PATRICE LUMUMBA BEFORE HIS MURDER. This historic pic-
ture shows the Congo Premier just after he was turned
over to Moise Tshombe’s Katanga cuthroats, with U.N. they are fighting against the same puppet of Belgian and
complicity. Shortly after this picture was taken L b U.S. i ialism, Moise Tshombe, who is being kept in of-
was murdered and his body hidden. The Congo people are _fice by their direct military support.

today continuing the struggle for independence inspired by

Lumumba’s unc ing stand ag + col i Naw

LABOR ROUNDUP |
Automation tax on profits

urged by railway unions

A special tax on automation
profits has been suggested as a
Source of government revenue to
pay for training men who lose
their jobs through technological
change,

The recommendation came in
a brief presented to the provin=
cial cabinet last Monday by the
B,C, legislative committee ofIn-
ternational Railway Brother-
hoods,

The submission pointed out
B,C, has no long-range planning
“to adequately meet the socio-
economic requirements of an
alarmingly increasing number of
displaced workers,”

The brief called for anew pro-
gram of “economic and social
first aid” for jobless workers,
including a stepped-up program
of technical schools, which should
rightfully be paid out of increas-
ing profits as a result of greater
Productivity.

® .

The Retail, Wholesale & De-
Partment Store Union is fighting
a vicious attempt by McLennan,
McFeely & Prior Ltd, (Mac &
Mac) to smash the union and re-

vert back to a sweatshop opera-
tion,

On Friday, November 27, a
long simmering dispute broke out
into the open when all 106 em-
Ployees walked off the job in
Protest over deteriorating con-
ditions of work.

Ray Haynes, Business Agent
for the union, met with company
Officials, who assured him they
Were prepared to discuss the
Problem if the workers went back
On the job, The union then recom-
Mended the men return on Mon-
day morning (Nov, 380)—which
they did,

However, upon reaching the
Company premises, they were in-
formed that all had been fired

Md the company proceeded to

advertise for help, Upon a rec-
ommendation from the union, all

the fired employees promptly .

joined the lineup of workers wait-
ing to be interviewed for the job
Openings,

Meanwhile, the union was
pressing on with grievance pro-
cedures, The provincial govern-
ment appointed Pete Fisher to
mediate the dispute, Fisher last-
ed on the job about 45 minutes,
according to Haynes, then was
forced to notify the Minister of

-Labor that it was impossible to

bring the two parties together
because the company refused to
talk,

The union is now in the third
stage of its grievance procedure,
Haynes told the PT that company
actions clearly indicate an open,
unprincipled attempt to break the
union, He charged that each em-
ployee had been told by company
officials that he can have his job
back — provided application is
made individually andnot through
the union,

As the PT goes to press, the
workers are united and confident
of victory.

The nin

e-week strike by 275 Burnaby machinints at the Canadian Kenworth Ltd.,

Marineworkers & Boilermak-
ers Local 1 has elected its exec-
utive for the coming year, Elected
to key posts were: :

Jeff Power (President), Doug
Terry (ist Vice Pres,), Don
Thompson (2nd Vice Pres.), Bill
Stewart Gece. Treas.) and Jack
Lawson (Rec. Sec, and Business

Agent), a =

Vancouver Civic Employees
Union—Outside Workers is pro-
testing the awarding ofa contract
to fabricate 120 waste containers
to the Ellett Copper & Brass Co.
The company’s bid was $24,-
055.50.

According to the union, the City
Shop estimate for this job was
$1,233 below the company bid,
The union has urged City Coun-
cil to re-examine granting of this
contract, charging the cityis lay-
ing out $1,233 as a subsidy to
private enterprise,

e

The strike of Local 663, Mine
Mill at the Anaconda operation
at Britannia Beach has now en-
tered its 16th week with strikers’
morale running high andthe union
confident of ultimate victory,

a
—Fisherman photo

plant ended Sunday when the members voted 75 percent in favor of a new

agreement
over three

which provides journeymen with an hourly increase of 40 cents aver
years. Other workers will get 35c an hour. Photo shows the strikers”

picket line. Before the strike wages ranged to a low of $1.69 an hour.

