1974 CONTRACT TALKS

Building trades agree
On joint negotiations

Unions affiliated to the B.C. and
Yukon Building Trades Council
agreed last week to conduct joint
Negotiations for all trades in talks
_ Coming up in the summer of 1974.
All but two unions — the
Plumbers, Pipefitters and Steam-
litters and the International
_ Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

~ have so far endorsed the

Proposal.

The decision follows jurisdic-

tional difficulties in reaching a

Settlement in negotiations in 1970

and 1972 and was the reeommenda-

tion of the Building Trades joint

Negotiations study committee that

bold new measures must. be

adopted by the Building Trades to

Counteract the programs and

Policies of the Construction Labor

elations Association.”
Negotiations in 1974 are ex-

Pected to be particularly crucial as

More union contracts are coming

Up for renegotiation than ever

€fore in the history of the

Province. More than 200,000

Workers will be seeking new con

tracts. :

__, The joint agreement provides for

Doth a joint policy committee and a

Joint negotiating committee. Each

union involved in negotiating a
contract for construction work in
1974 is entitled to three represen-
tatives on the policy committee

from which one representative will

be seated on the negotiating com-
mittee. The president of the
Building Trades Council is to be
chairman of both committees with
voice but no vote.

All negotiations with the
employers’ representatives are to
be conducted by the negotiating
committee with the president ac-
ting as spokesman.

The joint agreement also
provides for referendum ballotting
of the membership only on the
recommendation of the joint policy
committee with settlement being
determined by the total number of
votes encompassing all unions in-
volved in the bargaining.

The ‘unified bargaining position
— which, once agreed, cannot be
revoked during 1974 bargaining —
is aimed at presenting a common
front to the construction employers
who last year solicited the help of
the anti-labor Socred government
in an unsuccessful attempt to
defeat the construction unions.

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YCL 50th anniversary celebration. Left, Paul Bjarnason, provincial secretary of the League in B.C. Right,
provincial chairman, Sean Griffin presents an honorary YCL membership to PT editor Maurice Rush. Three

others were also honored.

YCL celebrates 50th birthday

In the worst of the depression
years the most commonly used
phrase to describe Canadian
youth, the great mass of them un-
employed, in work camps, with
the doors to education tightly
shut, was the “‘lost genera-
tion’’. It was adescriptionthat
communist youth could not
accept, and if today oppor-
tunities exist which were un-
known to the ‘‘lost’’ youth of the
thirties, it is no small tribute to
the fight waged against that con-
cept by the Young Communist
League.

The rich history of the YCL,
from 1923, through the black

_years of the depression, and the

threat of fascism to the resur-
gence of today’s growing organi-
zation, found expression in last
weekend’s anniversary ban-
quet to celebrate 50 years of
Young Communist League his-
tory.

The occasion was marked by
the tour by Elizabeth Hill, gen-
eral secretary of the YCL, who
told more than 200 people
assembled in the Fishermens
Hall, ‘‘ourhistoryisarichone,
inseparably tied to the working
class and democratic move-
ments in Canada, a history
which gives us strength, and
from which there are valuable
lessons to assist in the struggle
today.

“Unity of democratic forces,
on the broadest basis, isalesson
of our past which strengthens
our unity position today. Our
consistent fight for unity in the

" 1930’s with the establishment of

the Youth Congress which em-
braced every youth organization
in Canada, up to today provides
added substance to our pro-
gram for a ‘‘Bill of Rights for
Youth’’. It is a program which
answers the needs of young Cana-
dians, and can unite them ina
struggle against monopoly.”

The YCL Leader outlined a
series of successes for the pres-
ent League as preparations are

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have phoned the Tribune, express-
ing a wish to patronize only those
stores that were partners to the
new agreement.

The nine stores that now have
collective bargaining rights are:
Hastings and Nanaimo, 13th and
Granville, 47th and Fraser, Davie
and Bute, Broadway and
MacDonald and 25th and Main in
Vancouver; 8th and McBride in
New Westminster; Coquitlam

Plaza, and Shoppers Drug, Mart in —

Mission City.

made for the 16th National Con-
vention to be held early next
year in Toronto. The conven-
tion was originally scheduled
for this October, but campaigns
around the World Youth Festi-
val, the Vietnamese Children’s
Hospital, as well as successful
recruiting and press drives,
have necessitated a postpone-
ment to consolidate those gains,
and prepare fora larger conven-
tion.

Hill told the assembly of a
‘special inspiration, and a
special responsibility, that dele-
gates tothe World Youth Festi-
val feel towards the events in
Chile.’’ Hill led the Canadian
delegation which shared accom-
modation with the Chilean dele-
gates at the Festival. She called
on the Youth Festival dele-
gates to work withthe YCLina
campaign of solidarity with the
Chilean people.

One of four people singled out
for outstanding contributions
to the development of the YCL,

and presented with an honorary
membership in the League in
recognition, PT editor Maurice
Rush, asked the banquet, ‘‘What
youth organization can trace
back a history of 50 years? For
one half the history of our coun-
try, there has existed a Com-
munist Youth League. The
Young Communist is an inte-
gral part of our history, and of
our future’.

Rush, who was secretary of
B.C. YCL from 1935 to 1940, said
it was the Communists and
Young Communists who went
out among the youth during the
Hungry Thirties and organized
and united them tofightfor jobs,
peace and a future. ‘‘The Young
Communists brought hope and
inspiration to the young.”’

He said that today millions of
youth feel alienated from the

capitalist system and want some-
_ thing better. Socialism, he said,
provides the answer. ‘‘In the
Communist movement young
and old fight for the same goal.”’

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