a The World Federation of ade Unions has issued a dec- loeuvres against the Interna- mal Labor Organization in eneva,— The statement, published in 'e September 16, 1970 issue of WETU publication “News in iy Says: @ WFTU has learned with ft concern of the recent deci- Of the Office of the ILO Overning Body to suspend Y meetings which were to 3 place during the final Onths of this year. The prob- S figuring on the agendas of € meetings are of particular Test to workers throughout World and their trade union anisations . . € ILO decision was taken as Sult of the proposal of George yj ty to abolish the United mates government's _ financial mittibution to the ILO budget. - United States Senate has al- | A0y approved this proposal but ; € final decision depends on the j ercement of a mixed meeting of : bag cntatives from the Senate ‘Ad Chamber and -also Nixon’s ‘ignature, (Since then, the United States Ngress has voted to cut its , *.7 million appropriation to the i a the second half of 1970. : The pretext for this was the kp nation of Pavel E. Astapen- dh ai © the post of one of the tector-generals of the ILO. ae WFTU denounces the 4 ~SA’s serious and inadmissible Pressure on an international or- 5 ee ation attacking AFL-CIO - -WFTU attacks Meany’s | anti working class policy ganization. These manoeuvres are aimed not only at the ILO but also at the vital interests of workers in every country, includ- ing the United States. The WFTU opposes this policy with the commitment of its en- tire history and that deriving from the decisions of its 7th _ World Trade Union Congress; in particular that of working for the achievement of the workers’ demands and for the strengthen- ing of workers’ unity on every level, including within the ILO. This is why the WFTU strongly opposes all the schemes aimed at limiting or even blocking this organization’s work. In fact the trade unions are active in it to present and de- fend the workers’ demands and to get concrete effective meas- ures for the ILO’s action in favor of the workers. The WFTU calls on affiliated and friendly organizations as well as national, regional and in- ternational organizations which are really defending the workers’ interests to express their opposi- tion to the regrettable manifes- tation of the AFL-CIO Presi- dent’s reactionary, anti-democra- tic and anti-working class policy. The WFTU hopes that in. the face of these difficulties, the ILO will stress more emphatically its universal character and that without delay it will take con- crete measures for implementing this principle and for democra- tizing its work and its structure in order to make its activities more effective and act more | strongly on behalf of the work- ers’ legitimate aspirations. “Soviet graduates find iobs open everywhere STRIKES AND ACCIDENTS Last spring 1,680,000 Soviet joung men and girls, almost 00,000 more than last year, 'aduated from! the higher and §Pecialised secondary schools. ere are higher and specializ- om Secondary educational estab- @ Shments in all the Union or Yecnomous Republics of the SSR. teate need for engineers and €chnicians is especially acute in 4 °ur country of scientific and €chnical revolution. More than 000,000 engineers are engaged the USSR industry and agri- (Culture, 220 Soviet colleges graduate €ngineers of 260 specialities. In the current five-year plan Period they will graduate 1,100,- more engineers. Where shall they work? Where shall they apply their knowledge? The young specialists do not ave to worry about it, for the Overnment undertakes their €mployment taking into account the interests of the individual 8nd of the whole society. There S no unemployment in the USSR. The young specialist who has just graduated from a col- ge or a-technical school has an opportunity to get a job he likes everywhere. The Soviet Union is constantly veloping its productive forces. ew industrial complexes and the industrial developments in he Eastern and Northern dis- tricts of the country that only Tecently had the reputation of Poorly - developed economically and scarcely populated, provide Millions of jobs for the young Specialists. That is why the num- er of workers engaged in the USSR national economy, far from reducing, is growing con- stantly despite the rapid devel- opment of automation, and technical progress in general. By the middle of this year their number reached 89,000,000 (not counting the collective- farm workers). Alongside the development of the new industrial districts, the extension, modernization and the creation of new production capacities continue in the Euro- pean part of the USSR and in Transcaucasia. This year Soviet educational establishments will graduate more specialists in agricultural production. About 100 colleges train agronomists, engineers, technologists, economists and power engineers for Soviet agri- culture. EXECUTIVES: SALARIES The United Auto Workers, about to enter negotiations for a new agreement with the in- dustry, recently compared wages of workers to the salaries of auto executives. ' The union reports that GM Chairman James Roche’s income in 1969 of $790,000 was 82 times that of an average GM worker. Henry Ford’s 1969 in- come of $515,000 equalled the wages of 56 Ford workers, and the 1969 income of Chrysler President Lynn A. Townsend, ; $409,000, equalled the average wages of 45 Chrysler workers. It has often been said that more time is lost due to occupational accidents than to strikes. The Labour Gazette, published by the Department of Labour, Ottawa, for March 1968, indi- cates the following numbers of man-days lost due to strikes and lockouts in Canada: 1962 1,417,900 1963 917,410 1964 1,580,550 1965 2,349,870 1966 (Preliminary). 