Good collective agreements are now a product of MASTERING TECHNIQUES The collective agreement be- tween organized labor and man- agement has undergone a dras- tic change in recent years. From a single sheet of paper with a few simple demands it has evolved into a long and com- plex document. Speaking at the recent con- vention of the National Federa- tion of Metal Workers in Ples- sisville, Quebec, union president Raymond Parent said that to- day, “the collective labor agree- ment has become an actual standardization of production.” In the past, the contract covered salaries, working hours, vacations and application of. seniority rules. Today, while maintaining their claims in the field of salaries and traditional fringe benefits, the workers feel the need to broaden the scope of their agreement. Instead of negotiating exclu- sively on the methods and con- ditions of work remuneration, the quality of the work is being analyzed through a system of job evaluation. Instead of ruling on regular working hours and overtime, the quantity of the work is be- ing analyzed to determine work loads. side by J. $. Wallace My prison window is not large Five inches high, six inches wide, Perhaps seven. Of heaven. Perhaps seven. notice them. ground. we were all alike. against England.” of nazis and fascists. Yet it is large enough to show The whole untrammeled to and fro How wide, how high is heaven? Five inches high, six inches wide, Once, entering a smoking car with some wounded Vets, noticing the insignia on one I asked if he knew my bro- ther Frank. He did. A sacond Vet asked if I was Howard Wallace’s brother. I was; they had been in the airforce to- gether. A third asked if I was Joe Wallace and then told me he had a message for me from Bill Narew, Nfld. Coincidence, I’m tempted to say, happen to those who , A recent column I wrote arose out of a letter received from A. Filippov, Moscow. This one arises-out of a letter to the Trib from William Philipovich, Vancouver in which he protests against nazis, planning for a new war, being allowed to use Camp Shilo in Manitoba as a rehearsal It takes me back to Camp Petewawa, 1941 where, as a cheap propaganda trick, scores of Communists were im- prisoned side by side with nazis and fascists’ to suggest The nazis gave a concert with the Camp Command- ant, Col. Pentz, and some of his officers as guests. They did not protest when the nazis sang, “We are sailing We had heiped to clear the ground for football. When it was finished the nazis refused to let us use this Can- adian soil. When we protested to the authorities they sug- gested that we clear another space. We got permission to hold a concert to celebrate July 1. Permission was cancelled when the nazis and fascists protested that our singing would disturb their sleep. And so it went. When some brass hats (including Anthony Eden’s brother) came through on an inspection tour they were told we were Russians. I protested I was no Russian but a fourth generation Canadian. I got seven days solitary confinement for each general. Then I heard guards being alerted, guns clicking, and looking out my cell window got the thrill of a lifetime: there were my comrades, at the risk of any vicious or nervous trigger finger, in a protest demonstration. They won the most important immediate demand: removal to a camp not infected by the presence a ee | i Instead of requesting only seniority rights, the situation of the worker within the enter- prise and the economic system is being looked after. This is being done through the negotia- tion of clauses relating to con- tracting out, technological changes and make-up benefits (additional unemployment al- lowances, extended vacations, lay-off compensation, etc.). The technique has become a part of employer-worker rela- tions and unions should not avoid the new battlefields being Opened to them, the NFM pre- sident stated. In his opinion industrial tech- niques are progressing so rapid- ly and the concentration of in- dustry is taking place at such a pace, that a labor movement which is not willing to face this new situation will soon become of no use to the working class. We have not seen the end of labor disputes, Parent added. We are not on the way towards a trade unionism which would require no efforts, and where all problems would be solved by technicians through intellec- tual speculations. On the contrary, it is only through solidarity, and a true fight and winning spirit, that the working class will continue to progress. But the technicians are there and the enterprise leaders are using them to rationalize their production. It is up to the labor movement to master its techni- ques in supervising their applic- ation and trying to adapt them to human needs. Competition It was bad enough when the supermarket moved in near this small grocer. It was worse when the managey boasted that it was only a matter of time before the grocer was forced out. Then the price war started. The grocer put out a_ sign: “Frozen steak, $1 a lb.” The - supermarket replied with: .“‘Fro- zen steak, 75 cents a lb.” The grocer riposted with: ‘Frozen Steak, 50 cents a lb.” The super- market manager hung up a big sign, “Frozen steak, 25 cents a lb.” and trotted over to the grocer. “It’s costing us money, but we'll see you broke first,” he sneered. The grocer winked at a cus- tomer: “You might—except I’ve never sold frozen meat.” NEW MOTOR An experimental electric mo- tor that has no brushes and that can revolve at any speed up to about 6,000 revolutions a min- ute in either direction has been made by the electrical engineer- ing department of Manchester University. New skyline rises in Montreal” years. Soviet electronic attachment An electronic attachment to an artificial lung has taken over the critical functions of a surgeon’s assistant during oper- ations involving the switching off of the patient’s lungs in the USSR. The electronic system conti- nually analyzes the carbon di- oxide of the blood and “issues commands” to the artificial lung whenever it is necessary to in- crease or reduce the “ventila- tion” of the organism. The new apparatus far auto- matic control of artificial res- piration, called ‘“‘Ro-1”, was the —_—— hl This new $20,000,000 hotel is being built in Mon al Wo dian Pacific and will be open in time for the 1967 Monte qf fair. The 620-room hotel is the largest to be built in Cang ‘and the doctors taking treal by CT star exhibit of an_ Soviet medical equip was held in Leningra®. ‘ Ivan Smirnov, direct! gail Medical Instruments ie p> ment Institute - of desi told the press that the pe Ble x | principal will have’to use 0 as life of organisms clinical death. as The new apparatus ue passed on to industry ~ production. lina “Watch out! — here comes our bit now.+*" Graffito in the Lo October 23, 1964—PACIFIC T ndon RIBUNE-PO9