nomy.”

minority, it is.

_ such vital issues.

chain for organized labor.

nals as a possible “solution.”

~ achieved.

able “solution.”

ou may not know it, but the

Northwest Territories has
its own ‘This Hour Has 7 Days
dust-up’ says an editorial in a
current issue of News of The
North, published in Yellowknife,
N.W.T.

It appears CBC has had a week-
ly program in Yellowknife for
some years now, entitled “View-
point.” - Panel members on this
popular Northern program con-
_ sisted mainly of the local citi-
zenry, with much of these panel
_ discussions on events and prob-
-lems of Northern affairs, and,
we surmise, not always compli-
mentary to the political pundits
in Ottawa, two-thirds of whom
probably couldn’t tell a Grade 1
student where Yellowknife is,

_ Anyway as the Northern paper
‘Says: “In its wisdom the CBC
has decided that if the show is to
continue, it should be heard for
15 minutes a week — on Wed-

a _@
Injunction
Wore organized labor seeks a wage increase to offset

steadilv spiralling living costs, or to keep near to in-

creased productivity per man, that is noisily (and falsely)
described as “inflationary” and a “threat to Canada’s eco-

Tom
Mc EWEN

ments, But it will

‘logic’

When big business monopoly pockets millions of dol-
lars annually in super profits, that is boastfully depicted
as an affluent, booming economy,” which of course for a

When workers are compelled as a last resort to take
strike action for increased wages, legitimate grievance ad-
justment, or to defend their gains against the attacks of

ig business, the exparte court “injunction” is brought
_ into play to cripple Labor’s unity and effort in any and all

In fact a recent “injunction” was given well in ad-
vance, “anticipating” something that might happen—but
hadn’t when the injunction was issued.

The injunction sequence is shaping into a pattern;
first the court injunction restricting labor’s inalienable
right to strike and picket, followed up by massed police
provocation and violence to enforce the injunction (as in
the classical Lenkurt Electrical dispute), then the growing
monopoly clamor for “compulsory arbitration,” presented
last week as the possible “solution to labor unrest” by
Canada’s federal Minister of Labor Jack Nicholson.

Of course, Nicholson is not alone in this proposal. The
Bennett government and its Socred henchmen, together
with fulsome editorial comment from CHQM and other
sources of public comment, have advocated a like ball-and-

Nicholson says that the matter has been under seri -
ous study for several years and in his abysmal Liberal den-
sity, cites the Australian “compulsory arbitration” tribu-

: What the minister doesn’t know or want to know is
that Australian labor had fought “compulsory arbitration”
court “awards” for years with militant and united action—
and won back their right of free collective bargaining and
the right to strike until a satisfactory settlement is

Obviously a labor-management relationship, in which
the latter together with their governments depend upon
court injunctions and police violence, plus a follow-up with
the threat of compulsory arbitration in a so-called democ-
racy, does not and will not end labor unrest in Canada or
elsewhere. ‘I'he bargaining table “in good faith”, rather
than injunction-spawned coercion, is still the only work-

Then the editorial crypitically
observes, in parenthesis: “You
probably didn’t know the mem-
bers of the panel were paid —
did you? They were — at $2.00
a panel — less income tax which
scarcely netted them any lux-
uries.”

CBC’s demand for five “un-
paid’’ panelists for 15 minutes
every week presents quite a chore

‘for any program producer, and

especially so in the vast com-
munity of Canada’s Northwest
Territories, However, that
seems to be CBC administra-
tion’s way of saying, as it did
with the hosts of “7 Days” —
you’re out,

It is scarcely likely, however,
that CBC’s “economizing” on the
paltry $10 to five CBC-TV pan-
elists in the “Land of the Mid-
night Sun” will do much to lighten
the tax burden for Canadians or
shore up Canada’s balance of pay-
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pet week Socred Premier Bennett developed something
of a poetic hysteria. Like a late May frost the premier
gave out with a “warning” that the rising tide of labor
struggles “could take the bloom off the boom” in B.C.

In this chilly forecast the premier missed one impor-
tant item, viz; that the big monopolies to whom he and
his government dedicate their services and salesmanship,
are not only the first to garner the “bloom” from the
“boom”, but invariably walk off with the lion’s share of
the “bloom”, leaving little or nothing to the people who

own and till the “garden”.

