THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER McMILLAN NEW IWA : ASS'T. RESEARCH DIRECTOR The IWA international of- fice announces that Oliver McMillan, a former logger and specialist in labour education, has replaced Frank Fuller as assistant director of research and education. Fuller resigned to accept a teaching post. McMillan, 35, came to Port- land from the University of California, where he had worked on development of trade union educational courses for the Center for La- bor Research and Education. He taught classes for union officers and stewards through- out Northern California on labor history, grievance hand- ling, shop steward training, leadership psychology and modern trade union problems. A native of Portland, Mc- Millan began working in the forest products industry in -1950 as a choker setter, and later as chaser, second loader and handy rigging man. He also worked briefly in a saw- McMillan entered Reed Col- lege in 1953, and continued work on rigging crews during the summers and as an extra gang longshoreman in winters to pay his college tuition and living expenses. He left college in 1956 tc become a reporter on the Yak- ima (Wash.) Morning Herald. He later worked as reporter in Baltimore, Md., and as la- bor editor of the San Fran- cisco Chronicle, where he also wrote and produced weekly documenta the newspaper’s television station. In 1960, McMillan joined the California Department of Industrial Relations as con- sultant to the Governor’s Ad- visory Commission on Hous- ing Problems. After completing a special research study on farm labor housing, McMillan became public information and educa- tion officer for the state agen- cy, specializing in apprentice- ship and MDTA on-the-job training problems. An active member of the American Newspaper Guild, McMillan served as assistant executive secretary ofthe San Francisco-Oakland Guild be- fore taking the labor educa- tion job with the University of California in 1965. McMillan and his wife, Ju- dith, have three daughters, twins Rebecca and Elizabeth, 5 years, and Katy, 6. CO-OP MOVEMENT ATTACKED BY LIBERAL By CHRIS BIGLU A Liberal backbencher has embarrassed some of his col- leagues by delivering a scath- ing attack on the co-operative movement. James Byrne (Kootenay East) also drew the ire of op- position spokesmen when he told the House of Commons: “The co- ative vement, as it chooses to be called, is nothing more or less than cor- porate enterprise enjoying the benefits of $3 million worth of business each year in Canada.” The BC-MP added: “Co- operatives have become a cor- porate colossus in competitive enterprise, but with a differ- ence—co-operative profits are almost completely exempt from income tax.” : Ron Basford, a fellow Van- couver Liberal and co-chair- man of the consumer prices committee retorted: “I want to make it clear that Mr. Byrne was speaking entirely and completely for himself and wasn’t, as far as I know, representing government views or .. . the views of the Liberal party or myself.” Mr. Basford said the com- mittee is interested in co-op- eratives. He indicated he will press for a recommendation from the committee that a Dominion Co-operative Act be passed to permit establish- ment of federal co-operatives. Tory Bob Macleave, from Halifax, termed Mr. Byrne’s remarks “one of the most singular attacks upon co-op- eratives and credit unions ir Canada. It was atrocious.” Mr. Byrne, who is also parliamentary secretary to Transport Minister Pickers- gill, said co-ops operated with- out paying the 52 percent in- come tax levied on corpora- tions. This, he said, imposes a heavier burden on the per- sonal income tax payer. RCMP PLAYING CIA GAME? The RCMP has been at- tempting to recruit Canadian student leaders, in effect, as agents, it has been revealed. The disclosure that for the past 10 or 15 years the Mount- ies have been contacting trav- elling Canadian student heads came from the horse’s mouth. Doug Ward himself is presi- dent of the 150,000-member Canadian Union of Students. He told an Ottawa press conference: “To the best of my knowledge, the RCMP first contacted CUS — then NFCUS, in the early fifties.” Mr. Ward said that every year since that time, the Mounties approached various CUS heads and said they were interested in receiving inform- ation gained by Canadian stu- dent observers at interna- tional student meetings, par- ticularly in Eastern Europe. “The RCMP was told it WHAT DO YA MEAN NOBODY TAKES AN INTEREST IN YOUR JOB... AIN’T | ALWAYS ENCOURAGIN’ YA... AN’ TELLIN’ YA YOU KIN DO BETTER! could receive only those re- ports and publications which were openly available to the membership of CUS and to the press,” said Mr. Ward. - The 28 - year - old Toronto- nian was asked why CUS had only made the disclosure about RCMP contact at this time. Mr. Ward replied that CUS leaders had always insisted that any interviews with the Mounties be attended by wit- nesses. Other student leaders were informed about such en- counters, he said. But with the revelation that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had channeled its funds through “fronts” posing as philanthropic to student seminars, he thought the time was right to inform Canadians about RCMP activities. “T am disturbed,” said Mr. Ward, “at the approach the RCMP uses, seeking inter- views on a personal basis with people who are obviously se- lected for the positions they hold.” Although Mr. Ward said CUS officials considered the RCMP visits to their head- quarters in the same light as those of other groups inter- ested in students, he indicated that the use to which such in- formation on youth has been put in the past raises grave questions about its propriety. “An RCMP officer can take considerable advantage of young people, and it would be a tragedy if any evidence ap- pears to show that a propor- tion of the people in youth and student movements are in the regular habit of provid- ing information over which they have no control,” he added. sik, Observers noted that the’ checks by the RCMP are rou- tine. 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