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ORONTO — June 7 will see

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TS of parliament called by
ton, ae Anti-Poverty Coali-
Norman Tribune talked with
tor ey. lobby coordina-
vee the aims of the initia-
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pte are first going to ask
“fl ‘4 if they favor a pro-
With peuces food review board
Power to roll back prices.

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tor on a. cost-of-living es-

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the Bey in Ontario, and

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LABOR SCENE egos

BY BRUCE MAGNUSON

€rs are overpaid. That.

the Corporate tax.
0%.

pressure. on the government
about things like food prices and
fixed incomes.”

Rent Control

The OAPO is also asking that
the retail sales tax be removed,
since, according to Mr. Brudy,
“the retail sales taxis a retro-
gressive tax because it. weighs
most heavily on those least able
to pay. This tax should be. re-
placed by a new ‘ability to pay’
tax measure which would re-
quire the wealth-producing: in-
dustries — mines and big busi-
ness — to carry a fair share of
the tax load.”

With the present housing
crisis, and with rents being con-
stantly raised, Mr. Brudy said
that the most pressing need is
for the government to establish
rent control legislation. “A board

to administer this should have

on it adequate representation
from tenants and labor bodies in
the province,” he stated.

A brief outlining the demands
that the OAPO lobbiers will pre-
sent to the MPP’s has already
been sent out to the members
at Queen’s Park for their con-
sideration, and lobbiers hope
that answers to their questions,
which are also questions raised

Hundreds will be at Queen's Park

by many organizations and indi-
viduals in the province, will be
concretely answered.

“People are coming from the
Windsor area, Welland, St. Cath-
arines, Brantford, Owen Sound,
Kitchener, Guelph, Sudbury,
Thunder Bay and. Sault Ste.
Marie. There will be groups from
Peterborough, Oshawa and To-
ronto,” Mr; Brudy concluded.
“We want everyone to meet with
their MPP’s and to get them to
commit themselves to take ac-
tion ih the legislation at-once to
meet the crisis of poverty .in
Ontario.”

Wages of Sin?

U.S. corporation heads have
been taking good care of them-
sélves during these inflationary
days.

American Telephone & Tele-
graph Chairman John DeButts
raised his salary by $80,000 to
the nice sum of $325,000. Robert
Helman of Standard Brands, the
big food combine, added $87,000
to ‘his salary bringing it to
$299,897. At Chrysler, executive
Lynn Townsend jumped his pay
to $393,000—an $82,000 raise.

against boss and
his political parties!

paid too much, while others are
underpaid, and that our prob-

‘Jems will be solyed by asking

organized workers to stop ask-
ing for more wage until the
low paid have time. to catch up.
That is something that cannot
happen in our capitalist society.

The problem before the trade
union movement today. is to or-
ganize the unorganized, not to
disorganize and mislead the or-
ganized. The employers and
workers are not “in the same
bag” as Gene Davidson, business
agent of a Millwrights Mainten-
ance Union in Winnipeg claim-
ed the other day, when his union
took a -pay cut, ostensibly to
provide more work. That is a lie.

Millwrights doing mainten-
ance work at lower wages are
‘not “cooperating” with their em-
ployers to keep their jobs and
earn more money by gimmickry.

They are suckers for construc-

tion firms that seek more profits
at the workers’ expense.
"The fantastic story from Win-
nipeg that members of a Mani-
toba union have agreed to take
-a salary cut so they can earn
more money and obtain better
working condiions, would sug-
gest that workers’ trade unions
are for the purpose of protect-
ing the employer's interests SO
that he, in turn, may provide
his workers with more jobs and
better conditions.

According to the story in the
Toronto Globe and Mail, June

~ 1, the 100 tradesmen who took

a 20% wage cut on their pre-
sent $8.06 an hour pay, are
going to work an extra 600 to
800 hours a year to make up
for it. Since maintenance work
in industry is mostly done on
weekends, they are bribed by a
14% weekend premium, while
their overtime rate of pay 1s cut

by 25%.
Wrong Way
Lower wages is not the way

to create more jobs. On the con-
trary it is a sure way to cut job
opportunities. Letting the boss
take over your union is no way
to guarantee more pay and bet-
ter working conditions. On the
contrary, it is the sure way to
undermine and destroy what has

taken years of struggle to win.

