The stei

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Henin “ 400 packinghouse workers at Bradford, Ont., has attracted national
» The strikers, some of whom are shown above, are fighting to change

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Men, Stes Which are 80 to 85 cents an hour for women and about $1.10 for

‘ABOR ROUNDUP:
CM&S plays old tune

On eve of

As
be ers in Trail prepared
nm Casting ballots in a goy-
the a SUpervised strike vote,
Smelting SO lidated Mining &
Cra Co, (subsidiary of the
tye -) Played the old game of
© intimidate them,

La
too, a Tuesday, the company
Tra} : two-page spread inthe
Tempe ‘Mes, informing Mine Mill
Con Ts what a hardship on the
boy ity would be brought
inp a 4 strike and threaten-
te. to budge from the terms
Marg. “ority conciliation board

R
Daop, wits Of the voting are ex-
hq. The be known on the week-
On Tie Kimberley local voted
those Sday, with 90 percent of
Pallots Sligible to vote casting

Ela

Worker: 4 of the Pulp and Paper
$25 ~*S of Canada has been fined
Avg, ach of five counts for
erate its members not to

New machinery installed

strike vote

at Celgar pulp mill, near Prince
Rupert,

This could set a most danger-
ous precedent; as it apparently
rules out labor having any say
when it comes to installing new
machinery, changing techniques,
speed up, etc,

The issue, along with others,
has gone to conciliation,

The United Electrical Workers
Union has wired the Lions organi-
zation vigorously protesting the
invitation extended to Alabama’s

racist Governor Wallace to.

address the Lions convention in
Toronto, :

Stating the union ‘‘cannot re-
main silent when infamous segre-
gationists are invited to our
country,’’ the wire demanded
cancelling W allace’s invitation
‘fas recognition that you are
meeting in a country where seg-
regation is in essence abhorred
and legislated against.”’

‘tate of Malawi is born

h

Ministe Commonwealth Prime
TS conference opened in

by a this week, accompanied
of Atry ®asing signs that anumber
Neg ae Commonwealth count-
Dr Res Planning to demandnew,
tom fac Policies on race-
hern Rhodesia andSouth

Ch:
tina operetta
‘ be shown

Thing dese Operetta film, ‘The
te poiSter,”” will be shown at
*tog 4msters’ Hall, 490 E,
lly Be: Vancouver, onSunday,
; at 2 p.m, and 8 p,m,
he

*elug eu which is in color and
«ing Some of China’s out-
BSoreq creormers, is being
= lenash by the Canada-China
O¢ ie 'p Assn, Admission is

- Adults, 25¢ for children,

Africa,

Even as the prime ministers
began gathering in London a new
member was added to the Com-
monwealth with the winning of
independence by Malawi (mean-
ing ‘‘fires’’), the former colony
of Nyasaland,

Dr, Hastings Banda, first prime
minister of the new, three mil-
lion people state, pledged his
government would be in thecamp
of neutral, non-aligned nations,

‘¢But on the other hand, we will
not adopt a negative, rigid, ster-
ile policy of neutralism — rather
the contrary; we will adopt a
positive, flexible, progressive
stand of neutralism and align-
inent — which is what I ‘call

discretionary neutralism and.

alignment,’’ Banda added,

SN es pe A | | |

LABOR, RATEPAYERS ACT

United opposition mounts
to transit fare increase

As public protests continued to
rise this week against the pro-
posed 66 percent fare boost by
B.C, Hydro a closed meeting of
11 mayors and reeves of Greater
Vancouver and Greater Victoria
decided unanimously to ask their
councils to name a joint com-
mittee to take up with Victoria
the whole transit problem,

Announcing the result of the
meeting of civic representatives,
Vancouver’s Mayor Rathie said
the joint committee would have
the aim of putting up a common
front on fares, and the allied
problem of the B,C, government
seeking to dump the transit
system on them when the fran-
chise ends in 1966,

Rathie said the municipalities
involved, who represent 60 per-
cent of the population of B.C.,
would seek a meeting with the
cabinet before mid-August, He
added that both the future of the
transit system and fare increase
could **seriously affect the future
and economy of Greater Van-
couver and Greater Victoria

