WILLIAM ALLAN me DETROIT i ave been 99 quickie Whe by General Motors hy Ae members of the ; a Workers, refusing a ertime Since Oct. 31, y, ‘liation for the corpo- | lea ess in settling Audi Plant issues. still #, © Out of an initial 7 Ne Dec, 4 Present GM-UAW lead- Worker 8,415,000 hour! bigs will meet here : iro deadline for GM to ‘ herons With substantial Tents Ss, and real im- Btcre, in working condi- 3 Matin union stewards. Sh aS broken off for hip, ROW resumed in the 7 W building here. T* toy °odcock, UAW-GM tay this reporter “We berm Strike at GM. They tomer hot to increase nie time from four Btievan eight, or stream- * didn’ Ce procedure.” He fin think they’d have fe moestting the Ford and Ment fo, Package, billed ‘killeg Be octon, 85 Mitkere” Nov. 21, 10,800 Mfoy, Walked off their verti Plants refusing to me to help build Tbe s ; stuck Nockpile of new 1968 Hand jy conth supply of ij ly g 0 {BS mn). OCKout, or force 1) Mloyees al} winter. if est Mt on 10 Votes Stan $ Dsitin Telection to the On in : Ublic po’ Canadian : Woe pe eanesday. Hi SPP Black tyes j ano fe aa delegates of | hare met union made Petimoyg,, Canada when A the _” lected Grace i Sasy Union’s national \ eee Ts. Hart- Nty roman ever to union “high post hey atc oe MOVement. Uh e of this step is fact that CUPE for the presi 4 presi- i Mention weeks be- Paio,;... 2OMinees “ns, It Sning for their came as no sur- the cam- int? #4 € Convention da of Ning bell on fh i nq W OVember 20 December, January, February, are dead months for selling cars, and real sales don’t zoom until spring. Besides new car sales are dropping each week. In the last several weeks, sales have dropped 10 percent one week and 24 percent another, with bigger drops coming in the “dead” months. The UAW leaders didn’t give the signal for strikes against overtime until GM had over 568,000 new cars stockpiled. © Other strike developments and contract scenes along the auto front were: e 5,500 members of UAW Locals 155 and 157 went on strike at 54 Detroit area tool and die plants, Nov. 20, for $1.20 an hour raise and a one year con- tract. They rejected in a unanimous vote by 4,000 members in a standing room only meeting, the offer of the Detroit Tooling As- sociation, which some _ negotia- tors termed the “Ford package.” Loud yells of “No Ford in Our Future”; “No Ford package,” Canadian Labor Congress for Local 1004, Vancouver Civic Employees Union (Outside Workers). This union, expelled by the Trades and Labor Con- gress (AFL) in 1950 for refus- ing to except TLC dictation on whom the members should elect as their officers, has been denied the CLC membership rights it is entitled to since it became a chartered local of CUPE in Aug- ust, 1966. The officers of CUPE have taken a position with the CLC that the payment of per capita. tax by CUPE to the CLC is for all its members, including Local 1004. CLC officers have returned the cheque stubbornly maintain- ing their position of refusing to accept Local 1004 as a paid-up member. With Vice-President Dodge of the CLC present in the conven- tion hall the delegates, as one man, voiced their outright op- position to such discrimination, commended their national ex- ecutive for its representation on behalf of the local and instruc- ted ‘the incoming executive to further press for full rights be given by the CLC to Local 1004. The new executive was instruc- ted also to take all measures to end this injustice up to and in- cluding the withholding of all ’ per capita tax to the CLG: e Delegates, attaching para- mount importance to the need of a defense fund, voted to set up a National Defense Fund for the support of its members who are forced out on strike. The de- fense fund will be initiated on January 1, 1968 becoming ope- rative June 1 of the same year. rang through the hall when the bosses offer of 50 cents an hour raise spread over a three year contract was read out. Bard Young, UAW Detroit West Side Regional Director describing the offer as “shock- ing,” said, “It is unbelievable that the Tooling Association, after telling us its companies have a manpower problem, would come to the union with an offer that is way below even the auto pact.” Billy Joe Smith, president UAW Local 155 spelled out the considerable deficiencies in wages, cost of living, holidays, pensions, supplemental unem- ployment benefits, severance pay, group insurance, overtime, apprenticeship, length of the proposed contract, offered by the employers. He said he was glad he was up recommending non-concurrence and .strike, not like in 1964 when he was recommending acceptance of that pact. The pact in 1964 had a stormy passage before be- ing ratified. It took three meet- ings because it had only 15 cents an hour raise in it. 1 Solid policy in CUPE The fund will be set-up through an initial $1.00 assessment on each member plus a monthly per capita tax of 10 cents a member. : Delegates set their union on a path aimed at strengthening its bargaining position through bargaining alliances with other public employee unions. Con- nected with this delegates greet- ed steps already taken to estab- lish a liason between CUPE and the Public Service Alliance. The resolution approving the close relations between the Pub- lic Service Alliance and CUPE reements Vietnam on the side of t ~ Canada as a neutral and as a member o on Vietnam. And, it accomplices in this dirty in another resolution war in Vietnam continues all of mankind in a nuclea its position and in Commission