On the wage front with
Canada’s big unions

By MAURICE HECHT

like the maple leaf, strikes are beginning to be a symbol
of Canada. Everywhere they are breaking out. When one
looks over the national scene, there are strikes in progress
(er just over) from the east to the west.

handful of people taking part. See Se le oS i

These strikes spring up because| py >s55 Southam, eee ee
the industrial soil of Canada is rs Papers secs
wish ja Sood Zor Ghar, Mianase- of Ottawa, Hamilton, Winnipeg,
Scayatk “StSa Gay oe to stant AS Edmonton, and Vancouver are on
ea Sonus demanded ey ae strike. Companies are ignoring
ber, and which labor finds neces- workers and trying to hire new

sary for today’s living. With this
impasse the traditional weapon of
the strike is resorted to.

printers. e
United Auto Workers Union.
The Chyrsler plants in Windsor

and Chatham went out mn th

This is the Canadian scene. The}7gty of June. NEEOUBHOES coe
strikes are today a fundemental | Gonciliation are in progress
reflection of the growing forces aes 2
within the country. They must be pe oe re ee ee P ate
eonsidered from a national view- ae eae a, ae d a
point, for they are not purely =o ee
Joeal things. This makes the ac- Truscon See Demands are the
tions of our big: unions-.of para- mepular) $2" per day.

The Wnited Rubber Workers of

mount importance to the work- Z
ers of Canada. On the 29th and |America. 11,000 out in ten plants
in Ontario. Strike in second

30th of this month, meetings will
take place of the steel, the auto, | week. Demands are 40-hr. week
and the electrical workers. Some|and 20 cents per hour increase.
of the plants organized by the|No prospects of quick settlement.
named unions are already out. International Fur and Leather
But on these dates general stra- | Werkers of America. Fur dressers
tegy will be decided. and dyers of Local 58 are now
undergoing provincial concilia-
Strike Review tion machinery. A meeting was
held last Friday between operat—
This is the main strike review] ors and union officials.

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oviet atom pian; estroy a
at present date. Twa jaas ihe 5
3 = oe : 3 ppened in cases 2 |
ERD omc esis YDEREES oF where strikes have been ended?
estima ad gone fam ences utes @TOM OoMmOs within three months

ers in Montreal and Valleyfield ers in B.C., they did not get their

pats 38 one eapaea Ose NOW: |full demands, but the lumber . 5 ae :
Strike is solid with no sign Of] otiers did obtain a big victory When is a veto not a veto? When the language of diplomacy is used to befuddle

Bae Sete Rees from their viewpoint and from/the public. Both the U.S. representative Bernard Baruch and the Soviet delegate Andrei
last Wednesday. There 600 work- ee S jabor ne cee ae Gromyko have presented proposals to the Atomic Energy Commission of the United
n the case of the seamen, Nations. Baruch has been pictured as a white-haired knight going into battle against giv-

ers in two plants are after a 40- pompAAIDS TA TADS? SaSaS SED
hr. week and 15 cents an hour) a,mant in refusing to negotiate.|1"8 amy nation the veto power in an international Atomic Development Authority. °
The truth came out in Walter

A section of a monster rally held recently in Queen’s Park, Toronto, to back the
Wage campaign spearheaded by CCL-CIO Unions. Canadian seamen (AFL) and the
IWA (CIO) have already scored big wage victories. Textile and rubber workers are
now on strike for substantial wage increases, and steel and metal miners are prepar-
ing for strike action. :

inerease
" When the seamen accepted goy- a — 5 5 3
The Internal Union, Mine, Mill | ernment proposals some poe ASO, Lippmann’s Herald Tribune col- anes and controls the sources of|Big Power unity in the United Na-
es melten) Workers’ Wocal 8idl q|umn on June 20. Lippmann wrote: |2tomic energy in other nations, tions. The unanimity provision,
nd S © the operators refused them an “For while his (Baruch’s |the U.S. keeps bombs, makes|or veto clause, enjoyed by the

Toronto, is out in its seventh rote the government that the See
weel. svaolence has flared on| sev= eee Sot “aeal Tn the amene. words imply that the United |bombs and holds the power of | US. Britain the USSR, France
eral occasions last week as hun-|jeaders. The present settlement. is States is opposed to the prin- the veto and the bomb over those and China, does not absolve the
dreds of police have been called | therefore a big victory for labor. ciple of the veto, the Ameri- nations. big powers from punishment as
fa, No signs of A golloment 5 Can proposal, which he himself Under the Gromyko plan the|aggressors. The provision pre
: : SCAM: | Outined is founded upon the |2ations agree: yents the use of the UN as 4
A trike led Cal- a i

new stri was ca in AGnericanierctoe. To destroy within a period |tcol of any voting bloc to gang

gary, Local 800, TUMMSW, where of three months from the entry |up on another nation.

230 men in 3 iron and steel plants
are seeking wage increases.

