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Tran citizens in the port of Abadan hoist their national flag
while demonstrating against a British tanker in the background
Which was held by the-Iranian government because 4@1e captain

_Tefused to give a receipt for the oil he drew irom nationalized
_ nelines. The people of Iran are determined that their government
carry out the popular demand for naionalization of the oil

Several

Outstanding developments :_

_ @ Strike of about 230 members
fy oral 595, Oilworkers Interna-
‘onal Union, ended after 17 days
0n the picket line at Shellburn
refinery in Burnaby. The contract
Neludes a 25-cent hourly pay. boost
_ 8nd a lump sum payment of six
_ Percent of workers’ earnings for
 qrtch and April. Starting rate at
Shell is now $1.04%. Settlement
S retroactive to May 3.

® Vancouver operating engi-
Reers won increases ranging from
"cents to 37 cents an hour in an
qimeement signed by Local 115,
~Perating Engineers (AFL) with
“eneral Contractors Association.

_@ Western P) ' lant in
: ywood’s plan
 Ruesnel was shut down when 130
€mbers of International Wood-
Saree eee

Mine-Mill backs
S-point program —

co aN TRAIL, B.C.
distri: ing its recent sessions the
nn ct board of the International
: Work, of Mine-Mill and Smelter
Vve-pars, wanimously endorsed the
en Point peace program of the
TRaan Peace Congress.
é Wards Mine-Mill executive also éor-
‘Louie 2 ite to Prime Minister
Bovene Laurent, urging that his
the i a give every support to
Korea. ease fire’ negotiations in
eee Was sent to Justice Min-
Tecent . S. Garson, protesting the
Code ,tmendments to the Criminal
Cism,’ Which would silence all criti-

: ——_f government policies.

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unions

chalk up gains
In wage drive

__ New pay hikes were chalked up by oil workers, operating
- €ngineers and fishermen this week, and one interior plywood
Plant was shut down by woodworkers as British Columbia’s
195] Wage drive continued to gain momentum. Here are the

workers of America struck for the
coast scale of wages. Negotiations
for 5000 interior woodworkers, who
are also seeking the coast rate
(about $1.40 hourly as compared to
$1.10 in the
locked. Interior contracts expire
September 1. “No contract, no
work,” is the IWA slogan.

@ IWA strike at Lama-Wood
Products, Lulu Island, is now in
its sixth week. The company of-
fers $1.16% hourly for girls; Local
1-217 demands $1.29% recommend-
ed by conciliation award. The firm
also refuses to pay a six-cent dif-
ferential for night work.

@ Salmon tendermen, members
of United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union, voted by a sub-
stantial majority to accept wage
hike of $40 a month across the
board and other concessions.

‘@ An appeal by Marine Work-
ers and Boilermakers Union in the
case of five members disqualified
from insurance benefits during
their out-of-work period last Nov-
ember atthe time of the shipyard
strike resulted in a ruling handed
down this week by the umpire of
the Unemployment Insurance Act,
Mr. Justice Alfred Savard, entit-
ling the men to make claims for
insurance totalling about $100. The
five men (Earl Heine, Herbert
Breen, Sydney Dann, Jacob Bass-
ler Jr. and A. Bartin) were laid
off before the strike started.

interior) are dead-.

Hof issues fo
come before
labor parleys

Election of delegates to the
Trades and Labor Congress con-
vention (meeting in Halifax on
September 10) and the Canadian
Congress of Labor convention
(meeting in Vancouver on Septem-

tention of local unions.

TLC resolutions deadline was
July 19, but locals have until
August 17 to submit resolutions to
the CCL convention.

Many resolutions expressing a
demand for peace and support for
a five power pact will be discussed
at both conventions. The need for
new Canadian trade policies will
also be presented.

Strong demands for repeal of
present undemocratic anti-com-
munist amendments and recogni-
tion of autonomous rights of local
unions will be put forward at Hali-
fax and,Vancouver. There is a
rising resentment within unions
‘against the witch-hunt atmos-
phere created in both TLC and
CCL as a result of these amend-
ments.

Resolutions on methods of com
batting rising living costs are sure
to receive solid support. It is known
that demands will include imposi-
tion of an excess profits tax, sub-
sidies on essentials, repeal of the
recent income tax and sales tax
increases, relaxing of credit res-

trictions and changes in the cost
of living index., More militant ac-

| tion on ‘wages will be advocated.

Also expected to be endorsed by
many local unions are resolutions
demanding repeal of the recently
enacted Garson amendments. .to
the Criminal Code and for a Can-
adian Bill of Rights. .

