2 THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER MEMO FROM MATHER “That’s tough, Gentlemen, Tough: $1,725,000 in remunera- tion went to 32 officers and directors of INCO (International Nickel Co. of Canada) last year. The Board Chairman received $322,000, the President $194,000 . . . By the way Canadian dividend payments for the first four months of 1967 were at the record level of $460,649,000 ... BARRY MATHER IS M.P. FOR NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. Later Than You Think: The median North American age is approximately 28 years. ... Four M.P.’s have (including two NDP’ers) Bills on the Order Paper calling for a reduction in the voting age. oe tak x * No- Place Like Home: Or Home ‘Like No Place?: NDP MP’s Grace MacInnis, Reid Scott and John Gilbert keep prodding the Liberal government for massive action on the housing crisis. As they point out at present down-payment for new units . . . Interest, taxes, other costs, have put them beyond reach. Private enterprise and municipal governments are incapable of meeting the situation. Toronto Star says: “Only the Federal Government with its immense fiscal and monetary powers can marshall the resources” .. . A Federal program of direct low-interest loans is required. * x * How Many Times?: Prior to the worsening of that situ- ation NDP MP’s had raised the Viet Nam issue in Parliament no less than 39 times in the last few months . . . Their position has been that Canada should disassociate herself ~ from U.S. military attacks there, seek an end to bombing, a disengagement of combatants and a truce enforced, if pos- sible, by a UN Peace Keeping Force . . . They see a League of Nations like debacle in the weakening of UN authority in the Middle East. * * The Profit in Pain: Cost of Living Index for April 1967 was 4.6% above that of one year earlier. But Health and Personal Care soared more than twice that much, in the same period. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics stated: “This in- crease was largely attributable to higher fees for medical, dental and optical services . . . Price increases were also recorded for pharmaceutical and personal care items,” which underlines questions asked, last March, by NDP MP’s who inquired of the Government whether rising drug prices did not indicate the industry’s concern over possible price regu- Jation and cutbacks. * * Throne Speech in Brief: The Longwinded Throne Speech was summed up by Murdo Martin, MP .. . “Everything we are now studying we will continue . .. Anything we are -not, we will. _ : Did you know?: Almost three-fourths of the world’s popu- lation of 3.3 billion live in Africa, Asia, Latin America. In another 12 years the developing nations will account for 3.4 billion people, more than the world today. . . . Less than $100 a year is the earning power of over half the world’s people. At today’s rate it is unlikely that they will make $250 a year by the end of this century. JAIL SENTENCES CONDEMNED Officials of both the B.C. ed the severity of the jail sen- tences imposed on United Fishermen and Allied Work- ers Union officers Homer Stevens, secretary; H. Steve Stavenes, president; and Jack Nichol, business agent. The three officials received jail terms of one year each for contempt of court and their union was fined $25,000. Federation secretary Ray Haynes stated that continual- ly imprisoning trade unionists does nothing to improve the already chaotic labour-man- agement relations in this province. He went on to say: “Our Federation has gone on record before in saying that the labour legislation in this province is retrogressive and totally out of tune with the times. “Unfortunately, the compli- cated dispute in Prince Ru- pert lies outside the jurisdic- tion of the Federation as the UF&AWU is not affiliated with the Federation or the (Canadian Labour Congress,” he added. “Neither the Fecer- ation nor myself have any de- sire to castigate any of the unions in this dispute. How- ever, it is regrettable that these internal disputes cannot be settled within the house of labour instead of incurring the unfortunate and adverse publicity which benefits no- one. While it may be that the ill-advised expansionist ~ policies of the tributed to the situation at hand; nevertheless the Feder- ation is committed to remove — by all democratic procedures the source of this trouble — — the labour legislation which allows trade unionists to be jailed for activities which can be litigated by civil action. “Over the past years the la- bour movement has spent © hundreds of thousands of dol- _ lars in legal fees which no doubt could have heen far better spent on a political action campaign to remove the iniquitous legislation and its supporters.” Delegates attending the La- bour Council meeting June 20 strongly protested the jail sentences imposed on the _ Fishermen officials and de- manded their release on bail pending appeal. Labour Council secretary Eb Paddy Neale accused the judges of basing their deci- sions on facts not related to the case in question. 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