f ; i f t ' | ' t t t The £rowin | Tse. - €Conom st y Coulg & €xpresgeq d g unity of the peoples of Asia and Africa is a by this picture. It shows Chinese leader Mao of a a Shaking hands with Amadou N’dene N’daw, head Black A petion from the Federation of Educationists of E — Atrica, which recently visited China. g Continued from page 6 amity upon us.” “eyclioge t,i8 true that the al crisis of capitalist aS 1s beyond the control Thakeg Y government which Profit maintenance of - the ahd be its primary task, Cannot 6. Capitalist economy de econ Perate without period- Omi i Maing mic crises, the fact re- federat at the policies of the §0vernment are re- Strict; iting €mployment today. Who thousands of workers Now are = unemployed f X0vern, at work if the federal da’g gut would free Can- ; Testricti en trade from the ee that are imposed e Satisfy the U.S. State More thousands -&al ae at work if the fed- look; vernment would adopt at Policy of broad forward- n : wit, © ©COnomic cooperation fro ni © Peoples who are win- Political independence as €rstwhile imperial- Could be enjoying €xpansion of her hg industries, hy- al and other forms ' federa) -, {evelopment if the . etnment. would S The scte ua Workin Works days, and I'n You we,nishts. How else do ah heir g@ could afford 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 pit ia ceanaananial