Members Score M.S.A. Local 1-424, IWA Prince George reports that R. S. Raguin has been appointed by the Department of Labour as the Conciliation Officer to attempt a settlement of the dispute between the Local and the Fort St. John Lumber Company. The Local Union also reports that the employees of the North Cariboo Lumber Limited and West- ern Plywood (Cariboo) Limited are protesting the high rates for M.S.A. coverage. According to the informa- tion received by the Local, the cost of M.S.A. at North Cariboo Lumber is $17.22 per month for married persons and $5.74 for single; while at Western Plywood the single rate is $3.98 and the rate for married persons is $11.94. This protest has resulted in the Local Union requesting that a new plan be negotiated. However, no reply has been received from the Company to date regarding this matter. 1-417 Opens New Office Officers of Local 1-417, IWA report that the Local Union has opened an office in Kamloops for the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month for a six month trial per- iod. The office is located in the sample room of the Central Hotel and will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. TV Charge Hits Dief. Mavor Moore, prominent Cana- dian actor, author and TY star, has charged that the granting of the TV licence for Channel 9, Toronto was a “brazen case of politics”. The licence was awarded John Bassett, publisher of the Conserva- tive Toronto Telegram and candidate in the June 18 election. Moore claimed that Bassett told him prior to the issuing of the licence by the BBG in 1960, “Mavor, don’t worry. I have been promised the licence by John Diefenbaker and George Hees.” The charge was denied by the Tely publisher. Old Workers Not Needed ANN ARBOR, Mich. (UPI)—A Columbia University researcher said today the U.S. economy does not need elderly workers. Dr. A. J. Jaffee, director of the manpower and population program, Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia, said he sees no value in work only for the sake of work. He was speaking at the opening session of the three-day annual con- ference on aging and the economy, called to discuss the problems posed by the 17 million Americans aged 65 or over. en THREE PLATFORM GUESTS during the giant T. C. Douglas meeting in Vancouver June 13, were left Harold Winch, Member of Parliament for Vancouver East; Mrs. Anne Strachan and Bob Strachan, CCF-NDP Leader of the Opposition in the B.C. Provincial Legislature. Our Shameful Record Canadians, among the most morally self-righteous peoples in the world, haye little to be proud of when it comes to their recent record on the international scene. As well as voting against a U.N. recommendation for a United Nations- supervised vote in Algeria, Conservative representatives abstained: —on a vote calling on members to refrain from testing or storing nuclear weapons in Africa; —on a resolution calling the Secretary-General to consult members on the possibility of signing a convention prohibiting nuclear weapons for war use; —on a vote asking France to redress the legitimate grievances of Algerian prisoners in France; —on a resolution calling on members to promote human rights and fundamental freedoms, and regretting South Africa’s failure to reconsider apartheid; —on a resolution condemning the treatment of Indians in South Africa; and —on a resolution calling on France and Tunisia to devise peaceful measures for the withdrawal of French troops from Tunisian territory. Prime Minister Diefenbaker made a great show of opposing South Africa’s apartheid policy at the Commonwealth prime ministers’ conference. But shortly after Trade minister Hees said that “Canada will continue to give South Africa preferential tariff treatment.” That’s a pretty shameful record for such a “moral” country! No Democracy Here Part of management’s propaganda is the so-called “lack of democracy” in unions. Business strongly backed use of the secret ballot in union elec- tions when it pushed the Landrum-Griffin bill, although it was standard procedure in most unions. Well, at the recent meeting of stockholders of the giant American Tele- phone & Telegraph Co. in New York, only 3,200 of the firm’s more than 2,000,000 stockholders showed up. Maybe it was because the company did away with the free lunch for its stockholders’ meetings. Or maybe it was because the stockholders felt it wouldn’t do any good if they did attend. But we want to emphasize that a proposal to require secret voting for the election of directors of the company was rejected by almost 95 per cent of shares voted. The proposal was opposed by the management of AT&T. In brief, democracy is fine and dandy for unions but it just ain’t got no place in business. —Ohio AFL-CIO News Status Quo Propaganda JOHN A. IRVING, M.A., Professor of Ethics and Social Philosophy, University of Toronto: “Those who tremble before the shape of things to come have failed to realize that our educational systems are already heavily weighted with propaganda—propaganda for the status quo. Education cannot function in a social vacuum. If we prevent educators from educating for social change, they will become pallid retailers of social reaction. The ‘dead hand’ temper in education will, as in the past, leave open the way for ignorant demagogues to prescribe the conditions of social change. When the demagogues inevitably fail, the horrors of war and revolution will again have their years. 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