AE Saheb eS Shoreworkers'’ picket line at Fisherm prise ae : ag eee i “yer * ROLL NOLO oS a SES % “gvagrimpbell Ave. : SHERMENS t ans . phe ee ts a i Pots mene oe °* _FISHERMAN Photo . en's Wharf, at the foot of Campbell Ave. in Vancouver. The current strike marks the second time in the history of the industry that shoreworkers have gone out. LABOR ROUNDUP: Fishermen still on strike, oil workers win increase “As far as this union is concerned, we. can manage quite nicely in the industry without the fish monopolies,” Carl Liden, spokesman for the UFAWU negotiating com- mittee, told the PT last Tues- day. Liden’s remarks rang true 4s hundreds of fishermen from all over the West Coast ' of B.C. began to converge on the Lower Mainland area, bringing with them over 509,- 000 Ibs. of fresh-caught sal- mo for sale to the general Public. Proceeds of the mam- moth sale are going into the union strike fund. His militant confidence was based on hard fact: last Sat- urday people in Greater Van- couver lined up eight and ten deep for blocks to buy fish from union members at bar- gain prices. It was reported that the strike fund was swelled $12,000 as a result of last Saturday’s sales alone. Further sales are slated for Wednesday, July 24 through to Saturday, July 27 inclu- sive. They will commence at 9-a.m. each day and continue through to 6 p.m. Locations are as follows: New Westminster — Ron Shearer’s Fish Shed, near U.S. investment tax exposes deep By E.B. Why did President Kennedy slap 4 15 percent tax on U.S. invest. Ment in Canada? And why did Walter Gordon sue for modifica- tion of the tax, although he him- Self was planning a similar tax Not very long ago? Both men are in the grip of Contradictions over which they have little control. For several years, both Canada and __ the United States have been suffer- ing from “balance of payments” difficulties, This is just a way of Saying that each country’s pay- Ments to other countries are run- ning ahead of its receipts from others, : If this process goes on indef- Initely, it follows that both will be broke. But, there is this difference. The United States’ difficulty with the balance of payments is due to its heavy military expenditures abroad. Without that, the U-S. Would be i the black. But Canada’s balance of pay- Ments deficit is caused by its heavy commitments for interes! and dividend payments to the : S. — payments on the more than $20,000,000,000 that we al- Teady owe them. If the United States ruling class could agree on the necessary Policies, jt could solve its diffi- Culties unilaterally — simply by Cutting down on its. military 3 : : Pending. Kennedy, however, is helpless until his: masters agree. There is = no doubt that this out" : for its troubles is becom- n& more and more recognized in ko US., as witness the minor Ut important attempt to ease Cold way: tensions, however slight- _ ly, at the Moscow test ban treaty talks. . Canada has no such easy solu- e crises tion. We have been borrowing our way out of debt for too many years. With each year’s new bor- rowings the bill for interest and dividends rises, and increases the necessity for further borrowing next year. Drastic new policies — slashing the military budget, natior Jizing foreign-owned monopclies, mobil- izing Canadian savings for Cana- dian investments — could put a halt to new borrowings. But the interest on the old debt would remain for a long time to come and would have to be covered in some manner. Hence Walter Gordon’s dilem- ma. In recent years, the net inflow of capital from the U.S. has been about $1.5 billion a year. If this is suddenly stopped, an economy that is already suffering from chronic unemployment will be suddenly hit by a large fall in investment, with economic crisis the inevitable result. On the other hand, as Gordon well knows, if the inflow of cap- ital is not stopped, the problem will increase in magnitude each year. : Tere is a solution. Our military budget amounts to more than $1.5 billion per year. We could therefore replace all of the capi- tal we are receiving from the U.S. — but only by adopting policies that are the very opposite of Pearson's cold war position. And so the world is treated to an inglorious spectacle: two sup- posedly firm friends and un- shakeable allies, two of the rich- est countries in the world, stumbl- ing along from crisis to crisis and, within a matter of weeks, each of the two trying to selve its own problem at the expense of the other. King Neptune Cafe, close to the 8th St. wharf. Ladner — Nick Stevens’ wharf, on River Road, %4 mile west of Ladner. Steveston — Fishermen’s wharf, foot of 2nd Ave. Fol- low Moncton St. to Second. North Burnaby — 5961 E. Hastings St., Texaco gas sta- tion. Vancouver — False Creek Fishermen’s ‘Terminal Dock, 1st and Fir. (Additional loca- tion to be announced when known). ; North Vancouver — Mos- quito Creek Basin Dock. Port Moody — Leon Ho- tel, across from Municipal Hall. As the rest of the industry remained tied up with no set- tlement visible on the horiz- on, the shoreworkers and tendermen accepted a 414% wage increase to end the dis- pute with the Prince Rupert Fishermen’s Co - operative Assn., which were the actual ferms of a majority concilia- tion report brought down last month. ‘ Immediately affected by the decision are 300 workers employed in the plant and on the firm’s packers. In addi- tion, all regular Co-op fish- ermen can now resume fish- ing, since they were never involved in the price dis- pute. They share in the pro- fits of the Co-op in lieu of wages for fish caught oe Members of the Oil, Chem- ical and Atomic Workers un- ion have.voted to accept a compromise offer which ave- rted by hours a threatened strike in the oil industry |° the province. Under the terms of the agreement, retroactive to last April 15 and running for two years, the workers will get a 15 - cent an hour wage boost. Contracts with all major oil companies will now expire simultaneously. e Longshoremen ver held a series of meetings instead of going to work last Friday. The meetings were de- signed to acquaint the union’s members with latest develor- ments in their fight to win some measure of benefits from increasing mechaniza- tion on thy waterfront. Negotiations were reported to be temporarily deadlock- ed, but are expected to be resumed soon. in Vancou- — The UN special committee on apartheid has recommena- ed the Security Counci! call for an arms and oil embargo on South Africa, enforced, if necessary, by a UN-backed blockade. It asked the council to af- firm last November’s Gener- al Assembly resolution call- ing on member states to break off diplomatic and trade relations with the re- public, boycott South African goods, and close their ports and airfields to South Afri- can lines. The committee would have the council call upon member states supplying arms and ammunition to South Africa — Britain, the U.S.