5,178,170 Man-days lost due to acci- dents and industrial diseases in Ontario alone in 1966, according to the Workmen's Compensation Board Report, for all industries covered under the Act, Schedule 1, Schedule Il, and Crown Cases was (covering temporary .disabil- ities and permanent disabilities) 3,206,175. _ COMMUNIST LOBBY ON NOVEMBER 16 FOR ONE MILLION JOBS The Communist Party of Can- ada has announced Monday, November 16 as the date of its Lobby on Ottawa to demand government action to provide One Million Jobs. A car Caval- cade on November 14 and 15 throughout the main centres of Ontario will demand action to provide jobs and a parliament- ary debate to prevent the pro- posed Trudeau government sell- out of Canada’s energy resour- ces. In announcing the date Don Currie, central organizer of the Communist Party of Canada called on all members and sup- porters of the Party and labor and farm~movements to give support to the Communist pro- gram of action for One Million Jobs. “The lobby is being or- ganized,” he said, “to focus Can- ada-wide attention on the fede- ral government to act to provide jobs. There can be full employ- ment without inflation if the people organize a movement to compel Parliament to adopt policies to expand the ecoromy. For example,” Currie explained, “public mass action to force the government to undertake a mas- sive, low-cost public housing program could reduce unem- ployment drastically and bring about a surge in the economy.” All those wishing to participate in the lobby and the car caval- cade can do so by writing to the Communist Party of Canada, 24 Cecil Street, Toronto or by phoning 921-5109. READ © communist viewpoint September-October issue e Ultra-left in Canada @ Black Panther Party e Trudeau’s Foreign Policy 75 cents Conference on Labor Unity Plans to fight Thatcher REGINA—The Conference on Labor Unity in Regina, Sept. 21, attended by the Saskatchewan Federation Executive Council | and provincial staff representa- tives and business agents has de- cided to present recommenda- tions to the 1970 Convention of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labor to be held in Moose Jaw, October 15, 16, 17. Federation Treasurer J. R. Duncan has made this public statement in this connection: “The Conference was attended by 65 Saskatchewan unionists representing a broad cross-sec- tion of the Province’s organized employees. There was complete unanimity that the forced arbi- tration legislation embraced in Bill 2 has resulted in great dam- age to collective bargaining. The fact that the this law is being used to carry out the dictates of the Government on wage guide- lines and other conditions was noted by many speakers at the meeting. It was felt that the de- cline in average weekly wages in the Province, and losses in skill- ed manpower are a direct result of prejudiced Government hand- ling of Labor matters. At the same time, it was noted that while the Government strait- jackets negotiations on its own guidelines, it has not acted ef- fectively against high prices, in- terest rates, monopoly control, high executive salaries nor in other areas where anti-inflation- ary moves could prove to be of great use and value. “Growing unrest in Saskat- chewan is reported to be badly affecting employee morale. Moreover, several union officers said that the Government’s hos- tile attitude towards the organ- ized employee is encouraging some employers to push and har- hass- workers. Tensions are arising where they did not exist before, worsening the” already difficult management-labor cli- mate in Saskatchewan. One rep- resentative said that the work of processing grievances had much increased during the past 18 months. ae “Our September 21st confer- ence made a number of valuable suggestions for the study of the SFL Convention and these will be considered along with numer- ous resolutions already received from affiliates. Every indication reveals that the delegates to our annual Federation convention next month will be insistent that the SFL program to save collec- ‘tive bargaining and union rights be considerably expanded. “The Conference was one of the best we have ever had. The full realization of what has hap- pened to labor rights and rela- tions in Saskatchewan is now more evident than ever to Sas- katchewan’s union leaders. There was, even for a union audience, a remarkable sense of solidarity and a determination to get genuine democratic collective bargaining established again as soon as possible.” Stop work Oct. 14 to stop Bill 167 “Stop Bill 167!” is the slogan of Ontario trade unionists as their support grows more mas- sive every day for united parti- cipation in the great October 14 demonstration at Queen’s Park against the union-busting, strike- breaking bill. The provincial BT Council last week issued its call to 90,000 ‘Ontario building and construc- tion union members to stop work on the day of the great protest demonstration. Since then, the Toronto Building and Construction Trades Council, re- presenting 25,000 construction workers in the Toronto area, has called on all its locals to ask ° their members to participate in the demonstration. The executive of the 600,000- member Ontario Federation of Labor has called on all Ontario _ labor councils “to cooperate in the October 14 demonstration. All OFL table officers are requir- ed to do so,” David Archer, OFL president informed the Canadian Tribune. “Where building trades unions councils exist in their areas,” he added, “labor councils have been asked to cooperate directly with them in planning for this mass protest at Queen’s Park against the proposed amendments to the Ontario La- bor Relations Act.” On Monday, September 28, the OFL indicated its opposition to Bill 167 in a brief it submitted to Ontario Labor Minister Dalton Bales. Before these decisions by the OFL, Terry Meagher, the federa- tion’s secretary-treasurer had warned all Ontario trade unions of Bill 167’s assault on their PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1$70—PAGE9 + rights. In an interview with the Guardian, monthly journal of the five Windsor locals of the United Auto Workers, Meagher declar- ed, “The provincial government's amendments to the Labor Rela- tions Act are an instrumient to coerce, intimidate and strike- break.” The OFL spokesman stated that Bill 167 ‘is equally -weighted against the interests of industrial and building trades workers. All are adversely affect- ed, and a successful struggle against the anti-labor sections of Bill 167 will require a united effort on the part of -the entire labor movement.” _ Meagher said- the editorial published in the OFL’s Labor Re- view of ‘June-July was an error that gave the “wrong impres- sion.” He claimed the OFL op- poses Bill 167 and would support moves from trade unions against it. It is expected that thousands of striking GM auto workers will take part in the October 14 * demonstration. Meeting on September 26, the Ontario Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Canada declared that Bill 167 “is aimed at the heart of collective bar- gaining in Ontario and requires the total mobilization of all On- tario organized labor for its de- feat.” The Committee’s state- ment on behalf of all Ontario Communists pledges ‘fullest support of the Building Trades action in whatever way possible, and urges all labor to find the way to express their opposition to Bill 167 on October 14.”