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THE WAY ROTHSCHILD'S article appeared in the April edi-

tion of Science and Mechanics.

(N.Y. Worker}

LABOR SCENE:

Building contractors threaten

carpenters with ‘lockout’!

Approximately 75 independent
building contractor firms have
reached agreement with the Car-
penters’ Union for a new wage
contract,
40-cent an hour wage hike and
reduction of the working day
from eight to 7}-hours, The latter
to become effective in 1967,

Reduction of the working week
has been one of the key issues
demanded by the Carpenters’ Un-
ion since protracted negotiations
began months ago, and has had
a wide backing in the ranks of
organized labor,

It has also been the prime
issue upon which the big building
contractors have ‘hung tough’
and consistently refused to dis-
cuss, thereby bringing industry-
wide negotiations to a grinding
halt.

The major building contrac-
tors, considerably in the majority
who have not reached agreement
with the Carpenters, have now set
Wednesday of this week as the

Pentagon war hawks
want to use deadly gas

Use of lethal poison gases and
disease-bearing bacteria in the
Vietnam war is now being calied
for by top people in the Penta-
gon, Their views were expressed
recently by Brig-Gen, Jacquard
H, Rothschild retd., former com-
manding general ofthe U.S. Army
Chemical Research and Develop-
ment Command,

Admitting that U.S, troops were
already using three types ofnon-
lethal poison gas against the
Vietnamese people, Rothschild

,urges the use of ‘‘humane” gases
and bacteria that would kill or
disable people permanently,

Rothschild expresses these
views in an article published in
the April issue of Science &
Mechanics, which has a nation-
wide circulation, The purpose
of this undoubtedly is to soften
up the American people toaccept
use of these horrifying weapoark

“His argument is that such
will shorten the war,

The former poison gas chief of

the Pentagon justifies the use of
these gases and bacteria withthe
cynical assertion that the U.S.
has made no pledge not to. He
writes:

“The U.S, is not bound by
treaty to observe any prohibi-

tions on the employmentofchem- .

ical or biological agents,’’

Rothschild does not tell his
readers that, as the result of the
horrors perpetrated on soldiers
in World War I through the use
of lethal poison gases, most other
countries did sign an agreement
not to use such weapons in any
future war.

The kinds of gases and bac-
teria Rothschild advocates using
in Vietnam afe thus described in
his article: —

“Among the lethal gases, the
most effective is the nerve gas
GB, A very small amount —
that evaporated from a tiny drop-
let — waffed from the air, is

Surrey plans for march

To complete final preparations
for the big Peace Arch rally on
Saturday, August 6, Peace work-
ers from the Surrey, Delta, Co-
quitlam and White Rock area
will meet on Friday evening,
August 5th at 6 p,m, at the North
Surrey United Church on Fer-

guson Road, 108th Avenue, There
they will be addressed by Mr,
Jack Thomas, NDP candidate for

Delta, and from there will meet -

the Vancouver Marchers at the
Dell Shopping Centre, and con-
tinue on to the Green Timbers
United. Church as planned,

There the combined groups of
marchers and all others inter-
ested will hold a teach-in, sched-
uled to begin about 8:30 p.m. It
is hoped that NDP national leader
T.C. Douglas will be among the
speakers at the teach-in.

Those from the above areas
desiring further information are
urged to contact Miss Ellen Car-
lisle, — phone 584-6886 or 581-
5384,

deadly, VX, another agent with
the same general effects on the
body as GB, is in a liquid form
which does not evaporate very
rapidly and therefore- remains
on the ground and vegetation for
a long time, It is fatal ifa small
amount gets on the skin and is
absorbed,

“Mustard gas — well-remem-
bered from World War I — is
still around too, and is still a
very effective war agent, es-
pecially in hot climates, It
doesn’t usually kill, but does
injure the eyes and lungs and
blisters the skin, so as to cause
many casualties, who require
long hospitalization, ..

“In addition, it is possible to
obtain high fatality rates, pos-
sibly 30 percent, with biological
agents. Diseases which might
lend themselves to this pur--
pose might be anthrax, or some
of the encephalidites, Botulinum
toxin could cause many deaths...
All of these are most effective
as war agents when the organ-
isms are disseminated so as to
become airborne in very small
particles, and are inhaled.”

This provided for a

deadline for a massive lockout,
‘Statutory’ notices giving a 48-
hour deadline for the lockoyt were
distributed by the big contractors
Monday of this week,

This action is obviously in
retaliation to strike actions
called by the Carpenters against
building contractors represented
by their Association, and of which
‘ex-labor leader’ R,K. ‘Roly’
Gervin is the ‘*mouthpiece,”
‘Roly’ now waves the big stick
and charges the carpenters with
being responsible for the threat-
ened shutdown of ‘a billion-dollar
industry.’ At press time there
were signs of a complete shut-
down in the B.C. construction in-
dustry.

Some 4,000 carpenters are em-
ployed by the major building con-
tractor firms, In a government-
supervised strike vote the union
chalked up a 73 percent vote in
favor of strike action to back
their demands, Z

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The Canadian Labor Congress
representing nearly 14 million
members has called a national
conference to be held in Ottawa,
September 27-28 to consider the
use of court injunctions against
trade unions, compulsory arbi-
tration, and so-called ‘manag-
gerial rights’ claimed by em-
ployees. ,

A wide representation of Can-
adian unions is expected at this
important conference, and es-

Kiss of death

A Reuter report says that
people in Thailand are shocked
because U.S. soldiers there have
been hugging and kissing Thai
girls in public.

They have grounds for concern
in view of what has happened in
South Vietnam,

If the effect of U.S. occupation
stopped at kissing and hugging in
public it wouldn’t be so bad. But
Saigon has been described as a
vast American brothel,

The special correspondent of
The Times last month said that
poverty there is so acute that
“the daughters of hitherto re-
spectable parents have, in the
cause of the family livelihood,
begun to be put out to prostitu-
tion.”

There are already 25,000 U.S.
troops in Thailand, and the num-
ber continues to grow.

pecially from B.C. where the
issuance of‘ex-parte’ injunctions
against unions engaged in strike
actions, top all other Canadian

provinces,
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Negotiations which broke off

July 20 between Canada Packers |

Ltd. and the United Packinghouse
Workers Union, are expected to
reopen this week in Toronto,

‘The two-week Packinghouse
Workers Union strike involves
approximately 5,500 workers in
eight cities across Canada, The
Union is seeking a 33-percent
wage hike on the hourly rate
prevailing before the strike,

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A government-supervised
strike vote by 1,700 workers at
the Aluminum Co, of Canada
at Kitimat will begin August 9.
A union vote by the United Steel-

workers rejected the company’s

wage offer by a big majority.
Union members also balloted in
favor of strike action by a big
margin,

The Steelworkers are demand-
ing a substantial wage boost on
the current base rate and ex-
tensive job security provisions.

Champ passes up
Hall of Fame bid

Advised by ‘B.C. Hallof Fame’
authorities that they were desir-
ous of placing his name in that
illustrious assembly, in keeping
with centennial celebrations,
world Olympic champion and gold
medalist Douglas ‘Doug’ Hep-
burn, heavy weight lifter, issued
the following statement in reply
to the tendered honor,

“The representation of my
name and exploits in the B.C.
Hall of Fame I regard as incon-
gruous, in the sense of my aspir-
ations as an athlete.

“I therefore request deletion
until such time that circum-
stances can provoke myaccept-
ance,”

The ‘PT’ has been informed
that other outstanding British
Columbia athletes have also
turned down this signal honor.
They feel that it is designed to
exploit their sports achievements
rather than as a tribute to them,
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