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When is time for wage
increases, asks Jodoin

Canadian Labor Congress
President Claude Jodoin told the
reporters in Ottawa this week
that “Experience has inevitably
been that in time of recession
workers are told that they cannot
expect higher wages because they
cannot be afforded. When times
are good they are told that wage
increases would be untimely be-
cause they might cause infla-
tion.”

‘Canadian workers on the rail-
ways and in other industries
want to know just when they can
expect to obtain a fair share of
increasing productivity and pros-
perity??’

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LABOR SCENE

Postal workers to seek
substantial wage hike

To add to Prime Minister
Pearson’s multiple strike head-
aches, the Canadian Union of
Postal Workers (CUPW) has
made it known to all concerned
that its 16,000 member. union
and leaders “are in no mood
for any prolonged talks” with
the federal government over its
wage contract demand for a 50-
percent increase,

CUPW national President Bill
Kay made this clear in Vancou-
ver this week when he outlined
contract demands to B.C. mem-.
bers of the union, Vancouver
postal workers have already in-
dicated their readiness to take
strike action in support of the
50-percent wage hike for inside
postal workers, Strike ballots
will be in the mails to all pro-
vincial points by September 8,

President Kay is currently
visiting Victoria, Nanaimo and
other Island and Mainland
points, readying the membership
for strike action should the
necessity arise.

* *

Mrs, Anne Royle of Nanaimo,
(whose fine poems are often fea-
tured in current PT editions),
is presently maintaining a solo
picket before the Provincial
Labor Department offices at 411
Dunsmuir Street.

“Tam here,” says Mrs, Royle,
“to protest the Labor Relations
Board’s refusal to allow workers
at the Harmac Mill in Nanaimo
to have a free vote on the union
of their choice”,

The majority of the 2,000 Har-
mac workers want to belong to
the Pulp and Paper Workers of
Canada Union, rather than to the
International Union from which
they broke away because of the
latter’s denial of local autonomy
in the conduct of their own affairs,

SURREY

Cont'd. from Pg. 1

B.C, government 80 percent of
secondary education costs,

Mrs. McLaren said this would
relieve the municipalities and
ease the burden on local tax-
payers, She also urged increased
aid to universities and junior
colleges, and construction of new
technical and vocational schools,
The Communist candidate said it
was a responsibility of the pro-
vincial government to see to it
that special grants be made to
relieve the teacher shortage and
that the size of classes be re-
duced,

Mrs. McLaren said the ques-
tion of jobs for our youth is an
important one and urged the de-
velopment of secondary in-
dustries in the Surrey area, She
sharply criticized the Bennett
government for its handling of
the Columbia River and charged

that ‘‘a Swindle had been foisted -

on the people of B,C. under which
taxpayers will have to pay to
build dams to store water for
the U.S,”

Surrey campaign manager
Harry Ball announced this week
that headquarters phone numbers
are 581-8957 or 584-6886.

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Labor oar en
greetings to
all PT readers”

Mrs, Royle’s solo picket on be-
half of Canadian union men having
the right to run their own affairs
without outside interference, sets
a fine example to other house-
wives whose lumber worker hus-
bands are caught in the squeeze
between monopoly lumber tycoons
foreign-based international union
bureaucrats and arbitrary LRB

rulings,
* kK

On information received from
the U.S, headquarters of the Mine,
Mill andSmelter Workers report-
ing “substantial progress” to-
wards a merger between the U.S,

Mine-Mill and the United Steel-,

workers, the Canadian Mine- Mill
issued a press release dated
August 29th, which states in part:

“Based on the position of the
Union in Canada, taken by the
delegates to the 14th National
Convention in Trail last January,
the Officers of the Union in Can-
ada make the following comment;

“What the officers of the Mine-
Mill may do in the United States
is of course their business, and

we note, subject to the approval
and ratification of their member--
ship. On this question, we make
no comment,

“Canadian workers, whether in
our own or any other industry,
do not need any ather union in
the United States, whether it be
Mine-Mill or Steel, to tell them
what they must do about their
affairs in Canada, We stand for
cooperation but are opposed to
domination, What is done in Can-
ada will be determined in its
entirety by the membership of

-our union in Canada under the

terms of our Canadian constitu-
tion,

“We are confident that the
principled position of our union
in Canada will withstand any
attempt from any source whatso-
ever to turn us into the tail
on the kite of any United States
dominated international union”,

The Mine-Mill press release
also indicated that the National
Executive Board is prepared
** ... Should the need arise, to
call a special national conference
to deal with any developments
out of this new situation”,

* * *

In a telegram to Prime Minis-
ter Pearson at last weekend,
C.S, Jackson, National President
of the United Electrical, Radio
and Machine Workers of America
(UE) stated:

“The rail strike could be
averted and the entire nation
would benefit if your government
recognized the justice of the
railway workers demands ... it
is time your government govern-
ed for the people, not the
corporations, Let Lyndon B,
Johnson try his wage controls
on his people and not on Cana-
dians through you’’,

William Kashtan, national
leader of the Communist
Party, will speak at a number
of public meetings during the
B.C. election campaign, In-
formation released by the
Communist Election Com-
mittee this week gave the
following itinerary:

SURREY: Tuesday, Sept. 6

WILLIAM KASHTAN

Kashtan to speak at
B.C. election rallies

at 8 p,m, in Kennedy Hall,
Scott Road-and 8th.
SHUSWAP: Wednesday,
Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. in the
Salmon Arm Valley Insti-
tute Hall,

NORTH VAN.-SEYMOUR:
Thursday, Sept. 8, (Details
to be announced),
VICTORIA: Friday, Sept. 9
(Details to be announced),
VANCOUVER: Saturday,
Sept, 10 at the Fishermen’s
Hall, 138 E, Cordova St., at
a supper starting at 6:30pm,

Kashtan will speak on the
crisis facing the country as
a result of the loss of Cana-
dian independence, the effects
of technological changes, and
the erosion of labor’s rights.

' The Communist leader is
expected to outline why the
policies of the Socreds and
old line parties could spell
disaster for the people of
B.C.; and will outline the kind
of new policies needed to meet
the times in which we live.

“September 2, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3