Council backs petition
against soaring prices

Vancouver City Council, Tues-
day unanimously endorsed a mo-
tion presented by Alderman Wil-
liams, based on the petition cur-

rently being circulated by the

Women Against High Prices
Committee in the campaign
against rising costs, :

The petition calls for im-
mediate action by the federal
government to halt the infla-
tionary trend inthe country which
is resulting in runaway prices;
also that the present Senate-
Commons Committee on High
Prices hold public hearings
across the country, and finally,
that the immediate establishment
' of Prices Review Boards in all

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major cities would be afirst step
in halting runaway prices.

Mrs, Podovinnikoff will be part
of a national delegation of women
who will travel to Ottawa, De-
cember 7 and 8, to meet with
the Senate-Commons Committee
on High Prices, and to hold a
national conference of repre-
sentatives from the various com-
mittees which have sprung into
action in the recent campaign to
bring living costs down, The

delegation to the committee will.

be sponsored by Mr. Bud Sher-
man, M.P, from Winnipeg, Man-
itoba.

Meanwhile, in Vancouver this
week the two-month long trial
ended in which the Crown charged
that 10 firms, includng some of
the largest chain stores, were
charged with conspiring to lessen
competition
orange trade in Canada. The
judge has reserved judgment in
the case,

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1966

der calls for

Pat O’Neal resignation |

President Syd Thompson ofthe
Vancouver Local, International
Woodworkers of America (IWA)
declared this week that Pat
O’Neal, regional representative
of the International Pulp andSul-
phite Union, should be asked to
resign from the executive council
of the B.C, Federation of Labor
(BCFL).

Thompson’s statement arises -
out of the recent bugging of the
Canadian Pulp and Paper Work-
ers’ convention in the Vancouver
Ritz Hotel, in which O’Neal has
admitted engaging the services of
a private detective agent, an ex-
RCMP “Security and Intelligence”
member to‘‘secure information”,
and for which O’Neal admits giv-
ing a union check for $250. for
such services,

A number of investigations into _

the Ritz bugging are currently
under way by the BCFL and the
Vancouver Labor Council, A royal
commission set up by Premier
Bennett to investigate the affair
is also in operation, The RCMP
are also said to be investigating
their own role in the Ritz bug-
ging.

LAWSON
LAWYERS
WRITE PT

The Pacific Tribune has re-
ceived the following letter from
lawyers acting for Edward Law-
son, President of the Teamsters
Joint Council:

“Dear Sirs: Weactfor Edward
Lawson, President of the Team-
sters Joint Council No, 36, and
are writing you with reference
to an editorial headed “VLC
Charges Lawson With Labor Be-
trayal’’ appearing on page eight of
the Pacific Tribune for Septem-
ber 23, 1966, In our view, this
editorial is clearly defamatory, -

“We enclose a copy of a letter
from George L., Murray, Q.C.,
dated October 4, 1966, and a
copy of a letter from Mr, C,W,
Hunter, dated October 21, 1966,
for your information and ask that
you unconditionally withdraw the
remarks made by you insofar
as they relate to our client and to
apologize for having made them,

“Should you decline to adopt
this course, kindly let us know the
name of a solicitor who will
accept service of a Writ on your
behalf,

Yours truly,
Ellis & Company,

(The FT “editorial” referred to
above was a news account of a
meeting of the \.ancouver Trades
and Labor Council. We have learned
that The Labor Statesman, publish-
ed jointly by the b.C. Federation of
Labor and Vancouver and District
Labor Council, have also received a
letter from Lawson’s lawyer. The
PT has instructed its lawyer to
accept service of documents from
Lawson’s solicitor). 2

Thompson’s letter demanding
the resignation of O’Neal follows
the action of the Victoria local of
the IWA and its resolution con-
demning the act of bugging, and
urging provincial and federal
legislation prohibiting “this
worst form of invasion of the in-
dividual’s privacy...”

