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VERNON STUDENTS PROTEST. More than 1,000 young people last
Wednesday met at Vernon city hall in a protest against the Amchitka
test. Part of the demonstration is shown above. They came from the
major high schools in the city. They later staged a sit-in on the city’s
major highway. Students, workers, and others staged protests
throughout the Okanagan last Wednesday.

Canada-USSR group fete

54 years of socialism

Members of the Canada-USSR
Friendship Society viewed a
thrilling film depicting events in
Russia leading up to the over-
throw of Czarism, and heard an
address by William Stewart, the
society’s vice-president at a
Sunday affair celebrating the

o4th anniversary of the October.

revolution.

Stewart traced the history of
the building of the new society
under the leadership of Lenin in
the new-born republic. Despite
intervention from imperialist
forces, despite the cold war,
despite the fact that imper-
ialism has not yet abandoned
the idea of crushing socialism in
the USSR, the people have built
an economic and social system
far superior to capitalism, h
said. :

The revolution itself was rela-
tively bloodless. It was the inter-
vention by 14 capitalist nations,
the aid given to the reactionary
armies within the country, and
the blockade of the new nation
which caused untold suffering
and death on battlefield and
through famine.

Hitler, nourished by billions in
aid from _ international
capitalists,- failed as other
enemies of socialism had failed.
But he took a horrible toll — 16
million Soviet people died in the
onslaught of fascism. Despite
this, the Soviet Union’s former
“‘allies’’ had within a year
launched the cold war, a war
which they had every intention
turning into a hot war which
would crush the weakened
nation once and for all.

Their plans were thwarted by
the world-wide initiative of all
progressive people to maintain’
peace.

“The cry for peace must now
be louder than ever,’”’ Stewart
said. ‘‘Amchitka and Vietnam
prove we are still fighting some

ruthless people. In addition we
must be on the alert inside our
own country to stop the reac-
tionary and dangerous forces
who want a return to the cold

”

war.

Greetings to the first workers’
state, the USSR, were sent by
the assembly, Harold Dean,
chairman of the Friendship
Society, outlined some of the
activities planned by the group:
a visitors exchange through
tours; scholarships for students
to study in the USSR, a Russian
language course, among others. .

On Saturday evening the
captain and crew of the Soviet
ship, Vladimir Korolenko, now in
port, entertained members of
the society with a concert and
dance aboard ship. Despite lang-

uage difficulties, the event was

much enjoyed by the Vancouv-
erites who took part.

Island fallers give facts

on dispute with Mac-Bloé)

MacMillan-Bloedel is faced
with a man-sized rebellion on the
part of fallers in the Menzies
Bay, Kelsey Bay and Eve River
divisions of its operations and
until they sit down and negotiate
with the men in the spirit of the
Nemetz recommendations it is
likely to continue.

Last week the Menzies Bay
Camp Committee outlined some
of the items on which it wants
action, and gave a background

BENNETT

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and Marxists.’’ Included among
the people named was Dal
Grauer, of B.C. Electric fame!

In his emotion-charged ‘‘Love
America’’ speech, Bennett
pointed to Canada’s unguarded
border.

“‘They are so strong they could
move in any day, but they never
have and they never will,” he
cried.

We recall that American
armed forces have “‘moved in’’
on many countries around the
world in furthering their
imperialist aims. But why should
they have to move in to Canada
when there are politicians and
businessmen of Bennett’s type
who in the last 20 years or so
have given them everything
they wanted?

U.S. monopolies through their
$40 billion investment have
fastened a foreign grip on our
national life which now
threatens to throttle our inde-
pendence and economic welfare,
as well as creating massive
unemployment.

It is the politicians and big

businessmen of Bennett’s
persuasion who are the main
enemies of Canada. It is these
people Canadians now have to
deal with if they are to win back
control of their destinies.

B.C. labor and the public gen-
erally must reject Premier
Bennett’s call for complete sur-
render to the U.S., and should
demand from the coming session
of the legislature that the
present policy of giving away our
resources be scrapped.

In its place, steps must be
taken to restore public control
over our resources which must
be processed ‘and manufactured
here to create new industries
and tens of thousands of badly

needed jobs.

Jobless teachers protest cuts

The Unemployed Teachers
Association. in Vancouver have

told Education Minister Donald:

Brothers that classrooms of 35
to 40 pupils per teacher, inade-
quately built and equipped
schools, and in many districts
out-of-date learning situations is
a shocking fact when hundreds
of teachers are unemployed and
tax formulas on resource indus-
tries are so low.

“As for revenues (to pay in-

creased costs of education) your
tax formulae so favor the huge
resource-exploiting concerns
that relatively small adjust-
ments in these formulae would
go a long way towards providing
additional funds,’’ the unem-
ployed teachers reminded the
Minister in a letter made public
recently.

They took issue with his claim
there are a mere five to seven

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1971—PAGE 12,

hundred teachers without jobs.
They said the question is not
how many, but that hundreds of
talents trained in the province
are being wasted. Minimum
government planning in the
1960’s could have governed the
number of students entering the
education faculty, but on the
contrary doors were opened to
transfers from other fields as
well as immigrant teachers.

The Teachers Association
executive pointed out there are
five thousand teachers in train-
ing at the present time over
whose heads hang the cloud of
unemployment. They demanded
that the education minister and
his Premier, Mr. Bennett,
reverse the policy of cutbacks in
education grants in the name of,
if nothing else, good education
throughout the province.

picture of MacMillan-Bloedel’s
refusal to negotiate in good faith.
Last week as well the company
threatened a lay-off of all
loggers whom they charged were
engaged in a slow-down. The
IWA, representing the fallers,
promptly filed for an injunction
against the company.

The company promised it
would set an early date for
resuming talks with the fallers
‘if they were satisfied the
fallers have ended their slow-
down.’’ Then it proceeded to
present an ultimatum regard-
ing new work rules. The loggers
threw the directives on the floor
of the bosses office and walked
out.

Menzies Bay loggers in their
bulletin point out that (1)
twenty years ago fallers were
paid over $2 per thousand board
feet. In addition the company
hired saw filers, mechanics,
etc. The expected average
production was 15 to 20 M. per
man.

Today the base rate at Menzies
Bay is $1.00 per thousand board
feet. This may be negotiated up
to an average of $1.25 per M.

(2) As a result of 1970 nego-
tiations, management accepted
the Nemetz recommendations
which were that the practise of
entering into written pricing
agreements should be continued
and extended on a local basis for
individual operations.

At this date no such agree-
ment has been reached at any of
the M-B operations.

(3) In October 1970 manage-
ment confronted fallers with a
lengthy document referred to as
‘falling and bucking specifi-
cations.’ These meant a 50
percent increase in work load for
the fallers, but the company
was not prepared to pay for this
additional work.

(4) After 18 months of fruit-
less effort to comply with the
Nemetz recommendations the
fallers re-assessed their. position
and set new production levels.

(5) On the strength of the
company’s promise to negotiate
faithfully, the fallers at Menzies
Bay resumed previous produc-
tion levels. On October 27 man-
agement refused to negotiate at
all.

MAYOR F.E. DeVITO of Trail
announced last week that he will
seek a third term as mayor.
DeVito is widely supported by
trade unionists in this smelter
city. He has also strongly backed
peace actions. Municipal
elections will be held throughout
B.C., except Vancouver, on Dec.
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