caption ‘Money Saver”

saver’,

Action against misleading advertising was demanded of
the Consumer Affairs Dept. by Nigel Morgan, Provincial
leader of the Communist Party who submitted the above
photo in evidence against the Shop Easy market in Capri
Centre in Premier Bennett's hometown Kelowna. Under the

Shop Easy was selling on
September 4th potatoes at 39¢ for 5 Ibs. The
quantity bag of 15 Ibs. was priced at $1.29 — 12¢
-more than the equivalent in 3 small bags.

‘‘money

city hall.”’

Labor to seek COPE-NDP

unity for civic election

Cont'd. from pg. 1
Capstick of the Postal Workers
Union said ‘‘We will need‘
posters, photos, names, occupa-
tions of all the candidates made
available to the public so they
will know who they are voting
fores

Ron Gomez, COPE candidate,
said COPE is a committee of the
labor council which grew out of a
long hard struggle to gét progres-
sive representation on council.

All delegates stressed the need
for as great a degree of unity as
is possible to defeat, as one
speaker said, ‘‘the gangsters in

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Organized labor will have no
part of any ‘‘Hard-Hat’’
programs against unemployed
youth, delegates made clear.

John Hayward made a ringing -

denunciation of petty politicians
and others who attempt to turn
citizens against youth sheltered
in the Armory and Jericho
barracks.

Need for unity stressed
at I|WA regional parley

In a keynote address to
delegates at the IWA Western
Regional convention in the
Georgia Hotel this week, local 1-
217 president Syd Thompson said
that unity in the woods industry
must be achieved.

While previous efforts had not
been wasted, the unity advocated
at last year’s convention had not
been successful, resulting in
International Pulp unions
ending up with three year
contracts and the IWA with a
-two year settlement.

Because the IWA was the
larger union, it was the logical
force in which to unify workers
in all phases of the industry. The
splits must be healed; it will not
be an easy row to hoe, but if the
correct approach is used, 1970
could write the most important
page in labor history, he said.

Thompson made little mention
of the ‘‘leadership fight’? which
the daily press hopefully head-
lined beforehand.

Jack Moore, Regional
president, said he made no
apologies ‘or contacting Labor
Minister Peterson and bringing
him into the picture after the
Coast bargaining committee
had rejected recommendations
in the Nemetz report. He said it
had helped in solving the
problem without a work
stoppage.

The Officers Report, however,
makes mention of Moore’s
position in the following words:
“The (Coast) Committee very
carefully analyzed the Nemetz
report and decided to reject the

proposed settlement, primarily
because it overlooked many
important items that were a
subject in this year’s nego
tiations.

“The Regional President,
without authorization from the
Committee and on his own initia-

tive, contacted the Minister of
Labor.”’

The election of officers will
take place on Thursday and
Friday of this week.

The Officers Report stated

there is a new and heightened .

political consciousness in the
labor movement. ‘‘We believe

lthe leadership will have to

provide new initiatives and new
programs to answer the need the
new consciousness creates.”’

Thompson, in his welcoming
address laid stress on a social
and political program necessary
for today’s conditions.

He made the following points:
A demand for a reduction in
income tax for people on low and
medium income brackets;
increased benefits for senior
citizens and those on unemploy-
ment insurance and social
assitance; Massive intervention
on three levels of government to
make housing available at costs
we can afford; governments to
make money available at reason-
able rates of interest.

At the municipal level, tracts
of land should be cleared and
serviced to make lots aavailable
at reasonable prices.

Thompson said the workers
were confronted with the major
task of fighting inflation and

maintaining purchasing power,
but he made no mention in his
speech of the Vietnam war,
which it has been pointed out is
one of the major causes of
inflation in Canada.

The Officers Report dealt with
Trudeau’s wage guideline
policies in a few short words.
“Last year, the Prime Minister
announced blithely that he
could tolerate a 6 percent unem-
ployment rate.

‘“‘We -believe that this
movement cannot tolerate a
prime minister that can tolerate
6 percent unemployment.”’

Vice-president of the Canadian
Congress of Labor Jean Beaudry
told the convention on Tuesday
morning that a guaranteed
annual income must be a major
demand of the labor movement
in Canada.

If all affiliates would demand
such a plan, he said, it would be
the first move to make the
federal government take steps
in that direction, and towards
the so-called ‘‘just society’’. He
urged that the IWA become
really serious about political
action; to get active in the
political arena at all levels.

Resolutions to be dealt with by
the regional convention include
a number on pollution, taxation,
safety, unemployment, unity in
the woods -industry, amongst
others.

