oe ct years ago Jay Gould, Rat merican railroad mag- te boasted that he could i Y off one half of the work- ie to kill off the other 4 ae That was the era when aie nized monopoly used open eed to smash organized 0! on at the same time infil- af ti ‘ng the workers’ organiza- ons with paid agents. Wem, ite Re the big monopolists teins Se who carry their poli- e Into the labor movement j pe devious methods to : Up a militant union. 0 tibery c . , corru 2 0 De sti i ption, racketeer: “Sth bs Asm but today the emphasis pat upon propaganda ‘de- aa _'0 create distrust and Hic 0? In this, the “big Shines the poison pen are ‘ €red more effective than (4 ay Gould’s millions. fy Communism” has become ' ne dew Catch-all. And- it fe ie from “Red domination | eyes to deceive those in- i Baye by cold war propa- i aan 3 the “mistakes” of the iver ~ommunist party to win Winn Militants with strong so- gy lalist Convictions. fant week in Vancouver this “bic lon technique was ap- 4 eae members of Local p : €mational Brotherhood : €ctrical Workers, with g minor successes, ter Sroup. of well-intentioned i ‘ts, LPPers and others ng auvited to attend a meet- Sknown Tre home of a well- Ss BEW member. Alleg- .POse of the meeting was }? estoring geo and means of Yunion oe ocracy within the pitternati ich has been under ‘ithe ~...22l administration for regis Year, and’ end the W Splint e UP Of Local 213 into €r craft. groups, » Aine oot go, from its Wash- ternati eo quarters, the IBEW BAT Sake executive placed io 3 under an administra- Plac; score of members were ae _ trial” on charges and se fens “communism” a enced to suspension J Periogs ., Wien activities for dears Tanging from five to 15 Mgent Se Gee, business f.tnion on expelled from the 4 Ee.) € same general > Py, : : aspect of the meeting, it of €d, had purposes other retriey: 2 } etrieving their union ee attending were With a lengthy hed leaflet entitled ne” an 5 a new understand- eit Widely urged to distribute 4 v hous Content of this anony- labop anti-Soviet and anti- | Bf the “tlet bears the stamp Vocate pr fessional agent: pro- r, With some t Wrecking alent for ) ARio se a8 leaflet wished “ . . to 2 outs abundantly clear at Mockin St that because of the _ & revelations at the Disruption in IBEW jaim of new leaflet Ureaucratic administra- * 20th Congress of the CPSU and the criminal action of the So- viet Union in Hungary, we can no longer support the policies of the bureaucracy of the So- viet Union. Further, because the LPP is trying to justify the action of the Soviet Union in Hungary, we can no longec support the policies of the eee, Gratuitously, the leaflet. states that when LPP members “admit their errors, aS we are doing,” all will be forgiven and the “hand of comradeship” will once again be extended. Since the leaflet and its auth- ors and promoters are anony- mous, as all such organized disruption must be, every honest worker will regard such “friendship” with more than suspicion. This document is intended, not to unite and consolidate the members of a broken up union but to further the divi- sion among them and to streng- then the hand of the IBEW international executive. If and when Gee’s case ‘comes before an IBEW inter- national convention for review, this and similar documents will be used to justify the ac- tion of a U.S. union officialdom in barring a Canadian from working at his own trade in his own country, : The document does: nothing to promote any “new under- standing” of the real issues af- fecting IBEW members. On the contrary, it is intended to obscure these issues and sub- stitute false issues to confuse and divide members. Labor council planning protest against WCB rejection of claims Vancouver Labor Council will call a special meeting to protest unjustified rejection of claims by the “Workmen’s Compensation Board. Delegates to council meeting Tuesday this week voiced harsh opinions of the WCB after Local 468 Bakery and Confectionary Workers raised the question in a letter to council, and the VLC executive recommended the calling of a special meeting. “It is time the rigid formalism adopted by the board in claims was attacked by the trade union movement,” said Charlie Stewart (Street Rail- waymen). “The WCB uses every legalistic type of argu- ment to deny claims of the workers.” “Because of lack of ‘proof’ of an accident, 22 claims have been turned down in my local,” declared Paddy Neal (IWA, 1- 217). “Unless a man falls or is hit by something, the WBA doesn’t regard it as an acci- dent. Yet 90 percent of our injuries come from lifting, pull- ing and straining.” “The problem extends be- yond Vancouver,” said George Mitchell (IWA, 1-357). “It’s a provincial matter and we shouid cooperate with officials of the B.C. Federation of Labor. There is also an ugly angle in connection with work- ers who do not speak good English. I found in a recent tour that many of. these work- ers get the brush-off simply because they find it difficult to state their case. I.don’t ac- cuse all the board members— J think Chris Pritchard always gives a worker a fair hearing —-but as for the other two, in my opinion their judgment isn’t worth a damn.” VLC president Lloyd Whal- en said that B.C. Federation of Labor officials would be invited to the special meeting. LABOR AROUND THE PROVINCE Bill Stewart (Marine Work- ers) charged that “the legal beagle who heads the board thinks that if a worker doesn’t fall down he isn’t injured. This is the kind of guy we’ve got, sitting on $73 million, telling workers, ‘Sorry, you can’t get any, you haven’t had an acci- dent.’ The Workmen’s Com- pensation Act gives claimants the benefit of the doubt, but WCB officials are reversing . this practice.” (WCB chairman is J. E, Eades; other members are E. V. Ablett and C. Pitchard). * x * Delegates unanimously en- dorsed an executive resolution on coroner’s juries, which made these points: @ That jurymen be select- ed in a similar manner to those acting on juries of the Supreme Court. @® That jurymen be com- pensated adequately for loss of time for their service. @ That the Attorney-Gen- eral use his influence and his office to assure that coroner’s jury recommendations be im- plemented wherever possible and practicable. Council also endorsed, with one lone voice opposing, a re- solution from Marine Workers Britannia miners win 14-cent hike; cafe workers ask $1.25 minimum Miners at Britannia have voted to accept a 14-cent wage hike spread over two years, plus numerous fringe benefits, The 740 workers, members of Mine-Mill, will get a nine- cent raise retroactive to. Oc- tober 21 and another five cents next October 21. They will also get gains in pensions, vacations and statutory holiday qualifications. x $e Some 12,000 Vancouver Is- land trade unionists were this week called upon to support the petition to the Victoria leg- islature for a $15,000,000 ex- pansion of University of Brit- ish Columbia. Support for UBC was urged by. Jack Moore, newly elected president of the new Nanaimo and District Labor Council. fe: i xt The 20 driver-salesmen em- ployed by Nalley’s Limited in Vancouver have just signed a three-year wage pact for a total wage increase. of $13 a week. Local --740; Club and Cab- aret Workers, have turned thumbs down on a nine per- cent wage offer.’ They say that Beverage Dispensers Local 676, a brother local, has better wages and working conditions and they are demanding equali- Ze Gace eat Hotel and Restaurant Em- ployees Local 28 and the B.C. Federation of Labor this week called upon the Board of In- dustrial Relations to establish a minimum wage of $1.25 an our for B.C. hotel and res- taurant workers. The present minimums of 55 cents an hour for part-time workers and $22.50 a week for full-time employees was term- ed “far too low.” Most of the workers directly concerned are women. at 503 Victoria firefighters, in nego- tiations for a 15 percent wage increase, have been offered five percent. xt seg Annual convention of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers will open in Vancou- ver on March 24. Federal Fisheries Minister James Sin- clair and author’ Roderick Haig-Brown will be guest speakers. CCF will nominate in Burnaby Feb. 21 The Co-operative Common- wealth Federation in Burnaby announced this week it will meet on February 21 to nom- inate a candidate for the ap- proaching by-election to fill ithe seat made vacant by the death of Ernest Winch, CCF MLA for Burnaby. ee Premier Bennett is expected to name the byelection date shortly. The nominating con- vention will be held in Ed- monds. Community Hall at 8 p.m. Winch held the seat for 23 years. Gordon Dowding, CCF MLA, holds the second Burn- aby seat in the B.C. legislature. FEBRUARY 1, 1957 — connection with compensation asking that jurymen be paid the rate they would have earn- ed in wages. “In our union we recently had six men serving on juries at $6 a day, losing $11.60 a day,” said Bill Stewart. “Citizens aren’t called very often to serve,” a delegate ob- jected. “I think they should consider it a public duty, and not worry about the loss of a few dollars in wages.” “I know of one case where a worker was called for jury duty in May, and was still serv- ing in July,” snapped President Whalen. “Let’s put this to a vote.” “Aye!” roared all the dele- gates but one. “No!” said the dissenter. * * * A proposal from the Politi- cal Action Committee of IWA local 1-217 that council spon- sor a public political forum during the next federal elec- tion campaign was referred to the Political Education Com- mittee for consideration and an early report. Referred to the Legislation instructions Committee with “to secure information and re- port to the next council meet- ing” council investigate the assess- ment setup the expense of the small home- owner. * * * President Lloyd Whalen was re-elected to his post by accla- mation, in the first annual elec- tion since the TLC and CCL councils merged less than a year ago, Tom Alsbury was re-elected first vice-president with 136 votes to 49 for Bill Symington (Packinghouse) and 35 for Jim Barton (Plumbers). Second vice-president Ed Sims (Brewery Workers) was returned by acclamation. Third vice-president George Johns:one (Meat Cutters) de- feated Earl Hallock (Pile Driv- ers) for re-election by 118 to 96 votes. For secretary-treasurer, in- cumbent E. A. Jamieson (Musi- cians) defeated Bill Geisbrecht (Enamel. Workers) by 155 to 64. Chairmen of committees: or- ganization, W. Trineer (IWA, 1-357); legislative, Jack Hen- derson (Operating Engineers); public relations, Alan Cole- man (Barbers); grievance, Bill Robertson (Marine Workers); educational, Dave Wade (Re- tail Clerks); credentials, John Brown (Milk Salesmen). Regular meeting of the VLC, scheduled for Tuesday next week, has been cancelled. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5 was a recommendation from Marine Workers that in Vancouver, which favors big business at