mrErTe

German;"’

Party,’

Adolf von Thadden and
his fascist friends

ADOLPH von THADDEN WITH BRITISH FASCIST
LEADER MOSLEY. The above picture appeared in the British
fascist paper ‘Action’ in 963.
iB It shows (from left to right): M. Jean Thiriart, Belgian
Pa : extreme right wing leader; Herr Adolph von Thadden of the
3 West German National Democratic Party; Sir Oswald Mos-

ley, of the British fascist Union Movement;
and Giovanni Lanfre, Italian extremist leader.
In 1962, the neo-nazi West German leader signed a
declaration in Venice creating a ‘‘National European
"together with Mosley, Thiriart and Lanfre.

*“an anonymous

LABOR SCENE:

Last week Local 312 of the
International Brotherhood of
Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill
Workers at Ocean Falls demand-
ed the ouster of Pat O’Neal fron
his job as Western Regional or-
ganizer of that union,

The Ocean Falls local made
the demand in a letter to inter-
national union president Joe
Tonelli, The ouster was de-
manded because of O’Neal’s in-
volvement with RCMP and ex-
police agencies in the bugging
of the Canadian Pulp and Paper
Workers Union convention in the
Ritz Hotel last November.

(it has since been reported that
the international executive of his
union, resident in Florida, has re-
jected all demands for his ouster
and given O’Neal’s activities
“executive approval”),

Earlier, under strong union
pressures, headed up by anumber
of IWA locals, O’Neal’s resigna-
tion from the executive council of
the B.C, Federation of Labor was
“reluctantly”? accepted by that.

the
LEGISLATURE
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body. To date however, as de-
manded by a number of its affili-
ates, the BCFL executive body has
voiced no public disapproval of
O’Neal’s admitted involvement
with RCMP and other police
agencies in the bugging scandal,

Meanwhile, the BCFL execu-
tive has set up a three man
committee to conduct its own in-
‘vestigation under the chairman-
ship of Monty Alton (Steel). So
far it would seem the BCFL in-
vestigation is directed more to-
wards silencing its critics in the
IWA, than in determining a prin-
cipled position with regard to
O’Neal.

Hearings before the Sargent
commission set up by Premier
Bennett to “investigate’’ the Ritz
bugging are still continuing, but
many trade unionists are already
expressing the fear that instead
of getting at the issue of bugging
and its invasion of privacy, it is
the trade unions that are coming
under attack,

In the legislature this week
NDP-MLA David Stupich called
for the discharge of the Sargent
commission and House support
for an NDP Bill which would
guarantee to the citizens the
right of “individual privacy.”

* * *

Meantime, Tuesday this week
the Socreds faced another vote of
non-confidence motion by NDP-
MLA Alex Macdonald (Vancou-
ver-East) involving the issue of
injunctions against striking work-
ers and the government’s out-
dated labor-management poli-
cies, The non-confidence vote
favored the government 29-21,

NDP Macdonald’s proposals for
improved labor-management re-
lations include the following:

@ Collective bargaining for
civil servants in line with the
recommendations of the Car-
rothers Report.

_@ A full-time Labor Relations

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1967

URGES CRASH PROGRAM

‘End shameful housing
conditions’

“Vancouver should act at once
to take advantage of present fed-
eral and provincial housing legis-
lation to undertake to build 2,500
new units every year for thenext
10 years,” said Alderman Harry
Rankin last week as he pushed
forward his fight to get action on
the housing crisis,

In a press statement, Rankin
said:

“There is a real shortage of
both homes and suites in Van-
couver at the present time. New

Demand for O’Neal ouster
grows in labor’s ranks

Board, free from government in-
fluence, and giving reasons for
its decisions, The new LRB would
also take over from the courts the
handling of all injunction applica-
tions.

e Protection of the right to
belong to a trade union without
fear of discrimination, etc.

The Macdonald proposals also

include the need of “guidelines”

for the settlement of industrial
disputes”; adequate notice and
severance pay, relocation and
retraining of workers displaced
by automation, etc.

