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ELECTRICAL

(Si
~ a Vancouver mills were
at nut down for sev-
ore - Tuesday in the first
ies, Teakdown to occur in

Shee Workers strike.
a ae Engineers took
N hours t
Current Testored.) ae

It took BCE
than seven ho

at our lin.
1 minute

engineers more
urs to do a job
estien could do in
8,” Said IBEW as-
Ness manager Ram-
8a ger ham

Nf McCullock. “They iMaSge Sa

Ven
: ted ‘verything but a me-
anica] linesman.”

aes 213 business manager
deleratz Waplington told VLC
nike, es that the union would
3 Satisfied with “peanuts”
vei eo (In the past three
aa nesmen have received
on oximately three cents
T wage increases.)

cae Reed the support of la-
said Wank don’t stand alone,”
Willing Plington, “We are quite
aren to negotiate but we
nuts 80ing to settle for pea-
Wey, 90 often in the past

S0ne lumbering down

to the BCE like an elephant
and come back with a peanut.”

Several IBEW strikers inter-
viewed by the Pacific Trib-
une expressed the opinion that
much more must be done to
vin public support by making
the issues involved widely
known. ;

“This strike is a key one in
view of management’s launch-
ing of a general attack against
the labor movement,” said one
striker. “The recent Sun
editorial and BCE advertise-
ments in the daily papers have
confused many people.

“For example, the BCE claim
that we were offered 19 per-
cent is false. Only a very few
would receive a 19 percent in-
crease; for the majority it
would amount to about 10
percent.

“Our union must rally the
entire labor movement behind
us, then go out and tell the
truth about wages and profits
to the public. This is the way
we'll win.”

ee
FIGHTING FOR THE PT

Fra
Bly we aunderestimated

e tes
POnse to our appeal for

Ore
Salesman! and factory gate
Wag tha ast week. The result
Whi] We ran out of papers
“oMming Volunteers were. still
hap re In. Believe us, it won’t
We’ os again — this week
by 4 Mcreased the press run
Copies.

A :
Dresy grindberg of West End
Paper Ub sold 50 copies of the
Two °n a downtown street.
Same ther members of. the
bung) “ub are handling a
Two © of 25 papers each week.
Dregs oo of Drydock
Solq Club tried street sales,
theiy 6 Copies and increased
Sue, yer to 70 for this is-
“OUVe, eee of North Van-
Derg ity Club sold 55 pa-
Sivan’ of them at Burrard
Dress . plant gate. Other
bundles ubs handled smaller

tee Subscriptions to new
is = and renewing old subs
Work less important. Good
f a8 been done in the past
clu ks by Broadway press
Powel astings East, Nelson,

River and Nanaimo.

D,
®° you carry a Pacific Trib-

e : :
You Subscription book with

“at all times? Have you

Volunteers boost.
Plant, street sales

asked your workmates, friends
or neighbors to take the paper?
Do you know it is getting eas-
ier every day to sign up new
readers?

Listen to this PT supporter
who walked into our office
last week with seven subs in
his hand:

QueStion: How did you get
them; especially four new sub?

Answer: I asked them to

subscribe.

Question: Oh, come now it’s
not that simple. What’s your
secret weapon?

- Answer: No secret weapon,
honest. I just opened my
mouth and popped the ques-
tion. You know, I’ve been as-
sociated with some of these
people for years, and I always
had the notion they wouldn’t
be interestéd in the paper.
Maybe they wouldn’t have
been a year ago, who knows:
Anyway, they sure are inter-
ested now, and these subs are
the proof. I just gave them a
copy of the Pacific Tribune to
read and asked them if they
knew of any other paper that
took up their problems the
way the PT does, Presto, sev~
en subs.

Set up unemployment committees
Labor Council instructs unions

President Lloyd Whalen of Vancouver Labor Council urged all local unions to immed-
iately establish unemployment committees at the VLC meeting Tuesday this week.

“Following instructions from this council, the VLC executive has appointed seven
-members to our unemployment .council, and met with union representatives last week to hear
first-hand reports on the jobless situation in each local,” Whalen said.

Mowers LPP choice in
Okanagan-Revelstoke

VERNON, B.C. — Alexander “Sandy” Mowers, young Notch
Hill worker who made his political debut campaigning for
cattteman Henry Codd in the 1953 federal election was the
unanimous choice of Labor-Progressive party clubs in Okana-
gan-Revelstoke constituency at a nominating convention here

Thursday last week.

Twenty-four years old,
“Sandy” Mowers has already
established a reputation for
himself as a speaker and a
leader. Since completing his
high school education at Sal-
mon Arm, he has worked in
farming, logging and more re-
cently in the construction in-
dustry.

In his acceptance speech,
Mowers lashed out at the Dief-
enbaker government’s failure
to give the Okanagan fruit in-
dustry the, help it needs if it is
to survive.

“We've got to get protection
from U.S. dumping, and we’ve
got to open up the markets of
the world,” he declared.

“Diefenbaker said he would
take steps to regain our tradi-
tional -United Kingdom and
Commonwealth markets, yet
like his Liberal predecessors,
he refuses to trade in sterling.
He said he stood for trade with
China, but he refuses to do the
thing which more than any-

premises.

thing else would help to es-
tablish normal business rela-
tionships — recognize the Chi-
nese Feople’s Republic.

“Diefenbaker has shown
that his policies are deepening
the economic crisis just as the
Liberals did before.

“The lack of markets for our
farm produce, and the unem-
ployment crisis cannot be solv-
ed so long as we go along with
the U.S. cold war policies,”
Mowers said.

“The LPP maintains that the
central issue of this election is
the need for new national poli-
cies based on peaceful coex-
istence, trade and the welfare
of the workers and farmers.

“All the other political par-
ties are deliberately avoiding
these issues. It is necessary that
the people of Okanagan-Revel-
stoke have the opportunity of
voting for an alternative pol-
icy, which the LPP alone pro-
vides in this campaign.”

MU 5-5836

“At the present time Marine

Workers and the Electrical
Workers are the only two lo-
cals with functioning unem-
ployment. committees. Other
unions are proceeding to set |
up such committees, and col-
lect information on members
who are in distress — that is,
in danger of losing their cars,
or homes because they can-
not meet payments.

“We intend, as soon as we
have collected this information
to arrange a meeting with civic
authorities and endeavor to
have a moratorium declared
on debts of unemployed union-
ists.

“There is no doubt the job-
less situation is growing grim-
mer. On February 20 the fig-
ure in this area was 43,684. I
appeal to all locals affiliated
te Vancouver Labor Council to
set up unemployment commit-
tees immediately.”

Rush, McEwen speak

Is. lower purchasing power
for B.C. workers the way to
prosperity? This will be one of
the questions discussed _ by
Maurice Rush, the Labor-Pro-
gressive party candidate for
Vancouver-Centre, at an elec-
tion rally to be held this Wed-
nesday, March 12, 8 p.m. at
Hastings Auditorium.

Speaking with Rush will be
Tom McEwen, LPP candidate
for Vancouver-South.

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