By WILLIAM ALLAN DETROIT ANotuEr link in the United Auto Workers world auto Councils wag forged in ag the week of Nov. 28- lion a When a national council a... €xico’s 30,000 auto work- ae formed by Walter and ag or Reuther, UAW presiden: ren, 1ead of international affairs, ) “SPectively, Ne National Mexican Auto- Jsuch 1S Council is the second of tab peancils to be formally es- fost following a meeting in ished last summer that estab- EA World Auto Councils in ith Motors, Ford, Chrysler, olkswagen and_ other eller Companies being in a neil with Chrysler. The other '’8 in Japan. SPokesman for the UAW Said that Walter Reuther Bitish weed a request from ; auto workers for setting » yecting in Britain to establish oy, wonal British Autoworkers neil. No date had been set or the 4 eesay = orks» Neeting but “‘it’s in the nant ®, World Auto Councils are "otk the International Metal- a &ts Federation. Walter Reu- Depart head of the Automotive aintare’t Of the IMF. The IMF es (Offices and staff in razit City and Sao Paulo, vene™Panying the Reuthers Poly Elson Jack Edwards, the | emb €gro on the UAW’s 23- chtade executive board, Paul ion Re director of UAW’s Re- nd Which takes in California, ack Conway, executive ‘Mir Boe of the Industrial Union ae FAnE-ClO. ee Chavez, director of the : Organiz- : oOmmittee, AFL-CIO, also with the UAW delegation. Mexican agricultural Were arranged for ho has led farm work- ere Vez, w tant "nionization against the c 4stibusiness corporations pilifornia. “Uther faces old opponents ®xico, because wholly- Subsidiaries of General * and Ford control about he Mexican auto mar- Fabricos Auto-Mex, one- ajor ned by Chrysler, is the exicg ducer. Delta and Willys Weg na, both totally Mexican PY the Work the longest hours, Mallee, CWVeSt wages, offer the ned benefits. hey’ the establishment of s ational Mexican Autowork- i enc the workers were bor through three national ates verations, with no coor- uty, Strategy to meet the 0 Makers. = Bedeng oY 28, 30 rank and file ‘nly a Were graduated from the fity Wards school in Mexico Avene ‘er completing a course esi Y Salvatore Tivares, 0 at @ Of Ford UAW Local { We Tn an ect California. oo ress to the stewards her declared that the UAW had no plans for a “UAW takeover of the Mexican auto unions.” Some charges along that line had been made by local newspapers when the Reuthers arrived. Walter Reuther laid a wreath in honor of Mexico’s 1911 revo- lution as well as calling” for solidarity at the founding meet- ing of the new auto council. This is in line with the plan laid down in Detroit last June 3, when auto delegates from the ° IMF affiliates in 14 countries re-- presenting some 1,400,000 work- ers issued a declaration for a solidarity structure to defend the rights and interests of auto- mobile workers in the trans- national automobile economy. Reuther speaking to the dele- “gates, then said, ‘organization of a world-wide solidarity pro- gram for auto workers is a ne- cessity because of the interna- tional concentration of the au- tomotive industry. “In 1950, only one out of every five automobiles and trucks made in the world was manufactured outside of the United States and Canada. To- day, 33 percent of the world production of 24 million cars and trucks are made elsewhere. He said that auto workers em- ployed by the same corporations throughout the world, making essentially the same _ product with the same technology, have wide disparities in wage and fringe benefit level. About $2 an hour d'fference in wage scales. _ Join world chain» of auto councils He talked then about an in- ternational wage minimum to bring decent wages and work- ing conditions to countries where cars and trucks are made. Recently he sent Pat Patterson, UAW director in Flint, to Aus- tralia to help make a pitch for more money for auto workers there before an _ arbitration board. It was denied. Reuther said in Mexico that the new auto workers council will join with the other auto councils in 14 countries in work- ing for a list of demands worked out by the meeting in Detroit last June. These include: Full recognition of the right to or- ganize, bargain collectively on wages, working conditions, and social benefits; humanize the in- dustrial process by the imme- diate establishment of adequate and paid relief time and rest periods. é ‘Also, an end to excessive over- time work and the guarantee of adequate premium pay for jus- tified overtime; for vacation bonuses; pensions sufficient to assure the dignity and security of workers who are too old to work and too young do die; guaranteed income for workers effected by production flunctu- ations or technological change; reduction of working time through a compensated shorter work week, more paid holidays, longer vacations, and early re- tirement in the light of techno- logical progress and increased dehumanization of industrial em- ployment. RETRIBUTION Some weeks after receiving a cheque for $2,000 for the loss of jewelry, an elderly woman in- formed her insurance agent that ’ she had found the missing prop- in a cupboard. aa didn’t waar it would be fair to keep both the jewels and the money, so I think you will be pleased to know that I sent the $2,000 to the Red Cross.” | Mexican workers Nigadoo River miners appeal for support An appeal to all Canadian trade unioni Fern Doucet, president of Local 1043 of the Workers in Bathurst, New Brunswick ers at the Nigadoo River mine. Follo We are now in our sixth w wing is a digest of that appeal: River Mine just outside Bathurst, New Brunswick. Our strike is solid and althou bers are determined -to fight as long as necessary to make this company recognize its responsibility to the workers. The company is Quebec-based and owned by the Beauchemin family of millionaires. They have made clear that as the employ- ers of the lowest paid mi their desire to introduce and poorest conditions for mine workers in New Brunswick. Our union was first certified to bargain for the ers in June of 1965 and instead of the company co gaining table to bargain in tempts to divide the workers by getting eons for decertifi- cation before the board. The question of th finally determined by a certification vote in June of 1966. The company still refuses to make an we were forced through long and unproductive conciliation ceedings with a majority of the Conciliation Board accepting in the main the company arguments. If we had accepted the Conciliation have been agreeing to wa behind those in the mines us without many of the f lished here and which fo ment. We have told you this brief histor why we were forced to strike a pany just as the northern New Brunswick winter was coming 91. We have had wonderful support from our own union an working men who were employed by contractors on the property have refused to cross our picket lines. The time has come, however, wh ers for moral and financial support, There are 156 of us out on ried with dependants. We are particularly appealing to workers in the Maritimes who we are sure will realize tha New Brunswick and succeed in driving down wages and condi- tions, it will make it much more diffi to make gains. We feel we are carr but for Canadian workers, and with your support we will win. Urgently appealing for financial su Smith, national president of Mine Mill w pport for the workers, Ken Nigadoo workers is a “fight that must be made by the entire trade union movement in defense of their own interests.” ; The union has asked for financial donatio as well as children’s clothes and toys. Goods to the union’s national office at 1219 Queen Street West, Toronto (Phone LE. 4-9281). Any support can also be forward ed directly to the strikers, care of “Nigadoo Miners Strike Fund,” Box 163, Bathurst, N.B. Strikers at the Nigadoo River Mine in New. Brunswick. ' December 16, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5 Sts has been issued by Mine Mill and Smelter , calling for support for the Strik- eek of strike against the Nigadoo gh no end is in sight, our mem- ne workers in the province of Quebec into New Brunswick the lowest’ wages Nigadoo work- ming to the bar- good faith they made four separate at- right to bargain was y reasonable offer and aro- Board report, we would ges ranging from 25 to 60 cents per hour in the Bathurst area, and would have left ringe benefits and other conditions estab- rm a normal part of any collective agree- y so. you will understand gainst this powerful mining com- €n we must appeal to all work- strike — most of whom are mar- t if this company can move into cult for all Maritime workers ying on a battle not only for ourselves » Said that support for the s for the strikers ould be delivered