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DEPRESSION—CAN WE PREVENT IT?
Kashtan tours B.C.

William Kashtan, Leader of
the Communist Party of Can-
ada, will arrive in B,C, No-
vember 13th for a week-long
speaking tour,

8 p.m.: Victoria Club, Commu-
nist Party;

e TUES, NOV, 15th, noon—
U.B.C. campus; 8 pm. —
Surrey Public meeting, Ken-
nedy Hall (Scott & 88th Ave.);

e WED, NOV, 16th, noon —
Simon Fraser Univ, Campus;
8 p.m. — Lower . Mainland
Membership Meeting, Vanc.
Ukranian Hall, 805 E, Pender;

e THUR, NOV, 17, 8 p.m.—
Vernon, public meeting, Elks
Hall; :

@ FRI, NOV, 18th, 8 p.m.—
Trail, B.C, Public meeting.

The subject of Kashtan’s
public addresses in B.C, will
be “Depression — Can We
Prevent It?”

His itinerary includes:

e@ SUN, NOV, 13th, 8 p.m.—
Public meeting, Vancouver,
Hastings Aud;

e MON, NOV, 14th, noon —
University of Victoria Campus;

“Stock up on meat sale—
then pack to the boycott’

Consumers have been urged this week to lift the boycott on pur-
chases of meat at supermarkets for three days to take advantage of
meat sales. After the weekend consumers are asked to re-impose
the boycott,

This is the advice given this week by leaders of the boycott move-

ment in Vancouver, WASP — Women Against Soaring Prices — said

‘Wednesday the meat price cuts offered this weekend by Safeway and
other supermarkets are ‘‘a big victory for us,”

WASP has advised consumers to “stock up while the going is
good.” Obviously the supermarkets are feeling the pinch and are
attempting to break the boycott by splashprice reductions which may
be eliminated after the boycott is broken, The answer of WASP offi-
cial, Mrs, Carol Millan is this:

“We are urging members to buy as much of the sale price meat
as they can store, Meanwhile, if we can get any reasonable assurance
prices will stay down, we will be happy to call off the boycott.’’

The claim this week by supermarkets that meat sales are planned
far ahead and that this weekend’s sale has nothing to do with the
boycott is refuted by the hastily improvised streamers across Safe-
way advertising billboards in the city drawing attention to the meat
Sale,

The best advice is: stock up on meat this weekend — then back to
the boycott until prices are permanently reduced,

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DANCE COMPANY

100 DANCERS AND MUSICIANS
ON STAGE! IN PERSON!

. Tickets in Famous Artists Box Office, Main Floor,
Hudson’s Bay Co. Phone MUtual 1-3351. Daily
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Evenings: 6.60, 5.50, 4.40, 3.30
Matinee: 5.00, 4.00, 3.00, 2.00 ?

Dazzling! They dance their heart out
and ;
their heads off!

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~ November 4, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 12

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BCFL debates action
on injunction threat

Cont'd from pg. 1

honest men and women guilty of
contempt, in two instances, saw
trade unionists herded into jail
like common criminals, Their
crime; protesting the callous at-
titude of their employer and the
disgraceful use of the courts
through the strike-breaking in-
junction weapon”,

President Staley described the
government’s overtime ban, cut-
backs on construction and other
public projects as “instant econ-
omics”, and urged the setting up
of a B.C. Economic Council to
provide for constructive planning
and co-operation with similar
bodies, instead of hit-and-miss
stop-gap measures, which can
only lead to a complete break-
down in industrial relations and
increasing unemployment,

In the report of the BCFL’s
International Affairs Committee
its 5-point proposals for peace

in Vietnam were approved by con=_

vention delegates, These include
an immediate cease-fire in Viet=
nam; implementation of the Gen-
eva Accord of 1954 and the re-
moval of all foreign troops and
military personnel from North
and South Vietnam; self-deter-
mination andindependence for the
people of Vietnam and Southeast
Asia free from outside interfer-
ence; and a massive aidprogram

to assist economic development, |

One of the most dynamic guest
speakers to appear before the
BCFL convention was student
David Perlin, a member of the
Farm Workers Organizing Com-
mittee of the ILWU, who with
other young students assisted in
the job of organizing the farm
workers and grape pickers of
Southern California,

