Island lviews and Island scene. By V. VICTOR COURTENAY COUNTDOWN: A certain fellow in this city pro- ceeds about town sort of tongue- in - cheek. When the chief magistrate of a small community is unable to have the federal statutes changed so to force unfortunates in receipt of Wel- fare to work for their meagre subsistance allowance, it is rather a deflation of the ego for these high .and mighty types; but that kind of twisted logic is similar to thinking the pay from a few dozen American Missile guards will be a boost to the local economy. One need not be a math student to break down the spending of American soldiers, fifty percent of the pay goes to the drinking outlets, a quarter would go tothe gas stations, and the rest isn’t worth mentioning. Did it occur to this man that no one would reveal where munitions were stored unless they wanted to place the missile dump area in the front line of defence just as the Neth- erlands were placed in the front | line of defence, some fifty years a before the Comox fiasco. | * * + COWICHAN LAKE LEVEL: The recent heavy rains and flooding tHis island has withstood brought the lake level up to about where it was in 1937, That’s the same year two union organisers of the Cowichan area were crossing the ] lake when they captured a deer j in mid-lake. A deer in those days : was well worth having even out of season for organisers had ahard time to keep the wolf from the SCHSESOHSSSSESEHSSSSSSCSSSESESEE ‘Everything in Flowers’ FROM BARL SYKES 42 E. Hastings, MU 1-3855 Vancouver, B.C. a eeeeeeeeeeeeeee OVALTINE CAFE 251 EAST HASTINGS “Vancouver, B.C. QUALITY SERVICE SOeooeeescccceccosocvoccccs eccecececeocececs | COeCeeocoeoocace | . 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This is a true story, if it hadn’t been for these two fellows in organis- ational work long years ago the wood-workers union would not be what it is today. Maybe that deer carcass wasn’t wasted, * * * ; FEEBLE FOIBLES; Just prior to the festive season when most families spent more than they could afford in this over-com- mercialised holiday, . Nanaimo had the dubious distinction of a juvenile shoplifting soiree which brought about a number of sample convictions in court. Without condoning petty thievery it’s easy to see why this wenton. There are far too few clerks in the larger stores with a sur- prising lack of union organisation which in turn would bring about better service, The businessman leaves the door of temptation open to any thievery that occurs, Never to be out-done some of the stores raised prices to make up for cost of goods stolen. Two of the local papers had lengthy articles explaining the sudden jump in prices, The first com- mission mentioned was classed as thievery, but the second comes under the heading of good busi- ness practice. * * * HEARD andOVERHEARD: Just listening one can hear some rather surprising conversation. In Alberni where Indians are very well thought of, it’s almost surprising to hear of the support everyone has for the Indian cause which started with the hunting case in Nanaimo. Kelsey Bay, Sayward, and Salmon River resi- dents are pleased with the road they are getting, but they feel TED HARRIS 757 East Hastings St. Vancouver 4, B.C. Painters’ and Paperhangers’ Supplies Sunworthy Wallpaper Reg. 45c — Now 19c a Roll Cont. from pg.2, who would accept jobs that it at- tracts to this role, chatacters who who would accept jobs and are paid to go into mining or lum- ber camps, or among telephone workers, resemble very closely the agents, spies and provoca- teurs who were a feature of union- busting in the old days. One has only to listen to the false propaganda that they spread against trade unionists with their red-baiting and compare it with the lies and stories spread by the union-busters that preceded them who were paid directly by the employers and then look over the number of organizations the employers used to have and the characters that headed them: The so-called Anti-Communist Lea- gues; the Industrial Association, so-called, every strike; their regular radio programs and newspaper ads against trade union organization; and the character assassinations against active trade unionists, What greater blow can be struck against trade union organizations than to have paid officials of the trade union move- ment with the sole and only ac- tivity of breaking up trade union organizations? Recently in B.C. , a renegade from Mine Millovernight became a paid official of the Steelwork- ers’ Union. His main job is to go around in mining camps and write in the public press proclaiming that the Union of the metal miners IN CUBA. Myrtle Bergren of Cowi- chan Lake, shown above, is at- tending the celebrations marking the 5th Cuban anniversary. She is representing the Canada - Cuba Friendship Committee in B.C. Also attending from the Vancouver Fair Play for Cuba Committee is Carl Erickson. the road South of Courtenay should get some _ attention. Loggers returning home on week- ends are forced to drive too slow for about twenty miles. Just an old poorly made road seems to be the cause, AND THAT’S THIRTY FOR THE ISLAND THIS WEEK which appeared in | Dolores Ibarruri, legendary leader of the Sp shown above with Cuba’s Fidel Castro, in Havana. tch Ca ynist Party, is She was one of the honored guests attending the fifth anniversary celebrations of the Cuban Revolution. is a dying organization; telling trade unionists to quit their Union. And, what is his big rea- son? That Mine Mill was raided in Sudbury, That as a result of the raid in Sudbury, Mine Mill is weakened, Raids are taking place now in outlying mining camps so that this type of propaganda will be used later on in another mining camp — ‘‘See, Mine Mill is los- ing members. Therefore, itis not effective in fighting the employ- ers.”’ In no place in Canada’s min- ing industry has a raid ever suc- ceeded in strengthening even the raiders. Witness: Timmins, Kirkland Lake, Noranda and last but. by no means least, Sudbury. A few raiders got a pay-off but the body of the trade union move- ment has been severely wounded. With hatred and _ division created amongst the workers, the B.C. Federation of Labor blames Bill 43 for the fact that the “majority of the workers in B.C. are unorganized, that more work- ‘ers have left the trade unions ~than the number of workers gain- ed in ‘‘successful’’ raids. The image of the trade union “movement and its associated N.D.P. is besmirched and the em- ployers didn’t have to pay a cent for it. Just asthe Pinkertons and their stool-pigeon agents preying on the labor movement have gone out of style, with the fierce compe- tition between the Alert NewsSer- vice and the Steelworkers as to who can do the most red-baiting, union-busting continues, so will the influence of the labor move-_ ment decline, until the rank and file membership of the Local Un- ions, in the words of Tommy Douglas, ‘‘Stop weeping on each others shoulders.’’ He could well have added, ‘‘Let’s organize the unorganized and clean out of the house of labor the disrupters and _ raiders.’’ IT’S IN! THE SECOND, REVISED EDITION OF Fundamentals of MARXISM -LENINISM Published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Moscow, 1963 700 pages. Cloth bound with dust jacket. 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