to en Delegates came out ¢ missile bases in Canada. of these nuclear bases on role as peacemaker. gates, must be removed is demand po ontributes to the conflict in he U.S. This fact disqualifies — dedicated to ending the war he International Control Commission — reality makes the Canadian people ty war and its escalation. — — the delegates declared that the to escalate threatening to engulf — r holocaust. They called upon the — : SE e the gove aficers of CUES scene - the International Control d the heatilies aon nea a ‘on the Geneva Accord of 1794. yc Iso against the Bomare nuclear They charged that the presence Canadian soil restricts Canada’s These bases, demanded the dele- from the soil of Canada. The striking tool and die makers who work in the job- bing shops, outside of the GM, Ford, Chrysler setup, are now working on the 1969 tools, dies, jigs, fixtures. Top rate is $4.85 an hour, down to $4.15. Tool and die makers in Ford, GM, Chrys- ler, before the 50 cents raise in Ford and Chrysler, made about $4.10 to $4.25, now they are up to $4.75. GM tool and die makers who make up the most members of the UAW’s 250,000 skilled work- ers, want more than the 50 cents an hour their counterparts got in Ford and Chrysler. If the jobbing shops now on strike in Detroit, win anything near their demand for $1.20 and a one year contract, GM tool and die mak- ers will want more than the Ford-Chrysler 50 cents an hour raise. If they don’t get it, they have the power to veto an over- all pact for GM’s 430,000 work- ers. Henry Ford II in a recent re- port to his shareholders calls the UAW Ford pact a realistic one and “represents the lowest possible combination of strike costs and settlement costs to the company .. .” The public media taking their cue from the UAW public rela- tions played up the UAW pact with Ford as the “highest gain- ed this year. In 1964 the auto workers didn’t get any money in wages, the big deal was pen- sions and fringes.. Another auto tycoon was heard from, Ron W. Todgham, president of Chrysler Corpora- tion of Canada who pooh-poohed claims of some employers that wage parity for Canadian auto workers meant “inflation, chaos.” - But Todgham, does something else when he discusses with newsmen, he ties wage parity with production parity, in a knowing way, though the UAW agreement says nothing about that. One of his aides, sitting in on the question and answers from newsmen about the parity issue, Keith P. Mazurek, executive vice-president was asked: “Mr. Mazurek, what actually is the difference Canadian Chrys- ler is going to have to pay, and how hard will this be to meet? Mr. Mazurek said: “The ac- tual difference isn’t 4s much as most people seem to think. The weighted average diferential, once the cost of living benefits are folded in, amounts to about 25 cents an hour.” A spokesman for Canadian Chrysler local 444 told this reporter that its even less than 25 cents, it’s about 22 cents. : To get production parity with U.S. output, production pushers in Chrysler Canada, cut down the body mix, so that instead of making 10 makes of Chrysler cars, only two, Plymouth and Dodge are made, which makes production swifter and less time ‘consuming and has brought Ca- nadian UAW pacts down to U.S. levels, as Canadian pacts have always been better. convention supported the position that there should be one union for public employees. To this end the con- vention instructed its executive to work towards a merger of the two groups. Another resolution called for the elimination of discriminato- ry male and female classifica- tions in nursing categories pre- sently. in some CUPE contracts. In doing so the convention based its action on the principle of equal pay for equal work. The delegates adopted a reso- lution on housing demanding control of land prices and if ne- sinted ‘out th ot . through the U.S.-Canadian — rnment of Canada to use settle- i cessary eventual public owner- ship of all land; limits on inter- est rates for both NHA and con- ventional mortgages; an expand- ed public housing program of all types of accomodation at con- trolled rents and, where neces- sary, rent subsidies for low- income families; an aggressive program of land assembly for housing with full services, such land to be sold at cost to per- sons desiring to build; and the removal of federal and provin- cial taxes from building supplies with steps taken to ensure that the removal of these taxes be totally reflected in the prices of such supplies. Included also in the 148 reso- lutions before the delegates was a resolution supporting the ex- change of trade union delega- tions between all countries. Another, pointing out the founding convention action of calling for the autonomous rights for Canadian members of international unions, expressed concern over the degree of con- trol exercised by international unions of the CLC and its ex- ecutive. This resolution stated that CUPE would continue to press for the establishment in Canada of sovereign Canadian trade unionism controlled and administered by Canadian mem- bers. The delegates condemned the use of injunctions as unwar- ranted interference by the courts in the democratic process of col- lective hargaining. They called upon the CUPE national organ- ization to support financially and otherwise any CUPE local which finds it necessary to resist in- junctions. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5 DECEMBER 8 N77 5 NAG-—Neel 48 §3aMa0a0 pope d-- VOT SO ADEGMAIS 3AIDAG—