ieee oe | OP I oo | | 1) a i 1 by Nigel Morgan CASE FOR A CANADIAN POLICY - A REPLY TO THE U.S. PLAN TO TAKE OVER CANADA'S WATER RESOURCES a j NEW PAMPHLET ON WATER RESOURCES. Above is the front cover of a new Pamphlet by Nigel Morgan, B.C. leader of the Communist Party, which has just come off the press. ‘‘The Case for a Canadian Water Policy” exposes the U.S. Plan to take over our water resources and puts forward an all-Canadian water Policy. The pamphlet will be available at the Co-op Bookstore, 341 W. Pender, and from Communist Party offices at Rm. 502 Ford Bldg., Vancouver. ‘60,000 children need treatment’. John Brown, director of the famed treatment centre for child- ren near Toronto, at Warren- _ dale, told a Vancouver audience last week that there are 60,000 British Columbia children who require treatment for malad- justment, Speaking last Tuesday night at the annual meeting of the Child- Yen’s Foundation in Stanley Park First man of the new era Five years ago, on April 12, 1961, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blazed man's first journey into outer space, orbiting the earth in his rocket ship Vostock 1. There ave been many Soviet .‘firsts” in the cosmos since, but Yuri Ga- Garin’s historic and daring achievement stands as the first milestone in man's ultimate con- qvest of space. Pavilion, he said that the prob- lem of the emotionally disturbed children is the *most serious facing our society today.” Brown. attacked the “dehum- anizing” process that goes on in institutions for the sake of organization rather than the good of people being treated in them, «The dehumanizing is espec- ially evident in our institutions,” he said, “There they like to organize to save food costs, to get three shifts a day. We would’ be hard pressed to justify regu- lations on the basis of the good of the children. We organize programs not for the children, but for the convenience of staff.” He scored the community re- jection of people who have re- ceived treatment, Public or- ganizations such as churches and recreation societies and private clubs are reluctant to accept them back after treatment, *¢We believe the emotionally disturbed child should be trained in public classrooms as much as possible,” said Brown, “The school reaches into every fam- ily. It reaches every child, I don’t think the few treatment fa- cilities you have here can reach 60,000 children, But the schools: can,” Attention—Lower Mainland Residents ANNUAL MAY DAY RALLY SUNDAY—MAY Ist at 8 P.M. PPENDER AUDITORIUM—339 West Pender Hear @DR. J. ENDICOTT speak on “PEACE IN VIETNAM” @ Songs by THE MILESTONES @ TRADE UNION SPEAKERS Proceeds for Medical Aid to Vietnam Sponsored by: Trade Union May Day Committee three of B.C.’s biggest unions, [rem | TT TTT TTT a eT Wd LABOR ROUNDUP: Large B.C. unions unite for contract negotiations Under the sponsorship of the B.C, Federation of Labor (BCFL) the IWA, Carpenters and Long- shoremen met last week to dis- cusS ways and means of co- ordinating wage contract nego- tiations, currently underway in these and other trade unions in BG. Resulting from this meeting, these unions are now represented on a “Co-ordinating Committee” established by the BCFL, and “designed to keep the unions in- formed on the various wage talks and other matters, and to pro- vide mutual aid and assistance,” according to BCFL secretary- treasurer E.P, Pat O’Neal, Other unions including Pulp and Sulphite and Steelworkers, both currently in wage negotiations, have also been invited to partici- pate in the work of this com- mittee, Its present members include IWA District president Jack Moore, Lorne Robson, busi- ness agent for the Carpenters, Craig Pritchett, Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s repre- sentative, and BCFL executive officers, Some 29 locals of the Car- penters Union covering approxi- mately 7,500 members through- out the province are still in conciliation proceedings, follow- ing many months of frustrating and fruitless negotiations with employer representatives cov- ering some 600 construction firms in B.C, The Carpenters are seeking a 50-cent increase plus improved fringe benefits and a seven hour working day without loss of take- home pay, Construction spokes- men are “hanging tough” on the hours issue, and refusing to dis- cuss other union demands until that is settled. In this obstruc- tion the Carpenters see every evidence on the part of em- ployers’ Joint Industry Com-— mittee of seeking to provoke a May Day special Have you placed your ad in the special 12-page May Day issue in color coming off the press April 29? Have you ordered a bundle to distribute among your workmates and friends? ae Don't lose any time. Do it now! Weather: We"? tun” Colder tonight. Winds light. Low, 2 3248, . gotiations, strike at the expiry of the present contract, Negotiating for Forest Indus- trial Relations (FIR) with the IWA, John Billings starts off with the demand for more re- ‘strictive anti-labor legislation, aimed at penalizing unions for “wildcat” or alleged “illegal” strike actions, PAT O'NEAL, B.C. Federation of Labor secretary-treasurer, this week an- nounced the setting up of a Co-ordin- ating Committee of B.C. unions for “‘mutual aid and assistance.” In view of these and other de- velopments in current wage ne- the Co-ordinating Committee set up by the B,C, Federation of Labor can become a strong decisive factor for the maximum success of all unions in this year’s wage negotiations, As one carpenter told the PT in outlining his union’s policy, in the