UY YW nie SOCRED, BCE ALLIANCE FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1959 Gaglard;, Bennett row over servants strike Highways Minister Gaglardi got into a fine row with Bennett in full view of thousands of television listeners last. Thursday, over the recent civil servants strike. The Bennett . roast was not Premier W. A. C. Bennett, however. It. was » \. Dennett, assistant general secretary of B.C. Government Employees Association. Galgardi, who often falls asleep in the legislature but likes to speed on the highways (“Flying Phil” is his popular nickname) was wide awake and had his tongue going a mile-a-minute in the TV de. bate. “The civil servants strike was called for political rea- sons only to satisfy a couple of power - hungry, arrogant union leaders,” charged Gag- lardi. He was referring to Ed O’Connor and A.C. Bennett. The garrulous little minister went on to praise Social Credit government in. unrestrained terms, and said civil servants had never had it so good. When it came his turn to speak, A. C. Bennett adopted a tone of sweet reasonableness. “We've listened to the min- ister—now let’s get some of the facts,” he observed. The facts, as Bennett saw them: the strike was unneces- sary, but provoked by the government. Everything the association asked for had been promised specifically or by implication beforehand, but the cabinet refused to meet association officials as agreed after the Civil Service Com- mission made recommendations On wages. C-of-C in favor of 8. C right-to-work law “tight-to-work” law for B.C. was included in a list of séven proposed changes in the Labor Relations Act adopted by the annual meet- ing of the B.C. Chamber of Commerce in Hotel Georgia this week. The law, as wants it, the C-of-C would outlaw: the closed shop and open the door to scab labor. Last year right - to - work laws were voted down in four U.S. states and adopted in two. G. H. Wheaton of Victoria, vice-president for B.C. of the Canadian Construction Asso- ciation, praised Bill 43 and attacked those who opposed it. “It won’t remove all the causes of strife, but it lays out ground rules,” he de- clared. - fits What's behind Columbia deal Has the Bennett government had a change of heart regarding public ownership _ utilities? Is this the meaning of the premier’s recent-statement that the Columbia woul developed by the Power Commission rather than the B.C. Electric? For an answer to this question we must go back to an obviously inspired article by Jessup in the Daily Province of May 24, 1957, in which the thinking of the B.C. Electric i quoted as follows: “1, If current engineering studies provide all the data necessary to guarantee low- cost power on the Columbia the company is ready to go ahead on its,own. “2. If political or other con- siderations intervene the BCE is prepared to act in concert with the federal and provincial authorities in a Columbia River Authority in developing and distributing the power. “3. If neither of the first two alternatives is practicable the company is ready to buy pow- er from whatever public corp- oration generates electricity at Mica Creek and other dams which may subsequently be built: This power would be sold by the company through its present distribution system. “. , the company had indi- cations from Ottawa that the government might be ready to assist financially in private development at Mica Creek as well as in public development.” It would appear then, that the B.C. Electric and its stooges in Victoria have decided that it is not politically feasible to hand the Columbia power to the B.C. Electric directly, but that it can still skim the cream off by maintaining con- trol of the distribution. The close tie between Socred government and B.C. Electric monopoly was pointed up again, recently by the appoint- ment of the New York firm of Ford, Bacon and Davis to sur- vey the Power Commission for the Shrum Commission. Ford, Bacon and Davis are the engineers who built the pipe-line for B.C. Electric’s natural gas partners, West Coast Transmission Company. They are also one of the out- who were given large & | blocks of shares in Inland Nat- ural gas at the bargain price of $3 a share before the shares were released to the public at more than twice the price. A fine, impartial body experts to adjudicate bety the publicly - owned power commission and the B.C. Blec. tric! a 2 Civic Reform Ass'n demands firing of PU Following announcement of further bus service cuts, Ef- fie Jones, president of the Civic Reform Association sent a wire to Premier W. A. C. Bennett calling for ~the dis- missal of the present Public Utilities Commission, Vancouver City Council, other rubber stamp for 4 B.C. Electric, agreed Tuesd: this week by a 7-3 vote to a cept the BCE’s proposal to r duce transit service May Dymtro Lubyk’s death great blow to labor * The Association of United Ukrainian Canadians lost a foundation member and veter- an builder in the death last Thursday of Dymtro Zubyk in his 66th year. ‘ Dymtro Zubyk came to Can- ada 42 years ago from his native Ukraine, residing first, in Strathcona, Manitoba, then moving to British Columbia in 1928. During his residence in Man- itoba, Dymtro Zubyk worked on the CPR maintenance-of- way department. The loss of an arm on this job terminated his work with the CPR. Active in cultural and edu- tational] work, he served for many years as provincial sec- retary of the old Ukrainian Farmer-Labor Temple Associa- tion, forerunner of the AUUC. He also served as district retary of the Workers B volent Association. E A quiet, modest man, D tro Zubyk was a devoted wor er for the progressive cultural well-being of ATTIC membership and for # working people generally. all financial campaigns for building of the Ukrainian pr and the Pacific Tribune Dy tro Zubyk was‘an outstan worker, The many tho sani who constitute the membersh! of the AUUC, and the movement of B.C. will mour the passing of this quiet at tireless worker for peace progress. He is survived by brother in Haney, Funeral services will be on Saturday, May 2, at 9 in the AUUC Labor Temple 805 East Pender Street. MAY DAY PARADE AND RALLY SUNDAY, MAY 3. MAY DAY PARADE DETAILS. DATE: SUNDAY, MAY 3 TIME: 1 P.M. START PLACE: POWELL STEERT GROUNDS, CORNER POWELL & DUNLEVY ROUTE: POWELL TO EXHIBITION. PK, RALLY: 2 P.M. OUTDOOR THEATRE, (In case of rain, meeting in Pender Auditorium, 2 p.m.) May 1, 1959 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PA .