Taken for a ride !

NEWs ITEM: NDP national leader Tommy Douglas told a
Meeting in Kelowna last week that the Canada-U.S. cuto
Pact was a $50 million handout to the three biggest car
a Makers, including General Motors. ‘‘The firms are pocket-

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ing the savings from tariff cuts instead of passing them on
to consumers,” he charged. He demanded full-scale in-
vestigation into secret deals between the Liberal govern-
ment and the big car makers.

‘In solidarity with the Oil,
Chemical and Atomic Workers
Strike at British- American Oil,
the United Electrical, Radio &
Machine Workers Union (UE)

S cancelled out all “credit
_ rd* purchases of B—A pro-
~ ucts, and has called on its en-
Te membership to stop buying
A products until “a satis-
Ctory strike settlement is
achieved,”

‘UE national secretary-trea-
Slrer George Harris stated the
action of his union was taken “to
Protest against the labor rela-

LABOR ROUNDUP:
Oil workers support grows,

tions policy of the company,” and
which as the UE letter to B—A
said, left the Oil Workers Union
«no other alternative than to
withdraw their labor, . .”

CPR court injunctions, com-
pany intimidation and scabbery,
organized hooliganism at British
American (B—A) gas stations,
has not lessened the determina-
tion of the Oil, Chemical and
Atomic Workers Union to win
its current strike struggle with
the powerful B—A oil company
for a new union wage and working
contract,

By JERRY SHACK
(Special to PT)
stint MLoops — The longest
a ae in Kamloops history—at
eon €k Sawmills—has ended in a
Victory for members of the
oe the dramatic announce-
last Saturday that the com-
Stang has agreed to sign the
ard IWA agreement,

pital Signing is expected to
2 a Place shortly,

aa September 24, 1964, 18
the had gone out on strike at
Dey Mill, which had just been
oe Organized, Now, a full year
Com ‘ With the mill virtually
Settle etely shut down but no
a Ment in sight, the men de-
to observe the “anniver-
~ With a get-together at the
__1€ ‘of one of the strikers,

It tuy
Ned out to be a victor
“elebration, f

Sapyn

Wie Privileged to be invited
ot the Sathering, which was one
Sentat; post remarkably repre-
See fs this reporter has ever
5 thet he ranks of the strikers
. Bite Moslems, Hindus, Jap-

Saxon’ Poles, Italians, Anglo-
New ¢ and others—many ofthem

anadians,

ry
in St, these men were so solid
ir determination to wir

P| Kamloops strikers
| Celebrates victory |

their union rights that nothing
could shake their unity, Indian
and Pakistani walked the picket
line together arm in arm while
their brethren half way around
the world were fighting in Kash-
mir, Sons on strike yelled “scab!”
at their father who (at one time)
was crossing the picket line. Ac-
cording to the woodworkers,
there were many such incidents,

Nor was support lacking from
other quarters, Teamsters, rail-
way workers, civic employees
and others’ helped man picket
lines. And bartenders in many
Kamloops hotels simply refused
to sell any beer to scabs.

Now, the long strike was over
and the mood was one of victory
and celebration, After an out-
sider sang a few Canadian folk
songs, everybody stood up and
sang “Solidarity Forever.” This
was followed by songs and dances
from India, Pakistan and Poland,

Finally, the time came to leave,
As we walked to the door these
men, who had just finished a
whole year without let up on the
picket line, were discussing help=
ing to man the lines set up by
striking oil workers at B-A sta=
tions in Kamloops.

Can there be any doubt about
the outcome of the oil workers’
fight, when they can count on
support such as this?

Since the B—A oil marketing
unit strike began other unions
including Seamen, United Fisher-
men, Teamsters and most union
affiliates of the B.C, Federation
of Labor are giving active aid
and assistance to the Oil Wor-
kers strike,

The B—A strike now covers_

company operations in Ontario,
Saskatchewan and all main B—A
distributing points in B,C, Up
to. press time the Oil Workers
had not taken any additional strike
action on their “48-hours notice”
served to Imperial, Shell and
Standard Oil,

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At the September 21 session
of the Vancouver and District
Labor Council, (VLC), delegate
Les McDonald (IBEW) reported
that Local 213 of the IBEW has
condemned the statement by B.C.
Hydro co-chairman Gordon
Shrum that labor costs will cause
a rise in electric power rates,
«This is an outright falsehood,”
he said.

“The labor movement called
for Canadian development of the
Columbia River, instead of giving
it away to the United States, THe
position of the B.C. Government
at that time was that Peace power
could be supplied just as cheaply,
and we didn’t really need the
Columbia.

