esateg — More than 90 i Btess big © Canadian Peace © Lor ae conference at mula Be otel April 6-7, aj e’s ne stable eg Pd d at of urgent demands € Canadian gov- ut in Canada’s mili- li . dget, Tedirection of this S fo e lesteg John Morgan, re- pent of the Peace Pi oniy'ysl4 the ‘press that Oteign fain Changing Canada’s he Meetin but maior aim = ion Would but that a delega- : tter - 6° to Ottawa in a F Tment to t this k .~ laKe j . l direction mediate steps ae delegat e 40 ¢..’. tepresenting Mose C nade nnizations from Moving wo% in addition to aNd ete Peace Charter, de- fFOm Nar enada’s withdrawal Cllation 222 NORAD, and ‘ Uetion n of all defence pro- 01 Petition qe, agreements The mooq “a Government™ ef Meron 4nd direction of the Eiatble to aS Well put in the ls or, Will ' © Peace Charter “dug oh Ortly be available ia’ and op tsation by indivi- Fads, 'BAnizations, In part g Sica Canad wo the government tthe «0 8Ccept and work #. Cipleg Plementation of he wm '. baseq Peaceful co-exist- “Be oY On international Phere, on terri- national jnde- 8nty, and legal aff. ates Bi fairs Slates i, : non-inter- Dues of ¢ n the internal rat a States, and re- ‘ Ned a threat or use » Addit: mtg on, (2 approving and ee oon ct Pea the Tone oy Steven- ce i oni t fe oe Association | th €cent Confer- Paris. <: Implementation of Pt, Which coment on Viet- fit om, oe sattended in also Ssembled dele- gy panereed on the need Ao in Wovpation by Cana- isarmament TOp, : Rony, as io a >The International ker ited “Brewery s hi Migeest be eParing to fight ty t Ree in its 90-year & hin vent its Canadian Fb A being ab- Pet Tintern {WO milli ~ Of National Brother- : meters, a Brewery aa On aes Members of D 4 their den vet been so he identiy mination to in Y and to re- Mainstream of on- gut “ rauternatioanl of 0 t Drj wery, Flour, Lc Workers Ms ie Distil- ft, erica— bs a The Prepared state- €a) Msters have Rael aYs to press the gov- . - of our Union that Week. Outline plans for’ this were ‘presented by Mrs. Jean Vautcur, executive secretary of the Peace Congress. The conference formally wel- comed participation by represen- tatives of Le Conseil Québécois de la Paix, and looked to in- | creasing cooperation between the organizations. : Billions Wasted Opening the meeting, Mr. Morgan, Minister Emeritus of First Unitarian Congregation, pointed to the need for Cana- dian foreign policies free of the military thinking of the USA and its corporations, free of “the waste of billions of dollars in maintaining a costly military es- tablishment,’” NATO, of which Canada is part. “Only the bitterest and blind- est of cold warriors,” he said, “still talk seriously of ‘the dan- ger of Soviet invasion of Europe.’ There never was such a ‘danger’: progress in Euro- pean detente has finally torn this ideological veil from the eyes of all except those who ‘have permanently lost the abil- ity to see.” He said that: “Each gain for detente anywhere is supportive of efforts to lower. the burden of armaments, but successes in Europe have the most immediate postive response in Canada be- cause of our strong economic, cutural and historical ties . . -” Military Profits : The Peace Congress presi- dent accused “those who own and run the corporate system of the United States,” who are “opponents of detente and dis- armament,” who “keep up their destructive efforts . . .” : They refuse to start phasing out the huge military machine, he said, the building, mainten- ance and replacement of which provides huge profits, and “‘is a guarantee of investment abroad and ‘of repression, if necessary, Of progressive move- ments at home; they do not -want a reduction of the -mili- tary establishment in their Canadian economic colony; and those- Canadians who sell their country; their people, their in- independence for profit also want to maintain a large Cana-_ dian military program for their , own similar reasons.” The two-day conference, con- vened to formulate policy, elect leadership, and adopt a program every method at their disposal to get our 9,000 Canadian mem- bers to knuckle under. But in- stead of progressing in their attempts at destroying, our Union, they are actually losing ground. Three months ago, 48 cut of our 55 Canadian locals were opposed to being swal- lowed up by the Teamsters. To- day, the number of _ locals determined to keep our Union alive has reached 51. ; “Contrary to Teamsters claims, we have not broken away from the organization. On the contrary, it is the majority of the American membership have broken away and deserted us by capitu- lating to the Teamster colossus. Rather than surrender to the Teamsters, we have chosen to carry on the organization and are convinced we can continue of action, marks the 25th an- niversary of the Canadian Peace Congress, an affiliate of the World Peace Council. Delegates © included representatives of local: labor councils, provincial and regional peace organizations, ethnic groups, churches, women’s and youth organiza- tions, other concerned organiza- tions,’ professionals and aca- demics. Elected to head a re-struc- tured 34-member executive board were: John Morgan, presi- dent; Jean Vautour, executive secretary; Art Jenkyn treasurer. Outdated Concepts The main report of the con- ference described the tremen- dous changes in favor of “the policies of peaceful. co-existence and detente,” during the move- ment’s 25-year history, and par- ticularly since the. World Con- gress of Peace Forces, held in Moscow last Oetober. The report states: “On a world scale the forces for peace are stronger than the forces that cling tothe outdated con- cepts of aggression and war as instruments of national policy. That has become the central fact of life on our globe in 1974. : “Canada is not a nuclear power,” the report notes, “but under NATO pacts we are part and parcel