Endicott will make
B.C. speaking tour

Dr. James G. Endicott, chair-
Man of the Canadian Peace
Congress and a former mis-
Slonary in China will speak
on “Satellites, Missiles and
Peace” at a meeting at the
Swedish Hall, 1320 East Hast-

gs, on Friday, Nowember
15 at 8 p.m,
Dr. Endicott will also ad-

dress meetings at other B.C.
Centres, in the Fraser Valley
and on Vancouver Island giv-
Ig his views on the signifi-
fance of the latest scientific
discoveries in relation to the
pes for peace.

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IOCO STRIKE

Oil workers unite

forces at

By JACK PHILLIPS

It was Sunday, November 3,
1957, andeapproximately 9:30
a.m. I was on the road be-
tween the Canadian and Am-
erican immigration buildings,
at Pacific Highway crossing
point, less than a mile across
the fields from Peace Arch at
Blaine.

A’ crowd of approximately
100 men, women and children,
had arrived for a rendezvous.
They were working people who
had come to clasp hands across
the border and to voice their
determination to win the Im-
perial Oil strike at Ioco, at
the head of Burrard Inlet.

The Canadian party was
made up of Ioco strikers, their
wives and children and sev-
eral officers of the Teamsters’
Union in Vancouver. The Am-
erican party was composed of
oil workers from Ferndale,
Anacortes and other points in
Washington State, their wives
and children and Teamsters
officials from Seattle. Some of
the American workers - still
wore their metal safety hats,
indicating they had come di-
rectly from work.

Both groups carried picket
signs, made the night before
by a devoted group of strikers.
Some of the slogans on the
placards read: :

“Wands Across the Border.’
“QCAW On Strike Against Im-
perial Oil Refinery — loco
Plant” “Unity Means
Strength.” “Imperial Unfair.

The November sun shone

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bravely and the silver

frost on the green grass by
the road was beginning to melt
as the two groups lined up, on
each on its own side of the
border.

‘
laughter and good humor in

Then, with smiles,

abundance, they marched for-
ward, met and shook hands all
around. To one side, a Cana-
dian TV cameraman was
shooting the scene. Later that
day, his pictures were shown
over CBUT, Vancouver.

Vern Barber, president of
the striking union, Oil, Chemi-
cal and Atomic Workers, Local
16-601 came forward to speak
and everyone gathered around
him. His voice was clear and
penetrating in the cold,
November air.

“This display of solidarity
makes me swell with pride as
I stand here. We are fighting
Standard Oil of New Jersey.
With all their billions of dol-
lars, they cannot conquer our
spirit.”

After his brief remarks, he
introduced Alex McAuslane,
international representa-
tive and former Canadian di-
rector of the union.

According to McAuslane,
the OCAW has almost doubled
the wages of its 11,000 Cana-
dian members in nine years,
but Canadian wage rates are
still below those prevailing in
the U.S. oil industry.

“It has been our dream to
have our agreements interna-
tional in character, blanket-
ting both countries, covering
such giants as Standard, Shelli
and Texas.”

Turning to the Ioco dispute
he said “the strike is justified.
It came after more than a year
of frustration and bargaining
with people who had no auth-
ority.

“The B.C. Labor
Act is frustrating.

“This company, which
makes a half a billion dollars
in six months, and which
wields the power of govern-
ment in some countries, re-
fused to accept a reasonable
report of a conciliation board.
The cost of the award would
have been negligible to the
company, but the workers ac-
cepted it, while the company
men sat there with stony
faces.” g

_In his closing remarks, he
summed up the significance of
the rally. “This is the voice
of the people who work. This
is the unity of the common
people as they clasp hands

Relations

across .the ‘border.” The ap-
plause was spontaneous and
generous.

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As a trade-unionist, I have
stopped using. Imperial Esso

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CCF member for Skeena,
has introduced two bills in the
House of Commons designed
to remove all bars to Native
Indians voting in federal elec-
tions.

products in my car, for the
duration of the strike. You,
too, can help, by refusing to
patronize Imeperial products
for your car, truck, farm
equipment or home.

Of the 14,000 Imperial Qil
Workers in Canada, only the
workers in Ioco are organized
in a legitimate trade union. In
Canada and the U.S., only one
third of the oil and petroleum
workers are organized.

Provided the Ioco strike is
won, it will be much easier to
organize the remaining Im-
perial Oil workers in Canada.
Also, the unorganized oil work-
ers in the U.S. will draw en-
couragement from such a
victory.

The issue is clearcut. Which
side are you on brother?. Will
you help the strikers, or will
you _stand aside and help
Standard Oil of New Jersey?

That’s the question!

Pete Seeger
repeats hit

By N. E. STORY

Over 200 people attended a
recital here last Monday even-
ing by the popular American
folk singer and instrumental-
ist, Pete

Seeger. Sponsored

by Vancouver folk song mag-

azine, Sing Along, this was
Seeger’s third local engage-

ment in the past two years.

More subdued than in earlier
appearances, Seeger gave many
“new” songs and fewer of his
stock items. The two-hour
concert ‘also had more solo
singing, although he often gave
the audience their head dur-
ing the 32 numbers on the
program.

Once again Seeger came up
with a folk instrument he has
newly learned to play. This
time it was the .12-string
guitar, made famous by Hud-
die Ledbétter, the late great
American Negro folk singer.

Selections included John
Henry, Irene, Bourgeois Blues,
The Ink Is Black, O Doctor
Freud!, Union Maid, The Scal-
er’s Song (collected on the pre-
vious evening from a Wash-
ington logger), and Canadian
songs Les Raftsmen and The
slackfly* Song.

Typically, he linked the
music with a witty stream of
banter and serious comment.

He concluded with the tren-
chant observation that the
audience’s ancestors came from
many lands which used to war
with one another but here all
was harmony; and drove home
the point with Ed McCurdy’s
peace song: LaSt Night I Had
The Strangest Dream. .

Sponsored by
Vancouver Branches of
Federation of Russian

Canadians and
Association of United

Ukrainian Canadians

BANQUET
and DANCE: .

to celebrate the
40th Anniversary of the
Great October Socialist Revolution

Saturday, November 9 — 6 p.m.
Russian Peoples Home

Tasty Slavic Food
Refreshments

TICKETS
$2. each, obtainable at
Russian People’s Home
600 Campbell Avenue, or
Ukrainian Hall, 805 East
Pender.

November 8, 1957 —

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