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U.S. Worker comments on Pres. Johnson's speech

LET VIETNAMESE RUN OWN AFFAIRS

2a Ee very moment that Presi-
— ohnson was making his
Erik on April 7 offering “un-
oe ‘Seng talks,” he was aware
“i, thin the next few hours the
a St air attack on North Viet-
late yet launched would take
Bi a and that 3,000 Marines
ane aa artillery equipment,
and within hours,

pares facts have not escaped
Be ee, which atfirst felt some
= Tom his remarks, but these
“© Quickly dashed by events.
es United States, “The
K Charged this week that
Petts speech “was a
i. ated effort to bottle up the
Peace he for a Vietnam
; from ‘ at has been welling up
Bea e American people, par-
arly in the last few weeks.”

oo Page story in “The
: r" Said that the President’s
Bee an admission that the
of sett S massive commitment
ships tary personnel, planes,
ty and other armaments to the
PDinileta in Vietnam had failed
ee and that it is im-
le for Washington to de-

feat the wi :
eens Vietnamese liberation

It added that the speech also
reflected the fears of influen-
tial elements in the Johnson
administration that the reckless
escalation of the war would final-
ly bring North Vietnam, China
and the Soviet Union into the con-

flict.

In Britain, Communist Party
leader John Gollan, told a public
meeting that for anyone to let up
in their action for peace in Viet-
nam because of Johnson's speech
would be foolish, «There’s little
doubt that the speech, amongst
other things, was intended to
rescue Wilson from his Left
Wing,” he said,

Gollan added that the way to
peace in Vietnam was for the
ageression to stop, and that the
aggressor was the United States.

In Moscow, the official Soviet
newspaper, «pravda,” said that
there is only one way out for the
U.S, in Vietnam—to stop its ag-
gression before it is too late.

Noting the fuss in the western
press about the President’s
“peace initiative” in his Balti-
more speech, «pravda” com-
mentator Victor Mayevsky added:

| ‘ONLY WAY TO END VIET WAR |
IS TO STOP U.S. AGGRESSION’

“Do U.S, leaders really ima-
gine anybody will agree to con-
duct negotiations under bombing?
One really is amazed at the
‘humanism’ of people who with
one hand hurl bombs on to fac-
tories which the Vietnamese
people have labored to create,
and with their other hand offer
dollars to assist ‘development.’

«Ig it not clear that peace is
the first condition for the eco-
nomic development of any coun-
try? The U.S, is depriving Viet-
nam of this essential condition,
for 10 years it has not let the
Vietnamese people build their
own life in peace and it is now
raising a fuss about it!” said
Mayevsky.

In Peking, the “People’s Daily”
writer, “Observer,” said that
President Johnson’s talk about
unconditional discussion on Viet-
nam was a big swindle,

The article said the Vietnam-
ese people could never be con-
quered by American guns and
aircraft, President Johnson’s
Baltimore address signified the
bankruptcy of the war blackmail
carried on by U.S, imperialism
and which reflected its increas-
ing difficulties and isolation.

Mowers nominated in Interior

wo Communist Party has nom-
Se om Alexander Sandy Mowers
Ontest the riding of Okanagan-

Evelstoke in t
election, he next Federal

i

ae nomination meeting in
m S" Hall, Vernon, on April
a Mowers said that “it was
: RR e for the people of
K he ley to have an alternative
a" Present policies of the old
= aetna which are causing
he ction of Valley fruit farm-
68 Unemployment and stagna-

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&
We must fight each day anew

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Prevent a nuclear war,” said |

OWers, adding that “it isneces-

ay to increase the effort to ,
Che, the government to rid |
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«The Okanagan Valley could be
one of the great centres of Cana-
da, but we need industry and we

SANDY MOWERS

need public control and public
investment in such industries,”
He said that the great new ma~
chines of automation must be
prought under public control and
that only this would ensure that
they will be used to benefit all

of society.

’ Mowers said that new tech-
nological * advances must not be
used to line the pockets of a few
captialists at the expense of the

people,

Mowers, who works in the lum-
ber industry, was the Communist
Party candidate in 1958 andlives
at Notch Hill, He is married and
has one two-year-old daughter.

The meeting, which was well-
attended, was chaired by Charlie

Johnson, Okanagan regional sec-
retary of the Communist Party.

