YCLers off to Toronto

BON VOYAGE. Nearly 30 delegates and observers left Vancou-
ver's CNR station last Saturday for Toronto to attend the 16th
National Conventionof the Young Communist League. Photo shows
some of the group waving goodbye. The convention will mark the
YCL’s 40th anniversary. ;

Columbia parley
launches drive

“The few independent Can-
adians who have studied the
matter to any major extent
have been unanimous in ar-
riving at the conclusion that
fundamentally the treaty as
drawn up represents a com-
plete sacrifice of Canadian in-
terests, resources and sover-
eignty.”

These were the words of F.
J. Bartholemew, Dr. of Engin-
eering and Fellow of the Am-
erican Institute of Electrical
Engineering, in a keynote
Speech to 65 delegates from
unions and other groups
Witith attended the Columbia
River for Canada conference
last Wednesday in the Van-
Couver Hotel.

Bartholemew is one of Can-
ada’s leading engineers and is
a member of the Council of

| Professional Engineers of

B.C. and of the Engineering
Committee of the Vancouver
Board of Trade. He is also the
technical representative of
the Nakusp-Revelstoke Cham-
ber of Commerce Water Re-
sources Committee.

“The whole fiction built up
on the economic advantages
of High Arrow fall to the
ground with Mr. Williston’s
belated estimate of its cost of
$125 million. If one adds on a
further $25 million for. the
Probable final cost the pro-
Ject getsymore and more mud-
dy,” said Bartholemew.

“We in Canada have no
Control whatever as to how
the U.S. may store and re-
lease water from the Libby
Dam al.uough our own hands

are completely tied in the
matter of water storage and
release from Canadian dams
on the Columbia.

“Every engineer familiar
with hydro generation will
tell you that the benefits from
Canadian storage will always
remain. I say to you there is
no hurry for a treaty today,”
said the leading engineer.

Two telegrams were read
to the delegates, from Gen.
A. G. L. McNaughton and
H. W. Herridge,. MP.

McNaughton wished _ the
conference every success in
winning rejection of the ‘“‘dis-
astrous” proposed treaty.

Herridge regretted that un-
expected parliamentary dut-
ies prevented his attending
the conference but expressed
“heartfelt appreciation of
your efforts to protect Cana-
dian sovereign rights and nat-
ural resources to the advant-
age of this and future gen-
erations.”

The delegates decided to
send a wire to Prime Min-
ister Pearson asking for a
public hearing before renego-
tiation with the U.S. Also
agreed was that a booth will
be opened at the Pacific Na-
tional Exhibition, that a dele-
gation would be sent to Ot-
tawa, and that a mass post-
card campaign will be launch-
ed.

Quantities of the postcard
are available through the sec-
retary of the Columbia River
for Canada’ Committee, Mrs.
Elizabeth Wood, 3506 E. 25th

Ave., Vancouver, HE 3-2049.

Union delegates hit undemocratic
agenda at labor relations parley

The B.C. government sponsored
Labor-Management conference on
Industrial Relations at the Bay-
shore Inn last’ week came under
gevere fire from many union dele-
‘gates as full discussion was bared
at the sessions attended by over
600 delegates.

In a sharply-worded statement
issued to the press, and signed by
many union representatives, it
was charged that the agenda and
procedure of the conference “Gs
undemocratic, stifling and calcu-
lated to prevent consideration ‘of
views which do not co-incide with
the opinions of 15 selected panel
members.”’ *

The press statement added that
the parley was a series of nre-
pared ‘‘lectures’’ and not “truly
a conference.” It charged that
“Dr. J. T. Montague, on behalf
of the government appointed
‘planning committee’ arbitrarily
refuses to permit opinions to be
expressed from the 600 delegates
or to allow verbal questions from
the floor. His arbitrary selection
of less than a dozen questions
from scores of written questions,
leaving the balance unanswered
is also planned to stifle independ-
ent views.”

NO FREE DISCUSSION

The trade union delegates

charged that Dr. Montague and

the planning committee had_ ig-
nored .the remarks of the Min-
ister of Labor of January 431,
1963 in which Mr. Peterson prom-
ised full time for discussion.
Speaking in the Legislature
Labor Minister Peterson said that
“previous conferences were not
considered successful in that there
appeared to be some reluctance
on the part of interested parties
to enter wholeheartedly into the
discussion,’’ and that, “‘to ensure
adequate time for discussion I
would suggest that the conferenee
extend over a three-day period.”

The union delegates’ statement
criticised Dr. Montague for ‘“‘fail-
ing to heed this advice and for
failing to keep his own word to

‘hold a noon meeting to consider

some revision of the arbitrary
committee rules and his inability
to offer any explanation, other
than to lamely say it is a com-
mittee decision.” :

They said it was an “‘insult
to the intelligence and borders on
a complete waste of funds when
all but the previously selected 15
panelists and chairman are de-
nied expression,’ after unions
from all over B.C. spent several
ihousand dollars to send delegates
to the conference.

MANY UNIONS PROTEST
The union delegates charged

they have no say in procedure
and that the way the conference is
arranged ‘“‘only makes the meet-
ing a farce.”

