ASSOCIATED NON-OP. RAILWAY UNIONS ON” STRIKE 2 CPC. ae Alderman Harry Rankin walked with non-operating railway workers’ pickets Friday afternoon in support of their just demands for better wages and conditions. _ ASSOCIATED NON-DP. RAILWAY UNIONS STRIKE _ CN OM C.P.-C A SRR aaa € e Unionists condemn bomb as ‘an act of gangsterism’ Trade unionists at the Van- couver and District labor coun- cil meeting Tuesday night voted unanimously in condemnation of the bombing of the Russian People’s Home calling the attack ‘an act of gangsterism.”’ The executive resolution noted that ‘such despicable acts are totally alien to the demo- cratic principles on which our trade union movement is based’’ andcalledonthe police department and the attorney- general's office to do every- thing possible to bring about the arrest and conviction of those responsible. Speaking to the resolution, Jack Phillips stated that ‘‘itis quite obvious that there is a malignant political cancer in our midst and we must cut it “out.” “We have nothing but contempt,’’ he declared, “‘for those who would attempt to bring about political change or express political criticism through dynamiting or assas- sination or other acts of terror. “The time has come to puta stop to these vicious acts of gang- sterism with their reactionary political overtones before some victim — probably an innocent victim — is blown to kingdom come. : ‘If bombing is to become a common method of expressing political differences,’ Phillips said, ‘‘then the labor movement will inevitably suffer casualties because the right wing terror- ists who commit such crimes are among the worst enemies of organized labor. “This act must be sharply and publicly condemned by every democratic organization, by every newspaper, by every trade union and by every indi- vidual. We must create sucha revulsion that the authorities will leave no stone unturned to bring the perpetrators before the bar of justice. ‘Enough is enough,”’ Phillips demanded, ‘‘it is time for the authorities to act.” Phillips also drew attention to the ‘‘dregs of reactionary poli- tical organizations who flooded our country during the Cold War with the open welcome of the Canadian government”’ and de- clared that ‘‘we will not tolerate political scum from other coun- tries who violate our hospi- tality in trying to impose their ideas on their fellow Canadians by the use of dynamite bombs.” Elsewhere in the council meeting, CUPE delegate Dave Werlin pointed out that thefive employees of the Quarry House Restaurant on Vancouver's Little Mountain who were sup- posed to have been reinstated following a Labor Relations Boardruling were fired againby the anti-union employer. Werlinrapped the provincial labor legislation and com- mented that, while the employer is able to flout the law, the employee has to go through a maze of court procedures in order to protect his legal rights. CUPE intends to meet with the Parks Board which grants the contract to Bollmann and Sons to operate the restaurant, to demand the reinstatement of the five workers with full pay and failing that, that the con- tract with the operator be revoked immediately. Labor council delegates voted to concur with the position taken by CUPE and notify the appropriate city authorities of the decision. Retail Clerks delegate Ron Pfleuger also noted the implica- tions of the anti-labor legis- lationin the continuing dispute with Shoppers Drug Mart. Pfleuger pointed out that the union has been accused by Kof- fler’s, which operates the drug stores, of ‘‘refusing tomoveon major issues’’ and said that the major issues involved are com- pany demands to remove the pharmacists from the bargain- ing unit and further demands that all scabs now working in the stores be included in collec- tive bargaining. If the demands PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1973—PAGE 8 were met by the union, it would virtually render ineffective the three-year effort of the Retail Clerks to unionize the drug chain in Vancouver. ‘Commenting on the position of the B.C. FederationofLaborin maintaining the ‘‘hot’’ declara- tion on Shoppers Drug Marts and their products in the face of a Supreme Court injunction, Marineworkers delegate Bill Stewart told delegates to be pre- pared for demonstrative action in support of the declarationin order to make it effective. Stewart also condemned the policies of Kofflers in dragging the union through the courts and doing everything possible to thwart union organization. Delegates also unanimously adopted a resolution