LABOR ROUNDUP:

Typos still deadlocked,
teamsters vote strike

Reports at press time indi-
cated that direct contract nego-
tiations between the International
Typographical Union (ITU) and
Pacific Press, which prints the
Vancouver Sun and Province,
have been deadlocked,

A government -supervised

‘strike vote was completed last

week showing a substantial ma-
jority in favor of strike action,

a ik

A strike vote conducted by the
Teamsters Union covering some
2,500 employees of 55 Vancouver
Cartage companies shows over
80% in favor of strike action, The
employees have rejected a con-
ciliation “board report recom-
mending a 40-cent wage increase
staggered over athree-year con-
tract, The union is demanding a
45-cent boost in a two-year
agreement,

Honors from his fellow-citizens could
not fall to a better man. This week
Jack Henderson, veteran trade union-
ist, for many years a School Board
Member, and dean of organized labor
in Vancouver, was cited a ‘Freeman’
of the City of Vancouver. Last year
Jack Henderson was also named as
“Outstanding Citizen’’ of the Year. A
new Vancouver school on East 53rd

’ Ave. was also named the John Hen-.

derson School in tribute to his long
years of service on the Vancouver
School Board.
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Following a long break in ne-
gotiations between IWA repre-
sentatives and the Frolek Saw-
mills Ltd,, at Kamloops, which
has been strikebound since Sep-
tember 1964. talks between the
company and the union resumed
last week, These, however, soon
bogged down when the company
hedged on the reinstatement ofa
number of striking workers,

IWA representatives took the
postion that all workers em-
ployed at the Frolek Mills at the
time the strike began, must be
reinstated as part of any settle-

ment,
* * *

Mitchell Press, strikebound
since November 2, 1962, have
instituted libel action against of-
ficials of the Vancouver Labor
Council, the B,C, Federation of
Labor, the Allied Printing Trades
Council, and Local 105 Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Bookbind-
ers and its president William
Dunsmuir, (The Bookbinders are
the prime union involved in the
Mitchell Press dispute.)

The Mitchell Press has also
applied to the courts for an in-

junction to prohibit the publica-
tion of similar pamphlets,

The pamphlet at issue featured
the identity and addresses of a
number of workers now serving
Mitchell Press by scabbing on
the striking bookbinders,

* * *

Hard on the heels ofthe grave-
diggers’ strike at two of Vancou-
ver’s largest cemetery opera-
tions for increased wages and
long-overdue benefits, this week
14 casket workers at the Van-
couver Casket Company Ltd,
plant went on strike,

The casket workers are de=
manding a 40-cent per hour wage
increase in a two-year contract,
Current wage-rates in the casket
industry are at sub-standard
levels: $1.50 per hour for women
workers and $1,80 for men,

* * x

Following a letter of protest by
Jack Phillips, secretary of the
Civic Employees Union (Outside
Workers), against the remarks
made by City Personnel Director
B,H, Petersen in a recent speech,
City Council has instructed its
Board: of Administration to in-
form civic officials “they are not
authorized to speak in public on
behalf of Council,”

Phillips’ letter pointed out that
members of his union “find it
repugnant that a high ranking
civic official: should tell city
businessmen how to combat trade
union organization among white
collar workers... .”

The letter also points out that
at the conclusion of his speech
Peterson was thanked by A.M.S,
vice-president B, E, Cope “who
said he was sure that other mem-
bers of the Management Society
didn’t want to see unions move
into their firms,”

“Needless to say,” concludes
Phillips’ letter, “as trade union
members we resent Mr, Peter-
sen’s inference that we are dirty,
noisy. and lower class,”

* * *

Picket lines of the Construction
and General Laborers Union,
Local 602 (Cemetery Section) are
still being maintained at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park and Ocean
View Burial Park, two of Van-
couver’s largest cemeteries,

The gravediggers are striking
to enforce the majority report
of a government conciliation
board award, The deadlock in
settlement results from the man-
agement’s insistence to impose
“open- shop” conditions upon
cemetery workers,

The union reports that both
union and non-union employees
are manning the picket line,

ae

Following lengthy negotiations
with the Vancouver Construction
-Association and the Heavy Con-
struction Association of B,C,,
wage increases up to 54 cents an
hour have been won by the Pile-
drivers Union. The new wage
rates cover some 400 members
in all key B,C, centres,

APRIL 24th
FULL-COURSE CHINESE

DINNER
6 to 8 p.m.

4673 West 8th Ave.

Illustrated Report on
USSR at 9 p.m.

Proceeds to Press Drive

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