Youth support U.S. Negro struggle

Last week the New Democratic Youth movement in Tor-
onto staged the above demonstration against the F. W.
Woolworth chainifor its anti-negro discrimination in stor-
es in the U.S. south. Their message was: :Don’t buy jim-
crow goods. ’

Labor unity appeal in
W.F.T.U. May Day call

The World Federation of Trade
Unions, in a stirring May Day
call, urges joint action of the
workers and all trade unions for
peace and disarmament and to
completely eradicate colonialism.

The appeal states: ‘In many
countries united struggles have
on several occasions, blocked the
policy of the monopolies against
the living standards of the work-
ers, and have helped win sub-
stantial demands and often new
rights.

“But while celebrating our vic-
tories, we cannot forget that our
class enemy is still placing num-
erous and grave obstacles in\ the
way of peace and social prograss-

“Working together the monop
olies and the governments in thei
service, both within and outside
the European Economic Commun-
ity, using the pretext of interna-

tional competition, .are attempt-
ing to freeze wages, suppress or
restrict trade union rights, pre-
vent a reduction of working hours
and set the workers of different
countries against each other.
“On the strength of our com-
mon interests and demands, on
the strength of the growing unity
of our struggles, let us stand up
firmly together against the at-
tacks and manoeuvres of the mon-
opolies. Let us consolidate the
co-operation and joint action of
the workers and all trade unions.
“Divided we weaken our forces.
United, we proceed faster towards
the fulfilment of our aspirations
for a better life and peace.”
The call addresses especially
warm greetings to “the valiant
Spanish workers in their strug-
gle for freedom and social pro-

gress’’.

LABOR ROUNDUP:

Labor minister dismisses boards;
UFAWU presses fisheries fight

The high-handed action of
Provincial Labor Minister
Peterson in his dismissal of
four conciliation boards delib-
erating on wage negotiations
between Local 16-601, of the
Oil Chemical and Atomic
Workers Union, may precipi-
tate a strike situation.

According to the minister’s
interpretation the Union can-
not secure a government sup-
ervised strike vote until a
conciliation board hands down
a “recommendation”... Having
dismissed these boards, the
minister has failed up until

now to specify where a “rec-

ommendation” must come
from before a strike vote can
be authorized.

Meantime, the Oil Workers
Union-and B.C. Federation of
Labor officials are meeting
this week to discuss the issues
facing: the union, and which,
as a result of Labor Minister
Peterson’s arbitrary actions,
could materialize into a prov-
ince-wide strike situation in
the oil industry.

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This week a specified 3-

man sub-committee of the Un-
ited Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union has been in-
vited to meet with Federal
Fisheries Minister H. J. Robi-
chaud and’ Deputy Minister
A. H. W. Needler. The invita-
tion was forwarded by Pac-
ific Director of Fisheries W.
R. Hourston.

While the UF&AWU have
welcomed this opportunity to
discuss issues vital to the wel-
fare of Pacific fisheries and
fishermen with the ministers,
union secretary Homer Stev-
ens stated,” . .. we are ata
loss to understand the limita-
tions on numbers and time’”’.

The union spokesman also
made it clear that such a
meeting cannot serve as a sub-
stitute for a full hearing by
the Parliamentary Standing
Committee on Pacific Fisher-
ies Commission proposals or
the 12-mile limit,

“While we may agree with
aggressive action to establish
a 12-mile limit,’ states the
UF&AWU. ‘we must stress
the fact that salmon, halibut

Five Latin American states
sign accord barring A-arms

A strong move to ban nuclear
weapons from Latin American
countries and to turn all South
America into a nuclear-free zone
came last Monday when five pres-
idents from influential Latin
American nations announced they
will outlaw nuclear weapons from
their territories.

sphere to accept nuclear arms
under U.S. terms, as Canadians
know from recent events.

The declaration said that other -

Latin American nations would
be asked to join, and President
Joao Goulart of Brazil, has also
sent messages to the chiefs of
state of 15 Latin American count-

— ries announcing the agreement

A joint declaration signed by
the presidents of Bolivia, Brazil,
Chile, Ecuador and Mexico said
that the five nations would not
manufacture, receive, store or
test nuclear arms or vehicles to
deliver them.

