- Drive mounts

for pipeline

Public ownership of the natural gas industry under the admin-.
istration of a conservation and planning committee has been endorsed
by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor

Council.

The council had previously supported the building of an

all-Canadian pipeline from the Peace River.

LABOR

BRIEFS

~A lockout of bakery workers in
seven Vancouver and Nanaimo
bakeries was scheduled to start on
Thursday noon. Operators have
refused .mediation and ignored
union pleas to keep at least one
shop open to supply bread to hos-
pitals and other institutions.

With the threat of a near bread
famine following the cutting off
of all but 100,000 of the 350,000
loaves made daily in Vancouver,
housewives are stocking up on
flour and planning to make their
own or else pressing the family
frig into service for storage. /

x x x

Shoreworkers in the B.C. fishing

industry are standing firm on their |

demand for a 40-hour week this
year with no reduction in take-
home pay pius a wage hike. As a
result, conciliation boards are be-
ing set up for the two groups of
workers involved, fresh fish and
cold storage, and cannery, net and
reduction employees.
*) x x

Preliminary work on the huge
Annacis Island industrial develop-
ment is expected to give jobs to
100 men by the end of the year,
according to Ed Kennedy, secre-
tary of the Vancouver Building
Trades Council. Union agreements

covering the multi-million dollar.

project have just been -signed by
four construction unions on the
council. #

Morgan ¢ on
Interior tour

Nigel. Morgan, LPP provincial
leader left this week on an org-
anizational tour’ of the southern
interior of B.C. In addition to ad-
dressing a number of public meet-
ings and making broadcasts in the
West Kootenays and Okanagan Val-
ley, Morgan will discuss LPP org-
anizational plans with local com-
mittees, including the LPP’s cam-
paign for an early start on a Can-
adian pipeline to make the ad-
vantage of the Peace River natural
gas available to the people of
British Columbia.

Morgan will work for support
for the LPP proposal that the vro-
vincial .government through its
B.C. Power Commission, take over
construction of the pipeline con-
necting up with the present tiation-
al line from Edmonton eastward.

His itinerary will include Trail,
Thursday, July 8; Nelson, Friday,
July 9; the Crow’s Nest Pass, Sat-
urday, July 10; Michel and Fernie,
Sunday, July 11; Cranbrook - Kim-
berley, onday, July 12; Creston
Valley, Tuesday, July 13; Nelson-

Trail, Wednesday, July 14; Vernon,

‘Thursday, July 15 and Friday, duly
16; Notch Hill, Saturday, July 17;
‘Kamloops, Sunday, July 18.

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One delegate commented that

“the U.S. Federal Power Commis- |

sion did us a favor in turning down
a B.C. company’s application to ex-

port gas to the U.S.

.There has been no conservation
board in B.C. and nothing has been
done to protect the natural re-
sources of this country,’ he ob-
served.

Support for an immediate start
on an all-Canadian gas pipeline
continues to grow.

Prince George and District Trades
and Labor Council has urged fed-
eral and provincial governments to

push construction of the pipeline

by subsidizing the project if neces-
sary.

Well-known Vancouver Sun col-
umnist Elmore Philpott added his
voice in support of linking the B.€.
and Eastern Canada pipelines in

,one great national undertaking.

‘in Canada.
ready to sell our gas to American

His column on July 7 said in
part: “Let Canada go ahead and
develop all the natural gas avail-
able and Uncle Sam will soon be
begging for that gas at the border
just as Uncle Sam has long been
begging to buy our B.C. electricity.

“Canada needs a’ mainline gas
pipe to run from Vancouver in the
west to Toronto and Montreal in
the east. The Peace River gas
should be brought down through
Prince George and Kamloops. But
the mainline pipe should also pick
up gas from the Southern Alberta
fields. ~

“Canada cannot afford to have
the whole natural gas development
held up by a rather silly, small
quarrel between the interests who
own and want to sell only Peace
River gas and their rivals- who
want to sell only gas from South-
ern Alberta. This country needs
a mainline gas pipe which would

{pick up gas from every accessible

gas well in all Canada, but which
would also sell gas to ar every-
where.

“The mainline should run
through Canada, say on the follow-

ing route: Vancouver, Kamloops;

Vernon, Kelowna, Penticton, Trail,
Nelson, Cranbrook, Kimberley,
Medicine Hat, Regina, Winnipeg,
Fort William, Northern Ontario,
Toronto and Montreal.

“Why should B.C. adopt a de:
featist attitude regarding natural
gas simply because an American
tribunal has said ‘we won’t guaran-

tee to buy your oi Let’s change
their minds

“Canada should sand ready to
sell natural gas to the U.S. at ali
the main outlet points for Seattle,
Portland, Spokane, Minneapolis
and points further east.

“But Canada should make sure
to keep the main gas line entirely
We should always bs

buyers, but we should never rouie
our gas supply lines through the
U.S. for the obvious reason that

we would lose physical control of |
the gas, especiaily in time of war,

when we would need it most.

“Meanwhile, till we get this gas
business straightened out, it is the
height of foolishness to talk of
handing over priceless B.C. water
power rights to the Kaiser or other
U.S. interests. So long as Uncle
Sam slams the gates shut against
B.C. natural gas there is no reason
why B.C. should be offering B.C.
water rights to Uncle Sam on a
silver platter.”

