At the halfway point, we're half way to our objective — $20,643 has come in up to May 7. But that still leaves another half yet to go —.another $20,000 — and only five weeks left in which to do it. If you have not yet sent in your donation, if your club is lagging behind, do something about it now. Step up the drive to make the 40th Anniversary the biggest victory ever. Native Indians demand — settlement of land issue Continued from Page 1 _with Indian ownership of lands in BC: The 23 Bands with McKenna- McBride cut-offs have formed an Action Committee to push for a just settlement of this issue. The committee seeks negotiations with both the federal and provincial governments. A major bone of contention is that the provincial government has taken the stand that land. claims is a_ federal responsibility, and has until recently washed its hands of the issue. However, growing pressure is compelling the provincial government to change its attitude. Human resources minister Norm Levi announced last weekend that the B.C. cabinet will debate the issue this week. Meanwhile, frustration of the Indian people with the federal Indian Affairs department led Monuay to a statement by the executive committee of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs calling the department an irresponsible waste of public funds, and asked Indian Affairs minister Judd Buchanan to shut down his department’s operations in B.C. The statement said the depart- ment, with a national budget of $800 million a year, is “‘simply ‘a catch-all employment agency for civil servants who are all too often bigoted and incompetent.’ It charged that the department spends from $50 to $80 million a year in B.C., ‘‘but only about 10 per cent of it ever reaches the Indian people.” ; The just struggle of the Indian people for their rights deserves the full support of every democratic and fair-minded British Colum- bian. The fact that they are speaking out more unitedly and in a more organized way is a welcome sign because their struggle for equality and justice is HAWAII Honolulu/Waikiki & Maui Double occupancy includes Hotel accommodation To reserve space or for further information, please contact The experts intraveltothe USSR GLOBE TOURS 2679 Hastings Street East/Vancouver B.C./253-1221 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1975—Page 10 one of the major democratic issues of our time. ‘ The Canadian Communist Party recently adopted a statement which supports “the right of the Indian people to collective ownership of the lands of their forefathers in all areas where no treaty rights exist, and their right to participate in decisions’ with respect to economic development of their lands and the natural resources thereon; and their rightful share in the income derived from such development programs and projects.” Compensation for fishermen expected soon Compulsory compensation coverage for fishermen — long sought by the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union — is finally to become reality according to an announcement last week by labor minister Bill King that an amendment to the Workers Compensation act is being con- sidered and will definitely be in- troduced during the current session of the Legislature. The UFAWU’s demand that compensation coverage be ex- tended to independent fishermen. was given a terrible urgency last month with the tragic toll of lives in the recently-opened herring roe fishery. King’s proposed amendment — - pledged in a letter to the Fisher- | man May 1 — was in response to the renewed demand from the UFAWU, emphasized by a delegation from the union which met with King March 19. Under present compensation legislation, fishermen are segregated according to whether they are employees or independent fishermen and only employees are given compulsory coverage. In- dependent fishermen can only receive benefits if they request and pay for the coverage themselves. In its proposed form as outlined in the letter, the amendment will . extend coverage to all fishermen and assessments will be levied on the fishing companies buying the fish. ‘MAN ALONG THE SHORE’ New book of city’s waterfront “A longshoreman is a worker of many characteristics. He is a skillful, rugged individual who is innovative, imprudent, charitable, jealous of his position, and above all, independent.” That is quite a statement to make about any group of people. But after reading ‘‘Man Along the Shore,” the story of Vancouver’s waterfront, its truth must be ad- mitted. A longshoreman, though, is much more than a colorful character. Always relatively small in numbers, they have _ been, perhaps more than any other group of workers, crucial to Vancouver. Their history is in many ways synonymous with that of Van- couver since the first ships were loaded with timber from the old Hastings’ Mill, through years of depression and boom, to the modern superport of today. Not least, the more than 100 years of longshoring in Vancouver have been years of struggle. Three times their union was smashed, each time to build again stronger than before; the history of the dock worker typifies the struggle of all working people to better their conditions. This book is. not an.official union history. It is largely the assembled recollections of longshoremen — from Alex Nyman who first began work on the docks in 1903 but can remember back to those first of all longshoremen in the 1880’s — to names such as Alex Will, Sam Engler, Doc Cope, Vic Pollard and many others. Ably written by consultant Ben Swankey, ‘‘Man Along the Shore’’ has been prepared and produced by a committee of pensioned long- shoremen with the aid of the In- tells story ternational Longshoremen 4M Warehousemen’s Union (ILWis and financed by a grant from federal government’s Horizons program. Although limited by the for and the purpose, there is nev theless a clear picture of ul history woven in the bo Beginning with the Knights Labor way back in 1888 they W followed by the Internatio! Longshoremen’s Associali®® (ILA), which represented =! couver longshoremen until union was smashed in the # strike. A series of company unl was the consequence until © Vancouver & District Waterftt! Workers Association (VDWW#) came under militant leadership? the 1930’s only to be smashed ag@” in the strike of 1935. The resultti company unionism that emerge was to last until the late 1940? before the ILWU reorganized H rhs Z CUneloubrealy the book could have” been strengthened with a look a the controversies which shook the | membership over the years al0 a with some insight into the poli | thinking of longshoremen | various periods. There is yittle) mention of Communists and !@ wing militants and_ their com y tribution to union history — such is the politics of longshot men in this period. For those who have ever work) the waterfront, or for those Bh cherish history as it was for. the) ordinary person, ‘Man Along i Shore” is well worth the $3. 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