ee) eT

Pi

ah THEME AT P. N. E. PARADE. Last Saturday's Pacif

1 Witnessed by some 200,000 people in person an

Shows F TV, included the above floats by peace organi

s e o B.C. Peace Council float with its white peace dove,
nada Nuclear Free” and trailer with children.

Parade
Sands

ic National Exhibition
d by additional thou-
zations. Top photo
its theme of
Below it is the beauti-

ful e
niry of the B.C. CCND, demanding ‘‘Abolish Nuclear Weapons.’

U.S. control grows
tapidly in Canada

1:
aN Dominion Bureau of Sta-
eased Me Ottawa recently re-
at the igures which show that
8 an of 1960 there were
85th ee nerenes compa-
invest anada with a total equity
terreg ent (common and pre-
Shares) of $11 billion,

oe Statistics also revealed
anadians hold about 15 per
about parece shares, Actually
foreign; Percent of the total
Concent Nvestment in Canada is
igs e Tated in 111 big compan-

ach having an aggregate

inves
t
fibre of $25 million or

Cent

AES{ oc:
the senificant figure included in
the 33, ; 1 Teport is that of
them peorelen companies 90 of
Nano; Controlled by U.S, fi-
Mejia} interests, y US, fi

The trend towards increased
U.S, takeover of the Canadian
economy has gone on apace since
1960, as a recent article in the

P.T, showed,

Bureau’s report also

The : :
states that direct Canadian in-
d reached an

vestment abroad ha

estimated $2.6 pillion by the end
of 1961, However, 40 per cent of
foreign investment was made by
Canadian companies under the
effective control of U.S. compa~

nies,

In other words, US. financial
interests have expanded invest-
ments abroad through “ Canadian”
channels, or in fields of invest-
ment in foreign countries where
U.S. capital could best penetrate
through a @Canadian” company.

India Communists stage
Ig protest over prices

Indig?
Week a
vs

Bee omunist Panty: this
peed a five-day nation-
he fo Monstration against ris-
banks Od prices by picketing
y meiek exchanges, govern-
fices and grain dealers.

Next week:
Gabor Day Issue

Th :
Sep © PT’s edition of Friday,

piper 4 willbe our annual
wil) Said Issue. As usual, it
onal 4, Y provincial and na-
th €atures of interest to

bi
to eve or movement as wellas
ery reader.

Bp
Bre clubs should make
bundle a order aspecial
e Or mass distribution in
Unde © Class localities. All
Orders must be in the

offi
tember 1. by Tuesday, Sep-

gest action since the
Shastri government took over,
100,000 Communists, lead by
party leader S. A. Dange, staged
peaceful demonstrations inall the
main cities. Participation of
Close to a million other Indians

was expected.

In their big!

The Communist campaign be-

gan three weeks ago witha series
of one-day general strikes in four
Indian States . It aims to rally
support for a one-day all-India
general strike in September to
protest the worsening economic

situation.
f the Shastri g0V-

e strong steps to
on has led

The failure 0
ernment to tak
curb runaway inflati [
to a drastic rise in food prices
while private speculators are
amassing big profits. The Com-
munists’ protest is widely SUP-
ported by India’s working people.

LEA PLLA he in on tba eA patel Le

LABOR ROUNDUP:

40-hour m

ining week

becomes law in B.C.

The B.C. Board of Industrial
Relations, in an order released
this week, has established the 40
hour work week in the province’s
metal mining industry (instead of
the previous 44) and boosted

minimum pay in the industry up:

to $1.50 an hour from the former
$1 rate.

The board’s action was un-
doubtedly 2 result of the historic
settlement won by the Mine Mill
union recently with the Cominco
operations at Trail and Kimber-
ley. Thus, not only CM&S em-
ployees, put every last man em-
ployed in the metal mining indus-
try — either now or in the future
_will benefit directly from the
contract won by Mine Mill.

«We hail the establishment, by
law, of the 40 hour work week in
B.Cc.’s metal mining industry,”
Harvey Murphy, national Mine
Mill vice-president, told the PT.

