AID TO VIETNAM. These photos, recently received from Vietnam, show

(top) medical supplies and clothes received from the Canadian Aid for
‘Vietnam Civilians being unpacked. Lower photo shows distribution to
injured and needy civilians. On July 17 the Children’s Committee of
CAVC sent its 13th shipment from Vancouver aboard the Soviet
freighter S.S. Orekhov. It included over 2,000 garments, surgical and
school supplies, hospital eye bandages and compresses, and powdered
milk. The CVAC is now engaged in a campaign to purchase artificial

legs for boys and girls.

area operating at less

capacity.”

The PM graciously replied to President

Shipyard unions demand
action on unemployment

Arising out of the alarming increase of
unemployment through mass
Vancouver and Victoria shipyards, Marine
Workers Union President Jeff Power last week
forwarded a telegram to Prime Minister
Trudeau, stating that ‘‘Unemployment situation
in all shipyards is critical, with the Vancouver
than 50-percent

layoffs in

departments.”

Power with another telegram, stating that ‘‘The
Canadian government is conscious of this
problem.’’ and that Power’s ‘‘suggestions are
being further studied by the appropriate

The Marine Workers Union official followed
up with another wire, pointing out that since his
first one to the PM ‘‘more layoffs have taken
place in the shipyards . . . hope the departments
can come up with some work soon...”’.

Socred defeats point to need
for new united alternative

“The loss of three more
Provincial by-elections on July
15th, coming on top of the
Vancouver South Socred defeat
and the sharp drop in Social
Credit votes in B.C. in the
Federal election, shows the
growing dissatisfaction with the
Bennett government’s policies,”’
declared Nigel :Morgan,
Provincial leader of the
Communist Party

“A noteable aspect of the.
Federal election was the falloff
in ballots received by Socred

More pressure needed to
end Westminster strike

By NW CIVIC WORKER

Two hundred and _ thirty-six
members of New Westminster
Civic Employees Union, Local
387, Canadian Union of Public
Employees (CUPE) have been
on strike since June 21. Involved
are inside and outside workers.

The strike began when the
union accepted and the City
Council rejected the majority
report of a conciliation board. |
The main recommendations for
settlement were: a salary
increase of 442-percent effective
January 1 this year and a second
4%e-percent on July 1, based on
1967 rates; a guarantee of ten
paid statutory holidays; five
weeks paid vacation after 25-
years; and improved shift
differentials.

In an attempt to break the
deadlock, the union last week
offered to settle on the basis of a
two-year agreement. The City
then proposed 7-percent for 1968
and 5-percent for 1969, which the
union rejected. The union had
previously been offered an
increase of 6.75-percent over one
year.

New Westminster is one of the
Greater Vancouver

VIETNAM FILM
TO BE SHOWN

“Inside North Vietnam’,
Felix Greene’s feature length
film in color, will be shown at the
Olympia Theatre, 2381 Hastings
St. (at Nanaimo) on Tuesday,
July 30, 8:30 p.m. Admission is
$1.00.

The showing is sponsored by
the Co-ordinating Committee to
End the War in Vietnam.

Sas

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 26, 1968—Page 4, _

municipalities which negotiates
through the Municipal Labor
Relations Bureau, along with
Vancouver, Burnaby, City of

No Vancouver, District of
Nor Vancouver and
Richmond.

Local 387 is bucking a 6-
percent pattern already
established for municipal
employees in all of these
municipalities, with the
exception of North Vancouver
where negotiations are still in
progress. The two variations to
the 6-percent formula only went
as high as 6.5-percent for one
year.

In Surrey, on the other hand,
the School Board Employees,
Local 728 CUPE recently settled
on the basis of the 4%2-4'-
percent formula proposed by the
New Westminster conciliation
board.

The Municipal Labor Relations
Bureau spokesman for the City
Council is motivated by two
basic considerations in_ its
opposition to the union. First,
the negotiations for some 750
North Vancouver Civic
Employees, Local 389 CUPE
have not been completed. The
basic rate there (1967) is the
same as in New Westminster —
$2.61 an hour. Secondly, within a
few months the vast majority of
the municipal employees in
Greater Vancouver will be re-
opening their contracts. Which
means that there is much more
unity between the municipal
councils representing Big
Business than there is on the side
of organized labor.

