Unity still the key Jn its mounting attacks upon the hard-won standards of organized labor in B.C. and throughout Canada, and

attempts to block further economic and social gains, big business has gone all-out.

Reams of ex parte court injunctions, aimed at prohi- — biting labor from exercising its unwritten and legal rights under existing labor laws; the use of a monopoly control-

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led press to distort and confuse issues involved. The estab- lishment of monopoly-controlled “hold-the-line” strike- breaking agencies — with government approval, to block labor’s drive for a greater share of the vast wealth it alone produces. ized dissention in unions engaged in bitter wage struggles by a handful of foreign international union burocrats, who take their “political line” and their instruc- tions from the U.S. state department.

These are only a few of the odds mounted against labor by big monopoly in its “hard-nosed” attempts to force labor to its knees.

Obviously labor has only one answer in such situa- tion; unity and more unity. Unity against the monopoly profit ghouls; unity against the international top brass wreckers and their stooges in Canada, whose sellout aims are based upon a determination to “rule or ruin”—in the interests of big business.

The Lenkurt dispute drives home the lesson anew, that “inner” union dissention, regardless of its origin, can only end by the bosses becoming the beneficiaries — and the workers the “sacrificial” victims.

Here again, unity and more unity is the only answer on how to turn partial defeat into complete victory. When a U.S.-based international executive interference in the internal affairs of Canadian unions become intolerable and destructive of Canadian union autonomy, such a situ- ation can not be accepted with the idea that “nothing can be done about it.” That way leads to abject surrender of all that trade unionism stands for.

The “solution,” however, must have one basic prin- ciple superseding all other considerations; the unity of the workers in any given industry, whether in one or more unions. Not two unions in an industry tearing each other's guts out by membership “raiding,” dissention, etc, but united in fighting a common enemy; uniting in seeing to it that they, and not the boss, emerges as the “beneficiary” from évery struggle.

With that degree of labor unity—even an exparte in-

he recent meeting of NATO ministers in Paris was

something less than a success. In point of fact, aside from Canada’s External Affairs Minister Paul Martin’s “eloquent appeal” to “save” NATO, the sessions revealed this war Alliance as being little more than a most costly “‘dead duck.”

On the issue of anew HQ for NATO — when final marching orders comes from President Charles de Gaulle, the French minister told his 14 ministerial colleagues where NATO moves its headquarters to “France couldn’t care less.”

When U.S. and British ministers, together with Herr. Schroeder of West Germany, wanted to know what of the future role of 70,000 French troops in Germany under NATO, they were curtly told “that was for France to de- cide,” but if they stay it will “not be under NATO com- mand.”

What Mr. Martin’s “eloquent appeal” achieved was merely to delay the NATO crack-up, not to bury it — in the interests of the Canadian taxpayer—and peace.

Martin would have rendered a greater service to Can- ada had he followed the advice of the Warsaw Pact lead - ers, strongly urging the dissolution of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and replacing these with the formation of a European Security pact, dedicated to European goodwill

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junction loses its “legal” intimidation and awe.

INSESNSSSESES:

F or bosses only. Does anyone need the “services’’ of a really and truly “‘Big Man” ?“ True some are shorter than others — but they are just as big.” So the prospectus from “Industrial Overload”, “IO’’ for short tells us, with the “Big” always in upper- case letters,

Pictures of these “Big Men” portray a lot of muscle, plus that «sforward looking” look worn by Junior Chamber of Commerce “executive” types, looking for an opportunity to display their tal- ents, whether as a “‘captain of industry” or just plain scab,

The “IO Big Man’ says the prospectus advertisement, is fully covered by *Workmen’s Compensation,”’ **honded” to the tune of $100,000, and “insured” to $500,000. So, should the new «Big Man” get himself mixed up in the plant gears, abscond with

the company payroll, or drop dead from “Big Man’? fatigue, it doesn’t cost the prospective em- ployer of “IO Big Man’ one red cent extra, You can’t beat that for a “sweet-heart” deal,

#IO”? lists six distinct “Big Man’ services” (there may be more) for a boss to “Use him when you need” any of these ser- vices, The “Big Man” can be had at any hour of the day or night, seven days a week, No worries to the boss about overtime, pay- roll costs, fringe benefits, in- surance schemes, portal-to-por- tal pay “or any other costs that normally complicate hiring tem-. porary staff.” “IO’’ looks after all these worrisome items “and users of the service can retain a high degree of flexibility in labor costs by not paying a full time wage for a part time job.”

