LDR calls delay of Bill 93

‘victory for civil liberties’
won by nation-wide protest

TORONTO

“The fact that it now appears virtually cert ain that Bill 93 will not be passed during the present
session of parliament, and the fact that the House of Commons’ special committee has recommended
some improvements in the bill, is a triumph for Canadian ,democracy,’ Thomas C. Roberts declared

here this week.

Roberts, national secretary of the League for Democratic Rights, said:

Price demand
for salmon
worked out

A conference held here last Fri-
day of salmon net fishermen from
United Fishermen and Allied‘
Workers Union locals, representa-
tives of the Vessel Owners and
Native Brotherhood, worked out
price demands for this year’s sal-
mon catch.

Prices to be asked are: sock-
eye, 25 cents a pound; cohoe, 14
cents; pinks, 8Y2 cents; chums
(summer), 7% cents; chums
(fall), 9 and 8 cents according
to area.

This represents a request for
last year’s prices on sockeye, an
increase of one cent a pound on
cohoe and pinks, 1% cents a
pound increase on stmmer chums,
’ and the rate the UFAWU is ask-
ing from adjudicator Judge Clear-
ihue in current arbitration hear-
ings over fall chum prices.

Labor hold
Alberni key,,
says Bottner

PORT ALBERNI, B.C.

“The labor movement is decis-
ive in this riding, and workers
should judge the sincerity of the
“eandidates on the basis of their
actions, attitude and relations to
labor in the past,” said Labor-Pro-
gressive candidate Frank Bottner,
opening his provincial election
campaign at a meeting in Eric
Graf Hall here Sunday this week.

Bottner charged that the prom-
ises of “good labor legislation”
made by other candidates — CCF,
Liberal, Tory and Socred — are
discredited because of the past
actions of those parties.

“The Liberals and Tories, and
_Socreds, too, have had ample op-
portunity to bring down such leg-
islation,” he reminded his audi-
ence.

Other speakers at the election
rally were Nigel Morgan, LPP
provincial leader and candidate in
Vancouver East, and W. S. E. Mor-
rison, LPP federal candidate for
Comox-Alberni.

- Morrison gave a brief outline
of the effects on B.C. economy re-
sulting from the federal govern-
ment’s sellout to the United States.

Morgan elaborated on the ques-
tion, showing how Canada’s. na-
tural resources were being ex-
ploited by American capital, and
Canadians were being left jobless
because the raw materials were
shipped out of the country instead
of being manufactured here. He
also pointed out that there is an
abundance of the necessary ele-
ments to make steel on ‘Vancou-
ver Island, and that B.C. would
benefit greatly by developing a
steel industry here, as Liberals
and Conservatives had been prom-
ising to do for the past 30 years.

“These two important victor-
ies were won by the activity of
Canada’s people, particularly
because of the actions of the
members, organizations and
press of the labor movement.
“The LDR and 11 other national

bodies made oral representations
to the special parliamentary com-
mittee and 81 other organizations

THOMAS C. ROBERTS
“Proud of campaign”

from all parts of the country made
councils of the Trades and Labor
written submissions.

“The national executives or
Congress, the Canadidn Congress
of Labor and the Catholic Con-
federation of Labor and the in-
dependent unions such as United
Electrical Workers, Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers and Fur and
Leather workers—which together
represent the overwhelming ma-

Election time
also time for

selling subs

_ Election time is a good time to
sign up new readers and increase
bundle sales. Vancouver Burrard
LPP election committee has decid-
ed to take extra PT’s for canvas-
sing purposes, and so has Vic-
toria. We're waiting to hear from
other committees. Meanwhile sub
sales are increasing; this week
the sub total hit the figure of

65

The scoreboard reads: Grand-
view, 4; New Westminster, 4;
Kitsilano, 3; South Burnaby, 3;
Wood Products, 3; Victoria, 3;
Moberley, 3; Powell River, 3;
Port Alberni, 3; Ship and Steel,
2; Vernon, 2; Vancouver Heights,
2; Electrical, 2; Capitol Hill, 2;
Fairview, 2; Courtenay, 2;
Georgia, 2. ;

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9 should be: “Let’s increase our
taal sales and win new subscrib-
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jority of organized Canadian work-
ers—played a great part in win-
ning these victories,” Roberts
stressed.

“We of the LDR are proud of
the campaign conducted on Bill
93.” he said. “One year ago, on
May 12, the government introduc-

ed the bill to revise the Criminal

Code in the Senate. At that time
it was clearly the desire and in-
tention of the government to have
the bill passed and made law be-
fore parliament adjourned on July

“At that time,” Roberts recall-
ed, “most people knew little or
nothing about the bill. It was a
deep, dark secret—few knew of
the repressive and undemocratic
proposals it contained.

“The LDR undertook a national
campaign to inform Canada of
the facts, confident that the peo-
ple would not knowingly or will-
ingyl permit their democratic
rights to be wiped out,” Roberts
declared.

“Now,” he continued, “the de-
lay of the bill provides further

opportunity for study and debate |

of the proposals it contains.

“We are sure that such study
will convince the Canadian people
that further changes in the Crim-
inal Code are required, for while
the special parliamentary commit-
tee has been forced to recommend
improvements in sections that en-
dangered the rights of unions to
strike and picket, it has not yet

‘Corrected those other sections of

Bill 93 which are a serious threat
to other civil liberties such as the
rights of free speech, press and
assembly.

“The LDR strongly advocates
a Canadian Bill of Rights to
guarantee all our democratic
rights. We propose the next
session ‘of the new parliament
should, as a first and urgent
item of business, provide Can-

ada with a Declaration of Rights |

as an immediate, though tem-
porary measure and that a con-
stitution Bill of Rights be en-
acted as soon thereafter as pos-
sible,” Roberts emphasized,

“On behalf of the LDR I thank
everyone for their great work.
Now is the time to build up the
LDR and carry forward the crus-
ade to defend Canada’s civil lib-
erties,” he concluded.

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during the drive) and 22 Honor
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celebrate at a smorgasbord-dance
this Saturday evening, May 17, in.
Hastings Auditorium. Prizes will
be awarded for outstanding work
and the winners of the crossword
puzzle contest will be announced.

PT business manager, Mrs. Rita

Whyte and Mrs. Mona Morgan’

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this week and assured us that the

smorgasbord will be “out of this
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highly successful PT New Year’s’

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PT supporters guests
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tossed salads, varieties of chees®
olives and such delicacies, salmo?;
pickled herring, various kinds
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press workers who come for
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