"Up to date New Westminster
City Council has been unanimous
in its opposition to the

conciliation board report,
despite the fact that four out of
seven were considered friendly
to organized labor. One Council
member recently belonged to
Burnaby Civic Employees Union
Local 23, and another now
belongs to the B.C: Teachers
Federation.

The strikers are enjoying
strong financial support from
their National office from their
sister locals in B.C. and from
other trade unions. :

A further meeting between the
City and the union was scheduled
to take place as the PT went to
press. If the deadlock extends
beyond this meeting, it could
mean a long strike.

Trade. unions in New
Westminster, interested groups
and private citizens have been
urging City Council to accept the
majority report of the
conciliation board. Up to this
time City Council has chosen to
ignore public opinion. In the
meantime, citizens of the Royal
City are being denied many of
the services and amenities for
which they are being taxed.

All indications point to the
necessity of stepping up the
pressure on City Council by the
people of New Westminster, and
with organized labor setting the
pace.

Change of address

The Vancouver Committee of
the Communist Party has moved
from the Ford Building to 1307
Commercial Dr. Starting Wed.,
July 17 the affairs of the
Vancouver Committee will be
- conducted at the new address.

candidates in B.C. from nearly
one out of five in 1965, to but a
shade above one out of twenty,” >
he said. ‘‘Rejection: of the
government in the fourth
successive by-election in widely
separate parts of this Province
constitutes a repudiation of
Premier Bennett’s anti-labor
legislation, education and tax
policies and massive resource
giveaways. Obviously the
Bennett administration is in
serious trouble.

‘‘Note must be taken however,
of the fact that dissatisfaction
with the Socreds is being utilized
by the Liberals.

“The political shift in B.C.
shows that the NDP, in spite of
its long years in opposition and
the fact it constitutes a major
component of a democratic
alternative, is unable to replace
the Bennett government alone,”

Morgan said.

“The main conclusion that
needs to be drawn by the labor
and progressive movement is the
urgent need for the bringing iinto
being of a new left democratic
coalition, including labor, the
NDP, and Communists to fight
for a real alternative to the
Socreds and Liberal policies
which both put the monopolies
before the people.

“Nothing short of united action’
-of labor and democratic forcés is
going to end the economic and
political domination of this
province by Big Business and
their Socred and Liberal
representatives in the Legis~
lature.”’

Postal strike

Cont'd from pg. 1

\MANMGEMENT AND LAEO®R MUST
CO-oPERSTE-»I'LLCNE ORDERS AND
YoU Co-oPERATE BY OBEVING THEM! ”

' Wednesday morning of this
week, Ray Andrus, president of
Local 12, Letter Carriers Union,
and chairman of the local
Council of Postal Workers
Steering Committee, told the PT
that ‘‘the postal strike ranks will
stay solid, and that if Prime
Minister Trudeau wants a quick
settlement,
workers do, that he had better
start bargaining in good faith
without further delay.’
President Andrus added that the
Council of Postal Unions
negotiating committee ‘‘are
prepared to negotiate on a 24-
hour basis in order to come up
with an agreement, which in
their opinion, they can submit to
the rank-and-file for approval.

Meantime we remain solid and

united from coast to coast.”’

* With the postal strike on

other international events.

Much as we would like to

difficulties, unable to do so.

intent of such ‘‘news’’.

Czechoslovakian events

newspapers, documents, materials or comments from abroad
dealing with the serious situation in Czechoslovakia or with »

main documents and statements that might throw more light
on the situation, we find ourselves, because of présent

In the interest of objectively reporting events we feel it.
would be wrong to rely on the reports carried by capitalist
_ news services which are obviously bent on utilizing the present
difficulties to the full to wage their cold war against socialism.
Readers should peruse all such materials appearing in the
monopoly press, without for a moment forgetting the source or

As soon as the factual material becomes available we will
bring our readers all the information we possibly can on the
situation in Czechoslovakia, as well as to catch up on some of
the other important international events.

the PT has not received any

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have brought our readers the

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