MDT. Tinea rate BOM canal ela ROE ee EIT Settle without wage gain WA top leaders blamed for ‘throwing in sponge’ BY WILLIAM STEWART ng 1961 wage movement s x C. hit the canvas ‘with a Seni; When the IW.A repre- iting the key industry in Province, threw in the “Wel last week. na Membership voted 11,- Rego favour, 5,265 against ‘a = endarwne committee recom- Ww. ton to accept a ‘no Wa et increase” settlement for & to irty one percent. fail- Vote either way. ‘Ver * 8000-member Vancou- ‘item, Scal’ voted against the AN 6 Ment by 2,357 to 1,994. Upon Other locals gave majority Bo ne to the recommenda- ea & Thompson, president of ktttiement a” ‘tragic mis- SIcy : 17, Vancouver, called IN B.C. PETITION ta nity eight thousand Brit- P pmbians have so far ae Con he. No Nuclear Arms Sas ateg aaa Petition being cir- Ritts tee 5 Y the Canadian Com- Sation ®r the Control of Ra- Qo Hazards it was an- this week, . aan Wood, of Sally, 8zards group has -per- Slonayyecouected over 1000 Ptitign. 2nd is the leading Burnaby fuse an in B.C. Councillor ou Wife boa Burnaby and Ver. race have collected names door to door. The. Menges empaign has. been. ex- “© September, fortune for the employees in’ the lumber industry.” “The lumber operators will make a.killing this year and our members won’t get what they’re entitled to.” ; Thompson indicated that the vote was affected by lack of faith by the woodworkers in. their regional leadership. Re-|. ferring to a statement issued}! by Joe Morris, district presi- dent of the IWA on the eve of the vote predicting a long strike if the membership voted no, Thompson asked, “What: alternative had the member- ship -but to settlé ‘when’ the’ leadership threw in ‘the sponge?” On the heels of the IWA agreement, fishermen on the coast voted 64 percent in favor. of a no-wage increase contract.’ Ih this case the” fishermen’ voted against the recommend- ation of their bargaining com- mittee who had urged rejec- tion of the company -offer. Homer Stevens, secretary. of the ‘United Fishermen. and Allied Workers: Union claim: ed there were ‘three. main reasons for the acceptance ‘by. the membership. They* were “two poor fishing seasons in.a row in 1959 and 1960). The high level of unemployment:in the industry. Settlement by the IWA and the building trades: industry in B.C. for no wage! increase contracts. this year.” Another factor, he ‘said, was the threat by the fishing com- panies — to Jock-out. the. em- ployees if they rejected: the} Last week: both CCF leader Robert Strachan and Liberal leader Ray Perrault hit Ben- nett’s plan to export power. In. a letter addressed to Prime Minister. Diefenbaker Strachan said, “I appeal to you . as prime minister of Can- ada to use your influence to prevent the sale of power de- rived from downstream .bene- ‘fits to. the United. States.” He described the proposal to sell Columbia downstream benefits as “a wholesale sellout }of our greatest natural re- source to provide guaranteed | profits to private promcters.”’ In his letter to the prime minister Strachan quoted B.C. + Blectric head Dal Grauer as |havingsaid in an article pub- | ished in a book called “Cana- ‘dian Issues,” earlier this year, that, “It would be sound pub- lic policy to keep the cheapest power for British Columbia’s }use and to stimulate develop- ment here rather than to ex- ‘port =~ least expensive power.” Strachan. also combos Grauer as having said it would be a tragedy if B.C. succumbed to U.S: pressures to obtain Co- \}umbia export power, because B.C. has never had the stim- uhis of really cheap power. Last week Dal Grauer com- pletely reversed his position in a speech before the British Electrical Power Convention in ‘England: where he came out fully behind Bennett’s plan to export B:C. power to the U.S. ~The -position of Grauer is not unconnected with the an- nouncement a few. days ago }¥hat the B.C. Electric had -ac- quired an -additional two mil- lion shares in the Peace River ‘Co. and was now. the second largest individual shareholder with more than one-fifth of-the shares in its hands. | Alsoulast week Liberal lead- er Ray’ Perrault ‘said’ in: a° pub- lic statement that B.C. ‘should forget about exporting “power to: the U.S: He urged that in- stead of exporting ‘power: that B.C. work with the federal: government. to’ encourage in- dustry -which needs power to ‘locate in B.C. Strong opposition to power export. also came this ‘week from G. E.. Gibson, western regional president of the Cana- dian. Institute of Power. En- | gineers, who is: attending a conference in Vancouver. - He warned. export of B.C. hydro-power ‘will tighten “the TS. economic grip on Can- offer. ada. “With B.C. power. the CCF, Liberals condemn Socred hydro power plan Powerful opposition continued to mount in British Columbia against expert of |power to the U.S. as Premier Bennett pressed his campaign to have Ottawa revise iis export regulations, U.S. will be expanding its in-) dustries,”. said Gibson, “while Canada will need all available power to provide for its future} Canadian industrial growth.” The Winnipeg; power en- gineer said he vigereusly ob- jected to U.S. domination of resources and in- dustries.”’ municipalities, in addition to U.S. together with an appeal for and communiiy organizations, were asked by the B.C. pro- vincial committee of the. Communist Party thi take action to block export of B.C. hydro resources to the An “open letter’ sent by B.C. Communist leader, } Morgan, to Prime .Mimister Diefenbaker was circularized Bennett's export permit demand rejected: (2) hawe the pres- ‘ent draft Columbia treaty with the U.S. scrapped: get an immediate start made on construction of the Mic a Creek dam for Canadian power generation anc a vast. national, East-West, all-Canadian power grid. Communists Urge | Power Export & One hundred and twenty-two B.C. cities, scores of trade unions, towns and j farm - week io — bans Mige! support to: (1) get Premier} and. (3). Jr CRA launches petition for public ownership of BCE A public petition calling ion Vancouver city council to urge the B.C. government to bring all B.C. Electric holdings un- der public’ ownership, and. to initiate action for public: own- ership of the Vaneowver tran: sit system; was uneerked - by the Civic Referm