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FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1966
VOL. 27, NO. 22.

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McNAUGHTON WARNS: _..

GEN. McNAUGHTON

‘Danger Canada may
lose control of water’

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U.S. war industries
want B.C.’s water

Speaking in Winnipeg
last Thursday Gen. A. G. L.
McNaughton said a danger
exists that Canada may
lose authority over its
water.

Speaking at the annual
meeting of the Engineering
Institute of Canada, the
former chairman of the In-
ternational Joint Commis-
sion, voiced disapproval of
schemes to divert some
Canadian water to the U.S.

If we. make a bargain to
divert we cannot then ever
discontinue or we will face
force to compel obedience.
Diversion would make us
commit suicide as a nation,”
McNaughton warned.

—SEE PAGE 6

“There is now clearly the
greatest danger that the Wilson
s0vernment will negotiate a sell
Out of the interests of the native
People of Rhodesia, since its in-
effectual policy of economic sanc-
tions has inevitably failed,”

This warning, sounded by the
Communist Party at its recent
convention, was backed by a call
to the Pearson government to
Speak up as a member of the
Commonwealth to demand that
Britain take the lead in carrying

‘Pearson must speak out _
against Rhodesia betrayal’

through all necessary measures
to end the rebellion of the Rho-
desian racists and to establish
the democratic rights of the vast
majority of Rhodesian people to
run their own affairs.

This week the Afro-Asian group
in the United Nation’s Colonialism
Committee brought in a resolution
demanding that Britain take all
measures, including force, to
pring down the Smith regime in
Rhodesia. The draft will be voted
on this week.

A drive to impose slave state conditions on Canadian labor was kicked
off last Friday with a proposal by Federal labor minister Jack Nicholson that
arbitration courts be set up to settle labor disputes. The proposal was imme-
diately taken up at the B.C. Chamber of Commerce convention meeting in
Penticton this week, which urged that “some form of arbitration” be imposed
on unions. Meanwhile, labor renewed its strong opposition to any form of

compulsory arbitration.

Speaking in the House of Com-
mons, Nicholson called for
“serious consideration” bymem-
bers of Parliament for his idea
of arbitration courts similar to
those in Australia and other coun-
tries,

He singled out the B.C, forest
industry and railway workers as
the kind of serious disputes with

. which he was concerned,

Later, outside the House, Nich-
olson revealed to the press that
the labor department has been
giving “serious consideration” to
compulsory arbitration for some
time,

In his keynote speech to the
® ., Chamber of Comm:>
Vucouver B, of T. president
Syd Welsh said there should be
some form ofarbitration or labor
court. Some of B.C.’s biggest in-
dustrialists and financers are

- attending the Penticton parley,

Tuesday the convention adopted
a resolution urging that “teeth”
be put in injunctions and that
labor laws of the province be
changed to make unions respon-
sible for the actions of their
members,

It is noteworthy, that included
among the new officers of the
Chamber of Commerce is Edward
Benson, general manager of
Pacific Press and ex-personnel
manager of The Consolidated
Mining and Smelting Company of
Trail. He was elected second
vice-president,

In a recent issue of the Pacific
Tribune, Benson was exposed
as one of the prime movers in
organizing the Commercial and
Industrial Research Foundation
(CIRF), a big business front to
combine forces for an attack on
labor, He is a member of the
Board of Governors of CIRF,

The trade union movement in
Canada has always taken a strong
stand against any form of com-
pulsory arbitration or labor
courts. The Australian experi-
ence has been held up by em-

ak

vd. wave: :
‘big stick’
on fisheries

_—See page 8

ployers and reactionary politici-
ans as an example to follow. But
these courts have proven to be a
failure in settling labor disputes,

The International Labor Office
shows that Australia has about
10 times the work stoppages that
Canada has had, The reason for
this is that the Labor Courts
have provoked more strikes by
adopting a hard line towards the
unions while denying free collec-
tive barganing. The ILO report
shows that in Australia in 1963
there STS N68 tieups, com-

‘adian tieups,

ittesday, Canadian Labor
Congress pres‘dent Claude, fo-

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ti

He said’ * eémpulse:y a

, id teen and labor courts “have

not provided, and are not likely
ever to provide, a meaningful
solution to industrial disputes,”

He said that “the experience
of labor courts in both Austra-
lia and Britain has been such as
to suggest that the free collective
bargaining process is much more
likely to produce a meaningful
settlement of such disputes,”

E, T. Staley, president of the
B.C, Federation of Labor, was
also critical of the labor minis-
ter’s proposal, He said that if
federal labor courts are set up
they would have jurisdiction over
only a minority of unions coming
under federal authority, but that
the provincial governments would
probably follow the lead, Gee
editorial, page 4.)

“MAYOR RATHIE, NO MORE DELAY — NEGOTIATE NOW!" This was tne demand of more
than 600 Outside civic workers (shown above) who demonstrated at City Hall, Tuesday. Full
ior of the strike front on page 3.

—Fisherman photo