Both Liberals and Socreds
ganged up in chorus against the
NDP proposals for improved
labor legislation, charging the
NDP with “asking for alicenseto
break the law”,

* * *

A 350-man Negotiations Co-
ordinating Committee comprised
of all executive board members
and shop stewards of the United
Electric, Radio and Machine
Workers Union (U.E.) covering
16 plants of Canadian General
Electric in key Ontario centers,
decided last week in a special
session, to take strike action
unless a satisfactory settlement
was reached,

‘THRONE SPEECH BARREN’

The Bennett ‘*Throne Speech” said more about
nothing than any similar speech in my memory.
Some sixty-five hundred words but not a line
about any new approach to municipal problems;
the financing of education, hospitals or social

welfare.

Nothing of any substance to cope with the
difficulties growing numbers of British Colum-
bians face as a result of the tightening economy.

housing construction has slowed
down due to high interest rates
on mortgage money, the escal-
ating cost of land, and Ottawa’s
tight money policies,

“It is an accepted standard in
Canada that people should not pay
more than 25 percent of their
income in rent, yet many people
are compelled to pay far in excess
of this amount. People with
children find it extremely diffi-
cult to rent suites; no one wants
them, Old age pensioners are in
particularly difficult straights,
often paying 50 percent or more
of their income for substandard
or slum rooms.”

Rankin proposed a two-point
plan of action:

(1) A low rental housing pro- _
gram which would take advantage
of federal and provincial legisla-
tion, Under this legislation
senior governments pay all the
cost of land and construction
and even 874 percent of rent sub-
sidies,

(2) Ottawa should be pressed
to make loans at low interest
(not over five percent) available
to people who want to build their
own homes, This will enable
those with low or moderate in-
comes to build their own homes,

The lack of adequate housing in
B.C, is becoming one of the major
issues at the new session of the

Paul Bjarnason
dies suddenly

Paul Bjarnason, outstand-
ing poet and life-long sup-
-porter of the Communist and
progressive movement, died
suddenly at his home Wednes-
day morning at the age of 85,

His daughter Mona is the
wife of Nigel Morgan, B.C,
provincial leader of the Com-
munist Party. The PT extends
its sincere regrets to his wife
Dora and toall members of the
Bjarnason family.

By NIGEL MORGAN

an all time high,

the Legislature,

And nothing by way of fulfillment of the Socred

election promises of last September,

Since the last Session a serious deficit has
in hydro development costs on the
Peace and Columbia projects, while the threat
of brown-outs and power shortages has been
raised, Severe cutbacks have taken place in hous-

appeared

And more th

introduce a new tax on those foreign-0
industries using up our natural resourceS:

cover any such

costs,

Rankin

~cent,

. action’ on housing can com

ing starts while housing shortages are reachil a

dodged these key issues in the Throne Spee d
should be compelled to lay. the information pefor

The people of British Columbia are entit
to know precisely when there matters stand
what are the facts?

unnecessary delays in construction and no ee
horbitant charges added to our light and pow

'
Fa
ia

Legislature, Opposition me
bers last week charged the
red government with beillé
slum landlord.”

4

Under existing legisla
costs for public housing até
75-25 by the federal and?
vincial governments, The cl
contribution is only 124 pete”
of the rent subsidy, but the S¢
governments pay full taxes i
schemes and this in all

citf
é

at

stand to gain by public 4
schemes,

by the Greater Vancouver C Ks
munity Services points out
the city’s share of the opera”
deficit on the 786 units in ™
was $48,300, But taxes rece!
from senior governments E |
these housing units amounte”
$127,833. Thus Vancouver 8%
additional $79,533 in tax revel
from the public housing

while providing badly-n need®
housing,

What has prevented vancowl
and surrounding municipalit®
from taking advantage of é
housing legislation? The ansW
is to be found in the press!
which real estate lobbies nett
kept up against public nous
Unfortunately, the Vancouver al
council has in the past been do”
inated by spokesmen for the
lobbies. Now the situatiot a
changed with an independé
alderman like Harry Ranki®
council to lead the fight for publi
housing, i

“Public pressure to ae :

Vancouver and sre
municipalities to break the
jam and get on with the jo?
providing sorely-needed’
commodation,” said the vanc®
ver Committe of the Commum™
Party this week as it annoul®
that it will shortly presenta Die
to city council calling for spe@
action on the housing cri®

The Bennett government, navil

an that, the government sho

deficit so that there will be?

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