PHILIP PEREYMA

Veteran labor
activist dies

The labor movement here lost a
veteran worker when Philip Perey-
ma, 64, died suddenly at Vancouver
General Hospital July 2 at 10 a.m.

Born in Peremvlo in the Ukraine
on October 24, 1889, Pereyma
came to Canada as a young man
in 1908. He settled in British Col-
umbia two vears later and soon
became active in the labor move-
ment. He was for many years a
member of the International Bro-
therhood of Electrical Workers,
Association of United Ukrainian
Canadians, Workers Benevolent As-
sociation and the Labor-Progres-
sive party.

Funeral services will be held
Saturday, July 10, at 9.30 a.m. in
the AUUC Hall, 805 East Pender.
Tributes will be paid to the mem-

ory of Pereyma by speakers from
the AUUC, WBA, IBEW and LPP.

Pereyma is survived. by his wife,
Wilhelmina, and one brother, Nick.

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SUDBURY

Canada’s two biggest union ‘Toon, the Windsor United Auto: —

mobile Workers of America Local

200 (CCL) and the Sudbury Inter

national Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Local 598 (ndepet-

dent) have pledged support for

each other’s battle to win wast

increase from two giant U.S..owned corporations — Ford Motor @!

International Nickel.

Together totalling some 25,000
militant workers, the battle of both
unions is being watched closely by
tens of thousands of organized
workers on the railroads, in steel,
electrical, rubber, packinghouse
and farm implements who are in
varying stages of negotiations, con-
ciliation boards or conduct of a
strike vote.

Ten thousand miners and smel-
termen cheered lustily as a stirring
telegram of solidarity from UAW
president Charles McDonald was
read to a huge July 4 Mine-Mill
rally, the biggest in the history of
Sudbury.

The great new auditorium at the
Mine-Mill hall was packed to over-
flowing: and hundreds blocked the
streets to listen to speeches made
by Canadian Mine-Mill vice-presi-
dent Nels Thibault and Local 598
president Mike Solski. The mass
rally was a striking expression of
support by the membership for
the Mine-Mill leadership, despite
frantic efforts of Inco bosses’ to
use a splinter group to enforce
their ‘cheap two-cent offer on the
men.

With Ford Local 200’s member-
ship locked in struggle for a+30
cent wage increase, UAW presi-

dent Charles McDonald _ wired
Thibault: 7
“Regret responsibility here

makes it impossible for myself or
members of the negotiating com-
mittee to be in Sudbury July 4.
Meetings pending with the com-
pany make it imperative that we
remain at home. May I express
on behalf of the members of Local
200 our best’ wishes for a success-
ful conclusion’ in your contract
negotiations with Inco. Warmest
personal regards.”

On their part Sudbury’s Mine
Mill Local 598 together with Port
Colborne workers publicly declat
ed in ads placed last week through
out Ontario that the “union will
not accept a two-cent wage offer
because they will not undercut oF
sell out the wage negotiations

workers now in progress.”

The ads charged that Inco’s wall
Street owners wanted “to lead the
parade of other U.S.-owned indus
tries in Canada to drive down thé
living standards of their Canadia®
employees. v

Unity action by the Ford toca
was regarded widely as an historic
step toward healing the long-stany

ing split in labor’s ranks prought
on by CCL right-wing officialdoms
insistence that all affiliates toe thé
line in support of U.S.-inspired
policies. Mine-Mill’s 33,000-stroné
union was expelled from the coh
for refusing to back the U.S. cold:
war policy.

Convention date set

The weekend of October 1527
has been set by the B.C. provincl#
committee of the Labor-Progre>
sive party as the date of its te
annual convention. The conve
tion, originally scheduled for
spring but postponed on account ©
the LPP national convention, ¥~
be held in Vancouver. ;

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COMING EVENTS—CITY

JULY 10 ANNUAL PEACE

: GARDEN PARTY.
Handicrafts. Special sale of locally-
made pottery, Home Cooking, Pro-
duce, Preserves, Sewing, and lots
more! Entertainment, including
delightful children’s puppet show.
Games, teacup reading; treasure
hunt. Afternoon tea. 4022 Perry
St., Saturday, July 10, 2 p.m. and
on. B.C. Peace Council. Rain or

Shine: Indoors at same address if
weather unfavorable.

‘land Others.”

JULY 10 BEACH PARTY at

University Beach.
Bonfire, weiners, singing. Assemble
at 3023 West Fourth between 8:30
and 9 p.m., Saturday, July 10. Aus-
pices Kitsilano Club.

JULY 10 FILMS AND SOCIAL.

“Leningrad Music Hall
Refreshments. At
2034 Bayswater, Saturday, July 10,
8:30 .p.m. Auspices © Electrical
Workers’ Club.

JULY 2 4 Biggest and Best

Garden Party of the
Year. Music, Songs, Good Food—
at 3823 West 12th. Saturday, July
24, 8:30 p.m. on. Sponsored by
Burrard Constituency, LPP. Keep

this date open.

AUG § KEEP THIS DATE
2 OPEN FOR UNITED

LABOR PICNIC.

TION PARK,

AUG. 15

minster.

KEEP THIS DATE
OPEN. New West-
Constituency Picnic!

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