* B.C. FED PARLEY ACTS TO UNITE RANKS x

~ LABOR GIRDS FOR MONOPOLY ATTAC

Hot reception greets
Wallace in Toronto

Governor George Wallace of
Alabama, America’s No, lracist
and self-announced candidate for
President, received a hot recep-

tion in Toronto last week whenhe .

arrived to speak at the Lions In-
ternational convention,

More than 400 white and Negro
placard - carrying pickets pa-
raded before Maple Leaf Gardens
during the appearance ofthe pro-
ponent of race hatred and segre-
gation in the US, Inademogogic
speech the Alabama governor at-
tacked liberalism and defended
his racist position,

Comment among many dele- ‘

gates was cool to Wallace and

many delegates sat silently with '

folded arms after the speech,
Both the governor and his wife
were.at all times surrounded by

the most elaborate security guard —

Toronto has ever seen,

News that Wallace would speak
at the Lions convention shocked
the people of Toronto and led to
wide protests, The Canadian An-
ti- Apartheid Committee, withthe
cooperation of some 40 organiza-
tions, organized the mass picket
lines which appeared at the Gar-
dens on Wednesday night and
again Thursday morning,

A five-member Toronto com-
mittee, headed by Rabbi Abraham
L, Feinberg, issued a statement
of protest. The ‘committee re-
presented the Anti - Apartheid,
Committee, Home Service As-.
sociation, United Negro Associa-'
tion and the Toronto and District
Labor Council,

"FREE AT LAST. Famed Mexican ortist,
David Alfaro Siqueiros, was pardon-
ed this week after serving four
years on a trumped-up charge. A
world-wide campaign won his re-
lease.

“LIONS YES—WALLACE NO!” This

was the greeting Toronto gave Ala-
-bama’s racist governor last week.

The committee’s statement
welcomed the Lions to Toronto
but expressed shock that Wallace
‘had been invited to speak, It
said: ‘George Wallace has be-
come by his own word and deed
the symbol and spokesman of
racism, of a program and ideol-
ogy abhorent, we believe, to the
vast majority of people,’’ The
statement concluded by respect-
fully requesting the Lions to un-
reservedly affirm and support
the principles of racial justice
and brotherhood,

Earlier the Toronto Labor
Council backed the ‘‘anti-Gover-
or Wallace’ movement, and ac-
ted on an emergency executive
resolution requesting the Toronto
City Council to ‘‘deny any official
welcome to the Governor of Ala-
bama,’’ One TLC executive
member, J, Pole- Langdon, point-
ed out that Wallace ‘‘is against
everything the labor movement
.Stands for: he’s a racist and he
also pushes for ‘right to scab’
laws,”’

The Toronto Committee of the
Communist Party backed the pro-
test movement, A statement by
its chairman, Phyllis Clarke,
said ‘‘such democratic protests
are certainly in the tradition of

our city which rejected Senator

Joe MeCarthy in another period
of history and only recently or-
ganized strong resistance to the
‘Cass police state bill,”’

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Organized labor in B.C. has moved to consolidate recent gains recorded pi
historic struggle with some of the biggest monopolies in Canada by taking st@P ly
unite ‘its ranks even more closely and preparing to meet any further monopr™

attacks on its traditional rights.

This is the fundamental result
of-an extraordinary conference
held by the B,C, Federation of
Labor last Friday, July 10, at
the Bayshore Inn in Vancouver,

Almost 300 delegates, repre-
senting 74 unions and four labor
councils took part in the confer-
ence, A closed session, held in
the afternoon, is understood to
have adopted a five point pro-
‘gram to consolidate recent vic-
tories and lay the groundwork for
future gains,

The five points are reported
to be;

@ Reaffirmation of a policy
first laid down in 1960, whereby
all affiliates taking strike action
must notify the BCFL so that all-

‘in support can be mobilized, -

_ @ All unions be requested to
‘insure that their by-laws are
‘amended to allow immediate con-
tributions to striking affiliates,
@ The BCFL executive com-
mittee be empowered to estab-
lish a defence fund, probably in
the vicinity of $2 million,
® All affiliates refuse flatly
to handle goods which have been
_ labelled ‘‘hot,’’? Bill43 notwith-
standing,
® All picket lines declared le-
gitimate by the federation to re-
ceive complete and unqualified
respect,

Prior to the close afternoon
session, delegates reviewed the
course and ultimate victory of

C.M.&S.—profit hungry monopol

By OBSERVER

The Trail-Kimberley strike,
if it occurs, will be the first
strike experienced by the
C.M, &S,. monopoly in 45 years,
This gigantic monopoly has been
extraordinarily successful,
throughout its history in avoid-
ing strikes — and in maximising
profits, :