Included among the 32 union
delegates who signed the press
statemeent were J. L. LeBourdais
of the Oil, Chemical & Atomic
Workers; John A. Hayward and
C. Stewart, Street Railwaymen’s
Union; Harold Foster, Retail
Clerks No. 1518; D. Gibson, Up-
holsterer’s Union; M. Carter, Van-
couver Converters No. 433; Wm.
Stewart and Charlie Wilson, Mar-
ine Workers & _ Boilermakers
Union, Local 1.

Harvey Murphy; Al King and a
number of local delegates from
the Mine Mill, and Smelterwork-
ers Union; L. Anderson, Lorne
Robson, Carpenters and Joiners,
Local 452; Homer Stevens, T.
Parkin, United Fishermen and Al-
lied Workers Union; A. Busa,
Vancouver Civic Employees, Out-
side Workers; etc.

On Thursday night the confer-
ence banquet heard Dr. Arthur M.
Ross, from the University of Cal-
ifornia, say that the strike is go-
ing out of fashion. This keynote
speech by the US. professor
echoes the drive of employer
groups and spokesmen in B.C. to
deprive labor of its only effective
weapon when all other attempts
to win their demands have failed.

BARRY MATHER, MP.
Liberals kill
Mather bill
on 12-mile limit

Two B.C. Liberal MP’s succeed-
ed last week in killing a private

member’s bill introduced in
Parliament by NDP Barry Mather
(New Westminster), which would
have declared a Canadian 12-mile
limit ‘‘to the sole use and benetit
of her nationals, the right to fish
exclusive of all others .. .”
Ron Basford, (Lib. Van. Bur.
rard), and Grant Deachman, (Lib.
Van.: Quadra), opposed Mather’s
bill on the grounds that U. Ss:
interests must be considered in
any 12-mile declaration.
Deachman killed the bill by
carrying the debate beyond the
one hour allowed for debate.

Khrushchev hails miracle
of socialist East Germany

BERLIN—Soviet Premier Khru-
Shchev said on his arrival here
last week to take part in the 70th
birthday celebrations of GDR
leader Walter Ulbricht, that the
Soviet people will always stand
at the side of the people of the
German Democratic Republic.

In a short speech at the town
hall Khrushchev said he wanted
to pay tribute to the miracle of
the first peaceful Socialist Ger-
man State.

Greeting the Soviet Premier,
Walter Ulbricht said that Presi-
: dent Kennedy tried to incite one

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part of the German people against
the other. On the other hand, he
said, the Soviet Premier was a
great statesman who during the
past few years had more than
once pulled the world back from
the abyss of war.

Speaking to factory workers last
Saturday Khrushchev said: Ay
have read that the U.S. President
looked at the Wall with creat
dissatisfaction. He didn't like it
at all. But me, I like it. It pleases
me tremendously. The working
class of Germany has erected a
wall so that no wolf can break
into the GDR again. Is that bad?”’

A
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started back to Nanaimo, tired but
satisfied that a new dimension
had been added to the meaning
of Canada Day. :

They headed home determined
to carry on the struggle against
nuclear weapons in Canada.

A statement issued by the B.C.

Peace Council Tuesday said the .

motorcade was the ‘‘first round
in the B.C. Peace Council’s fight
to prevail on the Pearson govern-
ment to reverse its decision to
store nuclear warheads on Cans-
dian soil.”

Wide publicity was given to the
demonstration nationally,  pro-
vincially and by Vancouver Is.
land radio and TV stations.

 clusive master contract

LABOR ROUNDUP:

Oil workers, fishermen
ponder strike actions

Members of the Oil, Chemical
and Atomic Workers union will
be meeting in Kamloops on Thurs-
day, July 4, to map further stra-
tegy in their fight with the prov-
ince’s oi] monopolies.

Imperial Oil, B-A, Texaco, Shell
and Royalite have rejected a con-
ciliation award which would have
boosted wages in the industry by
15¢e an hour over a two year per-
iod.

The union accepted the award
and is pressing for an all in-
in the
industry. A government super-
vised strike vote has already been
taken (as reported in last week’s
PT) and a good majority of the
workers have served notice that
they intend to strike to win their
demands.

e

The UFAWU has announced
that 84.38% of tendermen have al-
so voted for strike action. A
government strike vote will now
be taken. Tendermen’s demands
are:

e A 12 hour day, with overtime
at straight time rates for hours
worked in excess of 12 per day;

© A wage increase of $25.00 per
month;

e A 35c per day increase in the
board allowance (grub on board
boats).

The negotiating committee is
recommending a ‘‘Yes’’ vote.

Salmon fishermen will also be
taking a strike vote, beginning on
July 10 and ending at noon on
July 13. Salmon negotiations have
been fruitless, with companies in-
sisting that the fishermen take -

pay cuts.
Here again, the negotiating
committee is recommending a

solid strike vote, to show the
companies that the men mean
business and are determined to
resist giving up previously hard-
won standards.
&

~The Vancouver Civic Employ-
ees—Outside Workers have re-
quested to appear before city
council regarding the recently
announced federal plan to aid
municipalities financially (Bill C-
76).

In a letter to city clerk R.
Thompson, the union points out
that “‘in view of the recent lay-
off of 109 permanent employees

. it is our opinion that city
council should give full support
to Bill C-76.”

‘Surely we can't let thixpoor defenceless chap stand up to Cuba

all by himself?"’ (From ‘‘Hoy,’’ Havana) :
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