International Woodworkers of America (IWA) Re-
gional president Jack Moore expressed the majority senti-
ment of B.C. labor and the people when he replied to
WAC’s “take the bloom off the boom’ rhapsody, that the
only way to keep a “boom” going, is to “let everyone par-
ticipate in it.” “A boom is no good,” said Moore, “if only
the people from the top are going to garner benefits from

it ”

That is precisely why numerous unions representing
thousands of working men and women are now in wage
negotiations and struggle—to secure for themselves, their
families and their communities—a sprig more of the “bloom
from the boom.” “ts,

produced program -with wide pub-
lic interest.

In the April 21 edition of the
B.C, Catholic, under an Anti-
gonish N.S, dateline, and re-
printed from the St, Francis
Xavier Alumni News,
tribute is paid to Canada’s work-
ingclass Poet Laureate, Joe Wal-
lace — “Class of 1913,”

“Perhaps the outstanding ele-
ment in Joe Wallace’s highly
unorthodox Communist stance
has been his lifelong devotion to
the Catholic Faith, Joe rarely
misses daily attendance at Mass,

#On his maiden visit to Moscow
he astonished and dismayed hosts
when his first request was for
directions to thenearest Catholic
Church,

“On that occasion, and through-
out his career, Joe vigorously

defended his position that his

Catholicism was not incompat-
ible with his left-wing politics,

“Somehow or other, almost
magically it would seem, Joe
Wallace has been able to enjoy
both his worlds. He finds his
friends throughout the political
spectrum, He finds them among
churchmen, and businessmen,

a high -

“Perhaps what Joe Wallace
calls his Communism is mostly
his deep, lifelong groping for the
substance of brotherhood, justice
and love, a groping which found
its expression in left-wing verse,
The spiritual reality of life
speaks for itself to all who know
him,

‘Not too many St. F.X, grads,

_ we suspect, live in those “little

boxes made of ticky-tack’’? — and
least of all Joe Wallace “13.”

What is left of Christianity,
if it is not a “deep lifelong grop-
ing for the substance of brother-
hood, justice and love’? as the
Alumni News of St. F.X. des-
cribes it? :

A “substance” that is already

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Worth |
| Quoting |

The healthiest sign we have seen
in recent times is the growing deter-
mination of the Native people to run
their own affairs.

We see it in a number of news
stories carried in this issue, even
when it comes to a matter—and it is
far from insignificant—of B.C . Tele-
phone erecting poles on reserve land.

This sort of thing was long accepted
as a right by many whites, and by
Natives as an imposition they were
powerless fo resist, with the result thai
Indian property was in a constant
state of erosion. zs

These protests have been mounting,
_from the time a few years ago when
the North Vancouver Indians picketed
a flagrant attempt to build on their
foreshore and forced its cancellation.

And equally important is the fact
that Indians are becoming aware of
their rights and are organizing ti pro-
tect them...

—Editorial in NATIVE VOICE,
May, 1966. :

* °
We can all recall when old Winston
Churchill said in effect that he didn’t
take the job of prime minister to pre-
side over the destruction of the em-
Pire. Well that empire's about dead.

1 might add, as a trade unionist,
that | didn’t take this job to preside
over the destruction of the living
standards of the working people of
America.

—ILWU president Harry Bridges,
THE DISPATCHER, May 13, '66.

*

Who are the real enemies of the
American people? Are they not the
men who collect each year over 120
billion dollars in taxes from the indus-
trious and hardworking American
people, yet are unable to build an
American society of real human jus-
tice, equality, peace and economic
security for all? Why is there hunger
and un-met needs here in the United
States of America? Why is there
slums? Why wars? Good food, not
bombs—for all children!

—American Society to Defend
Children bulletin, May, 1966.

breaking through the hard crusts
of bigotry, sectarian isolation and
aloofness, as evident in today’s
widening dialogue between
Christian and Communist, be-
tween Catholic and Protestant,
between men and women of all
faiths.

Not who is “right” or who is
“wrong,” but who works to the
end that sunshine and life may
rain from the skies — instead of
deadly chemicals, napalm bombs
and the ultimate horror of
The Bomb: For all humanity
Vietnam is the “fork” in today’s
road — to the “substance” of
peace and brotherhood — or
‘¢Christian” destruction,

The world needs many millions,
of Joe Wallaces — “Class of
°13” and “Class of ’66,’’

“/rtbane

MAURICE RUSH

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