ost of full lunchpails ould b o RY eo Industry, Labor ver W, WOVER <3 and orga: % by oe sie, KOM ese ont (= we officer of the wployers’ Council of Brive 8" oe ' S 22%. Fight Slowdowns. . ‘ A | * Management Warn Unions won't forego raist to bail out A new high in forest company cynicism was-displayed in a recent story that pulp companies would ask their employees to sub- sidize them through a period of what they call ‘poor market conditions’’ by foregoing the wage increase due July 1. Pulps’ industrial relations spokesman Don Lanskail threw in threats of possible closures and layoffs to further befoul the air. ' Union reaction to the companies unbelievable fishing expedition was expected. No way! Workers are aware that during the sixties, particularly 1969, company profits reached an all- time high. During that period, and in 1970, pulp and paper companies hiked their prices more than once. During that period they invested millions in new pulp operations. None of the profits in the past decade have sifted down to the employees. Workers are not prepared now, nor at any time, to forego negotiated wage increases to bail fat cat companies out of a slump which is in most part of their own making. * KK Jack Nichol, secretary of the UFAWU, said last week that six meetings between the union and the Fisheries Association have brought no tangible results. Fishermen are asking a 25 percent boost for tendermen and a dollar an hour more for shoreworkers as a base for nego- tiations. Fish companies have offered 3.5 percent and 5 percent in a two year agreement. To tendermen they have offered 4 percent and 4 percent over two years. Other highly important issues have been ignored or _ rejected outright. significant change in company attitudes. He points out the company laments about reduced catches, pollution threats, etc., as an excuse for a low wage settle- ment do not hold up. In 1969, the poorest salmon pack year on record, B.C. Packers earned a net profit of $1.8 million. * KK One hundred and seventy city of Vancouver garbage truck drivers walked off the job Monday morning over the unfair demotion of a senior driver, Harvey Webster, who has driven a garbage truck for 21 of his 22 years with the department. He had been demoted to a lower paying job while other employees with as little as 2 years seniority worked at the higher paying job. The workers, members of 1004 CUPE, returned to work after a five hour shutdown when the superintendent acceded to the following demands: No penal- ties for the work stoppage: that Webster and two helpers be put back on the garbage route at regular rates of pay, A quick settlement was negotiated after employees at Canron’s Western Bridge division went on strike. The employees, members of : the Marine and Boilermakers Union, will receive a .70 cent an hour increase over two years, (mechanics) and .55 cents an hour for helpers. The contract also’provides an additional .03 cents an hour increase from the company towards the welfare plan. Union president William © pulp moguls} al Stewart said it was the Mi settlement in the steel at cating business in the “a There are six unions inal if senting workers in thal? cular industry. aoe Energy sellot! Cont'd from pg: ! northern territories national ownership, t0 ‘dian market. The said: R “The Communist Paty for a program of develoPty the Northwest aimed at? industry close to the sou! power. It calls upon the ill! dian government to D publicly owned pipelinn due regard to envirol ig control, to transport nal? xe gas and oil from Canada sal and Arctic to the cars market and with surplus’ after Canada’s present 4 mated needs are satisfi reli “This will ensure that i reserves of oil and Ba Canadian North and. ret which U.S. monopoly # 1a would like to lay thell | upon, will remain ull e nl dian ownership and cor et will serve as a basis ment of the Northwest parts of Canada.” The resolution say5 © ‘Canadian governmel be prepared, if the U»#! ment so desired, to enlé arrangement with | government to tr res0lley W itt Alaskan oil and gas to! border via Canada’s owned pipelines at 4 ~ satisfactory tariff, T® ed at definitely stated P= Above is a page taken from the annual report of Employers’ Council of B.C. in which the help of media in the anti-labor drive last year is lauded. This page was intended to show. the “media impact’ of the 3 : Employers’ Council drive. Last week the Vancouver Sun devoted a peo See pue whole page to a report by the Employers’ Council chief of research V.J. vith, : f AS MNereAS Raybould on Britain’s new labor legislation. This is obviously no acci- 1'E Teason for optimism that dent. It’s part of the campaign being whipped up in 1971 for more the disputes can be resolved at Clive McKee has been demands for higher pay i largest monthly increase in increases to compel the iles tor Mo more than a year and brought monopolies to give up some of Alderman Harry Rankin is shown during the recent wi | for veal the index to 132.2 froma former their profits. walk in Vancouver, taking a pause at the Canadian Ai check ral! high of 131.3 in March. Civilians checkpoint. Hundreds of walkers stopped at the n be repressive anti-labor legislation in B.C. the mediation stage without a Rising living costs wipe The PT was sorry to learn this week that Mike Gawrycki, above, who was an active worker in the labor and progressive movement in Vancouver for many years, passed away in Poland on March 22 at the age of 68. In 1962 he left Vancouver to be reunited with his family in Poland, PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY MAY 14, 1971—PAGE 12. Another sharp rise in the cost of living index was announced from Ottawa this week for the month of April. It was the The cost of living index is based on 1961 consumer prices equalling 100. This means that according to the official figures, there has been a one-third cut in what the dollar will buy in the last ten years. And according to labor economists the official figures are lower than the actual cost of living increase. - The latest increase exposes the sham of Prime Minister Trudeau’s ‘‘fight against inflation,’ and makes a farce of his recent statement that ‘‘we have licked inflation.” What we have now, as a result of Liberal economic policies, is a high level of inflation and a high level of © unemployment. The pressure put on working out labor's wage gains class families by rising living costs will inevitably find expres- sion in rising militancy and Aiming to head that off, big business spokesmen are mounting pressure for wage controls with some bogus ‘‘price controls’’. They want wages frozen, while knowing that it is impossible to effectively freeze prices because of our heavy dependence on purchases from the U.S. where rising inflation as a result of the Vietnam war is pushing up all prices on goods Canada buys. On April 28 the chairman of the Prices and Incomes Com- mission, Dr. John Young, again returned to his theme of wage controls. In an address he said Canada must have ‘‘a further Significant moderation of wages and salary increases.” rest and look at the photo display of the committee’s Wor the civilian victims of the U.S. war in Indochina. — ) The SOViet Party Congr’ WHAT IT MEANS TO CANADIAN®. , HEAR AN EYE-WITNESS REPORT BY NIGEL MOR CANADIAN FRATERNAL DELEGATE THU. MAY 20, 8 P.M GAN A.U.U.C. HALL 805 EAST PENDER ST., VANC.