ML KI LI AA ee a /BREAK IN SOUND BARRIER ROCKS CITY NAcc bai FRIDAY, DE CEMBER 14, 1962 ey.syY.i VOL. 22, NO 49 VANCOUVER, B.C. 10¢ Photo shows Yugoslav President Tito arriving in Moscow 4nd being greeted by Soviet Premier Khrushchev. Talks Were being held this week on mutual problems. The Visit is expected to cement closer relations between the tw : —® countries. Wide open work hours for logging industry Labor’s long battle, and particularly in the B.C. lumber industry to win the 40-hour week and have it in- Corporated in the B.C. “Hours of Work Act” has received 4 Serious setback. ons week the B.C. Board « Mdustrial Relations amended” the Act, which 4 now allow lumber opera? oh to work their logging ae 44-hours or more in oh me, without having to B aN any permit from the ard to.20 so as hitherto. » Comnchting on this torpe- Sing of the 40-hour week at eee when labor is cam- wishing for a shorter statu- "Y work week to meet the ris; ‘Sing threat of unemploy- ment, Jack Holst, regional vice-president of the IWA ob- served that ‘the Board has turned the clock back 50- years, that employers can now demand overtime at will, and that a 60 or 70-hour week could become common in the logging industry .- . ys The B.C. Federation of La- bor and the IWA are entering a strong protest to the govern- ment against this retrogress- ive action by its Board of In- dustrial Relations. ci ae Vig elections. ? Sh Civic vote results b With a_highly-financed campaign of ‘austerity’ and red- Siting thea scored a clean sweep in this week’s Vancouver NPA Bill Rathie won the mayoralty contest with 53,733 votes S against his opponent Halford Wilson with 38,093. Independent candidates also turned in a good showing in the pond Voting. Harry Rankin, close runner-up to NPA bottom man ay received 21,959, Mona Morgan, 10,507, and Dusty Greenwell, The park money bylaws for the purchase of Tangara and Mughnessy properties from the CPR was rejected by the Ss alee ‘© Sunday entertainment vote gave approved by a big majority. A full estimation of election results will be featured in next Weep ID U.S:-BOMBER CARRY. H-BOMB OVER VANCOUVER? Last Tuesday, December 4, at 3:55 p.m: a mysterious ex- plosion rocked the Lower Mainland which caused many people to rush out into the streets to see what was happening. It was later revealed that the big blast was caused by a super- sonic U.S. aircraft breaking the sound barrier while flying over the city at an altitude which put it out of sight. The U.S. Air Force admitted that it had some supersonic air- craft flying somewhere north of Seattle, but refused to say how many, what type, or exactly where they were. This incident once again points up the serious question: Are nu- clear-armed U.S. jet bombers flying over Canadian territory, endangering Canadian lives and property? Entirely apart from the in- fringement on Canadian sover- eignty involved in such over- flights, with which the Diefen- baker government seems uncon- cerned, recent experiences have shown that in the event of a plane crash there are grave dan- gers where nuclear bombs are involved. Despite earlier assurances from U.S. military men that a nuclear bomb would not explode if the plane carrying it crashed, a U.S. nuclear scientist wrote in a re- cently published book that not long ago a U.S. plane carrying a nuclear bomb crashed in a mid- west state, and that the bomb it carried was only a _hairsbreath away from going off and destroy- ing half the state. He pointed out that the partic- ‘ ular ‘‘safety measures’’ built into the bomb required the unlocking of six keys before the bomb would explode. This scientist explained that five of the keys had been unlocked by the crash, and that only one key saved thousands. of people from destruction. POLARIS MISHAP The growing unreliability of nu- clear weapons and U.S. missiles was again demonstrated only last Friday when U.S. military men lost control of a Polaris missle in the air and failed to destroy it. Fortunately it travelled out to sea and fell into the ocean. An official at Cape Canaveral said with a sigh of relief: “If that missile had headed inland instead See U.S. BOMBER, Pg. 12 Attack on labor goes on as NDP pledges fight to repeal bills Robert Strachan, provincial leader of the New Democratic Party, stated last Saturday in a speech at Salmon Arm that the NDP would press harder than ever for the repeal of Bills 42 and 43. Premier Bennett immedi- ately retorted that “‘we will not repeal them, no matter what...” A sharp battle in the legislature appears to be shaping up as a re- sult of continued pressure and union-smashing tactics made pre- posterously simple by these in- famous pieces of legislation. As the scene for the legislature opening was being set, the rest of the drama was being played out in the courts and on the picket Jines in the province of B.C. “ONE OF CANADA’S AMERICAN OWNERS.” That’s how Maclean’s maga- zine describes John C. Doyle, of New York, who is shown above relaxing on a cabin cruiser in the Bahamas, with his Following rapidly on the heels of the virtually unprecedented harsh sentences to pickets at the Allied Engineering (reported in the last issue of the PT) 47 boom men were fined $40. each for allegedly participating in an “illegal” strike at the Somass Mill — Pt. Alberni operation of the giant monopoy, McMillan, Bloedel & Powell River Co. The fines, totalling $1,880, were imposed as a result of the differ- ence of opinion on seniority rights which caused the walkout last summer. Maximum fine in each case could have been $50. At the same time, Magistrate W. E. Mc- Leod threw out a counter charge by Local 1-85 of the IWA that the incident was, in fact, an illegal steal. wife. He captured the richest iron ore deposits in North America in Labrador and Newfoundland for an initial down- payment of $2,500. See the editorial onpage 4 for comment on this gigantic lockout. In Vancouver, White Lunch Ltd., owners of Clancy’s Pastries Ltd., launched a suit against 13 men and women and the Bakery & Confectionery workers union. The suit seeks to establish that no strike or lockout exists at White Lunch as a result of the dispute at Clancy’s, despite the fact that both firms are either owned or controlled by the same man — Clarence Sorenson — and also seeks an injunction prohibit- ing picketing at any White Lunch operation. Sorenson is described by labor leaders as having a long record of anti-unionist activity, dating back to the war years. In other courtroom action, con- See NDP, Pg. 12 _ ¥ 4 crm a ae ee ease ae