SAR SS SS SA Se Se NS GSS Ne — = AS. SS SSS NS Soe ee NN. SS ad WILLIAM HEIKKILA Heikkila ‘phantom’ to US. officials SAN ; Heiggy, ANCISCO—William Bice’ held in Vancouver ing a a weekend while a a to Finland, is Us 7 °™ according to the Alicayi etation and Natur- ~10n Service. Prange? sical body is in San is j Sco, but his legal entity Some limbo outside the boy ny . Siaee Sof the United W ; a Race Heikkila stepped off ne at San Francisco air- 2a i returning after his bi- the Kidnap-deportation by Thighy MBration service, he diq have landed, but he Not enter, latest *e is legal method in this aga St given the Heikkila Vice, 7p oe Immigration Ser- in the Heikkila is not legally lege Sion ly €xcluded, and exclu- ny ea much more uncere- S ; 3 Pottation procedure than de pe *esident of the U.S., citi- Under | non-citizen, comes Cnstituin” protection of the Constit lon. But how can the Who pydion protect an “alien” , S1't here? Woy tila has been officially A lette of his phantom status. ‘ervig ™ from the immigration in 4. 2dVised him that he is the US: on parole, that tion Xamination and inspec- Ate a Which all immigrants fernes. Jected have been de- fieg ? 89d he will be. noti- Place, hen these are to take y atop ‘ McMurray, Heikkila’s the . ltst they kidnap him,” the cMurray, “and now Constin et to rob him of his In , tional rights.” €portation proceeding, the immigration service is supposed to present evidence to prove its target deportable, ‘and the conclusions are sub- ject to court review. In an exclusion action, the immi- gration service is required to produce nothing at all, except its belief that the immigrant is “undesirable.” The immigration service con- tends that Heikkila was legally deported when he was kid- napped on April 19 and se- cretly spirited out of the country. Therefore, he may now be excluded. Stockholm peace parley will be peoples summit conference’ “Once the U.S. and Britain stop H-bomb tests, they’ll never be able to start them again. Public opinion would force them to take the next step along the road to peace. The danger that exists today--where we could find ourselves, by accident, in a war at half an hour’s notice—would disappear.” Vincent Duncan-Jones, sec- retary of the World Council of Peace, expressed these opin- ions at a press conference here Monday this week. He is tour- ing Canada to arouse interest in a Congress for Disarma- ment and International Coop- eration, which will be held in Stockholm July 16-22. “At Stockholm we hope to shift the log jam,’ said Dun- can-Jones. “People are sick of the cold war. They are tired of diversion and seek coopera- tion.” Stockholm will be a “peo- ple’s summit meeting” which may help to bring about a summit meeting of the heads of state this year. “The World Council of Peace has always said that to prevent war we must destroy atomic weapons, dissolve mili- tary blocs and achieve total disarmament,” said Duncan- Jones. “Today the desire for peace is world-wide. Opinions differ on how peace is to be permanently maintained. At Stockholm we hope that a free exchange of opinions will enable us to reach common agreement and give wider ex- pression to the voice of pub- lice opinion.” Duncan-Jones recently re- turned from India, where he attended a bureau meeting of the World Council of Peace. It was this parley which initiated the Stockholm Congress. “Thousands of scientists of many nationalities have just given to the world a solemn warning of the damaging ef- fects of nuclear test explosions and the terrrible implications of nuclear war,” said the in- vitation issued by the World Council of Peace. “They have thus justified the fears and protests of the people in face of the growing stocks of A- and H-bombs, the stockpiles increasing in num- ber in more and more coun- tries, and the fact that aircraft carrying these horror wea- pons are now permanently airborne over many regions of the globe. “World opinion must suc- ceed in bringing about agree- ments that dispel these dan- gers.” Discussing some of the “small but significant’ ad- vances made by the people in the struggle for peace, Dun- can-Jones cited a recent rally of the “Movement Against Atomic Death” in Hamburg, Germany. “Not only did the speakers come from many organizations, such as_ the Social-Democrats, the Social- ists and the various trade unions but many employers North Van District civic workers strike to end wage disparities NORTH VANCOUER—Civic employees in North Vancouver District struck on Thursday last week after rejecting a majority conciliation report recommending a wage increase of 12% percent. The total number of employees involved is 214, of whom 138 are outside workers for outside workers and 24 percent for inside staff. The strike has closed down building inspection, garbage collection, public works, parks maintenance and other serv- ices. In the adjoining City of North Vancouver, the same union settled for a blanket 15 percent, with classification changes and other adjustments for inside workers to be re- ferred to a city-union commit- tee, Earlier this week, the Dis- trict offered to settle for 15 percent, with full retroactive pay to Jan. 1 (there was no mention of retroactive pay in the board report) and a simi- lar arrangement on adjust- ments as in the case of the city. But ‘at Pacific Tribune press time, the union had counter-proposed by demand- ing 20 percent for inside staff, with the difference between this amount and the union de- mands to be discussed later and arbitrated if necessary. The inside staff has been seeking upward adjustments for several years running. Some rates are as much as $100 a month below those pre- vailing in other municipalities in the Greater Vancouver area. The B.C. Joint Council of Public Employees (NUPE) to which the union is affiliated, has pledged full moral and fi- nancial support. The 1,500- member Vancouver Civic Em- ployees Union, Outside Work- ers (independent), has also pledged support. : and 76 are employed in the municipal hall. The Civic Employees Union is seeking 15 percent Some 200 non - striking members of the North Shore union, employed by the city and the North Vancouver School District, have agreed to a 15 percent wage assess- ment to assist the strikers. North Shore building con- tractors, who are reported to have laid off 50 men because of the strike, are putting the heat on council to settle. A wage increase of 15 per- cent for the outside workers would bring the basic rate for labor up to $1.81, three cents below the basic rate for a city laborer in Vancouver. But the proposed 15 percent increase would leave the in- side staff trailing Vancouver by much greater amounts. also showed their support by giving time off to attend the meeting,” he said. Firemen win concession The firemen’s strike against the CPR ended Tuesday night this week when the company agreed that some 475 firemen, due to be shifted to other jobs this month, will remain on as firemen. This key decision protects all firemen hired between March 31, 1953 and April 1, 1956, who are now moved into category one. “All firemen with seniority dates up to .and_ including March 31, 1956 will continue to work in exactly the same manner as in the past, with all their rights and seniority fully protected,” said CPR president Norman Crump. — The company’s decision to remove firemen from freight and yard diesels (recommend- ed by the Kellock royal com- mission and put into effect May 11) will now be deferred for several years. However, firemen hired in the last two years will have to shift to other jobs, and no new fire- men will be hired. The agreement ended the three-day strike but left un- settled negotiations between the company and the union on a new contract. The present contract expires May 31. Trail Mine-Mill wins highest pension plan TRAIL, B.C. — Mine-Mill members employed by Con- solidated Mining and Smelting have accepted a wage increase of five cents an hour plus a pension scheme which will give them the highest retire- ment income in B.C. The new agreement, which goes into effect June 1, calls for each employee to contrib- ute $8.33 monthly toward a retirement annuity of $100 for each year of service. The com- pany will. boost its contri- bution from one percent to 114 percent of employee wages, based on the highest-paid 10- year period of service. May 16, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 7 es oleic liapnct tions aOR ene SR ee i - oe Se: