TUGBOAT UNION CHARGES:

Bosses Recruiting Scabs

Scabs have been imported from the United States to do some of the dirty work
Canadians won’t do, say spokesmen for the striking Canadian Merchant Service Guild.
Along with this, towboat owners are keeping Supreme Court judges busy dealing with
injunction cases against the union.

Ray Haynes, secretary of the

B.C. Federation of Labor,
announced Tuesday, after a
meeting with unions affected by
the towboat strike, that the
BCFL had declared _ all
equipment owned or operated by.
B.C. Towboat Owners Assoc.
companies hot.
_ All barges, floating equipment
or log booms normally towed by
Guild personnel will also be
declared hot, and all towboats
owned or operated by office
personnel or member com-
panies will be scab tugs, Haynes
said. All towing normally done
by affiliated unions other than
the Merchant Service Guild will
not be affected.

The B.C. Federation of Labor
has called an emergency
conference - er convention - of all
affiliated unions to deal with the
anti-labor attack by the
employers. The parley is set for
Saturday, May 23.
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Haynes told a press conference
Wednesday that labor is united
as never before, and that the
Employers Council of B.C. and
government policies
responsible for the militancy of
the workers. He announced a
major campaign to expose the
lie that labor is responsible for
the country’s economic | diffi
culties.

Members of the IWA, the Pulp
and Sulphite Workers Union, and
railroad United Transportation
workers also have injunctions
against them.

An IWA spokesman said early
in the week that 10,000 workers
in the forest industry had been
laid off after refusing to handle
“hot”? logs. IWA members
refuse to handle logs which are
brought in by hired scabs or

‘‘supervisory” staff on tug,

boats.

At the same time IWA
spokesmen say there have been
instances where companies told
their members to handle ‘‘hot”’
log booms when there were
“fair” booms near at hand.

CPR railcrews booked off sick
this week on the Vancouver-
Kamloops run. The union
demands that special coal trains
to Roberts Banks superport have
their brakes tested after hauling

- the loads from the Kootenays.

Here again ‘“‘supervisors’’ were
brought in to operate the coal
trains, and CPR has applied for

an injunction against the railway-

men.

The timber industry is trying
to make a penitentiary out of
this province, said Weldon Juben-

were—

"ville, president of the Duncan

local of the IWA this week.

He challenged MacMillan-
Bloedel’s top man J.V. Clyne to
put him in jail, after the
company went to court to get an
injunction to force IWA workers
to handle logs brought in by
strike-breaking crews on
tugboats. ;

“They can pile their court

injunctions as high as Fort .

Clyne, (the Mac-Bloe building in
Vancouver) but we’ll never ask
our men to cross a picket line or
handle hot products ... . If need
be I'll rot in jail to see that his
(Clyne’s) ambitions are not
carried out.”

IWA leaders Syd Thompson,
Jubenville, and other union
spokesmen in the forest industry
have reiterated time and again
that the bosses in the woods and
towboat companies hope to
weaken the union through
collaboration in the use of
.injunctions and hold-out tactics.

Jubenville stressed that this is
in essence the first time in the
history of B.C. that there has
been an attempt made to compel
workers to cross picket lines and
handle hot products.

CARPENTERS

Before they had even finished
counting the ballots’ on
acceptance or rejection of a
proposed $1 a hour increase,
8,000 carpenters in B.C. learned
they had been locked out by
employers. CLRA (the bosses
union) said the carpenters would
get an ‘‘apology”’ if they voted to
accept the offer. . .

A spokesman for the
Carpenters Union said that the
lockout was no longer being
directed by the contractors. He
charged that the Employers’
Council, the Big Business elite of
B.C., is now in control of an over-
all campaign to weaken unions
and drive wages down in this
province.

Building trades workers in the
past year had an average wage
of only $3.30 a hour because of
the seasonal nature of the work.

The union is sponsoring a mass
rally this Thursday evening, May
14, in the PNE Gardens which
thousands of workers from the
building trades, the timber
industry, the towboat and others
affected by Big Business
lockouts are expected to attend.

PRESS STRIKE .

The Sun and Province will up
their price for the dailies 5 cents
a copy when the go back into
publication following a settle-

JOIN PROTEST AT U.S.
CONSULATE NEXT TUESDAY

A demonstration to protest the U.S. invasion of Cambodia and to
call for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Indochina will take place
Tuesday, May 19 between 12 noon and 2 p.m. at the U.S. Consulate,

Burrard and Georgia.

Called by the B.C. Peace Council, the public are invited to join in
the protest. It will be the second protest staged by the Council. Slogans
will call for: “U.S.-Out of Cambodia,” “Out of Vietnam.”

