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Civic unions in
GAncouver unite

Commenting on the union pact,
Jack Phillips Secretary of the
Civic Workers Union pointed out
that with the withdrawal of the
City Hall Employees Associa-
tion, the Canadian Union of Public
Employees are left with practi-
cally no members in Vancouver,
“These are the facts of life and
you can’t ignore them” he stated.

“When you evaluate the setting
up of the municipal labor rela-
tions bureau in this context you
realize that is is neither a fool-
ish ora stupid move, On the One
hand, the unions are more dis-
united than ever before.

On the other hand, the munici-
pal councils, which include many
who are unfriendly to labor, are
uniting their resources for col-

lective bargaining.

“It is time for the municipal
unions to rise above the second-
ary differences over affilliation,
personal likes and dislikes and
petty egotistical and parochial
exclusiveness, It is time to look
the facts straight in the eye.”

Partial text of the pact is as
follows:

The officers of the Vancouver
City Hall Employees’ Associa~
tion Local 15 and the Vancouver
Civic Employees’ Union, Outside
Workers, have jointly reviewed
the establishment of a Municipal
Labour Relations Bureau by the
Municipal Councils of Vancouver,
Burnaby and New Westminster.
The main purpose of this Bureau
is to conduct all matters of lab-
our relations relative to collec-
tive bargaining, arbitrations,
conciliations, grievances and the
correlation of statistics, with a
view to strengthening the bar-
gaining position of the employer
group,

Acknowledging this challenge,
our’ two Unions agree to co-ope-
rate in negotiating practice and
techniques and to assist each
other as required in the collec-
ting and correlating of statistics
and information relative tonego-
tiations or any specialized pro-
blems affecting our organiza-
tions,

In summary, any matter of
mutual concern’ will become a
joint matter requiring the use of
the resources of both organiza-

tions,

The recent summit confe!
states heard many appec!s
gola in equipping and trai

rence in Cairo of 33 African
Is for aid to the people of An-
ning fighting forces.

Lipp would raise
aldermanic pay

Vancouver City Council is be-
ing asked to up salaries for al-
dermen from $3600 annually to
$4800 and the mayor's from $12,-
000 to $15,000.

Alderman Phillip Lipp for the
second time in less than a year
has placed a motion before coun-
cil calling for such an increase,

Wm, Stewart, Vancouver Com-
munist Party Secretary told the
Pacific Tribune there was no
justification for the increase,

WM. E. STEWART

“Council wages are inline with
those being paid in other major
Canadian municipalities and in-
deed the increase proposed by
Mr, Lipp would make Vancouver
aldermen the highest paid in Ca-
nada,

“The solution to better repre-
sentation in Vancouver does not
lie, as Mr. Lipp suggests, in in-
creasing aldermanic indemnities
but in introducing the ward sys-
tem in Vancouver,

“Tt is interesting that Mr, Lipp
absented himself from City Coun-
cil when the vote took place earl-
ier this year on a proposal for
area representation, He was ob-
viously fearful of exposing him-
self to the people of the east: end
of Vancouver as being opposed to
such a system of representation,
but was unprepared to support it,

“His proposal now to increase
aldermanic pay are in the op-
posite direction, It requires little
imagination to realize that the
higher the pay is per alderman
the stronger becomes the argu-
ment against increasing the size
of council because of costs,

“Not only a minority of voters,
but a minority of those who voted,
gave their support to the NPA in
the last three Vancouver civic
elections, It,ill behooves such a
council to further line their own
pockets” Stewart concluded,

Negro freedom
theme of rally

On January 1, 1863, Abraham
Lincoln issued the historic Em-
ancipation Proclamation, which
made “all persons held as slaves”
in any State, “henceforward and
forever free”, On August 2,
1964, 101 years later, the B.C,
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People sponsored an
“Emancipation Memorial”  at-
tended by several hundred people,
Alderman Phillip Lipp conveyed
greetings and best wishes to the
gathering from Mayor Rathieand
Council, -The gathering was held
at the Peretz School Auditorium,
Vancouver,

