ATTACKS UNIONS PLANNED

American big business is aggressively demanding new anti-union laws for the war against the labour movement. The most vocal demands for changes in the law come from the so-called Labour Law Study Committee originally formed in 1966.

Many of the committee's proposals bear a striking resemblence to the British Tory Industrial Relations Act.

In a recent interview with the New York Times, Carl H. Hageman, chairman of the Public Information Sub-committee of the Labour Law Commitee, explained the aims of his organization. Hageman is also a vice-president of the Union Carbide Corporation.

'We just can't continue as we have in the last six years,' said Hageman, 'without becoming a second rate power and facing economic stagnaCORPORATION mittee is a of American capitalism, including the American Smelting and Refining Co, the American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, Bethlehem Steel, the Columbia Gas System, First National City Bank, Ford Motor Company, General Dynamics, Goodrich, Humble General Electric, Oil, Macy and Co, Olin Corporation, Sears Roebuck, the 3M Company, and Union Carbide.

These are the corporations which raked in record profits in the first quarter of 1972 running at an annual rate of $52.3 billion. But this is only the beginning. More is required for the capitalists. The aim of their innocent-sounding study committee is nothing less than the destruction of the trade unions, throwing the working class back 50 years or more in its rights and living standards.

PROPOSALS Among the proposals on which the Labour Law Study Committee is demanding legislation are the following: (1) To limit the use of picket. ing as an economic weapon, so that it is used only against the party with whom a union has a dipute; and outlaw all picketing to force an employer to recognize a union. (2) To guarantee an opportunity for employers to discuss unionization with their employees. (3) To require a secret ballot vote on whether to strike when requested by the union the employer or 10 per cent of the employees. (4) To limit so-called coalition bargaining by groups of unions. striker er prevent claiming any (5) To preventa replaced status as an employee. (6) To let Federal Courts require unions to honour when Air BE. Ford pre ine others speak, their repre sentatives in Washington listen. Whichever candidate of the bosses elected in November he will attempt to implement all or part of these slave labour 'reforms'. This is the situation which makes the building of a labour party so urgent.