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 7 have brought our readers the as the postal: x)