NO ROOM AT TOP

The bear at the top, enjoying
@ private romp in fresh straw. in
his winterized hut at Storybook
Gardens in London, Ont., meets
a@ companion head-on. The bear
at the bottom was left hanging
in his attempt to share the
warmth. :

Boss weapon

against strikes

HE issue of injunctions used
against strikers is expect-
ed to be a centrepiece in

the annual presentation of the
Ontario Federation of Labor to
the provincial cabinet in a few
weeks. Labor councils and locals

from many points, including
London, Toronto, Hamilton,
Oakville, St. Catharines and

Oshawa, have urged that this
year’s presentation be backed
up with a mass lobby, demon-
stration or car cavalcades.

Some union locals have even
proposed a one-day general
strike as a means of “killing
the bosses’ injunction weapon
before it kills the union move-
ment.”

The following article regard-
ing the use of injunctions in
strikes is reprinted from “Ford
Facts”, organ of Local 200 of
the United Auto Workers
union. It supplies a popular ex--
planation of one of the key
problems facing the trade union
movement today in every part
of Canada.

_ The use of injunctions in
labor disputes has been a major
stumbling block to favorable
settlement of contract disputes.
Major strikes now in progress
in Ontario would have been
settled quickly and in favor of
labor if it were not for the un-
fair use of injunctions.

An injunction is a court order
which prevents or restricts a
certain action. It is traditionally
granted where damages alone

On Nov. 9, the Canadian Tribune published two pages of
Avrom Yanovsky’s drawings from Mexico. Here are three more
of his fine drawings. Above, one of the narrow, cobble-stone
streets of Guanajuato, known as the birthplace of Mexican
independence (1810). A mural in this city, by the progressive
artist Chavez Morado, deals with the patriot-priest Miguel
Hidalgo, leader of the Reyolution of Independence.

are not satisfactory compensa-
tion for what may be lost.

For example, when two‘heigh-
bors dispute the ownership of
a dividing piece of property
either person can ask the court
to issue an order preventing
anyone from changing that pro-
perty lest he lose the dispute. In
that case no amount of damages
would return the piece of pro-
perty to its original state.

In labor disputes temporary
injunctions are applied for after
management begins a civil suit

against a union for some in- °

cident on the picket line. As a
rule the company sues the union
for inducing breach of contract
or conspiring to injure.

The injunction which limits
or restricts picketing is intended
to maintain a balance between
management and labor until the
main suit is heard by the court.

As a rule, when the strike is
settled, the company drops its
suits, but in the interval it has
accomplished its aim of sabotag-
ing the picket line.

Compounding the injustice of
injunctions is the~ granting of
them ‘ex parte”. In this case
the company appears before a
judge and presents only its case.
The union has no opportunity

‘Navel
of the
World’

A special commemorative seal
(see photo below) has been is-
sued by the Easter Island Ex-
pedition Society, sponsors of a
medical study of inhabitants of
the remote southeastern Paci-
fic island.

The letters METEI, between
the two Eastern Island statue
profiles, stand for Medical Ex-
pedition to Easter Island.

The expedition is conducting
a social and medical study of
the island’s inhabitants before
an airport brings civilization to
the area.

The words RAPA Nui, below
the statues, is the Polynesian
name for Easter Island. Trans-
lated literally, the name means
“Navel of the World.”

Easter Island seal.

Why labor opposes injunction:

to present its side. The “ex
parte” is supposed to be only
for extreme cases, when wait-
ing for the union to present its
story would prolong the inflic-
ting of injury or damage.

But recent Ontario-strikes in-
dicate ex parte injunctions have
become the rule in labor dis-
putes rather than a device re-
served for extreme cases.

In the Toronto Typographical
Union dispute with Toronto
publishers, in the United Auto-
workers’ strike against Wolver-
ine Tube in London, in the Uni-
ted Electrical Workers strike
against Amalgamated Electric
and in the Potters’ strike against

American Standard, ex parte in-

junctions were granted ...

David Archer, president of !
Ontario Federation of La
presents the following cha
the OFL and labor genefé
would like to see:

1) Complete abolition of !
ex parte injunction.

2) Provision providing fot
48-hour period between
time an injunction is applied
and the time the case is me

3)-Prevention of injunctl
which last for more than
days.

4) Possibly provision to hi
applications for injunctions P
cessed through the Ontario »
bor Relations Board.

J.$. Wallace

This is the tale of his life, perhaps:
The hand that fumbles

The foot that stumbles,

And, wonder of wonders,

The wing that flaps.

“THIS is the crystal pool,” said my Chinese guide, “in
which an emperor’s wife used to bathe some centuries
ago. Would you like to swim in it?”

I don’t mind, I replied, it ought to be clear by now.

My answer was straight out of Charlie Chaplin. Visit- —
ing an English mansion they showed him a bed where a
king had slept and asked if he’d like to sleep in it too. He ©

answered: “Are you sure the linen has been changed?”

I used to listen as my fellow boarders at 115 Dresden Row ~
in Halifax raved about a movie comedian called Charlie
Chaplin. When I snapped out of my snobbishness it was
almost too late; I have managed to see only a handful of —
his films. At the last, Limelight, I leaned back: it was

Every week, with a superior smile, barely concealed,

ridiculous for a man in his late sixties to have tears stream-
ing down his cheeks at a comedy. As my eyes cleared I

was relieved to discover my brother and Sven Gahm were

just as leaky.

Yesterday I started My Autobiography by Charles
Chaplin. I finished it around five o’clock this morning
though I knew that left me only a couple of hours for
sleep. With the Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times,
The Great Dictator it is one of the profound experiences
of my life.

I can only think of one flaw, so minor in its context
it is trivial: he doesn’t mention that Roosevelt was dead
when hell for him broke loose so that he was clearly
railroaded to penitentiary and fsamed in a paternity case.
One reviewer has added what he calls another blow:
name-dropping. It is true he mentions kings, queens, princes
and dukes who were anxious to dine with him. But in my
opinion he does it deliberately so he won’t lose his audience

_as he mentions the really interesting people: Harrison

George (Charlie forgot the Harrison) on his way to
Leavenworth, Jim Larkin whom he visited in prison, Ein-
stein, Eisenstein (The Armored Cruiser Potemkin) Harry

Bridges, Kurt Eisler (exiled to East Germany), Khrushchov, _

Bulganin, Chou En-lai and, of course, Gandhi, Nehru.

I won’t quote from My Autobiography anymore than I
would try to save you a trip to one of his pictures by at-
tempting to desctibe it. Buy . .. borrow... steal.

_ January 15, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page

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