ALD. RANKIN

Harry Rankin sworn
in as city alderman

Alderman Harry Rankin
— that’s the new title of
Vancouver's popular inde-
pendent-labor spokesman—
as he was sworn in ata
ceremony in City Hall cham-
bers Wednesdoy afternoon.

Final tabulations on the
December] 4 election shows
that Rankin polled 44,073
votes and topped the poll in
47 of the city's 102 polls.
He carried all polls in the
eastern half of the city,
most of them by a huge ma-
jority.

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s at the Nigadoo Mine in northern New Brunswick
before Christmas to support the strike now in its third
month. .‘We support our husbands in this strike for living

wages and for justice,"’ said the wives of the strikers,

most of whom are French Canadian. Signs were carried
in both French and English. Strong appeals for aid and
solidarity with the Nigadoo Miners tnd their families 9°
a feature in N.B.

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LABOR SCENE:

Labor Council calls for
Pat O’Neal’s resignation

Highlights of the first 1967
session of the Vancouver and
District Labor Council (VLC)
centered on the bugging of the
Canadian Pulp Workers Union
convention in the Vancouver Ritz
Hotel last fall, and those involved
in that affair,

Recommendations of the VLC
Executive submitted to the dele-
gate body for consideration and
approval, called upon the B.C,
Federation of Labor to:

e Request the resignation of
BCFL executive member and In-
ternational Pulp and Sulphite
Union representative Pat O’Neal
for his role in bugging the con-
vention of the rival Canadian
union;

e That the BCFL publicly dis-
associate itself from the conven-
tion bugging and all such invasions
of individual privacy;

e That the BCFL should pub-
licly declare the right of all
workers to ‘‘join a union of their
own choice”, and that the B.C,
Labor Relations Board “re-
consider the situation at Har-
mac”, (The LRB has twice refused
certification to Canadian union
workers at Harmac, despite the
fact that no less than 80-percent
of the mill workers have indi-
cated their support of aCanadian
union),

@ That the VLC is emphatical-
ly opposed to publicizing the
bugged tapes of the Canadian
union’s convention by any royal
commission investigation, and
that the VLC position be present-
ed to the Canadian Labor Con-
gress (CLC) as one of protecting
at all times “the integrity and
good name of the Canadian labor
movement,’”’

recommendations except
ae one calling for the resigna~
tion of O’Neal were unanimously
endorsed by VLC delegates. On
the O’Neal issue two delegates
argued that he should be given
“aq fair trial” by labor before
ousting him from the BCFL ex-
ecutive,

Sid Thompson, president ofthe
Vancouver Local of the IWA out-
lined the part played by O’Neal,
publicly admitted by the latter
in the bugging episode, not only
in securing the services of a
private detective, formerly an
RCMP Security and Intelligence
operative to bug the hotel, but
admission of payment of $250.00
retainer to get the job done, and
in which other RCMP personnel
had _ obviously  colloborated.
“These ex-RCMP security and
intelligence people are not just
ordinary private detectives,” said

Thompson, “but have a very
special interest in the labor
movement”,

Thompson pointed out that only
a few years ago as secretary of
the BCFL, O’Neal had requested
legislation prohibiting any “in-
vasion of privacy through elec-
tronic devices”, If that was the
position of the BCFL then, “why
is it not the position of the
BCF'L now to come out boldly and
clearly and condemn O’Neal for
his actions?”, said Thompson,

Delegate Cox declared that

.O’Neal “had already condemned

himself, and there was no need
as some argued, for a ‘fair
trial’ by labor”, Doug Evans
(IWA), an executive member of
the BCFL, declared that “if
O’Neal attends the next session
of the BCFL Executive, I intend
to walk out, I will not sit with
anyone connected with the RCMP,
O’Neal has exposed himself as
a fraud in the labor movement”*,

VLC delegates approved th?
posting of a substantial reward
for the apprehension of the per
son or persons who sent a bomb-
charged christmas parcel 1
prison guard Frank Newton, which
caused him the loss of both hands
when it exploded on opening
Delegates also voted a donatio#
of $100.00 to aid Newton’s sof
Norman, also seriously injured
by the explosion.

Nominations for VLC execu
tive officers for 1967 were opel”
ed and will be concluded at thé
next regular session, followed
by elections. All present officer
and standing committee chairme!
were nominated,

Last week Chief Justice Wilso®
of the Supreme Court of B.C
ruled the Sargent commissi0?
investigation into the Ritz bug
ging as “invalid”. Following an
eight-day sitting the commis)
sion’s “terms of reference” gav@
it no legal right to conduct th?
type of inquiry it was engaged il

The new “terms of reference”
under which the Sargent com”
mission must now proceed i
based upon an investigation iN
quiring into the need or other
wise of legislation safeguardiné
the right of “privacy”, rathe!
than on prejudicial bias favoring
one union against another, (At
the termination of his last hearing |
Sargent announced that thé
bugging tapes recorded would bé
made public, This in the view of
organized labor and the publi?
generally, constituted a gros®
compounding of the very evil
the commission was supposed
to be investigating.

Under new “terms of refer-_
ence” the commission reopens it
hearings in Vancouver this week