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he tributes will come from all over Van-
er Island and from as far away as Nica-
a when fellow trade unionists, Com-
t Party members and scores of friends

espects to Walter Tickson who died in
aimo last week. His courageous year-
attle with cancer ended.in Nanaimo
pital Nov. 5. is
memorial has been set for | p.m. in
o’s Beban Park Activity Centre. ,
of the best known unionists on Van-
Island and widely respected among
enerations of Communist Party
Mbers and supporters for his down-to-
teaching, Tickson had deep roots in

Vism in the trade union movement
Uunicipal politics.

in Sandown, Manitoba, May 25,
*, he left home when he was only 13,
housands of others of his genera-
Orking as a farm laborer before com-

and although a medical disability
ted him from seeing action, he
© an artificer for the Royal Canadian
cal Mechanical Engineers, working
d down the coast from his base in

in Nanaimo Novy. 23*to”pay their *

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- munist party leader. and over the years

emorial to Tickson Nov. 23

Victoria. It was there that he married his
wife Grace in 1943.

Demobilized in Hope in 1945, he went to
work in the woods, where he joined the
IWA, later becoming a trustee with the
Woodworkers Industrial Union of Canada
during the WIUC’s short-lived breakaway
from the [WA.

Two years after the war, he joined the
Communist Party and carried that tradition
throughout his life.

In 1959, while still working as a faller in
the wood industry on Vancouver Island, he
went fishing, joining the United Fishermen
and Allied Workers Union that same year.
He continued as a union member until his
death, serving in various union posts,
including president of the Nanaimo local
and small-boat vice-president on the
union’s general executive board.

_He was charged along with ten others in
1978 for obstruction when the union sought

to defend itself from an attack by the Com-.

bines Investigation branch but he was sub-
sequently acquitted.

Last year, at a testimonial to Walter in
Nanaimo, UFAWU president Jack Nichol
cited that incident as a measure of Walter’s
commitment to the working class. “That’s
the kind of man he is,”’ Nichol said. “He
won't stand idly by while the rights of work-
i sople are under attack.”
ae yebinte from the UFAWU to the
Nanaimo, Duncan and District Labor

~ Council for many years, Walter was elected

_ to the post of council secretary in 1983 and

continued in that position until ill health

prevented him from carrying out his work.
He was also familiar to many as a Com-

Bea Ferneyhough, Vancouver, writes: On
Nov. 2, the CBC broadcast a news story and

- “interviews on the strike of the.work force at

the Hotel Manoir Richelieu, in La Malbaie,
-9 the St, Lawrence River just below
Quebec City. Your last issue also dealt with
the ‘strike (Who Killed Gaston Harvey?

‘Tribune, Nov. 5, 1986). The -hotel- was

recently sold, according to the report, to a
Quebec millionaire whose company has its
headquarters in Bermuda, the notorious
refuge of the rich who want to escape taxa-
tion. The new owner reportedly made one
of his first actions to fire the unionized staff
and to hire non-union labor at lower wages.
The workers went on strike.

Back in the late 1920s, I worked at the
Manoir Richelieu Hotel as one of a group of
university students hired during the summer

Walter Tickson in Nicaragua during first trade union tour there in March, 1981.

holidays. We were paid $20 a month, of

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served in a number of posts including

branch organizer, regional committee
member and member of the provincial
committee. In recent years, he was the Van-
couver island regional organizer and sat on
the party’s provincial executive.

Dozens of activists were introduced to
Marxism through classes organized by the
Nanaimo Club which Walter conducted.

A member of the Vancouver Island
Ratepayers in the 1950s and *60s, he con-
tinued to play a prominent role in Nanaimo
civic politics, both as a founding member and
candidate in school board and council elec-
tions for the Greater Nanaimo Civic Affairs
Committee and later the Organized Pro-
gressive Electors of Nanaimo (OPEN).

He also believed strongly in international
solidarity and in 1981, he was a member of
the first trade union delegation to Nicara-

' gua which later formed the basis for the

country-wide campaign, Tools for Peace.

At the testimonial last year, Alicia Varel, the

Canadian representative for Nicaragua’s
main trade union. central, CST, paid tribute
to those pioneering efforts, and noted: ““We
see in Walter’s attitude a spirit which gives
us strength to confront the problems which
affect us daily.”

Walter was also honored for his solidar-
‘ity by the Soviet Union which presented
him with a medal commemorating the 40th
anniverasry of the victory over fascism.
Together with B.C. Communist Party
leader and veteran Maurice Rush, he was
one of only two British Columbians to
receive the medal.

Walter is survived by his wife Grace, his
son Ray and grandchildren Devon and
Ehren. ec :

| Quebec hotel’s policies not new

which $1 was taken off for medical service.
We lived in barracks-like housing and ate in
a separate dining room where the food was
often inedible. Many were the bitter jokes
about the butter being so high it hit the

ceiling and how everything tasted like whale

blubber.

From the reports now of the working :
conditions and the anti-labor activities of -

the police, I get the impression that the

outlook of the present owner of the Manoir’
is no improvement on what we experienced

in the Twenties. I feel the labor movement’
should unite behind the workers in La Mal-

baie as an absolute rejection of the methods

against labor being used there and should

declare that labor solidarity is growing

throughout Canada and will not be stopped

until the rights of labor are fully recognized,

in practice as well as in words.

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