Church leader says:

AT THE PEACE ARCH. “Nixon Get Out” was the main theme of the rally

Sunday called by the United Church. This major peaceful demonstration
Sgainst the war was largely ignored by the media which concentrated

Defeat Employers Council plot

EDITORIAL

The Employers’ Council of B.C. and the big bosses it
Tepresents are rapidly pushing the province to a crisis in
their plot to shut down industry, to force low settlements
°n workers, and deal a blow to the trade unions.

This fact can no longer be
Concealed. The big monopolies
‘ave ganged up on the unions and
Public to impose their will on the
Province. Their main aim is to
bring down the wage standards
Of B.C.’s workers. About this the
Mployers’ Council has never
Made any secret.

F.K. Peskett, president of the

Mployers’ Council, said as
Much recently when he admitted
that, “We have made no secret
of the fact that we support whole-
heartedly the efforts of the CLR
‘0 bring some order into the
Chaos of this industry in which

the wage settlements of the past
have had such a big impact on
our economy.”’

The determination of the big
employers to shut down industry
was shown by the arrogant
attitude of the Construction
Labor Relations Association in
locking out the carpenters before
the results of their vote on the
latest offer was even known.

It is further shown by the
unscrupulous way in which the
big contractors stopped cement
supplies for smaller contractors
in order to force them to shut
down.

FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1970

on publicizing the irresponsible action of a group led by ultra leftists
which aimed to discredit the peace movement.

The same arrogance is being
shown by the big bosses of the
forest
enter into meaningful nego-
tiations with the IWA to seek a
contract settlement, they are
using the tugboat strike to force
a shutdown in the forest
industry.

industry. Rather than

WAR OB

‘ Injunctions are being resorted _

to in an attempt to force wood-

workers to handle “hot” logs or —

shut down. An estimated 60
percent of the forest industry is
already down. The tugboat
owners are resorting to open
scabbing to break the tug strike.

The IWA leader who charged
this week that the forest
monopolies are attempting to
use the same tactics as those

now used by CLR in the con-
struction
absolutely right. Big Business

industry was

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—Jack Phillips photo

has adopted an overall strategy
in its war against labor.

The carpenters union leader
who said this week that the
Employers’ Council is directing
the CLR as part of the over-all
campaign against the working
people in B.C. was also
absolutely right.

@
It_ is important that labor
should realize that this is no
year in labor
negotiations. Labor needs new
tactics to meet the new
situation.

The big employers have

- formed a united front to wage

war on all unions. They are using
their economic power ruthlessly
to force smaller companies into
line.

See LABOR UNITY, pg. 3

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SCENE’

) “The wars in Vietnam
* and

Cambodia are
obscene. Escalation is no
short cut to peace. It is a
shortcut for disaster ...
We are here to make

visible by our presence our

concern for the violent and
unlawful invasion of
Cambodia by U.S. troops.
We can no longer be
invisible witnesses to these
things.”’

In a hard-hitting address to a
crowd of about 1,000 people
gathered near the Peace Arch
near Blaine, Washington, Rev.
Charles Forsyth, Secretary of
the Board of Evangelism and
Social Service, the United
Church of Canada, made it clear
that his church is prepared to
stand up and be counted on the
question of peace.

Ignoring a line of bat and club-
carrying youths, interspersed
with helmetted policemen who
lined the U.S. side of the
International border, the
Canadian churchmen and the
audience affirmed their
opposition to the wars in
Indochina, and their
determination for peace.

Rev. Forsyth said there are
‘places in hell maintained for
those who in a time of honest
crisis maintain their neutrality.
He pointed out that while North
American people today are
fighting against the evil wrought
by chemical and earth-killing
pollutants in their own land they
remained silent while U.S.
forces made of Vietnam ‘“‘the
most devasted piece of earth in
the world.”

U.S. forces in Indochina have

— shored up corrupt and unpopular
~ governments, while at home the

unpopularity of the war has torn
the U.S. itself apart. There is a
tremendous connection between
the four dead students in Kent
and: the obscene war carried on
abroad.

He said that the people can no
longer accept bland assurances
that there will be ‘‘limited
objectives’ and ‘‘early with-
drawals’’ in the Cambodian

See U.S., pg. 12