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ment of the 3 month strike.
Pacific Press, a director of
which also. sits on _ the
Employers’ Council, will not
suffer under the new terms of
settlement with employees.

In other labor news, -the

Executive Board, B.C. Division
of CUPE has pledged full
support of their 12,000 member
organization to their Penticton
city workers who are among the
lowest paid municipal workers in
the province, according to Harry
Greene, president of the
Division.

Postal workers can _ strike
legally any time after May 19th,
and there is some speculation
that a strike will be called on
that date — just a week after
rejection of the conciliation
board’s recommendations.

B.C. FED CALLS PARLEY

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DISPUTE ENDS. After three months, Pacific Press workers voted to retur™

this week after winning the point that the new agreement |
retroactive to Nov. 1, 1969. The press monopoly earlier insisted the new
agreement be retroactive to January, 1970.

U.S. Escalation Condemned

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affair. We have heard these
assurances before, he said, and
they have come to nothing.

Rev. Forsyth urged a radical
change of policy on the part of
the U.S. and Canadian govern-
ments. Canadians cannot feel
superior when they furnish the
tools of war for the USS.
military. Our own government
has been ineffective for too long,
and we must resolve to put an
end to this bland indifference,
the minister said.

Chairman of the rally was
Rev. Allan Dixon.

PROTESTS MOUNT

Giant rallies around the world ~

last weekend showed the tidal
wave of protest mounting
against the U.S. action. High-
lighted by the mass rally in
Washington, D.C., attended by
more than 100,000 people, the
movement in the U.S. spread to
all campuses and included not
only students but faculties as
well.

U.S. labor showed signs of
growing unrest with the support
given Nixon’s action by AFL-CIO
president George Meany. Many
outstanding union leaders have
come out against the war.

United Auto Workers president
Walter Reuther, in his last
official act on behalf of his
1,800,000 members before his
tragic death, wired the president
condemning the escalation of the
war and said it ‘can only
increase the enormity of the
tragedy in which our nation is
already deeply and unfortunately
involved.”’

He said that widening the war
“once again merely reinforces
the bankrupcy of our policy of
force and violence in Vietnam
ae We cannot successfully
preach non-violence at home
while we escalate mass violence
abroad.”’

Most large cities around the
world witnessed demonstrations
of unprecedented size, with over
200,000 taking part in a protest in
Paris, France.

Canada’s complicity in the war

REV. CHARLES FORSYTH,
secretary of the Board of
Evangelism and Social Services,
United Church of Canada, speak-
ing at the Peace Arch Sunday.

came under sharp fire by PT
editor Maurice Rush in a speech
at a meeting Monday night. He
charged that the Federal govern-
ment is an accomplice in
genocide in Vietnam because
Canadian ruling circles want to
profit from the war as well as
retain its alliance with U.S. and
share in the drive of US.
imperialism for world domin

_ation.

“The present arms agreement
with the U.S. is one of the forms
by which Canadian ruling circles
have tied Canada to the U.S.
Another part of this policy is the
integration of the Canadian
economy with the U.S. and the
takeover of Canadian industries
by U.S. monopolies. Winning the
fight. to force the Canadian

government to end arms

shipments for use in Vietnam i
would be a big victory in the

fight for Canadian
independence,”’ said Rush.

ULTRA LEFT HIT

The most important issue
today is to unite Canadians from

all walks of life around the —
central issue of ending the Wa! —

and forcing the withdrawal of
U.S. troops, said Rush, as hé
sharply condemned !
disruptive and provocativé
actions of ultra left groups W
discredit the peace moveme=

and play into the hands of U.S: |

imperialism.
Rush pointed out that those

who led the disgraceful actions
in downtown Vancouver Friday

night and at the U.S. bordel —

Saturday are the same elements
that smashed up the rece?
peace march and rally at the
courthouse. ; ;

“The leaders of these action
don’t want an end to the wal
they want to escalate it. The
are not a genuine part of
movement for peace, but wa?
to discredit and break up ¢
peace movement,” said Rush.

“It’s time those young people:
who are sucked into taking pa!

in these activities by the Maols”
elements |

and ultra left
believing they are protesting
war, realized they are actual

lending themselves to prolonging

the war by discrediting the peace
movement and keeping othe

broad elements of the public |

who want the war ended, from
joining the fight for peace.”

A resolution adopted by the

meeting, called by the Val
couver Region of the Com

munist Party in the Ukrainia?
Hall, condemned the escalatio?
of the war and demanded thé
the Canadian government take 4
“forthright stand” against the
U.S. action. It demande
immediate withdrawal of U- F
troops and a halt to shipment °
arms as long as U.S. military
forces continue their aggressiO®

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in Southeast Asia. ee