As the workers at the strike-
bound United Aircraft of Cana-
da Ltd. plants in Quebec can
testify, the boss is not the
worker’s friend when ‘the chips
are down. On May 31, Mr. Jus-
tice Edouard Martel of Quebec
Superior Court ordered the
United Auto Workers of Ameri-
ca, Local 510 and three of its
members to show why they
should not be held in contempt
of court for violating an injunc-
tion against picketing. The com-
pany has been granted injunc-
tions limiting to three the num-
ber of pickets at each plant
gate. The 2,300 production work-
ers involved at four company
plants in “Longueuil, Quebec,

UNION ACTIVITY

NO FIRING FOR |

OTTAWA — Employers must
prove that union activity is not
a factor in dismissals of employ-
ees who seek recourse under an
unfair labor practice section of
the Canada Labor Code, the
Canada Labor Relations Board
has established in several recent
decisions.

The board’s policy is em-
ployed for the first time in a re-
cent case involving three com-
plaints from employees of the
Montreal Flying Club. -

Under the policy, once an em-
ployee has chargéd, with some
preliminary: evidence, that he

was fired because he belonged |
to a union, the onus of proof is |
on the employer who must show |
that union membership was not

a reason for the action.

PICKETING BANNED
AT UNITER AIRCRAFT

LONGUEUIL, Que.—All  pick-
eting has been banned for a
week outside the strike-bound
South ‘Shore plants of United
Aircraft of Canada Ltd.

The ban is contained in an in-
terim injunction — one of two
granted yesterday by Superior
Court judge Mr. Justice Rene
Duranleau.

The injunction — which will
eliminate the present limit of
three pickets per gate — was is-
sued following a company peti-
tion, to be heard June 6.

The second injunction — also
effective until Thursday — for-
bids United Aircraft -and_ its
employees from intimidating,
threatening or molesting work-
ers.

CONSTRUCTION TALKS
HIT SNAG OVER COLA

VANCOUVER — A snag over
union demands. for a cost-of-
living clause has deflated earlier-
expressed optimism that a set-
tlement is imminent in negotia-
tions to resolve the four-week
B.C. construction strike.

But instead of breaking off,
both sides agreed to resume bar-
gaining today “after doing a lit-
tle homework” on the issue.

Talks between the Construc-
tion Labor Relations Association
and the pact of 10 unions bar-
gaining jointly adjourned early
last week,

Chief union spokesman Cy
Stairs, president of the B.C. and
Yukon Building and Contsruc-
tion Trades Council, pinpointed
the problem as CLR’s reluctance
to write in cost-of-living adjust-

have been on strike since Jan. _

9,
Boss Dictatorship

The UAW, its Local 510, and
the three members mentioned,
could be fined $50,000 for each
day of violating the court order.
In addition, the three workers
are also liable to one-year prison
sentences

What kind of so-called ‘free’ >

society is this? It is a boss dic= 3

tatorship! The way to curb and
eventually destroy that dictator-
ship is to remain loyal to trade

union principles in economic §,

struggles, and to vote against
the boss and his brand of poli-
ticians on July 8.

Do NOT allow the boss to run
your union! Do not vote for his
political agents in this election.
Vote Communist wherever you
can! Elect a progressive bloc to
Parliament! Defeat the drive to

the right!

INIGERSO Lis: Mere tinged “sarvengerés wars drospitadiced! tdi

.

Sheriff's deputy in Oxnard,
Calif., uses his nightstick to
choke a striking farm worker who
was arrested while picketing in
the city against the sale of scab
grapes.

ment (COLA) clause into their
latest proposal.

SEAWAY WORKER'S
CONTRACT REOPENED

The St.. Lawrence Seaway
Authority has reopened. its labor
contracts with 1,200 hourly rat-
ed employees in the Montreal-
Lake Ontario and Welland Canal
sections of the Seaway, grant-
ing them-an additional 3% in
wages beginning June 3, and
extending the contracts for a
further year to Dec. 31, 1975.

The old contracts made provi-
sion -for a 1974 wage increase of
7%, so the new arrangement
will make the increase 10% for
half of 1974 and all of 1975.

In addition, the authority will
key pay to the cost of living,
granting a one cent an hour in-
crease for each 0.5 point rise in
the cost of living index.

TAXI DRIVERS
END DISPUTE

MONTREAL — Bus and taxi
services to and from Montreal
International Airport returned to
normal in mid-May following suc-
cessful negotiations between
taxi drivers and the provincial
transport department.

A government spokesman said
representatives of more than 150
taxi drivers involved in the
three-day dispute agreed to re-
turn to work for 10 days while
the Quebec government consid-
ers introducing a bill governing
flat-rate fares.

all

week after a freight train jumped track and plowed into the CNR
Tempo. The collision was just one of many this year, caused by
what union leaders in the railway industry have described as, “‘CN’s
and the CPR’s drive for more profit leading to cutbacks in safety

precautions”

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