Decertification of the Canadian
©eamen’s Union by the National
Labor Board will be one of. the
“hot” issues at the coming con-
ventions. Board member® A. Mo-
sher (CCL) and A. D’Oust (TLC)
will come under fire for their sup-
port of the action. Ontario and
B.C. Federation of Labor have al-
ready condemned them in strong:
ly-worded resolutions. \

Cabaret planned
for peace affair

A peace bazaar and ,cabaret will
be held on Friday, August 3, at 7
p.m. ‘in Pender Auditorium. here
as a follow up to the bazaar and
garden party recently held by the
B.C, Peace Council, ;

Entertainment will feature vocal-
ists Arne Johnson, Marguerite
Rudkevich and Reg Dixon. Floor
show commences at9:15 p.m.

_ Bazaar items are plentiful, at-
tractive and economical. Many
articles will carry “dove of peace”
designs. Se

Rearmament scored

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The. General Assembly of French
Rabbis has declared against re-
armament of. Germany as “incom-
patible with respect for the mem-
‘ory of millions of victims of Nazi

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Seek. legislation

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A delegation protesting racial prejudice and discrimination will
visit city hall this eommg Monday, July 30, to present several proposals

to Mayor Fred Hume and council

“Recently a Canadian died because he championed his right to
speak the language his mother taught him,”’ William Harasym, of the

Association of United Ukrainian

| Canadians, who will lead the dele-

gation, told the Pacific Tribune
this week. :

“On July 15, on a Vancouver
street corner, Stanley Deren, a
Polish Canadian logger, was en-
gaged in conversation with a com-
panion in the Polish tongue. When
he defended his right to do so
upon being asked by a passer-by
why he did not speak in English,
his questioner struck him a sud-
den blow in the face. “As Deren
fell his head struck the pavement.
A few hours later he died.”

The delegation will ask city
council to press provincial and
federal governmentis to enact a
law making racial discrimination
® criminal offense.

It will also urge council to set
up a special committee instructed
“to initiate a broad campaign
pointing out the rights of foreign
born Canadians and the .contribu-
ions they have made in the devel-
opment of our country.” ;

A previous ‘delegation repre-
senting the AUUC, Federation of
Russian Canadians, Polish De-
mocratic Association, Council of
Canadian South Slavs and the
Workers Benevolent Association
met Mayor Hume this week and

secured his agreement to raise
the matter in city council.

MP's invited fo
discuss prices -
over cup of fea

_ All Vancouver MP’s | together
with Mrs. Tilly Rolston, MLA, and
Alderman Anna Sprott, have been
invited to a garden tea sponsored
by Congress of Canadian Women,
at 4022 Perry Street, from 2 to 4
p.m. this coming Monday, July 30.

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Discussion at the tea will centre
around the high cost of living, and
the invited guests will be asked to
express opinion$ on what govern-
ment ‘bodies “can do, have done
and should be doing to,bring down
prices.”

Displays indicating price com-
parisons with 1939 are being pre-
pared by the CCW.’ The affair is
open to all interested citizens.

New contract sought

: MONTREAL
United Textile Workers is asking
Dominion Textile and Montreal
Cottons to open negotiations this
month for a new contract, includ-
ing a dollar an hour wage mini-

mum, to cover its 6,000 members

in the plant. .

Gathering hits,

racial

members. :

SEVER

Rally at Peace Arch
cancelled, but may be
held at later date

The Peace Arch Rally Com-
mittee announced this week that —
for reasons .over which it has
no control, the. rally which was
. to have taken place this coming
Sunday, July 29, at Peace Arch
Park, Blaine, Wash., has been
cancelled. No new date for the
rally has been set but discussions
are now in progress with Ameri-
can groups for holding it in the
near future, according to the
committee’s announcement.

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A resolution demanding repeal of
recent amendments to the Criminal
Code was passed unanimously by
a gathering of 1,000 citizens at the
annual picnic of Federation of

Russian Canadians in Confedera-
tion Park on July 8.

Forwarded to Justice Minister
S. S. Garson under the signature
of M. Poliwoda, of the
Federation, the resolution read:.

“Whereas the .government of |
Canada has introduced amend-
ments to the Criminal Code which
endanger the rights of every Can- —
adian by ;

“(1) Changing the definition of
treason so as to abolish under cer-
tain conditions the traditional right
of citizens to discuss public ques-
tions freely and to oppose govern-
ment policies; which could be in-
terpreted, for example, to make the
advocacy of the recognition of
People’s China illegal;

“(2) Abolishing the funda-
mental right of a citizen to de-
mand that a warrant be produced
before the police have a legal right
to search his premises or his per-
son. : eee : :

“And * whereas the amendments |
were introduced under pressure —
from a foreign state, namely, the
‘United States of America, :

“Therefore be it resolved that
this gathering of 1,000 citizens un-
der the auspices of the Federation
of Russian Canadians demand the
repeal of these undemocratic a-—

mendments.”

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