By FRED WILSON,
Circulation Manager

I would like to take this oppor-
tunity to introduce myself as the
new Circulation Manager for
the PT. lamcoming to the Tri-
bune at an opportune time,
following the completion of a
successful year for the paper,
and entering what could be an
even more successful year in
1973:

There have beentremendous
changes in the political climate
in British Columbia, and this
has shown itself in the results of
our just completed circulation
drive. Weare pleased toreporta
5% increase in our total subscrip-
tion circulation. It is ad-
mittedly a modest increase, but
itis the most substantial one in
recent years, and points out the

influence that we have had on

political events over the last
year.

Looking back over 1972, the
successes of the Tribune have
been almost too many to men-
tion. Supporters of our paper are
quite justified in taking the
credit due for the contributions
the PT has made to the political
changes at all levels of govern-
ment. Z
1972’s financial drive netted
more money than any previous
one in the Tribune’s history,
enabling us to keep pace withthe

1973 can he big year
to up PT circulation

stances of the lastyear; within

the 5% increase in circulation .

there are well over 150 new
readers of our paper.

The results of the drive,
printed below, show that each
area of the province con-
tributed to our success. Special
recognition should go to the
Delta region, and especially to
the Fraser Valley and New West-
minster clubs. New West-
minster more than doubled its
quota, while Fraser Valley led
all provincial press cfubs in the
number of new subscriptions
turned in with 12.

In the Vancouver area the lead-
ing press club was Kingsway;
they went over their quotaandin
doing so turned in 17 new
subscriptions.

The individual awards go to
Bert Padgham from the Fraser
Valley club, with7newsubs, and
to Bob Towle from Vancouver
East club, with 5 new subs.

The winner of the draw andthe
coin set is Mr. M.G. Krueger
from Unity, Saskatchewan.

Far from resting on our
laurels, the PT is setting itself
even greater tasks to fulfil in
1973. We are confident that our
readers and supporters, as
always, will be the key to extend-
ing our influence and circula-
tion. I will be looking forward

inflated economic circum- to working closely with you.
CLUB quotas acHieveo CLUB QUOTAS ACHIEVED
GREATER VAN. ISLAND
VANCOUVER Alberni 15 18
Bill Bennett 37, 334 comes Bech ace ae
Broad 53 40 owic an 11
Dor at 8 5 Nanaimo 27 27
Senna 9 16. Victoria 23 28
th Rogers . 2 39 Van. Island Tot. 99 101
ingswa . ;
Niilo nGkela 1 8 DEWDNEY
Olgin 8 11 Haney 13 11
Peter McGuire 11 15 Mission 6 9
Pt. Grey 36 22 Dewdney Total 19 20
Van. East 74 64 QKANAGAN VALLEY
South Vancouver » 42: 36 Kamloops 12 9
Victory Square 56 45 Notch Hill 5 6
North Burnaby 49 26 — Penticton 9 7
Edmonds 32 1Ze Vernon 32 20
North Shore 42 41 Okanagan Total 58° ania
Timberland 15 7 DELTA
City Misc. i) 36 aia
City Total Bis 462° Common \s 1
Ft. Langley 6 8
PROV. MISC. Fraser Indust. 9 12
Creston 4 5 Fraser Valley Club 27 23
Fernie | 4- 5 New Westminster 11 24
Powell River 18 12 Surrey 36 31
Sointula 15 11 White Rock-Delta 33 41
Trail 25 24 Delta Total 136 150
Correspondence 3 20
Prov. Misc. 31 56
Prev. Misc. Total 100 132 Grand Total 958 908

SPLITS, RAIDING HELP BOSS
Unity, autonom

y way ahead

for trade unions in 1973

By JACK PHILLIPS

The question of autonomy for
Canadian members of Inter-
national unions is widely dis-
cussed in trade union circles.

Some argue thatifany viable
group of Internationalmembers
can be won to switch allegiance
to a Canadian union then their
problems will be solved. This is
a shallow approach. No mere
switch from one union to another
will, in itself, improve the posi-
tion of the working class in its
overall relationship to the
power structure of our society.

The situation in the pulp and
paper industry in British Colum-
bia is a perfect example of the
simplistic thinking we must
avoid. The Canadian union,
formed through breakaways,
and the International union
under attack, are about evenly
matched now and raids and
counter-raids are the order of
the day. In this industry, there
is a high degree of monopoly
control and integration with the
lumber industry as a whole. In
addition to the two feuding pulp

unions, there is the Inter-
national Woodworkers’ of
America, the Carpenters’

Union, a number of craft unions
and the Teamsters.

Obviously, what is needed is
one unioninthe lumber, pulpand
paper industry as a whole. The
way to build one unionis through
unity of action around the needs
of the workers and common pro-
grams, not through raiding and
counter-raiding.