This stand runs counter to

United States pressure on all
countries in the Western Hemi-

between the five states to con-'

clude a multilateral accord ‘‘de-
nuclearing’’ Latin America.

The ban was proposed by Mex-
ico, with Bolivia, Brazil, Chile
and Equador joining in as co-

‘sponsors. A few months ago,

Mexico’s parliament voted to re-
ject nuclear arms of any kind on
its territory.

ITALY

Coni’d. from pg. 1

ing Italian participation in a
NATO nuclear force and sup-
port of nuclear missile bases.
Their embarrassment was un-
derstandable in view of Pope
John’s recent encyclical on
peace which explicitly con:
demned nuclear weapons.

Apart from the peace issue
the Communists also concen-
trated on the. need for demo-
cratic, economic planning, for
greater power for the trade
unions, for land and educa-
tional reforms, for an end to
the growing disequilibrium
between the impoverished
south and the industrialized

More bananas

LONG BEACH — Standard
Fruit and Steamship Co. will
Shortly build a fully-automat-
€d banana terminal here
Which will require only four
Men to unload an expected
75,000 tons. of bananas per
Year from 52 ships.

Next Week
MAY DAY
CELEBRATIONS

Around the World

north.
Communist Party leader

Palmiro Togliatti stressed dur-
ing the election that _what
Italy needed was a “swing to
the left to effect a democratic
advance, as provided for in
our Constitution.”
DEEPENS INTO CRISIS
The Communist Party cam-
paign drew huge audiences all
over Italy. In Naples 150,000
people heard the party’s
speakers, and in Florence Oov-
er 50,000 came to hear the
Communist speakers.
Although the campaign was
mainly conducted over tele-
vision, with time allocated to
each party, the Christian
Democrats had the unfair ad-
vantage of twice the amount
of TV time as the other par-

ties.
Foreign observers, who were
shocked by t he strength

shown by. the Communists,
Fae, most of the young
generation, who voted for the
first time turned to the Com-_
munists.

The Italian election result
struck a sharp blow at the
U.S. plan to set up 4 multi-
national nuclear force, which
is to be considered at the
NATO foreign ministers meet-
ing in Ottawa shortly.

ssed post-election con-.

and herring can be caught
outside the 12-mile limit.
* * x

The current edition of the
Union Newsbulletin, Vancou-
ver Civic Employees Union—
Outside Workers, takes the
B.C. Teamster April edition
to task for its editorial boast
that the union it speaks for
are “proud we were able to
assist in his defeat’. This, in
reference to the defeat of
NDP candidate Tom Berger
(Vancouver - Burrard) in the
recent federal election.

The Union Newsbulletin
stresses the need of greater
labor unity and points out
that the main “lesson can be
drawn for the election is that
labor must now raise up the
big issues that are’ still unre-
solved.and join with the NDP
group in Parliament in de-
manding progressive
tions”

* * Oo”

Larry Sefton, Steelworkers
District 6 director has let it
be known that “invitations

‘from workers in Trail, Kim-

berley, Merritt, Ucluelet, etc.”
is sufficient justification for
Steel raiding in British Col-
umbia.

“Our objective,’ says Sef-
ton, is to establish one union
in the mining, smelting and
refining industry, the better
to serve the workers?”

Wooing the Trail Times in
avoidance of “strife in the in-
.dustry’’, Sefton hopes the old-
established Mine-Mill Union
will just relinquish its juris-
diction and membership, and
let Steel ‘take over’ with as
little fuss as possible.

In the criptic opinion of one
Vancouver steelworker, Sef-
ton would like the workers,
including his own member-
ship, to forget what Steel

raiding has done in Sudbury,
and who benefitted most from
this union cannibalism. Cer-
tainly not

smeltermen.”

the miners and

solu-'*

CUBAN PREMIER CASTRO is shown being his historic visit to the Soviet Union where he

welcomed at Murmansk when he landed for

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