“ClO ‘trial’ part of long
attack, says Mine-Mill

fas,

~WASHINGTON

The “‘trial’’ of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers by a committee of the CIO

executive board culminates a 10-year plot of CIO Steelworkers’

locals and members within their organization.”

This charge is made in a 62-page brief presented to the CIO

John Clark, vice-presidents Reid
Robinson and Orville Larson, and
secretary-treasurer Maurice Travis.

Hearing argument of “charges”
filed by president William Stein-
berg of the American Radio ~Asso-
ciation that Mine-Mill has “violat-
ed CIO policy” are president Jacob
Potofsky of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, president Jo-
seph Curran of the National Mari-
time Union, and secretary-treasur-

er Emil Mazey of the United Auto|

Workers.

The Mine-Mill, document shows
the close parallel between attacks
made on the union by employers
ever since it was born in 1893, and

the current attack by CIO’s top
leaders.

“We fight this attack, on the
fundamentals of American trade
unionism by CIO leaders because,
looking over our shoulders are the
Boyces, the Moyers, the Pettibones,
the Haywoods, the Joe Hills, the
thousands on thousands of anon-
ymous miners who suffered in the
buli pens, and their courageous

families that shared in a hundred
western mining towns to preserve

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Union leaders ‘to swallow up Mine-Mill

“trial’’ committee by Mine-Mill president

this union®as the bulwark of their
sacred freedoms,” it says, and it
adds:

“This is not a trial of one
labor union by another. This is
the same trial, with its undemo-
cratic trappings, that Mine-Mill
has faced over and over agaih
at the hands of the mining
monopolies and their obedient
officials.”

The brief points to the close
similarity between the charge of
“Communist”: now levelled against
Mine-Mill by Steinberg, and the
charge by the Lusk Committee of

the New York legislature in 1920)

that the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers’ Union “is in reality an
industrial arm of the Sécialist Par-
ty of America.”

City workers
plan- school

Civic Employees Union, Local 28
(Outside Workers) is planning to
hold a weekend trade union school
for shop stewards and executive
members February 10, 11 and 12.
Members of the union will also be
invited to take the course.

Proposed plan is to cover five
subjects. Tom Parkin will speak
and lead a discussion on the history
of the trade union -movement in
Canada. Jack Phillips will handle
a session on the municipal super-

annuation scheme and the need for
adequate old age pensions. He will
also act as instructor for the sub-
ject: Unemployment -— The Gal-
loping Crisis.

Don Guise also will instruct in
two subjects; The Contractors Are
After Your Job (a study of the
menace to wage standards and
jobs by private contractors); Our
Relations With the City and Its
the union
éontract, negotiations, grievances,
public relations, etc.).

Announce start
on TB hospital

Stung by public indignation over
a lack of 300 hospital beds for TB
patients in British Columbia, pro-
vincial Health and Welfare Minis-
ter George Pearson, announced this
week that construction of the long-
promised TB hospital in South
Vancouv4i will be «started this
year. -

Estimated cost of the hospital
will be $1 million, and it will “pro-
vide beds for 250 TB patients and
250 chronic general cases.

Most citizens believe that TB
hospitalization is free, but such is
not:the case. Financial status of
patients is probed and they are
charged “all the traffic will bear.”
Charges vary from 50 cents to $3
per day.

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Celebrate Burns night.

Scottish dances and songs, reci-
tations and commuhity singing will
feature the LPP’s celebration of
Burns’ Night at the lower hall,
Pender Auditorium, Friday, Janu-
ary 27, at 8 p.m. Bill Stewart will
act as master of ceremonies and
Charles M. Stewart will give the
“address to the immortal memory.”

The Lusk committee said “Tt

(ACW) is working for the objects’

of that party carrying out in
every. detail the program announc-
ed by that: party in the war pro-
clamation and program adopted at
the St. Louis convention in April,
1917.”

And the Mine-Mill leaders com-
ment that charges of socialism
and communism are “marked by
the tombstones and graveyards,
the jails and stockades of every

mining camp and smelter town in
America.”

The leaders of the 57-year-old

Mine-Mill union, one of eight |

unions which founded CIO, make
it clear they have no expecta-
tion of a fair trial since “every
member of this so-called “trial
committee’, is convicted before-
hand of bias.”

