SP ia 4 Sw 8 | W | Wily UA Alyy VAWALW YR tn, . at fl VOL. 18, NO. 49 Phone MUtual 5-5288 Authorized as second class mail by the Post Ortice Department, Ottawa. 10: VANCOUVER, B.C. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1959 Labor Council opposes De Gaulle's H-test Vancouver Labor Council this week endorsed a letter from Marine Workers Union signed by Sam Jenkins urging support for a Vancouver Sun editorial condemning De Gaulle’s plan to proceed with an H-bomb test in the Sahara Desert. The newspaper had suggest- ed that citizens send their own written protests directly to De Gaulle, and a membership meeting of the Marine Workers Union passed a resolution sup- porting this stand. Endorsation of the local’s SCHOOL BOARD (See page 3) a: HARRY RANKIN letter was suggested by the VLC secretary and carried without debate. Another reso- lution on the same _ subject, / sent in by the council’s human rights committee, was referred to the table officers to take up with the BCFL. * Strike vote suggested Vancouver postal clerks, angered by the refusal of the Civil Service Joint Action Committee (employee associa- tions) to conduct a nation-wide strike vote, this week called | - for a immediate vote of all postal employees across Can- ada. The resolution, passed at‘a meeting’ of the Vancouver Branch, Canadian Postal Em- ployees Association on Novem- ber 22, is directed to the Postal Workers Brotherhood, which includes clerks, car- riers and railway mail clerks. Another motion” passed by the meeting called for ‘‘federal public buildings in Canada to be picketed by off-duty, in- formation picketing on Janu- ary 16, 1960.” Say, in part: “Canadian wage - earners have been sold a bill of goods. It is not true that the $8 bil- lion we have spent on arma- ments since 1945 has created stable and large-scale employ- ment. “The truth is, it has brought inflation, national danger and high taxes. “To disarm means to in- crease purchasing power, give new jobs, reduce taxes and take us out of the suicidal arms race. “Every man, woman and child in Canada is taxed $100 a year for armaments. “Who benefits from _ this now? Fifteen big contractors get 53 percent of the juicy war contracts, six of them U.S.- controlled, four British-con- trolled. PARKS BOARD (See page 3) “DUSTY” GREENWELL A strong protest has been lodged by independent parks board candidate Don “Dus- ty” Greenwell over the city’s decision to pay for legal counsel for superintendent Phil Stroyan at the public probe into board affairs. “This is an unwarranted use of the public’s treasury and a violation of public trust,” he said. LL CREATE NEW JO “Canadian labor has more to gain from disarmament and peace than any other section of the population,” ment issued this week by the national executive committee of the Communist Party of Canada. . Text of the statement, which will soon be distributed |, from coast to coast in the form of a leaflet, goes on to; “A lovely ‘public works pro- gram’ for the monopolies! “Does armament create jobs? “Only about 50,000 of some four million wage - earners work at supplying military goods of all kinds; another 10,000 provide services. “This means that the arms program takes $1 of taxes to provide 13 cents of wages. Peacetime production would give more jobs and make for a healthier economy. This is shown by the fact that in con- struction each $1 spent pro- vides 33 cents wages, in manu- facturing 22 cents. “There is today a new chal- lenge to the people—brought to world prominence by the Soviet proposals for total dis- armament over a_ four-year period. “Already many trade unions have come out for total dis- armament. ‘Peace is within our grasp. “What is needed is a great labor crusade of the Canadian Labor Congress and the Cana- dian and Catholic Congress of Labor to bring the mighty force of the organized labor movement into the great na- tional struggle for disarma- ment, jobs and peace. “The organized power, of|' one and a half-million trade unionists,~ plus . the~ support from unorganized workers, and joined by the farmers of Can- ada, could turn our swords into ploughshares, create new jobs for peace, increase pur- chasing power, curb the power of the big monopolies. build hospitals, houses and schools, and stimulate tae indus- try. f Eddison resigns over ‘gangsterism’ Norm Eddison, business ag- ent of Ironworkers Local 97, announced his resignation fol- lowing the trial of three union officials here by international officers. He termed the trial } a “vivid example of interna- tional gangsterism.”’ ‘DISARMAMENT, PEACE says a state- (See editorial on page 4.) FOR CITY COUNCIL (See page 3) JOHN DUBNO SAM JENKINS “MONA MORGAN