Local | blasts
secret deal

Possibility that the secret agreement signed between
Forest Industrial Relations and the negotiating committee
of International Woodworkers of America may not be
ratified by Local 357 is suggested in a leaflet issued by a

group of rank-and-file members of that local.

“Tf the contract is based on the |§
agreement that has been signed it|!
includes a secret clause which was |:
not offered to the membership for |;
their acceptance or rejection,” |:
charges the leaflet. “In other words,
the eight-point ‘deal’ was a nine-
point ‘deal’ with the extra point
remaining a secret.

“The secret clause was original-
ly offered to the policy committee
by the negotiating members in the
form of a letter to FIR to be sign-,
ed by each local president. Local |
presidents would agree, in effect,

Selling the PT

Need help at
border rally

Dear Reader:

Face mass evictions in North Vancouver

Feeling is running high among residents who face eviction from their “wartime” houses if
North Vancouver. Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation has told them they must be out by”

December 31, 1955, so the land can be turned back to the City of North Vancouver to be develop
ed as industrial sites. This view shows a section of -the area involved.

"I received a copy of the French

Canadian paper Combat this week,
and noticed a little story thanking
the Pacific Tribune for the $500
we donated to our sister paper
You
Here

during the recent drive.
might like to read it, too.
it. is: ‘

“The editors
of Combat are
happy to. an-
‘nounce ‘to its
readers that our
paper has just
received a gift
of. $500 from
the labor paper
of British Col-
umbia, the Pa-
cific Tribune. _
“We want to express to the P.T.
in the name of all the readers of
Combat, our warm thanks for this
magnificent gesture of solidarity
towards the workers and the peo-
ple of French Canada.”

We need more ‘street salesmen,
now. And especially we need vol-
unteer salesmen to sell the PT on
August 8 at the Paul Robeson con-
cert at Peace Arch Park. If you
can help, please get in touch with

Rita Whyte

to let district officers come in and
run affairs of the local whenever
the operators requested it.

“The last local meeting of 357
vigorously opposed the signing of
any such separate agreement by

local president Joe Madden... .

‘From the stand of the local

meeting and the local executive
board, it is certain that the local

officers will be forced to refuse to

sign any such contract in the in-

terests of the local membership.

“Already in the course of nego-
tiations and afterwards, the dis-
trict officers have demonstrated

that they are more prepared to

carry out the wishes of the opera-

tors than of the membership.

“How can this type of leader-
ship be permitted to come in and
run the affairs of a local on an

excuse given by the operators?

And yet the agreement that has
been signed gives‘up local auton-
omy in just that manner, without
even the consent of the policy com-

mittee.”

The leaflet concludes by calling
on the membership to fight for
the rights of. the local and for
protection of wages and condi-

tions.

Here is a partial text of Robe-
son’s letter to Chaplin, who was
awarded the Peace Prize of the
World Peace Council recently:

“T want to thank you and tell
you how deeply I was moved by
your recent message supporting
the struggle now being waged to
restore my right to a passport.

“As you know, this case involves
much more than. the injustice done
to me as an individual, just as the
shameful action of the state de-
partment in your own case is part
of a larger picture.

“The so-called cold war, which
has victimized us as artists and
citizens, involves the welfare and,
indeed, the very lives of uncounted

Robeson thanks Chaplin |
for passport fight aid —

“Hitler and his gang are gone, but Chaplin and his art lives on,’’ Paul Robeso®
famed U.S. artist, wrote Charlie Chaplin last week thanking the great movie star for
his support of the struggle to restore Robeson’s passport. (Robeson, although he *

not allowed to leave the US., will sing again for Canadians at Peace Arch Path:
near Blaine, on Sunday, August 8.) © :

millions. In the fateful drama of
our times artist and audience are!
part of the same cast. |

“And how happy I am to see
you starring in the role of cham-
Pion of peace! With all my heart
I congratulate you on your win-
ning of the Peace Prize of the
World Peace Council.

“IT recall that in his epic poem,
Let the Railsplitter Awake, Pablo
Neruda, the great Chilean poet
who was a previous winner of the
same prize, noted with sorrow that
in the United States ‘Charlie Chap-
lin, last father of tenderness in
the world, is defamed.’

“But I also remember that fas-
cists everywhere hated you for

| your anti-Nazi film,

Dictator. Well, Hitler and
gang are gone, but Chaplin
his art lives on! And your nam”
will be honored — yes, here
America, too — long after 7 a
Carthy and his kind are burie®
in oblivion. .

“Your affirmation of life and
beauty, so poignantly portrayed 4
your classic Limelight, unites YO"
inseparably with mankind ever |
where; and it is that common sie
firmation which guarantees
victory of peace and brings a:
closer the day when human bre
erhood shall be a passport for

; . ”
“May we meet again soon!

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 23, 1954 — PAGE”