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: Tribune

FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1967

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KILLED BY U.S. ANTI-PERSONNEL BOMB. A North Vietnamese doctor and nurses are shown ex-
amining the’ body of a young Vietnam civilian killed by CBU bombs dropped by American planes.
Used largely against civilians, the CBUs (anti-personnel bombs) are being dropped in increasing
numbers by American planes. 500 razor sharp steel pellets entered the body of the young victim
shown above.

Voices
Cont. from Pg. 1

In his address to the Hiro-
shima Day rally the Rev. J. R,
Hord prefaced his opening re-
marks with the urgent need of
penitence and confession for “the
arrogance of the white man which
is one of the main causes of di-
visions in the world todayand one
of the major barriers to building
bridges of understanding, The
record of the whie man’s relation
to colored peoples, the history
of the slave trade, ofimperialism,
of racial prejudice, is a sorry
one, In the current race riots
in American cities the Negroes
are saying in effort; “for too long
you white men have ignored us;
you’ve treated us as scum be-
neath your feet, Whitey, you’d
better see us, you pay attention,
or we’ll show you”,

Next to the arrogance of the
white man, the Rev, Hord de-
scribed the “particularly blatant
selfishness and greed of the white
man which has lead him to conquer
and annex large segments of the
earth’s surface and to continue
economic imperialism, even when
political independence has been
granted to the people... e.

Today the U,S, uses the “fear
of Communism” asa reason for
intervention in the internal af-
fairs of Latin American and Car-
ibbean countries, but we also know
that she is defending her huge
economic interests in that part
of the world” said the speaker,
“and certainly one of the causes
of the Vietnam intervention is to
protect those interests,”

The Rev. Hord put forward
many new proposals, aimed at
doing a bigger job for peace,
Two of these bear a close re-
lationship to some of the ‘ideo-
logical’ conceptions expressed in
a voluminous and diverse litera-
ture distributed at the Hiroshima
Day rally, much of it ‘ultra-left-
ist’ and at wide variance with the

literature and views of the rally
sponsoring body.

“It is not enough to be informed
politically and to speak out onis-
sues” stated Hord; “we mustalso
organize for peace, Too often
peace groups spring up and pro-

‘liferate without any co-ordination
or overall direction, We should’
' develop a responsible peace body

which will be influential enough
to win support from middle-of-
the-road citizens for some of our
progress”,

What drew the greatest round
of applause from the joint Cana-
dian-U,S, Hiroshima Day rally
was when the Rev. Hord declared;
“Americans may decide that one
method of opposing the war in
Vietnam is to resist the draft,
It is my conviction that we Ca-
nadians should extend welcome
and practical support to draft
evaders who come to our coun-
try. Personally, I believe that
the United Empire Loyalists who
left your country after the Revol-
ution had less worthy grounds for
emigration to Canada than the
draft resisters of today, Canada
welcomed the U,E,L’s. We should
be happy to receive your draft
evaders”,

The rally unanimously adopted
a resolution urging that “our
respective governments do all
in their power to ensure that the
tragedy of Hiroshima occurs
never again”, for an immediate
and permanent halt to the bomb-
ing of North Vietnam, and for the
opening of unconditional peace
negotiations with the government
of North Vietnam and the Nation-
al Front for Liberation (NFL),

The resolution also called on
Prime Minister Pearson “to state
officially and unequivocally that
Canada does not support the U,S,
war against the Vietnamese
people, and to ban all shipments
of arms to the United States

~until a ceasefire has been sign-

ed”,

August 11, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 8

Labor Scene

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UFAWU

Cont. from Pg. 1

of a leaflet attributed to the Com-
munist Party in Vancouver where
union leader Homer Stevens was
falsely accused of advocating
“union with the USSR rather than
the USA” and opening up “Cana-
dian waters to Soviet fishermen,”
Even union sponsored radio
speeches and newspaper ads were
banned for a time, Here in Van-
couver the daily.papers repeated
the slanted.and distorted “news”
from Prince Rupert,

The leaders of the Deep Sea
Fishermen’s Union played a
shameful role, After the UFAWU
had decided to strike they signed
a “sweetheart” agreement with
the Vessel Owners, They kept up
a pretence of willingness to nego-
tiate a settlement of their dispute
with the UFAWU, Several of its
executive members and the ma-
jority of its small membership
joined with the employers in
applying for and securing in-
junctions against the strikers,
In a final two faced move, this
rump union turned down and
blocked a 14 point settlement of
the jurisdictional dispute nego-
tiated with the help of E, Sims,
chairman of the Vancouver Labor
Council, that could have staved
off a defeat for the strikers,

Meanwhile the Canadian Labor
Congress, early in the strike
and after the injunctions were
issued against the UFAWU, cir-
culated its affiliates in B,C, in-
structing them not to support the
UFAWU,

What has still to be explained

CLC ruling threat
to Labor unity

The three-man committee of
the Canadian Labor Congress
(CLC) in Vancouver recently to
heal one breach in labor ranks
caused by four big IWA Locals
of the IWA being suspended by
the B.C. Federation of Labor,
have returned to Ottawa after
accomplishing very little, other
than leaving an “Official Inter-
pretation of Article IV, Section 8,
of Canadian Labor Congress Con-
stitution”,

Leaders of four of the biggest
IWA locals in Vancouver and
the Island had colorfully describ-
ed CLC vice-president Joe
Morris (himself an IWA member)
as “a nickle negotiator”, and
because of his activities in the
Gold River IWA-Pulp dispute, had
alleged that he was involved ina
«deal which stank higher than a
pigsty in July”, The presidents
of these IWA locals were promptly
confronted with a demand from
the B,C. Federation of Labor,
that they ‘apologize’ to Joe Mor-
ris, or stand suspended, Suspen-
sion from the BCFL followed.

Apparently unable (or unwilling
Ed.) to reconcile the differences
between the IWA and BCFL, the
CLC Committee spelled out the
provisions of the IWA suspen-
sion including its ‘obligation’ to
meet its per capita payments
during suspension, The letter of
‘interpretation’ follows:-

“This section is largely self-
explanatory and means literally
what it states, namely, that any
local union, branch or lodge sus-
pended or expelled from its parent
union which is affiliated to the
Congress, or by a Federation or

Labour Council, is automatically
denied the right to seat dele-
gates in any Labour Council or
at any Federation or Congress
Convention, It is also not to be
given recognition by way of par-
ticipation in delegations or com-
mittees, nor extend the services,
assistance or protection of the
Congress, any Federation or
Labour Council,

“However, withdrawal of “rep-
resentation” and “recognition”
does not mean that the local,
branch or lodge concerned is
suspended or expelled from any
other than the one which origi-
nally suspended or expelled it;
therefore, it isnot absolved of the
obligation to pay per capita to
such other organizations with
which it is affiliated.

“Despite any assumption to the
contrary, the status of any mem-
ber of such suspended or expelled
local union, branch or lodge, who
has been elected to office in
the Congress or any other sub-
ordinate body of the Congress is
in no way affected, Obviously,
such member “represents” the
organization as a whole, not the
local, branch or lodge in which
he or she hold membership, and
continuance in office does not
involve “recognition” of the sus-
pended or expelled local union,
branch or lodge”.

The latter assures that CLC
vice-president Joe Morris, and
CLC secretary-treasurer Donald
McDonald, both members of the
suspended IWA locals, can‘carry
on’ as usual,

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