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World War 2. This week
anniversary of that historic battle.

with modern buildings and apartments,
There are 150 factories and plants, 114
schools, dozens of libraries and TV centre,

marked the 20th

COLUMBIA PACT HIT IN DEBATE

LABOR ACT AMENDMENTS COULD
FURTHER TIE HANDS OF LABOR

As unexpected as the admission
of Labor Minister Peterson that
More injunctions were issued
48ainst labor in B.C. last year
than ever before in history, was
1S announcement last week that
abor Relations Act changes can
© &xpected this session.

“New and unique amendments
Will be introduced very shortly,”
he told the Legislature.

While details of what the
Socreds have in mind were not
*evealed, it’s pretty evident that,
(With less legislative activity by

‘C. labor than the House has
Seen for many years), the gov-
‘thment has turned a deaf ear
to the major amendments asked
for by B.C. trade unions in De-
Cember.

Instead, the Minister’s policy
SPeech indicated two basic lines
of Change:

(1) An amendment to open the
Way for intervention by the De-
Partment of Labor at any stage
of an employer-union dispute —
Which could mean more “run-
‘ing-interference” by the govern-
Ment for the boss.

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(2) Action to extend arbitra-
tion, which, Peterson calls, ‘‘the
generally accepted method of
settling grievances.” This would
be done by expediting the estab-
lishment of arbitration proced-
ures, cutting the cost to parties
involved, etc.

B.C. trade unions will be well
advised to keep their eye on the
government’s amendments, and
prepare to do battle, if they want
to avoid further legislative hob-
bling and restrictions.
COLUMBIA POLICY HIT

The draft Columbia River
treaty, which the Bennett gov-
ernment is still trying desperate-
ly to save, (but which is now
sidetracked for some months
ahead by defeat of the Diefen-
baker government). has come in
for sharp attack during the
Throne Speech debate.

NDP MLAs have come out in
strong opposition, and even Lib-
eral leader Ray Perrault has
questioned the government’s Co-
lumbia hydro policy.

Revelstoke’s Mrs.

Steel Opens
Merritt Office

Pen Baskin, Western steel-
worker’s union representa-
tive, said this week his union
had opened an office at Mer-
ritt, where Steel is attempt-
ing to raid the Craigmont
Mines, now under Mine-Mill
jurisdiction.

At the recent Western un-
ion convention of Mine-Mill
a warning was issued that
Steel was planning to bring
its splitting and raiding oper-
ations into B.C.

ABOUT HALF

It is estimated that by 1965
the socialist sector will pro-
duce about half the world’s
economic output.

Margaret

costly expansion.

Hobbs, elected in last summer’s
bye-election to fill the vacancy
created by the death of her hus-
band, took up where he left off—
and though lacking the deep,
booming voice of her engineer
husband — proved to be no less
damaging in her assault on the
Columbia River “‘sellout.”’
MacDONALD REPORT

The Macdonald Report on Ed-
ucation has brought into sharp
focus the growing crisis in the
field of education — and particu-
larly the need for a much bigger
proportion of government reve-
nues to be devoted to the educa-
tional requirements of our chil-
dren if they are to meet today’s
challenge.

“The Report provides an ac-
curate estimation of B.C.’s im-

- mediate needs,’”’ Nigel Morgan,

B.C. leader of the Communist
Party stated. ‘(No time can be
lost in getting at the big job this
province has to face if we are
not to fail our present school
attendants.

“However, side by side must
go policies to make possible util-
ization of the graduates of this
The present
situation in which over 40,000
Canadian university graduates in
the last decade have been forced
to go to the U.S. to seek employ-
ment has got to be ended. We’ve
got to develop our processing and
manufacturing industries to give
employment to graduating scien-
tists, chemists and engineers,
etc., in Canada.

“Two other negative aspects of
the report that will have to be
watched, and opposed,”’ he said,
‘Snclude the obvious intention of
shifting stil more education costs
onto the local municipal rate-
payer; and (2) the tendency to
copy the U.S. college setup, with
its danger of lower standards and
issuance of meaningless degrees.”

