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Launch appeal for Vietnam medical aid

Thousands of brochures appecling for contributions to the
$20,000 medical aid for Vietnam fund sponsored by the
recently formed “Canadian Aid for Vietnam Civilians”’

were mailed out this week to organizations and indivi-

LABOR ROUNDUP:

duals throughout B.C. Photo shows Committee chairman
A.M. Inglis, M.D., F.R.C.S. (C), left, and secretary H.J.C.»
Walker, hard at work organizing the big campaign.

—Jack Phillips photo”

‘Stop overflights by U.S.

bombers’ —Victoria labor

In a sharply debated resolution
on March 2, the Victoria Labor
Council (CLC) went overwhelm-
ingly on record as opposing the
Presence of American nuclear
‘weapons in Canada, and called for
their removal. The same resolu-
tion also called on the Canadian
government to demand that the
U.S. stop all flights over Cana-
dian territory by U.S, bombers
carrying nuclear weapons,

Brother Ryan, chairman of the
Council’s Political Education
Committee, in introducing the
resolution stated that “The recent
dropping of four nuclear bombs
by a U.S, bomber inSpain, clearly
indicates the same thing could

-happen in this country . . .”.

In the opinion of VLC dele-
gates discussing the resolution,
that the Canadian government
should display greater responsi-
bility to the people of this coun-
try, and less concern for the
“selfish” interests of the Penta-
gon,

* OK OK

At a multi-union meeting held
in Vancouver on March 2, the

action of the Vancouver Civic
Employees Union (Outside Work-
ers) executive proposing a re-
jection of a Conciliation Board
recommendation to its member-
ship, was fully endorsed,

Present at this multi-union
meeting were leaders of the Mu-
nicipal Employees Co-ordinating
Conference, five independent
unions including Vancouver Civic
Employees, and the Vancouver
Metropolitan Council of the Ca-
nadian Union of Public Employ-
ees, Between them, these two
bodies represent all of the union-
ized municipal employees in
Greater Vancouver, except police
and firemen.

A membership meeting of the
Civic Employees Union (Outside
Workers)on March 4 voted down
the Board’s majority recommen-,
dation,

Tuesday of this week the union,
gave formal notification to the
Minister of Labor of its rejec-
tion, and made application for a
supervised strike vote.

* KOK
Workers at the Pacific Veneer
Plant in New Westminster are

Join the crowd headed for the

HOOTENANNY -

Saturday, March 19 — 8 p.m.
(41st Ave. & Cambie St.)

kK

FEATURING this star-studded cast of performers:

Tomasi Tawake, Kris Robinson, The Folkmasters, Joe Irving,

The Wayside Singers and The Milestones

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Admission — $150

Tickets: Co-op Book Store or PT Office

GET YOURS EARLY!.

protesting the action of the com-
pany in its recent application to

‘the Labor Relations Board for

permission to operate one of its
departments on a 7-day 56-hour
week, Sixteen workers in this de-
partment are affected by this
ruling,

This application which was
granted by the LRB went into
Operation last week and is being
regarded as a gross violation of
the B.C, statutory 40-hour week,

_As such it is being strongly pro-

tested by Pacific Veneer mill-
workers,

“kK OR

Marine Workers and Boiler-
makers Union wage negotiations
on behalf of 100 employees of
the Morrison Steel and Wire,
has won won a 15 and 20 cent
per hour wage increase covering
a two-year contract, :

The new agreement’ also in-
cludes an additional wage ad-
justment up to 42 cents an hour
.on certain job classifications,
‘plus additional fringe benefits on
vacations,

May Day
rally set

The Vancouver Trade Union
May Day Committee announced
this week that May Day will be
celebrated this year with a large
public meeting on Sunday, May
1 at 8 p,m, This was announced
by chairman Jeff Powers,

Powers said the theme of this

~ year’s May Day will be ‘*Peace

in Vietnam,” and that all pro-
ceeds over expenses will be con-
tributed to medical supplies for
victims of U,S, bombing in North
Vietnam. Prominent speakers
from labor and academic circles
have been invited to speak,

The May Day Committee will
meet Sunday, March 13 at 10
a.m, in the Pender Auditorium,
All organizations interested in
taking part in this year’s May
Day celebrations are invtied to
attend,

Alberni protests delay

of anti—pollution action

The Alberni Valley Citizen’s
Committee on Pollution has
written every B.C. MLA urging
that this session enact anti-pol-
lution legislation and protesting
any further delay.

