Victims of racism

Detroit unionists pitch in to repair the damage done by a mob of white hoodiums to the home

of a Negro member of the United Auto, Workers (CIO).

The Negro worker and his family, who

recently bought the house in a white neighborhood, received no police protection against the hoodlum

violence.

Anti-communist hysteria and race discrimination go hand-in-hand in the U.S.

~ Steel organizer claims Congress
backs raid on Mine-Mill union

United Steelworkers’ organizer Pen Baskin claims backing of the jurisdictional com-
mittee of the Canadian Congress of Labor for his organization’s attempts to raid the In-

ternational Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.

He advanced this claim at the

Vancouver I,abor Council, when Harold Pritchett, IWA delegate, charged Baskin and CCL

western director of organization W.
Mahoney with raiding Mine-Mill in
Vancouver. Pritchett was speaking
6n an executive motion to receive
and file a CCL letter announcing
Mine-Mill’s suspension and asking

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unions not to poach on Mine-Mill’s
jurisdiction since it would be re-
served by Congress officers,

|
Pritchett attacked the suspension”

on grounds dropping 22,000 union-
ists was not in the best interests
of the Congress, and stated Con-.

‘|gress had sent an insulting reply

to IWA charges against Mahoney’s
intervention in IWA affairs. |
_ Baskin’s claim has the effect of
tearing up the CCL letter on Mine- |
Mill jurisdiction.

O’Brien for “slandering” trade un-
ion officers,

Shipyard delegate Bill Stewart
accused the Mahoney group of
conspiring to stop the work of the
Board, but O’Brien was condemned
without a hearing when, after be-
ing granted the privilege of the
floor, CCL organizer Dan Radford
cut him off by moving the previous
question, which was carried by Ma-
|honey’s delegates. Ed Leary (Fur
‘and Leather Workers) had unsuc-

; Vancouver

President George Home cut off cessfully raised a point of order

several other speakers to. allow that it was outside council juris-
Mahoney t0 Close responsible tg) action to condemn any officer of
the Bo. Federation of Labor or the a Congress body. (Harvey Murphy

Labor Council, put 224 been suspended on similar
works for the CCL and is respon- grounds.)
sible only to CCL officers for the |. Executive earlier recommended
work he is doing in western Can- severing connections with the Unit-
Sats. led May Day Committee, which
In response to a letter from B.C. asked aid in clearing up a $50 debt.
Federation of Labor President! Pressed by questions from dele-
Danny O’Brien, outlining how ab- | gates who feared this meant an at-
sence of the Mahoney faction had tack on May Day, executive mem-
frustrated a B.C. Federation board bers stated they did not mean
meeting (see page 2), the execu- council would not participate in
tive recommended condemnation of 1949 May Day.

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~ Greetings from Rome

—ROME

The Taft-Hartley law is being used as a model “by all im-
perialist governments to suppress union rights,” Guiseppe Di
Vittorio, general secretary of the Italian General Confederation
of Labor (CGIL), said here in a Labor Day message to Ameri-
can workers.

In Italy, Di Vittorio said, the government las already an-
nounced anti-strike laws based on the Taft-Hartley law. “We
beleive that the greatest aid you could render Italian workers
and workers of other countries is to fight strenuously to ab-
bolish the Taft-Hartley law.

“Like all working people, we love the great American re-
public of Lincoln and Roosevelt; we love your tradition of de-
mocracy, liberty and independence. . . . Today, however, the
big trusts dominate your economic life and consequently your
political life.

“They are ‘out not only to destroy the most elementary
principles of liberty, but openly threaten the world with a
third and more catastrophic world war with their proclaimed
monopoly of the atomic bomb.” j

Concluding, Di Vittorio sent “fraternal greeting, best wishes
for peace, progress and socia} emancipation to you all, workers
of America, from your brothers in Italy.”

ATU

CSU wins contract,
may invoke new law

An agreement covering wages and working conditions
for the unlicensed personnel employed by the Lakeland Tank-
ers Co., of Toronto, was signed this week, it was announced
by Michael Jackson, Great Lakes Director of the Canadian
Seamen’s union, The agreement,
similar to those the union has with movement in particular, of the re-
the Texaco and other Great Lakes cent developments of the Great
tanker companies, provides for JLake’s seamen’s strike, and to con-
uniformity in wages, the 44-hour sider further what support the
week in port, union hiring and jabor movement and the sympa-
voluntary checkoff of dues, six thetic public can lend to the strik-
statutory holidays per season and ing seamen.”
two days holidays per month with) «pne issues in our strike against

pay. |the shipping companies are vital to
On the strike front the CSU is the whole labor movement,” Fer-

considering invoking the provisions guson said. ~

of Bill 195, the new national labor |

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1. Percy Bengough, president of the
Trades and Labor Congress of Can-
ada, has demanded on several oc-
casions that the federal govern-
ment invoke the new labor code as
soon as it became effective in order
to compel anti-labor shipping com-
panies to stop breaking the Do-
minion’s labor laws.

Do as [ say, not
as | do--US motto

In a recent diplomatic note sent
to the Soviet Union, the U.S. State
The CSU has announced that the Department said: “the government

city-wide conference in support of
its strike will be held on Sunday,
September 19 and that invitations
will go to the entire trade union
movement, church groups, civil
rights associations, consumer
bodies and all other interested or-
ganizations. Besides organizations
the public will also be invited, The
Toronto conference (time and place
yet to be set) will be the first of
a series of such CSU conferences
which will be held in leading cities
across the Dominion.

Dewar Ferguson, Toronto Busi-
ness Agent of the CSU, said the
conferences were being. called to

of the U.S. cannot permit the exer-
cise within the United States of the
police power of any foreign gov-
ernment.”

But when it
states?

Here is Article IV, Section 4 of
agreement giving U.S. a lease to
Newfoundland air bases:

“When the United States exer-
cises jurisdiction under this Ar-
ticle and the person charged is a
British subject, he shall be tried
by a United States court sitting in
a Leased Area in the Territory.”

comes to other

“inform the public, and the labor

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the following addresses:

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6 East 2nd Avenue

501 Industrial Avenue

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