They call attention to the fact
that Potofsky, the committee
chairman, “is an old hand at
‘trying’ this union on practically
equivalent charges, brought by a
dissident and disruptive faction
of the union in 1947.”

The report issued by Potofsky
in 1947 “has since been used by
the big mining corporations, re-
printed by hostile employers’ mag-
azines and newspapers, and used
in every possible way to attack
this union and its efforts to organ-
ize.”

3

.The carefully documented Mine-
Mill brief points to a speech by
the late Van A. Bittnez. of the
Steelworkers’ Union to Mine-Mill’s
34th convention, on August 5, 1937,
in which he said: .

“|. Because of .the fact that
large ore mines on the Minnesota
and Michigan ranges belong to
Steel companies, we decided to

(start a campaign of organization

there, with this distinct under-
standing, that when those men are
organized and when the battle is
over among the iron ore ranges
of Minnesota and Michigan, when
those men are working » under
wage agreements, we will happily
turn them over to your union as
our contribution toward helping
you men to organize the metal
miners of this country.”

Despite repeated reminders of
this promise, the Steelworkers’
Union refused. to turn over the
Minnesota mining locals to Mine-
Mill. And the Mine-Mill document

adds: j \
\

“Later events showed that the
illegal foothold which the Steel.-
workers had established within —
our jurisdiction by violation of
their sacred pledge was regarded
by them as a beachhead for the
total invasion of our jurisdic-
tion.” ,

350 sign Ban-Bomb

petition in Nanaimo
£ NANAIMO, B.C.

Nanaimo. citizens who
“Ban the Bomb” petitions on down-
town street corners last Saturday
left no doubt as to where they stood
on the question of peace.

With such expressions as “I’m
fed up with war talk”, and Gey
sign to help keep peace”, “Wars
dont bring jobs”, some 350 shop-
pers affixed their signatures to the
petitions. .

LPP members who participdted
in the street corner petition drive

plan to continue securing names |

by door-to-door canvassing.

signed |

PEACE SHOWN MAIN

CONCERN

“One of the most significant p'
Canada,” was the comment of the

Poll significant,
states Endicott

TORONTO

ublic opinion polls ever conducted in
Canadian Peace Congress chairman,

Dr. J..G. Endicott, on release of the Canadian Institute of Public Opin-

ion’s poll on the greatest achievements and greatest failure of mankind

in the last 50 years.

The poll showed 37 percent of Canadians picked failure to prevent

wars as the greatest failure. This
was far ahead of all other choices
—the next got nine percent. Rated
as top achievement was atomic fis-
sion,

“Combination of these choices
shows extent of public concern
on the greatest issue of our’
time: .atomic war and atomic
peace,” he said.

“Our experience is that confront-

ed with the direct question of
banning: the atomic bomb all but

a tiny majority of Canadians are
in favor,”

Dr, Endicott . was. referring to
the January petition campaign of
the congress which asks for a ban

on the atomic bomb, effective ‘in-
ternational control, and use of the
atom for peace.

“We are getting 220,000 signa-
“tures on a petition calling for
these thrée actions which ‘we
will present to the federal gov-
ernment’ in February,” he said.
“The experience of the petition
is that Canadians in every walk
of life are overwhelmingly in
favor of banning the bomb.

“We will play our part as peo-
ple in other lands the world over =
are doing to press the government
to leave no stone unturned until
the bomb is banned and mankind
is safe.” :

Prime Minister of Canada.

suffering, horror and destruction

1. Urge in the Assembly of

of our people.

: NAME

| Pe
Petition —
To the Right Honorable Louis St. Laurent,

We, the undersigned citizens of Canada, acutely aware of the

atomic bomb, respectfully petition the government of Canada to
take the following immediate action:

_ ATOM BOMB BE BANNED. | ee

2. Press for strictest international control to ensuree compliance
of all nations in outlawing the bomb as a military weapon.

3. Encourage research in the use of atomic energy for peaceful
purposes and its practical application for the increased well-being

brought about by the use of the

the United Nations THAT THE

ADDRESS

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Please send all signed petitions before February 15, 1950, to the
sponsors of this petition: The Canadian Peace Congress, 49 Walker
oe Avenue, Toronto, Ont.

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