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Hold the 44-hour week

ape report brought down recently by a special commit-
tee of the mines’ department on the “impracticality’ of
the statutory 44-hour working week in the metal mining
industry, must serve as a Warning to all labor to be on
“guard against CMA-inspired attacks on social and eco-
nomic standards attained.

In our “way of life” it has been customary from time
immemorial for the exploiters of labor to wail that any
reduction in, working time would be “disastrous” to in-
dustry. The struggle for the 10-hour day in place of the
12; for the 8-heur day in place of the 10; has always been
accompanied by a chorus of such wails, and’ similar com-
mittees have been instituted to bring down similar reports.
Thus there is nothing original in the report that seeks to
keep the metal miners swallowing silica dust for an extra
four hours per week. There is only the persistent desire
of the €MA to bludgeon the government into becoming a
partner in the scuttling of legislation beneficial to labor, in
the hope of weakening or breaking the strike of the metal
miners, and their determination to win higher wages and
greater security from the tremendous wealth they produce.

The number of deaths and incapacitated men in the
metal mining industry of B.C. from silicosis and accidents,
contributed to by extreme fatigue, is the highest in North
America, and is sufficient warrant for the institution of the
40-hour week or even less, instead of the retrogressive 48-
hour week suggested by the mines’ department report against
the miners and their families.

The protracted stalling of the metal mines’ operators
in negotiating a settlement of the strike with union repre-
sentatives, plus the nightly wails of their McCarthy Mor-
rison, indicate that the move to annul the 44-hour week in
the mining industry is designed to sidetrack the issues of
the strike. It will fail. The solidarity of the B.C. metal
miners has never been stronger, and organized labor, by
its moral and financial assistance, shows a growing recog-
nition of the miners’ strike as basic to the welfare of labor
in B.C. Regardless of CMA maneuvers to lengthen the

hours of work for the miners, they, and not the CMA will _

have the last word in saying what working hours are prac-
tical from a miner’s point of view.

Labor must indicate to the Hart government in no un-
certain manner, that the mines department committee re-
port must be scrapped, and the 44-hour working week,
which is still short of B.C. labor’s: objective, remain on the
statute books and fully enforced.

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Unity serves best

VERY so often that arch-enemy of trade unionism, known

as “jurisdiction” raises its ugly head to create dissatisfac-
tion and disruption in the union. On such occasions the ex-
ploiters of labor have cause to whoop it up with unfeigned
glee; to air their moth-eaten views of what constitutes a
“good” union, to fulminate against union leaders and offer
choice CMA advice to the rank-and-file.

dan recent weeks some sharp comments have been aired
by local trade union leaders in both AFL and CCL unions
on the “rights” of each other in a given industry or plant.
In certain other circles one also hears the argument ad-
vanced that the “AFL is no good, etc. etc., let’s have the
CIO” and vice versa. °

In spite of the tremendous organizational gains made
during the’ war years in trade union organization, there are
still approximately one million Canadian unorganized wage
earners—surely a wide enough field for active organization
without the four major Canadian organizations getting in
each other’s way.

Jurisdictional problems must inevitably crop up. There
are two ways to approach a solution of these, only one way
to settle the problem. We can break out into a rash of in-
vective against this or that AFL. or CCE union and its
leadership, in which the commercial press readily join to
cheer the internecine wrangel along. Or it can be settled
by mutual recognition of problems, and respect for the
basic fact that in the ranks of both unions affected, are
wage-earning breadwinners. The latter way is the best for
all concerned.

B.C. trade unionists in both ALF and CCL unions have
chalked up a splendid record for united effort during the
War years, and given an example to all Canada. Let us
hold to that record in the task of building the peace, by
tackling the jurisdictional problems in a manner that pro-
motes unity rather than dissension.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 4

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7’ HE verdict of the Nu-

ernberg court will be
rendered on Sept. 23. For
Over nine months this in-
ternational tribunal has ex-
amined the mountain of evi-
dence against the 20 nazi
criminals in the dock, and
listened to their “explana-
tions” and pleas of “inno-
cence.”

In the minds of the common
people, no doubt has ever ex-
isted as to the guilt of the Hit-
That has been written
with a sea of blood, drawn from
the mutilated bodies of count-
less millions of their victims.
Their crimes and their guilt
transcend anything in the long
history of struggling mankind,
and should serve always as a
reminder that the distance be-
tween “our democratic way of
life’ known as capitalism, and
fascist barbarism is very short.

The prime reason advanced
for the-long drawn-out proceed-
ings of Nuernberg, is to ‘prove’
the superiority of Western de-
mocracy so-called. After a fair
trial the representatives of
bourgeois reaction can now
shoot or hang this fascist car-
rion and Pilatelike absolve
themselves from guilt in the im-
perialist conspiracies which pro-
duced the Nuernberg criminals.
The procedure is presumed to
establish the superiority of
‘western democracy” over to-
talitarian (read socialist) states.

