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500 TO COPE-NDP

Both COPE and the NDP will be
receiving $500 from the Vancouver
and District Labor Council for
election expenses but council
delegates voting on the donations
Tuesday night emphasized that
every effort must’ be made to
achieve civic unity over the next
two years or big business parties
will continue to dominate city hall.

Several delegates, including
Frank Kennedy, chairman of the
council’s civic affairs committee,
also stressed the need for the trade
union movement to become ac-
tively involved in civic politics and
in election campaigns on behalf of

declared, “it’s an attempt by bie
business to smother all the issue)
and cover up all the problems.
issue of housing, for example, ¥
never fully covered by the mas
media but every move that thes?
nonsensical candidates made W#
given massive publicity.”

LANDLORDS

Cont'd from pg. 1

chairman of the legislative
mittee, Rod Doran. ;

The action of the landlords *).
aimed at breaking the 10.6 perce

progressive candidates.

Council president Syd Thomp-
son, in commenting on the motion
said that it was worth the money

rental increase ceiling, and Wey
hope is that the housing situatid!
will become so acute at the he

of the winter in February that

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PER CAPITA BOYCOTT UNRESOLVED

No one from the CLC was at the
Vancouver and ‘District Labor
Council meeting Tuesday night. to
report — as was demanded by the
previous council meeting — on the
boycott of per capita payments to
the CLC by several building trades
internationals, but the absence of a
Congress representative only
strengthened the determination
of delegates to see Congress policy
on Canadian autonomy fully en-
forced. :

The meeting unanimously
adopted a resolution reaffirming
. the council’s support for the CLC
guidelines on autonomy as outlined
by the May convention of the
Congress and insisting ‘‘that there
be no deviation from the principles
contained therein.”

Reporting on a telephone con-
versation with CLC president Joe
‘Morris on the contentious issue,
council president Syd Thompson
stated that Morris had intended to

send a_ representative but
“something had come up making it
impossible.”

Thompson reported that Morris
had told him that meetings had
been held with building trades
officers in the U.S. and several

unions were paying full per capita
to the CLC, some were paying none
at all and the remainder were
making only partial payments.

Morris also reportedly stated
that the CLC expects a reply from
the internationals this week and ‘‘if
the issue is not satisfactorily
resolved, the Congress will report
on the matter to meetings across
the country’’ — not likely to take
place until January.

Thompson himself said that it
was the position of the council that
the Congress position on autonomy
— as formulated by the May
convention of the CLC — be
adhered to. ‘‘There will be no
vacillation of this issue,’’ he
declared.

Cliff Rundgren, whose union, the
International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, is one of those
whose international office is
participating in the boycott, told
delegates that Local 213, IBEW,
had passed a motion calling for per
capita payments from the local to
be paid directly to the CLC, rather
than through the international
office. :

He said that the local had also
sent a letter to the B.C. and Yukon

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Building Trades Council asking the
council to coordinate efforts of
building trades unions to take up
the issue.

Laborers delegate Charles Shane
was critical of the indifferent at-
titude demonstrated by the CLC in
past years towards the decisive
question of autonomy. ‘‘This
situation would not have developed
if the Congress officers had
realized that the 1974 decisions on
autonomy were markedly different
from those made in 1970 and 1972.”

He pointed out that the 1974
convention resolution on
autonomy, particularly where it

_ outlined sanctions against non-

complying international unions,
“really shook up the building
trades internationals.

“The Congress didn’t act quickly
enough,” he said, “‘and I only hope
that it will now.

“At the same time,” Shane
declared, ‘“‘we cannot accept that
the CLC will go to Washington to
discuss the boycott of per capita
payments, come back and say the
issue is resolved. That autonomy
resolutions has got to be carried
through.”

He also pointed out that some
Congress officials have adopted a
position of hostility to the demand
for autonomy. He cited one report.
made by a Congress official to the
U.S. which apparently called the
1974 convention debate on
autonomy ‘shocking’? and
suggested that it had been in-
stigated by ‘‘anarchists.”’

“We have to say to Morris that
we want to know exactly what
action is being taken to carry out
the decisions of the 1974 con-
vention,”’ Shane stated, ‘‘because

| it’s not only the building trades

unions which are involved — it’s
the whole trade union movement in
this country.”

Plumbers delegate John
McKnight told delegates that, as he
saw it, the question of autonomy
involved a ‘‘transfer of power” —
from Washington to Canada, from
the international office to
Canadian trade unionists.

“The 1974 convention of the
Canadian Labor Congress made
that transfer of power imminent,”
McKnight said, “and that’s the
reason for the blackmail by the
building trades internationals —

‘they’re not about to give up their

power.”

‘just to get Harry Rankin re-
elected” but. added ‘‘over the next
two years, an all-out effort must be
made to get the progressive forces
in this city working together in this
election.”’

The wide publicity given to
various crackpot candidates in
elections in Vancouver and
elsewhere also came under fire at
the council meeting. Laborers
delegate Charles Shane, while
reiterating the call for greater
activity in civic politics by the
trade union movement, said “I
don’t think we can let this election
go by without taking note of the
pre-emption of press time by
candidates like Mr. Peanut in
Vancouver, Rosie the Clown in
Toronto and other nonsensical
candidates.

“This is not just happening,”’ he

Labor has some
catching up to do

Labor minister John Munro said
during a press interview recently
that, ‘‘There has been a significant
and unanticipated erosion of the
real purchasing power of wages as
a result of inflation. In general, I
think labor has some catching up to
do.’’ “5

With the exception of the month
July, the wages. of Canadian
workers, according to Statistics
Canada, have failed to keep ahead
of rising prices and purchasing
power of all has seriously eroded,
with the standards of those on low
or fixed incomes taking the biggest
nose dive.

government will be forced
surrender to their pressure. |

The landlords are demand
that the government scrap the aft
ceiling and give them a free fi
in raising rents. The only ‘|
cession they make is that a tema fi
be able to appeal to some kind
provincial agency if facts walt by
a lower rent than that imposed ie
the landlord. If the landlords fa”
their way in scuttling the gov
ment’s rent controls — inadedi
as they are — rents everwheré
B.C. will skyrocket, and so will!
profits of the landlords. oh

While the appearance is 81)
that the small landlords ‘if
pushing the campaign, in re@ gy
the major portion of rental a
commodation is controlled DY ii
few giant realty companies; the :
that they are the ones behind me
scenes who are pushing the driv@ 17
scuttle rent controls. y¢ C

Meanwhile, no action has |
been taken by the courts foll cll
specific charges laid by the os |
Tenants Organization agal
Richard Dolman, former exec (])
director of the B.C. Rental Ho itl

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Council, alleging that DO 4)
raised rents far in exces? ij/s
allowable increases and with
any written notice of a rent
crease. : etl
Dolman has been qutgiy
removed from his executive psf
and replaced by Robert Gi |
The attorney general’s departl 4 LE
announced that the documen :
evidence against Dolman wall
turned over to law enforce
agencies for investigationsagy
tion has thus far resulted: —
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