ea

Bs

Millions of peo

and cancellation of President Eisenhow

‘of marchers.

ple in Japan are taking part in great national demonstrations against the
Japan-U.S. war pact. Demonstrators are also demanding resignation of Premier Kishi,
er’s June visit. On the left, above, is contingent
On the right, students demonstrating before the Diet.

.C. Ironworkers fight

against U.S. dictation

A new trade union was announced in Vancouver on May 18, the Canadian Iron-

voted to sever their ties with the International.

They made this decision af: |.

ter the expulsion by the In-
ternational Executive Board in
St. Louis, Missouri, of their
three paid officers, all duly el-
ected under Local 97s bylaws
and because all local meetings
were then cancelled by a tele-
phone message from that same
city. As far as the members
are concerned, these officers
were expelled by a Kangaroo
court, instigated in the first
place by the Dominion Bridge
Company. President Bernard
Whitmore, Financial Secretary
Tom McGrath and Business
Agent Norman Eddison led the
Successful Ironworkers’ strike
in 1959 and established the
best contract for Ironworkers |
in Canada. This was a crime |
in the eyes of the bosses, -so
they contacted the Internation-
al in St. Louis and demanded
their remoyal.

The following excerpt from
the “trail” of Whiimore, Mc-

_ workers’ Union, Local Number One. It came into being when 200 angry members of the
International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ironworkers,

Local 97, formally

contention of the Ironworkers
that the three were removed
at the request of the bosses:

; “Following - wire received
June 24, 1959 from J. S. Pres-

| cott of Dominion Bridge Lim-

ited, We notified you by wire
on eighteenth June that we
considered work should con-
tinue on our Second Narrows
Bridge project until south
main pier reached STOP Local
97 arbitrarily and irrespon-
sibly ceased work while bridge
in hazardous position and as
a result this ComPany was
forced by customer to obtain
court injunction yesterday
STOP Your business ageni
Eddison has this morning per-
suaded crew not to proceed
with work theteby defying
court order STOP We regret
this action but long ago: advis-
ed you of the irresponsibility
of certain administrative offic-
ers in Local 97 and the impos-

Grath and Eddison proves the

sibility of doing business with

PUBLIC

SUBJ ECT:

Speakers: TOM McEWEN,
IRVING MORT

ATTENTION ISLAND READERS

“Unhitch Canada from the
U.S. War Machine” :

- €.C.F. HALL - NANAIMO, B.C. -
"SUNDAY, JUNE5-8 P.M.

Everyone Welcome

RALLY

Editor, Pacific Tribune.
ENSON, Provincial
Candidate for Nanaimo.

these men STOP Despite all
the fore-going information
there is still a strike to settle
here and we are convinced
that it cannot be settled with
Eddison and McGrath and that
it will require a strong solid
thinking member of your head-
quarters staff to settle this
strike STOP Would you give
me the courtesty of two an-
swers STOP First did you au-
thorize this strike and second
will your office resolve this
situation as stated in your let-
ter to me dated twentieth Feb-
ruary STOP. '

Local 97 continues to hold
the agreements with the em-
ployers and Local I cannot
apply for certification before
next November.

Many people in the labor
movement are debating the
pros and cons of the break-
away from Local 97. Let them
remember that it was the
Ironworkers themselves, sick
to the teeth -of dictation from
the U.S.A. on the instigation of
their bosses, angry because
their elected officers had been
expelled and ‘enraged because
all local meetings were’ ean-
celled by a telephone order
from St. Louis, Missouri, who
decided to make the break.

In these circumstances, ev-
ery good union member in the
building trades, every honest
labor man, is naturally sym-
pathetic to the Ironworkers in
their struggle for democratic
trade unionism, free of» boss
control and dictation’ from

\

A delegation of more than
70 packed council rooms to
oppose the previous decision to
build a works yard on the
present site of the 22-acre
park. A _ petition signed by

'|5,100 residents was presented

to council. It said ‘‘the city of
Vancouver should look else-

‘a works yard.”

Harry Rankin, prominent
civic leader, presented a brief
on behalf of Grandview Rate-
payers Association which criti-
cized council for making a de-
cision to abolish the park be-
fore getting the opinions of
those affected. He made a
strong case for retaining the

where for a suitable area for |

Keep False Creek Park’
demands big delegation

Faced with mounting public pressure, Vancouver City
Council Tuesday decided not to go ahead with plans to
build the new works yard on False Creek Park until] a
meeting with Parks Board officials. |

: Ls
park.

Other organizations repreg_

Vancouver Labor Counciy
Grandview Chamber of Con.
merce, Vancouver Housin

Association, Community Ay
Council.

The delegation to coungj
a mass meeting on False Cree
Park attended by more tha
250 men, women ‘and childrey
Vancouver Communist Part,
secretary - Harold Pritchet,
said ‘if the people keep up th
fight city council

compelled to abandon its plang
to destroy the park.’

It quotes statements by Al-
len Dulles, U.S. Intelligence
head which make clear that
the U-2 flights were part of
the preparations for an attack
on the Soviet Union and not
for the defence of the United
States. :
Their object was to check on
the strength of Soviet anti-air-
craft defences in order to
make the American Strategic
Command “that much more
effective.” #

Allen Scott, correspondent
for London-American, publish-
ed for Americans living in
London, gives details of what

was said at a conference Dul-

Offensive nature of U2
flights exposed by Dulles

Claims by President Eisenhower that the eve-of__
summit flights over Soviet territory were to prevent —
another “Pearl Harbour” were blown sky-high by a report

published in London, England, last week. ;

—

les had with Secretary of State :

ented at council meeting were

ts

was preceded Monday night by

Christian Herter and Congres.

sional leaders.

Reproducing what it 2@alls
“publishable highlights”
report says the series of U-3
flights during the past Six
months revealed “the exac;
location of many giant ang
costly defences,
in major industrial areas.”

Emphasizing the offensive
nature of the U-2 flights Dyy_

les told the conference “every |

time we locate a Russian antj_
aircraft base we make Strate.
gic Air Command that much
more effective.” :

oe

the U.S.A.

The U.S. State Department announced last Friday that —
the U.S. is ending its foreign aid program to Cuba because ~
it is no longer “in the national and hemispheric interest —
of the U.S.” This is seen as a further act of provocation
against the Cuban people. Photo above shows Cuban
workers in a recent Havana demonstration called
express determination to resist U.S. aggression.

June 3, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 8 _

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