The time and money expend-
ed at the Nuernberg trials was
justifiable on one count only—
to make known to a war-weary
world, not only those in the
dock, but those who helped them
to achieve the power to commit
such crimes against mankind.
This was not done. The evi-
dence which would have done
so has been suppressed. It is not
considered to be ‘in the public
interest.’ The materials estab-
lishing the complicity of the
Munichites, now steeped in the
art of atomic intrigue, is with-
held from public knowledge.
That material would have shown
that in collaboration with Hit-
ler from 1933 to 1940, the Mun-
ich men had one objective in
mind—to use the fascist Frank-
enstein they hopefully created
against the Soviet Union. Nuern-
berg shows they are still hope-
ful of success,

Pleading his ‘innocence’ pbe-
fore the Nuernberg tribunal, the

uernberg

_Wrapped

Nazi wine-salesman von Ribben-
trop with an ironical quaver in
his voice, asked: “Of what are
we being charged? Are not our
accusers in the United States
and Britain” (and he could have
added Canada) “in the same po-
sition as we were in 19357
oe

[ representatives of the

new atomic imperialism take
the jibe without 2 blush.
in the anti-Comintern
mantle taken from the carcass
of Hitler in the rubble of the
German Chan-
cellery, and
striking a pos
as the “defend
ers of western é
democracy and
culture,” they
hurl reproache;:
at their.
while
in the
berg dock, and
carefully hide
from the com-
mon people the evidence that
brands them as the designers
and collaborators of the crimin-
als they condemn.

Tom McEwen

The accused Schacht, wizard

of finance capital and banking,
broke with Hitler and pleads
for his miserable life. Me has
common interests with his Ang-
lo-American accusers. His Keich-
bank assets pay fat dividends to
influential people in London and
Washington, the names of whom
it would not be ‘in the public
interest’ to publish but who were
mentioned on more than one
occasion when this fascist
Schooge was pleading to be al-
lowed to live. 5
The fat Goering screamed and
blustered for his life. As head of
the German steel armament
trust Hermann knew his inter-
locking directorate abroad. His
Vicker’s in Britain and his Du
Ponts and U-S. Steel and subsid-
jiary Concerns in America. To
Hermann’s knowledge none of
these powerful cartels abroad
had shied away from accepting
the dividends from German war
industries. The same people who
are now in Britain, the U.S. Can-
ada and other satellite Anglo
U.S. ‘bloc’ states, seeking to fo-
ment war .upon the Soviet
Union. It was no accident that
for a time even the Nuernberg

court itself bid fair to become
a tribunal for anti-Soviet dia-
tribes.

Almost the full text of any-
thing these Nazi war criminals

By Tom McEwen

had to say against the Soviet
Union got full ptblicity. It was
only, when in 2 desperate ef-
fort to save their necks, they
implicated some of their infke
ential collaborators in the Eng-
lish-speaking countries that the
evidence was suppressed as be-
ing not ‘in the public interest,’

C

BEFORE a4 -workingcelass  tri-
bunal these criminals would
have met the justice they merit
months ago. Before a workinge-
elass tribunal the Munichites
who were their prime accessor-
ieS in crime,
brought to the bar to answer for
the degree of their complicity.
A workingelass tribunal would
have deemed it very much ‘in
the public interest’ and as 2
precaution against a repetition,
te have removed them from all

would have been

office and authority. Nuernberg -

has suppressed the evidence on

why Goebbels, for instance, was |

able to say in 1938, quoting |
from the Canadian ‘Financial
Post,’ “we (the nazis) have

many friends in Canada.” Nuern- |
berg explains why the ‘denazifi-

cation’ of Hitler’s Germany is
almost halted in the British and
U.S. zones of occupation: why
leading fascists in both these
zones are placed in high posi
tions of authority by the mili-
tary commands
countries.
plains W-S. Secretary of State
Byrnes’ Stuttgart speech, 2
speech that held out for Ger
Many the same promise design-
ed by Hitler and the men of
Munich—the role of.a western
European bulwark of reaction
against the Soviet Union. Little
wonder von Ribbentrop could
hurl at his Anglo-U.S. accusers ©
“of what crimes are we charged.”
when, even from inside a Nuern-
berg prison he can see what iS
obvious to all who care to see
A new ‘drang nach osten,’ with
his accusers donning the anti-
Comintern mantle of Hitler,
wearing it under a holier-than-
thou patchwork display of ‘de |
mocratic Supremacy” and an”
atom bomb as a substitute for
Mein Kamf, ¥

Well may the gods laugh; the
‘drama’ of Nuernberg marks the’

finale of ‘a bloody-handed Faust, —

the while Mephistopheles is busy. i
creating another, and Suppress _
ing all evidence that would have)
electrified humanity into action |
against the “democratic” plot)
ters. ;

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1946 |

of both these —
Wuernberg even ex

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