submitted by the council executive calling for an immediate investigation of all marketing boards and distributors with a view to reducing prices to the con- sumer and, at the same time, maintaining a fair price to the primary producer. Earlier the council had called upon the federal government to give power to the federal Prices Review Board in order to curb price increases and bring prices down. Terrorist bomb sparks protest cont'd from pg. 1 been invaluable in providing a place for dozens of activities.” Trade unionists and members of the ethnic community reacted with anger and revulsion to the terrorism and noted the significance of the attack in the context of other such acts else- where in the country and on the continent. ; In a statement issued by the executive committee of the Federation of Russian-Cana- dians, Walter Gawrycki warned that the bombing was not an isolated attack on Russian-Cana- dians or the Russian Hall but *‘an attack on the Canadian people as a whole,’ and must be condemned by people every- where. Gawrycki, thehallmanager, also called for *‘an unceasing investigation’ by the police department to find the criminals who perpetrated the act of violence. The investiga- tion into the New Year's Day bombing in 1972 turned up nothing and even the mystery surrounding the theft of 100 sticks of dynamite from aroad construction project in West Vancouver during Soviet Premier Kosygin’s visit was never cleared up. Interviewed at the hall while some minor repairs were being carried out, George Legebokoff. a long-time member of the FRC, ‘stressed that the attack was not the work of some amateur but of ‘‘an organized group with its own political motivations. He said that reconstruction of the hall would certainly be started as soonaspossible and called for government assistance in meeting the costs of rebuilding. The Communist Party, ina statement given by provincial secretary Nigel Morgan Tuesday, noted the increasing incidence of fascist acts of terror and of Monday's bombing, and called for the widest public con- demnation of Monday's bombing. Insurance gouge cont'd. from pg. 1 rationalization that they are losing monéy is contradicted by their own actions the statement alleged: *‘Just how ludicrous and untrue claims of the com- panies losing money are is shown by the expensive court action that they have launched to try and block the government take-over. It is obvious that the insurance monopoly, largely. U.S. owned or controlled, is doing everything it can not only to thwart the Legislature ’sdeci- — sion, but to make B.C. auto owners pay through the nose for any expenses they incur in doing ithe Pickets charged | | in grape boycott cont'd from pg. 1 weeks. It was apparently aimed at curtailing criticism and taking the edge off the growing grape boycott campaign. Meanwhile two farmworkers in Delano were murdered last week, one felled by a sniper's bullet as he rode a truck along the picket lines, and the other received fatal brain damage after being clubbed by a Delano county police officer. In Vancouver, United Farm Worker rep Gail Borst and five others were scheduled to appear in court Wednesday afternoon to answer contempt of court charges, arising out of picket- ing Slade and Stewart ware- houses. Pickets arrived at the ware- house Monday morning inantl- cipation of a ten-ton shipmentof grapes that were to arrive that day. The warehouse was shut down tight as _ workers. members of the Retail Clerks and Warehouse Employees Union, respected the pickets. A" injunction against picketins was served early Tuesday mor ' ing, and another was posted at p.m. Tuesday, but picketiNé continued in defiance of thé court orders. Mrs. Borst and the picketers were served COM tempt citations early Wedne® day morning. Slade and Stewart, who handle the great bulk of scab grape coming in to Vancouver. 4!” intent on breaking the grape noe cott in Vancouver which re been successful in keeping ' grapes out of Safeway 4? number of other retail outlets: Last week they secure’, Supreme Court. injunclt’ against the B.C. Federation Labor's *‘Hot Declaration ae California grapes. The ree : tion replied this week wit é stronger hot declaration i showed nointentionof yield! to the orders. the The contempt citations are first direct court actions ! round of confrontations wil? B.C. Federation of Labor Wg, began with the Federation fiance of the Shoppers t Mart injunction. As the PT We to press, the Federati® cott meeting with the grape jon had a at workers but as yet no ac been planned.