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THE current issue of the Financial Post, Official organ of the big business ee carries a blurb on “How Red- Sf Naions Gnaw At Heart Of Industry.” ae oithor is ‘a character by the name of ae Dloxd. whose “gnawing” screed is : Y informative but right in line with the Post’s cold war against labor.

sla “expert” Ronald Williams who a periodic anti-labor stint for Post e rs, Lloyd gnaws on the same bone. i eae of his plaint is that no mat- a much the kindly bosses or their

rappers do for a given union in a

“iy industry, the “Reds” are never satis-

Tf, for instance, the boss should give

th © workers a twenty percent wage boost, ,

: ae insist it should have been ~ *¥Y. If some kind-hearted boss wants Benes a worker to the position of the an Bicteby “boosting” his income, ae S” are sure to be against it. And Oss airow poke in some outfit shows “Red ae in settling grievances, the 'S" are supposed to be against that

ae insist that the grievance go be-

De mabe: € management. Obsessed with a

ithe ae complex, “expert” Lloyd gives

me. the boys who clip dividends and coup- heir money’s worth.

is ae fatuous treatise on labor relations : prude out with the usual summary of 8 Who in what unions; an estimated

LT A “mbership, and the alleged political af-

eo of the union leadership. There hat ing new in this Post screed which ene Paper hasn’t previously printed at is he dozen times. The only new thing ae pe aon, who, like all of his breed, what is best to help big business believe it wants to believe. In that sort

BONES eh & trance, it will never be able to re-

canta ee the truth when it sees it. And ‘ose. course is what makes cold war

but $ not the telling of one big lie,

telling it often enough.

wenjgeantioe, and despite the ‘“Red-led of the it would seem from other pages big Organ of corporate capital that the Stiwins are doing all right in their anal ne away at the wealth, resources ‘Their abor productivity of the nation. theip Profits are still at peak levels and ' Shawing urge still strong for more, is ‘re no slip of the pen that caused est editor to. congratulate Vancou-

On-Partisan city council in its

coed ‘ that caused the Post to assume a =** tough” attitude with Canadian rail-

a at Y workers in their recent wage sellout

ies ee hands of the Railway Association

Causes * St. Laurent government; that

while 1: © Post to argue and advocate—

: ea, business sells Canada short to

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take Se belt, rolls up its sleeves and

ie a at ever wage cuts are suggested _ ‘Ger to keep profit indexes up.

uk : he Toronto Globe and Mail, another

doughty organ ef toryism and free enter- prise, insists that Canadian unions need streamlining. Too much of the old soap box aura about them to suit the Tory

“hrain-trust” on the Globe and Mail. With

a nice fatherly pat on the back for the trade anion bureaucrats, the Globe and Mail gets down te the nub of the question. Tied in with the Financial Post’s dithy- ramb, it makes a perfect preview of # fascist “Labor Front.” :

_ Away with the idea of the class struggle; that went out with Victorian hoop-skirts, and anyway: Karl Marx, didn’t know any- thing of our modern “way of life.” Away with these base thoughts of more wages. What up-to-date unions should really be thinking about is not wages or shorter working days, but how to “integrate” themselves with management in the nobel cause of “more production.”

The fervent way these Tory scribblers utter the words “more production” would actually make the unwary believe it was under-production rather than a suicidal

war economy that was raising hell with —

the nation. “More production” howled hard enough and long enough might even make some believe that people’s homes are not being built because the loggers and millworkers are not producing enough; that warehouses are choked with food—unsold food—because enough hasn’t been produced?

And strikes, that bugaboo of the coup~ on-clipper—away with them too. Strikes have no place in our modern way of life. Labor must see itself as a “partner” with capital, assuming all the responsibilities of industry—except of course, division of the spoils. That must remain the “right” of management as an incentive for its risk investments.

In executing its “Lavender and Old

Soap Boxes” presentation the Globe and Mail declares the soap box to be as out- moded as the horse-and-buggy- And with the soap box must go the idea of strikes, the urge for decent wages, the right of unions ,to run their own affairs. In place of these historical features of the origin and development of a labor movement must come the single-minded urge to pro- duce . . . produce . . . produce, until we reach a point where the belt-tightening is final and complete and a phenomena more startling than the atom bomb has been evolved — a profit-glutted coupon clipper satisfied with the extent of his gluttony. :

It is clear that unions designed to sat- isfy the Financial Post or the Toronto Globe and Mail would cease to be unions in every sense of the word. Even the most skilful trade union faker in the ranks of labor who has enlisted in the cold war as a mercenary of big business is pulled up short now and again by his membership which sees the dangers in his directional drift! ’

