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FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1969

STRIKE MOVEMENT

VOL. 30, NO.

- SPREADS IN BL.

Ont. labor
Stages big
Protest

ae Ontario labor
oe ent is staging a
se ~demonstration in
pe ato this Saturday,
ip ot Which is expected
tn; Ting out up to 25,000
lonists at Queen’s Park
: Protest the Rand
Ohdwission Report,
aa injunctions and
Ri €mand a Labor Bill of
Ights,

ae recommendations of the
end -Ommission, which would
Subjective mass_ picketing,
Way 4 unionists to fines, take
Scaby he right to strike, and give
ettle the right to vote on strike
600.099. s: has aroused the
bia "member Ontario~ labor
re Ment like no other issue in
Nt years.

go lowing on the Socred
‘ penent's adoption of Bill 33
Bie big business
have puents across the country
simi been moving to introduce
lab ar legislation to place the
"movement in chains.

a Ontario Federation of

or has called the Rand report
“time bomb’, and OFL
dent David Archer said,
B ‘ Report is an authoritarian
fi Ment .. . it is completely
Preece. Free men and
Sub Sah Would quit rather than
Strai it to unreasonable re-
Mt on their rights.”

ae movement of militant

€st was kicked off in
Soquiton on March 29 when over
0 workers staged a protest
ech against the Rand
th, mendations, now before

Obarts government.

fee Saturday march and

De €st rally was launched by a
oe conference of nearly 100
Dake: Unionists from Hamilton,
Ville and St. Catherines. The
Tch is being co-sponsored by

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OIL WORKERS picketing in Burnaby.

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“QUTSIDE WORKERS

RICHMOND OUTSIDE WORKERS on the picket line.

—Fisherman photo

—Jack Phillips photo

Wage needs
spur action

The wage movement in
B.C. this week, and
especially in the areas of
oil petroleum and gasoline

distribution, lumber, civic

employees, and _ food,
continued to. steadily
sharpen, with large-scale
strike action involving
thousands of wage earners
an imminent possibility.

The Oil, Chemical and Atomic
Workers Union. in support of its
wage demands involving six
major distributing companies.
had struck the Shell Oi! refinery
in. Burnaby. Since then — the
actions have extended to Gulf Oil
and many distributing agencies
which are now being picketed:
with ex-parte injunctions
already coming thick and fast
against the Oil Workers Union.

Similarly the meatcutters
section of the Canadian Food and
Allied Workers Union in support
of increased wage demands.
have involved six big chain retail
stores. and are presently
picketing Super-Valu. together
with Eaton's food department
(Lodom store).

Other big chains affected by
the meatcutters lockout include
Shop-Easy. High-Low. Safeways
and Lodom.

CIVIC WORKERS

* Richmond Local 394 of the
Canadian Union of~ Public
Employees (CUPE) involving
200 civic outside workers.
‘jumped the gun’ on their strike
deadline. set for 7 a.m.
Wednesday morning. Because of
frustration and anger at the
breakdown of meaningful wage
negotiations on the part of
Municipal Labor Relations
Bureau (MLRB). the Richmond
workers “hit the bricks’ * on
Tuesday instead.

This vear for the first time
MLRB*~ representatives are
acting as the spokesmen in joint
negotiations with CUPE for the
municipalities of Vancouver.
Burnaby and Richmond.

A CUPE spokesman told the
Pacific Tribune this week that

See STRIKE FRONT, pg. 12

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