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teachers back to work.

COMMUNISTS SAY:

‘No city

subsidy

for Eaton-Cemp’

“Vancouver should not use city
funds to subsidize the biggest
monopoly in the country to build
the profit-making Cemp devel-
opment,’’ said the Greater Van-
couver Convention of the Com-
munist Party, meeting in the
Fishermen’s Hall last weekend,

“Vancouver needs an overall,
long-term development program
to replace the piece-meal and
real estate promotional develop-
ment concept which now predom-
inates at City Hall,” said the
keynote address presented by
acting secretary Charles Caron.

The Communist Party Conven-
tion said such a plan should in-
clude harbor development and
downtown developments to serve
the public rather than real estate
interests and retail monopolies
as proposed in the Eaton-Cemp
scheme, ‘

The convention, which brought
together delegates from allclubs

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in Greater Vancouver, called for
strong action to solve the hous-
ing crisis. It urged that the cost
of education be removed entire-
ly as an item charged against
real estate at the civic level and
demanded that the Provincial
Government proceed with all
planned school construction to
meet the present shortage of
school facilities, and called for
more civic day-care centres for
children,

A resolution calling on At-
torney-General Bonner to end the
use of injunctions in labor dis-
putes and for the repeal of Bills
42 and 43 was unanimously
adopted. The parley went on rec-
ord supporting labor’s fight
against injunctions and the use
of the courts to support manage-
ment against labor.

Strong emphasis was placed at
the parley on the fight for peace,
A resolution addressed to Prime
Minister Pearson called for Can-
ada to associate itself with the
world-wide demand for an end to
the bombing of North Vietnam,
to end the sale of war materials
to the U.S, for use in Vietnam,
It urged that Canada press the
U.S, to “cease its aggression
against the Vietnamese people and
commence negotiations fora set-
tlement of the war on the basis
of the Geneva agreements,”

Another. resolution expressed
solidarity with the struggle of
the people of Vietnam for their
independence. The parley con-
demned the use ofnapalm, poison
gas and other chemical weapons
by the U.S, against Vietnam civi-
lians and called for wide protest
against the use of these horror
weapons,

The delegates unanimously
went on record opposing any
further alienation of the prov-
ince’s natural resources, con-
demned the water diversion plan
known as NAWAP, and urged
measures to halt pollution,

The _ convention delegates
elected an _ eleven-member
Greater Vancouver executive.

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LABOR SCENE:

Oilworkers

‘FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1967

automation

pact scores big gain

The first and possibly the most
far-reaching union agreement
covering automation was won by
the Oil, Chemical and Atomic
Workers Union at the Imperial
Oil refinery at Ioco, B,C, Cer-
tainly the first of its kind in the
Canadian oil industry,

Planned provisions inthis con-
tract stems from the- research
and recommendations put for-
ward by Dr. J.T. Montague, di-
rector of the Institute of Indus-
trial Relations at the University
of B.C, a commission set up
following last year’s long and
bitter strike of B,C, oil workers,

This pioneer automation pact
won by Ioco oil workers through
the media of their union local,
covers four main provisions for
meeting automation advances in
the refinery complex,

These provide that workers
between 57 and 65 years of age
may take an earlier retirement
with a pension higher than the
normal retirement age, Should
workers find themselves pushed
out of their jobs by automation
they will remain on the same
wage rates until new wage classi-
fication has been set for the new
job.

Other workers between 46 and
57 years faced by automation
processes to retain their wage
rates until they secure a higher
paid job through job training, or
decide to retire, Workers be-
tween the ages of 35 and 46
will retain their wage levels for
a period equal to one week in
each year of service, which
includes the time period in re-
training. All retraining for new
jobs will be at company expense,

The new contract provides for
a six months’ notice of any plant
changes towards automation ma-
chinery or job changes,

In presenting his plan for a
new automation contract Mon-
tague declared management must
do more planning regarding auto-
mation, and ‘has as much re-
sponsibility in advising the union
of its contemplated manpower
needs’ as it has in planning its
financial affairs,

It.is reported that the new Oil
Workers automation contract is
sufficiently ‘flexible’ as to allow
for changing around working per-

sonnel, should such changes be.

