Not a sample of something new in ‘wallpaper’ but of exparte court injunctions decorating the walls of the Burnaby office of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, secured by the oil barons during the current oil workers’ strike. ‘You have the right to strike and picket’ say the courts, ‘but’ . lot of ‘buts!’ . .and every little square in the picture contains a CONTRACTORS Cont. from Pg. 1 The Vancouver Building Trades Council, the most important in B.C., can play a’ major role in developing new tactics. This will require more consistent participation by member locals, because there has been a tendency to leave the council to business agents and international representatives. Thus, many of those who are most qualified to offer alternative policies, in place of craft disunity and class collaboration, fail to use their delegates’ credentials. There is no doubt that C.L.R. will press the Socred government to enact legislation to require construction unions to bargain on a joint basis— on the employers’ terms. This government, which enacted Bill 43 in 1959, Bill 42 in 1961 and Bill 33 in 1968 will be sympathetic to the employers. The construction Unions must insist that no such ‘legislation be enacted. without full consultation with the unions concerned and without their consent. All organized construction employer groups are being solicited to give active support to. C.L.R. Every member company will assign its bargaining rights to the central body. All members will be assessed one cent per man-hour worked, which should provide a war chest of approximately $300,000. A recent issue of the Pacific Tribune put the spotlight on the Employers’ Council of British Columbia. Its president, F. G. Pleskett, makes no bones about what his group stand for: ‘‘we are not, of course, an objective body, and we don’t intend to be. We are the voice of big business.” It is most significant that among the corporate members of that Employers’ Council are Commonwealth «Construction, Dawson Construction and Hume and Rumble, big names in the construction business. Among the associate members are the Amalgamated Construction Association (general contrac- tors), Maritime Employers’ Association. Fisheries Association of B.C., Forest Industrial Relations Limited, the Mining, Association of B.C. and the Pulp and Paper Industrial Relations Bureau. In short, C.L.R. is an integral part of the overall gang-up against the labor movement. If the construction unions are too effectively mobilize _ their resources to fight back, they must be guided by the old and tested ‘slogan: In unity there is strength. The Provincial Building Trades Council should consider calling a special conference to deal with the new situation and should invite all regional councils and all construction unions. The new problems in negotiations should be objectively and realistically assessed with a view to working out the tactics that the times call for. The fight for democracy and autonomy must be an integral part of the fight against the new gang-up. All collective agreements must be negotiated in Canada and must be subject to ratification by the membership. Long-term no-strike agree- ments must become a thing of the past. Trusteeships by the internationals and the use of restrictive, anti-Communist clauses should not be tolerated. ‘Roly’ Gervin €X-€X-e€X-exX If the new gang-up is to be defeated, there must be the maximum involvement of the membership. Maximum _in- volvement cannot be achieved if witch-hunting and top-level sell- outs are permitted. Rights of the membership to participate in the collective bargaining process and to make meaningful decisions must be fully protected. All infringements of these basic rights must be resisted. In face of the new situation there must be three unities: Unity in collective bargaining, unity in action and unity with the labor movement as a whole. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 18, 1969—Page 8 ai- : : 4 4 LABOR SCENE: VLC plans demonstration To lift union. wage fight : A giant labor march and rally in Vancouver to bring home to the people and to make strong case for labor in the current strike situation was proposed by the Oil Workers Union and endorsed by the VLC. The VLC executive has received this proposal and recommends endorsation by the B.C: Federation of Labor said V.L.C. Secretary Paddy Neale at the VLC meeting in Vancouver last night. “It is an intolerable situation when foreign controlled monopolies refuse to grant wage parity for our workers when they are already paying higher wages to U.S. workers in the same industries in the United States. “Labor is facing one of the most powerful foreign controlled monopolies in B.C. and it is time we changed some of our tactics said Neal. They have a Saying in foreign countries, ‘‘Yankee go - home.”’ Neale said it is time that in B.C. we adopt the slogan' “Yankee exploiters stop your exploitation.”’ Following the march a number of speakers are to be invited to address the rally in front of the courthouse including newly elected NDP Premier Ed: Schreyer in Manitoba. There was The Boy From Boeing No more appropriate senator could have been selected to lead off the Nixon administration’s ABM campaign in the Senate than Henry M. Jackson (D- Wash. ). The Boy from Boeing, as he is familiarly known. Jackson touched off the debate according to the script: Russians are Coming! When he speaks for Boeing, he speaks also for those other great industrial and financial interests associated with Boeing through interlocking directorships. These include: : Standard Oil of California, Weyerhaeuser (lumber), American Telephone and Telegraph Co., J. C. Penney chain, DuPont, National Distillers and Chemical, Colgate- Palmolive, Mutual Life, First National . City Bank, Morgan Guaranty Trust, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Jackson speaks for them, not for the American people. —From Daily World The also a recommendation from the floor to invite B.C. NDP leader Tom Berger. * KOK Talks broke off between the Fisheries Association and the - joint U.F.A.W.U.— N. B. salmon fishermen’s committee without any progress being recorded. No dates have been set for any further negotiations. “Our joint committee informed the Association that based upon the 89.5vote to reject their offer, as well as the remarks of our membership, we had very little room to negotiate. We told them that if they presented a new, improved proposal, we would do what we could, but they would have to bridge most of the gap. We also stated that time was beginning to run out, mainly because of the stalling by the Association. We can’t continue talking all season, and if they refuse to move, we’ll soon have to consider strike action. “The Association’s reply was couched in terms extremely critical of the Union- Brotherhood committee, and they ended up their fancy insults by stating they had already made their ‘‘best offer’’, and if the Union-Brotherhood committee wanted any settlement it must come to terms very close to those already on the table. Before the Association representatives walked out, the Union-Brotherhood committee — told them to ‘think it over very — seriously before they force US- into a strike. We are still willing to meet the, but if they continue to stall, any dislocation of the industry will rest on thelr shoulders.” 3,000 fishing industry — shoreworkers have voted by 4 62.4 percent majority to accept contract terms proposed by the Fisheries Association of B.C. The United Fishermen and Allied = Workers’ Union’s — negotiation committee had — recommended acceptance of the — two-year pact which provides — wage increase of 9.5 percent 0 — tradesmen, 8.5 percent to male- general labour and 7.5 percent t0 — female general labour i classifications. The increases are effective April The increases were effective April 16, 1969 with a like increase effective April 16, 1970. Improvements in overtime and vacation conditions are included in the package offer. ' 1,000 fresh fish and cold storage workers and tradesmen had authorized strike action by an 81 percent majority in a June © 11, 1969 coastwide ballot. Unity against imperialism — aim of Moscow conference | Vancouver, B.C. — ‘‘How to focus attention on, strengthen and broaden the mass movement against Imperialism and for peace was the central question of the recent International Conference of Communist and Workers. Parties held in Moscow,”’ William Kashtan, General Secretary of Communist Party of Canada told an audience of 350 in the Pender Auditorium, Sunday night. Imperialist threat to world peare and_ the immediate task of the anti- Imperialist struggle was the theme of discussion at the conference which was attended by delegations from Communist Parties of 77 different countries including observers from Sweden and Cuba. “‘The conference was remarkable for the freedom it provided to put forward all idea; every view could be _ heard; everything debated and every delegation was translated and made available to all press agencies,’’ Kashtan said. “The art of politics,” he said, “Is the ability to select the main enemy and concentrate forces to build an alliance to achieve the main aims. The conference concentrated on how to build the broadest kind of an alliance to remove the grave threat of nuclear war on a world scale.”’ On the need to strengthen unity of Communist Workers Parties there was complete unanimity. This was particularly so on major issues such as Vietnam, the middle east crisis, the question of the universality the science of Marxism Leninism on the convening of a? “all in’ _ anti-imperialist conference as well as a propos@ of the Communist Party, U.S.4. for the convening of a World Conference on Racism. Kashtan reported in detail 0? the differing views that wer debated particularly aroun provocative and dangerous poll cies of the Mao Tse-Tune leadership of the Communist Party of China. ‘‘75 parties spoke in the debate on the policy of the Communist Party of China, : Kashtan reported, “and every — party that spoke, including the Communist Party of Rumania spoke critically of that policy. One thing the main resolution and the new party constitution adopted by the 9th Conference ® the Communist Party of China makes clear is that Maois™ ee, replaces Marxism Leninism. Kashtan emphasized although the commercial press tried show there was disagreeme? among the Communist parties present, it was clear by the e? of the Conference they wer united. ‘‘No decisions were made by vote at the conference, Kashtan said. ‘‘All were made 0? the basis of unanimity. Las month’s International Co ference in Moscow marked t g turning point towards grealé unity between the Communis and Workers Parties of te world,” Kashtan concluded.