| For some — the price
of unions came high

Twenty-nine years ago, on Sep-
tember 29th, 1935, three young
“coal miners of Bienfait, Sask.
were shot to death by the RCMP
in the city of Estevan, a few miles
distant from the mining village of
Bienfait.

Participating in a peaceful de-
monstration with their wives and
children in support of their un-
ion’s right to collective bargain-
ing, decent wages and safety con-
ditions, the miners of Bienfait
had struck against the intolerable
conditions prevailing,

A Tory government in Regina
and Ottawa replied to their pleas
with massed RCMP and provin-
cial police, who opened fire on
the parade and gunned down three
miners, as wellas wounding many
others,

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On the headstone of these three
murdered miners, the authorities

“blacked out” the identity of the
killers,

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Spanish vet,
unionist, dies

Patrick Melville, known to
many readers of this newspaper,
Passed away suddenly~a short
time ago. He was in his 64th
year,

Melville served in Spain for two
and half years as a member of
the Mac Paps and was wounded
in action twice. Upon returning
to Canada, he found work as an
Outside Civic Worker in Van-
couver and was a Shop Stewart
in the civic workers union for
many years. He was a long time
reader of the P.T. and labor
press generally.

Patrick Melville is survived
by two brothers and a sister.

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new burdens on civic taxpayers

The Victoria branch of the
Communist Party, in a_ brief
submitted to Victoria City Coun-
cil has charged that Municipal
Affairs Minister Dan Campbell’s
proposed metro setup for Greater
Victoria “is a thinly veiled
scheme for the municipal tax-
payers to help relieve the pro-
vincial government of the burden
of some of its present responsi-
bilities,”

And to make matters worse,
this attempt is taking place at

a time when the municipal share ~

of the total tax dollar in this
country has shrunk from some-
thing like 26 cents in 1939 down

PR Wh Bh ®

to less than 15 cents today.

Pointing out that the area is
already served by a number of
boards (Planning Board, Water
Board, Health Board, Hospital
Board) thé brief asks: « Why do we
need yet another board super-
imposed on these, and in part-
icular why should this proposed
board be set up with the power
to levy taxes?”

It charged that if such a board
were set up, Victoria ratepayers
would find themselves paying for
some things which are now mun-
icipal responsibilities and added
ratepayers would then be faced

Free ambulance service
for public, union urges

Local 873, Canadian Union of
Public Employees, (Ambulance
Employees Union) is seeking the
support of the labor movement
in having ambulance service
brought under public ownership,
with free service to the public,

At present the various munici-
Palities in the Lower Mainland
sign contracts with private firms
to provide this service and the
costs to John Q, Public are
staggering, For example, if a
person is hurt anywhere in Van-
couver or New Westminster and
requires an ambulance; it costs
him $18 plus $1 per mile from
the accident scene to the hospital,
A similar situation in Burnaby
would cost $30 plus $2 per mile,
plus a further $1 a mile if the
ambulance goes outside of Bur-
naby, .

The operators ofthis “service”
try to justify these fantastic
charges’ because the drivers re-
cently won a reduction in hours
from 86 to 56 hours a week with
no loss ‘n take home pay, This
Means they are now working for
the magnificent wage of $1.50 an
hour, instead of $1,07,

The union has sent a letter to
all trade unions in the area, in
which its position is outlined as
follows:

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“We have consistently advo-
cated that the appropriate source
of revenue for financing ambu-
lance service should be the B.C,
Hospital Insurance Service,
wherein adequate public funds for
the purpose already exist, And we
have urged that the Hospital In-
surance Act be amended ifneces-
Sary to include ambulance sery-
ice as an insured benefit, Our
urgent representations to the
provincial government in this
matter have never been acknowl-
edged. ...

“We hope to see the existing
metropolitan ambulance service
preserved intact and brought un-
der public ownership , , , ”

Meanwhile, Vancouver, Burna-
by and New Westminster councils
have each appointed one member
to a three man committee which
is to explore and investigate the
entire ambulance picture,

Press reports indicate the
committee will delve into muni-
cipal subsidies for private firms,
a joint public service, and take-
over of ambulance service bythe
provincial government,

Vancouver Labor Council has
demanded strongly that a labor
representative be added to the
committee,

not by three, but by found
of taxation: municipal, ™
provincial and federal.

The brief proposed:
* That Victoria city should ?
enter into metro withoul@
erendum vote of ratepayers
that the vote be heldat thet
of the December elections

* If ratepayers agree 10 es
the board, it should be#
ning and regulatory”
without the power to levy tae

* Representatives to the at
should be publicly nom
and elected.

In conclusion, the 0
thought was left with ¢O™”

“If coordination, direction
uniform development of the®
area become necessary, a"
mation of the whole ae
undertaken only after ee
in all areas are brought UP
level of the highest area
the provincial government
ing the cost of ironing 0?
inequalities,”

tod
The brief was submit

Ernie Knott, secretary

Victoria C.P. branch.

SEAN O'CASEY, the great play
and poet of the common peoP :
last week in Britain. Through?
life O’Casey hit out against W y
injustice. On his 84th pirthdoy
great revolutionary said “'! one
of a Communist than | ever W9"

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