— - a
Unity vs. raiding
[ proof were needed

unity, one need look

been won without the high degree of unity achieved, with:
in and between unions, regardless of affiliation, or none.

. 18 Wage Increases, improved industrial pensions and
fringe benefits, and above all the precedents won for job
Security to meet rising automation.

The finest example of this splendid labor unity is pro-
bably best Seen in the response to the B.C. Federation of
Labor call for a General Strike in support of the strike-
bound Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union (OCAW)
at British-American and other oil monopoly operations.

Regardless of label or affiliation,
tional and independent unions rallied
and by and through this great unity, won a resounding
victory, and set a pattern for job security which can and
will become Canada-wide before 1966 ‘runs its course’!

international, na-
to the BCFL call,

- Against the reality of this unity it is therefore dis-
eacating to hear the national leadership of the United
teel Workers, through its leading spokesman Larry Sef-
ton of Toronto, announcing that its “policy” of raiding
the Mine-Mill Union will be extended in 1966 to the Con-
solidated Mining and Smelting (CM&S) operations at
Trail and Kimberley, where Mine-Mill holds the certified
bargaining rights.

With Steel’s leaders it’ would seem that labor unity
is of less importance than union raiding and per-capita col-
lection. That the spending of hundreds of thousands of
dollars of its membership per-capita in raiding and seek-
ing to destroy a long-established union; to ‘disorganize the

organized’, is more important than seeking an honest road
to labor unity.

Larry Sefton’s declaration of war and its accompany-
ing offer of a ‘merger’ with Mine-Mill—or else cannibalism
— ‘the hard way’ has a close parrellel to U.S. offers of
‘peace’ in Vietnam—with more bombs, more destruction,
more killing . . . ‘the hard way’.

(We note the Vancouver Province of December 31-65
is already licking its chops in anticipation of Steel’s canni-
balistic feast on the body of Mine-Mill). With Labor un-
ity in the ascendency in B.C. it could also happen that
both will choke gn the Sefton ‘menu’.

LBJ’s peace swindle

W° begin the year 1966 with the most
people of Vietnam, asa
people of the whole world.

of formulas to help get President Johnson’s ‘peace’
kites off the ground—but

nam; the prime condition for any genuine effort to stop
the killing!

That this latest Pentagon ‘peace’ effort is nothing
more than a cruel hoax to help cover up its continued es-
calation of destruction and murder in Vietnam, is perhaps
best seen in the ‘diplomatic’ safari of V-P Hubert Hum-
phreys to Japan, the Phillipines, South Korea and Form-
osa, pleading for cannon-fodder aid to ‘help us’. in Viet-
nam. .
While people everywhere can only welcome every ef-
fort towards peace, they must also guard against being
sold a bill of goods labelled ‘peace’ but designed to serve
as a pretext for intensifying and fomenting war!

It all adds up to the need of vigilance — and bigger
and better efforts for Peace in 1966.

I urgent and vital
of all issues unresolved—that of winning peace for the

precondition to peace for the

Worth
Quoting

There’s lies, damned lies, and stati:
tics as some wag once put it. Anyway,
the phrase is Prompted by the Minin
try of Labour figures which reveal tha
average weekly earnings of male
manual workers in Britain are 18
pounds, 8 shillings and 6 pence.

It’s an accurate enough statistic.
But it feeds the lie that we're all en-
joying a state of mellow afluence.

There are at least a couple of hun
dred thousand men in the mining in- :
dustry, who are taking home six or

seven pounds a week less than that. _

As for the latest Ministry of Labour —
statistics that the average weekly
household expenditure in 1964 was
19-pounds, 10-shillings . . . well, sev-_

eral four-letter words spring readily —
to my lips by way of comment. But |
mustn’t get the editor into trouble -
(SCOTTISH MINER, December, 1965)

*
Times of London published a state-
ment by Assad Farran, Syrian inter-
preter of the massacred rearguard of 7
the exploration party left behind in d
central Africa by H. M. Stanley. Far- —
ran stated that Jameson, an artist and i
illustrator, bought a 15-year-old slave
girl and, with the permission of Major ~
Barttelot, the reorguard commander, :
presented her to a gang of cannibals _
so he could sketch her being killed, —
dismembered, cooked and eaten. In- —

dignant natives killed the entire Euro-
pean party. -

(From the VANCOUVER SUN
‘75 Years Ago’ columns)

*

Big Three automakers reported
gross profits for the first nine months
of 1965. The eye-popping figures: GM
$2.9 billion; Ford $970 million; Chry-
sler $265 million. Total for the three,
an unbelievable $4.1 billion. Thus, in
nine months, the three made almost
three-quarters of a billion dollars
more than the United States govern-
ment will spend in a whole year on
all foreign aid. And the three have in-
creased prices on 1966 models.

