“TABOR FRONT §

By WILLIAM KASHTAN

Negotiations for a merger of National Union of Public
Employees and National Union of Public Service Employees
seem to have moved forward quite a bit and it now appears
-as if a convention will be held next year to formalize them
and establish the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

g The merger ought to constitute an
important step forward not only for the_
workers in the industry but for the entire
trade union movement.

First of all it should place the workers
in a better position to defend and advance
their economic interests as a result of their
additional strength.

Secondly, it should create more fav-
orable conditions for organizing the large
number of unorganized in the growing:
public and service industries.

Uniting 80,000 workers in a Canadian union, will tend to
strengthen the forces within the Canadian Labor Congress and
outside it who want a truly united Canadian trade union move-

ment and are striving to bring it about.
* * *

This merger may stimulate similar developments in other
industries, the need for which is becoming increasingly evi-
dent with every passing day.

ae We are not dealing here only with the ideal of one union
in every industry but with its objective: necessity.

That necessity arises from the changes in industry, the
technological “revolution” and the growing concentration of
monopoly power. Mergers and take-overs in industry after
industry with U.S, and Canadian monopoly in seats of control,
impel the entire trade union movement to examine its struc-
ture with a view to seeing what can be done to more effec-
tively defend and advance the interests of the workers. Such

an examination is long overdue.
* * *

- Here it is not only a question of being in a better position
to defend the interests of the workers concerned. What is in-
volved at the same time is the ability of Canadian workers to
advance on a number of fronts.

As with the merger of NUPE and NUPES, the uniting of

workers and their unions in industry may well create more
favorable conditions for strengthening the movement toward
a truly sovereign and independent Canadian trade union move-
ment.
The necessity for one union in every industry is being
increasingly understood by a growing body of trade unionists.
Indeed it is not Canadian workers who stand in its way. What
hinders such a development is the narrow, selfish attitude of
officers of many international union headquarters and the way
in which they wish to bring such mergers about.

Their attitude is often one of empire builders and union
wreckers, not that of union builders. They see union mergers
as a means of imposing undemocratic practices on the member-
ship, not as a step toward decisively strengthening inner union
democracy.

ae * *

The problem in Canada is made more complicated by the
fact that decisions on these matters are made one way or:the
other in the USA. :

It is further complicated by the refusal of right wing lead-
ers to recognize and take note of the particular circumstances
existing in Quebec—from which (flows the need to work out
a correct relationship with the Confederation of National
Trade Unions.

It is complicated also by the harmful, wrecking policies
of the Steel union leadership, which understands one union in
every industry to mean the destruction of existing unions.

In these conditions, efforts to bring about one union in
every industry may be long and protracted, as can be seen by
the drawn-out negotiations between the Woodworkers and
unions in the pulp and paper industry as well as negotiations
conducted by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers
union and the Packinghouse union.

Fast moving events, however, will impel the trade union
movement to look into questions of structure and what needs

to be done to make those changes that will enable the workers
to beat back the growing offensive of monopoly.

Merger negotiations between NUPE and NUPSE, providing
they adequately safeguard the rights of the membership and
set new targets for achievements, will be watched with great
interest as a promising and long overdue development.

* & *

More steel for socialism

The UN Economic Commission
for Europe has reported that
steel production in the socialist
sector of that continent has risen
b; 7% percent for the first half
of this year.

All socialist countries showed
production rises, ranging from a
3.7 per cent gain in Czechoslo-
vakia to 14.4 percent in Hungary.
The Soviet Union boosted its out-
put by 7.7 percent.

Britain, West Germany and
France all showed net losses for
the period in crude steel pro.

Western Europe’s production
for the same period fell by 4.9
percent as compared to 1961.

Oct 19, 1962—PACIFIC

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O00000 0000 OOOCOCEg INDICTMENT OF U.S. POLICY

Dorticos informs UN:
ready to ease tensio!

By DANIEL MASON

President Osvaldo Dor-
ticos Torrado of Cuba re-
cently told the UN General
Assembly and the world
that his nation would do
everything in its power to
avert a U.S.-Cuba crisis.

He declared, to Assembly
applause:

‘Cuba has been ready, and
is ready, to do everything
useful to lighten the tensions
about Cuban-U.S. relations

_ that threaten world peace.”

He then challenged the
U.S. delegation to state whe-
ther the U.S. was ready to
take similar steps.

However, instead of ac-
cepting the challenge, Adlai
Stevenson, chief U.S. dele-
~gate to the UN, violated UN
protocol and the canons of
common courtesy by attack-
ing the Cuban president.

Later, Stevenson held
press conference, at which he
issued a statement which
shunned the peace bid aif
Cuba and failed to answer
the indictment of Washing-
ton’s anti-Cuba policy, which
formed a large portion of
Dorticos’ speech.

CONDEM™ ACTS

After listing the violations

and threats of violxiion of
Cuba’s sovereignty by Wash-
ington, Dorticos declared:

“Cuba asks the condemna-
tion of such aggressive acts,
a condemnation from the
UN.”

Dorticos’ address was in-
terrupted often by loud out-
bursts of applause from a
majority of the delegates at
the Assembly session.

His speech was an indict-
ment of U.S. policy toward
Cuba, implemented with
facts, but it was much rnore.
It reiterated Cuba’s desire to
remain at peace with the
US.
ington to pledge a similar ob-
jective. He declared:

“Cuba has said in the past
and repeats it here that we do
not intend nor shall we ever
carry out any activities ex-
tending the ideology of our
revolutionary process to any
other countries or parts of
this hemisphere.

“We shall not make a gift
to the U.S. of a pretext for
armed aggression.”

READY TO TALK

He then stressed, that from
the very beginning of the
deterioration of Cuban-Uni-
ted States relations, Cuba has
constantly been ready to ne-
zotiate.”

and challenged Wash-

in the cold

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It was at this point that he
called on the Kennedy ad-
rainistration to reciprocate,
asserting:

“And as Cuba is ready, so
we have the moral right to
challenge the delegation of

the government of the United .

States to tell us whether the
government of the United
States of America is equally
ready to take the necessary
and useful steps to overcome
the present international ten-
sions around Cuba.”

Then, after expressing
pessimism over the U.S. reply
to Cuba’s challenge for peace-
ful negotiations, Dorticos de-
clared:

ae We are lovers of
peace. We wish to work, we
want to speed up the pro-
gress of sur country. We
don’t want war. We don’t
want. to-tight...) .:
QUESTION OF
SOVEREIGNTY

He then continued:

“Cuba is not an aggressive
country. The problem of

Cuba is the question of the ~

sovereign decision of a people
and a right of that veonle to
self-determination. Cuba did
not wish to add its name to
the roster of those involved
war

a! President Kennedy’s compliments. We must be the first

to get a man on the moon!”

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Cuba is ready at any
time to prove those aim

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ington, Dorticos
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sets peace in this cont
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sister’ republics, but
that is the victim and
less will be pointed
the next victim of
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new obstacles to its deve
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of the international b?
with contempt for oD
all. the government of
United States. by takin®
‘lateral decisions, still ©
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ful, there is still #3
tool — reprisals against
that do carry cargoes uy
country.”

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