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PAY NOW — GET BURIED LATER. The immorality of the profit-
capitalism
advertisement sent to us by a reader which appeared in the “San
Jose News” in California recently. Our correspondent writes:
“The capitalists cannot wait to get the young soldiers into their
. . they want the burial money BEFORE the U.S. soldier
is sent to Vietnam. Buy your grave now and get killed later in

. choice

is shown by the above

Labor Scene

‘Let’s negotiate NOW’ say
striking Vernon workers

Some one hundred and four
civic employees of the City of
Vernon have been on strike since
September 24. Members of the
Canadian Union of Public
Employees (CUPE), they have
indicated in ‘Open Letters’ to the
citizens of Vernon and through
their Union negotiation
committee, their unceasing
efforts to get to the bargaining

. table with their employers (the

Vernon City Council) and find a
mutually satisfactory end to the
dispute.

Meantime Mayor William
Halina and Council are on public
record ‘‘that no Vernon
municipal employees would lose
any existing working conditions
or benefits’ as a result of the
strike. At press time the issue
remains deadlocked.

The City of Vernon, along with
twelve other municipal councils,
is represented in collective
bargaining with their workers by
the Okanagan Mainline
Municipal Association, which in
turn hired the services of a Mr.
R.S.S. Wilson a so-called “‘labor
expert’? from Vancouver to
conduct contract negotiations
with CUPE. On this job Mr.
Wilson is paid $150.00 per day,
plus expenses to. carry on
negotiations as he may see fit,
regardless of the position taken
by the Vernon City Council and
Mayor.

If not the actual strike itself,
the breakdown in talks according
to CUPE spokesmen, together
with some aldermen, is due
entirely to the use of a high-
priced professional negotiator
by the Okanagan Mainline
Municipal Association. Could the
union representatives meet with
their respective municipal
council representatives,
according to union spokesmen,
the dispute would have probably
been ended by now.

Vernon Local 626 CUPE,
together with all other

UE leader pins the label

Those protest the action of the
Warsaw powers in entering
Czechoslovakia, yet support the
U.S. war
hypocrites, said George Harris,
secretary treasurer of the United
Electrical workers, writing in
the ‘“‘U.E: NEWS’’, Sept. 23. The
UE had previously protested the
action of the Warsaw powers and
has been a consistent and
vigorous opponent of the war in
Vietnam.

“The Czechoslovak situation
was immediately seized upon,”’
said Harris, ‘‘by these
hypocrities in an all out effort to
turn the attention of people from
the American war of aggression
in Vietnam, to soften the
growing opposition to this most
monstrous and indefensible of
wars, and to becloud the fact that
the aggression in Vietnam has
made impossible any progress in
the direction of peaceful co-
existence, on which the hope of
world peace depends.

“‘Ageression in Vietnam stands
before the world as the
American answer to the right of
people and countries to

in Vietnam are.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 11, 1968—Page 12

determine their own way of life.
It constitutes to this time the
absolute refusal of the U.S.
government to accept the
principle of peaceful c0-exis-
tence.

‘““As long as this remains the
policy of the American govern-
ment, the acts of other countries
and governments. will in the
final analysis be determined by
the reality, and not by the ideal.
Regardless of opinion on the
causes of world tension, Vietnam
stands as the insuperable barrier
to reducing tension, and of
beginning the process of
substituting the conference table
for the nuclear arsenals.

“One reality of the world
situation is demonstrated by the
Czechoslovak events, and the
position taken by the Soviet
Union and other socialist

countries that they will not under .

any circumstances allow the
opening up of a corridor in
Europe through which presently
hostil forces would have access
to their borders. They have said
through the world press that
twenty million dead, one hundred

thousand of them in battles to
liberate the Czech republic from
Hitlerism, gives them no choice

other than to say ‘never again’.

“This brings the question right
back to the Vietnam war which
for long has been the resounding
expression of refusal to permit
self-determination, and
therefore the complete rejection
of the idea of peaceful co-
existence. To allow a loss of
perspective on this question will
not help the cause of peace one
bit.

“Thinking people will view —
with a quizzical eye the spectacle _

of strident opponents of the
Vietnam war suddenly emerging
as strong ‘‘champions”’ of self-
determination in Czechoslo-
vakia. And even more so the
spectacle of rabid anti-socialists
demonstrating in ‘‘support” of a
socialist government. Working
people should apply the test of
attitude towards the Vietnam
war when judging the true
position of others on the crucial
issue of world peace.”’

municipalities involved had
previously rejected a
Conciliation Board ‘‘award’’ by
an overwhelming majority. This
“award’’ would have actually
meant a wage cut and/or loss of
benefits already existing.
Press reports have confused the
issue of the Conciliation Board
recommendations by leaving the
impression that its wage
increases of 10.5 percent and 9.5,
were retroactive to January 1,
1968. The Union ‘‘Open Letter”
states emphatically “It is not

29:5

so”’;
* eK :

Top issue to emerge from the:
recent IWA 31st Annual
Convention was the question of
Union leadership, perhaps to the
detriment of other vital
problems facing the IWA in the
Western Canadian forest
industry. The rank-and-file
referendum settling the issue of
‘‘who wins’’ between the
incumbent Moore leadership or
the Syd Thompson challengers
will be known soon.

A recent issue of ‘“‘On The
Beam’’ published by the ‘‘Left
Caucus on Wood’’ offers some
opinions on IWA leadership,
present and future, and places
emphasis on the decisiveness of
the Left.

‘Indications are that the
election will be fairly close’
says the bulletin. ‘‘If this is the
case, the votes of the progressive
forces hold the keys to change,
for they hold the balance of
power. : é

‘In spite of this favorable
position, we have noticed a
tendency on the part of some
of the Left to say, ‘a plague
on both your houses’ because of
the shortcomings of both slates.—
Such an attitude would place the
progressive forces on the
sidelines, out of action in the

elections, thereby playing into
the hands of the status quo.
Therefore the Left forces should ~
go all out to mobilize as big a
vote as possible for change.

The IWA leadership ballot is
expected to be concluded by
October 23.

VIGIL

Cont. from Pg. 1.

real desire of the majority of
Canadians to cease all
participation in this War against
the Vietnamese people.

‘“‘We feel that this war is not
only immoral but costly, and
resent the fact of Canada’s
shrinking economy and lack of
Heavy Industry for domestic
purposes, when so many billions
are expended on War Production
for the United States.

“We ask that Canada take her
rightful place as one of the three
members of the International
Commission which was set up in
1954 for the control and
supervision of the Geneva
Agreement for the cessation of
hostilities in Vietnam.

“It is our opinion that
Canada’s continued support of
the United States in this war on
Vietnamese soil, (which they
cannot even win ) can only bring
Canada to Economic and
political destruction:

“We ask. you to regard Mrs.
Culhan’s vigil as an act of
supreme patriotism and that our
government will begin to take
steps to withdraw all Canadian
support from this war, and will
instead, utilize Canadian
finances, materials and energy
to develop Canada into a great
independent nation.

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