NS NR a en ee Na OPE ar Ee ig ye agg iawn, 16 . Orsin, dn. gt Labor voy: MAY 8, 1964 S21. 25, NO. 19 Pitan THIS WEEK iy Hy * The CLC Convention * Why CCF Lost Sask. SHOULD HANGING REPORT ON CHINA —Page 2 —Page 2 * BE ABOLISHED? ‘—Page 5 * BY BERT WHYTE —Page 8 Vie backs Civic Wo ie otver Labor Council last behin Y threw its ffill weight Workeng enking outside civic Ting = After hearing a stir- Secreta ute appeal from union Bates ee Jack Phillips, dele- Uti ve aNimously endorsed .ex- recommendations en- nh he strike, condemning 89 a all attempts at compul- Clty oo bitration and demanding Rego; UNncil sit down and resume ations immediately. Phin; th ‘lips Offered the *incere the a the civic workers for Sup E yendous response’ and iq ,,, {°F the strike.’’ He said ate, ©OmMe from many affili- ni Side 4 also from unions out- - Min se Council, such as Mine , . ee Fishermen and the ers here . ‘ons a is no room for divi- m Saiq «<(t© labor movement,’? Uch a When labor is up against *€actionary city council. At the PT went fo press it was re- ported that Minister of Labor Peterson had called for a meeting of both parties at the City Hall Wednesday at 3 p.m. It is expected he will disclose the report of Dr. Perry at that time. As the Ottawa hearings _ Columbia Treaty entered its fin COLUMBIA TREATY probe hearings in B.C. of the External Affairs Committee on the al phase this week one of Canada’s top economists branded the treaty as having ‘grave defects.”’ It also heard a number of large unions denounce the treaty as a sellout of Canada, ' and received a telegram fr meeting urging that hearings be held in B.C. The Vancouver Labor Coun- cil’s action came on an executive recommendation, which was un- animously endorsed by the dele- gates. The wire is being sent to NDP MP Bert Herridge and the Liberal chairman ofthe Com- mittee. In. a statement Monday, BiG Communist Party leader Nigel Morgan said: ‘‘The conflicting evidence being presented before the Commons hearing on the Col- umbia makes it essential that the treaty be not rushed through. A full public inquiry into the con- sequences of the pact should be launched with hearings held across Canada.”’ Morgan added that **expert testimony by some of Canada’s top distinguished engineers against the treaty makes it clear that“it would be a crime for the minority Liberal government to rush this treaty through the House without all the evidence on the terms and consequences of the treaty having been fully invest- igated.’’ The CP leader said it was es- sential that hearings be held in B.C., and that similar hear- ings should also be held on the prairies, where Columbia water and hydro development are of ex- treme importance for the future.’” In Ottawa, Larratt Higgins, a leading Toronto economist with the Ontario hydro, told the Com- mittee that the Columbia treaty was ‘‘inflicted’’ on Canada by B.C. Premier Bennett. He said flatly that the treaty and proto- col should be rejected because rkers He said the very same people who are refusing to meet the just demands of B.C.’s wood- workers, together with the CPR, dominate the present council and are commanding it to ‘‘hold the line’’ on wages. ‘eWhen your Municipal Advis- ory Committee gets into gear for the civic elections in the fall it should remember —there are no friends of labor on this city council,’ he charged. He assured the delegates that the entire membership of 1600 was united as never before in its determination to conclude the strike successfully. ‘‘The civic workers will win —and it will be a gain for all of organized labor,’’ Phillips concluded. ; (For more news on the civic strike, see Page 12). they ‘‘contain grave legal, econ- omic and political defects.’’ He urged support of the McNaughton plan to keep control of our water within Canada. UNIONS SPEAK This week three large unions and the Save the Columbia for Canada Committee submitted briefs opposing the treaty and protocol. Tom Parkin, repre- ‘senting the United Fishermen and Allied Workers, outlined his un- ion’s stand against the treaty and support for the McNaughton plan. Cc, S. Jackson, president of the United Electrical Workers (UE), said that the present treaty and protocol ‘‘do not protect the welfare of Canadians.’”’ He urged that development of the Columbia be based on promotion of Canadian industrial develop- ment, preservation of full up- stream rights to meet rapidly growing water needs on the prair- ies, and a trans-Canada electric power grid. A brief submitted by the Mine Mill and Smelter Workers charg- ed that the treaty is a ‘‘capit- ulation to U.S. interests’’ and “¢should be rejected vigorously by all true patriots.”’ The 1C0 page brief submitted by exec- utive board member William ON EMERGENCY CIVIC SERVICE. Albert Payton, outside civic worker, is shown at Cambie yard. His job was assigned by the strike committee to service vehicles for emergency service. The union’s concern with the public welfare stands in sharp contrast to the irresponsible action of city council which has provoked the strike and prolonged it. ib BSL ie head ile om the Vancouver Labor Council’s Tuesday Kennedy and Bruce Yorke of the Vancouver Trade Union Research Bureau, said the treaty. is ‘‘not even a second best plan of de- velopment, but a humiliating, de- grading, subservient one.”’ The brief declares that the decision on the treaty ‘‘will ef- fect the future of Canadians for generations to come. Either we will become a dynamic industria] giant .. . or will be relegatec to the status of a mere ‘storer of water.’: This isthe fundament- al issue involved,’’ ACTION URGED The B.C. executive of the Com- munist Party this week urged citizens to write the B.C. mem- bers ofthe External Affairs Com- mittee, Ottawa, postage free, urging that hearings be held in B.C, and across Canada, B.C. members of the Com- mittee are J. A. Byrne, Kootenay East; Colin Cameron, Nanaimo- Cowichan-Islands; G. L, Chat- terton, Esquimalt-Saanich; Jack Davis, Coast-Capilano; Grant Deachman, Vancouver-Quadra; S. A. Fleming, Okanagan-Rev- elstoke; D. W. Groos, Victoria; H. W. Herridge, Kootenay West; A. B, Patterson, Fraser Valley; D. V. Pugh, Okanagan-Boundary; and C. J. M. Willougby, Kam- loops.