RO ee ee ee ee, oe S02 TH OO KR SS eh WY ar oS Sentiment at Strongly for unity Workers, Fata its Newsbulletin, this week lashed out at Tom Alsbury. Menting upon Alsbury’s charge that the Outside Workers tried to “sneak into the National Union of Public Em- ees”. at its recent Calgary convention and had used thro angouver Civic f. Bhy u greed” methods, the . ulletin stated: ‘The facts n °ve that there is no basis is alsoever in Alsbury’s child- Statements.” en ccording to the Newsbul-, B i two NUPE locals from Serious in resolutions urging t Consideration be given Bon ePting the , Vancouver When the >, into affiliation. Ree tions committee re- €nded non-concurrence, tion. opposed the recommenda- | Menda Utside Workers. Alsbury’s diatribe and free Use of not the smear technique will Saiq @ appreciated by NUPE,” Cause the Newsbulletin, “be- ody the convention of that Went on record in favor of 4 Wity of all Canadian civic Ployees in one union. On r i ag we have been explor- NopR et possibility to join bey and will continue to lab 0, because we believe in or unity. th Alsbury should remember at th Scho €re is no union of high ol principals affiliated to ancouver Labor Council. Should also remember that Couneneys his seat on that Cil by courtesy of Local » NUPE, which adopted hit ue If he €mberg these points, he be the last one to talk 407 4 displaced person. iat underhanded tactics.” Ig. Sbury is principal of Kil- arn, g - conver. High School in Van- ee Employees Humber of delegates from Subsequently, a recom- ting on was carried refer- tions i question to negotia- b etween the Canadian or Congress, NUPE and the ote DAY and NIGHT : Gstings Steam Baths *pert Masseurs in attend- T A ance . . 0644, 766 E. Hastings St. | _ Vancouver, B.C. Pe Ges Installations FURNACES — STOVES WATER HEATERS Harry C. Weinstein GAS CONTRACTOR 692 East Hastings MUtual 3-5044 Res.: AL. 2991-L FREE ESTIMATES ee g > Union, Outside Death takes Roy. Shefley The progressive labor move- ment has lost a supporter by the untimely death from 4 heart attack last Friday of Roy Shefley, 160 18th Ave- nue, Burnaby. Roy Sveinn Shefley _was born: 48. years ago in Winnl- peg, where he lived most of his life He was @ railway telegrapher until -1943, when he became Winnipes city organizer for the Labor-Pro- gressive party. Several years a0 Shefley moved to B.C and settled in Burnaby. He became a mem- ber of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. : Hes survived by his mother, Mrs. Ingiljore Shef- ley, at home with his wife, Kay; also two daughters, Mrs. L. D. Dumore, New West- minster, and Marlene, and a son, David, at home; two SIs~ ters. Mrs. C. Steele, Burnaby, and. Mrs. C: Morris Oakland, California. Funeral services were held Monday at 3 p.m at the Funeral Home of S. Bowell and Sons. Interment followed at Valley View Memorial Gardens. ‘Property taxes could be halved’ POWELL RIVER, B.C. “Tf the federal government could, after 4 federal provin- cial - municipal conference, earmark a sum equal to our school tax, then the property tax could, in many instances, be cut in half,” Councillor Ken Gibson told council at a recent meeting here, in introducing @ resolution pro- posing such a parley to_con- sider the question of rising school costs. A federal-provincial-munici- pal conference, said Gibson, would be the first step in combatting soaring school costs and property taxes. Gibson’s resolution was re ferring to the finance commit- tee for study. 4, se LAKE COWICHAN FIX-IT SHOP Ltd. LARS FURNSETH, Prop. NUPE ‘BLOODY GASPE COPPER’ Murdoch has long record of ruthless opposition MONTREAL “Gaspe Copper is Bloody Copper,” read the placards of men and women who boarded a copper freighter in Mont- real carrying scab cargo from strikebound Murdochville. Two trade linionists have met death since the strike opened on March 11 — over six long months ago. They are Herve Bernatchez, slain in a dynamite explosion — and Edgar Fortin aged 29, who died of a heart attack less than an hour after gangsters atacked the union office. Behind the tragedy of these two men lies a story of years of feudal rule and power wielded by a man who is des- cribed in union circles as “Tabor’s Public Enemy No 1.” He is James Youyig Mur- doch, OBE, Qc and LL.D. Now 67 years old, he holes up in the Bank of Nova Scotia building, fronting on Toronto’s Bay Street — key centre of finance capital where decisions taken in luxuriously appointed board rooms affect hundreds of thou- sands of workers and their families. A study of Murdoch’s hold- ings brings to mind some of labor history’s most _cele- brated struggles for the right to trade unionism. It also reveals his connec- tion with the top echelons of financial capital and links with the 200 big shots who run this country’s economy in the interests of monopoly. He is charmingly described by the sycophants of the com- mercial press as “a village- pred boy who used the legal profession as a stepping stone to reach peaks in the mining and industrial world.” But his workers know him through his lower level man- agements as a ruthless oper- ator who trod their backs and used their toil to further his soaring ambitions. Numbered among his hold- ings are Noranda Mines, Pam- our Porcupine Mines, Aunor Gold Mines, Empresa Minera de Nicaragua, Kerr-Addison Gold Mines, Gaspe Copper Mines, Bank of Nova Scotia, Wright- - Hargreaves Mines, British American Oil, Hollin- ger Consolidated, Rolland Paper, Iron Ore Company of Canada, Mutual Life Assur- ance and Canada Cement. Trace the history of Mur- doch’s relations with the workers in his plants and you see a pattern of uncompro- mising bitter hostility to union- ism no matter what its af- filiation. In financial circles, he is applauded as one who seeks a “more democratic dir- ection”. of the mining com- panies, but in the world of labor his name is anathema. Not only United Electrical Workers members will tell you the story. The heroes of Noranda Mines in Quebec, who faced machine guns in the early days of organization, know the name Murdoch. to labor In 1946, when Mine - Mill struck Noranda for wages and the checkoff they were met with tear gas shells hurled by Fremier Duplessis’ provincial police. More recently in the bitter 1953-54 strike at Nor- anda led by the United Steel- workers, Murdoch opposed it as ‘an encroachment on the freedom of the employee.” What is strange is that such appeals to “freedom” come easily from one who sees nothing wrong with company unions and huge profits with little reward for the workers who labor to ‘produce such valus. Nor do Murdoch’s minions consider it a crime to engage in a consipracy to fix prices in the wire and cable indus- try — a bald encroachment on the freedom of the buying public. On March 25, 1955, Chief Justice McRuer of the High Court. of Ontario found 10 electrical equipment firms guilty on a charge of operat- ing a combine Crown counsel called for the maximum $10,- 000 fine for each company — a miserably low price to pay for the $108 million - a--year business, which netted untold illicit millions out of price manipulation. In the lengthy probe which preceded the trial, Combines Investigation Act special com- missioner .H. 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