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frost kill and other natural ca-
lamities is gravely aggravating
the problems of fruit and prod-
uce growers,

Mowers urged development of

a manufacturing industry in the |

Shuswap area which “must,” he #
* founders of the IWA, told anomi-

said, “be Canadian owned.’’ He

said this was the only way to ~
_ provide a future for the youth of

the area who are being forced to
leave because of lack of oppor-

tunity.
The youngest candidate to be

nominated so far was named by
the Communist Party at a nom-
inating meeting in Vancouver
Centre last Sunday. Jim Beynon,
aged 20, accepted nomination and
said he will actively campaign
to bring forward the real needs
of B.C,.’s youth in the forthcom-

_ing election,

CP election
broadcasts

The Communist Party election
message will be carried to the pub-
lic on radio station CHQM in a ser-
ies of spot statements throughout
the election campaign. They will be
heard on both AM (1230) and FM
(1035).

: The first series will run from Aug-
ust 19-23; the second from August
26-30; and the third from Sept. 2-
6. There will be two broadcasts
each day and will be carried simul-
taneously on both channels.

trade unionist

JEAN McLAREN
Surrey

He said the Communist pro-
gram. for youth calls for young
people to be given a chance to
get a good start in life “and this
must include opportunities for
education, decent jobs and recre-
ational facilities.’’

Harold Pritchett, outstanding
and one of the

nation meeting Tuesday night that
he would challenge Labor Min-
ister Peterson on the labor record
of the Socred government,

“We must have a new labor
act,” said Pritchett, “The monop-
olites must be denied the right
to use injunctions as a strike
breaking weapon. Unions must

LABOR SCENE:

Mine-Mill wins highest
Canadian gold. mine rates

Last week a new two-year
agreement was recommended for
acceptance to the members of
Mine-Mill Local 802 in Yellow-
knife, NWT covering operations
in the Con Mine, wholly owned
by Cominco,

Substantial wage increases and
improved fringe benefits have
been agreed upon by the Mine-
Mill negotiation committee and
the mine operators, and it is
expected, will be fully ratified by
the membership.

According to a union press
release the new wage rates won
“are the highest ever applied in
the gold mining industry in Can-

ada, exceeding by more than

$1.00 an hour the existing rates
in the gold fields of Northern
Ontario, where the Steel union
has held bargaining rights for
seventeen years at the richest
gold mine in history, Hollinger,
MacIntyre, etc”.

Communist candidates named

HAROLD PRITCHETT
Vancouver-Little Mt.

be consulted before major tech-
nological changes are intro-
duced,”

Mrs, Jean McLaren told a
nomination meeting in Whalley
last Sunday that she will wage a
fight against the high cost of
living and will urge the setting
up of a prices control board
before which all proposed price
increases would have to go,

She said that the sellout of
B.C.’s_ resources must be
stopped, “Cheap power could at-
tract many new Secondary in-
dustries to Surrey,” she told the
meeting,

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Total value of the wage pack-
age gained is estimated at 61-
cents per hour for the two-year
contract,

* * *

A delegation from the Canadian

Pulp and Paper Workers Union
was assured by Labor Minister
Peterson this week that his de-
partment would not attempt to
block their application to the
Labor Relations Board to have
the International Pulp, Sulphite
and Paper Mill Workers decer-
tified as the bargaining agency
at the MacMillan-Bloedel Har-
mac Mill near Nanaimo,

Recently the LRB had certified
the International Union at Harmac
for the 1,000 or more employees
who broke away from that union
to form their own Canadian local,

Ex-BCFL secretary Pat

O’Neil, who recently took over

provincial “command” of Inter-

national union affairs in an effort —

to halt Canadian “breakaways”
from the International, is now
involved in a controversy with
NDP provincial leader Robert
Strachan, who this week voiced
his support of the rights of Ca-

nadians in the formation of their .

own unions,

* KK

Carpenters Union delegate N.
Podvinnikov, reporting at this
week’s session of the Vancouver
and District Trades and Labor
Council (VLC), stated that the
“sell-out” by the officials of
several small union locals in the
Okanagan Valley “will not affect
the basic contract demands of the
Carpenters Union and its Pro-
vincial Council”, central of which
is a reduction of the 40-hour
workweek to 374-hours.

Small union locals in the Oka-
nagan region claimed to have won
a 50-cent an hour wage increase,
but surrendered the 373-hour
week objective,

Many legitimate agreements
have already been signed by the
union and building contractors
embodying substantial wage in-
creases and the shorter work
week, while the big Building Con-
tractors Association have striven
to block any cut-down in hours of
work, even to the extent of de-
claring a ‘lockout’ against the
carpenters, This however has
largely fizzled out, since 130
or more- building contractors
have already signed agreements
with the union,

Podvinnikov told VLC delegates
that ultimately the respective
local memberships “will com-
pletely repudiate these so-called,
agreements signed in the Oka-
nagan,.”

ALL-NIGHT VIGIL IN VICTORIA. Photo shows youthful members of the Victoria
Peace Action League, who staged an all-night vigil at the Legislative buildings on
August 5 to protest the Vietnam war. Some U.S . young people joined in the vigil.
A Victoria conference on Canadian Responsibility in Vietnam on August 6, drew
some 235 persons. The conference decided to set up a permanent committee “to
increase public understanding of the issues involved in Vietnam.”

Anus. 19, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 8_
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