EDITORIAL

“Congratulations”

‘WA extends congratulations to Ironworkers
Union Local 97 for its recent victory before the B.C.
Court of Lig :
Fin each imposed by Mr. Justice
inscn on presi ent ° Whitmore and_ business spent S
Balson and rec eaaey as ee as the fine of $10,000 o:
@ union will now be refun
e fines for contempt of court followed an
order ot Me Justice Manson, when he ordered the union
to direct its members to resume work on the south end
of the Second Narrows bridge to pier 16.
a pleasure to record the judgement rendered
by chigh These Des Brisay.
“T have coetlly perused the rec
respect, can find n euidence establishing is eae
ence succes nor any which discbedience could
oP be inferred.
e finding of contempt of court, in my opinion,
cannot ee SuPPoptes ed. I would allow the appeal and set
aside the judgement

“Our Fight Too”

ith shame that until recent weeks

(0 many Canadian trade unioni ondering
about the Steelworkers’ strike in the United ae ites. When
the strike was called on July 15th, ae Po pula belief
oa Mier would be er by Sep’

n 500,000 poses Workers went for more than

he unending series of conferences involving the na
top-ranking negotiators? The remarkably prosperou
state of the eel peut. ae it appear that dickering
ove wages, a ts way or the other

handled more expeditiotely it was claimed by many
Since the attempted use of the Taft- Har uy oct

dent ee

ton niche Rant of the isteelmasters % dras-

ae eobaicen ailaldes y the unio}
Meany s' issue in a letter ad-
dressed to A ‘Chaleran of the Presidential Bose of In-
quiry. He said in

is Se ee in the ay eae leman He for work-rul ec
uld deprive steelworkers of rights Hee -won in the

of fact, remove industrial
ept an ail-

ing his own economic odes

Now that we know what e pay tl
warmest tribute ie heroic cee Be ‘he's sietlworke
ers. as are fighting our battle. If they wi
, they lose T los.

a nc aay we have proof of the fact that the m

and wi rm our trade unions will fight Tones:
Bid hanied ee ‘rincples than they have ever fought for
monetary gain:

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Canada First

HEN Vice-President Jack Moore spoke out force-
fully in a recent radio address for public control
of television programming, he might well have expected

ted ‘pre ejudice against she cone a aroue) television
viewers almost to BES ae of hys'

contended that it is pos-

ae ae Governors

sible for the Board

i
sole concern would be sales appeal, and not quality pro-

ductions.
His he American tem of
broadcasting tel ‘ttle aoube ee Ane themselves
nhap) a “p ‘ual Stee of

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lbs fay
‘ve always t
the advertiser, if commercial revenue is indeed neces-
sary, should have no infhfence on the content of the
gram itself.

“I feel more strongly about it now having seen
what the commie eal interes have done with TV in the
old conntey ig a a which so exactly parallels the
Canadian tra:
he ‘rpassoned ipromee of sincerity and
ry for com mercial. tele-
in competition with the © BBC. The feeling was that
with the safeguards of cenit restiction, the hucksters
would be kept firmly under control.
“The promises were hee The restrictions
were rarely i i
methods ‘ound even t!
were See fe advertiang Their
s for their prog ontent, they've sunk t
level that insults the intelligence sea yet, such being the

the percentage of time they
profits are incredible.

This as you would expect na their justification for more
and more infantile eae pee
“It will hapy , too. d you might say it
is elneaeys hageeniaal in Wee aaa against the provision
for nt of 55‘, Canadian progra)
will be a matter of pride for TWA tr aes meee that
their unk as been plac

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that will aid the development of a distinctive Canadian
ulture, and foster Canadian un’

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