UPWA Negotiations

i peer is an outline of the recent

) wage hegotiations between
the United Packinghouse Work
ers of America and the packers.

¥ would like to say that there
is GO union in this country with
the bargaining power of the UP
WA, firstly because of the na-
ture of the industry: secondly,
because we boast that the in-
dustry is 9% per cent organized
from coast te coast.

We were in negotiations with
the packers from the middle of
July until October 5. Our de-
mands were for 25 cents an hour
and a 40-heur week, in line with
the CCL wages and hours pro-
grams. It is common knowledge
now that we received 10 cents an
hour under a so-called master
agreement, which ignored the 409-
hour week issue. How this is a
Master agreement I can’t see. In
the first place the Swift Cana-
dian Company definitely refused
_ to sit in with Burns or Canada
Packers. In the second place
our delegate, Alex McWhinnie
reported he had to sign 20 local
agreements. My own conception
of a master agreement is one
agreement signed for the entire
industry.

After his return McWhinnie
was asked why the union did not
live up to its deadline and strike
for its demands, and at the same

out Departineat

What

He
steted thet the top union lead-

time help the steelworkers.

ers had considered it and that
Pat Conroy had advised them not
te strike. Then they called in C.
Hi. Millard, who then urged them
not to strike, but to lend the
Steel workers all the mroney they
could, and he would see to it that

at was paid back. He also stated

that some offers from Canada
Packers and Burns for a six-cent
imerease had been received. In
any case they got nowhere. In-
Stead of taking the action they
were authorized to take they call-
€d in Judge Richards who sent
them home for a month to think
it over.

Meantime, the farmers in Al-
berta decided to strike and did.
Here was a wonderful chance for
them to demonstrate the mean-
ing of farmer-labor unity. But
no, while farmer pickets were be-
ing thrown in jail, workers, for
want of a fighting leadership,
were Killing all the stock that got
past the picket lines.

Qur local wired Dowling about
this. He did not even reply. So,
when our delegate went back
enee more, he was told to find
out the policy. He was.told: You
cannot strike while the farmers
are out because it would help the
packers. Nothing was said about
the 1,400 members of our own
union laid off in Edmonton, while

you Please.

here we were being asked to
work overtime.

I am of the opinion that had
the workers in our union been
fiven a chance te vote before
they were committed to accept
10 cents they would have fought.

Dowling and his own appointed
representatives are paid as high
as any union officials in this
country. I don’t object to that,
but I believe that the member-
ship is entitled to the same con-
Sideration, We could and should
be the highest paid industry in
the country, instead of the low-
est. The committee which met
with Swift officials took so weak
a stand that Swift’s had the au-
dacity to offer them half a cent
to give up union security. As
it is, we in the West lost some
ef our seniority rights an@ what
else we don’t Know and will not
know until the company starts to
take the advantage of its gains.

I ask through the medium of
the Pacific Tribune that the
workers start to take a greater
interest in their union. Any more
“victories” like this will ruin the
union rather than build it. It
does not say much for our lead-
ership when company unions can
get more than we get without
even asking for it.

HH. CLARK,
457 Rousseau Street,
New Westminster, B.C.

i MMMM TT

Why Von Papen, Schacht were freed

By HELEN SIMON

s [ees men, — than any

others, saved the young Nazi
movement from financial bank-
ruptcy. One was Franz Vor
EFapen, papal knight and pal
of Cologne banker Baron Kurt
von Schroeder whose business
and family ties extend deep in-
two British-American finance.
The other was Hijalmar Schacht,
intimate of American and Brit-
ish bankers.

more

Tnese are the two top Nazis,
with a junior Goebbels named
Hans Fritzsche thrown in for
00d measure, who got off scot-
free at Nuernberg.

The judges (except the Soviet
judge) argued that Schacht had
fatien into disfavor with Hitler;
bad opposed some of the Fueh-
rer’s later financial and rearm-
ament schemes. They listed Von
Papen’s key posts under Hitler
but found he had no “intention”
GE preparing for aggressive war-

Tt was Schacht who mobilized
major financial support to put
the Nazis in power; whose skill-
ful and unscrupulous methods
of finance, as Nazi Minister of
Economics until 1937 and Pres-
ident of the Reichsbank until
1939; made German rearmament
Ecssible. He was Minister with-
eut portfolio until 1943, and his
“differences” with the Nazis
were jurisdictional disputes with
Goebbels rather than opposition
to Nazi racial laws and drive to
world conquest.

@.
Toe Suspicion arises that
iwhen in 1944 the Allies found
banker Schacht in a concentra-
tion camp, he had been put there
according to a very special plan.

