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Vol. 16 No. 38

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1957

VANCOUVER, B.C. ¢

Authorised as second class mail by

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Unionists picket Krupp:
Go back, war criminal’

MONTREAL

A trade union picket line
Sreeted German steel magnate
Alfried Krupp when he en-
lered the Ritz Carleton hotel
here after flying to Canada to.
spect Quebec’s Ungava re-
§lon,

Slogans on placards carried
by the pickets said “Back to
Nurembur g, war criminal,” and
‘Krupp the enslaver.”

Krupp, a close friend of
Adolph Hitler, was jailed for
his War crimes after the Sec-
nd World War. Since his’ re-

“fase he has rapidly regained

IS position as one of the

world’s industrialists,
and currently heads a West
syndicate of Ruhr

richest

German
steel producers.

The Ungava Iron Ore Com-
pany is owned jointly by
Krupp’s syndicate and Yankee
multi-millionaire Cyrus Eaton
of Cleveland.

. B.C. Electric was blasted in Vancouver Labor Council this week for giving a job of
building transmission towers to an Italian firm when the work could have been done in Van-
couver by Western Bridge, whose bid was rejected.

“B.C. Electric does its business and makes its,.enormous profits solely within this province,
and. we feel that when local plants are fully equipped to handle BCE contracts they should

get the work,”

“Layoffs have been hitting
our union hard theSe past few
weeks,” Jenkins said. ‘This
action by the B.C. Electric
means longer jobless lines, for
the contract would have meant
work for some 200 men for a
period of a year.”

In an interview with the
Pacific Tribune’ the Marine

Workers. president gave fur-
ther details on the deal.

“The Italian’ bid was $1,-
253,000 and Western Bridge
asked $1,678,000,” he said.
“This) is the second time the
B.C. Electric has given a con-
tract for this type of work. to
an ‘Italian firm. As a result,
layoffs at Western Bridge have
already taken. place.

“It’s a sad state of affairs
when a company like the B.C.
Electric,’ which rides rough-
shod over the will of the peo-
ple. and charges exorbitant
rates for gas,, electricity and
transportation, adds to the B.C.
unemployment crisis by giving
work to an Italian firm that
could be done locally.

“Western Bridge is not only
fully equipped to do the work,
it is also the largest industrial

, user of natural gas in B.C. —

Krupp will inspect the Un-
gava deposits, now being sur-
veyed, and later hold a private
conference with Premier Du-
plessis.

His plans call for a tour of
Canada which will take him as
far west as Vancouver.

it is one of the B.C. Electric’s
best customers.”

Jenkins suggested that Van-
ecouver Labor Council “should
petition city council and the
provincial government” urging
that pressure be brought +o
bear on the B.C. Electric to
have the work done in B.C.

said Sam Jenkins, president of the Marine Workers Union.

AT LABOR COUNCIL

Compensation demand

carried to

cabinet

By BERT WHYTE

When organized labor presented

its -brief to Premier

W. A. C. Bennctt and his cabinet Tuesday this week asking

that

members of the Workmen’s Compensation Board be

fired for their unsympathetic attitude towards injured work-
men, Labor Minister Lyle Wicks had only one question to ask:
“Do ‘you know of any cases where compensation was paid
when it shouldn’t have been paid?” ~

President Lloyd ‘Whalen
quoted Wick’s cynical query
in reporting on the labor dele-
gation’s interview with the
government at Tuesday night’s
meeting of Vancouver Labor
Council. :

Whalen ‘said that Premier

@ let's knock

on doors

The Pacific Tribune’s circu-

lation campaign got under way .

this week with committees of
readers and supporters knock-
ing on doors in many centres.

At press time, 115 subs. on a
campaign target of 1200 new
and renewed subs before No-
vember 1 had been turned in
at our office, 65 from prov-
incial points, 50 from the
Greater Vancouver area.

For details of our pregium
offer to new and old sub-
scribers, please turn to page 2.

Bennett promised to study a
list of cases in which unions
claimed their members had
received. unfair treatment.

“I told the labor minister I
knew of no instances where
workers received compensation
they were not entitled. to,”
said the VLC president. “I
also assured the premier that
trade unions will gladly supe
ply details of cases where
workers were unjustly denied
compensation. So now it’s up
to us to compile as complete
a list as possible of claims that
have been rejected by the
WCB during the past two
years.”

The brief presented by an
eight-man delegation of top
officials from Vancouver Labor
Council, B.C. Federation of
Labor and Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen said, in
part:

“The rights of an injured

Continued on page 11
See LABOR

A-bom

b victim tells of his agony

In this issue we publish a
stark human document of our
time. It is the story of a 19-
year-old Japanese youth who
knows he must die soon.
Medical science ‘can do little
for him because he is stricken
with radiation disease, doom-
ed to a slow, agonizing death.

Masahiko Saito was only
seven years old when the U.S.
Air Force dropped its atomic
bomb on Nagasaki, August
9, 1945. And it was another
eight years before the symp-

‘ toms of the disease became

apparent.
For him it is already too

late. In the little time left to
him he can only warn the
people of the world to learn
from his agony, to act now
. . . while there is still time.
His is one, and surely the
most persuasive, of the myr-
iad voices demanding suspen-
sion of all nuclear tests.

For Saito’s story in his own
words — and his appeal —
as he gave it to the Third
World Conference against
Atomic and Hydrogen
Bombs and for Disarmament,
held in Tokyo last month,
turn to page 9.

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