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LABOR AROUND THE PROVINCE

on B.C. Government Employees

Blunt refusal of Premier W.ciation president George Her-

A. C. Bennett to grant wage
increases “at the present time’
resulted in a quick decision by
the executive of the B.C. Gov-
ernment Employees Associa-
tion to conduct a strike vote
immediate Although not a
ly constituted trade unfon,
there is nothing to prevent the
10,000 provincial civil serv-
ants involved from striking.

Hard on the heels of the
executive’s decision to hold a
s.rike vote came word that 300
government employees in nor-
thern B.C. had held a mass
protest meeting Sunday at Ter-
race and voted to join the
strike vote after wiring Pre-
mier Bennett demanding pay

hikes.

Average wage for civil ser-
vans is $38 below the prov-
ince’s average industrial wage
and employees are resigning at
the rate of 25 percent per year.

One of the demands of the
civil servants is for a 40-hour
week. The premier told asso-

ridge that the question is “still
under consideration.” Some
1,5000 employees in provincial
mental hospitals are still work-
ing a 44-hour week.

This is believed to be the
first time in Canadian history
that a group of provincial gov-
ernment workers has consider-
ed strike action.

* * *

Construction unions are at
loggerheads with 32 firms
which have agreed to “refrain”
from paying living and sub-
sistence allowances to workers
taking jobs at “Kitimat, ex-
cept where they are required
under existing contracts.

Until now workers going to
Kitimat on construction jobs
have been paid $2 a day room
and board allowances.

* * *
Second annual convention of

British Columbia Federation
of Labor will be held here

Cameron says Liberals

have inferiority complex’

COURTENAY, B.C.

The Liberals were accused of “helping their friends to
make millions out of share options on Trans-Canada Pipelines”’
by Stanley Knowles, CCF national party whip, speaking at a
CCF meeting here on behalf of Tom Barnett, the party’s candi-

date for Comox-Alberni.

Knowles charged the St.
Laurent government with be-
ing “so interested in serving
big business that it has only
crumbs to offer old age ren-
sioners and a national health
scheme.”

Colin Cameron, CCF MP
for Nanaimo in the last par-
liament, attacked the gov-
ernment’s foreign policy and
advocated “another look by
Ottawa at its attitude towards
Red China.”

The Liberal administration
has “a deep-seated inferiority
complex whenever it looks
south across the border,” said
Cameron.

Accusing the St. Laurent
government of cowardice in
the recent Norman case, he
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B.C. loggers are watching
with considerable interest the
progress of Mayflower II across
the Atlantic, for the replica of
the original Mayflower~ is
equipped with a 75-foot mast
and five spars from Coast for-
‘ests.

The 180-ton vessel left Ply-
mouth, England some 40 days
ago and is now only a few
hundred miles from the West
Indies. Destination, of course,
is Plymouth, Massachusetts.

* * *

Strike of four Seafarers In-
ternational Union crew mem-
bers of the MV Lady Rose,
owned by Coast: Ferries, has
tied up ferry service between
Steveston and the Gulf Is-
lands. f

The union is seeking a 20
percent raise, retroactive to
June 1 last year, for seamen
who now make $1.30 an hour.

Liberals, Tories
Socred stand forces strike vote \silent on H-tests

Voters go to the polls on
Monday, June 10, to elect Can-
ada’s 23rd Parliament. They
will cast their ballots at a mo-
ment when the issue chief
of world politics is the ending
of H-bomb tests. -

Hundreds of millions of
worried people in all coun-
tries, and many governments,
are demanding a suspension of
further blasts, the source of
bone cancer through absorp-
tion of Strontium 90, and
crippling menace to unborn
children.

A disturbing feature of the
federal election campaign,
which strikes keen observers
is the contrast between such
world-wide concern about the
H-bomb and disarmament, and
the complete absence of these
matters in the public speeches
of Prime Minister St. Laurent
and John Diefenbaker, Liber-
al and Tory leaders.

While these politicians are
touring the country, it is
pointed out, and charging each
other with false statements,
neither pays any attention to
the peril facing humanity.

M, J. Coldwell, national

leader of the CCF party has: |
publicly broadcast his party’s |

demand for an end to H-tests:
LPP candidates are making it

the centre of their campaigns:

In India, , Japan, Britain, |
West Germany, the USSR,
China, _Burma, the socialist
states — in fact in areas em-

bracing almost the whole of —
the world’s population the en-" |
ding of the poisonous tests is —

a prime’ public issue.

Pope’ Pius has called for a

ban on further blasts.

The USSR has. made. new
appeals for action by. the big
powers to halt the tests.

Announcement by the Gal-
lup Poll that~ 63. Percent of

USS. citizens favor suspension —
is no doubt the underlying —

reason for new moves by Presi-
dent Eisenhower toward lim-
iced disarmament in the Lon-
don talks of the UN subcom-
mittee, of which Canada is a
member.

But St. Laurent and Diefen-
baker remain blind and. deaf
to these developments, to
judge from their campaign
speeches.

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