This plan, according to Schact’s
Own defense, was that ‘certain
leading political circles in the
United States” wanted to pre-
serve him for a postwar German
leader. :

Just who these circles were is
indicated by Schacht’s tie-up,

FAUIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 5

through the international bank-—
ing conferences he organized in
pre-Hitler Berlin, through the
Bank of International Settle-
ments which he helped to found
and through wartime agents in
Switzerland, with big-wigs like
these:

John Foster Dulles, foreign
policy expert for Dewey-Vand-
enberg-Byrnes and ‘pre-war
counsel for Many of the great

WNazi-dominated cartels; the late
eon Fraser, president of the
First National Bank of New

York and a director of General
HMlectric and U.S. Steel; Mon-
tague’ Norman, former Governor
cf the Bank of England; Thom-
as H. McKittrick, American and
former director of the National
City Bank of New York and
Genoa, who headed BIS through-
eut the war even when Nazis
held 71.7 percent of its share;
Allen Dulles of OSS, long a di-
rector of the J: Henry Schroeder
Banking Corp. of New York and
Iondon which had intimate fam-
ily and business relationships
with German banker Kurt von
Schroeder.
@:

Von PAPEN, leader of the

Catholic got to-
gether with Hitler in the Col-
ogne home of Baron Schroeder
on Jan. 4, 1933. A reconciliation
oceurred which was the death-
knell of the Weimar Republic.
Von Papen the Nazi
movement from bankrutecy by
convincing: his industrialist
friends to donate some four
million marks to the Nazi ESSDS-
ury. On Jan. 30, on Von Papen’s
initiative, President Von Hinden-
berg appointed Hitler his Chan-
cellor and von Papen  Vice-
Chancellor.

Then began von Papen’s role
as diplomatic trouble shooter ex
traordinary; and the Nazis won
their first and most important
diplomatic vietory when on
July 20, 1933, he concluded ee
ecncordat with the Vatican an

“centrists,”

saved

was accorded the Grand Cross
of the Order of Pius.

Although he recommended the
voluntary dissolution of the
-Catholic Centrists Party in fa-
vor of the Nazis; although the
ccneordat was followed by in-
creased religious persecution of
Catholics inside Germany, Von
Papen appears to have won
highly influential friends in Vat-
ican circles,

HENNETH LESLIE, editor of
the Protestant, voices strong
suSpicion -that “important evi-
dence of von Papen’s guilt as

@ major member of the Nazi ‘

conspiracy has been suppressed”
by Father Edmund A. Walsh,
dispatched by the U.S. War De-
partment to sift Papal docu-
ments for the Nuernberg prose-
cution. ;

Father Walsh is notorious for
his anti-Soviet teaching of for-
eign service students at Gorge-
town University during the war.
Von Papen’s son Franz once
studied at Georgetown.

Von Papen is reported to have
made another flying trip to the
Vatican in 1943. In the mean-
time he held important assign-
ments in Austria, building the
Nazi movement, collecting money
especially for anti-Semitic atroc-
ities there, and arranging the

Anchluss. Next, in Turkey, his
job (well done) was to see that
German battleships could go

through the Dardanelles to at-
tack Russia in the Black Sea.

in Turkey von Papen made
another most important friend:
George Earle, then American
Naval Attache in HTistanbul, for-
mer governor of Pennsylvania
and close friend of atom-bomb-
the-Soviet-Union Bullitt and ap-
peasor Robert Murphy.

Farle testified for the defense
that he had transmitted Von
Papen’s “peace offer’ to Wash-
ington whereby Germany would
be allowed to concentrate all its
forces on the Pastern Front.

Short Jabs » or sn

Ima and the victim became a

Te tendency of reaction to revert to the past in this medern

- world has become preneunced since the appearance of Nazism ane
Fascism on the political horizon. Failure of the ordinary, aceepted
practices in its dealings with a cumuls-
tively progressive world has @riven the
representatives of reaction to draw upon
the outworn, discardeg and discredited past for measures to offset
the ideas of awatened peoples,

Hitler and Mussolini and less-known, only because less publi-
cized, exponents of fascist machinations in Greece, Hungary, Ru-
Mania, Bulgaria, Spain and Portugal, dug out of the past, fitting
in well with their @istorted social ideas; the axe and the block
of the executioner of the Gays preceding €romweil; the torturers
equipment modified by the discoveries of modern science (this latter
aise in democratic Canada): the burning of books, that the ob-
scurantists used as a means to prevent the burgeoning of human
knowledge that came with the Rennaissance (this in Ganada too)-

fhe latest case of reversion to the hideous, illiterate, ignorant
past, has developed out of the treason trial of the Hitier Supporter,
Archbishop Stepinac, head man of the Roman Catholic church in
Wugoslavia, a real old antique, one which is in the same category
as witch-burning and the auto da fe—excommunication.