CONGO INTERVENTION HIT

U.S. Negro

leaders ask

change in Africa policy

Six top Negro leaders in the
United States, including Rev,
Martin Luther King, last week
called on President Johnson to

“halt military intervention in the

Congo and to reverse the present
U.S, policy on Africa, They
charged the present situation not
only menaced the Congo, but also:
imperilled world peace. ;

Joining Dr, King in a letter to
the President asking for a meet-
ing with him to discuss their
position regarding U,S,-African
relations, were A, Phillip Ran-
dolph, president of the Negro
American Labor Council; Roy A,
Wilkins, executive secretary of
the National Association for Ad-
vancement of Colored People;
James Farmer, national director
of the Congress of Racial Equali-
ty; Whitney Young Jr,, executive
director of the Urban League, and
Dorothy Height, president of the
National Council of Negro
Women,

Denouncing the Washington-
backed Tshombe regime in the
Congo, the six national Negro
leaders urged President John-
son to co-operate with the Or-
ganization of African States in
its efforts to bring peace to the
Congo,

The letter to the President co-
incided with the end of the meet-
ing of the Reconciliation Com-
mission of the Organization of
African States, which met at
Nairobi, Kenya, under the leader-
ship of Prime Minister Jomo
Kenyatta,

The Commission demanded the
withdrawal of all foreign mer-
cenaries, a halt to foreign in-
tervention, an immediate cease-
fire, amnesty for all those

involved in the Stanleyville slay-
ing, a parley of all Congolese
leaders and free elections
throughout the Congo under the
Supervision of the Organization
of African States,

The meeting, which represent-
ed many African governments,
assailed the U.S,, Belgium and
Britain for “foreign military
intervention in the Congo,”

Typical of African reaction
was the editorial comment of
the Ghanian Times; “The Congo
events show that imperialism
has taken the road of brutal ter-
ror and open intimidation of the
African peoples in an effort to
turn back the wheel of history, ...

“The Western Powers havenot
abandoned their. hopes of creat-
ing a hotbed of neo-colonialism
in the heart of Africa by tying
together Angola, Congo, Southern
Rhodesia which are controlled :
and exploited by the financial
interests of the USA, Britain,
Belgium and the Federal Re-
public of Germany,”

PT to move:

After many years at our
present location, the PT will
be moving to new quarters,
Our new address, as of Janu-
ary 1, 1965, will be:

Pacific Tribune
Mezzanine No, 3
Ford Building

193 E, Hastings St,
Vancouver 4, B,C,

We hope to be able to com-
plete moving over the holiday
period, after which we will be
open for business at our new
location,

‘Don’t expand Vietnam war,’

Peace Council urges Johnson

The B,C, Peace Council has
written President Johnson,
urging him not to expand U.S,
intervention in South Vietnam,
A copy of the letter was also
forwarded to UN Secretary-

’ General U Thant,

“The South Vietnam situation
is beyond being resolved by
American intervention,” the let-
ter stated, “We most strongly
urge upon you a policy of nego-
tiation through the United Nations
to bring an end to the present
slaughter which daily threatens
the peace of the whole world,”

The council also wrote Prime
Minister Pearson and External
Affairs Minister Martin this
week, demanding Canada oppose

XMAS ISSUE

Our Holiday Edition (Christ-
mas and New Year’s) will be
off the presses on Thursday,
December 24, As usual, it
will be a two-color printing
containing Special holiday
features and ads and greet-
ings from our friends and
supporters,

Any press club, individual,
family or small business
wishing to place a greeting in
this issue should make sure
the copy is in our office no
later than Wednesday, De-
cember 16,

any move to create a. multi-
lateral force within NATO,

Gardner stressed the fage-thai
the U.S,-inspired idea of zmyiti-
lateral nuclear force has onty-one
solid backer — West Germany —
and that Canada should do nothing
which would strengthen the posi-
tion of West Germany in her
ambition to get her hands on
nuclear weapons and their means
of delivery,

The council is urging allpeace
supporters to write Pearson im-
mediately, voicing their concern
over setting up an MLF,

McKnight fight

forces probe

George McKnight, independent
labor candidate for alderman in
Port Alberni, has won a victory
in his fight to force an investiga-
tion into the incidence of respira-
tory diseases caused by air pol-
lution,

Last week McKnight received
a letter from Minister of Health
Eric Martin, informing him that
an investigation into the prob-
lem will be undertaken early in
the new year, McKnight had writ-
ten Martin asking for such an
inquiry,

McKnight has taken the stand
that MacMillan Bloedel and Pow-
ell River should be compelled to
clean uptheir pulp operation from
which most of the air pollution
comes,

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