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The Canadian Labor Congress
has convicted the United Steel-
Workers of America of raiding
another CLC affiliate, the Inter-
national Moulders, and imposed
4 five-point sanction which:

* Prevents Steelworkers fil-

- ihg complaints against any other

Union for raiding,

* Bans Steelworkers from vot-
ing in the CLC executive council
On- matters involving jurisdic-
tional disputes,

* Prohibits other CLC affil-
lates from supporting Steel’s
raid,

* Permits publicizing of
Steel’s non-compliance with CLC
orders,

* Grants CLC aid to the Mould-
€rs on request,

The 140,000 member Steel-
Workers of America, largest CLC
affiliate, raided the Moulders at
Canadian Industries Ltd, in Three

Rivers, signing up 437 of the 478
Workers,

Steel tried to justify. its raid
by claiming the workers were

dissatisifed with the Moulders
and were preparing to shift over
to the Confederation of National
Trade Unions of Quebec,

This contention was rejected
by Carl Goldenberg, arbitrator
of jurisdictional disputes for the
CG. : :

The Steelworkers have been
raiding Mine Mill for years,
Now, with their appetite appar-
ently whetted, they have ex-
tended operations to include CLC
affiliates, thus presenting a di-
rect challenge to top brass in
the Congress,

The sanctions represent Jodoin
& Co,’s answer to Steel,

Steelworkers leaders have
openly declared they will begin
large scale raiding in B.C.
shortly, aimed at Mine Mill’s
jurisdictions: at Cominco opera-
tions in Trail and Kimberley,

Mine Mill deserves the support
of all B.C. labor in beating back
the raiders,

CP seeks action on

Okanagan fruit crisis

Government action to cushion
the acute economic situation that
has arisen in the Okanagan as
4 Tesult of 1964 frost damage to
fruit trees was demanded by the
B.C. Provincial committee of
the Communist Party, which met

anuary 22 and 23 in Vancouver,

In a resolution sent to Prime
inister Pearson, Premier Ben-

_ Rett, federal and provincial agri-

Culture ministers and B,C. Mem~

bers of Parliament, the party de-
Manded that:

(1) Government compensation
© Paid on actual losses, with
Present tree and acreage limi-
tations being removed;

ae Special emergency mea-
€s be instituted forthwith to

peu additional works and

ee Services, to cushion the

tie Crisis triggered by the
64-65 Winter kill;

(3) Long term, low interest

loans be made available to Okan-
88an growers;

i (4) A government plan of “crop
eee” to protect future farm
Oduction against the recurring

hazards of frost, drought, hail,
disease and pestilence be estab-
lished. :

(5) The provincial and federal
governments co-ope rate in
enactment of proper legislation
to give farmers protection
against U.S, dumping.

«Okanagan growers have suf-
fered one of the most severe
setbacks in the history of B.C,’s
multi-million dollar tree fruit
industry,” Nigel Morgan, BCe
leader of the Party told the
meeting.

«Tt is creating the most severe
economic hardship for packing-
house workers, farm labor,
service industries and business-
men, noless than for the growers,

‘Setting a limit of 2,000 trees
per farm with $2.50 per frost-
killed tree and 10 acres with
$400 per acre crop loss, is en-
tirely unrealistic and won’t begin
to compensate for production los-
ses which will be felt for years
to come, Our government can

and must be made to do some-
thing better,” Morgan concluded,

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AFRICAN DELEGATES SPONSOR

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Special luncheon at UN
for barred Julian Bond

The shock waves from the un-
seating of Julian Bond by the
Georgia State Legislature re-
cently spread to the U.N, last
week when the chief delegates
from 15 African countries spon-
sored a luncheon on his behalf
in a private dining room for
U.N. delegates,

Bond, who received 82 percent
of the vote in the disirict in which
he ran, was denied a seat in the
Georgia Legislature for sup-
porting a statement issued by the
Students Non-Violent Co-ordin-
ating Committee (SNCC) op-
posing the war in Vietnam and
urging the youth of America to
avoid military service,

Among the 32 guests at the
luncheon were also the Rey,
Martin Luther King, Jr,, Harry
Belafonte, Bayard Rustin and
James Foreman of the Students
Non-violent Co-ordinating Com-
mittee,

Achkar Marof of Guinea, chief
organizer of the luncheon, said
it had been arranged to express
the Africans’ resentment against
the persecution of Bond, Chief
S.O, Adebo of Nigeria, who was
not one of the organizers of the

Mine Mill

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‘peace’ by intensified bombing,
Shoring up his plea for ‘unity’
with highly questionable argu-
mentation, Sefton proposes
“Let’s build one Mine Union” by
Steel swallowing Mine-Mill, then
concluded that regardless what
Mine-Mill may decide, Steel’s
“determination to build one union
in one industry,” that is, to raid
Mine-Mill, will go on,

The Mine-Mill delegates made
it clear to Sefton that their union
was “not for sale.” Canadian
Mine-Mill president Ken Smith
described the Sefton ‘open letter’
as “a cheap publicity stunt.”

