Review * EDITORIAL PAGE x menace labor HEN all the seemingly loose ends are pulled together, a sinister pattern emerges. This pattern, now implicit in Bill 43 brought down in the legislature this week by Socred Labor Minister Lyle Wicks, provides for the erec- tion of a legal barb-wire fence to assist employers - “hold-the-line-on- wages” by limiting a union’s in- alienable right to strike and picket —and bleeding it white in the courts through legal actions for any in- fringments of this Socred-Chamber of Commerce dog-collar statute. The appointment of Mr. Justice J. V. Clyne in 1958 ‘as chairman of MacMillan and Bloedel Ltd., a “nove in which a Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia left that cushy job to head up B.C.’s number one timber monopoly, wasn’t exactly made for reasons of health! It is now obvious that Clyne’s new job made him one of the key architects of Bill 43! Addressing the annual dinner of the Building and Construction In- dustries Exchange of B.C. last week, former Justice Clyne under- scored the old adage of the laborer being “worthy of his hire,” in his proposals for “a fact-finding board to prove all labor disputes in B.C.” Readine between the lines of Clyne’s “fact-finding board” pros- pectus, one doesn’t require to be a Houdini to detect the crude out- line of an opening wedge for com- pulsory arbitration and other anti- labor legislative curbs. ' With “fish and chips” union buster Joey Smallwood of New- foundland on the rampage against the embattled IWA in that back. wood province, and Socred Works Minister W. N. Chant loudly sound- ine off against labor on the home hase. the Clyne pattern for anti- labor legislation made to the speci- fications of MacMillan and Bloedel. e e : e . Pacific Tribune Phone MUtual 5-5288 Editor — TOM McEWEN Managing Editor — BERT WHYTE Published weekly at Room 6 — 426 Main Street Vancouver 4, B.C. Subscription Rates: One Year: $4.00 Six Months: $2.25 Canadian and Commonwealth countries (except Australia): $4.00 one year. Australia, United States “and all other countries: $5.00 one year. now contined is Bill 43, is neither new nor surprising. On the con- trary, it is precisely what a “legal” mind was. drafted onto B.C.’s key timber monopoly to do; to short- circuit labor's legitimate wage de. mands with legislative ‘restrictions, designed to hogtie labor—and en. . hance monopoly profits Vancouver Labor Council has unanimously condemned this pro- posed restrictive legislation and called on the B.C. Federation of Labor to convene a province-wide emergency meeting of union rep. resentatives to deal with it. Canadian Labor Congress presi- dent Claude Jodoin has pledged “fullest cooperation” to B.C. labor in its fight against Bill 43, and de- | clares this bill without parallel in - any Canadian province. “Only Que- bec has a law which permits a un- ion to be’ sued,” stated Jodoin, “but no province in this country restricts picketing.” The Clyne proposals °° Farmers and Labor Te annual convention of the Canadian Federation of Agri- culture held in Saskatoon recently pointed up one very salient fact; that the economic and political problems facing farmers and indus- trial workers alike are basically the same—the “‘cost-price” squeeze of a monopoly-controlled wringer, which wrings both dry. One as a primary — producer, the other as an ultimate censumer. On the burning issue of markets (which also provide jobs) the CFA urged that the federal government “work toward the elimination of restrictions on international trade,” and immediate recognition of the People’s Republic of China. The CFA also wants something * done about steadily rising . freight rates ( 13 such increases in the last 10 years) which cut: deeply into arm income — and skyrocket 1a- bor’s living costs. The perennial excuse given the fermers by the rail and other mon- opolists for these successive Price hoists is “high labor costs” (wages). . The tragedy is that as yet, too Comment hina ) many farm journals lend their & torial columns to the propa of this monopoly bunkum. The result of this false propagate ' that even in the midst of ion progressive policy resolutions, * CFA falls into the Socred - trap of advocating settlement ¢ labor-management disputes by parliamentary “tribunal, whose ¢ cisions will be final and “6 ne This, despite the fact that Be farmer could know, by the aid 4 little simple arithmetic on the} door, that the recent 17 pert freight hike given the rail bar by an obliging Tory governme netted them three times the am@ won by the rail workers in a} overdue and inadquate wage crease. : The CFA conyention d however, indicate that a co ground exists for labor-farmet tical unity, for. the creation of labor-farmer-peoples alternative the political partisans of big | ness. All that is required is farm organizations and trade ni to get together~-and begin job of building. ‘ is Tom | McEwen LTHOUGH the January 25 bicentenary celebrations mark- ing the birth of Scotland’s na- tional’ Bard are already history, I. felt that the highlights of a letter I had from Archie John- stone on how one Moscow school celebrated the event, would be of interest to PT readers. This “Burns Nicht” was staged by some 150 teenage’ boys and girls, members of the English Club in Moscow’s “School 112.” Perhaps much of its success is due to the fact that these Mos- cow teenagers. are promoters of an extensive “pen-pal’” ex- change, in this case, with a wide range of Scottish young- sters. E Anyhow, there was oodles of haggis, air-expressed and_pre- paid, gifts to Schoo] 112 from Scottish haggis makers, some lovingly home-cooked, some in bulk quantity from Scotland’s leading haggis manufacturers. As Archie said, the haggis arrived, “some in tins and some in skins,” all beautifully wrapped and stamped ‘in true Scottish ‘style. (Local haggis purveyors who boast their prowess, but don’t “ca canny” with their prices, please note!) School 112, wanting a “real live Scot to deliver the “Address to the Haggis,” conscripted my friend Archie for the job, but were taking no chances on a slip-up, so had it all typed out for him, just as the Bard had set it down. c “Piping in the Haggis? Oh,” says Archie, “the Club had that little detail all taped — or re- corded from some of Scotland’s | top pipers, thanks again to Scot- tish pen-pals. And didn’t Archie think Scotland The Brave would be the most appropriate tune? Fine! i : The program of Scottish songs, dancing, recitations, put on by the students of Moscow’s School 112 could have come straight from Ayr itself, but it didn’t. It came from the hearts of another peo- ple, who teach their children to honor the memory of those who write the struggles of common people into imperishible music, song and poetry — which herald the grandeur of a future Com- munist society. At the close of School 112’s “Burns Nicht” Archie landed a_ job; to write the warm thanks © of the student body of School 112 to Scottish haggis makers for the fine gifts of haggis; to all who had sent fine tape-re- cordings of Scottish music and song; to Mr. Thomas MeMynn, the’ 80-year-old curator of the Burns ~ Cottage museum at Ayr for his kindly help; to Mr. Robe to all 350th anniversary ~ birthday of became one of England’s greatest ® Brown, Town Clerk of Ayr, and — Scottish pen-pals “a of School 112, whose enthusiasm and encouragement, plus . yards of tartans, flags, and paintings of Bonnie Scotland, made Burns live again among his “ain folk” —across the seas! 503 x $0 mS To honor the Bicentenary of Burns the Soviet-~postal au J orities struck off a‘ special post age stamp. to mark -the event— an issue which was sold out In the Soviet Union ‘almost. "as soon as it .was: printed. > = ‘Last year too, “marking» the the English poet, John Milton (1608 - 1674) the Soviet Union struck off a special anniversary — postal stamp to honor’ the memory and the great* contribu- tion his genius gave tothe world. Born in London, England, son’ of Puritan parents, John Miltor poets and literati. Under Crom- well, Milton served’ as. “Latin Secretary to the Committee ~ for. Foreign Affairs. Writer of. many beautiful poems; his best “known and most beloved. works are Paradise Lost and Paradise Re- gained. In his poem To The Lord General Cromwell, a tragedy in the Greek classical style; Milton,” himself stricken with “blindness, takes the blind Samson of the” poem as fhe hero of his tale" Only in® the Socialist’ world? — are such men truly honored! ts a fecs x March 6, 1959 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE"