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U.S. Asia-bound war materials are reportedly shipped. The

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: box car was the most heavily guarded they had ever seen.
ed ‘radioactive material” where spotted entering the terminal.

BC. Fed would err if
IWA locals suspended

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dian Labor Congress,

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then susp, Whole unions’

the public criticism of Morris,
no good purpose will be served
if these four locals are suspend-
ed, Suspension would mean yet
another barrier in the way of
creating one union for all lumber
and pulp workers in B.C, It
would also further weaken the
B.C, Federation of Labor, which
is suffering from a wide lack of
confidence on the part of its
atfiliates because of power poli-
tics in the last convention elec-
tions, and the Executive Coun-
cil’s position on the O’Neal
bugging incident.

The Executive of the B.C, Fed-
eration of Labor would be well-
advised to reconsider its ulti-
matum and both parties refrain
from further public outbursts
on the internal affairs of the

UNIONs,

The best thing that could’ be -

done at this time, inthe interests
of labor unity, would be to appoint
a special committee to meet with
all parties directly concerned —
Joe Morris, the four presidents
and the B.C, Federation of Labor,
Discussions should be undertaken
in order to find agreement on
policy in respect to uniting the
lumber and pulp workers of B.C,
If such agreement could be reach-
ed, or at least, an understand-
ing arrived at on how to search
for such unity, all secondary
matters, like the public criticism
of Joe Morris, could easily be
disposed of,

In the long run, unity of the
labor movement around correct
program and policies is the most
important objective for all those
who have accepted the respon-

LABOR SCENE:

Union urges Ottawa end
‘soft talk’ on Vietnam

Agreeing with views expressed
on the Vietnam war by Walter
Gordon, president of the Privy
Council, United Electrical, Radio
& Machine Workers has written
to all Members of Parliament,
C.S. Jackson, national president
of the 25,000 member UE, calls
on the M.P.’s ‘‘to assert the
independence of our foreign policy
by ensuring that our government
support the right of the Viet-
namese people to settle their own
affairs without outside interfer-
ence in line with the Geneva
Accord of 1954, ~

“Any other course by parlia-
ment amounts to endorsation of
the genocidal escalation of the
U.S. military action which can
only lead to a world wide holo-
caust,” the letter declares,

The UE letter said that ‘‘facts
as stated by Mr. Gordon in a
speech on May 13, 1967, are
generally known to be true and
this his position on the question
of Vietnam has the support of
the majority of Canadians,

“We cannot agree with the
walk quietly and speak softly line
of Messrs, Pearson and Martin,
which line can result only in
encouragement of the U.S. esca=
lation,

“We believe it is overdue that
Canada’s parliament — in the
interests of the Canadian people,
in the interests of peace, and in
support of our pledges to the
United Nations — should speak
out in the same tones as has
the president of the Privy Coun-

cil,” it said,
* * *

In a government-supervised
vote on May 24, a shattering defeat
was inflicted of the 3-Way Pact
proponents by a determined group
of workers at Zeballos, fed up
with 2-years of bitter struggle
to free themselves,

It is géneral. knowledge that
these 3-Way Pact unions, the

Teamsters, Operating Engineers
and Laborers, showeé little con-
cern and even contempt forthese
workers, shamefully treated by
the Zeballos Iron Mines, not only
in rates of pay and working condi-
tions, but primarily in matters
of underground safety. Four
serious accidents happened in the
spring months of this year and
not one representative of the
Pact unions came in to investigate
on behalf of the injured workers,

Despite the fact that the com-
pany had laid off 18 mine workers
just prior to the vote, the govern-
ment supervised return shows
57 eligible voters cast their
ballots, 37 for Mine-Mill Local
851 and 20 for the 3-Way Pact
setup.

A new union executive has al-
ready been set up at Zeballos,
with new bargaining, safety and
grievance committees, Negotia-
tions for a new collective agree-
ment for the mis: workers is
expected to commence early in
June.

Mine-Mill also plans a cam-
paign to terminate the 3-Way Pact
arrangements at Granduc and
Boss Mountain, where the eight-
hour day portal-to-portal, estab-
lished by the hard-rock miners
65-years ago, has been abolished

by the “38-Way Pact agreement,
* * *

Demanding parity with Vancou-
ver School Board employees in
wage and working conditions, ap-
proximately 90 maintenance
workers involving no less than
12 craft unions have been on
strike at Simon Fraser Univer-
sity for the past two weeks, A
Conciliation Board recommenda-
tion of parity with similar ser-
vices under the jurisdiction of
the Canadian Union of Public
Employees (CUPE) at UBC was
rejected by the SFU workers,

To head off any attempts to
recruit the services of SFU stu-
dents while the dispute was on,

‘Meet people’s needs

with budget
‘Premier Bennett’s bragging
about .a $35. million bigger sur-

‘plus than expected will come as

quite a shock ‘to thousands of
pensioners who have just had
their supplementary allowances:
cut or taken away entirely by
B.C.’s Socred administration,”
B.C. Communist léader Nigel

——EEEE
Ratepayers urge
utility takeover

The Vancouver Central Council
of Ratepayers this week said in
a press releasethat Lower Main-
land residents could save money
and do the job better if gas,
hydro and transit systems were
placed under a Lower Mainland
Public Utility Authority.

Ratepayers charged that do-
mestic rates for natural gas
are excessively high and that the
recent boost in hydro rates was
unjustified, The Council is cur-
rently circulating a petition in
support of their demand,

a

- Morgan. concluded,

surplus’

Morgan declared at a meeting in
Alberni last Sunday.

“Failure of the Bennett gov-
ernment to meet even minimal
needs. of pension and welfare
recipients is resulting in thou-
sands: going hungry, ill-housed
and ill-clad. B.C. Hydro boasts

‘of a $35 million surplus yet last

month our light rates were raised
to within two-thirds of acentless
than the highest rates charged by
the B.C. Electric. :
“There is no doubt Hydro rates
will continue to jump if Premier
Bennett gets away with his scheme
to continue subsiding foreign in-
terests, He has finally had to
admit that costs of Columbia
dams to B,C, will exceed returns
from the U.S, andhe has commit-
ted us.to a direct subsidy for
U.S. interests of. $109 million,
“A massive public protest is
needed to bring about a reasser-
tion of Canadian independence,
cancellation of the brazenly de-
ceptive provisos of the Columbia
treaty, and utilization of our
resources and budget revenues to
provide for people’s needs,’*

the SFU student body adopted a
resolution for the guidance of
its members,

‘Simon Fraser Student’s So-
ciety, recognizing that the current
strike of maintenance workers
is a matter to be settled between
the parties involved, that is, the
unions and the administration;

“Hoping that the parties con-
cerned will settle the dispute
quickly and restore services in
the best interests of all;

“States that it will not inter-

fere in the strike by perform-
ing either the duties of the
strikers or of the administra-
tion,

“Calls on students not to per-

~form any workordinarily carried

on by striking personnel, and
further,

** Asks students not to patronize
any services performed by per-
sonnel engaging in strike break-
ing”.

** *

The British Columbia Division
of the Canadian Union of Public
Employees Convention is
scheduled for June 8-11 in the
Royal Towers Hotel, New West-
minster,

This 1967 provincial conven-
tion of CUPE will be the first
for the Vancouver Local 1004
of CUPE, since this new local,
formerly the Vancouver Civic
Employees Union (Outside
Workers) only received its
charter from national CUPE
headquarters following the last
convention,

Many important resolutions
bearing on local, national and
international events are expect-
ed to come before this important
convention.

MIDDLE EAST

Cont'd from py. 1

its Arab neighbors in the Middle
East, This is the way to guar-
antee its security.

The immediate source of the
crisis,- ownership and control of
the Gulf of Tiran, must. be re-
solved in the interests’ of the
Arab and Jewish people, The
question of ownership and sov-

“ereignty..on one hand and that

of guaranteed accessibility on the
other are two different thingsand

can and must be settled by peace- ~~

ful negotiations, not by war.

The Communist Party of Can-
ada stands opposed to military

aggression from any quarter. It .

is opposed to armed forays
against one state or military ac-
tion against another,

What the world least needs
today is another Vietnam,

It is with this in mind that
the Canadian government, ra-
ther than pursuing a bankrupt
policy of quiet diplomacy in Viet-
nam, and an equally bankrupt
policy of unquiet diplomacy in
the Middle East, in both cases
serving the interests of U.S.
imperialism, should begin to pur-
sue a truly independent policy,
one starting and ending with the
over-riding necessity of main-
taining world peace and Canadian
security.

June 2, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3