Amid talk of early negotiations to end the war in Algeria, the Algerian Liberation Army is growing in strength as France’s colonial policy sinks into deeper eerisis. Above photo shows Algerian troops in training. ‘Below, manning an anti-aircraft gun. OBLESS LOBBY (Continued from Page 1) Lower Island: In Nanaimo plans were well underway for sending at least 200. The dele- gation will assemble in front of the Nanaimo city hall at 8:30 am. on Monday Cars will leave for Victoria at 9 a.m. Many are also expected from the Duncan - Cowichan area. In Victoria many local jobless are expected to take part in the day’s activity. Assembly point for the lob- by will be the Victoria Ball room where delegations from all centres will meet at 11 a.m. Meanwhile, the United Fish- ermen and Allied Workers Un- jon have announced that they will send a 100-strong delega- tion to back up the jobless marchers. The. union’s delega- tion will sjay over to take up with MLA’s and the govern- ment their objections to anti- labor Bill 42 and changes in the Compensation Act. Action of the unemployed is growing all across Canada. Or- ganizations have now been set up in Montreal, Peterborough, Toronto, Hamilton, Welland, St. Catherines, Guelph, Lon- don, Brantford, Windsor, Win- nipeg, and other centres. Recently ©a co-ordinating committee of unemployed or- ganizations met in London, Ontario to discuss plans for a nation-wide lobby to Ottawa. A tentative date of April 15 or a date closely following the Easter recess of Parliament is under consideration. — Radio CKW. 1130 KILOCYCLES — Every Sunday 7:10 p.m. Weekly commentary of Communist Party by + Nigel Morgan Bill 42 ‘Vicious Class Legislation nited labor action can heat political gag law By NIGEL MORGAN Do you remember the “Big Lie” technique of Hitler? Sim- ilar false and deceitful propa- ganda about “protecting work- ers and employers against the checkoff and compulsory polit- ical contributions” are being used by Socred politicians, em- ployers and big business news- papers to violate basic civil | rights of British Columbians. Examination of Bill 42, pro- posed «amendments to B.C.’s labor act, shows the checkoff has very little to do with the question at all. The main aim of the amendments is to stop the trade unions from partici- pating in the political life of this province. Section 5 states in clear and unmistakeable language: “No trade union . . .«shall directly Or indirectly coniTibute to or expend on behalf of any polit- ical -party..or to or On behalf of any candidate for political office, any money .. . paid asa condition of membership in the trade union. That is the nub of the whole question! No} trade union, whether it has} checkoff rights or not, is to be allowed to vote one cent of its income (all of which comes from dues) for political cam- paigning. The Communist Party has fought for and fully supports the official Canadian Labor Congress policy of “voluntary political contributions.” We favor the policy of members “contracting-in,’ rather than “eontracting-out”. The Com munist Party is ‘specifically | excluded (and we feel wrong-|, ly and unfairly) from partici- pation in the New Party, but : we are violently opposed to such vicious interference in the internal affairs of the trade union movement as pro-|, posed by the Bennett govern- ment. It is an infringement on political freedom of every British Columbian. It is class legislation of the most vicious type because it leaves employ- er associations — the big elec- tric, lumber, mining, oil and gas monopolies that ‘supply the campaign funds of the So- cial Credit, Tory and Liberal Parties free to contribute mil- lions which they extract from their consumers by ‘‘compul- sory’ higher prices. If passed, no trade union will be free to make its own democratic decisions as to how its ~membership wishes. to spend its own funds. Such leg- islation has been tried before. Hitler and Mussolini used pre- ions have to pay a few cen per capita to maintain the na tional centre would pring them “indirectly” in violatiol of and subject to all the penal ties of the Act. Thus, even the right of BC. unions to national affiliatio could be interfered with fd perfectly legal acts beyon? their immediate control. OP viously such amendments havé far-reaching implications. | Shocking is the fact that no clear Jead has yet been -givell by the right-wing trade uniod leadership, even though thf draft has been public knoW edge for over a week and m well become law within t days. To talk of dependence & the courts, of waiting until we can elect a New Party govel® ment, or leave the struggle & tirely to CCF MLAs in the legislature (the position take by the social democrats) is to court disaster. What is needed, and need@ immediately, is the most vi9% ous and united political acti® campaign of all labor and PF gressive forces to expose am defeat the Socred political 9 law. Obviously, the first © quirement is to take the iss to the public, mounting the biggest public campaign B¥ has ever seen to win popul™ support to defeat this oppre : sive piece of class legisla It is still not too late. | cisely the same method to handcuff the trade unions in their fascist corporate states. In 1909, the same restrictions were ‘attempted in Britain when the British Labor Party was beginning to become a force. “It stems from the same basic dictatorial position as open shop employers attempted when we first started to organ- ize our trade unions, and they used mass firings, job discrim- ination and ‘blacklists to try and prevent the trade unions from being. formed. It is but one step removed from dic- tating to the unions that they can’t spend their funds to lob- by to obtain research on cor- poration profits, or to publi- cize labor’s program and needs. It means union funds cannot be used in any manner — in- cluding the help of paid union officers, equipment or office help, in any political cam- paign. It can prevent the Van- couver and other labor coun- cils from nominating and sup- porting labor candidates, or even supporting the program of certain candidates in civic elections. And, even if every B.C. union local and council should agree not to spend one penny on politics, if the Can- adian Labor Congress affili- ates in other provinces decid- ed that the national Congress should, the fact that B.C. un- No Canadian need | apply for job here Arctic Ocean 3 fs 74 ree Rey eno i mn 9} ites cache Dalle. Above is a map showing the DEW line in northern “canal The Pacific Tribune has often charged that the U.S. virtually taken over the north through its control of this We have also charged that Canadians have been denied right to take skilled jobs on the line. Officials have vpoatedl denied this. Now the Pacific Tribune has proof that this i>” We received in our office this week a copy of the Ma issue of “Electronics World”, one of the largest technical: de i lications in North America. In a large ad appealing for beet) tronic technicians to take jobs on the DEW line there is ust : qualification: "You must*be a United States Citizen.” March 3, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pase ”