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adopt a national policy which
corresponds with the change
in the pattern of world trade
which is accompanying the
change in the pattern of world
economy.

Recognition of these oppor-
tunities underlies much of the
argumentation being advanced
by the governor of. the Bank
of Canada, J. Coyne, and it is
the growing recognition of
these facts that make the at-
tempts by Minister of Finance
Donald Fleming to refute
Coyne so feeble.

But. Coyne and Fleming
both flinch away from men-
tioning the crucial fact: name-
ly, that Canada’s present pol-
icy of gradual (or perhaps not
so gradual) national suicide is
determined by the Diefen-
baker . government’s commit-
ment to the integration of this
country to United States prep-
arations for war.

Flinching away from  ac-
knowledgment of this fact
Coyne fails to prove his argu-
ment and Fleming doesn’t
have to meet head on, the
practical Canadian alternative
to Diefenbaker policies. They
both expect the people to
whom they are addressing
themselves to understand the
unspoken arguments as well
as the spoken ones.

The reality of the situation
is that widening circles of
Canadians in all walks of life
are recognizing the urgent
necessity to disengage our
country from the U.S. drive to
war.

In Canada the question of
nuclear war has become cru-
cial in a special sense. The
numerous committees that are
springing up all over the coun-
try have various names and
they explain their objectives
in differing ways but they all
have one thing in common,

they want to keep Canada out

of war — and that requires
disengagement of Canada from
U.S. war preparations.

A NEW EXPRESSION
OF CANADIAN HOPES

LIES SMASHED BY REPORT

.L.O. report on Soviet
unions a bombshell

By GEORGE MORRIS
(Digest of a repori in the
U.S. Worker)

ORTY years of lies and
deceit about the trade
unions and working conditions
of Soviet unions are smashed
to smithereens in a 136-page
report of the International
Labor Office, published ina

book entitled “The Trade
Union Situation in the
ESSA

Issuance of the report by the
ILO, an inter-governmental
body and UN subsidiary with
92 member countries, has
brought consternation among
top AFL-CIO circles and in
some government quarters.

Certainly no person of nor-
mal mind or honest purpose
can charge that prejudice in
favor of the Soviet Union has
been a factor in the ILO mis-
sion’s extensive study. It was
undertaken as “a* project. on
trade unions, in which the U.S.
and the U.S.S.R\: were first

One expression of the
change that is taking place
under the pressure of the rad-
ical changes in the world is
the rise of the New Party.

It is true that the people
who control the New Party so
far have circumvented the in-
structions of the © Winnipeg
convention’ of the Canadian
Labor Congress. But, the fact
that the New Party does not
yet provide the possibility for
a united front of all who want
to prevent world nuclear war
is not the final word on the
policies for which it will fight
eventually.

The New Party will bring
policies right on to the floor
of every local union that is
affiliated. It will provide a
broader arena than has ever
existed in Canada until now
for the continuing contest be-
tween those who strive to
limit labor political action to
the struggle for reforms that
can be achieved without chal-
lenging monopoly capital and
those who want to end the
danger of nuclear war, to
make Canada an active force
in favor of general, complete
disarmament, and to win rad-
ical reforms which strike at
the political power of the
monopolies. Establishment of
a national arena, in which the
question of the policies by
which labor will advance to
the leadership of the nation
can be debated throughout the
labor movement, will be the
newest thing about the New
Party. But this will have to be
dealt with in another article.

surveyed. Invitations were ex-,
tended by the governments of)

both countries.

The mission, which was|
headed by John Price, an Eng-
lishman, special assistant to
the ILO’s director, secured all
the facilities and freedom re-
quested. They studied trade
union - activities in factories,
farms and institutions in Mos-
cow, Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk,
Odessa, Yalta, Simferopol,
Tbilisi,  Rustavi, Tashkent,
Sverdlovsk, Irkutsk and
Bratsk.

The ILO group interviewed
hundreds of persons, from
rank and file shop stewards to|
the topmost officials of the
All-Union Central Council of
Trade Unions with more than
53 million members.

This is the first ILO survey
of Soviet trade unions since al
study it made in 1927. The lat-
ter. was not an on-the-spot
study, but just a survey of the
Soviet press and documents.

While unions of many coun-
tries have sent delegations to
the Soviet Union to see for
themselves, the leaders of the
old AFL, and later of the
merged AFL-CIO centre, en-
forced a rigid ban against vis-
its to the U.S.S.R.

But the report of the ILO)
is the most comprehensive |
such’ study that has yet been
made. The ILO’s report of its
direct contacts are supplement-
ed in the study by detailed
documentation from Soviet la-
bor laws and trade union pol-
icy statements and rules. There |
is also a description of living
conditions.

The significance of the. re-
port can be measured: by the |
reaction to it. Jay Lovestone,
Meany’s advisor on cold war
affairs and anti-communism,|
fumed that it ‘distorted the!
picture in favor of the USSR.” |

Rudy Faupl, the AFL-CIO’s
man in ILO affairs, said he)
was ‘“‘shocked and disgusted,”
and expressed the view the re-)
port “definitely kills any pos-|
sibility of an AFL-CIO dona-|
tion” to the ILO’s Internation-|
al Institute of Labor Studies.

George Lodge, who was as-!
sistant secretary of labor un-
der Eisenhower, said he was!
‘“heartsick.”

James Mitchell, the former!
secretary of labor, released his
fury in a letter to the ILO for)
having so much “laudatory
material’”’ on the Soviet Union.

But whatever the feelings
of those who have long lived!
on keeping Americans ignor-
antabout the USSR, the truth)
is out and in print. It is pub-|
lished by the ILO in several

, American progressives

languages, is being circulated
all over the world.

The ILO mission’s
conclusions are that —
@ The Soviet trade unions are :
“real”. :

general

@ They have a democratic life*
with many millions taking an
active part in their manifold
tasks and responsibilities.

@® They have an annual re-
newal of contracts in a process
of free and fully-protected col-
lective bargaining rights.

@ They are an independent in-
stitution, although they have:
a tremendous influence in gov-
ernment affairs.

@ Their weight in Soviet life’
is considerable and _ rising’
steadily.

@ Their rights and scope of:
activity are far greater than~
those of the unions in capital- -
ist lands.

@ Like all organizations and -
institutions of the USSH they '
accept and cherish the guid-
ance of the Communist Party;
but the mission also noted that
71.4 percent of all shop com-
mittee members and 51.4 per-
cent of the chairmen of the
committees, are not members:
of the Communist Party.

By an ironic twist, the same
mission of the ILO that
brought out a report on the
Soviet trade unions shattering
many: long - circulated — lies
about them had some weeks
earlier released its report on
the U.S. trade unions pictur-
ing a situation that is far from
a happy one for American
labor.

Both reports, published by
the ILO in several languages,
are on sale to the public. Their
publication is in a sense an ex+
pression of “peaceful competi-
tion’ between the U.S. and the
USSR.

The ILO’s idea in beginning
with those two countries in its
study of ‘freedom of associa-
tion” was to let the facts
speak for themselves in a com-
parison of the unions.

The reading of both reports
leads to the inescapable con-
clusion that the George
Meanys and Walter Reuthers
have been tossing slanderous
lies at the Soviet trade unions
to discourage support for
whe
have long been advocating a
needed cleanup and democrat-
ization of the trade unions in
the United States. The reports
also shatter the campaign of
lies peddled by the Depart-
ment of Labor of the U.S. that
has: printed lying pamphlets -
on the Soviet trade unions by
the millions for mass distribu-
tion.

March 17, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7

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