to further discour-
age unionism, the company raised
wages. The workers welcomed the
raise, then’ wore their union but-
tons to work. Next day they were
all “laid off.”

The plant has started operating
again, with new employees and
a handful of former workers who
did not join the union. But now
they are all members of the AFL
Teamsters’ Union—which entered
the picture in typical, backdoor
fashion.

LRB skullduggery plus the
Teamster’s Union raiding did a
fine job—for the boss.

Union carri
layoff fight

Workers of Toronto’s sprawling

Through their union, Local 43%
United Auto Worxers (CIO), they
are planning to carry the fight
for their jobs right to the door
of Prime Minister Louis St. Laur
ent and his cabinet, © :

Last week the first instalment —
of 200 of a. mass firing of 1,500
workers sent union leaders, back-
ed by the membership, into mili —
tant action. Local MP’s are being
buttonholed by the Political AC
tion Committee under Harry Col —
gate, and a-delegation will be sent
to Ottawa to demand the federal
government open trade channels
“with any country that will buy
our goods,” :

It was learned that the big
Massey-Harris plant in Racine,
Wisconsin, has had no layoffs
comparable to those here, The
Toronto plant makes all the
combines for both U.S. and Can-—
ada, The Woodstock plant made’
all the small tractors before it
was closed down a few weeks
ago.

According to union leaders, thé
Massey-Harris officials tolgd them
that “a lot of orders were turned
down by the government.” The
company, however, rejected an im
vitation by the union to accom _
pany its delegation to Ottawa.

The company agreed with the
union that there were markets
in France, Africa, China and
elsewhere, but because of the
dollar crisis, “we're going to get
the squeeze.” When union offi-
cials urged them to act, that it
Was a matter of bread and but-—
ter to thousands of workers, thé
company’s reply was that there
was nothing to be done that
could alter the situation. ;

According to Steve Anco, presi
dent of Local 439, Harry Colgate
and Paul Siren, UAW internation-
al representative, Massey-Hartit
workers believe the contrary; tha
markets can be found for Canad
ian farm equipment,

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