Growth, optimism, «mili-
taney and-a determination to |
protect and extend their or- |
ganization were evident in
the officers report at the
18th Annual Convention of
the Western District of -the
Mine Mill and Smelter Work- |
ers Union which opened on |
Monday, January 15, at the|
Fisherman’s Halli, Vancouver.

Before the convention was
an officer’s report and reso-
lutions on compensation,
organization, women’s auxil-
iaries and upeoming wage
negotiations. The convention
will be rounded out with a
banquet and social.

However; the officers re-
port made it quite clear that
the raid against their union
by Steel and the CLC would
be uppermost in the delibera-
tions of the convention.

The report states that “nev-
er in the history of Canada

has there been such a concer: |

ted, massive raid conducted
against any labor organiza-
tion as is now being conduct-
ed aBainst our union.”’ '

These “policies of the CLC

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has made possible the grow-
ing list of suppressive legis-
lation being enacted in the
provinces and the Dominion
parliament.

“The trade union move-
ment in the United States
and Canada is in a erisis, and
this is growing. The CLC has
now less members than
when it was organized.

“What is most alarming is
the fact that.among trade un-
ionists themselves, their atti-
tude toward their officers and
their union is not only luke-
warm but..in many respects
antagonistic.”

This situation “arises dir-
ectly from the -official poli-

ership of the CLC. Their high
salaries, expense. accounts
and their consequent detach-
mant from the ordinary work-
ers; their shabby union prac-
tices reflect the general lack
of democracy in the trade
union movement.

The CLC policy of raiding
“has done very much. to in-
crease, not only the divisions
within the trade union move-

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movement into public disre-
pute and all workers are pay-
ing the price for this treach-
ery and_betrayal by the of-
ficial leadership”.

“Tf the trade unions in Can-
ada are not destroyed from
within, it will require an up-
rising of the membership
against the official leadership
of not only the Steelworkers’
Union but of all’ unions in
the CLE: ;

“The fight back of Mine
Mill is taking on the charac-
teristics of-a great crusade
against those who would de-
stroy the trade unions from
within. Itcould yet. culmin-
ate in a thorough cleansing
and purging of bureaucracy
and corruption in the so-call-
ed ‘House .of Labor’.”

This section of the report
winds up with this assertion:
‘We are confident of ‘their
defeat because we are confi-
dent, that, the real trade un-
ionists. in. Mine, Mill,, in the
best. traditions of our honour-
able union, are fighting hard
and will win and we will.be
a stronger union as a result
i] te

Other key issues singled
out by the report. are:

@ Unemployment: All Mine
Mill Locals, are urged to par-
ticipate in the Unemployed
‘Lobby tentatively slated for
‘February 19; the union calls
for provincial-federal action,
‘to provide every citizen will-
ing and able to work. with
‘an adequate standard of liv-
ing.

® Political Action: The re-
port calls on all local unions
of the Mine Mill to work for

“the election of NDP candid-/

"ates who are not associated
Splitting of labor
and raiding trade unions,
‘or with policies which’ are
*harmful to their union or
‘organized labor as a whole.
® Peace: The report places
‘the union “foursquare against
“*bomb-testing,
‘grams and the war fever be-
ing developed. Opposition to
military alliances, military
expenditures, war prepara-
tions, bomb testing, the ac-
cumulation of atomic and
hydrogen bombs, excitement
of public hysteria through
so-called survival schemes.

e Legislation: Support for
the Government taxe-over of

shelter pro- |

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Cont'd from pg. 1
the interest of the Venezue-
lan people.

Obviously such a program
would work against: U.S.
monopoly interests’ which
make such fabulous profits
out of the exploitation of
Venezuelan oil. U.S. imper-
jalism wants to keep its cake
and eat it, too.

Kennedy’s visit to Venez-
uela and Colombia last Dec-
ember no doubt served to
line up these -countries —
heretofore hesitant at inter-
vention in Cuba.— behind a

holders. A demand for an im-
mediate reduction..in. consu-
mer rates for power.

@ B.C. Economics: The Re-
port notes that while: wages
have been held down, profits
have. continued :to..soar. It

cites figures of $825 million |;
-in. dividends: for 1961: ;which |,

represents a .7% increase ov-:
er dast year, for all, Canada.

Other. resolutions.-cail for.
full:;recognition-for the. Eski-
mo. and Indian people in nor-
thern areas, and,,.special. ex-
emptions in income,.tax. paid
from the workers. pay
cheques.

Plot against Cuba

more aggressive policy
against Cuba.

DIRECT ACTION :
In face of this and othel
developments in Latin
erica, the U.S. was not rely
ing altogether on the OAS
as such to back a power-play
against Cuba, but was als?

taking more direct action.

A new right-wing Amer
can weekly, World, carried
a report in its Jan. 3 issue
from its correspondent in Nit
‘aragua which described trait”
ing of Cuban counter-revolw
tionaries in that country i
preparation for another inva
ion attempt.

Even far more ominous wal
a Christmas Eve report from
Havana that.told of the arrest
there. of . Pedro Lopez . and
Isaias Alegandro Iglesias, spe
cial. agents of the U.S. Cem
tral. Intelligence Agency.

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