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tala SOUTH VIETNAM. Amid increasing reports of
a Pse of South Vietnam’s U.S. puppet govern-
in all S88 demonstrations and strikes are taking place

Saigon during ©

Principal cities this week. The U.S. ‘disaster course”

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ABOR ROUNDUP:

SAR ROUNDUP:

BCFL calls conference

to spur orga

The
B
has °C, Federation of Labor

a a special one-day

the a to discuss organizing

pee uized, The important

ctober Peveculed for Sunday,

aifiliar in the IWA hall and

Urge : €d unions have been
Send representatives,

Th

ad : Be crence will precede by
Of the 5 © 9th annual convention
tion €deration where, in addi-
it ig a organizational drive,
Vote mr ed delegates will de-
lions Uch of their time to reso-
“Nem nN automation, resultant

®yment in a period of
Be,” the shorter work week,

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tae
Meeting Bones saw the first
of a Boueen representatives
®s of G,” Pulp and Paper Work-
Wistrieg anada and Canadian In-
Went on Limited since the union
tg ag August 23 atCIL’s
“S. plant, Two provincial

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Severe” application, received a
Goldie ett this week when D, M,
icip Pe as counsel for the
tr. a ' ities. charged actual
Of gy 4 OSSes are in the vicinity
the »000 annually, rather than

** million claimed,

Using ing
tra Og information provided by
Oldie Consultant John F, Curtin,
ding ; declared Hydro was pad-
Its expenses by:

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aj aa Operations and not or-
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trig °rrowing money for elec-
Chay ‘id gas improvements and
Oden ne the costs to transit
ations

sea ie himself on these and
rin other considerations,

tit ig oe the annual defi-

lustis,. 750,000 and Hydro is un-

thy, 2ly charging a further $3

rangi merely, to blacken the
Sit picture,

conciliation officers— Reg Clem-
ents and Pete Fisher—sat in on
the meeting. Further talks were
scheduled as the PT went to

press.

Meanwhile, the union has exX~
tended the strike by picketing
CIL’s warehouse on Terminal
in Vancouver, Pickets ap-
the warehouse last
Saturday morning and workers
refused to cross the picket line
—despite the fact they are not
organized into any union.

Ave,
peared at

Finally, the manager came out
and threatened the men with loss
of their jobs unless they en-
tered the warehouse, AS aresult,
the men did enter put refused to
load or unload any trucks and
union spokesmen told the PT the
picket line is virtually 100 per-
cent effective.

The Anacis Is. piant remains
completely shut down.

Marineworkers Union, Local
1, has sent a sharp wire to Prime
Minister Pearson protesting lay-
ing off of 100 workers at Burrard
Dry Dock despite a government

contract held by the company for

two weather ships.

The wire states during the

OTTO GROTEWOHL, Prime Minister of
the German Democratic Republic, died
last Monday at the age of 70 after a
long, severe illness. A lifelong social-
ist, he played a leading part in the
formation of the German Socialist Un-
ity Party, which united the Communist
and Social Democratic Parties in East

Germany.

in South East Asia has br:

Vietnam. Photo above s!
cent demonstrations.

ought nothing but ruins to South
hows fighting in the streets of

strike last winter at Burrard,
company executives had stated
publicly 400 men would be hired
if the strike were settled, Instead,
100 men have been laid off, on
the pretext that to proceed full
speed with present contracts
would result in mass lay-offs in
December.

The workers feel this presup-
poses. there will be no new work
coming into the company in the
meantime and protest they are
being used as pawns in a political
pressure play to secure more
federal work.

B.C, carpenters, who acted as
pacemakers for the impressive
gains rolled up this year by the
labor movement, open their an-
nual convention next Monday,
Sept, 28, in Victoria.

Approximately 70 delegates
from 37 locals, representing
6,000 workers, are expected to be
in attendance at the meet, A good
portion of their deliberations will
be devoted to working out details
of administering a Health and
Welfare plan and Apprenticeship

plan.

