PROTESTING McNAMARA'S VISIT. About 100 dem-
Onstrators in Vancouver last Saturday protested the

On these injunction cases to lie,
Then its time the RCMP were
‘IMvestigated themselves.”

VLC delegates congratulated
the Burnaby City Council for
asking an investigation into RCMP
activities at the Lenkurt picket
demonstration: Delegate Doug
Evans, one of those arrested who
Verified the presence of RCMP

dressed up like workingmen on
the picket line,” supported a full-
Scale investigation into such ac-
tivities. “If this kind of thing
Continues,” said Evans, “we
Might as well call it a police-
State and decide how we are to
take them on,”

While Local 213 president
Angus McDonald’s name was not

Labor protests RCMP
picket line violence

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mentioned in the VLC discus-
sions, “This individual who went
and signed an agreement with the
Lenkuri Electric, discriminating
against the discharged workers,
is himself in contempt of: the
labor laws of B.C., despite his
TV show posing as a virtuous
observer of the law,” said Boi-
lermaker’s Union delegate Wil-
liam Stewart,

Quoting extensive sections-of
the law governing collective bar-
gaining and overtime (the issue
at Lenkurt Electric), Stewart said
“this individual masquerading as
a trade unionist with his halo
of legality was out of line, The
agreement he signed is an illegal
document under B.C, labor law.”

WHG'S ASSAULTING WHOM? Four RCMP officers are shown pinning citizen
Picket Tom Clarke, vice-president of Local 1-217, IWA, to the grass after roughing

him up and handcuffing him. This kind of police viol

tion of the labor movement.

has ar d the indigna-

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visit this week of U.S. Defence Secretary McNamara
to Montreal. See story on the right.

Not Welcome Here:

Protest McNamara visi

‘Stay Home McNamara” was
the cry of about 100 Vancouver
men, women and children last
Saturday afternoon as they staged
a protest demonstration in front
of the U.S, Consulate at Georgia
and Burrard against U.S. De-
fence Secretary McNamara’s
visit to Canada,

McNamara is scheduled to ad-
dress the American Society of
Newspaper Editors’ convention
this week in Montreal, Prime
Minister Pearson, Opposition
Leader John Diefenbaker and
Quebec Premier Jean Lesage
are also expected to address the
convention,

A leaflet handed out by the
demonstrators Saturday said:
“The Vietnam war goes on with
no end in sight. Giant Ameri-
can bombers drop tons of high

explosives on schools, kinder-
gartens and hospitals in North
Vietnam. In South Vietnam na-
palm bombs burn the flesh of
innocent Vietnamese women and
their children.”

Charging that McNamara isthe
man “who issues the orders for
these horrors,” the leaflet urges
citizens to write or wire Prime
Minister Pearson and Opposition
Leader Diefenbaker “telling them
that this man is not welcome
here and that Canada hasa moral
duty to demand an end to the in-
human war in Vietnam,”

Meanwhile, a public meeting
was held in Montreal last Sun-
day and was followed by a dem-
onstration on Tuesday in Dom-
inion Square to protest Mc-
Namara’s visit and the U.S. war
of aggression in Vietnam,

LABOR ROUNDUP:

Labor gives full support
to Outside Civic Workers

Delegates at this week’s Van- -

couver and District Labor Coun-
cil session were brought up to
date on two local strike situa-
tions. Jack Phillips, secretary
of the Vancouver Civic Employ-
ees union (Outside Workers) now
entering its third week on strike,
briefed the delegates on develop-
ments to date and the many ef-
forts of the union to secure an
early settlement of the dispute,

The majority on City Council
has repeatedly refused to meet
all overtures of the union for an
amicable settlement, proposing
only that the union submit to
compulsory arbitration and de-
claring that Vancouver Civic

Workers “do not havethe support é

of organized labor.”

