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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1957

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DIEFENBAKER

carry out in full the promises
they made to the people.

Some things, of course, Die-
fenbaker is going. to do. He
says the government will raise
the old age pensions. Will the
increase come up to the $70,
to $75 a month level, which
welfare~ authorities and pen-
sioner’s organizations say is
needed to meet rising costs ,of
living?

Since the election, the Tories
have been careful to make it
clear that Diefenbaker’s im-
plied promise of €60 in the
House last winter, was not a
firm commitment. :

Diefenbaker also promised at
Charlottetown “emergency
farm legislation to protect the
farmer against falling prices
of farm products.” Does this
mean that that the demand
of western farm unions for a
20-cent adjustment payment
on wheat, and the like de-
mands of other farm bodies

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ARKANSAS

“All the time she was
walking those two long

blocks, she prayed. Like I.

told her, ‘if you really think
about what you're saying
‘over to’ yourself, you won't
fear anything.’ ” ‘

Mrs. Eckford went on:

“Though most white child-
ren are all right, I told Eliza-
beth, ‘if you just go on as if
you don’t hear, and be nice,
you can shame them.’

“At school, where I teach
laundering, I prayed for her
—and, when I heard what
happened, I just thought,
well someone will take care
of her,. surely. I had told
her to come over to my
school if they weren’t allowed
to go in Central.

“When she got to me, I
could see she didn’t feel so
good. I Said, don’t let any-
Gne ~see you crying, baby,
brace up — that’s just what

- some people want to do, see
you crying. I went with her
to the rest room, and she
braced up and came on home
alone.” —

will be met? Western cabinet
ministers have yet ta say any-
thing that sounds much dif-
ferent from what Gardiner
and Howe said for the last
decade

One Tory promise that they
don’t plan to carry out this
fall is that of improving un-
employment insurance. Labor
Minister Starr has already
made that clear, despite many
forecasts of large scale unem-
‘ployment this winter.

Another sweeping promise
that has eyebrows raised was
the one made by Diefenbaker
at Charlottetown “to lay the
ground work for a ‘Canadian
edifice where equality of eco-
nomic opportunity will be
available to all.”

What about the plan to put
the Canadian economy on a
more solid’ foundation by the
diversion of 15 percent of our
trade from the U.S. to the
Commonwealth? What about
the promise to reduce the U.S.
grip on Canadian resources

- and industry? These are ques-

tions that involve changes in
basie Canadian policy.

Diefenbaker estimates that
he can make a few gestures
at reforms, avoid dealing
with the underlying economic
and political problems, and
that no one is going to be
prepared to stand up in parlia-
ment and effectively challenge
him.

But he has taken every-
thing into account — except
the Canadian people. .

Through their united pres-
sure they can throw his plans
into a cocked hat. Their de-
mands for the fulfillment of

Tory promises can put his ©

minority government in its
place

Public pressure from the
labor and farm movements
will help the CCE group ini
Ottawa to step up their de-
mands for quick, decisive gov-
ernment action. The Liberals
will be compelled to make

their stand clear. Social Credit —

MPs will not be able to get
away with echoing Tory policy.

Public préssure on parlia-
mnt now can move John Die-
fenbaker much farther than
he plans to move It can thwart
his plans for an easy election
victory, and lay the basis for
Sending to Ottawa many more
labor and farm represenatives.

head of Burrard Inlet,

PUMPS TO GO DRY?

Strike close 4

loco oil plan

Two hundred and fift

Chemical and Atomic Workers,
months of fruitless negotiati

Issue in dispute when the strike was called were:

® Retroactive pay. The com-
pany has agreed to pay the
same increase as the other ma-
jor oil companies (11-22 cents
an hour) but has refused to ac-

cept the same starting date. It .

proposes April 1, in place of
March 16. ‘

® Union security. The com-
pany has refused to grant
maintenance of membership
clause, as in the agreements at
Shell Marketing, Shell Refin-
ery and Standard Oil.

® Double time for overtime.
The company has refused to
consider the request.

@ Full payment of MSA by
the company. The company
has refused to budge on this
question.

@® Outside contracting. The
company has refused to give
a satisfactory commitment on
this question,

@ Dirty money. The union
wants 25 cents an hour. The
company offers 15 cents. No

- definition on confined spaces

agreed to.

®Time off for union business.
The company has agreed in
prinpieple, but will not com-
mit itself to any specific
length of time.

In addition, the parties are
deadlocked over demands by
the union for reclassifications
affecting a small number of
men. ;

When the strike was call-
ed, the union cancelled all
concesssions made in collec-
tive bargaining and reverted
to its original 13 demands,
headed up by a wage demand
of 12.5 percent. With a base
rate of $1.67, a 12.5 percent
boost would mean a base in-
crease of 22 cents an hour.

On September 18, the uni-
on’s executive met with the
loco -negotiating committee
and instructed its 600 mem-

SYL support
for Negro youth

B.C. executive of the So-

Cialist Youth League of Can-
ada this week wired the Na-
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People

in Little Rock, Arkansas, as
follows: :

“We wish to express our
solidarity with the Negro
youth in their struggle for

equal -rights. Best wishes and
good luck.”

The High School ‘Students
Club of the SYL- feels that
all student councils in B.C.

should express their indigna- |

tion at the behavior of a seg-
ment of white students in
Little Rock opposing deseg-
regation measures 5

done at Imperial.

- ment.

y workers employed at the Imperial Oil refinery in loco # “f
went on strike Tuesday of this week. The workers, members °° 45 —

Local 16-601, earlier had voted 90 percent for strike after
ons and conciliations. -

5 thee
€
ment

bers employed 4
and Shell refineries
area demands would *
in dispute until 2 settle

was reached in 10¢0 O07
ees that in the atte ae
units, they will remain a uo
pute with their employ” at
til there is a settlemeD’ ys.
Ioco. The area demands ©

er all three units.

With Imperial
30,000 barrels (mor :
million gallons 4 ay ffect
strike will serious’y
private and public 42") 4g.
tation if it continues for sfio0s
Not only ‘Esso 885 5" ajs0
will be affected, ut ng 3
Home Oil, whose refin!

Should Imperial try " ther
ply its outlets thorugh eat
sources, it would meet Meg
difficulty. The other ™W) ond
fineries inthe area, | dispu’
Standard, are still 12 mer
with their employees, ~ imppe
bers of the same local. ard
workers. there would aa of
agree’ to break the a the
their own local, Showle
company try to bring 4 it
plies from farther afiel ow"
would have to buck the Fent
erful trade union mov
of the province.

38

At Pacifie ‘Tribune. Pe

time, union and compa) g i

resentatives were meet ‘fle’
an effort to affect a °°

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