| 7 7 y aciIIC 702-ER EUs Ngan fu, S. FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1958 8 ; Authorised as second class mail by "hg Ae Office Depart ment, Ottawa VANCOUVER, B.C. lO¢ tf 5 he traged d labor represen- a best guarantee % Some ssion will pro- : a Mg more than a tly » others have ‘done wie mem eet Said. Mal fon bes of the party “Join in the many \ Pepon ae conciliation a bs °n the current wy ie the coast My, Ona) ys «ANd the In- wie is. OOdWorkers of 2: My Son, pected to be re- A * toe, ~ demanding a By Yhig, “8 hike in its ty, te Bao ract. Opera- i pres that they Mee time » Wage increases ut Ing, SUry I Misty oS of the lum- expressions of sympathy for the berreaved. We feel deeply for the families, especially the small children and wives of those: lost in this tragedy. Nothing can bring these men back, but the government must accept responsibility for seeing that their families are fully provided for financially. | M A award expected ” be released soon off of export sales, the profits of the big lumber. operators have remained substantially high. The relative increase in per capita production in this key industry have enabled the operators ‘to maintain a high rate of production and profits’ with a much smaller working force. A leading IWA member told the Pacific Tribune that the board’s “slowness in tabl- ing the report is a good sign there’s not much in it for the IWA.” JFITS, NOT WAGES. PPLING ECONOMY By BERT WHYTE “Tt is time for the labor movement ‘to go on the offensive—to defeat the bosses’ cam- paign of lockouts and layoffs, to regain the gains labor has made over the years and make greater gains in the future,” Vancouver Labor Council president Lloyd Whalen said at a VLC meeting Tuesday this week. As delegates applauded, Whalen made an impassioned plea for “hundreds of volunteers” to gather at the Labor Temple at 6 p.m. Friday this week to fire the opening gun in labor’s fight-back campaign by dis- tributing 40,000 copies of a 12- page B.C. Federation of Labor publication, B.C. Labour, at busy shopping and transpor- tation points throughout the city. George Home, BCFL secre- tary told the unionists that an additional 60,000 copies of B.C. Labour will be shipped to all parts of B.C. for distri- bution, and that a_ special four-page pamphlet, in 40,000 Morgan calls for labor to be ‘presented in bridge probe . | te Must be represented on the royal commission probing the Second Narrows bridge “ted Which 16 men were killed and 20 injured when two sections of the partially con- ‘i ee collapsed on Monday this week. This is the opinion Nigel Morgan, LPP pro- Na that €r, voiced to the Pacific Tribune following Premier W. A. C. Bennett’s announce- ; lef Justice Sherwood Lett would conduct a one-man investigation into the cause y. “Four workmen were killed in earlier construction acci- dents on this bridge,” Morgan pointed out. “Now the death toll has soared. “The people want to know the reason for the collapse. What, and who is to blame? What assurance have workers and their loved ones that sim- ilar tragedies won’t mar other construction projects? “Was the job being rushed too fast? Were contractors trying to cut corners to boost profits? How often did Work- men’s’ Compensation Board safety inspectors visit the bridge to check on safety con- ditions? “Ts it true that workers ex- pressed fears prior to the col- lapse? Why were the men on this hazardous project not properly protected?” Morgan said it would be premature at this time to spe- culate on the provincial gov- ernment’s responsibility. “But,” he said, “it is a shameful at- tempt at evasion for High- ways Minister Gaglardi — Continued on back page See BRIDGE copies, dealing with the prob- lems of building trades work- ers, will come off the press this week. “This fight-back campaign against the offensive of the employers is a bread-and-but- ter question,’ declared Bill Stewart (Marine Workers). He urged unions to ‘dig deep” into their treasuries to finance the campaign. “It’s high time we climbed On Our soap boxes and shout- ed a little bit,” said the BCFL president Bill Black, and dem- onstrated what he meant by theme in full voice. “We must learn to operate as one united almost shattering the micro- phone as he developed his labor body,” he cried. “If we do, no boss or combination of bosses can smash us.” Earlier in the meeting George Dronick (Almagamat- ed Clothing Workers) had ap- pealed for volunteers to man information picket lines around Eaton and Hudson’s Bay department stores, urg- ing buyers not to purchase Continued on back page See COUNCIL % This week United Nations observers, including Canadians, arrived in Lebanon where the situation remains critical. Opposition leaders, whose forces are fighting government troops, claim the Chamoun government does not represent the interests or wishes of the majority of the people and are fearful that U.S. intervention will smother what remains of their country’s inde- pendence. Above is shown a road block thrown up by oppo- sition forces.