The IWA Regional Council No.
1 includes locals in B.C.,
Alberta, Saskatchewan and
Manitoba, most of which has
representatives at the conven-
tion. There are approximately
40,000 members in the region.

“These youths are neither
bums nor hippies, but Cana-

dians, and as Canadians they

have a right to travel,any place,
any time they wish across this
country! They are under no
obligation to get the consent of
the mayors of Vancouver and
Montreal to come and go!”’

Use caution in believing
anything either the press or
radio hotlines tell us on this
question, warned another
delegate. The mayor of
Vancouver has made more than
one false charge against the
youth. He mentioned speci-
fically charges made on the Ed
Murphy hotline. Local
politicians, he said, are very
concerned about ‘“‘memorials”’ in
the armory, but show damned
little concern for veterans who
are Bocuiployeds

Retail and Wholesale Clerks
Union representative Mason
reported on the strike, at C.H.
Hoskens drug wholesale which
has been in progress since the
end of April. He said it had been
a hard summer for the women

who are struggling to gain.a -

first contract from the company.
He urged that pressure be

‘applied to local drugstores

which are part of the Western
Drug Company complex.

The B.C. Federation of Labor
issued a press release this week
which sharply condemned
Labor Minister Peterson’s
provocative statements to the

MOURN VETERAN
LABOR SUPPORTER

A longtime supporter of the
labor press and progressive
movement, Mrs. Ada Towle;
passed away suddenly last
Friday after a lengthy illness.

Born in MacGregor, Manitoba
in 1899, she married Bob Towle,
a worker in the CNR shops in
Winnipeg in 1919, only days
before the General Strike. The
strike was no honeymoon, but
since Bob was on the Strike
Committee, it was an event
never to be forgotten by Ada
whose humanitarianism and
feeling against capitalism and
the want and misery it has bred

-remained with her to her last

‘days. ;
She was a member of the Com-
munist Party in the late 40s and
50s and was a PT Press Builder
ever since the award was estab
lished.
She is survived by her husband

Bob, two daughters Vivian and~

Verna, two sons Robert and
Calvin, 8 grandchildren, a
brother and three sisters. To all

of them we express sincere

condolences.

A memorial tribute will be
delivered by Nigel Morgan,
Provincial leader of the Com-
munist Party at the Memorial
Society of B.C. Chapel, Lillooet
Street in North Vancouver
Saturday, Sept. 19th at 1:30 p.m.

effect that he would impose the
compulsory features of Bill 33 if
building trades unions and CLRA _
didn’t come to a settlement.

Ray Haynes, secretary of the
federation stated that labor's ~
position had remained
unchanged. ‘‘Our affiliates will
not, under any circumstances,
appear before the Mediation
Commission, :nor will they sur-
render the right to take
whatever action is necessary

—

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FORESTS

Cont’d from pg. 1

monopolies would
maintain a perpetual yield— that
is, reforest areas cut to ensure 4
continued growth of new trees.

Under this legisla
millions of acres of B.C.’s best
forest lands were handed over t0
a handful of corporations,
mostly U.S. owned. Huge forest
empires were built. To sweete?
the pot even more for them, the
government used the public
treasury to pay up to half the
planting and forestry costs with
rebates on stumpage, which
came to a tidy sum and swelled
the profits of the giant
companies.

The licences also provided
that where a company did not do
the amount of replanting

“required the government would

reduce the allowed annual cut.

Despite this giveaway;
which the Pacific Tribune has
campaigned against since the
new forestry legislation was first
adopted, the big monopolies have
failed miserably to carry out 4
sufficiently large program of”
reforestation.

Overcutting means more
profits than reforestation S®
replanting of trees have to be
kept to a minimum — that was
_the philosophy.

The Communist Party i2
B.C. has for years demanded
that the forest licence legislation
be repealed and that all Crow®
forest lands be returned to public
control. Further, that the public
owned forests be run by a2
expanded Forestry Service
which would ensure a proper
scientific perpetual yield
program. All logs from Crow?
lands would, under this plan, be
auctioned to the highest bidder
bringing larger returns to the
public treasury.

The disclosure this week
proves that the present forest
policy is a failure. Instead of our
forests being perpetuated they
are being raped by the forest
monopolies.

A full public inquiry into the
state of affairs in our forests,
and a complete overhaul of the
province’s forestry policies are
essential if B.C.’s major natural
resource is to be properly
managed to provide the needed
jobs. and prosperity for the
future.

‘ONE MILLION JOBS’
WILLIAM KASHTAN

NAT. LEADER COMMUNIST PARTY

HEAR

SUNDAY, SEPT. 20— 8 P.M.
SWEDISH COMMUNITY HALL

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