Loose

Rathie said that the proposed
rise to 25 cents would put more
than 17,000 extra cars on city
roads every day. This would
create an impossible traffic
problem in an already overtaxed
traffic system, e

Also entering the fray last week
was B,C, leader of the NDP,
Robert Strachan, who advocated
the retailing of electric power
by municipalities to help defray
transit losses, He pointed out

that New Westminster has been -

doing precisely this for a long

time — and the city nets about’

$700,000 a year on its power
sales, The same proposal was
urged recently by the Vancouver
Communist Party in a radio
broadcast,

PUC hearings

This week the Public Utilities
Commission announced it will
hold hearings in Vancouver and
Victoria to hear the large number
of protests which are coming in
from many organizations, Latest
to add its opposition to the fare,
boost was the Vancouver school
ooard, Acting on an appeal from
the B,C, Parent-Teacher Federa-
sion, the school board decided to
yack its stand and to submit
it in writing to the P,U.C., Mayor
Rathie and B,C, Hydro,

The Vancouver Central Council
>f Ratepayers has also written
che P,U.C, opposing the increase,
Many other organizations in the
municipalities affected are
expected to lodge protests and
appear before the hearings ofthe

P.U.C.

This week the Vancouver Com-
nittee of the Communist Party
is giving wide circulation to a
leaflet urging ‘‘No Fare Hike,”
{t says that B,C, Hydro wants the
nighest fares for the poorest bus
service of any major Canadian’

city.’”’

Pointing out that the answer
to the transit crisis is mass
rapid transit with cheap fares
which will encourage people to
leave their cars at home, the
leaflet says that ‘‘such a transit

system should form part of a
Metropolitan Utility District
along with the distribution of gas
and electricity,”’

‘No increase’

The leaflet urges the public
to press for the provincial gov-

‘ernment toimmediately establish

a Royal Commission to invest-
igate the transit needs of the
B.C.’s urban municipalities, It
asks that there be no increase
in existing rates or decrease in
existing services until comple-
tion-of the work of such a com-
mission,

- PADDY NEALE, secretary of Vancouver

Labor C il, who d on Tues-
day the council, B.C. Federation of La-
bor and Amalgamated Transit Union
would jointly protest the proposed fare
hike. Neale demanded subsidization of
transit out of electricity and gas reve-
nues.

“Friday’s conference of may-
ors and reeves fully confirms the
warning our Party gave a month
ago that increased fares will only.
deepen the transit crisis’’, Nigel
Morgan, B,C, leader of the Com-
munist Party, said Monday, ‘‘Sol-
ution lies in more transit riders,
not less,’’ ey

‘‘Mayor Rathie is 100 percent
right in his estimation that an
increase will be followed by a
further decline in transit rey-
enues, increased private auto
traffic, and uncontrollable con-
gestion of bridge approaches and
city streets,’’ Morgan said,

“‘The one-sixth drop in transit
passengers that followed the last
fare boost in 1958, which was
a heavy blow to Vancouver’s
downtown area, is proof of this,
The projected hike will not only
be ruinous for both downtown
Vancouver and Victoria, but
would have disastrous conseq-
uences for ratepayers who would
have to pick up the tab for
additional millions of dollars for
expressways and parking facili-
ties,”’

Need cheap transit

‘*Mass rapid transit with cheap
fares, more frequent service on
busy city lines and less standing,

‘which would encourage people

to use the bus system and thus
boost transit revenues, is the only
answer’’, he declared,

“The mayors and reeves de-

cision to fight theincrease,
backed by action of the Rate-
payers Council, the P,T.A,, Van-
couver School Board, and a

united labor movement points the
way out, Because of N,P,A, polit-
icking at City Hall, and the Ben-
nett government’s obvious
determination to load transit
costs onto local ratepayers, it
cannot be left entirely to the
city fathers to settle,

“For transit users and tax-
payers millions of dollars are
involved, Widespread public
pressure can be decisive, and no

time should be lost in seeing that.

it finds expression,”

‘We will give them counsel, advice and help as necessary.” -

July 10, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

—By OBSERVER

—President Johnson.