«We had been pressing the
board for such an order for a
long time. Just over a year ago,
we appeared pefore the board

and urged:

* Time and a half pay for all
hours over 40.

* A minimum wage of $1.50 in

the industry.

«In this connection, it should be
remembered that the B.C. Fed-
eration of Labor and the Steel-
workers union opposed our
recommendations and suggested
a minimum rate of $1.25 anhour.

«we're glad the poard turned
down the advice of the BCF,” de-
clared Murphy. «This is one of

Ontario

“A frontal assault upon de-
mocracy and the rights of labor.”
This is how the Ontario commit-
tee of the Communist Party has
characterized the sweeping anti-
labor injunction against Tor-
onto’s striking printers,

The injunction, recently grant-
ed by Ontario Supreme Court
Justice Edson Haines and extend-
ed indefinitely last week, forbids
the Toronto Typographical Union
from calling its

Toronto Star,
Globe and Mail a “Jockout” and

limits the number of pickets
outside the newspaper plants,

Telegram and

Since the injunction was laid
all three papers involved in the
strike have begun hiring sclabs
to staff their composing rooms,

The Communist Party’s state-
ment says: «The injunction can
have as serious implications for
labor in the long run as the at-
tempt to impose a police state
pill by the (Ontario) government
early this spring.”

The legal ruling against the
strikers has aroused the indig-
nation of wide sections of the
labor: movement, International
officers of the typographical un-
following 4 meeting with
strikers’ representatives in Col-
orado Spring, pledged aid to their
Toronto brothers. In their, state-

ion,

dispute with the

the fruits of our victory at Trail-
Kimberley and makes us ver

happy.”

Murphy charged the board’s
decision had been held up for over
a year due to pressure from the
mining companies—in particular,
CM&S. But the recent Mine Mill
settlement had forced the issue,
he stated.

dot
Although the board order does
not come into effect until January
2, 1965, it will undoubtedly affect
the eventual outcome of the strike
currently in progress at Britan-
nia Beach, where hours of work

are one of the main points at
issue in the dispute.

Meanwhile, striking members
of Local 663 (Britannia) are still
out on the picket line. The local’s
news bulletin states that supplies
from sympathizers (eggs, bread,
vegetables, etc.) have begun to
arrive.

“Tists are now being drawn up
to make sure that these goods
will be distributed on a fair
basis,” the bulletin says. Any
donation, either financial or food,
is most welcome. For more in-
formation, readers can contact
the union at either the Britannia
local or Vancouver office.

Pope issues plea
for disarmament

Pope Paul VI warned this wéek
that “some of those basic prin-

POPE PAUL VI

CP backs

ment they said the lockout may
“rally the entire labor movement
in Canada behind the typographi-
cal union,”

\ This week members of three

non-printing unions — Local 767
of the Canadian Union of Public
Employees, Local 43 of the Tor-:
onto Civic Employees Union and
the International Brotherhood of
Paiters and Decorators — placed

ciples on which peace must be
founded are crumbling.” In an
impassioned appeal against the
arms race, he begged men to
remember that this is precisely
what has caused two devastating
world wars.

In an obvious reference to the
capitalist world’s “peace through
strength” double talk, he deplored
the “illusory concept that peace
can only be based on the terrify-
ing power of extremely homicidal
weapons,”

Pope Paul said the world is
seeing a rebirth of perilous con-
cepts, that the “concept of the
sacred and inviolable character
of human life” has been obscured.

“Men of good will, listen to
our humble words,” he pleadedin
his request for a start on dis-
armament,

printers

sympathy pickets outside the Tel-
egram building,

In Vancouver, printers have
refused to handle ads placed by
strikebound Toronto papers in
search of scabs and have urged
the public not to buy the Star
Weekly (Toronto Star) and Bus-
iness Supplement (Globe and
Mail) since both are now being
produced by scab labor, _

Andrew Brewin, NDP MP (Greenwood) joins Bill Galbraith, member of Toronto
Typographical Union executive on the picket \line, telling him that the NDP
supports the printers in their dispute with the monopoly press in Toronto.

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