VOL. 22, ‘NO 44. ae, 7 Pace 3. ea FRIDAY. mitt NOVEMBER 9, 1962 VANCOUVER, B.C. Photo was ‘carried by This the Vancouver Sun on Tues- ad Showing a police dog attacking Tom Clark, vice- An ent of IWA local 1-217, on the picket line at the ted Engineering plant. Clark was taken to hospital att Wa * Strongly protested by ot treatment. He is the first known labor picket to be acked by a police dog in Canada. Use of police dogs labor and forced acting- meet H. Wilson to order the police to withdraw them. — Photo was taken by Sun photographer Dan Scott. Must call halt fo anti- labor action s ever alarming situation is j a Ping in the field of Telations in B.C. as a emg of widespread use by Yers of injunctions to iC: Co Procedures,” — said Nigey mmunist Party leader “a. ,'8an, this week. s the Communist Party N aN NUCLEAR ARMS IN DA! REMOVE U.S. BASEs! Cine important state- Mitte, Pe National Com- Pay °f the Communist ays Morgan warned at the time the Ben- nett government enacted Bill 43, full advantage has been _ taken by the employers; while trade union are being blocked by court interference in the legal pursuit of their just de- mands. “Court injunctions are being handed out right and left, to the point where it is now practically impossible to have a strike — even if every requirement of the labor act is complied with — without officers and members of the union being prosecuted in the courts and their treasuries See MORGAN, pg. 11 Condemn injunctions Hit police dog use LABOR FIGHTS ATTACK Demand repeal Bill 43 By JERRY SHACK The B.C. Federation of Labor, Vancouver Labor Council and all affiliated unions have decided to mount an all-out campaign to fight the growing attack on labor by the employ- ers, the courts and the Social Credit government of B.C. The fight-back campaign, which had its start at the recent B.C, Federation of Laber convention, has come to a head in the bit- terly-contested strike at the Al- lied Engineering plant on Gran- ville Island in the city. In one of the most enthusi- astic meetings held in recent years, Vancouver Labor Council resolved on Tuesday night to mount an even greater amount of pressure, in order to carry the struggle through to a succesful conclusion. Council (and many of its af- filiates) strongly protested the use of police and the police dogs to help escort scabs and strikebreak- ers through the picket line at the Allied operation. VLC secre. tary Paddy Neale visited Van- couver city council on Tuesday afternoon and demanded _ that the dogs and their handlers be withdrawn. He was assured by Acting Mayor Halford Wilson that this would be done, but on Wednes- day morning the dogs were still there, although they were kept discreetly in the background. “Until the police and police dogs appeared there: was no friction or violence on the picket line,”’ Neale told the packed meeting. Pat O’Neal, secretary of the B.C. Fed., told the meeting that “it is during times like these that you find out who your friends really are.’’ He was greeted with thunderous applause and cheers when. he added: “I want to make it very clear that, while I don’t always agree with everything Bill Stewart and some of his} friends do politically, I am 100 See LABOR UNITES, pg. 12 —FISHERMAN FOTO Photo shows some of the pickets, including many prominent trade union- ists, on the picket line at Allied Engineering plant on Granville Is. Following the vicious attack on pickets by police and dogs Tuesday, hundreds of trade unionists turned up Wednesday morning after an appeal by the Vancouver La. bour Council. The plant, which attempted to operate with scabs, closed down in face of the mass picket.