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LANDED SAFELY. ‘The 22-day space flight of two Soviet
dogs who were brought back safely to earth, marks a big .
step forward in the science of space and especially space

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medicine, said Soviet scientists. Doctors never stopped
watching the animals from the ground. Photo shows Ugo-
liok on the right, and Veterok just after landing.

UFAWU condemns Ottawa
upport of U.S. Viet war

The twenty-second Annual
Convention of the United Fisher-
Men and Allied Workers’ Union
Opened its sessions March 19
in the Fisherman’s Hall, 138
Cordova St., Vancouver and is
expected to wind up its business
March 25, Some 130 delegates
from the union’s 33 locals are
in attendance from all key points
on the B.C, coast and the Queen
Charlotte Islands, _

During its sessions many im-
portant issues have already come
before the convention, and num-
erous guest speakers
already addressed the sessions
On problems affecting the B.C.
fishing industry and the welfare
of fishermen and shore workers.

In his address to the conven-
tion, Howard Paish, secretary-
Manager of B.C, Wildlife Feder-
ation told the delegates that
commercial and sport fishermen
must’ get together and agree to
Work in co-operation towards
Saving B.C,’s fishery resources.
“Instead of arguing about who is
to get what,” said Paish, “we
Should work in co-operation,
otherwise there will soon be
nothing to argue about,”

Frank Calder, MLA (NDP-
Atlin) told delegates he would
continue to work to the end that
Native Indian people in all in-
dustries would join the union of
their choice and in the industry
where they work”. In B.C, there
are many Native Indian fisher-
men, shore and cannery workers
in UFAWU ranks,

Other guest speakers up to
press time included Dr, Murray
Newman, Vancouver Aquarium
Curator, Leo Holthe, manager
of Gulf and Fraser Fishermen’s
Credit Union, and Alderman Hal-
ford Wilson who welcomed th
delegates on behalf of the city,
The convention also heard greet-
ings from John Beeching, chair-
man of the B,C, Peace Council.

,

Indian and Northern Affairs
Minister Arthur Laing had alsc
been invited to attend the con-
_ vention, and explain why he back-
ed down from a promise made to
a big UFAWU lobby in Ottawa
that “the government would do

have.

everything in its power to ensure
continued operation of Queen
Charlotte Canners’ Massett can-
nery”.

In his promise to the UFAWU
Lobby the Minister had under-
scored his assurances, that even
if financial assistance were re-
quired to keep the Massett can-
nery in operation, Laing had
‘replied “Yes, you can tell them
(the people of Massett) that”,

In the meantime it seems that
the big monopoly Fisheries Asso-
ciation had put some pressures on
‘Laing, with the resultant reneging
on promises made to the UFAWU
representatives in Ottawa.
Charging Laing with “easy ac-
-ceptance of Fisheries Association
pressures”, the UFAWU invited
the minister to “reconsider his
stand”, and to attend the UFAWU
convention.

In a letter to the union, Laing
has now discovered (with Fish-
eries Association prodding), that
to give a little financial aid to
keep the Massett cannery in op-
eration and its workers (mostly
Indian) on an all too uncertain
payroll, “would create a very
dangerous precedent ... unless
it is very clearly in the national
interest . .. etc”. Obviously
now, as Laing and the Fisheries
Association see it, aclosed-down
cannery is in the “national in-
terest”,

High among the many resolu»
tions coming before the parley
on issues of industrial, national
and international import, was the
adoption of a resolution calling
for“ ,.. animmediate ceasefire
in Vietnma and an end to the
bombing of North Vietnam”, de+
scribed as “nothing less than
naked aggression against asmall
country that is not at war with
the United States”.

“While ostensibly we are not
engaged in the conflict, the fed-
eral government ,has made its
support of the U.S. evident”,
declared UFAWU editor George
North, “and this hardly strength-
ens our image in the eyes of the
world”,

Another resolution for peace
was adopted by the delegate body
endorsing the Vancouver demon-
stration planned for Saturday,
March 26,

The UFAWU convention has
also approved the changing of
the date of its annual convention
from March to sometime early
in January, between the ist and
15th, During the Centennial year
of 1967 there will be no conven=-
tion and the UFAWU Executive
Council will direct union policies
in the interim, The twenty-third
annual convention of the UFAWU

is scheduled for January of 1968,
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Members of the Vancouver
Civic Employees Union (Outside
Workers) will vote for or against
strike on March 28 and 29, ina
government supervised strike
vote.

