RI Britain’s striking seamen British merchant seamen are shown marching to London's Trafalgar Square fora ‘mass rally. This week the 62,500-member union called on world labor to place an embarg@ against handling British ships to counteract the strike breaking tac- tics of British shipowners. The strike is now in its fourth week. called to The demand for immediate ac- tion by U.S. President Johnson On civil rights was spurred this week by the shooting of James Meredith on a highway in Miss- issippi to halt his peaceful march through the racist state to en- courage Negroes to register to vote, Ambushed by a white racist Soon after he entered Mississippi the shooting of Meredith has Shocked decent people every- LABOR Cont'd from pg. 1 Commerce convention in Pen- ticton where the head of Lenkurt Electric was publicly compli- mented for his tough line towards labor, Meanwhile, only a handful of dismissed Lenkurt employees have been re-hired, The Lenkurt _ dispute and the increased use of injunctions in labor disputes is expected to be a top item at a Special conference of the B.C, Federation of Labor called in Vancouver for June 19. Also expected to be high onthe agenda of the crisis parley is the matter of co-ordinating bar- gaining strategy among B.C. unions in negotiations involving “a major portion of B.C.’s work force, The conference will also con- Sider plans for a stepped up Campaign to raise a $100,000 ' defence fund to help unions. in difficulties and to fight injunc- tions, contempt and other court Proceedings arising from them, June 10, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3 ~ Bigger march than Selma protest shooting where, Civil rights leaders inthe U.S, have called for a march “bigger than Selma.” “We are going to put President Johnson on the spot,” King told a press conference, — “He had a civil rights con- ference the other day and now we are demanding immediate ac- tion from the federal govern- ment, We need help and we need it now. His words cannot stop bullets,’’ said King. _ All civil rights groups have joined forces to stage the mass march _ through Mississippi. Meredith, who is recovering in hospital, said this week he will’ ‘rejoin the march as soon as he is able. LABOR ROUNDUP: Students back city strike; Phillips hits ‘distortion’ Under the chairmanship of Peter Braund, President U.B.C. Student Council, Vancouver High. School students were invited by a circular leaflet to a meeting Monday at City Hall in support of Vancouver Civic Employees Union (Outside Workers), In the leaflet Student Councils of both U.B.C. and Simon Fraser University urged all students “to respect picket lines of all legiti- mate strikes,” and emphasized that “strike breaking by students will not bring an end to the strike of Vancouver Outside Workers,” — At Monday’s student meeting at City Hall students carried pla- cards proclaiming “Students are not scabs,” and “We demand fair play for labor,” This was the descriptive an- swer by students to a handful of young people who crossed an Outside Workers Union picket line to cut City Hall grass, As one student sharply put it at the meeting; it. is very clear that the young people who crossed the picket line are not fully aware of their actions, For instance when many young people need summer jobs, where do they go to find these jobs with decent wages? They go to jobs that are unionized, He added that one unfort- unate aspect to their action is that trade unions, when. filling job vacancies, do not take kindly _to providing jobs for strike breakers, despite the fact that they are young and inexperienced in the struggles that labor has gone through in this province for a decent standard of living. A ‘*message” addressed to Vancouver students from Van- couver’s Outside Workers Union was also widely distributed this week, Outlining a number of efforts the union has taken to seek a satisfactory and early termina- tion of the strike, the “message” states: “We understand that your rally today is motivated by a de- sire to prove that students as a whole are not anti-labor and do not condone strike breaking, Thank you very much,” While last Saturday’s Province City, union hold talks Following the Civic Em- ployees Union (Outside Work- ers) application to Labor Min- ister Peterson for the appoint- ment of an Industrial Inquiry Commissioner, ‘‘exploratory talks” were opened Tuesday of this week between union and City Hall representatives with Chief Conciliation Officer Roy MacDonald. At press time the “talks” were still in progress, Union secretary Jack Phillips told the press: “We arevery happy to attend such meetings. If there is any chance to unfreeze the situation our union will be most co-operative,”® editorially “hailed” the handful of misguided students’ effort at scabbing and strike breaking, the main body of student solidarity with the Outside Workers Union provides a fitting reply to Prov- ince scab-herding, Jack Phillips, Secretary of the striking Vancouver Civic Em- ployees Union, today accused City Council officials of publishing a lying, misleading and distorted _advertisement in the Vancouver Sun and Province of Saturday, June 4, The advertisement was illus- trated by a photograph showing two swampers loading garbage into a truck, The heading in big, bold, black type said: “$1,113.48 more.” Underneath the photo was the following: “The City’s present offer will cost the City taxpayers $1,113.48 more in two years for each garbage swamp- er.” Phillips pointed out that the last offer voted on by the union and re- jected was for a wage increase of 14 cents an hour, With 2080 hours in the year, the secretary pointed out, this would mean an annual gross wage increase of $291.50 over the terminal rates in 1965. The total gross wage increase on the basis of this 14 cents, if projected over two years, would be only $582.40, “I don’t know,” said Phillips, “whether or not members of the COLORFUL DANCES | \ FOLK SINGING _ TOP PERFORMERS _| PLAN ON JOINING IN THE Victory Celebration Sat., June 11 — 8 p.m. Queen Elizabeth Playhouse * PT DRIVE RESULTS AWARDS FESTIVITIES - City Council authorized the placing of this ad in the papers, whether it was put out by paid officials or a slick advertising agency, but whoever did it, they completely misrepresented and distorted the facts for malicious purposes, “This kind of propaganda will not fool our members into going back to work and I am certain that the public, once it under- stands the true facts, will be very angry with City Council for spending money for false, anti-labor propaganda,’’ * * * Highlights of Monday’s stormy session of Local 213, Interna- tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) could well be captioned, “how to bust a good union by outside bureaucratic interference,” Approximately 800 members wanted to know “why” the IBEW local elections of executive offi- cers, which constitutionally should have taken place on June 1 had been cancelled? They also wanted to know “why” the Local’s pledged contribution to the B.C, Federation of Labor’s Defence Fund to protectarrested and injunction-ridden unionists had not been honored, and why no relief or strike pay had been forthcoming to the Lenkurt strik- ers, etc,? Local elections had been can- celled ‘‘by order” of the Inter- national office, while the interna- tional executive board plan to utilize the interim period of their re-scheduled election date of July 30, to eliminate all progressive candidates for office, by the simple process of bringing “charges” against them, Before an incensed meeting of some 800 local union members, the international office brass and their Canadian aides did just that. John Kapalka, running for local president, “deposed” busi- ness agent Art O’Keefe, again running for that office, and Les MacDonald, running for local vice-president, were all elimin- ated as candidates, by having trumped-up ‘‘charges” preferred against them, ' Some 20 others who play an active role in the IBEW, and who were active in the Lenkurt strike, including George Shaw, George Angus, Stan Shannon, and Donna Pookay, (a leader in the Lenkurt dispute) have all been “charged” by the international hierarchy of being “involved in illegal work stoppages,” “creating disturb- ances,”’ etc, Following the reading of these “charges’’ Ladyman’s mouth- piece Sharkey attempted to make a speech, but was howled down by a protesting union membership and had to leave the local meet- ing, In a vote on these “charges,” 21 out of an approximate 800 supported the union splitters, Evidence as to what lengths these latter were, and are prepared to go to serve the interests of the bosses, was seen in the heavy “guard” they posted at union hall doors, and in the Pinkertons hired to “guard” the union hall from its membership, saiiaSiant