O’Neal was elected on the ex-
ecutive council of the BCFL at
its annual convention early in
November, Because of his ad-
mitted: involvement in this type
of snoop activity, many union
spokesmen in B.C, together with
the IWA leadership have express-=
ed the view that O’Neal should
either tender his resignation from
the BCFL leading body, or be
summarily ‘‘kicked out’’,

Thompson’s letter tothe BCFL
asks that body to seek O’Neal’s
resignation and to pass a motion
of condemnation of his part inthe
Ritz Hotel affair. The IWA lead-
er’s letter to the BCFL also
raises the right of the Harmac
workers (Nanaimo), the focal area
in which the jurisdictional fight
between the Canadian Pulp and
Paper Workers Union and the
International Union is sharpest,
that “Canadian workers must have
the right to belong to unions of
their own choice,”

To this end Thompson’s letter
also calls upon the B.C, Labor
Relations Board to “reconsider”.
its decision which denied a vote
by Harmac workers to register
their choice of which union they
want to represent them in the
Harmac operation,

* KOK

Addressing the Canadian In-
dustrial Management Association
in Hamilton, Ontario, President
C, S. Jackson of the United Elec-
trical, Radio and Machine Work-
ers (UE) called upon the members
of the organization “to begin to

give recognition to the technolo- :

‘Human rights
for Vietnam too’

B.C, Peace Council will join
the Special Vigil organized by
the Peace Action League to be
held Saturday, December 10
commemorating Human
Rights Day. Special signs
will carry the message “Hu-
‘man Rights For Vietnam Too”
and a leaflet drawing attention
to the naked violation of human
rights in the war in Vietnam
will be distributed.

Time of the vigil is 12:30
to 1:30 p.m, at the corner of
Granville & Georgia, Start-
ing next Saturday the Peace
Council plans to tour down-
town shopping areas withcars
carrying a  gaily-wrapped
Christmas Box bearing the
message “Make Peace The
Gift in Vietnam.”

gical revolution and its effects
on both management and labor.”

Jackson challenged manage
ment to accept and demonstrate
its social responsibilities “b}
taking the initiative in bringing
the trade unions into advance
discussion and planning on anti-
cipated automation and othe!
technological developments.” Tht
UE president warned managemen

_ that failure on their part to move

voluntarily in this direction
“would inevitably result in social
upheaval”, ;

“Labor,” said Jackson, ‘will
not stand idly by while manage>
ment continues to ignore its re-
sponsibility. The militancy bein
displayed today by labor wi
increase in breadth and in inten
sity until the people become thi
beneficiaries of the technology to
which they have made the essen
tial contribution”.

Speaking to 160 delegates at
the annual national council meet=
ing of the 25,000 member UE,
Ross Russell, Director of Or-
ganization stated: “The entire
trade union movement must
stand and fight together to put an
end to the use of injunctions i
strikes”, :

“The strike in Oshawa proved,”
stated the UE official, “that all-
out united action can cause the
powers-that-be to look the other
way when mass, united action
is taken in opposition to this
unjust law. In every situation
where an injunction is used
against labor, unions must act
in the same way and use the
same measures...”

CHINA

Cont'd from pg. 1 i
regime marked an encouraging —
break from the Pearson govern-
ment’s previous humiliating sup- _
port to the United States in its
cynical organized frustration of
the aim of the UN Charter, :

as

“It testifies clearly that the
Pearson government is feeling
the pressure of the widespread
Canadian opinion that People’s —
China should beinthe UNregard- —
less of United States opposition.

“Mr, Martin’s speech showed, —
however, that still more public —
pressure is needed. The clarity —
of his declaration that Taiwan
has no right to occupy China’S
seat was blurred by his equivocal
proposal that it be allowed to
remain in the General Assembly
alongside the government of
China. It is well known that —
such a decision would nullify —
an invitation to the government of
China to take its seat,

“On top of this double play, the
Prime Minister proposes to sub-
ordinate the question of Canadian
recognition of People’s China to
the trick resolution introduced by
the Italian representatives, It i
not good enough, Canada’s inter
ests require recognition now.

December 2, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 1