(lI ic CNR workers win major battle for labor rights TORONTO, ONT, — Solidarity won the day for a group of Cana- dian National Railway express workers, members of the Cana- dian Brotherhood of Railway Transport and General Workers, who walked off the job last week to protest management’s exces= Sive disciplinary measures against one of their members, Within a few days more than 2,000 of their fellow-workers throughout Ontario were out in solidarity with them and another 23,000 across Canada were re= ported ready to do likewise. ~ The walkout ended a week last Monday night when CNR officials, at a meeting with top union offi- cials in Montreal, agreed to the demands of the workers that no disciplinary action would be taken against those involved in the walkout and that the company would launch an immediate in- vestigation into the backlog of grievances concerning its dis- ciplinary policies, Writing in the Canadian Trib- une last week “A Railroader” Said the issue of disciplinary ac- tion added more fuel to the fire that had been smouldering for some time. not only in Toronto but along the entire CNRsystem, He said the excessive super- vision not only created an at- mosphere of fear among the workers but in an insidious way played off one worker against another, Also, under an agree- ment between the CNR and its freight-express employees, no strike action can be taken during the life of the agreement. The agreement went into effect June 1962, but not long after the in- tegration of express and less- than-carload freight by the com- pany resulted in a number of innovations, new machinery and, above all, speedup. It became clear that there had been a serious underestimation of the adverse effects these would have on working conditions in this department, Angered by the ac-: cumulations of breakdowns in labor-management relations, the workers took the only action that was open to them, This struggle of the freight- express workers, says “A Rail- roader,” has brought two major issued out into the public eye: (1) the scope of management rights; and (2) the right of unions to negotiate with management during the life of aunion contract the introduction of new produc- tion techniques and methods of work not covered by the contract, Toronto labor urges CLC to act on Vietnam crisis TORONTO, ONT.—The labor council here has joined the growing list of local labor coun- cils which have urged the Can- adian Labor Congress to act: against the war in Vietnam, The _ TLC resolution said: “Whereas the danger of war in Vietnam could escalate into a world conflict with the possi- bility of nuclear warfare, there- fore be it resolved that this council urge the Canadian Labor Congress to ask.the Canadian government to approach the co- 2643 East Hastings Street LOOKING FOR UNUSUAL BUY AT POPULAR PRICES? 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Vancouver 6, B.C ‘FREE JESUS FARIA!’ Thousands of Venezuelan patriots held in prison BY JOSE VICENTE “Freedom for Jesus Faria!” This appeal is sounding today in all the languages of the world. Millions of men and women are raising their voices to free Jesus Faria froma Venezuelan prison,’ Arrested 18 months ago des- pite his parliamentary immunity, Jesus Faria, general secretary of the Communist Party of Ven- ezuela, is still held behind bars, His health is rapidly deteriora- ting. : Today, there are 2,000 political prisoners in Venezuela, More than half of them have been jailed _ without trial, Hundreds of political prisoners are being endlessly tried in court, Scores of prisoners already ac- quitted by the court are still held in prison by the political police (as is the case’ with deputies Hector Rodriguez Bausa and Antonia Garcia Ponce and. senator Luis Emiro Arrieta who were acquitted but are still kept in confinement in Modelo prison, Caracas), JESUS FARIA Among the prisoners there are servicemen and civilians, old people and children, men and women, Communists and non- Communists, workers, peasants, students, office employees and representatives of- progressive intelligentsia, Someare tortured physically, others’ morally, Demanding freedom for Jesus Faria, we demand freedom for other political prisoners as well; Gustavo Machada, Pompey Mar- quez, Eduardo Machado, Guiller- mo Garcia Ponce, Elroy Torres, Luis Amiro Arriesto and other popular leaders afid revolution- aries, In the 10 years of the Perez Jiminez dictatorship (1948-’58) Jesus Faria spent eight years in prison, Now he has spent another 18 months in jail. The struggle in Venezuela 8 characterized by a combinatiol of diverse revolutionary meulo™ and means, The guerilla move ment in the rural districts, triotic acts in the cities and .the oil fields correspond to