Labor must Aight for ight to job’

«@ 5 ee unionists require to do and les thinking on this issue, nee to distinguish between

ca Zation and automation,” ee was Nelson Clark, inst Bae ter of the Com- noe fe of Canada, at a Riis ast week in the Pender Sai, ae attended by some 25

€ union personalities,

« he accelerated pace of auto- Past ie U.S, industry over the anada years, and its effect in Us = a result of the growth wee un in the Cana- nomy, will undoubtedly

Pee , d up automation here in order Compete,

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« oa new techniques come created € and new industries are Thies such as TV, radio, elec- Prhot 8 etc,, such industries a sorb the labor displaced ‘ Sapa Thus we can see them * of a permanent army of i ‘Ployed, Probably the next = a our industrial cycle will army apid increase ina growing 'Y of chronic unemployment.”

ea, Speaker showed that in Stallation were 64 computer in- 196 Ms in Canadian industry,

4 there is an estimated Ala in the USA the total

eS... reached 13,500, This

Coupled ration of automation aly at With the growth of monop- an marks its greater con- lon by the big monopolies

, Owing up the smaller ones,

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« a is the answer to this t to the worker’s job by

aut ; Smation? Management pre-.

panably has the ‘right’ to runits Bess. Workers must heir mae have the same‘ right’ to Matio, Bes This means that auto- She to become a boon for the DUblig must be controlled by and other bodies, upon

ich labor Sented, must be fully repre-

« ‘ 4 the period ahead workers unions and working class eee ions must do a lot of clug ing on this matter,” conv €d the speaker, “in order that peat curbs be placed on mon- Men, - . . by labor and govern- Work to safeguard the right of €rs to their jobs,”

nEADs PEOPLES REPUBLIC. The na- eel liberation army of The Congo the Proclaimed a Peoples Republic in stit Grea controlled by it, which con- ae roughly one third of the coun- ag Chosen as president of the new By lic was Christopher Gbenye, 4 Soh vice-premier under premier rice Lumumba.

CHRYSLER WORKERS line set by the United Au U.S., agreement was reac feature of the pact, which other monopolies in the a workers with 30 years service.

LABOK ROUNDUP:

uto industry,

WIN HISTORIC SETTLEMENT. tomobile Workers unio hed on a new 3-year contrac’ will undoubtedly set the pattern for neg is a retirement at ag

Minutes before a strike dead- n at all Chrysler plants in the t last Wednesday. Key tiations with e 60 clause, for

Mine-Mill leaders seek to end strike

Mine Mill national president Ken Smith, national executive member Al King and a delegation from Local 663 at Britannia Beach left for Victoria as the PT went to press last Wednesday

morning.

Island marks Labor Day

Some 500 people attended the Vancouver Island Labor Day Pic- nic at Parksville last Sunday. There was a good sportsprogram for children and adults, including foot races, tug-of-war contests, a gymkhana riding display and a soccer game.

On the cultural side, there was a display of oil paintings by Van- couver Island painters andtwelve ‘striking black and white paintings by George Clutesi, a well known

Native Indian artist from Port,

Alberni.

George McKnight, a leading member of the IWA from Port Alberni, was Master of Cere-

monies.

Jack Phillips, secretary of the Vancouver Civic Employees Unien, was the guest speaker. In his speech, Phillips noted the tremendous gains made by the trade unions in the past year, but also drew attention to the rela- tive decline in trade union mem- bership as a percentage of the jabor force. He advanced the following targets for the coming year:

* Organize the unorganized.

* A united labor congress for all legitimate trade unions,

* Control the effects of auto- mation, placing the interests of the people before profits.

* Medicare for all Canadians. * Curb the monopolies.

+ Strengthen the independent political action of organized labor.

* Defeat allattempts to impose compulsory arbitration in place of free collective bargaining.

@ «Labor united,” said Phillips, «ean make Canada a truly pros- perous and independent nation, a free nation in a world at peace.” He called upon all trade union members present to rededicate themselves to the crusade for a stronger, united and more effec-

tive trade union movement.

The grcup had a two o’clock appointment with provincial labor minister Leslie Peterson to try to resolve the union’s dispute with Anaconda Mining Co. at Britan- nia, where the local has been on strike since August 8.

The union is fighting for a clearly defined work week and premium pay for weekend work, along the lines of the settlement it achieved recently with Cominco at Trail and Kimberley.

Union news bulletins indicate that morale among the strikers remains at a very high level. A Women’s Committee of strikers’ wives has been formed and is helping to lead the fight against this giant U.S.-owned monopoly which is trying to treat Canadians like second-class citizens in their own country.

