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FRIDAY. AUGUST 28, 1959
VOL. 18, NO. 35 VANCOUVER, B.C.

WOODWORKERS

As the strike of 27,000 IWA coast woodworkers enters
its eighth week, there are still no signs of an early settle-
ment. The government appointed Prof. John J. Deutsch
as mediator and gave him a 14-day period to bring in a
report. This time limit may now be extended. Deutsch has
been meeting separately with the International Wood-
workers of America and Forest Industrial Relations, but
neither party has commented on the talks. The IWA orig-
inally asked for a 20 percent pay hike (see story on back
page) and a plywood job evaluation program. FIR offered
a 12-cent increase over two years. Cost of the strike to
operators to date is in the neighborhood of $25 millions.

ELECTRICIANS

Some 1,300 linemen employed by Hume & Rumble and
Peterson Electric won a six percent wage boost over two
years under the terms of an agreement worked out in
direct agreement between the International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers, the B.C. Electric and the two private
contracting firms. Present rates are $2.88, hourly at the
BCE and $2.97 in the other firms. :

PRINTERS

Strike of 70 International Typographical workers at
a number of local plants is now in its seventh month. The
issue: work classifications. Pressmen, lithographers and
bookbinders continue working, claiming it is a jurisdic-
tional dispute. ;

BILL 43

Bill 43 was enacted by the Socred government “to
accede to the request of the employers for restrictive labor
legislation,” B.C. Federation of Labor secretary Pat O’Neal
said this week. “It was never intended to create industrial

E NEUTRALITY’

“Canada’s problems of peace, independence and security can
only be solved by adopting a new policy of genuine neutrality,” says
the Labor-Progressive Party in a statement issued by its provincial
executive committee this week. “‘Such new basic principles of for=
eign policy call for nosubservient alliance with any other power,
withdrawal from Norad and Nato, and banning of missile bases in

our country.” |

The LPP statement
strongly condemns Harold
Winch, MP (CCF—Vancou-
ver East) for a recent
speech in the House of Com-
mons in which he gave com-
fort to the warmakers by
urging Canada to remain a
member of Nato “because
any further Soviet (social-
ist) advance in Europe must
be to our disadvantage.”

The LPP says “it is Pain-
ful to recall that Harold Winch
is allegedly a socialist and rep-
resents a truly working class
seat in the House of Com-
mons.”

Full text of the statement
reads:

It-is an inescapable. fact that
the so-called ‘“‘defense” policy
of this country is in a horrible
and suicidal mess. Although
taxes, raised mostly from the
pay cheques of working people
are spent by the billions on air-
planes that never fly, on
Bomares that cannot intercept
and on warships that ‘would
be vaporised, the bankrupt
spending orgy goes on and
the “Diefenbaker government
has no other answer than to
further enslave our country to
the United States.

It is patently clear that in
this new era, wars are decided
by those who have both short
and long range rockets, arm-
ed with H-bomb explosives.
Such a monopoly is enjoyed
by only two major powers and
Canada is not one of them.
Furthermore, because of geog-
raphy, Canada is precisely be-
tween the two great powers
and consequently is being fat-
tened for what could be the
inevitable battleground. A
dismal reflection, is it not,
after considering where 12
years of cold war and Ameri-
can domination have led us?

Fortunately for the future
of Canada, voices of dissent
and protest are being raised
against this policy of Ruin.
Ralph Allen, editor of Mac-
lean’s magazine and Doctor
Gordon are only two of many
influential people who are now

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businessmen and setting the stage for price increases,”

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spokesman in Vientiane said

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et Lao movement have got to
within 50 miles of Vientiane,
administrative capital of Laos,

government military sources
said in the town this week,

This report followed week-
end remarks by other Royal
Laotian government sources
that the Pathet Lao forces
were gaining a hold‘ on an
increasing area of Laos.

An American Embassy

on Saturday that two large
freighter planes of the For-
mosan Civil Air Transport
Company were now flying
“logistic support” to rear

areas of the Royal Laotian
Army.

The two plants, a C46 and
a C47, arrived in Laos last Fri«
day from Taipeh, capital of
Chiang Kai-shek’s regime.

A dispatch from Washington
this week said the United
States is considering an appeal

from the Royal Laotian gov-
ernment “for meney and equip-
ment to strengthen her secur-
ity forces fighting Communist
infiltration.”

Patriotic Pathet Lao forces
were reported cutting through
Luang Prabang province to«
ward the city of Luang Pra-
bang, defended by the Royal
Laotian Army.

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