Tone of the meeting was set by
Mr, J, H, Fair, President of the
B.C,A,A.C.P. The audience, he
said, might wonder why, 101
years after Lincoln’s historic
Proclamation, there are no fes-
tivities. It is because, continued
Fair, “total emancipation, es-
pecially for coloured people, has
not yet arrived”,

Although he lauded passage of
the U.S, Civil Rights Bill, Fair
asserted that legislation alone
will not produce “total, substan-
tial emancipation”, People must
act before rights on paper will
live, It is thus the *moral res-
ponsibility” of all men to fight
prejudices, concluded Fair,

Guest speaker at the Memorial
was Dr, Winston J, Mahabir, a
McGill medical graduate and for-
mer Health Minister of Trinidad,
He expressed deep concern over
racial relations in a changing
world where “for the first time in
modern history the politically
free non-white world is larger

than the politically-free white
world”, He discussed the prob-
lems faced by newly freed non-
white countries,

Economics, said Dr, Mahabir,
creates the biggest headache for
newly independent countries, It
is an error to believe that the
“achievement of political inde-
pendence is the end of the road, :
Political freedom is only asmall
oasis in the vast desert of econo-
mic need,” Incountries like Tri-
nidad, he continued, the whites,
while politically dethroned, con-
tinued to control the nation’s eco-
nomic life,

Foreign domination, he noted,
is also a major Canadian pro-
blem,

In conclusion, Dr, Mahabir,
urged Canada totake theinitiative
in securing racial harmony on a
world scale, since our voice is
heeded when those. of the U.S,
and U.S,S,R, are not,

Music for the Memorial was
contributed by Eleanor Collins,
famous television, radio, and
stage artist, and by Joseph S,
Powe’s “Songcrafters”, an all-
male chorus from Seattle, The
songs reflected the pleas for
peace and understanding made by
the speakers,

The meeting concluded on an
optimistic note as the Songcraft-
ers led the audience in an ar-
rangement of “Lift Every Voice
and Sing”, a famous Negro hymn
which forecasts the attainment of
“the harmonies of Liberty” and
“victory” by all oppressed
people,

U.S. bombs village
in North Vietnam

American planes bombed and
straffed a North Vietnam village
last Saturday afternoon, wound-
ing one person and damaging pro-
perty, a North Vietnam Ministry
spokesman announced in Hanoi
this week,

The attack on the North Viet-
nam village of Noong De, about 12
miles from the North Vietna-'
mese-Laos border was said to
have been made by four U,S,
fighter-bombers coming from the
direction of Laos,

They first attacked a North
Vietnamese border post with
bombs and rockets and then went
on to attack the village,

In its statement the North Viet-
nam spokesman said the Laotian
Government, pledged to follow a
polity of neutrality, “must bear
heavy responsibility for having
allowedthe U.S, to use Laotian
territory to encroach upon” North
Vietnam,

The statement added that North
Vietnam would “have to carry
out legitimate measures of self-
defence” ifthe American Govern-
ment “and its lackeys in Laos
use Laotian territory to violate
the air space and territory, and
sabotage the security” of North
Vietnam,

At the weekend the North Viet-°

nam Government lodged an ener-
getic protest with the Interna-
tional Control Commission
against U.S, and South Vietnam
action in shellling the North Viet-
nam islands of Hon Ngu and Hon

Me on July 30,

It has also protested about an
attack by U.S, and South Vietna-
mese warships in surrounding
two North Vietnam fishing boats
on July 25 and abducting 11 fish-
ermen,

This series of attacks follows
an intensification of demands in
the past months from Washington
and Saigon for the extension of
the war in South Vietnam to North
Vietnam in an attempt to deal
with the growing action of the
people of South Vietnam against
the U.S, puppet regime there led
by General Khanh,

It coincides too with increas-
ing fears in Washington that the
puppet regime in South Vietnam
may be facing a new coup which
would topple General Khanh,

The disclosure of the attack on
North Vietnam came exactly a
week after the announcement in
Washington that President John-
son had ordered an intensifica-
tion of the war in Vietnam andthe
dispatch of another 5,000to 6,000
U.S, troops,

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