Colin Gabelmann,
Legislative Director for the
B.C. Federation of Labour,
speaking on April 10 at First
United Church to the Coalition
Against Repressive Legisla-
tion, termed withdrawal of Bill
88 as a classic example of the
importance of unity in resist-
ing repressive legislation. Mr.
Gabelmann stated:

“At our last B.C. Federation
of Labour convention,
delegates enthusiastically en-
dorsed a policy statement
entitled: “The Campaign to
Divide our Community.’ This
statement outlined the efforts
by right wing politicians and
some newspapers and radio
open-liners to create division

between oppressed groups in
our community.

It called for closer co-
operation to achieve unity
between the labour movement,
the poor — whether working or
unemployed — and other

groups'such as teachers and, of -

course, their students who
have been the object of vin-
dictive and repressive actions
by the Bennett government.

“Through Bill 88, the govern-
ment sought to use the same
tactics to divide the labour
movement. We maintained
unity and the government gave
up, at least temporarily, its
latest repressive move. The
message for all of us should be
clear. We must actively sup-

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

- GABELMANN STRESSES
IMPORTANCE OF UNITY

port each other in the face of
attacks by the Bennett govern-

ment and the corporate elite
which it serves.

This means that, instead of
calling for propaganda dir-
ected against other groups, we
must go out of our way to
understand their problems.

Instead of criticizing the
labour movement, pensioners,
welfare recipients, and the
working poor must become
aware of the problems faced by
the labour movement in
trying to upgrade living
standards for the entire com-
munity. Instead of condemning
those on welfare, trade
unionists must extend sym-
pathy and assistance.

We must all recognize, too,
that the teachers’ fight and the
pensioners’ fight are the same
kind of struggles that we are
involved in and we must give
them full support.

~“Those who would divide us,
under whatever guise, are the
enemies of us all. We must re-
ject them, whether they
represent employers’ or
government. Unity, un-
derstanding, mutual support
and intelligent and practical
political action offer the only
hope for the majority of British
Columbians, in fact all but the
few who enjoy special favours

and privileges from this
government.

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CCF CROWN CORPORATIONS

Crown corporations origin-
ally set up by the former CCF
government of Saskatchewan
have returned profits to the
people of $33,717,000, not
counting the profits of the two
biggest publicly owned
utilities, the Power Corpora-
tion and the Telephone Com-
pany.

These figures were given in
the legislature by Wes Robbins
(NDP Saskatoon-Nutana
Centre). The amount he re-
ferred to represented the total
earnings of the publicly owned
companies dealing in insur-
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minerals, bus transportation
and forest production.

“Not one dollar of that
$33,717,000 would have been
returned to the people of Sask-
atchewan if we had not had a
Democratic Socialist govern-
ment”, Mr. Robbins declared.

The Saskatoon MLA cast-
igated the Liberals for continu-
ally dredging up ‘“‘the hoary old
Stories about the box factory,
shoe factory, tannery and
woollen mill, whose total loss
amounted to only $1,675,220.”
He said the Liberal purpose
was not only an attempt to
blacken the record of the 1944-
64 CCF administration, but
also to create the impression
that publicly-owned enterprise
is somehow inefficient.

By contrast, he pointed out,
the Liberal government from
1964 to 1971 had not only failed
to develop public enterprise,
but had imposed the heaviest
tax load in the province’s
history, Ten days after the
Liberals had been re-elected in
1967, a new budget was brought
in increasing taxes by
$38,000,000.

“At both provincial and
federal levels,’’ said Mr.
Robbins, “trying to get Liberal
politicians to realize economic
realities is like trying to pin a
piece of jelly to the wall.”
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