Noting that the provincial gov-
ernment has announced that “ex-
perts” are to be sent to Alberni
to study the problem, Colin S,
Wilson, chairman of the Com-
mittee said in his letter:

“We have been promised
studies many times before, Our
experience has been that while
‘studies go on and on the pollu-
tion in our area gets worse and
worse. We reject the idea that
pollution control legislation must
await further studies, We hold
‘that legislation can be adopted
which includes these further

studies, but goes further and re-

quires the installation and use
of those methods that have
already been developed without
any further delay.”

Wilson says in his letter that
the Committee has evidence of

the damage pollution is causing to.

property, to cars and boats, to
fish, to the people’s health and
comfort, “We have also evidence
that pollution controls are prac-
tical, feasible and effective where
they are properly installed and
used and where they are a re-
quirement of adequate and effec:

Keep out of OAS
professors say

*At the present time and in
the present circumstances I
can’t see any great benefit
coming to Canada by joining the
OAS, It was put together as an
arm of the American foreign
policy with headquarters in
Washington, D.C,, so it
couldn’t help but be American
dominated,”

These were the words of
Dr. Thomas Brose of Simon
Fraser University at an all-
day seminar on Canada and
OAS held in White Rock last
week under auspices of the
United Nations Assoc,

+ Dr, Savory of UBC said
“Canada would gain nothing by
joining and might have much
to lose,’?

TO SPEAK IN VANCOUVER. Yale pro-
fessor Staughton Lynd, who recently
visited North Vietnam. will speak at
Jonn Oliver Hign achool, 41st and Fra-
ser, Friday, March 18, at 8 p.m. Spon-
sored by University of B.C. peace
(groups, Lynd will npeak on his trip to
North Vietnam

tive legislation, properly enforc-
ed,”

The letter asks MLAs how
they would vote if there were a
free vote in the Legislature on
an adequate bill to provide con-
trols to eliminate air, water and
soil pollution,

The Committee announced this
week that 6,798 people had signed
its petition calling for legislation
to eliminate air and water pollu-
tion in B.C,

VIETNAM

Cont'd from pg. 1
is a discussion of the 1954 Agree-
ment and not its strict imple-
mentation,”

The letter charges that the in-
tention of the U.S, is to tear up
the Agreement and bring about
a permanent occupation of South
‘Vietnam by ,U.S, troops with the
objective of using South Vietnam
as a base for military action
against other countries in Indo-:
China and China itself,

. “How can there be a success-
ful. conference on such a basis?*
asks the letter. “Obviously what
the government wants is not ‘un-
conditional discussion’ but ‘un-
conditional surrender!”

“It Seems to us that the only
‘basis for a successful conference
is strict abidance of the Geneva
Agreement on the basis of the
four point program advanced by
the Democratic Republic of Viet-
nam and the immediate cessation
of hostilities by the U.S, gov-
ernment which should include an
‘end to air and land attacks on
‘North and South Vietnam, A cease
fire could enable fruitful dis-
cussions to take place,”

Kashtan urged Martin to press
for. that position as the basis
for another conference which
‘could lead to a political settle-
ment, “There is all the more
reason for your government to do
so as a member of the Interna-
tional Control Commission,
charged as it was with the re-
sponsibility of supervising the
1954 Geneva Agreement,” he said,

The Kashtan letter urges that
the External Affairs Committee
of Parliament hold public hear-
ings on the Vietnam crisis and
asks that the Communist Party
delegation which recently visited
North Vietnam be allowed to
present their findings to that body
and Parliament,

A SOCIALIST PERSPECTIVE
FOR
CANADIAN LABOR

Hear

BRUCE MAGNUSON
Nat'l Labor Sec’ty
Communist Party

of Canada

FRIDAY, MARCH 18th
8 P.M.

Dreamland Hall
27 Church St.
New Westminster

Question Period

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