(United Auto Workers SOLIDARITY,
November, 1965) :

4

Tom

Z his first column of 1966 re-
sembles a ‘pot-pouri? of left-
overs; things we couldn’t squeeze
in, and yet too good to waste,
The frugal housewife has much
_ the same problem with her ‘after-
Christmas’ turkey remnants,

as President of the United
States, . .when the time comes,”
The poster also carried an appeal
to “Join the Canadian Committee
for Assistance” and gives PO
Box 699-‘A’ Vancouver 1 BG.
and phone number MU 3-0139
_ for contact,

We suggest that when Vancou-
ver’s ‘Finest’ conclude their
Yuletide “sniffing? they might
this Alabama ‘boosters club’
some attention, It could be the
hucleus for an Alabama racist
‘group, or a new racket to clip
unwary citizen of a bit of
h — or both, Whatever itis
iver will be a much better
without it, justas Alabama —

_ McEWEN |

For sixty cents the insurance

writing to do;
race, what he or she is worth
financially, occupation, etc, Very
elaborate details are requested
as to the applicant’s health, dri-
ving record, how he takes his
drinks, (straight or diluted), The
‘certain types of reports’ for
which the snoop is promised a
higher fee would probably cover
the applicant’s political affilia-
tions, ideas, activities, etc,

and the U.S, would be a much
better place without its Wallace-
mentality lynch mobs,

Then a while back anold friend
send us a wad of ‘insurance’
literature, ‘identification? cards,
etc, from a ‘Credit and Insur-
ance’ outfit with head offices in
Atlanta, Georgia; a state also
notorious for its sensitiveness to
‘color’ as well as ‘credit,’

While most insurance outfits
follow this odious practice they
are more discreet and reticent
about it than their Atlanta col-
leagues, Compared withall such,
Judas Iscariot was a man of
sterling principle, He at least
had the decency to go hang him-

This insurance company is on
self,

the hunt for local snoops to give
its prospective ‘clients’ the once-
over, “Will you act as our con-
fidential correspondent in your
community?, , .there are more
than 40,000 perssns like vourself
through the United States and |
Canada who represent us, , our
business, established in 1899, is
providing confidential informa-
tion on persons applying for in-
surance, jobs, or credit,” 2

This filthy business can only
be eradicated by putting health,
and car insurance under govern-
ment ownership — with banking
and finance a close second,

The third pot-pouri left-over
is much on the same theme,
but closer to home than Atlanta,

_ Georgia,

So please, become one of our
stooges to rat on your neighbor
and *the company will pay you
Sixty cents for regular reports,
and a double fee on other certain
types of reports,”

John Doe bought a car, a nice
1961 Pontiac, pricedat $2,165.70,
The Squelchem Acceptance Co, of
these parts ‘financed’ the deal,

which upped the overall price to
$2,824.07,

company’s stool has a deal of
the applicant’s:

John met his monthly payment
on the dot, pronto; $65per month,
twelve times a year, Then, as
all too often happens to working
men, John had a serious accident
on the job, and off to hospital,

Couple of days following John’s
accident — which coincided with
the stipulated date of payment,
things began to happen, No prior
notification, no period of ‘grace,’
no nothing — except the bailiff
with a tow truck, and the curt
notification that “after re-
possession and subsequent sale of
your car, , ,there remains an
unpaid balance of $759.00, . .and
you are responsible for the pay-
ment of this deficiency, ”

With that typical brand of «Get
Well” card off, the Squelchem
Acceptance boys sent another;

Associate Editor —
Circulation Manager

Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.
and Commonwealth countries

Editor — TOM McEWEN

Published weekly at

Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No.
Phone 685-5288

Subscription Rates:

75 for six months. North and South America |! :

, $6.00 one year. All other countries, $7.00
one year. Authorized as second class mail b

Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash.

“we are willing to settle for a
lump sum of $366.15” er Able
if you don’t comply, the ante goes
back to “the amount of $759.39
plus all legal costs,”

Like adding blackmail to ex-:
tortion, but according to the ‘fine
print?’ — which few insurance
victims ever read — nor are
expected to read since that is the
prime aim of the fine print —
it’s all strictly legal; a form of
‘legality’? which enables modern
society to differentiate between
‘legal’ car insurance sharks and
the Al Capone gang — and ele-
vates the latter somewhat higher
on the moral and ethical scale,

Just another good illustration
of the urgent need for govern-
ment intervention in the realm
of automobile insurance against
accident and ‘legalized? robbery,

MAURICE RUSH
— JERRY SHACK l

3, 193 E. Hastings St. .

y the Post Office Department,

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