words of an old CIO song, our’s is to “Take it easy — but take it.” * * * A recent session of the Kam- loops and District Labor Council instructed its executive body to establish a committee which would be assigned the job of co- ordinating the fullest support of all unions behind any union faced with the necessity of, or con- templating strike action, First intended as a regular *Standing committee” of the KDLC, but later regarded as con- travening Canadian Labor Con- gress regulations, the com- mittee’s tenure was therefore reduced to that of “temporary” but to act “in the spirit of the resolution” in mobilizing and co- ordinating the widest trade union unity during strike struggles. Che Sun “Another example of American contempt for Canadian sov- ereignty,” was how United Elec- trical, Radio and Machine Work- “ers (UE) Union described recent reports of U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) operations in Canada, In a wire to Prime Minister _ Pearson, UE national secretary- treasurer George Harris stated: “FBI and RCMP actions inthis and other situations . . . raise questions of the supremacy of the civil authorities. Increasingly the police act as a law unto themselves in complete disre- gard for civil rights, “We demand that you make clear to the public that intru- -sion of FBI in Canada will not be tolerated, and that the RCMP has no right to approve or sanc- tion operations of a foreign po- lice force in Canada.” * * * According to their News bulle- tin, Vancouver Civic Employees Union (Outside Workers) states: “We are prepared to enter into negotiations at this stage on the basis of the Lawson formula, Should the City Council refuse to negotiate on this basis, and in the event of @ strike, that proposition by the Union could be withdrawn, ‘“‘The fact that the members of the Vancouver City Hall Em- ployees Association have over- whelmingly rejected the majority report of a conciliation board (which recommended a wage in- crease of 5.5 percent over one year) is quite significant, It proves that there is a very wide dissatisfaction with City Council policy in respect to wages and salaries,” Replying to a letter from the Outside Workers to last week’s Vancouver and District Labor Council (VLC) secretary-trea- surer C,P, Paddy O’Neal stated; ‘You can be assured that your local union and the Vancouver City Hall Employees’ Associa- tion, will have the full support of the labor movement.” Similar letters pledging full support to both city employees organizations have been received from the West Vancouver Muni- cipal Employees Association, and from both the National and B,C, Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), “7. "ueat 50 PAGES ‘ireulation ~~ = = = = VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1966 tokC PRICE 10 CENTS 3 fe Monee By BOB PORTER Handwritten notes left by accused spy George Victor Spencer show he was linked by friendship with Harold Prit- chett, a top Communist in Spencer's night. Pritchet Spencer's notes indicated that Pritchett helped arrange a Sitelorss| ington discharge Ai RCMP Report Sought, P. 13 in 1948 sawyer jionat on compassionate sawmill. Army clerk, was found dead in his East End home here Saturday him to arrange the meeting with Wor S did it. “I 50 he f to help him, as I was ber actually mé glad to help a lot of fellows.” paces me a itged from the neste oat hett, pul IWA with several other officers ties, works today as a shingle former postal tt said Spencer asked =: for Communist Party in a Fraser River He is still a party ar. But he said he didn't remem- Spencer of the war when between ‘Gen, Worthington. Pritchett said that at that time (late 1945) he bad been & member of a war committee siness, With R Pritchett scoffed at the alle- that Spencer spied for — ~ acme bassy in any way “he'd be such ‘a small potato..." Pritchett said that as far as rounds. comp business, com- claims, that heads would roll if a ericheti at ibe line ai ihe. official, serving on the provin- munity and labor leaders who iked were B.C. president of the Interna. cial executive, reat around promoting the war ! tional Woodworkers of America He tok _ and encouraging people ‘The notes in which and a top official of the Labot interview at the mill that , bonds. to Pritchett are held Progressive Party, which later cer was never “to my . Su at_ meeting, Pritchett by E. Jervis became. the Communist Pai v 2 knowledge" a member of the Ce said, he had seen Spencer onl ‘employee who was col- of Canada. : - Communist’ Party of Canada, é two or three times” and that —— Pritchett was described in VICTOR SPENCER he understood the postal HAROLD PRITCHETT only casually when they met on GEN. WORTHINGTON Please Turn to Page Two worker belonged to the Canada- ++. Communist friend the street. ++. arranged discharge See: Spencer's fotes as a man “UP TO THEIR OLD TRICKS. The gutte day in Vancouver this week, as the Tuesday's Sun showed, trying to establish a “‘link’’ be- tween ‘‘accused spy” George Victor reds ‘’ The Province algo indulged in unscrupulous sensa- g tionalism to try and sell papers. The Sun story could r press had a field above headline in Spencer and ‘the anti-m more easily have established a link between Spencer and King George VI, who pinned a medal on Spencer for ser- vices during the war, All this points up to the need for supporting the current PT sustaining fund drive to byilda poly press which will expose the cold war machinations of the big business press. April 15, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7