The trial of Archbishop Stepinac did not last as long as that
of the other Hitlerites at Wuernberg, but he was proved guilty be
yond the shadow of a doubt. The evidence Wes overwhelming and
incontrovertible. He was not accused in particular or because of
his religion, but was one of a gang whose gnilt on the charge of
treason was admitte@ cven by themselves—and@ the complicity of
the Archbishop with them ‘was proved utterly, although he is
claimed to have made no plea_

in excommunicating all who participated in sentencing this
traitorous churchman to Sixteen years imprisonment, the Romzn
Catholic church is performing a historical throwback, By execom-
munication in the long distant past she held political control in her
hands. Henry the Fourth, emperor of the Hoty Roman Empire was
thus brought to heel and compelHed to go to Canossa and bez
forgiveness of the Pope.

Reviving the pest

WN the church was all-powerful, excommunication meant some-
thing. Any one who was unfortunate enough to be excommuni-
cated was not only denied the rites of the church but punished
Socially as well. No church member —_ and
virtually everyone was a chureh member aE
dared to give an excommunicant a meal or
a drink of water, nor to associate with him in any way, and such
was their fear of the consequences if the priests found out—ex-
communication for them too—that they obeyed the chureh’s anathe-
pariah, an Ishmael. He was outside
of society and anyone might kill him without committing murder.
But excommunication does not. always work that way. Where
the church has lost political power its ban of excommunication 4S
no more effective than if it was uttered by some mumbo-jumbo
witech-doctor medicine-man in the African jungle. =e ;
The Taborites in Bohemia in the 15th century who had broken
with the church and followed John Efuss, not only denied the dogmas
of the Catholic church but went further and established a com-
munist form of social life. They were excommunicated, but instead
cf submitting to the papal dictum they organized an army—a red
army, if you like—and fought back Under their leader, John Zizka,
they fought and defeated the ramies of the Pope and his allies,
Germany and France. For ten years they maintain their religious
views and their’ social organization in spite of the ban of exeonz-—
munication until dissension brought about their defeat.

This present revival of the anathema of the ehurch of the
Middle Ages against the Yugoslay people—as it is—is not solely
a religious maneuver, it is polities in its purest form. It is mor—
bund capitalism striking at progress with what it thinks is an aze
in the hole. ; oe

The Holy See considers the ‘crime’ in this case, net to be the
traitorous conduct of their Archbishop, but the sentence of the court,
since it contends that it is a erime to place a bishop on trial, even
for treason. But Arehbishop Stepinaec is not the first dignitary Cora
the church to be proved guilty of treason, and of worse erimes—
not by a long shot. ; ,

The Yugoslav people, who have just fought their way out of
the feudal sloth and ignorance imposed on them after centuries of
Turkish rule, will not be daunted by the reactionary move of the
ey See any more than by the reactionary moves of Byrnes and

evin. : :

But ~progressives throughout the lands ‘where ignorance Z still
rules, will have to lend their assistance. If the Feur Freedoms are
to become a rule of conduct in the spirit of Roosevelt, the church
‘must be told to leave the Wugoslav people to run their country in
their own way—even if it mean the hanging of traitors, clerical
as well as secular. é

Tito may not go to heaven—but I don’t think he will want to
since the gauleiter of Poland, Hans Franck, will be there! :

How it worked

TLANTA, Ga, is a famous place. A lot of good men have lhved
there and a lot of no-good ones toe. Eugene Debs lived there
for a spell as a punishment for being a ‘red’ but it is a roundg-

about way to get news from Japan
Freedom of the press

by way of Moscow. But the CED men
in the U.S. can do anything im the
way of getting news; Mey are almost like
especially when it comes to

the Mounties in Canada,
used against the USSR.

getting propaganda material to be

So from Atlanta, Ga., comes the news that Japanese scientists
who invented an atomic bomb three days before the war ended
are now prisoners in Moscow, making atomic bombs presumably.
And from some other source unnamed, comes news that a
Japanese cavairy corporal says the Russians are building the
“largest underground airport in the world,” although they lack
mechanical equipment. They are probably using teaspoons instead
of shovels. “ s
The Russian guards ‘being only 15 and i6 years old,
count,’ se their Japanese prisoners escaped. The Russians
count Germans apparently, ;
These stories are like the Story of the blowing up of the Maine

by the Spaniards—they never happened! %

FRIDAY, OCTOBER is, 1946.

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