considered necessary, but not to
the detriment of workers’ in-
terests,

Dr. Montague also advances
the viewpoint that automation
problems in industry should not
be a part of wage negotiations for
new contracts, but that the parties
engaged in negotiations should be
made fully aware of all auto-
mation problems which may be
contemplated or arise,

Reporting on the gains won in
this first automation collective
agreement the Oil Workers’ dele-
gate to this week’s session ofthe
Vancouver Labor Council called
the contract a ‘major break-
through,’ and that the Montague
plan is now an “addendum” to
the agreement,

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Meeting in Edmonton, Alberta
on February 19, 80 delegates
from local unions of Mine Mill
in Canada and the members of
the staff, meeting with the Na-
tional Officers, have voted unani-
mously to give the National Ex-

‘House should probe CIA
role in Canada’ —Kashtan

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pledges, and make student policy
conform to the wishes of the
CIA, is very serious.”

The resolution charged, “There
is also evidence of RCMP inter-
ference in Canadian universi-
ties,” and said that “Academic
and personal freedom were en-
dangered, and that any interven-
tion by government and/or police
agencies is unjustified, and will
be exposed and opposed.”

William Kashtan, national lead-
er of the Communist Party, this
week issued the following state-
ment;

“The Communist Party has long
held that the CIA operates in

_ Canada, The fact that CIA money

was made available toa Canadian
student body through one of its
front organizations bears this
out and suggests that other Ca-
nadian organizations have also
been tampered with and that some
Canadians may in fact be agents
of the CIA,

“What should be disturbing to

Canadians is the denial by the
RCMP of such CIA activities, a
denial made on the eve of the evi-
dence now available,

“Public opinion should demand
that Parliament conduct an in-
vestigation of CIA activities in
Canada, Such an investigation
could well look into the following:

“Which organizations and indi-
viduals received money from the
CIA, either directly or through
one of its shadow foundation funds
in order to promote the US.
cold war in- Canada and abroad?

“To what extent did these
undercover activities influence
Canadian foreign and domestic
policies in ways contrary to our
national interest?

‘*The Commission establish-
ed by the Government to look into
the security ofourcountry should
be asked to examine the activities
of this invisible government
and its sinister influence in Cana-
dian life.”

ecutive Board a mandate to)
tinue discussions with the
Steelworkers of Ameri#
other unions on the qué
labor unity,”

The action, setting out tet
tion, came following tw
intense discussions of #® it
cently signed “No-Raiding™ }
Assistance Pact” betweel
unions in Canada,

:
The text of the motiol
follows: — :

“That this Leadership ©
ence recommend that the ™
Officers of our Union %
discussions with the United™ "i
workers of America al@ 7%
unions in pursuit of 1ab0l
keeping in mind that the ™ of
cern of our members it ™
is maintaining Canadial ©
omy and the rights of C#
workers to run their own?
Finally, we propose that foll
such discussions that 2 ™
tion of our Union take P®
discuss the Officers’
arising from these discl
and to forward the matté
referendum vote,”

The Mutual Assistance
(featured in Feb, 17 editi0?
—Ed.) has brought to 20 =
years of intense rivalry and a
flict between the two unite
giving their unanimous 4PP Fi
to the action of the Natio™
ecutive Board, and reco” y
ing the further talks, evel
gate spoke of the need t0 isl
tain Canadian and local |.
autonomy, The Union hal
tablished full autonomous i
for itself in Canada i?

National President Ke? oot!
commenting on the Confer
said:

“The Conference isancsll
of the very high calibre #1
devotion to. basic trade “y
principles that have be®
veloped by our people ove 1!
long years. It is a ma
pride, and I am sure
not only for the National ee,
tive Board but for every dehy
and staff member wh0 ]
the Conference, when 10g
have taken this action 0&%
new roads must be fon
bringing unity among the w? yf
of our industry and 1ab0? @
to the entire trade unio?
ment of Canada.”

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Approximately 500 miné rs!
ers at Michel, B.C., ee.
the United Mine Workers © é
erica (UMWA) went on st! ik ¢
Sunday at midnight, follow’ gi
jection of a new wage a 7g
offered by the Crowsne?
dustries coal operators.

The company offered aft
an hour wage increase on it
year contract, The coal? i
regard it as less than 4 pre
award by a conciliatio®
award, also rejected by thé sf
ers, At press time there Yo

‘indication of anyearlySe™ |

of the dispute, i

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‘February 24, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE? i