The local has been greatly helped by donations of fresh fish by the UFAWU and by the Cana- dian Ironworkers Union, which has found work for some of the men out on strike.

Two conventions of particular significance to B.C.’s labor movement will soon be taking place. The 27th annual regional convention of the IWA will be held Sept. 28-Oct. 2 at the Geor- gia Hotel. A few days later, Oct. 5-9, the B.C. Federation of Labor will be holding its 9th annual convention ar the Bayshore Inn.

Public warning is issued about ex-RCMP agent

isiting Vancouver at present is the self-confessed RCMP stool-pigeon Calvin M, MacDon- ald, who is being widely publi- cized by the local press and radio,

Last week wide play was given to MacDonald on the radio pro- gram “Open Line” conducted by Pat Burns, In the course of the program some unauthorized per- sons phoned to express “the Com- munist point of view.” Their views were not the views of the Communist Party on the issues under discussion and not one single Communist spokesman was called on to express an opinion,

The Pacific Tribune is aware that in addition to many honest people who phone the program, Trotskyists and many other ultra leftist elements take advantage of this program to speak as *communists.” Readers of the PT should be on guard against these elements, who have the same purpose as MacDonald, and that is to distort what the Com- munists really believe and stand for,

Insofar as MacDonald is con- cerned, the PT recalls to our readers sthat in July 1962 his charge that there is widespread

Communist ifiltration of re- ligious, peace and social organ- izations and trade unions were branded as “irresponsible and insupportable” by Dr, Abraham Feinberg, rabbi-emeritus of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto,

MacDonald's statements at that time were given wide publicity by the CBC and the capitalist press in an attempt to discredit peace organizations and other people’s organizations,

The Ontario Communist Party on July 26, 1962, issued a state- ment branding MacDonald as an agent of the RCMP’s “Special Branch” for spying on labor and democratic organizations, He carried on his spying activities for a number of years in the Communist Party and was finally exposed and expelled from the Communist Party.

Apparently his usefulness to the RCMP was ended when he be- came discredited and exposed, . and he was cast aside by them, Attempts now to use this ex- RCMP agent to stir up sympathy for him will be to no avail, PT readers should be aware of the facts and on guard against the activities of this person and those who would utilize him.

NORTH VIETNAM CELEBRATES 10th ANNIVERSARY. The Democratic Republic of Vietnam was born Sept. 2, 1954. In contrast to chaos in South Vietnam, North Vietnam is rapidly industriclizing and living standards are rising. Photo above

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Pravda charges China seeks slice of Soviet far east

Ts charge that China’s lead- ers are questioning Soviet rights to more than 1,500,000 square kilometres of Soviet ter- ritory — more than six times the size of Britain — was made in Pravda last week.

The Soviet Communist Party’s newspaper was commenting on a report published in Japan of an interview which Mao Tse-tung gave to Japanese Socialists visit- ing China.

Peking had not denied the re- port, anda Chinese Deputy For- eign Minister who was asked by the Soviet Union for an explana-

“tion, said: “If Mao Tse-tung

said so I agree with him.”

Pravda said that Mao Tse-tung declared in his talk: “About 100 years ago the area to the east of Baikal became the territory of Russia, and from then on Vladi- vostok, Khabarovsk, Kamchatka. and other points are the territory of the Societ Union.

“We have not yet called for an account on this roll!”

Mao Tse-tung had also stated: “The places occupied by the Soviet Union are too numerous,” and had argued along “Lebens- raum” lines that “justice de- manded the reallotment of terri- tory because the population of the globe was unevenly distributed.

“We are faced with an openly expansionist program with far- reaching pretensions,” com- mented Pravda.

“One can only be amazed that there are people questioning the right of workers and peasants to the land where they have lived and worked from ancient times, on the grounds that once upon a time one emperor defeated another...

“Do those who question the belonging to the Soviet Union ofa territory of more than 1,500,000 square kilometres think how these claims will be taken by

Soviet people who have been liv- ing and working on this land for several generations, and con- sider it their homeland?”

It warned “any attempt to re- carve the map of the world” could lead to the “most dangerous consequences.”

But, Pravda said, “China has every right to press for the lib- eration and reunification of Tai- wan (Formosa) and Hong Kong which are part of that population are Chinese,”

Pravda pointed out that as long ago as 1954 a history textbook was published in China witha map showing China's supposed bord- ers before the first Opium War.

The paper said that in 1954 the Chinese leaders suggested to Khrushchov and other Soviet leaders visiting Peking that they should reach agreement on mak- ing Mongolia “a Chinese prov- ince,”

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