The Financial Post’s singling out of “Red-led” unions in actuality means all unions that operate on the principle upon which they were built: to defend and ad- vance the social and economic standards of their membership. That is what gnaws. at- the vitals of the profit plunderbund. The Globe and Mail supplies the dream of the same gang, the ending of the class struggle and the wage slave bowing meek- ly ‘to assume his chains, with “more pro-

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Potts 5 rates ne oes oe nS eae f 4 e . 9 e stig Get on with people's business & ges legislature has already been sitting for nearly two weeks, and the basic problems facing the people of British Columbia are practically untouched.

Instead, much of the valuable time of the House has been wasted in narrow partisan debate. {The people can hardly be satisfied with shadow boxing, no matter how expert Premier Bennett and Harold Winch may appear in the role of star performers. ;

This is not what the people voted for and certainly far short of what they have a right to expect.

_ They have the right to expect a solution to BCHIS that will provide hospital accommodation for those requiring it, at a modest premium and without any “‘co-insurance” price tag affixed,

: They have the right to expect enactment of an Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act which will safeguard the democratic rights of labor and give it sole custody of its own affairs.

_ A market crisis is steadily building up. That crisis can be posed in one question, Where is this province going to dispose of its products, industrial and agricultural? Upon the government's answer depends the economic wellbeing of our entire people. It calls for statesmanship, for boldness and decisiveness, not partisan. sparring for votes. Our lumber, fishing and metal mining industries are already facing crisis, which, spelled out in the language of the workers affected, means un- employment, stagnational and sub-standard levels. The situation demands action now!

The inequities of the former Coalition government's taxation policy should be removed without delay and a new tax policy directed towards shifting the burden on to the backs of those corporations best able to pay and easing the tax load for the people.

Changes in the Workmen’s Compensation Act are likewise long overdue. These changes, familiar to all sections of the labor movement, formed part of the government's pre-election commitments. They should be fulfilled now.

The people or this province are not looking to Victoria for indications of a new election. On the contrary, they are looking to the present legislature to tackle those issues upon which the people cleaned the Coalition, out on June 12 last and put in a minority government committed to redress long standing grievances. The Social Credit government will only hold the confidence of the people to the ex- tent it tackles those issues, If it cannot do so it will meet the same fate as its old- line predecessors. ; :

- The legislature should get on with the peopie’s business.

Where does St. Laurent stand? —

served: “Korea has been a blessing. There had to be a Korea.” Does Ex- ternal Affairs Minister Lester B. Pear- son also regard Korea as a “blessing”? And is this “blessing” now to be ex-

HERE does the St, Laurent gov- ernment stand on Eisenhower's plan to clear the way for Chiang Kai- shek’s mercenaries, trained and armed by the U.S., to launch piratical raids on People’s China? Thus far the St. Laurent government has evaded the issue, a sure sign that whatever the people or parliament may

Canadian government’s approval?

No less than the people of Britain, the Canadian people are alarmed! at the thought that the policies being made threatens to extend the “dirty wars” in Asia, the government is deeply in- volved. Otherwise it would have spoken out against this latest criminal

disastrous war in China. Whatever

the democratic pretenses of Syngman Rhee, they can have none about Chiang

For nearly one thousand days the Kai-shek, whose name has become syn-

tended to other parts of Asia with the __

in Washington may ultimately involve — their sons in what could only be a

_ fllusions they may still possess about

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Korean people have been the victims of U.S. policy, sustaining an unpre- cedented toll of destruction, suffering and death.

For nearly six hundred days cease- fire talks have dragged on while the USS. generals entrusted with their con- duct have devised every obstruction to settlement and striven to convince the Western world by their propaganda

‘that not they, but the Koreans and

Chinese, are responsible for contin: uation of the war. .

But it was U.S, General Van Fleet (as quoted by a U.S. writer, I. F. Stone, in his book, Hidden History of the Korean War) who cynically ob-

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onymous with ‘corruption. aa The great majority of Canada’s 1

million people. want and need the

friendship of the 450 million people

of their great neighbor across the Pa-

cific, the People’s Republic of China.

People’s China has given every evidence _ of its desire for that friendship. It is for us to demonstrate our desire for friendship by compelling our govern- — , ment to speak out against the U.S. —

plan to spread the war and for an

immediate cease-fire in Korea. Your MP claims to speak for you. Make

sure that he does. ee