OR Na MI tem By / | | the Vietnam war. event, children, inhuman, futile war. ‘nent citizens, Picket, Giant peace arch rally to protest Vietnam war The Peace Arch at Blaine, Washington will bethe scene of a special mass rally and picnic on Saturday, August 6 to com- memorate the 21st anniversary of Hiroshima Day and to protest Organized jointly by all major peace groups in Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., it will be a ‘‘Hands-Across-the- Border” Speakers from both countries will address the rally. There will also be a musical program, Theme of the rally will be: “End Vietnam War — No more Hiroshimas.” The dangers. of escalation of the Vietnam war into a Third World War will be emphasized, and attention will be called to the barbarities of this war against women and It is hoped that eye-witness reports from Vietnam will be featured during the meeting. An open invitation is being ex- tended to all individuals and groups interested in maintaining world peace to join this demonstration of protest against this It was also announced in Victoria this week that a confer- ence on “Canadian Responsibility in Vietnam” will be held in the capital on Saturday, August 6th, Theparleyis being sponsored by a large number of local church ministers and other prom- Knott named Communist candidate for Victoria Ernie Knott, Victoria Com- Munist Party secretary, was Named last week as candidate to contest the Victoria constitu- ency in the forthcoming provin- cial election, In a prepared statement, Knott Said *Everybody is getting ready and we don’t intend to be caught Napping, We are going to cam- paign on a program of protection i ERNIE KNOTT in jail. and conservation of our re- sources, particularly water, tim- ber and parks, and for better la- bor legislation, ‘We can’t build a dynamic society with stone-age labor laws which give the companies un- limited use of court injunctions to put good honest union men Labor’s right needs to be protected and extended, not weakened, “Nor can we build a dynamic society by giving away our best resources, particularly water and timber to American interests to exploit. We should hang onto every drop of water we’ve got and also make the forest. mon- opolies carry out more extensive reforestation to reduce the ter- rific overcut, .*In the future, our exploding population will need every one of our present parks and then some, Concessions to industrial interests must be halted in our parks,” Knott said. "Free Longshore leaders’ Cont'd from pg. 1 dustry as a whole,” was respon- . sible for the present situation. The ramifications of CIRF were. exposed in a recent article in the PT), In Ontario this week the trade union movement was up in arms Over the jailing of 26 union mem- bers for defiance of a court in- » junction restricting the right to Five union leaders in- volved in the demonstration at Tilco Plastics at Peterborough received two-month termsand 21 others were sentenced to 15days each, The Ontario Federation of Labor said it will pay the legal fees and loss of pay for those convicted, i George Burt, Canadian direc- tor of the United Auto Workers, described the sentences as an act of madness and suggested that the Ontario government start a crash program on jails because it will run out of space. Burt said: “Organized labor Will hang this ruling around the heck of the government. The courts have brought themselves into disrepute by this punitive action, In the eyes of the Can- adian working man this ruling shows the ‘courts to be an in- strument of the establishment.” He said the workers concerned had violated “a distortion of the law, not the law.” Eamon Park, assistant to the Canadian director of the United Steel Workers of America, con- trasted the jail sentences in the Tilco case with the $100 fines against each of three independent bush operators as a result of the killing by gunfire of three strik- ing loggers in 1963 near Kapus- kasing. “The basic issue that remains is that the courts and the judges cannot compel workers into slav- ery,” said Park, David Archer, president of the Ontario Federation of Labor, condemned the sentences as “se- vere to the point of vindictive- ness.” He said the Federation would step up its pressure to bring changes in the law on injunctions, A special emer- gency conference of about 100 top Ontario union leaders was called for Wednesday morning to consider the problems and decide on a course of action, LABOR ROUNDUP: Union protests sending of Canadianseamen toSaigon Declaring that the crew of a dredge now en route to Viet- nam for service in Saigon har- bor, are receiving “the highest wages every paid unlicensed Can- adian seamen,” the Seafarers International Union (SIU) are boasting a figure of $1,000.00 to $1,400.00 per month. Following information on the SIU Canadian personnel in the Vietnam conflict, Local 400, Can- adian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers (Vancouver) forwarded a strong resolution to Canadian Labor Congress (CLC) president Claude Jodoin, condemning the SIU “for their most flagrant con- travening of Canadian labor and Canadian government policy on this most immoral of ageressive wars,” The resolution also urged the CLC to “give foremost consider- ation to this action” when it is deliberating on the issue of the SIU to CLC affiliation. Copies of the CBRT resolu- tions were also forwarded to the B.C. Federation of Labor andthe Vancouver Labor Council, The June 18 edition of the AFL-CIO News reports the In- ternational Longshoremen As- sociation (ILA) have selected an- other group of ILA “experts to help clear clogged port facilities in Saigon.” * ok * Speaking at last week’s session of the Vancouver and District Labor Council (VLC), Grace Mc- Innes, NDP- MP (Kingsway) urged the establishment of a federal prices board which might serve as a control agency on skyrock- eting prices and living costs, and provide some protection for the consumer,. A question on the order paper in Parliament produces no ex- planation as to why living costs are steadily rising. ‘‘There is no department in government that can answer such questions,” said Mrs, McInnes, A VLC Executive motion com- mending the. Vancouver Civic Employees (Outside Workers) for the manner in which they con- ducted their six weeks’ strike throughout, and censuring Mayor Rathie and the majority of City Council for the irresponsible attitudes they had adopted, was unanimously approved by VLC delegates, OK Ok The Supreme Court of the Uni- ted States has reversed the con- — victions against six leaders of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. They are Al Skinner, President; Irving Dichter, Secretary-Treasurer; Raymond Dennis, Executive Board Member; Maurice Travis, former Secretary- Treasurer; Charles Wilson, International Representative and Harold Sand- erson, Comptroller, Each had been convicted of conspiracy to evade the terms of * the Taft-Hartley Act that com- pelled Union leaders in the United States to sign affidavits that they were not members of the Com- munist Party, and sentenced to three-year prison terms, plus heavy fines, The decision of the Supreme Court handed down in Washington yesterday (June 20th) came just five months short of. ten years of the original indict- ment of the Union leaders in No- vember, 1956, At that time 14 of the Union’s leaders were in- dicted, The decision of the High court carried the signatures of allnine of the presiding judges, Mine- Mill counsel Nathan Witt has pointed out that a total of four cases against the union_ have: all been won in the Supreme Court. . .and all the major legal attacks on the union since the inception of the cold- war hysteria in the labor movement and the McCarthy period in the U.S. in the late 1940s, have been proven groundless, 3 * * * George Harris, secretary- treasurer, United Electric, Radio and Machine Workers Union (UE) in a telegram to Ontario attorney general Wishart charged that “the courts have been degraded to a strike-breaking agency through the issuance of injunctions in labor disputes.” The UE sec- retary also demanded the quash- ing of all jail sentences imposed by Mr, Justice Gale, in which 26 trade unionists inthe Tilco strike in Peterborough, Ontario were jailed. : “Words of Mr, Justice Gale’s judgment notwithstanding’ stated Harris, “contempt for court ac- tions which so obviously and clearly take the side of the em- ployer in a labor dispute, is a normal and inevitable reaction,” ONTARIO UNIONISTS JAILED. 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