VLC delegates knocked out
both contentions by pledging all
out support to the Civic Workers
Union strike, and by motion “con-
gratulating the union membership
for the stand they took in reject-
ing compulsory arbitration”,

Phillips told VLC delegates
that his union plans to intensify
legal picketting, and urged dele-
gates to “bring all the pressure
they can on City Councilto assist
in re-opening negotiations to end
the dispute.” Phillips also asked
all delegates to “keep away from
the Kerr Road garbage dump, and
to honor that picket,”

Phillips scored the local Junior
Chamber of Commerce on its
plans to form a “do-it-yourself
garbage service” as a “Junior
Chamber of Scabs,” and warned
the JCC that the trade union
will also help us “fight this form
of scabbery.”

* OK *

Speaking for Retail, Wholesale
and Department Store Union and
its seventeen salesmen now on
strike at Dominion-Vancouver
Motors, Ray Haynes told dele-
gates that the company wants its
salesmen salary and “commis-
sion” to be based on “profits”
rather than sales made, The
union is demanding a basic sal-
ary rate of $375 per month plus
commission,

The company insists that it
must be the “sole judge ofsales-

man competency”, and that any
salesman not making astipulated
amount. of sales each month
“would be discharged”,Salesmen
“turnover” is extensive said
Haynes, since they “hire asales-
man just as long as hehas friends
who can buy cars, then he’s out,”

Haynes appealed for picket sup-

15,000 in U.S.
hit Viet war

About 15,000 demonstrators
marched before the White
House in Washington last
Sunday in a show of support
for Congressional candidates
who will work for an end to
the Vietnam war, led by Dr.
Benjamin Spock, co-chairman
of the National Committee for
a Sane Nuclear Policy, the
parade was over 15 blocks
long.

The demonstrators brought
to Washington 73,000 signed
voters’ peace pledges, In a
message to the rally, Rev.
Martin Luther King said that
“the intense expectations of
the neglected poor in the U.S,
must be regarded as apriority
more urgent than pursuit of a
conflict so rapidly degenerat-
ing into a sordid military ad-
venture.”

port, but added it would be pref-
erable to “identify themselves”
since we also might get RCMP
“pickets”,

* * *

Delegate Art O’ Keefe, “depos-
ed” business agent of Local 213,
International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers told dele-
gates, “I’m still holding down my
office — with a pocketful of in-
junctions.” O’Keefe reported a
“move” urging all B.C, Hydro
trucks to gather at Larwell Park,
with the objective of storming
the barricades — taking over the
IBEW Union Hall and ejecting
its rightful owners.” O’Keefe got

_ Hydro Chairman Gordon Shrum

on the phone and made it clear
that the IBEW and the labor move-
ment would not permit any inter-
ference by Hydro in the internal
affairs of any union, VLC dele-
gates gave unanimous approval
to O’Keefe’s stand,

* * OX

The Civic Employees Union of
North Vancouver, (outside and
City Hall) voted over 80-percent
this week in a government-super-
vised strike vote. The issues
involved follow a close parallel
to those of the Vancouver Civic
Workers, North Vancouver union
officials have stated a strike can
now be called “within 48-hours,”
but at press time no deadline has
as yet been set,

Rankin hits

‘no more’

stand of City Council

“If Mayor Rathie and City
Council treated city employees
with the same consideration they
show to real estate promoters
such as the CEMP-EATON in-
terests, the present strike of
Outside Civic Workers could be
quickly settled — indeed it would
never have taken place, stated
H. Rankin, well-known city
barrister, last Friday.

“Mayor Rathie and Council re-
duced the asking price for Block
42 for the CEMP real estate
group from $7 million to $5
million, Apparently it hasn’t
closed the door on negotiations
for a still lower price — whichin
effect means a still higher sub-

sidy by Vancouver taxpayers,
Millions of dollars are involved
here,

“Yet, this same City Council
refuses to negotiate further with
the union of Outside Civic Work-
ers over an additional few cents
an hour,

“In these circumstances, any
pose by City Council of protect-
ing the interests of taxpayers
is a sham and hypocritical,

“A willingness to negotiate in-
stead of a rigid‘no more’ attitude
by the City Council would soon
settle this strike in the best in-
terests of all concerned,”

May 20, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

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