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SHEILA YOUNG
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a . B.C. Peace Council

Unions win
after work

stoppage

CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C.
Work was resumed on the John
Hart development power house job
January 5 after being held up since
December 10. ‘The stoppage oc-
curred because the,main contractor,
Campbell and Bennett Ltd., had
failed to sign a union ,agreement
with the Operating Engineers, local
115; Teamsters, local 213; and the
Laborers local 1093.

Unique in this dispute was the
fact that no strike was declared and
no picketing was doné by any of
the 180 workers on the job. Al
statement of fact, that the firm had
not signed a union agreement, post-
ed on the gates formed the “infor-
mation picket” which was indivi-
dually respected by members of
eight AFL unions, working on the
project.

Work also stopped on the new
Campbell River bridge, another
Campbell and Bennett, job. This
firm has become notorious for its
cheap and sharp practices in labor

LESLIE MORRIS

On B.C. tour

relations policies.

A solidarity never before
known, among so many craft
unions won the issues on_ this
project hands down. The firm
_was finally forced to sign agree-
ments with the unions concerned,
retroactive to their respective ef-
fective dates as in operation with
other contractors.

The Operating Engineers, and
Teamsters secured a province-wide
agreement, while the Laborers’ con-

tract is effective for Vancouver
Island only.

Some workers will have up to
$500 coming in back pay, and ad-
justments in certain categories will
run from 30 cents an hour up.
Laborers’ rates were boosted from
$1.40 to $1.55 per hour, retroactive
to September 22, 1952.

Progressive
youth paper
starts drive

“All across Canada progressive
young people are celebrating the
second birthday of their semi-
monthly newspaper, Champion, by
signing up new readers,” ° said
Carole Lawrie, B.C. campaign. man-
ager for the youth paper, when in-
terviewed by ‘the Pacific Tribune
this week.

When the current subscription
drive for Champion winds up Jan-
uary 18, a one-month financial cam-
paign to raise $3,000 will be launch-
ed in this province.

“Our annual Champion concert
will be held in Pender Auditorium
February 13,” said Mrs. Lawrie.
“We hope all our readers and sup-
porters will turn out and make this
concert a rousing success.”

She described Champion as “the
only national youth paper in Can-
ada” and said that young people
regard it as “a paper which belongs
to them, an organ in which their
problems can be discussed and solv-
ed, through an exchange of ideas.”

Since it was launched two years
ago Champion has campaigned
against conscription; fought for the

|| needs of youth in the trade indus-

try; supported a Canadian-Soviet
student exchange; and raised pro-
gressive issues consistently in its

| columns.

A subscription for Champion
costs only $1 per year, and sub
orders can be sent to Room 200,
Ford Building, 193 East Hastings

Street, Vancouver 4, B.C.

B.C. audiences will hear a first-
hand account of the recent 19th
Congress of the Communist Party

- of the Soviet Union when Leslie

Morris addresses meetings in sev-
eral provincial centres between
January 23 and February 7. Mor-
ris, a member of the LPP national
executive, attended the congress
as a fraternal guest.

Following is Morris’ itinerary
as released by the LPP provincial
office here: January 23, Vancou-
ver; January 25, Courtenay; Jan-
uary 26, Port Alberni; January
27, Nanaimo; January 28, Vic-
toria; January 30, Haney; Feb-
ruary 4, Vernon; February 6,
Trail; February 7, Michel.

AUUC plans
provincial
convention

Plans for a Western Ukrainian
Canadian Folk Festival will be dis-
cussed at the provincial convention
of the Association ‘of United
Ukrainian Canadians to be held in
the AUUC hall, 805 East Pender,
here January 17-18.

Delegates from the, 16 branches
of the AUUC in B.C. will discuss
their educational and cultural activi-
ties and complete plans for holding
a summer dancing course and the
organization of youth clubs.

National committee representa-
tives John Boychuk and Helen Weir
will be guest speakers at a conven-
tion banquet January 17, and the
parley will conclude with a concert
January 18 in the Odeon-Hastings
theatre, featuring Ukrainian culture

as an integral part of the culture
of Canada.

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Protest taken to city hall

At the Clemens inquest on Tues-
day this week some 250 citizens
who, found themselves crowded out
of Vancouver’s smali coroner’s
court lost no time in voicing their
protest.

A petition was hurriedly drawn,
up on the street outside the court,
demanding that the inquest be ad-
journed and moved to quarters
large enough to accomodate all in-
terested citizens. When this failed
to bring any response from the cor-
oner, Dr. John Whitbread, a dele-
gation of 28 went to the city hall.
At the city hall four spokesmen
were chosen to ‘interview Mayor
Fred Hume. “Indeed something
should be done, but it’s out of my
jurisdiction because it’s in the hands
of the attorney-general,’ Mayor
Hume informed them.

The spokesman promptly phon-
ed, the attorney general’s depart-
ment at Victoria. Unless provi-
sion was made to seat all who
wanted to attend the inquest, they

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said, the public right to hear the
proceedings was in effect being®
denied and the impression would
be created that an attempt was
being made to hush up the case.
_ The attorney general’s depart-
ment referred the delegation to
Nathan Nemetz, QC, appointed to
represent the attorney general at
the inquest.

But the inquest ended without
the majority of those excluded for
lack of seats being able to hear
the proceedings. :

The day following the inquest,

Public crowded out|
of Clemens inquest |

“ .
ler announced he had informed

Mayor Hume that the inquest would
have to continue in the official Cor
oner’s court because no Jarger
room was available at the proviny
cial court house.

All Dr. Whitbread would say was
that he was too busy to speak to

the press about future arrangements,

to. enable the public to attend his

inquests.
a ne

Deputy Attorney General Eric Pep-'

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