activity of the masses in 1 and country, Last December a Decree of freeing imprisoned members parliament was signed by Pree" dent Leoni, Two hours befol® it was to be turned over to ™ official government newspape! Leoni received a message £10 the Pentagon, tore up the Decree, This disgraceful act put end to the last hope of peac influencing the Leoni Gover ment, Free Faria urges Kashtan William -Kashtan, national leader of the Communist Party, has written President Raul Leoni of Venezuela urging the immedi- ate release of Jesus Faria, Faria, leader of the Venzuelan Communist Party, was arrested and imprisoned without any con- crete charges being directed agains him and in violation of' his parliamentary immunity, Asking Leoni to initiate mea- ’ sures for Faria’s release, Kash- tan wrote: “We are led to believe that you were about to sign a Decree to that effect but that the U.S, mission and Pentagon intervened and vetoed it, *Such violations of the nation- al independence and sovereignty of other countries by the Ue are not new, Recent events int? Dominican Republic attest toth and show the U,S, has mov away from what appeared to” © a good neighbor policy to 47 turn to gunboat diplomacy, © big stick and the Johnson Do@™ trine, % “We were happy to seé that Venezuela was among those cols : tries which resisted U.S, Pre sure in the OAS and refused tobe . party to a crime against people of another country. would hope that this finds itsCO™” | crete expression in the releas? ' of Jesus Faria and other Venh@ | zuelan patriots from prison. i “For our part we shall do what we can to win wide support amou the Canadian people for such # effort.” Labordemandsambulanceservicé be covered under hospital plan The labor movement in Brit- ish Columbia is spearheading a strong campaign for the B.C, Hospital Insurance Scheme to take over the ambulance serv- ices in municipalities and make them part of the regular hospi- tal service, Sharpest point of the campaign has been in Port Alberni where organized labor has waged a strong fight against the present inadequate ambulance service. The issue flared up again last week when three-year-old Allan Thomas Brown was killed after he darted out into traffic and was ‘hit by a car. Jim Spencer, ist Vice Presi- dent of Local 593, Pulp and Sulphite Workers, charged “the child literally bled to death... and only five blocks from the hospital, Who can tell,” he said, “if this child could have been rushed to hospital that his life may have been saved... .” Last Wednesday the Alberni Valley Courier said in an edi- torial that “if anything was ever a necessary adjunct to the Hos-= pital Services Fund then the am- bulance rates in first priority, An ambulance service in hospi- tal districts, maintained by the Provincial Government Health Services, is one of the fore- most demands through the vari- ous parts of the province,” The editorial adds: “It con- founds the people ofthe province, who are paying the 5 percent tax for hospital and welfare serve ices, to note that millions can be found to build giant hydro elec- tric dams and services, while the necessary ambulance serv= ices are left to find their own best solution.” On Monday George McKnight, well-known civic leader in the Albernis, wrote the Port Alberni and Alberni City Councils stg- gesting that they join in initiating a call for a special meeting of the Union of B,C, Municipalities to consider. the questions of am- bulance services in the province, McKnight said he was opposed to the idea of the Port Alberni and Alberni City Councils under= taking to provide ambulance services out of municipal reven- ues. He said the only workable answer to the crisis in ambulance service ail over B,C, is for it to be financed out of the 5 percent June 18, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pa tax and that it be included ® | one of the services under oan B.C, Hospital Insurance Schem™ McKnight has also urged bs, 4 Alberni labor council to initial a call for a special confere™™, | of all labor councils in B.C- ae s the B.C, Federation of Labo! 4 consider the question anddem action from the’government. The ambulance service orisle is growing in all B,c, muni¢ palities as civic governments fi t it impossible to raise sufficie® funds to maintain the emerge?® service at the level require save human lives. vital cost ould C& al - Many point out that. this service should not be 4 levied on taxpayers, but sh be included in the regular fu? tions of the provincial nospit scheme, Many also point out that an bulances are often require ye cover great distances and m0 y from municipality to municiP ch in an emergency and that one service can only be adequate, covered in a province-W scheme, ge?