Some of the more important
resolutions adopted by the Mine-
Mill sessions include the follow-
ing:

*, , . Endorsation ofa resolu-
tion sponsored by Britannia
Mines local, calling for the na-
tionalization of all mines threat-
ened with closure by mine oper-
ators in an attempt to bypass or
coerce their unionized employees
in collective bargaining proced-
ures, The convention also called
for “government operation of
economically workable mines
which have been shut down by the
operators, :

*, . . Gave full endorsation to
the Hall Royal Commission rec-
ommendations on health services
for all Canadians, and warned
against it being scuttled by cer-
tain vested interests who regard
medicare as a threat to their
own highly lucrative enterprises.

* . , . Approved the idea of
legalized national lotteries, the
proceeds of which could be util-
ized for the care and comfort of
senior citizens and to provide
sufficient income for their needs,
which present pension and wel-
fare levels do not provide,

On the urgency advanced by

rally, said he attended the lun-
cheon “as a gesture of support
for equal rights,”

JULIANBOND ©

Speaking briefly, Bond said:
*‘There is only one single clear
issue — the refusal of the Georgia
Legislature to give me my seat,”
The countries represented were
Malawi, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zam-
bia, Tanzania, Mauritania, Al-
geria, Mali, Guinea, the Congo
(Brazzaville), the Sudan, the Uni-

meet

Canadian vice-president Harvey
Murphy that “there is no more
important issue to be faced by
workers than the effects of auto-
mation, and that the utmost atten-
tion must be paid to automation
clauses in all future negotia-=-
tions,” the convention approved
a series of resolutions on auto-
mation, covering negotiations,
retraining of workers displaced
by automation, extended holidays
with pay, the shorter work week,

etc.

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5M. Gee Samvie

“lL used to be one of your scabs, so
how about a little scratch?”

*, . . Deciding to remain politi-
cally unafiliated, Mine-Mill dele-
gates rejected a resolution call-
ing for “affiliation to the New
Democratic party.”

Mine-Mill representatives of
Women’s Auxiliaries from many
Canadian centers took an active
part in convention deliberations,

All national officers of Cana-
dian Mine-Mill were returned
in office by enthusiastic accla=
mation, These are, national
president Ken Smith, national
vice-president Harvey Murphy,
national secretary treasurer
William (Bill) Longridge, with
Al, King and Wm, (Bill) Kennedy
returned as national board mem-
bers,

February 4, 19

ted Arab Republic, Nigeria, Libya
and Somalia, -

Dr. King hailed the luncheon
as the beginning of “a creative
coalition between the black people
of the United States andour black
brothers in Africa,”

He said: “We have a kind of
domestic colonialism in the Uni-
ted States — Harlem, Watts, the
west side and south side of Chic-
ago... we are determined on
our side to cast off the yokes of
our colonialism,”

King said the legislative seat
had been denied Bond because
“he spoke his mind on an issue
that his conscience told him was
right,”

At New York City Hall later

. *that day Mayor Lindsay said that

if he were in private law prac-

'-tice he would be “pleased to take

on andargue” Bond’s fight against
his ouster from the Georgia Leg-
islature, The mayor sawthe fight
as a “clear and interesting First
Amendment case,”

At a meeting of 350 community
leaders in Harlem, Representa-
tive Adam Clayton Powell said
that 24 members of the House,
including himself, had issued a
joint statement protesting the
ouster of Bond as a violation of
free speech,

Eight Republicans, including
three Senators, issueda separate
statement denouncing the Georgia
House’s action against Bond,

Bond later told a meeting at
SNCC’s office in New York that
his prime task is to regain his
seat in the Georgia House, The
young civil rights worker said
he hoped to win a temporary in-
junction adjourning the Georgia
House until the issue is settled
by the federal court, ©

*T know I am right and I want
tc vindicate my position, I want
the people in my district to tell
me I am right,” Bond said, He
added that his constituency of
25,000 people were robbed of
the right to representation by his
ouster, :

“If people win the right to vote
and don’t win the right to vote
for whomever they please, they
haven’t won the right to vote,”
Bond said,

He added that people around
the country should realize that
this is not just something that
affects people of Georgia, Peo-'
ple should have the right to dis-
sent without fear of reprisals or
punishment, :

“The civil rights movement,
the labor movement are all built
on dissent, When you protest
at a segregated lunch counter you
are dissenting, If you can’t pro-
test against an employer who de-
nies you a job because of your
color, you don’t have the right to
dissent,” Bond said,

What particularly disturbs
him, he said, is the view thata
civil rights leader should have ~
no opinions on anything else,
Bond added that as a civil rights
worker and legislator he should
be‘ concerned with all the issues
facing the people,

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