Wine hundred men of Local 289
ef the Vancouver District Metal
and Chemical Workers are out
Since May. 17. After a long period
ef refusal to meet with local of-
ficials to effect a settlement of
the union’s demands, negotiations
are now proceeding, and it is
€xpected that a satisfactory
settlement will be reached soon.
in the meantime officials of the
Striking moulders have renewed
their appeal to other unions for

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Palestine arrests
nailed by Zionists

TORONTO. — The United
Zionist Council of -Canada,
representing all Zionist pare
ties in the Dominion, this
week issued a statement con-
demning British Government
policy in Palestine “in illeg-
ally arresting members of the
Jewish agency executive, the
shooting of unarmed Jews.
and arbitrary mass arrests.

To make that plain Lippmann

continues:

“The power to prevent some-

thing from happening by with-
holding consent is the vyeto. In
the case of atomic energy the
American veto is unique and ab-
solute.”

Baruch’s proposal is a2 means

for using the U.S. atom bomb
monopoly to impose Wall St. pol-
icy on the rest of the world. Lipp-
mann thinks these policies are
honorable.
mann writes:

Nevertheless Lip p-

“Now Mr. Baruch, as our rep-

&
Wm CUD r in

Against the barrage of big business to skyrocket prices
and depress living standards, labor is directing its own
. . and winning. Regardless of union af-
filiation, the need and the objective are the same: higher
wages, shorter hours, economic security.

bombardment

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resentative, not only has not the
slighest intention of sSurrender-
ing this American veto: on the
contrary he intends to use it
for all it is worth to induce
the other governments to agree
to a treaty which we judge to
be good enough not to veto. We

intend to use our veto as a
diplomatic instrument to ob-
tain what we believe will be a
constructive and beneficient
treaty.”

One way this American veto is
already being utilized is to revise
the charter of the UN. Big busi-
ness diplomats talk about elimin-
ating the veto while they use the
atom, bomb veto “to undermine
the unanimity of the members of
the Security Council,” against
which Gromyko warned in his
speech.

The Soviet proposal is for a de-
tailed plan to destroy existing
atom bombs, for outlawing pro-
duction and use of atom bombs
and for’ punishing any violations
of the proposed. treaty.

A basie difference between the
Baruch and Gromyko plans is
that there are no stages in ap-
plying the Soviet plan, the Bar-
uch proposal (which stems from
the Acheson-Lilienthal report,
states:

“As the successive stages of
international control are reach-
ed, the United States will be
prepared to yield, to the ex-
tent required by each stage,
national control of activities in
this field to the authority.”

While the Authority investi-

into force of this agreement of
all stecks of atomic energy
weapons whether in a finished
or semi-finished condition.”

There can be no peace without

Wo nation could get away with
atomic aggression under the Gro-
myko plan. Nor could any na-

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See SOVIET ATOM

Block revival of German
imperialism, says WFIU

By VICTORIA HARVEY

_MOSCOW .—Leaders of the World Federation of Trade
Unions, wrestling with the acute issues involved in making

world peace, came forward thi

Ss week with a program aimed

at wiping out Nazism in Germany, ending right-wing terror-
ism in Greece and strengthening the United Nations through

world labor participation.

Basing its recommendations on
a report by a WETU commission
which visited Germany, WETU
set forth the following demands
to the Allied Control Commission:

Aid to the development of free,
democratic trade unions in all
zones, with unions organized on
the industrial principle; the
unions to conduct a re-education
program among German youth
and among those workers influ-
enced by Nazi ideology; trade
unions to take part in all com-
missions working on de-Nazifica-
tion.

The trade union movement is
now developing differently in each
of the Allied zones of Germany.
The Soviet zone, which is least
industrialized, has over 3,000,000
union members, while the U.S.
zone has 500,000. The WETU was
unable to get precise information
about union membership in the
French and British zones. The
Soviet zone is the only one where
unions are built on the industrial
principle.

The 26man WETU executive
committee also pointed to the
penetration by Nazis into leading
posts in industry and government

economic basis of German in
perialism. It demanded that the
Nazis be removed from all im-
portant jobs.

The WHTU leaders showed keen
disappointment that the UN Hco-
nomic and Social Council turned
down the WETU request for par
ticipation in the Council’s work.
The committee decided ‘to ac
quaint the peoples of the world
with the full story of its negoti-
ations with the UN and appoint
ed a sub-committee of five, i=
cluding CIQ secretary-treasurer
James B. Carey, to draft recom-
mendations for further action.

A protest against attacks on
the lives of Greek workers by
right-wing groups was sent by —
the committee to the Big Four
Foreign Ministers in Paris, with
a request that the U:S., Britain,

commission, including a WHETU
ditions in Greece. The committee ||

terial help to Greek unionists.

the WETU will support any 2c-

and to attempt to restore the

tion the UN takes against the ~
Franco regime. z

FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1946

the USSR and France appoint 2 of

representative, to investigate con-

also voted to give moral and ma- |

A resolution on Spain said that |