COUNCIL BACKS FISHERMEN

Labor opposes A arms,
hits U.S. interference

At its regular session Tuesday
of this week the Vancouver and
District Labor Council reiterated
its opposition to nuclear arms in
Canada, scored Liberal leader
Pearson’s stand on this issue, and
demanded that Canada withdraw
from NATO if Canadian troops
are equipped with such weapons.
The council also voiced its strong
condemnation of U.S. interference
in Canadian affairs, which has
led up to the present crisis.

Swinging into action in support
of the election of NDP candidates
in the forthcoming election, the
delegates approved a resolution
calling upon the B.C. Federation
of Labor ‘‘to immediately call a
conference of those interested
unions for the purpose of mobiliz-
ing organized labor in support of
the NDP.”’ The resolution on this
important action, introduced by
IWA delegate Syd Thompson, was
adopted unopposed.

In response to a letter forward-
ed all unions and central labor
bodies by the United Fishermen
and Allied Workers Union, Homer
Stevens, secretary of the UF &
AWU was invited to address the
Council on the fisheries issue.

Stevens reported on some of the
highlights of the North Pacific
Fisheries treaty issue and the
efforts of the big UFAWU Ottawa
lobby to place the position of the
fishermen before MP’s and gov-

ernment.

Stevens’ report . received a
warm response from Council dele-
gates and a resolution from the
Street Railwaymens’ Union sup-
porting the demands of the UF &
AWU was adopted by the council.
STEEL CRITICIZED

Steel delegate D. Dumphy got
a rough ride in his attempt to™
smear Mine-Mill and justify raid-
ing in its jurisdiction, when an-
other Steel delegate produced
letters from two big Vancouver
Steel locals disapproving of
Steel’s attacks upon Mine-Mill.

Soviet steel
output ahead
of ECM lands

The Soviet Union last year
for the first time produced
more steel than all the Com-
mon Market countries put to-
gether.

While production in the Six
dropped last year to 72,700,-
000 tons, Soviet steel produc-
tion went up 8 percent to 76,-
300,000 tons.

According to preliminary
data, U.S. steel production
last year was about 91 million
tons, practically the same lev-
el as 1950’s ninety million
tons, while the Soviet Union
had nearly trebled the 1950
production of ferrous metals.

Communists name Caron,
Mosher in federal seats

Charles Caron, provincial or-
ganizer of the Communist Party,
was nominated last Thursday at
a public meeting in North Van-
couver Community Hall to con-
test the Coast-Capilano constitu-
ency in the next Federal election.

Caron said the present govern-
ment is likely to topple at any
time and that “‘instability of the
government expresses the deep-
ening crisis of national policy.”

He added: ‘Canada’s further
involvement in imperialist war
plans of the U.S. along with in-
creased domination of our coun-
try is bringing Canada to the
brink of disaster. This crisis per-
meates the whole structure of
economic and political life of the
Canadian people.

‘It has resulted in economic
stagnation, lack of economic ac-
tivity of which our shipyards are
an example. Another example is
to be seen in rising taxes,” he
said.

Caron pointed out that it is not
enough for members of Parlia-
ment to ‘‘be disturbed’’ with pre-
sent government policies, as
Liberal MP Jack Davis is report-
ed to be. ‘‘What is required,’’ said
Caron, ‘‘are active fighters in
Parliament to implement new

policies which Canada needs.”

CHARLES CARON

Speaking with Caron at the
public meeting was national or-
ganizer Nelson Clarke who urged
an all-out fight against nuclear
weapons for Canada

Also, last weekend, Mark Mosh-
er, first vice-president and Cana-
dian Board Member for Local 503
International Longshoremen and
Warehousemen’s Union, and ac-
tive labor and community worker
for many years in the Alberni
Valley, was the unanimous choice
of the nominating convention of
the Communist Party in Comox
Alberni Federal riding.

Mosher, who is president of the
Cherry Creek Community Asso-
ciation in the farm community
where he lives, represented the
Communist Party in the election
last June. Married, with three
daughters, Mosher is strenuously
opposed to Canada joining the
nuclear club, and a_ vigorous
advocate of Canadian independ-
ence; the development of Cana-
dian processing; refining and
‘manufacturing of our natural re-
sources; and the extension of
trade with the Socialist countries
and Latin America.

Tom McEwen, editor of the
Pacific. Tribune, was earlier
named candidate in the Vancou-
ver East riding.

MARK. MOSHER

Feb. 8, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3