‘The local unhion I have
belonged to for 25 years, Local
1004 of the Canadian Union of
Public Employees, was
originally a directly chartered
local of the old Trades and Labor
Congress of Canada. We were
suspended from the Congress
during the fifties in the wave of

CANADA ELECTIONS ACT
Electoral District of Burnaby Sevmour

SUMMARY OF RETURN OF ELECTION
EXPENSES

There is below set out, as required by
Section 63 (6) of the Canada Elections Act,
a summary, signed by the official agent,
of the return of election expenses made to
me by him on behalf of Eric Waugh, one of
the candidates at the recent election of a
member to serve in the House of Com-
mons of Canada held in the above-men-
tioned electoral district, which said
returnisonfile at my office and may, on

ayment of a fee of twenty cents, be there
inspected and extracts taken therefrom at
any reasonable time during the six
months next after the 12th day of Decem-
ber, 1972., being the day upon which the
said return was furnished to me.

Dated at Burnaby, this 12th day of
December, 1972.

M. Beattie
; Returning Officer
Summary of Returnof Election Expences

of Eric Waugh
RECEIPTS AMOUNT
contributions, etc. $1,004.80
Promised unpaid
contributions, etc.
Total $1,004.80
PAYMENTS
Candidates
ersonal expenses
postave $2.64
Telegrams
Petty claims
Hire of premises
Services $200.00
Travelling expenses
and hire of vehicles
Goods supplied $337.26
Advertising $464.90
Total $1,004.80
DELAYED UNDISPUTED CLAIMS _ Nil
DISPUTED CLAIMS Nil

Rated at Burnaby, this 12th day of Dec.,
19 :

James Beynon
Official Agent

+

McCarthyism that spilled over
from the USA. The top leader-
ship made no fine distinctions in

those days. Purely Canadian

unions and thé entire member-

ship of Internationals in Canada
were expelled for refusing to

conform.

It must also be said that in
those difficult years there were
supporters and opponents of
cold war policies in both
Canadian and __ International
unions.

If establishing purely
Canadian unions as an end in
itself is justifiable, and if we
accept the idea that the end justi-
fies the means, then we are
condoning raiding of established
bargaining units in order to
‘smash the ‘‘control of the
Internationals’’. In short, we are
condoning disruption.

I remember when the local
union I belong to joined CUPEin
1966, after being independent for
16 years. There were some who
werecritical. They would have
preferred to see us remain
independent, rather than joina
Congress which, in their eyes,
was firmly under the ‘‘controlof
the Internationals”’ for all time.
This, in spite of the fact that
CUPE had come into conflict
with the leadership of the
Canadian Labor Congress when

they took us into affiliation.
There is no doubt that similar
elements will be even more
critical of the larger United
Fishermen and Allied Workers’
Union for rejoining the CLC asa
Regional Union.

This, despite the fact that it
took nearly 20 years of struggle
for that union to win reaffilia-
tion, a struggle against a
McCarthyite exclusion waged
by the UFAWU itself and sup-
ported by many other unions.
These ultras would rather have
unions like the two mentioned
above affiliated with the tiny
Council of Canadian Unions, thus
adding their strength to attacks
on CLC unions instead of fighting
from inside the CLC for full auto-

nomy and progressive policies
on major issues.

This negative projection goes
against everything I have

_ learned in the trade union move-

ment. Such a policy is an
obstacle in the way of uniting
workers on a class basis. If
establishing a purely national
trade union movement was a
virtue and anend in itself (aside
from all class considerations)
then we would have the ideal .
trade union movement in
Britain, which, with all due
respect to the British workers, is
not the case. There is still a
great deal of struggle within the
British trade union movement
for correct policies.

There are those who argue that
right from the beginning the
connection between ~— the
Canadian and American trade
union movements has worked to
the detriment of Canadian
workers. This was not the case in
the early days after Confedera-
tion and into the beginning of
this century when Canada was
much more sparsely populated
than today and the workers
formed a small part of the
population. In that period, the
American connection gave
added strength to unions in
Canada. :

When the Congress for Indus-
trial Organization (CIO) came
into Canada in the thirties and
began organizing the unorgan-
ized mass production industries,
they won the support of thous-
ands of trade union militants.
This resulted in a positive ad-
vance. Industries like Auto,
Steel, Packinghouse, Electrical
Manufacturing, Lumber and
Metal Mining and Smelting
were organized on a _ lasting
basis.

Today, the demand for a fully
autonomous trade union move-
ment is linked with the growing
conviction that Canada has
become a Satellite of the USA.
This gives new dimensions to
the struggle for autonomy. What

See LABOR UNITY, pg. 12

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