FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1967 © Tribune VOL. 28, NO. 25 Epo 50 10 of Union Leaders Peace at stake in U.N. parley Wes EDITORIAL ee loth is directly at stake in the debate now going is Ghai. U.N. General Assembly meeting. The major ep er aggression is to be rewarded and the seiz- neighbor’s territory by force condoned. issue No What Matter how they try to cover it up, this in fact is Tesj Stand jg ident Johnson and Isroel are arguing for. If this Gnothe Other g : launch 99ressor, encouraged by this turn of events,, will q . 30Fs ne 99ression on one pretext or another? And aggres- ~FS neve Wi Sion t have difficulty finding ‘‘reasons’’ for their aggres- It is ebay clear, then, that at the very heart of the present ej : or nthe U.N. is the question: Will there be a world a 8anizatj iss i ws : t ‘Ning On left after the present crisis capable of main- World peace? Amer} . Press, ew other western leaders, along with the ime tying: and other news media, are working over- 0 W the sei,; Strength flzing and holding of foreign territory by force ens 4 Seige we"S Peace and provides t ®ment in the Middle East. es the basis for o peaceful What Policy a a sham? What a hypocritical attempt to sell a “i Peace. Rpasiopism and imperialism as ‘‘a contribution °W the see. Nt it clear that any settlement of this kind will S of future conflicts? : How cq; Sling Ree Peace be strengthened in the Middle East by a chunk of Jordan, Syria and Egypt? Or by Creag: atin new hund ‘ reds of thousands of Arab refugees? ls this |; iScord wag to produce the kind of peace which would ®ad to genuj € real interests of both Arabs and Jews and ne peace in the Middle East? Certainly not! bas: Pe - ‘s ae can only come to the Middle East on the by ; ical settlement, not on the seizing of territor- Med force, The ¢; ls iS e firs . pote! ag is to return all lands now occupied by re ical se elses The U.N. should then work towards o ll stq a ent which must include full and equal rights and peoples of the Middle East. e © Ar ' i qa Be esrations must accept and recognize the exist- fome to ie rights of Israel. At the some time Israel lows.) &Manci ms with the movement for social and . self t, é Ace among the Arab people and not al- ene fNuine gs hee by western imperialist states against &. Pitations of the Arob peoples for independ- and yp eceful Only o> Settlin : oe Stab 9 of differences through negotiations, is the e@ ba rice West, Sis for peace in the Middle East—not military upheld by the U.N. who is to say where in the world , 9 to sell the public the strange theory that some- - Co-existence of Jewish and Arab peoples, Delegates to this week's session of the Vancouver and District Labor Council voiced a strong and united protest against the severe sentences imposed on three leaders of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union and the steep fine levied against their union for alleged contempt of a court injunction ruling. Following the reading of a letter and wire of protest to Attorney-General Bonner by the Marine Workers and the Long- shoremen’s union, and a state- ment by VLC secretary Paddy Neale, protesting the use of court injunctions in labor disputes, the larger than usual delegate body literally erupted, “The legal profession and the judiciary had better take a look at this,” declared secretary Neale, “before they head for a real furious problem in B.C, and across Canada. If this is supposed to be equality of the law then I suggest we had better move to _some fascist country.” Neale directed his remarks at the severity of the sentence im- posed on the UFAWU leaders, and the attitude of the judge, In his own contempt case aris- ing out of the Lenkurt Electric dispute, Neale said that the judge who sentenced him to six months declared he was “increasing the sentence” because shorter sen- tences had seemingly not served as “a deterrent” to others, “Now we have Mr. Justice Dohm ‘saying the same thing ... that the labor movement is going to get more severe sentences, not because of a first or second offence by the so-called accused, put because some other trade unionist in Canada had defied a court injunction order.” Adding up sentences this way, said Neale, écould be automatically doubled to two years, and in no time at all could get to 30-years.” Ray Haynes, secretary of the B.C. Federation of Labor, declared, “the BCFL deplores the severity of the sentences. First we have a month, then six months, now a year. They’ve got three guys in jail, but there’s still a hell of a mess in Prince Rupert. And these sentences do nothing to improve labor-manageiment relations.” Admitting that labor has “talk- ed until we are blue in the face on the injunction issue”, BCFL secretary Haynes had little to add in the way of further deci- sive action, other than to suggest “quit marching and demonstrat- ing” on the streets, and *qdemon- strate at the ballot box”, pre- sumably for a government which would change these anti-labor laws. Bill Stewart (Marine Workers) JAILED UNION LEADER. Homer Stevens, UFAWU secre- tary, is shown waving to fellow unionists os he left the Court House to enter the police wagon after being sentenced to a one-year prison term Monday. Also sentenced to one year were union president Steve Stavenes and business agent Jack Nichol. The union was also fined $25,000. stated: “We should be prepared to put our jobs on the line to ensure that the labor movement lives. If they think they can de- stroy the labor movement we should convince them they are badly mistaken”, Other dele- gates also referred to the pos- sibility of united job action as «qa deterrent” to the attacks against labor. The recommendations sub- mitted to the delegate body by the VLC Executive included a strong protest from the VLC against the use of court injunc- tions; a call for the release of the imprisoned UFAWU leaders, the dropping of all charges, and a request to all affiliated unions of the VLC totake similar action, Sid Thompson (IWA), support- ing the Executive proposals, stressed the need of the VLC to explore the possibility of “ do- ing something more than this, Even if the UFAWU is not in the CLC, we must not allow this. union to be crucified. There should be close co-ordination and mobilization of all labor on the injunction issue, and all assis- tance, financial and other to those workers imprisoned. We have no other choice than come to their aid.” Acting as mediator in the Prince Rupert inter-union and employer dispute, VLC President Sims reported that settlement negotiations were still proceecing and expressed a strong hope «hat agreement may be reached ina few days. Delegates scored the “indecent haste” with which the court had moved to lock up the UFAWU leaders while mediation proceed- ings are still in progress,’ The Communist Party in a leaflet distributed this week call- See JAILINGS, pg. 12 Sa age ghee