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TRIKES

trades workers -will respect

carpenters’ lines.

B.C. civil servants are pro-
ceeding with their strike vote
despite Premier Bennett’s an-
nouncement, that they would
receive a six) percent wage}
increase effective July 1. Some
11,000 members of the B.C.
Government Employees Asso-
ciation are gunning for at least
twice the amount belatedly
offered by the premier.

A strike of government sta-
slated for

called offi,

tionary engineers

26 has been
union reached
settlement with
ment. The incre
$20 to $%

> retroactive to April

June

however, as the

ital nurses may

force accep-
l board of

1 board recommend-

geested a mini-
month, The
nurses provide an emer-

gency staff if they walk out.

will

A

At New Westminster 200
ses at the Royal Columbia

gg) ar > qr} ale
spital are preparing to take

H

a strike vote following break-
down of their negotiations for
a wage increase. Basic salary
is $240 a month. The nurses
accevted a conciliation board’s
majority suggesting
$260 plus increments, but this
was turned down by hospital

report

authorities.

Pulp and sulphite workers
are entering negotiations with
the employers dis-
playing a “hanging tough” at-
titude. The union is clearing

the decks in preparation for

who are

any’ eventuality.

All in all, it looks like a

fighting year for B.C. labor.
Some of the struggles — as in
lumber — may be prolonged

and grim. But if the powerful
trade union movement in this
province displays the same
unity and militancy in coming
months that it has demon-
strated in the years past, there
is no doubt that overall wage
increases and better working
conditions can be won for
thousands of workers in major
industries.

Doukhobor girls in
New Denver protest

St

June 7 in
were watching

all daughters of

Sons of Freedom parents,
rched. out of the gym and
to their dorm#ory where
sed a noisy protest and

used to go to bed. No

The

> was done to the dormi-

yeds or furnishings.

John Clarkson, school super-
intendent, announced that the
ls were “punished” for the
lent by being refused. per-

on to their parents
ry. Parents are allowed to
their children twice a

month.

see

NEW DENVER, B.C.

g against continued forcible separation from their
; some 30 teen-age Doukhobor girls held against their
» special provincial school here staged a demonstra-
the gymnasium while non-Doukhobor visitors
them square-dance.

Clarkson said he believed
the demonstration was con-
nected with a rumor spread
by the Sons of Freedom par-
ents that the sect might re-
ceive permission to emigrate to
the Soviet Union this summer,
in which case the children
would be free to go with them.

A Sons of Freedom delega-
tion returned to the Kootenays
last week from a visit to the
Soviet embassy in Ottawa and
made a report in Krestova, but
refused to release any state-
ment to the press.

US. COURT RULINGS

Witch-hunters
given setback

WASHINGTON

The U.S. Supreme Court this week handed down three historic decisions in

defense of civil liberties.

It freed five of the California Communists convicted in lower courts of “‘con-
spiring to advocate the violent overthrow of government.’* New trials were ordered

for the remaining nine.

The court also dismissed a
contempt of congress convic-
tion against an Illinois labor
leader, John Watkins, who re-
fused to name persons he al-
legedly knew in the Commun-
ist movement.

The decision in the: Watkins’
case upheld the right of wit-

nesses before congressional
committees nat to answer
questions, unless the pertin-

ency of the questions is first
established.

Playwright Arthur Miller
moved immediately to have
conviction on a similar charge
set aside.

Earlier, the Supreme Court
ruled that accused in criminal
cases must be provided with
FBI material hitherto on the
secret list.

In San Francisco, Mrs. Bar-
bara Sherwood, widow of a
scientist who committed suicide
last Sunday rather than ap-
pear before the House un-
American Committee, bitterly
accused certain congressmen of
causing her husband’s death.

“You have helped to kill my
husband and make my four
children fatherless. That is
our personal tragedy. It is
nothing to the crime you have
committed against the child-
ren of America and the child-
ren of the world.

“For when you drove my
husband to his death, you de-
stroyed a man of bright prom-
ise, a talented fighter in the
army of devoted men who are
warring against disease.”

Her husband, William Sher-
wood, 41, a research scientist,
believed he had found an im-
portant clue in the understand-
ing of schozophrenia and can-
cer.

He was scheduled to deliver
an important paper on “The
Biochemistry of Mental Dis-
ease’’ at a seminar which open-

Kitimat Labor Council

hits ‘two-job’ workers

KITIMAT, B.C.

Workers who hold down two
jobs at one time were blasted
this week by Kitimat-Kemano
Labor Council.

“There are more than 500
unemployed in Kitimat,” the
council pointed out. “We con-
demn any worker who de-
prives another worker of the
opportunity of employment by
working at two jobs at the
same time.”

Ps:

WILLIAM SHERWOOD

ed at University of B.C. on ~

Wednesday this week.

Also in San Francisco this
week, Representative Francis
E. Walter of the notorious
House un-American Commit-
tee called for legislation to set
aside the decisions of the Su-
preme Court and for outlawing
of the U.S. Communist party.

But progressives and liber-
als in every part of the count-
ry have been heartened by the
history-making decisions,

New and more widespread
opposition. to congressional
witch-hunting and denial of

traditional liberties are shap- |

ing up.

Group to stage
Devil in Boston

The Devil in Boston by Leon
Feuchtwanger, is the debut
performance of a group young
in all ways. Workshop ’57 was
started last October by the Na-
tional Federation of Labor
Youth as an activity group for
young people interested in
drama. Under able direction
the Workshop flourished and
tripled its membership.

The Devil in Boston is being
produced as a dramatized play
reading, in three acts. Most
of the cast are in their late
teens.

The play, which deals with
the Salem witch hunts, will be
shown Friday, June 28,, at 8:30
p.m. in Clinton Hall, 2605 East
Pender.

JUNE 21, 1957 —

Floor tariff put
on strawberries

One of the lasteacts of the
defeated Liberal government
last week was to put a “floor”
tariff under strawberries to
protect B.C. growers against
extensive “dumping” of cheap
U.S. berries. here.

Washington, Oregon and
California strawberries were
swamping Lower Mainland
markets at prices growers in
this province found it impos-
sible to compete against.

Ottawa has placed an elastic
duty on berries, but processors
here will have to pay a mini-
mum of 13% cents a pound for

U.S. imports, instead of the
10% cents they paid pre--
viously.

“Don't you think you've had
enough lemonade?”

STETSON, G.W.G., STAN-
FIELDS, ARROW. Just a few
of the nationally reliable lines
sold by THE HUB LTD. Also
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Furnishings all on FREE
CREDIT TERMS.

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