Party’s president. Party leader. ; Or conservatism. Said. Liberal image of “quiet revolution’ “The decisions of the Quebec Liberal Federation show that the party has basically completed its swing away from being a party of reform and quiet revolution,” said Sam Walsh, chairman of the Communist Party of Quebec, com- menting on the recent Liberal meeting. oe “The compromise was dictated by Lesage,” he added, ‘and the results show that all efforts at reform are halted including in the Liberal party itself.” The “reform” movement headed by Eric Kierens at the Federation meeting had apparently agreed to most of Le- Sage’s proposals and in return Kierans had become the The focus of the controversy was around the “slush funds” which Kierans had charged Lesage used without Sharing the information of money available with other party leaders. He had proposed a seven-man management com- mittee to govern the party and a finance committee that Would have controlled not only the Federation’s budget but also the separate election fund controlled now by the Lesage’s watered down policy, which was adopted at the meeting, has the three-man finance committee consist- Ing of the party leader and two members of the executive Committee chosen by that committee “under the recom- ™endation of the party leader”. Also his plan does not give the finance committee any access to information about the Party fund, only to facts about collections and payments. 4 __. |. The defeat of two reform candidates for the positions \ _, of Secretary and treasurer and the election of standpatters : Was described by Walsh as further evidence of the victory ‘ | “It indicates that the image of the Liberal Party as | favoring any kind of revolution is very much faded,”. Walsh ‘eee 4 j ; By CHARLES LUTZ 4 The ®cided at its meeting last week ree to fight profiteering in hous- "g during Expo 67. ean the course of the debate veral important facts were fought forward. Many anony- ated; companies have been cre- an In the shadow of Expo in et to bleed white those tour- Sts who f ; | 700m will be looking for row @ large number of room- __,.S in Montreal and region into distress. : : This vast manoeuvre, which une Could even call a conspir- ae '$ already under way. Many Mall proprietors in the metro- euan area have already re- Questing lodging places: it in- a, wes, throwing out present ten- "ioe a a renting all of the house ae the anonymous company for | (Ouble the rent actually re- Z Civeg. : donk? will come and the fast “Cllr boys will make a good re- Montreal Labor Council - _,° Create a watch-dog commit- ; S and at the same time . Ved firm offers from those re- . turn on their money by charg- ing the tourists $12 or more per day for their rooms. “Rents should be _ frozen,” said one delegate; ‘Montreal must have visiters but not to the detrement of the local popula- tion.” Some small homeowners of Ahuntsic and Rive Sud have al- _ready been contacted by the profiteers who also are attack- ing’ a select district: southeast Montreal, whose population is mainly working-class. ae “If such a scandal is’ tolerat- ed,” said another delegate, “there will be in 1967 two Expos, the second: will, be the. demon- stration of the trade unidé# move- ment reacting against such re->-__ volting abuses.” One delegate advised this re- porter “that .a..good solution to check profiteeritig’ vidlagm. the — Lu Ul i A Ti whi! iL! ia in \ | L | LL LLL | fo ON WEST COAST Bosses get injunction — to help break strike A court injunction has been used against organized labor again: this time to stop picket- ting by the striking foremen of the International Longshore- men’s and Warehousemen’s Union in British Columbia, who last week sealed off nine west coast ports when about 4,000 longshoremen ~refused to cross their picketlines. Acting on the request of the B.C. Maritime Employees Asso- ciation, Judge Kirke Smith, sit- ting as a local judge of the B.C. Supreme Court, ordered all pick-° eting by the foremen stopped.: He called the picketing a “‘con- spiracy”. The injunction was directed not only at the union’s Local 514, which represents the 190 foremen involved, but against the ILWU as a whole. The em- ployers have brought damage action against the ILWU, its in- ternational president Harry Brid- ges, its Canadian Area and Lo- cal 514. - - The foremen went on strike on Nov. 17 after the Labor Rela- tions Board had rejected Local 514’s application for'‘certification as their bargaining agent, on the grounds that foremen are super- visory personnel and not eligible for collective bargaining. When the longshoremen back- ‘convert some of the existing buildings, which could then be. sold later, as well as construct temporary rental shelters or utilize prefabricated barracks. He suggested that the money that could be made by the gov- ernment from this could be used to give generous bursaries to the thousands of students who need them and to the thousands of young unemployed workers for their studies. The labor council also asked that a boycott is initiated by all _ affiliates against the products of “Hinde and Dauch (boxes and cartons) where a strike has been on since Oct. 29. It called for moral and financial support of the strikers as well. One of the issues at this plant, which is a subsidiary of Domtar, is the question of whether the workers can change their insur-. ance to another company than avalanche of tourists comes. te&=.%he one with which Hinde and Montreal would be that the gov- -ernment itself take responsibil- ity for venting rooms to Expo visitors at reasonable prices. He said it should be possible to re-. Dauch had been dealing. The position of the union,. Interna- tional Chemical Workers, is that since the workers pay 100 per- cent of the insurance they should ‘ed the foremen and refused to cross the picketlines, thus tying up some 60 ships, ports, the ship- owners and port employers. ap- plied for the injunction and got it. rain-soaked pickets were report- ed leaving the lines and both sides were reportedly deciding what the next step should be. At’ Tribune press time the The use of another injunction against labor in British Colum- bia, so soon after the issue of ‘mjunctions came up sharply at the B.C. Federation of Labor convention, represents a chal- lenge to all of organized labor in the province. It is expected to have wide and immediate reper- cussions in the labor move- ment. YOURS MECHANICALLY No longer need a busy executive get writer's cramp signing his signature. The British machine, called Auto-sign, can write 350 signa- tures an hour, using the owner's own pen and accurately reproducing every characteristic of his signature. have the right to decide by which company they should be insured. Brought to light at this coun- cil meeting also was the fact that the CNR and the CPR fol- low a practise of neglecting to report industrial accidents and the doctors of these companies just laugh when asked to fill in and sign medical forms. The meeting had before it a resolution to condemn the Col- lege of Physicians for this prac- TICE, es “At Point St. Charles,” said a delegate, “there. are 17 trades’ represented by their unions and -nat one has opened their mouth - against this scandal. I believe that the resoltition as it is pro- posed is too weak and ¥ think that it should be referred back . for strengthening.” ~ ““T have always been under the impression,” interjected another delegate, “that the: doctors* are obliged by law to fill in and sign” these forms. I am very aston- ished. and_even shocked to learn that it isn’t done. The resolution December 2, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5 Labor council acts to prevent rent profiteering during Expo as proposed has no teeth. It should be strengthened before adoption.” : It was then decided unani- mously to refer the resolution. Among other decisions taken at this meeting was a resolution to support the bill which has been introduced in the Senate to outlaw the preaching of. geno- cide and: to prohibit hate pro- Paganda against any racial, ethnic or religious group.