Halt water
sellout urged

pT Associate Editor Maurice
Rush told a public meeting in the
Dell Hotel, Whalley, Tuesday
night, that the announcement from
Washington that the U.S, was
ready to proceed with talks on
the Parsons water plan was timed
to coincide with the final ratifi-
cation of the Columbia Treaty at
the Peace Arch last Wednesday,

Rush said the Columbia Treaty
marked phase one of the US,
long. range plan to capture control
of B,C,’s water and hydro re-
sources, He said Washington was
now ready to implement phase
two of that plan, which he de-
scribed as a “vast scheme for
extending U.S, control over the
bulk of B.C,’s water resources,”

He urged his audience to op-
pose any further giveaways of
our water resources and said that
what Canada needs is a “Cana-
dian plan ‘for full development
and utilization of our water re-
sources for the benefit of
Canada,”

U.S. attacks in Tonkin
Gulf widely condemned

The latest U,S, military at-
tacks in Vietnam, whether auth-
orized by President Johnson or
initiated by local commanders to
force his hand, must be con-
demned, said noted British
philosopher Bertrand Russell
this week,

“Both attacks in the Gulf of
Tonkin are by U.S, admission
American adventures,” he said,
“They jeopardize peace, World
opinion must leave the United
States in no doubt that U,S, policy
in Vietnam is feared and con-
demned,”

This was the reaction of most
people to last week’s incident in
the Tonkin Gulf, Although the U.S,
has now announced withdrawal of
its two destroyers from the Gulf,
reverberations of last week's
frightening events are still being
felt,

In-an apparent attempt to call
the White House to its senses as
to the meaning of the incident,
the New York Times lastSunday,
in a leading editorial, warned of
the “apprehension that swept the
world Friday” on the news of the
incident,

“This area could provide the
spark for a wide and catastroph-
ic conflict,” the Times said, It
found “particularly dismaying”
Washington’s slowness in issuing
a report of what had happened,
a “slowness suggesting strongly
that confusion and uncertainty
reigned” not only in Washington
but on the “American warships
involved in this incident,”

“Much of the world will in-
evitably wonder whether the U.S,
had valid grounds for opening
fire,” the Times said, “There
will be suspicion that the real
reason for the firing was exces-
sive nervousness,” The Times
warned the White House that the
blind and wild Tonkin Gulf shoot-
ing can lead tonew U,S, “political
and propaganda setbacks,”

The Times said the latest in-
cident raises more strongly than
before “the question of why
American ships are neededin the
Gulf of Tonkin, a body of water
that comes close to being an
inland sea of -the Communist
world,”

North Vietnam has called for
a meeting of the International
Control Commission on the latest
incident,

Fraserview veterans send
open appeal to all MPs

The Fraserview Veterans Ten-
ants and Homeowners Associa-
tion, determined to win a fair
deal from the bureaucrats and
politicians who have left them in
the lurch, have sent an open letter
to all Members of Parliament in
which they demand:

* A full public hearing of the
entire Fraserview operation be
held in Vancouver at the earliest
possible moment,

* Any rent increase be held in
abeyance pending the outcome of
this hearing.

The letter asks all MPs, re-
gardless of political affiliation,

to demand in Parliament that jus-
tice be done in this case and to
press for implementation of the
association’s demands,

Soviet tourists

in Vancouver

A delegation of 11 Soviet
people—seven men and four
women—will be arriving as
tourists in Vancouver on Fri-
day, Sept, 25, They will be in
the city for several days and
will be feted by the Canada-
USSR Association in the B,C,
Building (PNE Grounds) on
Saturday night,

PT editor Tom McEwen’s son, Ron, 15, last week won first prize in this
year’s Painting-in-the-Parks competition. This photo taken by Sun photo-
grapher Ray Allan, shows Ron with his winning entry. Nearly 1,300
children in B.C. took part in the classes. Their-paintings and sketches will
be shown at the Art Gallery’s top floor until Oct. 4.

September 25, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3