of a military alli- ance that bases its military strategy on nuclear weapons | and the threat of their use, or in the event of a complete breakdown of the international situation, their actual use.” It points out that: “Under NORAD our armed forces are an integral part of this criminal strategy and tied to the decisi- sions of a foreign government (the USA). If those authori- ties decide to go with nuclear warheads, we are gone with them.” World-Wide Activity The conference gave a warm welcome to Dr. James Foulks, a pharmacology professor at the University of B.C., and to Dr. Jean-Louis’ Roy, professor of French Studies at McGill, who reported on their partici- pation in the steering commit- tee of the World Congress of Peace Forces, and stressed the remarkable breadth of today’s peace movement. : Support for the democratic to live as a strong viable organ- ization for the benefit of our members and as an active mem- ber of the labor movement in Canada. “Qur 9,000 members are con- vinced of the justice of their cause and will never give in to the Teamsters’ attempts to obliterate them. We have the full support of the Canadian Labor Congress and the two million Canadian trade unionists it represents. This is the biggest battle in the history of our union and we know we'll win ite In 1973 Saskatchewan grew 58.6% of Canada’s bread wheat production. Alberta grew 23.3% of national produccion during the period, while Manitoba's share was 14.6%. Canadian Peace Congress president, John Morgan’ speaking at the Biennial conference in Toronto April 6-7. Seated at the head table are Ray Stevenson, member of the Executive Committee and Jean Vautour, Executive Secretary. forces striving to end fascist rule in Chile was voiced threugh- out the conference. Phyllis Clarke, executive member of the Canadian Peace Congress, and its representative on the Canadian Committee for Solidar- ity with Deocratic Chile, report- ed on preparations for the Hemi- spheric Conference on Chile, to be held in Montreal, June 7-9. TORONTO—“The government must live up to its obligation to promote industrial peace by assuming a more. positive approach in managing the post office, and prove by example that technology can and_ will benefit the workers,” Arnold Gould, National Director of the Ontario region of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers told the Tribune in an interview last week. To be certain. that the employer installs systems that will benefit the workers, the CUPW has called for a boycott of the postal code. The issue of mechanization, automation and_ technological change is having its effect on the postal workers of Canada because of government-intro- duced sophisticated computer systems for mail sorting that is causing a severe decline in the number of employees, changes in skills, transfers from service locations, as well as an increase in night work or work at inconvenient hours. The new systems, while supposedly in- creasing the efficiency of mail handling are introduced at the expense of the workers who handle the mail. For the postal workers, mech- anization poses the greatest threat in the declassification of the work. A survey conducted by the staff of the CUPW in 14 of the 15 major projects planned by the. Canadian Postal Service, shows that the post office in- tention is to reduce the higher paid classifications and increase the lower paid classifications. As an example of these “money saving” programs, the ~ post office is planning for a de- crease of 2,100 postal clerks. The clerks are the highest paid inside workers in the postal operations. As of December, 1973, postal clerks were getting a top wage of $4.21 an hour. And while the higher paid-classification of pos- tal clerks is to be diminished, ‘Committees in defence of Chil- ean ‘democracy are functioning in several Canadian cities, she reported. Pauline Rosen, a guest from the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice in the United States, described peace activities in the USA and particularly the active role being played there by women. the lower paid and lower classi- fication of postal helper will be increased by 1,025 new posi- tions. Post helpers received as of December, 1973, $3.67 an hour and a large percentage of workers holding that classifica- tion work part-time and do not receive any night differential. CUPW has demanded that as a condition of acceptance and cooperation with the reorganiza- tion, the employer must adhere to the following principles; a higher classification for all in- volved in the mechanization, consultation on _ technological change, ongoing research into the effects of mechanization, no re-organization of jobs that re- moves them from the bargaining units and no electronic super- vision of workers. The union plans to use the postal code boycott until the demands of the union are met by the Postal Service Depart- ment. But even without the boycott ‘of the postal code the Deparcment, is running into a large number of snags in its mechanization program. Postal workers, who-are now working en the newly-installed equip- ment in Ottawa, reported that the. entire system comes to a standstill on a rainy day. The envelopes get damp while wait- ing for pick-up and the ma- chines can’t cope with wet envelopes so all the mail has to be sorted by hand. Another major drawback of the mechanization is the volume of mail that has to be handled befcre the system can work. At least 100,000 pieces of mail with the postal code must be col- lected at the Ottawa office be- fore the mail can be soried through the banks of electronic coders. In the Ottawa unit, let- ters with postal codes often take four times longer than hand-sorted mail because of the delays involved in waiting for 100,000 units. ‘PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1974—PAGE 9