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“Wage Movements and Wage Determinants in British

Columbia,” with 10 charts added to emphasize trends, is not : ¢ the
likely to become a best seller, and especially among trade Last week Simpsons-Sears Ltd., Evidence of the CPR’s plans to Project 200 is part 0
unionists. announced it had become a partner move to more lucrative fields that fitted in with the
: with the CPR, Woodward's Stores, of operation was given in the waterfront freeway advoca
Designed as “A Formula For the Mechanical Construc- and Grosvenor-Laing Development scheme the company announced ¢X-Mayor Rathie and
tion Industry,” the volume is a joint product of the executive Co., to build a vast complex in ja June They proposed a business council suchafr"
officers of Local 170, United Association of Plumbers and downtown Vancouver on land now $275 millic ld dest forever ap
; ; : ; : edie theeGPRe Recentih the: Vann. ion retail stores-hotel wou estroy fo:
Pipefitters, and the executive heads of Mechanical Industrial My BY y complex that would stretch from access to the waterfront.
Relations Association, The author is Mr, John deWolf, couver Secretary of the Communist ;
: 5 Party, Charles Caron, wrote a brief Granville to Abbott and Cordova nal
listed as a consulting economist, dealing with the CPR and Project and to the waterfront over pres- The Community Regio is
In his research for what determines wage struggles, 200. The PT reproduces a portion ent rail tracks, It is known as ning Department, speaking”
author de Wolf blithely skips over the basic laws of capitalist of that brief below: project 200, vor of a waterfront road
economy and their effect upon the class divisions in modern’ By CHARLES CARON Fred Joplin, vice-president of that what is needed is a
society, and eliminates the class struggle with a series of : the project, speaking before the tinuous, adequate, effi¢
long-discredited gimmicks and illusions, Recently an agreement was yy oouver ‘orancloaeetne Engin- 2¢Sthetically pleasing water

reached between the National access road for truck Se

Harbor Board and the CPR which
makes all waterfront land west
of Granville to the Bayshore Inn
CPR property, Such an agree-
ment is completely contrary to
Vancouver’s interests,

eering Institute of Canada made :
it appear that this development Piers and asa recreat™
was designed primarily to fur- The present road existed
ther the public’s good, This Sections, is nae
was done by placing emphasis condition andis subject 4
in his speech on the number of jurisdiction.”

The tieing of wages to living costs via the “escalator”
route; the remaking of the functions and aims of trade union-
ism in order that it may provide better service to modern
monopoly production; to promote the “one happy family” ideal
in labor-management relations and production effort, with the
trade union movement ultimately becoming part of a corporate

state, not unlike the era of the Third Reich, : jobs the complex would provide, equire
: In face of the city’s crying Bold action is 1 i
As this paper reported in its April 7edition, the member- need for port development it is Mr. Joplin revealed howreally the federaland municipal
ship of Local 170 of the Plumbers and Pipefitters unanimously inconceivable that such large concerned the CPR is with the ments to place the cpr
turned thumbs down on a new agreement based on the thesis of sections of waterfront property Public’s welfare when he spoke under control inthe Greate!”
this voluminous (and costly) “guideline.” Despite that setback be jieft in the control of this on the kind of access road he couver area.
MIRA has announced it has not given up hope of “selling” the monopoly. would like to see to the complex, oul
unions this class-colloborationist “escalator” to utopia, : “There are two ways traffic can All waterfront land SHO!

come into and get out of the pro- unified under a single l
ject,” he said, “Put it on the tion, the National Harbor it
streets that are already crowded in order to facilitate this’,
or build access routes.” Joplin The CPR monopoly cons to
then went on to say that a trans- the single largest opstacle™
portation committee set upbythe development of the port ©
city is at present studying sev- couver, No substantial Pl
eral suggestions — such as a_ will be made with our pol

waterfront expressway, this obstacle is remove

‘Tax oil companies to P4
for new Burrard crossing

The provincial government was asked this week to.¢
imposing a two-cents-per-gallon tax on oil companies biarey:
not be transferred to the consumer's to pay for a new Nor i

* crossing, -.. im

‘
Tremendous and deep-going changes in structure and ob-

jectives are taking place inthe trade union movement in Canada
and the U.S, All the patterns are not as yet clear, but the ob-
jectives of unity, strengthened bargaining power, an end to
jurisdictional splits and schisms, a merging of unions, all
that and more is on the agenda. And the basic aim in this
age of technology and automation, is to win for the working
' people a much greater share and voice in the vast wealth their
labors produce, “Economist” de Wolf’s researches are largely
designed to short-circuit this objective.

