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Nils Thibault: (centre), Canadian president, is seen here

With 1

arvey Murphy (right), Western vice-president and

rank McLaughlin, Local 1014, Western Nickel, at the Mine-
Ill western district convention here this week.

Fishermen ask lifting

of Fraser

closure

\ FORT LANGLEY

: 4 beopening of the Fraser River between Patullo Bridge
IsSion Bridge to commercial salmon fishing was called

here . n

of
the area on September 16,

hie years ago the then
ra of fisheries James
cea had this closure im-
Unpor It proved to be the most
top Par act of his entire
and at that time the Fort
. €y local of United Fisher-
ion ae Allied Workers Un-
ag aed for~his resignation
Inister,
by r Meeting was sponsored
Urq Srt Langley and Albion
Zi Nays locals and the Kat-
ative Brotherhood.
Stevens, UFAWU
© hi secretary, outlined
th Istorica] background of
© closure.
Wate said that Sinclair’s “blue
Wron t €ory” had been proven
ada p.When the U.S. and Can-
atte ached agreement in Se-
Whiey, “St February on a plan
Tho Prevents offshore sal-_
hing Net fishing. The idea be-
eq ,)Melair’s plan, announc-
Clog 4 the same time as the
Semeq of the upper Fraser,
Men ¢ to be to push fisher-
‘oe Urther out to sea.
Sire Vvens stated that the clo-
“Onsen Uld not possibly solve
Mason ation problems of the
Cit, « 2%ea. None of the ben-
ing 12 terms of longer fish-
ity “©€ks or improved qual-
Salmon have resulted
Sure US* discriminatory clo-

public meeting of fishermen and interested citizens -—
aturday. Present regulations call for an automatic closing

George Hahn, MP for New
Westminstér and Tom “Irwin,
MP. for Burnaby-Richmond,
pledged full support to the
fishermen in their efforts to
get Fisheries Minister An-
gus’ MacLean fo rescind the
present regulation.

Intent of Workmen's Compensation
subverted, Mine - Mill charges

Intent of the Workmen’s Compensation Act is to give pfotection and coverage to in-
jured workmen, but this is being ignored by the present chairman of the Workmen’s Com-
pensation Board, J. E. Eades, who should be removed. :

' This demand was raised in the officers’ report presented Monday this week to the 14th

annual convention of the Western District Union, International Union of Mine,

Smelter Workers.

‘In our opinion the WCB
spends for too much time in
trying to find ways and means
of keeping the man outside of
the operation of the Act, rather
than finding ways under which
he may get compensation, to
which years of work under
conditions that affect him
physically have entitled him,”
said the report.

Fault is not with the WCB
staff, bound by rule and regu-
lation, but of those in charge
“who make ‘the rules, for the
unnecessary hardship to work-
men, which could easily be
avoided by a slight change in
some of the rules and regula-
tions.”

Endorsing the demand of
many B.C. unions for removal
of WCB chairman J. E, Eades,
the Mine-Mill report states
that “someone with far more
experience in labor relations
and someone less arbitrary
and capable of showing decent
consideration in their dealings
with working men should be
appointed.”

On the issue of compensa-
tion for silicosis, of vital con-
cern to miners, the report says:

“Due to the sitdown strike
by Mrs. Bea Zucco at the of-

~ fices of the WCB and the Par-
liament. Buildings, a great
deal of publicity in local news-
papers was given to the sili-
colic miners.

“Mrs. Zucco made a tour of
the mining camps in B.C. and
received substantial support
in donations to help fight the
case’ of her husband, Jack
Zucco, who is in Pearson TB
Hospital, Vancouver, suffering
from tuberculosis superimpos-
ed on silicosis. He has been
denied a pension by the WCB.

“Following the final rejec-
tion of his claim, a specialist
having examined him under
the provisions of Section 54A,

PICKET LINE SONG, 1957

and having certified to the fact
that in his considered opinion
Zucco was suffering from sili-
cosis, «a: writ was issued by
John Stanton in Supreme
Court against the Compensa-
tion Board. Senator Farris
agreed to act as senior counsel
and presented the case before
Mr. Justice Lord, who has de-
cided in favor of the board. An
at‘empt has since been made
to secure from the Attorney-
General’s department, a fiat to
sue the WCB, which has so
far been refused.”

The report reviews a con-
ference held in Vancouver last
year on silicosis, at which a
resolution in favor of a Royal

Commission to investigate the
Silicosis sections of the Work-

Be active’

Mill and

men’s Compensation Act was
passed unanimously.
Mine-Mill is demanding that
Section 8, sub-paragraph 5 of
the Act, which defines silicosis,

-be amended by deleting the

last eight words which’ read,
“accompanied by a substantial.
ly lessened capacity for work.”
On widows’ allowances, Mine-
Mill urges the government to
bring before
the following points:

® That widows’ pensions
be imereased at least to $125
from the present $75 per
month.

® That each dependent be
allowed $50 per month instead
of $25.

@® An immediate grant of
$1,000 instead of the present
allowance of $100.

for peace

—not radioactive’

“We are being poisoned every day in the food we eat, in
the air we breathe — and the antidote is action,” says an eight-

page mimeographed leaflet being distributed in

thousands of

copies throughout this province by B.C. Peace Council.

“Be active — not radioac-
tive!” the pamphlet urges, and
lists various ways in which
people interested in presery-
ing world peace and stopping
further nuclear bomb tests can
make their voices heard:

® Visit your member of par-
liament. Ask your friends
and neighbors to go with
you. (B.C. Peace Council
is organizing delegations..
For information phone
MArine 9958).

® Write your MP, if you can’t
visit him, urging him to
make a stand now against
the nuclear tes’s,

® Use the phone. Telephone
your friends and neighbors

Walk around the clock—they did

* In the nineteen forties many
songs were composed on the
picket. lines as the workers
battled the great corporations,
following the end of the Second
World War, writes lLabor’s
Daily. Here is a song com-
posed by striking. workers’ in
Jefferson. City, Tenn., this
year. The. workers were on
strike against Johnson’s Spring
Company and walked the
picket line from February un-
til May. The strike was won.

The song is sung to the tune
of Rock Around the Clock.
The strikers call it Walk
Around the Clock which is ex-
actly what they did.

Qne o’clock, two o’clock, three
o’clock walk
Four o’clock, five o'clock, six
o’clock walk
Seven o’clock, eight o’clock,
nine o’clock walk.-
(Chorus)

We're gonna walk around the
clock tonight,

We’re gonna waik, walk, walk
till broad daylight,

We're gonna walk around the
clock tonight.

We'll walk out there till we’re
soaked to the skin,

We'll walk out here till John--

son gives in.
(Chorus)
We're gonna walk out hére till
our feet get wet,
We're really gonna make old
Johnson sweat:

(Chorus)

We'll walk ou’ here both day
and night,
We’re gonna stay out here till
he treats us right.
(Chorus)

We'll walk in the rain, we'll
walk in the snow,

But we're gonna let old John-

son know.
(Chorus)

It goes on for 20 verses, with
the chorus after each one, but
that’s all we have room for
here—except to add one which
goes:

They nailed up the windows
but we’re gonna shout,
They're keeping rats in as well

as us out,

September 13, 1957 —

asking them to write their

MP.

® Pass resolutions. Organiza-
tions will take up this ques-
tion — and pass resolu-
tions, circulate petitions —
if it is suggested.

® Parliament opens in the
micdle of October. Follow
John (and all the others)
to Ottawa wih your de-
mand to “Stop the Tests.”

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