esecisieteccabliediineitiah gone =. WHAT TRICK WILL ANTI-LABOR BOSSES TRY NEXT? Photo shows prison - labor from Prince George Correctional Centre working at the Clear Lake Sawmill on a third shift started by the anti-union company. Nobody knows what their pay is and both the local |WA and labor council have condemned the scheme. The IWA has charged that the bossis trying to keep the unionout. ‘‘Wecan’t organize prisoners, butthey countas employees so that will prevent us from getting a certification vote,”’ says the WA. YCL scores NORAD pact The provincial executive of the Young Communist League, following a meeting Sunday, reiterated its call for the federal government to inform the United States that it will not renew the NORAD agreement which expires in May. “The idea that NORAD is needed tocounteractamanned bomber attack from the Soviet Union is just a myth that the government continues inorder to pour millions of dollars into the U.S. war machine and obsolete weapons systems,” provincial secretary Paul Bjarnason charged. Defence Minister James Richardson said in a report Saturday that NORAD was needed for air defence and called for an extension of the agree- ment. Bjarnason said that the argu- ments for NORAD were based on whipping up more cold war hysteria and pointed out that the whole worldhas become aware after more than a decade of seeing the war in Vietnam that the U.S. is the real aggressor. He called for the $140 million spent annually on NORAD to be diverted into programs that would facilitate the expansion of education and culture for young people in Canada. “While there are thousands of unemployed youth in this country we don t need to spend millions of dollars on obsolete. weapons to protect ourselves against imaginary threats.” he said. RETAIL CLERKS DEMAND ‘How can we organize with anti-labor laws” Delegates to the Vancouver and District Labor council Thursday night heard another call, this time from the Retail Clerks Union, for the repeal of all anti-labor legislation still on the provincial statute books. Retail clerks delegate Fred Pflueger charged that ‘King told us to organize the white collar workers. Buthow the hellcanwe do it with all the anti-labor legis- lation still in Victoria’ We're waiting for legislation that will damn well help us,” he said. ; He pointed out that picketers at the nine struck stores are being very effective but that the company is doing everything possible to block the signing of a collective agreement. Scabs at the various stores are being paid an average of 35 to 75 cents an hour more than the striking workers were paid before they walked off the joD- He told delegates that Koffler- himself has come to Vancouver. “He has one purpose only,’ Pflueger declared, ‘totry and break this strike- More stores in the Shoppers chain are being organized and strike votes are imminentata few of them. -+ With your con- Jubilee camp The Children Ss Jubilee Sum- mer Camp Association is now interviewing prospective appli- cants for various jobs at the camp from July 3 to August 22. The camp will run for two sessions for girls 6-14 years. fol- lowed by twosessions for Boys 6- 14 years. Each session is for ten days. ; Positions to be filled are direc- tor.camp mother. cook, several councillors. waterfront direc- tor and assistant cook. Send requests for application forms to P.O. Box 3144. Federation giving full support to striking Seagram’s workers Some 85% representatives of unions affiliated to the B.C. Federation of Labor met with Federation secretary Ray Haynes Monday to pledge full support for striking Shoppers Drug Mart employees and workers at Seagram's who have been on strike for six weeks in defiance of their international union office. The workers of Shoppers Drug Mart walked off the job Febru- ary 23 and the company has still not approached the bargaining table. Several trade unionists at Monday's meeting registered sharp criticism of the. inter- national office of the Distillery Workers Union which has refused to support the striking members of Local 69. The inter- national had ordered a second vote when the local members overwhelmingly rejected a con- “national’s tract offer. The B.C. Federation asked the workers to register their protest of the inter- interference by sending their unmarked ballots to the Federation office. The B.C. Federation earlier called for a boycott on all Sea- gram’s products and secretary Rav Haynes said that “in the -weeks ahead Seagram's will either stop their attempts to smash theiremplovees unionor their products will be rejected by thousands of British Colum- bians for vears to come.” The company has_ been attempting to use the situation in order to crush the union in the plant. Thousands of dollars were pledged in financial support asa result of the meeting and several unionists hinted at action by the Canadian Labor Congress in PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1973—-PAGE 12 granting a charter to the local union directly. Some electrical oe in Quebec were granted a charter from the CLC last year when their union, the. Inter- national Brotherhood of Elec- trical Workers. Would not grant - _ them a sep arate welfare and pensionscheme: There issome speculation that a similar charter might be granted and, in fact. should be granted to Local ~ 69 if the international remains _adamant in its refusal to give support. SUNPON cep cece FOOD PRICES Cont’d. from pg. 1 contact the committee by phoning 433-9395 ‘North ; 437-5118 Vancouver’: CBurnaby and 93902495 Co quitlam » Interested groups can also write the committee at Box S500 Station ako Vancouver 12 tinuing support, we'll win this one,” Pflueger said. The council went into closed session early in the meeting to discuss a request from striking Denny’s restaurant workers for assistance in the longstanding dispute. E Following the meeting, it was common knowledge that dele- gates had called for a meeting of executive officers of the B.C. Federation of Labor, officers of the labor council, the strikers themselves and_ interested unions todiscuss organization of the industry. Another action called for a further meeting between the officers of the Federation,.and the labor council and the strikers actually involved inthe dispute to meet with Harry Rankin who is acting as legal counsel for the waitresses to discuss the legal ramifications of the case. Speaking toa letter from the Canadian Labor Congress regarding the benefit control officers of the Unemployment Insurance Commission, Marine- workers delegate Bill Stewart condemned the continuing cam- paign of the UIC against the unemployed and the ready assistance that the media has given the UIC in launching th attack. ‘That so-called Banff skiing holiday that captured the head- lines a short time ago was nothing more than a lie,’ he charged. The above prices are based on a comparison of Vancouversg market newspaper advertisements for the years 1961 and 1973 = “It turns out that the lived in Banff. They had bee; struction workers Working, of Calgary and when consty tion shut down for the winter, they simply returned to their homes and asked that their bene | fits— to which they were right: fully entitled — be transferred to Banff. 3 "But it’s all part of the hysteri- cal attack to try and mask the fact that this so-called free enter prise system is breaking down,” hestated.” anditcannot supply jobs for the Unemployed anymore. Elsewhere in the council meeting. Syd Thompson reported on the ten-month shingle weavers dispute and told delegates thatseveral offic of the international Office oF the IWA, the B.C. Federation Labor as well asthe union joc involved had sought a mee with Barrett on the dispute Barrett apparently refys meet with the unionists and said he would send labor ministe King instead. oo Thompson alsO info delegates that anOther ¢ dian Forest Products mill, at Stave Lake, wa down last week and that the pany ‘immediately rq ihe courts to get am injy against the striking Work, Notice of motion wa given for a $1000 donation Federation defence fy, in strikes presently in pp