_In his finale de Wolf adds a punch-line which should cause
every trade unionist in B,C, to sit up and take note, In short,
after having “, , .staggered out of the jungle of the data into
the open clearing,” de Wolf discovered Premier W.,A.C,
Bennett’s “tracks already planted years before” on the same
theme covered by himself. “The manis remarkable and greatly
underestimated in the areas that count. . .of driving British
Columbia towards its destiny.”

WILLIAM KASHTAN, national leader This proposal was made in a letter to Vancouver Cll)
and general secretary of the Com- from city secretary Charles Caron, The letter points out 40
munist Party of Canada, left last Tom Campbell and Premier W, A, C, Bennett have both
week for Berlinto attend the 7th favor of an increase in the gasoline tax as a means to rep)”

Mr. de Wolf could well have added a few of these “areas;”
the sellout of B,C,’s resources and jobs to U.S, monopoly;
anti-union Bills 42-43; the mass jailing of trade union lead-

ers and anti-union exparte court injunctions galore, All by Congress of the Socialist Unity Party loan to build a new crossing,
— ” as his party’s fraternal delegate. The ;
this “remarkable man of destiny. Congress will be in session from Opposing an increase in the gasoline tax 0

April 17 to 22 and is expected tobe letter says that the oil companies, who benefit from the us
of considerable importance in and roads, should be made to assume a more equitable sh d
strengthening European security. cost of building and maintaining these facilities. :

meet ete’,
oreo’

The membership of Local 170 gave the answer. Other
unions will do likewise. :

the-way on one brainy observa- of the car lot too, but until then att
tion in which he didn’t slip any the ‘‘wide open spaces” to avoid phoney evidence, etc.
cogs: “To do a routine job all the “bug” and score a “saving.” pronit™
day, and then spend the evening : In this area of elec i yt?
watching TV is sub-human.” Well Then we havethe equallystart- ging” we’d bet on one i pe
said Sir Brains, ling revelation of school class- nothing in the realm doo!
rooms being “bugged”, probably voltage language, prage:
to promote inner-faculty opinion sheer romanticizing “t
of each other, or let faculty surpass the end resu™
members know what their stu- ‘‘bugging”.
dents really and truly think of x
them, CIA on the campus was bad But it does confir™
enough, but ‘‘bugs”, faugh, serious developmem',

* OK

When one Pat O’Neale alias

: Casey, with the aid of assorted

2 Nees ome Sir John a studenthas memorized, Dabw at: private dicks and RCMP bugged
eccles is reputed tobeone he can find out for himself. the convention of his fellow-

of the world’s top authorities on Unionists to get the lowdown on ;
-way-of-lilé
brain research, and holds a Nobel A very brainy man indeed is \not was going on he opened a our “free-way-0
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prize for his work in that special Sir John, with no end of honor- vertiaple Pandora’s Box of _ °e Contegeration. of 1867 rely on electtogy 408
field, ary degrees etc. to his credit apcee™ many ofCanada’shoosegowshave continued surviva’s nyt
from many of the “higher seats” Re . been notorious for their wide official attempts t0*) jn

variety of bugs — multi-legged of electronic “pugs
specie with a ‘bite’. Now it segments of our ™
would appear that the electronic society.”

“bug” has been added, specifically : “ho
to “listen-in’’ on prisoner or “O Liberty, Liberty:
lawyer-prisoner conversation, crimes are com it
thereby providing the “powers- name,’’? (Madame
that-be” withsome spicy material 1793),

Recently Sir John unloaded Of learning. But... whoa a — while it is still a moot point
some brainy observations anent minute — that illusion of brains whether O’Neale alias Casey
our changing world, Forinstance ight have persisted had it not should be presented with aCham-
Sir John regards Man’s explora- been for one damaging slip-of- per-of-Commerce leather medal
tions into outer space as “akid’s the-tongue, revealing acranium ‘7 nis unwitting public service,
game’’, and questions the expendi- vacancy almost equal to that in it i; now a widely recognized fact
ture of billions of dollars “chas- 2 empty coconut shell; that our free-enterprise way-of-
ing a lot of dead rocks whizzing life is literally crawling with
around in a void, ‘*bugs.”

“The memory-rote system (of
education—Ed.) is suitable for :
Our brain savant holds that ex- Communist countries, but not From now on Mr, and Mrs, John

plorations into the human brain 800d enough for democracies.” noe out to buy a new or used
should be the highest attainment car, had better stay inthe middle
sought by mankind, Looking at Makes one wonder if, afterall, (¢ the car lot and out of dealer
some of the nitwits “democracy” such “prainy’’ geniuses wouldn’t 444 salemen’s offices, thereby .

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April 21, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUS: