" 2 yo Ss cs Bey VOL. 27, NO. 42 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1966 LABOR COUNCIL CHARGES: e e Peace vigil e hits war eo. e = In Vietnam Granville and Georgia was the scene of a Silent Vigil for Peace in Vietnam staged by the Peace Action League, last Saturday. Some one hundred Supporters of various Vancou- ver peace groups stood silent- ly for one hour demonstrating their concern with the war. _ A leaflet handed out to Passers-by called on the Ca- nadian government to cease Selling weapons of war to the United States and urged a cessation of the bombings of Vietnam, It also asked that Canada press for the recog- nition of the National Libera- tion Front in anynegotiations. Plans call for the Vigil to be a weekly event and urges all those concerned about the war in Vietnam to join with them each Saturday at the same place, 12:30 to1:30p.m. Peace groups who make up the Peace Action League are Fellowship of Reconciliation, Voice of Women, Canadian Campaign for Nuclear Dis-. armament, B,C, Peace Coun- cil, Women’s International League for Peace and Free- dom, and Society of Friends (Quakers), ' Also last Saturday, starting at 10 a.m, there was a Prayer Vigil at Christ Church Cath- edral sponsored by the First Baptist Church and st, And- Tew’s-Wesley United Church, SILENT VIGIL. Photos show some of the hundred peace workers who staged a vigil for peace in Vietnam at Granville and Georgia Streets last Saturday. —Fisherman photos “Meat — ‘Meat bo “Bring down prices!” “Boy- cott Supermarkets!” ‘Buy no Oct, 21 - Nov, 4,” reads a leaflet being widely dis- tributed at supermarkets this week by the Women Against High Prices Committee in Vancouver. “At least 5,000 women have indicated in one way or another that they will buy no meat in the Supermarkets for the next two weeks,” Mrs, Elaine Podovinni- koff, chairman of the Committee told the PT, She said that the supermarkets “are very concerned about the boy- cott and are putting on sales of meat to counter it, “whichproves that the boycott is effective.” Some chain stores, she told the cott spreads PT, are offering pot roast at 49¢ a pound, steak at 79¢, boned fresh ham at 85¢ and some have lowered the price of bacon by 29¢ a pound, ‘tNow is the time to keep uy the pressure,” Mrs, Podovinni- koff said, Her committee reports that the phone campaign is in full swing and that the response is almost universally in favor of the boycott, Women are being asked to phone five neighbors and friends to support the boycott and to call five others. Anyone wishing further infor- mation on the campaign, or who would like to help give out leaf- lets, is asked to phone any of the following persons: Mrs, E. Podovinnikoff, YU 7-4585; Mrs, Joan Jennings, 987-5571; Mrs. Helen Wishinski, TR 2-2150, {t nas also been reported that another group of Vancouver housewives who call themselves WASPs — Women Against Soar- ing Prices — are also planning to launch a boycott of super- market meat departments, Meanwhile, in Ottawa, Monday a top executive of Dominion Stores admitted before the Parliamen- tary Committee on Consumer Prices that the boycott is hurt- ing the supermarkets, ~The campaign has rapidly spread across Canada and now has been taken up in every major city. INJUNCTIONS ILLEGAL Urges challenge -of court’s action The right of courts to grant injunctions in labor disputes and a call for united labor action to challenge the court's right to grant injunctions by appealing the case of the imprisoned union leaders highlighted the Vancouver and District Labor Council meeting Tuesday night. “There is no law,” stated Marine Workers Union secre- tary William Stewart, one of the union leaders heavily fined in the Lenkurt case, “that says a Supreme Court judge should grant an injunction during a labor dis- pute, It is entirely at the dis- cretion of the judge whether he grants an injunction ornot, There is no breaking of the law here because no law exists, “The last section of the Labor Relations Act states specifically ‘that no action for violation of the -act should be instituted, except with the consent of the Labor Relations Board, This does not deter the employer, He gets an exparte injunction in the face of this legislation, and that is why we are appealing in this case, “We are appealing the right of any Supreme Court judge in this ‘province or in Canada to grant an injunction in a labor dispute, We Say he has no right to do it and we are going to fight it on that basis,” Ed Sims, VLC president, sup= porting Stewart’s contention, de- clared: “I am fully in accord with the position you have taken, It is fully in line with the policy ofthis labor council”, A ‘previous VLC meeting had unanimously agreed ina 6-point program of action, to appeal both the conviction and sentences of the imprisoned union leaders, A later session of the BCFL Ex- ecutive had adopted a decision to enter appeal proceedings only on the severity of the sentence, leaving the conviction to stand, By only appealing the sentence and leaving the conviction stand, stated Jeff Power from prison, “is to admit guilt and accept the fact that we are criminals”, The imprisoned Marine Workers Union president is the only one of the four so far to enter an appeal against the conviction, Letters from the imprisoned union leaders to the VLC dele- gate body brought enthusiastic applause and a standing ova- tion. “We are in good health and spirits,” wrote VLC secretary Paddy Neale, “the accommodation is adequate and the meals well cooked, but the wages are no hell, eee * Sunday, October 30, just before the opening of its annual conven- tion, the BCFL has called a special conference on injunctions in the Bayshore Inn. It is expected that the differences between VLC and BCFL policies on appeals will be ironed out there, and labor and the public mobilized in a united and militant campaign to wipe out the injunction menace, The above clipping from the Vancouver Sun last week points up the urgency of the present campaign to force supermarkets to bring down prices. -