“These farm workers,” stated
Perlin, “are still living in the
80’s, although this is 1966, They
work in the fields with no sani-
tation facilities, no drinking
water, in the hot sun, sometimes
110 to 120 degrees, under the
extreme brutality of grower
police and thugs, working under
the muzzle of guns, even machine
guns, Whole families must work
including small children, in order
to earn a sustenance wage,

“In the Delano grape strike,
now in its 13th month, these farm
workers, representing many
races, religions and culture, are
now learning how to unite, and
are rising to meet the challenge,
even when caught on all sides by
ruthless growers, the _ state
forces, and all well-encouraged
racial division by their employ-
ers,”

Perlin appealed for moral and
material aid from the BCFL
convention to the Delano grape
strikers, At the conclusion of
his fraternal address he receiv-

VLC delegates roar
at injunction replies

This week’s session of the Van-
couver and District Labor Coun-
cil (VLC) with many B,C, Feder-
ation of Labor convention
delegates in attendance as guests,
had a volume of earthy humor —
plus what some BCFL leaders
might regard as a “delayed time
bomb,”

Letters from many national
and provincial political leaders
in reply to letters from the VLC
executive protesting the use of
injunctions in labor disputes were
read to VLC delegates and were
received by gales of aANELIOTS
boos and jeers.

Here are some literary gems
on the fine art of noncommittal
verbosity from the politicos; John
Diefenbaker;— “the question of
injunctions and compulsory arbi-
tration fall exclusively within the
authority of provincial govern-
mentso, 4 ..:*

Attorney-general Bonner, top
prosecutor of labor in B.C,:
‘Your letter received with thanks
it is inappropriate to comment at
this time since the matter is be=
fore the courts ..., yours, etc.”

Federal Labor Minister Nich-
olson: “the use of injunctions is
exciting at the present time...
much public discussion ... yours
truly.” Socred Labor Minister

Peterson: “administering the law
is up to the judges... the pen-
alties given (fines and prison
sentences, Ed.) is not in my de-
partment, yours, etc.”

Other replies to the VCL letter

didn’t get beyond saying “your

letter carefully noted,” Letters
from national and _ provincial

leaders of the NDP pledged full

support to B.C, labor in its anti-
injunction struggle,

Provincial Liberal leader Ray
Perrault’s reply, indicating that
the “policy resolutions of the
Liberal party” had always been
opposed to injunctions, was also
greeted by laughter,

ed a resounding applause from
convention delegates,

Resolutions so far adopted by
the convention in its secondday’s
sessions include the following: i

e Agreement to join forces
with other organizations in B,C.
to demand that Medicare be in=
troduced on the target date first
set, July, 1967; and that the Ca-
‘nadian Labor Congress head-Up
a citizens national campaign
towards this end,

© Went on record for the basic
right to strike during the life of
an agreement when new methods
and machines are introduced, and —
no agreement is arrived at.

e Called for the implementa~ G.
tion of a compulsory government

operated automobile insurance me

plan.

e@ Went on record demanding —
that all materials for publi¢

projects be manufactured inB.' 5 : : a

wherever possible,

e Agreed that BCFL not only
recognize, but give active support
to the objectives of full equality
of French-Canadians with Eng-
list-speaking Canadians,

@ Prime Minister Pearson was
urged to honor his election
pledges to negotiate the removal ~
of nuclear arms from Canadian
soil,

e Called for nationalization of —
the Canadian Pacific Railwaye

e Urged BCFL representation BS |

to the Federal government and the
Parliamentary Committee on
Living Costs to (a) a roll-back
in interest rates; (b) the availa-
bility of funds for home con-
struction at lowered interest
rates; and (c) effective restraints

-on costs, prices, profits, divi- — 4

dends and corporate executive
compensation (including bonuses
and stock options) to secure 2
well-balanced incomes policy es~
sential for economic expansion
arid full employment,

BCFL convention sessions are
scheduled to end Friday, ‘with
many important issues affecting —
labor still to be discussed,

PUBLIC

ENTERTAINMENT

HEAR,

WM. KASHTAN Nat'l Sec'ty Communist Party of Canada
speak on
‘Depression —can we prevent it?’
SUNDAY — NOVEMBER 13th — 8 p.m.

HASTINGS AUDITORIUM
828 East Hastings St.

AUSP.: VAN. CITY C'TTEE — CPC

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