The more we dug around in

and the unarmed promotion of peace.

this *IO Big Man” prospectus, the more we became suspicious that “IO” which boasts a “Big Men” office in ten leading Cana- dian cities — and “Now in Van- couver at 571 Homer Street,” which makes eleven, that *IO” has all the earmarks of anation- wide, anti-labor scab-supply and scab-herding agency; in British Columbia the 1966 edition of the anti-union ‘Black Agency” of the 20’s and 30’s, which specialized in blacklisting and hounding union’ men out of the woods, the mines and the mill of B.C.

B.C, Labor will recall (how can it forget?) that just a few short months ago the “Commercial and Industrial Research Foundation,” (CIRF) was spawned by B.C,’s. leading monopoly tycoons as a ‘¢social force” in a provincial and nation-wide attack upon labor’s hard-won social and economic standards,

This CIRF, with unlimited funds in its coffers andits politi- cal pipeline into every manageri- al and government office in the province and country — demand- ing “open shop” and a legislative ball-and-chain on labor advance, could, relation- wise, be the pro- geniator — or the twin-brother Oh ied (S48

Now we see “IO” with its elev- en incubators going full blast, producing what? A product that looks and smells very much like ‘¢professional” scabbery, draped by a buccaneering balderash“ Get a Big Man from Industrial Over- load’? — to help along with the dirty work, :

“It is pretty well accepted now that using temporary male help (whenever possible),” says “10,” “is the smart way to keep labor costs at aminimum, Management has only two decisions to make in this area, Where to get tem- porary male help. When to use it. We can supply the best avail- able —. the type of man you’l

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In Vietnam the Americans have used every conceivable horror weap- en, including napalm, poison gas and Lazy Dog missiles. But all have failed to bring them victory. So now they bring up their last reserves—bedbugs.

The theory is that the bedbugs' lust ~

for human blood means that they can be used to sniff out Vietnamese in the jungle.

This latest achievement of Ameri- can science has its grimly appropriate as well as its ludicrous side. For the biggest bloodsuckers of all in Vietnam are the American militarists them- selves. They exceed the bedbugs in their lust for human blood.

—Editorial, MORNING STAR, June 8, '66. A society in which the difference between truth and lies disappears is a societly doomed for debasement...

This is what happened in Germany, enough people came fo believe illu-

sions about the Jews. This is one ser- ©

vice the protest movement must per- form in this society. It must break through the curtain of lies and half- truths and tell what is really happen- ing in Vietnam. For we will be truly lost if we bring up our children ina society where lies are not called lies. —Professor George Grant in CANADIAN JEWISH OUTLOOK, June, '66

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The ordeal of Vietnam and the un- related failure of the White House to project a truer picture of the man be- hind the Stetson will together, | be- lieve, exact a high price af the next elections. There will certainly be a dramatic defection among Republicans

. — who vote for Johnson because they

could not stomach Goldwater. Now

they will stomach almost anybody

else... - —CEYLON NEWS REVIEW, March 19, '66.

Let no one forget that the Yankee imperialists, exactly like their predes- sors, the Nazis and Fascists, have al- preceded their aggressions against other peoples by imputations similar to these, lacking an atom of truth. In that case those sons-of-bitches may be very certain that they will not take us by surprise.

—Mgjor Fidel Castro Ruz, in GRAMMA, May 29, '66.

like to have working full time for you — a ‘Big Man’.”

That last punch-line of “IO” just about clinches it — a “Big Man,” or as the IWW poet Joe Hill said of such ‘‘Big Men” —

a 100-percent sizzorbill — with.

an inbred ambition to scab on his fellow men!

“CIRF — IO” reads like a for- mula for rat poison. A powerful union-busting combination, but not invincible to a decisive “KO” — if organized labor swings with a united wallop, and proves again

the old adage that “the bigger © they come (from ‘‘10’?) the hard-

er they fall,”

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