""PLEDGE" ce) An increase in the Old Age Security Pension to $100 a month at age 65 immed- iately; d) Family allowances must be brought into line with to- day’s increased living costs and kept there by auto- matic adjustments; and e) The immediate implement- ation of the report of the Hall Commission on Health Services to ensure that universal medicare be- comes a reality. There are those who main- tain that the proposals we make are not economically feasible. Let us not forget that a decrease of even 1% in our present 4% rate of unemploy- ment would add an additional $825 million to our national income. With this additional wealth we could implement the recommendations of the Hall Commission report and build another technical and vocational training complex in each province. In this period of automation and cybernation, the Cana- dian government faces a great responsibility to Canada’s working men and women. New Democrats are prepared to accept that responsibility to the end that full employment can be a reality. It is our con- tention that it is the right of every Canadian to have a guaranteed minimum income on the sole basis that he is a human being.” LOCAL 1-118 IWA CONVENTION DELEGATES GRAPHIC ARTS SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — Merger talks that would cre- ate the largest union in the graphic arts industry are be- ing held between the 118,000- member International Print- ing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America and the 50,000-member Lithogra- phers and Photoengravers In- ternational Union. Both are affiliates of the AFL-CIO and the Canadian Labour Con- gress. The merger teams are head- ed by IPP President Anthony J. DeAndrade and LPIU President Kenneth J. Brown and include all the executive officers of both unions. The IPP was founded in 1889, while the LPIU was formed by a merger on Labor Day, 1964, of the Amalgamat- ed Lithographers of America, founded in 1882 and the In- ternational Photoengravers Union of North America, founded in 1900. Merger within two years or less was the anticipation voiced by the two union pres- idents. BROADWAY PRINTERS printers and lithographers since 1911 > 115 EAST 8th AVENUE VANCOUVER 10, B.C. Telephone 876-2101 THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER COREY ELECTED One of the largest attended Annual Meetings of Local 1-367 IWA, Haney, held Sep- tember 25, elected Financial Secretary Art Corey, the new Regional Executive Board Member for the Local Union. In other elections held, Warren Buker was elected the Local’s Safety Director and J. H. Allison was elected Local delegate to the Regional Safety Conferences. The Local By-laws Commit- tee submitted eight recom- mendations to the meeting and a notice of motion was moved on the recommenda- tions to be voted on at the next Local meeting. NEW OFFICERS Officers elected in the ref- erendum vote held by Local 1-206 IWA, are as follows: - President, Mike Torsher; 1st Vice-President, William Stew- art; 2nd Vice-President, James Svoboda; Financial Secretary, Tom Sprlak; Recording Secre- tary, John MacNeill; Con- ductor, Gary Stockton; Ward- en, Dennis McNally. REGIONAL PRESIDENT Jack Moore looks on while Stan - Cunello, one of the original strikers at Frolek Sawmills, assures delegates to the Regional Convention that with their continued support. the Frolek strike can be won. Thursday, October 21 is a Oe nn ee ey i } ee CRE DIT UNION DAY teen , On the third Thursday of October each year, millions of credit union members throughout the free world celebrate Inter- national Credit Union Day in recognition of the many special benefits they have received from their credit unions, In a credit union the members save together, receive dividends, and lend money at low rates to those members who need to homow: The members own and control their own credit unions. In B.C. today there are 300 credit unions — at least one in every major community. If you are not a member ask for details from your nearest credit union. This advertisement is published by the in the interests of its affiliated credit unions. B.C. Credit Union League