A large membership meeting
on March 4 voted nine to one by
secret ballot to reject the major-
ity report of aconciliation board,
The report recommended a wage
increase of 25 cents over two
years. Civic laborers now earn
$2.285 per hour, Tradesmen re-
ceive $2,875 and shovel operators
$3,105.

At a recent meeting represen-
tatives of nearly all civic unions
in Greater Vancouver voted full
support to the Vancouver Civic
Employees Union in the event of
a strike,

In a special issue of the Union
News Bulletin mailed to all mem-
bers, Jack Phillips, union secre-
tary, spelled out the union’s ob-
jective as follows:

“The union is not asking you
to vote for strike in order to get
two or three cents more...
Our target is the Lawson formu-
la, thatis, approximately 40 cents
over two years,”

Ed Lawson, president of the
Teamsters’ Joint Council No,
36, represented the union on the
conciliation board. He wrote a
minority report, recommending a
wage increase of approximately
‘40 cents over two years, The
union had been seeking 70 cents
over three years,

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Should disengage Canada
from NATO, says Kashtan

“The French announcement of
intention to withdraw troops from
NATO has touched off a far
reaching debate about the future
of that organization, Canada in
its own interests should lose no
time in disengaging itself from

‘the North Atlantic Treaty Or-

ganization,” said William Kash-
tan, National Leader oftheCom-
munist Party, this week,

“The Alliance was formed on
the pretext that the Western coun-
tries were faced with a threat
of Soviet aggression. Such a
threat never existed, There was
no need for such an Alliance in
1949 and there is no need for it
now.

“But the necessity for our

‘disengagement is rendered more

urgent by the efforts of the
United States to now involve
NATO in South East Asia in
support of the war against the
Vietnamese people, Thus mem-
bership in the alliance which
never served our security, now
gravely threatens it,

“Disengagement from NATO
would be a fundamental step to-
wards the adoption of a truly
independent policy for our coun-
try which by furthering world
peace would safeguard our own
security,

“That new foreign policy needs
to include the immediate recog-
nition by Canada of the German

McKnight leads
road fight

A campaign to compel the
provincial government to build
and pave the Horne Lake Road
which would provide a short-
cut from Alberni to the East
Coast Vancouver Island High-
way has been launched by civic
leader George McKnight.

In a public statement last
week McKnight, who was a
leader of the anti-pollution
fight in Alberni, said that he
will lead' an Easter Monday
hike from Alberni over the
Horne Lake Trail to prove the
feasibility of building a paved
highway over the route, Mc-
Knight has invited Alberni cit-
izens to join him in the hike,
The route which is known as
“the route of the pioneers”
would vastly improve com-
munications on the Island, _

Democratic Republic, the de-
velopment of trade and cultural
relations, and the seating of the
GDR in the United Nations,

“It must also include advocacy
of the final dissolution of both
NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and
their replacement by a treaty
mutually guaranteeing the peace
and security of all European
countries, and providing for the
establishment of a nuclear free
zone in central Europe,

“Such an initiative by Canada
would go a long ways towards
blocking the plans of the revenge
seeking West German militarists,
preventing them from getting
their hands onnuclear weapons to
Once again threaten the peace of
the world,” concluded Kashtan,

Majority in U.S.
want Viet talks

The overwhelming majority
of the American people want
the Johnson administration to
negotiate with the National
Liberation Front, a poll con-
ducted by the National Opin-
ion Research of the Univer-
sity of Chicago revealed last
week,

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nevertheless set the pace for
other negotiations, The Forest
companies want damages for
illegal strikes and arbitration
boards to determine the blame
for such disputes,

They are also calling for ex-
tension of the work week with-
out proper compensation, re-
vision of travel time which would
cut what workers now get, and
increased board rates from $2.50
a day to $4.00, According to
IWA regional president Jack
Moore, these company demands
will “mean a wage cut for just
about everyone in the industry.”

Faced with the growing threat.

to the unions and to the just
demands of the workers in this
year’s round of negotiations, the
labor movement will have to an-
swer by greater unity and co-
ordination in their fight this year
to win a fair share of the new
wealth which they have created
and from which the big com-

panies have made unprecedented
profits,

"You're really very virile, Brian . . . have you ever thought of running fer parliament?

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