“Now the chickens are coming
home to roost, We refuse to
accept the proposition that the
public will now have to pay, in
the form of higher light bills, for

‘the foolish mistakes of the Social

Credit government, Shrum
should be condemned in no un-
certain terms by the entire labor
movement,” McDonald said,
* * Ox

Chairman of the Workmen's
Compensation Board (WCB), J.
Edwin Eades, told delegates at
the annual convention of In-
dustrial First Aid Attendants last
week that B.C,’s annual industrial
accident total is now nearing the
100,000 mark,

The WCB chairman stated
there is asteady rise as indicated
from industrial accident totals
of 73,437 in 1960 to that of 87,827
in 1964,

City labor parley airs

Nafive Indian

The B.C, Federation of Labor
conference on educational and
employment opportunities for B.
C, Indians was told last Satur-
day that discrimination and lack
of training combine to hinder
progress,

The charge was made in the
Prospectus prepared for the con-
ference which was attended by
65 persons, most of them church
leaders, trade unionists, Native
Indians and government officials,
The parley was held in the Bay-
shore Inn,

The Prospectus around which
a panel discussion was held said
that the system under which Na-
tive Indians now live stifles in-
dividual initiative, “The rela-
tionship between the Indians and
the Indian Affairs Branch is
highly paternalistic — a case of
doing FOR rather than doing
WITH. Substantial economic de-
velopment both on and off the

UJPO HITS
SHILO PLAN

The United Jewish Peoples
Order, Vancouver Section, has
taken steps to protest against
allowing German Arms tests
to be conducted at Shilo, Man-
itoba,

A letter over the signature
of Harold Berson has been
forwarded to Prime Minister
Pearson and to allnews media
in Western Canada, supporting
the protest of the UJPO’s
National Resident Board.

The letter from the national
headquarters of the UJPO
asked the Prime Minister to
cancel the proposed plans to
test German equipment in
Canada and branded the
scheme as “an afront to the
memory of the sons of Canada
and world who laid down their
lives to stop Nazi Germany’s
conquest of the world,”

CP platform

Cont'd from pg. 1

acter of Canada and include the
right of self-determination of
each of the two nations as the
basis of a new free, equal and
voluntary confederal union,

The platform ends with an
appeal to labor and progressive
Canadians to unite to win new
policies and to defeat the candi-
dates of the old parties by elec-
ting the largest block of pro-
gressives ever to sit in the
House of Commons,

problems

reserves cannot be achieved
under such a relationship,”

It urges more responsibility
be given to the Indians and na-
tive leadership encouraged, It
also proposes that development
programs be broadened and made
more flexible and that they en-
compass housing and employment
and capital availability,

The panel was told how under
the present system the Native
Indian’s freedom is restricted by
requiring approval of the Indian
Agent and the Indian Affairs
Branch, Present policies pre-
vent diversification of their ec-
onomic activities,

It was also pointed out that
until recently B,C. Indians wor-
ked in the primary industries
such as logging, fishing and
agriculture, but that this pat-
tern is changing. “Indians to-
day are beginning to seek se-
curity in the same way as the
white men do, and they are real-
izing that such security lies with
building up seniority on the job,
They are gradually entering in-
dustry and joining unions,”

Labor was urged to take a
leading role in assisting the In-
dian to find a place in both old
and new industries,

OBITUARY

Pearl Adamec
Mrs, Pearl Adamec, a staunch
supporter and builder of thepro-
gressive presS passed away
August 26th, 1965,

Pearl was born in 1901 in the
family of a poor farmer-home-
steader in Northern Alberta,
During her childhood due to cir-
cumstances she was forced to
work by helping her mother and
at a later age, helped her father
on the field, The school educa-
tion in the farming districts was
non-existent during that period,

Living for a number of years
in the coal-mining towns she
actively participated in the min-
ers’ strikes on the picket line
or collecting funds for relief to
the miners’ families,

During World War II Pearl
was working hard for Red Cross
also collecting clothing for Rus-
sian and Ukrainian people, the
victims of the Nazi invasion,

In many financial campaigns
for the progressive press, she
was very successful in getting
new subscriptions and sustaining
fund, She was a good supporter
of the Communist Party although
she never was a member of it,

With the passing of Pearl Ad-
amec the progressive movement
has lost one of its best workers,

peoples,”

Canadian CP greets
China on anniversary

William Kashtan, national leader of the Communist Party,
this week sent the following cable to the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of China:

“Warm fraternal greetings to your party and Chinese people
on occasion 16th anniversary of Great Chinese Peoples Revo-
lution. Wish you continued successes in building socialism your
great country in conditions of peace,

“Present international situation threat to peace and calls
for firm united action all Communist, Workers Parties common
struggle against U.S, imperialist aggression and for strength-
ening world solidarity support heroic Vietnam peoples,

“For peace and friendship between our countries and

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