Vi I) SOVIET TOWNLET FOR NORTH. Above is the model of an unique residential town for the northern territories at the Ust-Khantsisk Hydro Station. It will have 200 comfortable apartments in the living area and year round summer weather even during snow storms and weather over 40 degrees below zero. There will be a school, kindergarten, dining room, medical blocks, club, a library, sport halls, swimming pool and facilities for everyday needs. Building trades parley says Bill 33 must go By CONSTRUCTION WORKER The B.C..and Yukon Building and Construction Trades Council representing 70,000 workers, reaffirmed their. oppo- sition to Bill 33 and to appearing before the Mediation Com- mission at their recent 5th consti- tutional convention in Nanaimo. The officers report said: “‘A new element that confronted us was the existence of the new Mediation Act, known as Bill 33. The Building Trades Unions more than any others came into open confrontation with this anti- labor legislation and refused to be party to compulsory arbi tration. After the prolonged arbi- trarily-instituted lockout insti- gated in conjunction with a boycott of building supplies, our members refused to return to work without an agreement even in face of an edict handed down by the government to do so. Never before had negotiations by our affiliates resulted in a special called meeting of the Provincial Cabinet and never before have our negotiations entered the political arena and taken us to the doorstep of the Legislation buildings.”’ “Our affiliates with minor exceptions carried out the policy adopted at our last conven- tion regarding the Mediation Act. This policy was, namely, “That non-compulsory assis- tance from a Mediator of the Commission be accepted, and (2) That no affiliate appear before the Commission if ordered to do so.”’ “That was one feature of this year’s. negotiations. -There is some talk now that the govern- ment is taking another look at the Mediation Act and the three- CELEBRATE OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION at the Y.C.L.’ers BANQUET SATURDAY - OCTOBER 24th - 6 P.M. FISHERMEN'S HALL 138 EAST CORDOVA ST. Advance Tickets only $2.50 ea. Students (under 16) OAP’s & Unemployed $2.00 (Note change of date!) BETHUNE MARXIST CLASSROOM Lecture No. 1 “New Tasks in the Fight for Peace” Lecturer — W. TURNER SUNDAY — OCTOBER 18th — 10 A.M. FISHERMEN’S HALL (Boardroom) 138 E. Cordova St. All Welcome PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 16, 1970—PAGE 12° © headed monster of a commis- sion they created. ‘‘However, we may feel that both the government and the employers found this mon- strosity to be useful. The main value it had was its very pres- ence even if only seldom used. “Another new factor was the recently formed Construction Labor Relations Association which, in its make-up, ties together all contractors and trade divisions under one roof . This organization, in conjunction with the B.C. Employers Council of which it is a part, obtained the imple- mentation of Bill 22 providing for accreditation which they have since achieved. This organi- zation enforced a lockout and by the use of devious means against employers, such as boycotting the supply of materials, threats as to future contracts, cutting off the source of credit, etc., brought about a shut-down in the building industry more effec- tively than an industry-wide strike could have done. “This was a bold attempt to bring labor to its knees.” The convention adopted a policy of setting up a standing committee to co-ordinate all future negotiations. The Council will take strong measures if the four affiliated International Unions still in negotiations do not quickly consummate satisfactory agreements. Affiliated unions reported in many cases that 20 percent of their membership are unem- ployed. The Council will exert pressures at all levels of govern- ment to maintain full employ ment. The memorandum of under- standing on jurisdiction between the IWA Regional Council No. 1 and the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council was referred back for further study. The convention author- ized the executive officers to enter into negotiations with industrial unions to resolve jurisdictional problems. - Socreds order further cutbacks in education Once again the Socreds have made it known education in the province will bear the brunt of further cutbacks in financing. The ‘‘dynamic’’ government which instituted a freeze on new school buildings in: 1966, and which has brought in more retro- gressive legislation since, informed the B.C. School Trustees last weekend they could expect a decrease in provincial grants for education” and might as well ‘‘sharpen their pencils’” to cut costs which have already been pared to the bone. Education Minister Donald Brothers told the trustees they had to ‘‘eliminate unnecessary costs, effect economies and operate efficiently.” This, despite his knowledge that thousands of students are already attending schools in shift classes, thousands more are housed in portable plywood classrooms and thousands more are without facilities they need to complete a secondary ~ education which would prepare them for the technological world in which they must compete. Last month the B.C. Parent Teachers Federation presented” a brief to the education min- ister which urged education be brought up to date in the province. Now the B.C. School Trustees Association have been making recommendations to the depart- ment for.many months, but, said their spokesman, their efforts have been brushed aside. “B.C. is now in an educational — slump, in a period of reaction against progress in education . . .’, the spokesman charged. Unemployment and _ inflation are blamed by the education minister for the new cutbacks in grants. These were not major problems in 1966, when the cut- backs began, and Brothers knows it. The truth is, all cutbacks in ser- vices to B.C. people — in health and education — are results of pouring hundreds of millions of our tax dollars into the Bennett Dam and to cover losses on the Columbia. ’ "WHY ALL THE ALARM ABOUT AIR “POLLUTION ? WHAT 4— AIR PoLuTion ? pOLuTON” BANKS }conroranons Pollution struggle hits big business Cont'd from pg. 1 because of the size of the mine and the huge amount of effluent it would dump in Rupert Inlet, but also because the area is the scene of considerable mining activity. Utah is seen as a test case, and if granted here, permits would also likely be ° granted other companies. In view. of the refusal of the Socred government and the Pollution Control Board to hold a full public hearing.into the application for a permit, SPEC announced recently that it will hold its own inquiry into the Utah company’s application. Meanwhile, there is consid- erable pressure on the provin- VICTORIA — A march to protest pollution in the province will converge on the Legislative buildings this Saturday, Oct. 17 as many local anti-pollution forces join hands to stage the demonstration. cial government from U.S. finan- cial interests who want to get production at Utah underway, and from Japanese groups who are getting most of the minerals from the operation. The dilemma facing Victoria is how to get the Utah mining company off the hook in face of over- whelming public opposition. The fight to stop the big foreign and domestic corpora- tions from turning B.C. into a vast wasteland for profit requires the widest people’s unity. It is one of the major battlefronts in the fight to curb the destructive activities of the - corporate polluters. The B.C. Federation of Labor was absolutely right when it said in.a press state- ment last week that ‘‘only through pressure from an aroused public is there any hope of the provincial government taking any effective action to cope with the critical pollution situation.”