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is big business
and not only

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__arlels, housing, etc. The investor

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Beeney is now getting between
Bets age earner and his job, and
a a big cut for merely

eine him with a job.
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ae Operator is no more than
Ps sion agent, with
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Profitable that there is a
into. € spot for him to move

MOLENCE

‘El

a S. Payne, Vavenby, B.C.

lisheq the following (unpub-

: letter to The Sun:

democraces bless our so-called
No ‘

armeq we have peaceful
against : people protesting
Tible fo Violence in all its hor-
own as and they are gunned
ack or front. We must ask

iN, ai Who gave the order to
killer; Set themselves up as
ine pidges?
1S Supposed age of emanci-

Quen FORUM

THEY TELL US

pation and equality, is this the

participatory democracy the
politicians yak about cum elec-
tion time?

The gunning down of unarmed
people anywhere on earth
should be of gravest concern to
all those who value life and
especially those who profess in
protect their young.

Of as great concern is the
allowing of one such as this
“Thunderbilt’”’ character, (The
Sun, May 20, 1970) to advocate
the mass killing of people.

I am more than shocked, Mr.
Editor, that you should publish
such a letter from such a person,
T. Poirer by name, who is
allowed to advocate. the very
violence these people were pro-:
testing— unarmed yet!

ROBERTS BANK

John Tanche, White Rock,
writes: In the issue of the White
Rock Sun of June 18th, a whole
page
opening of Roberts Bank.
Officially presiding were out two
premiers, Trudeau and Bennett.
Presiding for what? — over the
giveaway of our natural
resources?

And to add insult to injury
would it be far fetched to say the
investments of our public money
in the port to the tune of twenty
eight million dollars, while we
are told, there is no money for
education, for hospitals, you
name it we haven’t got Les

Personally to be quite frank, I -

see nothing to be beaming about,
after three years of tax free,
“would you call it plunder’ the
province is to receive ten cents a
ton, that is if the operation 1s
going to last any longer perhaps
only craters will remain by tien,
or the company will continue
under another name?

At the open pit miné the
loading is done with giant scoop
loaders made in the U.S.A. The
special boats to transport the
coal are C.P.R. owned under
foreign registry, SO Canada
cannot derive any revenue from
the profits, the C.P.R. saw to
that. These boats. of
supertonnage are made in Japan
so. that Canadian labor
unemployed, and Canadian firms
locked up for lack of orders.

All this with our Canadian ore,
while our youth are going to be
put in the army to get a few
paltry dollars to
university education, because
there is no other employment.

was devoted to the official .

continue their .

ag’ “Militant support given

striking N.S. fishermen

Striking UFAWU trawl
fishermen in Nova Scotia are
receiving unprecedented support
in their struggle to win union
recognition and a first contract
from two giant fish companies,
one of them U.S.-owned.

Construction men, pulp
workers and coal miners walked
off their jobs in protest against
the sentencing of trawlermen
pickets, one of whom received a
nine month jail term because the
judge sitting on the case saw
“smiles and laughs in the
courtroom.” ;

Immediately the Nova Scotia
Federation of Labor called an
emergency meeting of union
representatives, and a general
strike was threatened.

‘Church leaders and wide
sections of the public at large
reacted in outrage against the
refusal of the companies to
negotiate and the sentencing of
men who were exercising their
right to picket.

Jack Nichol, secretary -
treasurer of the UFAWU in
Vancouver, said early this week
that all the men who were
sentenced have been released on
bail, with those awaiting trial
having their cases set for a later
date.

President Homer Stevens and
business agent Glen McEachern
of the west coast UFAWU who
are presently assisting in Nova
Scotia, report that the

spontaneous support from all.

sections of labor brought
thousands of hard-hatted miners,
construction and pulp workers
out to the fishermens’ picket
lines in Mulgrave and Canso.

The trawlermen, who fish
mainly for flounders, haddock
and cod off the east coast have
been at the mercy of two giant
firms, Booth and Acadia. Parent
company to Booth Fisheries is
Consolidated Foods Corporation
of the U.S.A. In June, 1968

- Consolidated’s assets were $365

OBITUARY

Michael Khaluk

An old time member of the
Communist Party of Canada,
Michael Khaluck, passed away
in the Haney hosptital on July 1st
at the age of 66.

He joined the party in 1934 and
was active for many years as a
logger before he went to Alberta
‘where he operated a feed mill.

In the depression years he was
fired from his job in the
Hammond Sawmill becuase he
engaged in union activity, and
continued his fight for progress
all his life.

He returned to B.C. this year,
and suffered a stroke which left
him crippled, but he never lost
his interest in the workers’
struggle.

He is survived by his brother
Emanuel, of Hammond, B.C.
and two sisters in the Ukraine.

ANNOUNCEMENT —
OPTOMETRIST

ANTHONY H.J. LEE, BSc.,
O.D., graduate of University of
Waterloo, Ontario announces the
opening of his practice for eye
examination, contact lens fitting &
visual training. Phone for appoint-
ment 687-1018.

253B East Hastings St.
Vancouver 4, B.C.

‘million and its 1968 profits were

$87 million.

Booth has received subsidies.
of over $1 million from the

federal government to build -

their trawlers.

Acadia Fisheries is a
subsidiary of Boston Deep Sea
Fisheries. Acadia received over
$3 million from the federal

‘government to build their

trawlers, as well as a loan, not
yet repaid, of $9 million from the

‘Nova Scotia government with
which to build their Canso

processing plant.

The strike started in March of
this year. It includes 235 crew
members employed on 16 large
ocean trawlers and- some 50
inshore fishermen on small
boats.

Issues in the strike include
recognition of the UFAWU as
bargaining agent and the
winning of a first contract to
establish wages, prices, working
conditions, time off in home
port, fair weighing and grading
of fish, right of grievance
against unfair dismissal and
blacklisting among other de
mands.

Workers in the processing
plants at Canso, Mulgrave and
Petit De Grat are members of
the Canadian Seafood Workers,
CLC, and all have respected the
UFAWU picket lines since the
strike began. Many of them, as
in B.C., have been cut off or
denied unemployment
insurance:

Homer Stevens says that in the
first weeks of the strike the
companies hoped to starve the
members into surrender, but the
financial, material and moral
support given by other workers
has defeated company dreams.

The National Farmers’ Union
has donated food of all types;
autoworkers in Ontario have

sent cheques, as well as
Telephone Workers, West Coast

fishermen, seamen, pulp
workers, firefighters and
electricians.

The spirit of the fishermen is
high, reports Glen McEachern..
He asked Vancouver head-
quarters last week to send more
union decals.

“The cars down here are all
plastered with UFAWU decals”
he said. “They've got them on
their houses, they’re wearing
them on their clothes.”’

Support is urged in the way of
whatever sympathizers can
afford. :

Cheques should be sent to:
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union and mailed to
James Collins, P.O. Box 298,
Mulgrave, Nova Scotia.

UNION GRAPES

The organizing committee of
the United Farm Workers report
that union grapes are now in
Vancouver in quantity.

Union organizer Pamela Smith
asks.consumers to demand union
label grapes where they shop,
and ask to see the union label.

Associated Press from Los
Angeles reports that growers of
table grapes in California,
representing 50 percent of the
whole, are now prepared to deal
with the union. _

It Pays
to Sell
the ‘PT’

Contact:

E. CRIST, Circulation Mgr.
at 685-5288

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