“WHO IS GOING TO STOP ME?”

Pacific Coast

Salmon

trollers refuse to fish

Salmon trollers from the Sac-
remento River in California to
the ports of Puget Sound are tied
up, and UFAWU president
Homer Stevens said this week
only a few trollers were out on
the B.C. coast.

“The work stoppage is spread-

Call transit meet

The Citizens Co-ordinating
Committee for Public
Transit has called a one day
delegate conference to kick
off a campaign to secure a
modern public transit sys-
tem for the greater Vancou-
ver region.

The conference will be held
Saturday, May 13 in the audi-
torium of Templeton Second-
ary school, 727 Templeton,
Vancouver, commencing at
9 a.m.

The conference will be open
to all citizens, community,
fraternal and government or-
ganizations on the basis of a
maximum of 5 delegates per
organization. In addition
individuals will be welcomed.

Delegate fees for organiza-
tions are $2.00 and entitles
each delegate to full voice &
vote. :

ing all along the Pacific Coast of
North America’ stated Home:
Stevens, ‘‘It is caused by the
refusal of the big international
fish combines to bargain in good
faith with representatives of the
troll fishermen.’

A series of mass meetings of
all trollers are being held this
week under joint auspices of the

UFAWU, Allied Workers Union

and the Native Brotherhood of
B.C.-These meetings are open to
all commercial salmon trollers,
whether organized or not.
Members of the Pacific Trollers
Assoc., will be welcomed to
attend, despite the un-coopera-
tive response of their president
and manager.

The trollers are asking for
$1.00 a pound for large spring
salmon, .80 cents for medium
and .50 cents for small. Union
secretary Jack Nichol says there
is a wide differential in what the
big fish companies pay in the
various ports along the coast, but
to date the Fisheries Associa-
tion of B.C. and the Wholesale
Fish Dealers Association have
refused to meet the union to
discuss the prices paid or the gap
between prices at the different
ports.

Spanish amnesty rally

Mickey Beagle, for the Ad-Hoc
Committee for a Democratic
Spain, announced this week that

there will be an informal gather-
ing at the home of Dr. and Mrs.
A.M. Inglis, 3751 Selkirk St.,

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(near 25th and Oak) on Wednes-
day evening May 3, to give
Vancouver residents and
especially women, an _ oppor-
tunity to talk with two Spanish
women who will be visiting that
week.

The visitors, wives of political
prisoners in Franco’s Spanish
jails, will be here on May 2nd to
seek support for amnesty for all
political prisoners. They come to
talk about the role of women in
the resistance movement and
the conditions of political
prisoners, as well as the prob-
lems which face their families.

A public rally in John Oliver
High School is scheduled for
Thursday, May 4 at 8 p.m.

Everyone interested in the
cause of democracy in Spain is
invited to attend the gathering
at the Inglis home, and to attend
the rally on Thursday night.

‘PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1972—PAGE 12

‘LABOR UNITY CAN WIN’

Vancouver's Trade Union May Day
Committee announced this week plans for a
mass demonstration and rally at Vancouver
City Hall on Sunday, April 30th at 2 p.m.

“The open air rally will mark the historic
anniversary of labor’s struggle for the eight,
hour day’ Jeff Power, chairman of the

Committee stated.

“The great traditions of this day
(launched by the North American labor
movement in 1886) are carried forward
today by thousands of B.C. trade unionists,
teachers, hospital workers and others
fighting against attempts to impose wage
controls, compulsory arbitration and union-
wrecking proposals like Bill 88”, Powers

declared.

Among prominent trade union and labor
speakers who have agreed to, address the

All out to May Day rally

Sunday, April 30 — 2 p.m.
City Hall, Cambie and 12th

mass rally are Paddy Neale, Secretary of the
Vancouver Labor Council (C.L.C.); Jim
Kinnaird, President of the B.C. Building
Trades Council (many of whose members are
on the verge of being locked out by the
contractors); Harry Greene, B.C. Vice Presi
dent of the Canadian Union of Public
Employees; Maurice Rush, Editor of the
Tribune;

Pacific
Rankin.

“We're hoping for a big turnout f0
demonstrate Vancouver's opposition 10
Premier Bennett's coercive anti-labor, anti-
teacher, anti-welfare legislation; and f0
indicate wide public support for the B.C.
labor movement and its battle for ful
employment, decent standards of life for ifs
members, pensioners and those dependent
on welfare’, the May Day Committee
chairman concluded.

and Alderman Harry

—_

City workers hail move
to re-open wage talks

Canadian Union of Public Em-
ployees representative Jack

Phillips told delegates to the Van-

couver Labor Council Tuesday
that inside and outside workers
in the city welcomed city
council’s move to see that bar-
gaining was resumed in the
current negotiations.

Council members, on motion
from Ald. Rankin, voted 6-2 to in-
struct Mayor Tom Campbell
(who was not present) to urge
the committee of mayors who
direct the Municipal Labor
Relations Board, their bargain-
ing agent, to return to the bar-
gaining table. Negotiations
were broken off well over a
month ago.

Phillips said he sincerely
hoped other councils in Greater
Vancouver would take a simi-
lar position. All but two unions
in the municipal field have con-
ducted strike votes.

“We are not strike happy,’’
Phillips said. “If settlement is
possible we will meet halfway.
In the meantime we will
proceed with perfecting our
strike apparatus as other
councils and mayors could veto
the decision of the Vancouver
city council.

Syd Thompson, president of
local 1-217 IWA, told delegates
three demands of FIR, which
represents the companies,
could be strike issues. They were
the demands for the imple-
mentation of the 7-day work
schedule in any section of the
industry; a new section that em-
ployers want the right to
“grieve’’ and go to arbitration
when .the employees ‘‘don’t
behave”’ and have the arbitrator
decide on fines against the indi-
vidual and the union. Lastly, the
problems plaguing the fallers,
which the companies in two
years of haggling have never
resolved.

Thompson said woodworkers

are violently opposed to the insti-
tution of the 7-day work week —
and would never accept such a
retrograde step. And an arbi-
trator would simply be a ‘‘club
over our heads,”’ he said.

He dealt with the fallers prob-

lems at length, pointing out that.

although their pay was high, they
earned on the average little
more than the mechanic in the
industry because of hazards such
as wind, snow, storms, fires,

etc., in the woods. A most impor- _

tant issue was the fallers
demand for uniformity in pricing
formula.

He added that the industry is

proposing an out and out cut in
wages for the fallers and their
proposals if implemented will
throw three to four hundred
scalers out of work as well.
_ He charged that the forest
industry has many “friends!”
“Bennett’s call for wage
controls is aimed directly at
forest and construction work-
ers.

Although the industry is
booming with prices at record
levels, Thompson said $50
thousand-a-year men are telling
woodworkers who are not even
in a wage category to get an
NHA loan, that they are respon-
sible for inflation!

Merchant Service Guild
representative George Nelson
made a scathing attack on F.G.
Peskett, of the Employers
Council, who ina speech had said
towboat workers would doubt-
less conduct their negotiations
with operators on ‘the
emotional factors of safety.”’

Nelson reminded his listeners,
and by inference Mr. Peskett, of
the men drowned and injured on
the towboats; of the Haro Strait
accident where five men died, of
the towboat men who have lost
their hearing because of the un-
abated noise on the boats. These
problems are ‘‘emotional’’?

Cliff Rundgren, for Local 23,
Electrical Workers said the
had been in negotiations a
nearly three months and i
even Article 1, Section ! #
been dealt with...
taken a strike vote and is
notice,” he said. ‘Despite
we are prepared to negotla®

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but we are not prepared *

procrastinate. _

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