From the formation of the com-
pany in 1906 until 1944,C.M.&S,
ran a strictly company-town,
company-union setup, During the
first world war an attempt to
organize Cominco was defeated
when the principal organizer,
Ginger Goodwin was suddenly.
called up for the army, even
though he had already been re-
jected as medically unfit, Shortly
afterwards he was murdered,

* Between World War I and World
War II, unionism was kept out of
Trail and Kimberley by an elab-
orate company union system pat-
terned after the methods Mac
Kenzie King devised for Rocke-
feller in Colorado, following the

By JERRY SHACK

the office workers’ strike in Al-
berni. BCFL secretary Pat
O’Neal stated that almost all of
labor’s difficulties stemmed di-
rectly from this province’s anti-
labor legislation,

Underlying all the historic
strike struggles of the immediate
past, he said, ‘‘is the facility
with which employers can obtain
scabs,’’ It was high time, he de-
clared, that this practice was
outlawed,

Walter Allen, president of the

Alberni local of the IWA, who was

.& member of the Alberni Emer-
gency Strike Committee, stated
that there were some ultra-criti-
cal trade unionists who were
‘claiming the strike settlement
‘was not a complete victory,

‘*Make no mistake about it,’’

he said, ‘fit WAS a victory, The

union has been established, to
stay, at MacMillan Bloedel &
Powell River.’’ He also made
the key point that although it was
a victory for the entire labor
movement, it wasn’t accomplish-
ed by labor alone,

**The entire community helped
to win this strike,’? he pointed:
out, ‘‘because ‘everyone from
chain stores, merchants, and tle
whole people extended every con-
sideration to those idled,’? This
was a recognition that workers
are duty bound no to cross a
picket lne, he said,

Ludlow massacre, Wages were on
the typical company-union carrot
and stick system, with alow basic.
wage and a bonus at the discretion
of the company to keep employees
obedient, With this went a pension
payable at the discretion of the
company to ‘‘loyal’’ employees,

Even after the establishment ~ _

of bona fide trade unionism by
the Mine Mill union, in 1944,
C.M, & S, managed to find ways
of hampering union activities,
In this it was assisted by allies
inside the labor movement who
split the workers in 1950 in the
course of the notorious Trail
raid by the Steelworkers, there-

by depriving the workers of gains ~

that could have been made in
that period by united action,

Today, however, Cominco faces
a membership united as never
before, under the leadership of.
the Mine Mill, and determined
to win long overdue gains,

This ruthless exploiter of.

labor has been one of the most
profit abl e monopolies in this

Yearly average — Miner
1996-15 $1,200
1916-25. 1,728
1926-35 1,781
1936-45 . 2,134
1946-55 3,936

' 1956-63 5,832

Annual Earnings,
C.M.&.S. Contract

Annual Dividends,
C.M.&.S. Shareholder
on Original Investment
of $30,000

$ 1,207
2,520
9,100
18,369

. 56,812
34,172

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would amount to only 4?

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‘July 17, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE

This point was carried i
further by John Hayward: #4
eamated Transit Union,
the conference:

_ “The natural resources of
don’t belong to MacMillan’
del, nor do they beloné ra
provincial government.

children, and to our
children, And when 2 oa
like MacMillan Bloedel ¥
use our own natural Te"
in order to starve an enu™ th
munity into submissio?
those resources should bé
away from it,’

Several delegates spoke
theme that now is the time
tend white collar org f
‘Longshoreman Mark Mosh
so a member of the En
Committee said ‘‘theré sot
tirely new spirit prevale® ait
Albernis, Those towns a i
open for organization n° d
victories achieved are “anit :

for us to get out and of8®

And Tom Roberts of Lott
OEIU - the local which so et
forest monoply - said thel oa
was being flooded with PY" te
by professional and othe ati
collar workers for org? :

“It?s impossible fo
our size to do an adequate
Roberts said, ‘*The ent ys |
movement will have toh@® |

r many

country, It has fo n 50

been one of the mai
of income of the Canadia® owe?
Railway Company, whic? if
51 percent interest iM”
on which it makes almos®
profit as on its two pillio®
railway property.
There can beno better bat
tion of the manner inWMe
inco exploits its employe!
‘the comparison shown © 1¢s
below of the relative ©? cof
a Cominco employee 2% yas?
inco shareholder, which neh
‘in evidence by the union
‘cent conciliation hearin&+

After collecting UP io
in a single year in an
the above shareholder os
sell his shares, which 9 rf
cost him $30,000, for 7

It is eStimated that #
C.M, & S, made 2
of over $3,00 on every’ its
of work performed t
ployees, The full cor nh
union’s demands, incl eek
duced working hours»
punitive pay, wage incl 0

ately ten percent of tha”

The above capsule ie
the company’s history es:
shows why the B.C Fy
labor movement shoul’ al
the 4,000 workers 4 is
_Kimberley who are aoa ye
win a fair deal in :
negotiations, 7