Sitinntiesmeessseees: pores
Sek soos

A MESSAGE TO WILSON. The above poster is being widely circulated throughout
Britain by the Communist Party with a.message to Prime Minister Wilson prior to
his visit te Washington. It tells him: “‘End your support for U.S. in Vietnam.” Large
demonstrations took place in Britain this week against the U.S. bombings of Hanoi

end Haiphong.

Peace Arch rally part
of international protest

Plans are moving ahead rapid-
ly for the giant Peace Arch mass
rally and picnic on Saturday,
August 6 to commemorate the
21st anniversary of the annihila-
tion of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
and to protest the U.S, war in
Vietnam,

Prominent speakers from both
the U.S, and Canada are being
lined up for the Hands-Across-
the-Border rally. Among the
sponsoring groups are: Ameri-
can Friends Service Committee,
Women Act for Peace, Fellow-
ship of Reconciliation (U.S, and
Canada), Voice of Women, Cam-
paign for Nuclear Disarmament,
Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom (U.S.
and Canada), B,C, Peace Council,
and other associated groups,

Hiroshima Day this year has
been designated as an Inter-
national Day of Protest against
the U.S, war of aggression in
Vietnam, Protests will take place
throughout the United States,
Britain, Australia and many
other countries, The latest escal-
ation of the war by the U\S, is
expected to add greater impor-
tance to these demonstrations
than in previous years,

The 2ist anniversary of the
atom bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki will be marked in Japan
by an international conference,
which opens August 5 and amass

demonstration in Tokyo, August
15, calling for peace in Vietnam,

This international gathering is
sponsored by the Japan Congress
against A. and H-bombs, c/o
Sanglin Bekkan, Nagato-cho,
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, From
August 11 - 15 a special two-
nation conference (Japan and the
United tates) will also take
place in Tokyo, Sponsored by the
Japan “Peace for Vietnam” com-
mittee, its aim will be to discuss
and work out an effective action
program for the citizens of the
two nations to end the aggressive
war against the Vietnamese peo-
ple and to eventually turn the
whole of the Pacific area into a
zone of peace,

Dr. James Endicott, who re-
cently returned from a meeting
of World Council of Peace in
Switzerland, said the main fea-
ture of the council session was the
“full support ofall sections guar-
anteed to the Vietnamese people,
north and south, in their heroic
people’s war against the cruel
and monstrous aggression of the
U.S, government,”

A “border protest’’ at Niagara
Falls is planned by Canadian
peace forces in eastern Canada,
It is sponsored by the Toronto
Co-ordinating Committee to End
the War in Vietnam, A special
car cavalcade on the Canada
Day weekend distributed leaflets
throughout the Niagara Pennin-
sula advertising the Niagara
Falls rally.

LABOR SCENE:

Climax nears in key

industrial disputes

Unions in three major indus-
tries in B,C, moved closer to a
climax this week in their fight
with employers for a better deal
on their contract demands. The
industries affected are construc-
tion, mining and smelting and
pulp and paper,

This week the Vancouver and
District Building Trades Council,
which represents unions in the
construction industry, voted full
support for the Carpenters’ Union
in its fight for higher wages and
the shorter work day. .A key de-
mand of-the union is for the 7-
hour day,

The stand of the Building
Trades Council means that work-
ers in other construction trades
will back the Carpenters and will
refuse to cross picket lines. The
Carpenters’ Union has served the

U.S. bombings
protested

A mass meeting of Doukho-
bors and friends in the Loch-
dale Hall in North Burnaby
Sunday, June 26th, adopted a
resolution to be sent as an
open letter to Prime Minister
Pearson appealing that he take
all possible measures towards
stopping the war in Vietnam,

The Burnaby rally marked
the celebration of the day of
St. Peter and Paul, his-
toric day for the Doukhobor
community, chosen by Douk-
hobors in Russia in 1895 for
the burning of fire arms as a
protest against violence and
wars,

The resolution said, “we
consider all intervention of
larger and more powerful na-
tions in the affairs of smaller
ones is a violation of demo-
cratic rule and amounts to
aggression which could ignite
a third world war.”

NUCLEAR BOMB VICTIMS. Besides countless dead, count-
less others were injured and maimed for life in the atom
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Peace groups on:

statutory 49-hour strike notice
on a number of independent con-
tractors,

Recently the carpenters voted
overwhelmingly for strike. Now

-the B,C, Contractors Association,

which represent the major con-
struction companies, have asked
for a government- supervised
strike vote, There are some

7,000 carpenters involved.
aKSoleeakc

Talks are resuming this week
between the Mine Mill and Smel.
ter Workers’ Union and Comin-
co following an overwhelming
95 percent strike vote conducted
by the union in six separate
centres, Trail, Kimberley, H.B.,
Bluebell, Con- Yellowknife and
Benson Lake,

The big strike vote of B,C,’s
miners and smelter workers
shows their determination to
win major gains in the current
negotiations with Cominco,

The union’s president, Ken
Smith, and secretary-treasurer
Bill Longridge wired Ontario
Prime Minister John Robarts
protesting the convictions and
sentences against 26 trade union-
ist and urged that the sentences
be quashed, The wire also de-
manded the removal of the use of
ex-parte injunctions in labor dis-
putes asa strikebreaking weapon,

Charges have been laid in Sud-
bury following the beating of Mine
Mill organizer Darwin Benson
after he was attacked and brutal-

‘ly beaten when four or five car-

loads of Steel staff menJune 28th
forcibly halted his car and
dragged him out,

A Mine-Mill union statement;
issued this week said, ‘‘The at-
tack is generally regarded as a
tacit admission that the Steel

raiders have once again fallen.
short of signing sufficient cards:
among the Falconbridge men to-

win a certification vote.” Steel

both sides of the line will mark the 21st anniversary of this

July 8, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 8

is at present challenging Mine-
Mill’s certification at the Fal-

conbridge plant.
* Kk OK

The report of conciliation of-
ficer George Carmichael on the
current contract dispute in the
pulp and paper industry is now
before the unions and companies.
The unions in negotiations are the
International Pulp and Sulphite
Workers and the Pulp and Paper
Workers of Canada.

It is being widely speculated
that the proposals will be close
to those of Mr. Justice Nathan
Nemetz in the recent forest in-
dustry dispute, This is reported

to be a two-year contract with —

hourly increases of 20 cents in
each year, On the basic rate of
$2.44 an hour this will amount to
an 8,2 percent increase and on
the average rate of $2.94an hour,

6.8 percent,
* ok

The Outside Civic Workers:

Newsbulletin this week carries
an extensive front page editorial
analyzing the recent strike in
which the conclusion is drawn
that the union “won as much as
we figured it was worth while
fighting for under the difficult
circumstances that prevailed.”

The editorial says that the
union succeeded in smashing the
arbitrary and unfair guide-line

laid down by City Council on

wages, “If the 5.6 guideline had
applied, our terminal rates atthe
end of 1967 would have been 27
cents higher than the terminal
rates in 1965. Under the settle-
ment we finally accepted, the
terminal rates will be 32.5 cents
higher.’’

After drawing some ofthe main
lessons of the need for more unity
and co-ordination by the labor

movement, the editorial saysthat

the majority of the City Council
have lost prestige and respectas

a result of their handling of the

an

strike. “This could be turned into
a positive gain for labor in the
next civic election.”

ES

terrible event with a giant rally at the Peace Arch. This
will also be a demonstration against the U.S. war in Viet-

PP ee Ae