JOBS MAIN EXPORT AT ROBERTS BANK Siant conveyor belts and loading equipment at Roberts Bank will ship unlimited quantities of B.C. coal and “Ww mineral resources to Japan and the U.S. to be processed denying B.C. much-needed industries and jobs Severe fines against — tug union shocks labor ___ The severity of court fines imposed against the t Point $75,000, has shocked the labor movement and public. ane B.C. Federation of Labor Meet; Called an emergency War. u8 Of the executive council Ur hesday to discuss the new "of events. neouncing the meeting BCFL py. Ray Haynes called Mes “excessive.” the Said: ‘We are shocked at Union onty of the fines. For a fines with 2.000 members these Catagt are nothing less than Bias onic: When one con- Guilg ae the dispute that the aroun Ound itself in revolved Nd sat the question of the lives the ty ely of people employed on Ve boats, the latest turn of S18 incredible.” ado Monday Mr. Justice Merehan fined the Canadian arignit Service Guild $35,000 Orders Out of an injunction ing = the union to stop picket- Prody he Canadian Forest Marpor: Eburne Sawmill in “Conter., “ Second $35,000 “mpt of court” fine was Sec e e towboat union, totalling at this imposed on the CMSG by Mr. Justice Kirke Smith arising from an injunction ordering the union to stop picketing the Darrell Bay ferry access to Rayonier 's Howe Sound pulp mill. Earlier Mr. Justice Dohm fined the CMSG $5,000 for “eontempt of court” arising from an injunction ordering a halt to picketing of a pulp mill at. Port Mellon. Many other cases involving the Guild, the IWA, and the Pulp and Sulphide Union are still pending before the courts. In the case of the pulp union, employers are now in court suing the union in two plants for $300,000 a day for every day ie plants were shut down during tie Guild strike. IWA president Jack Moore Tuesday expressed concern over cases _pending against his union resulting from refusal of woodworkers to cross picket lines and handle hot materials. Under Bill 33 the right of picketing was severely restricted, limiting picketing in the event of a legal strike to the premises of the companies against which the strike was in progress. During the towboat strike, union leaders, including the B.C. Federation of Labor, took the position that injunc- tions restricting unions to “the plush offices’’ of companies spelt inevitable defeat for the unions. Early in the towboat strike F.G. Peskett, spokesman _ for the Employers Council of B.C., advised employers to press their court actions and suits against unions to teach labor a lesson. It is obvious from the leading part played by Peskett and the Employers Council that the big corporations, particularly MacMillan Bloedel, are determined to follow this advice. VOL. 31 Resource giveaways add to unemployment By MAURICE RUSH The opening of Roberts Bank superport this week to export vast quantities of raw materials while more than seventy thousand unemployed walk the streets looking for jobs which processing industries in B.C. could provide, points up the criminal nature of present federal and provincial government policies. Behind all the hullaballoo about the superport and what a “‘sreat day it is for B.C.,” the superport, which was built largely with federal and provin- cial government funds, was initially designed to serve the interests of the U.S. Kaiser Steel Corporation and its big business partners in Japan. : Roberts Bank was engineered to handle large scale exports of raw materials touched by very few human hands. Entire train- loads of coal and ore will be loaded mechanically aboard waiting freighters in 100 seconds. The millions of tons of coking coal, copper ores and other valuable minerals it will handle ~ when it gets into full stride, could provide tens of thousands of new jobs for B.C. workers if processing took place in B.C. The superport is designed as a vast funnel through which to pour B.C. raw materials aboard foreign-owned freighters for export abroad. The resources will be manufactured into fin- ished products and resold to Canadians at many times the price of the raw materials. Kaiser has an $800 million contract to sell B.C. coal to Japan in the next 15 years. Now other U.S.-Japanese and Cana- dian big. business consortiums are rushing into ore production to’ export raw materials to Japan. Included among these is the huge copper complex at Ashcroft known as_ Lornex Mining Co. Ltd. Indications are that vast amounts of copper ore. will flow to Roberts Bank for export in the not too distant future. The Kaiser takeover in the Kootenays is one of many U.S. takeovers of Canadian resource industries which have caused growing concern among Cana dians. Last week it was revealed in See JOBS, pg. 12 PROFITS OF 7 BANKS UP BY 27 PER CENT TORONTO (CP) —- Operating profit of Canada‘ . 01 g Jada's seven major banks for the first half of their fiscal years totalled $275.2 million. up 27.7 per cent from $215.4 million for the corresponding period of 1969. The Bank Canadian National had the largest profit increase for the six months to April 30, up 60 per cent to $11.2 million. Poorest showing was by the Bank of Nova Scotia, down 2.1 per cent to $30.6 million, The Royal Bank of Canada's operatin ofi was up 42.1 per cent for the six mga a hes NO 6 PERCENT GUIDELINE HERE. This item appeared in the Vancouver Sun June 12. While labor is pressured to settle for 6 percent wage gains, Canada’s seven major banks roll up a 27.7 percent profit for the first half of this year. The Royal Bank’s profit was 42.1 percent!