- nominee mmm BCFL URGES * Tw ILLION WORKERS a 1d ; | | NELD 4 . ‘ : BOYCOTT i ; : : ne | &§ ; a] is : More than one million workers in unions affiliated to the Can- fa" - adian Labor Congress will throw their full strength behind the striking ‘Ol | IWA loggers in Newfoundland, CLC president Claude Jodoin said in rere cus Snr Ottawa this week. The CLC has asked the federal government to dis- allow the anti-labor legislation introduced by Prem smash the strike, and unions from coast to coast will con- ; tinue to give moral and finan- 0- cial support to the gallant te loggers until they achieve 0 victory. ill A Teams of Newfoundland f. 5 Sate strikers will tour Canada ex- ne f Il AM — plaining their case to the labor in | Le oe e=tt Sti) Plone MUtual 5-5288 movement and the public, and ad Authorised as second class mail by | O when they visit Vancouver the nt the Post Office Department, Ottawa C B.C. Federation of Labor and ht Vancouver Labor Council will Vol. 18, No. 12 VANCOUVER, B.C. organize a tremendous public He FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1959 rally for them. rs : B.C. Federation of Labor has in wired the CLC suggesting “a 1d osta wor, ers rd world-wide boycott. of New- : foundland’s exports’ to put to win wage demands Salaries and collective bargaining will be discussed at a mass meeting sponsored by the Canadian Postal Employees’ Association to be held in Pender Auditorium on Saturday, March 28 at 2 p.m. Speakers will include CPEA general secre- tary F. W. Whitehouse and national president Dan Cross, VLC president Lloyd Whalen and a representative from the Canadian Labor Congress. The federal government has turned down postal employ- ees’ request for a wage in- erease and the Association is seeking broad labor support. ‘We haven’t the‘ right to strike,” Allan Hutchins of the Canadian: Postal Employees told Vancouver Labor Coun- cil delegates this week. “We can’t take our case to a con- ciliation board or an arbitra- tion board. All we can do is prepare our statistics showing why an increase is- needed and present our case to the government. It is referred to the Civil Service Commission and months pass before we get an answer. If the answer is ‘No’ there’s nothing we can do about it.” VLC delegates unanimously endorsed: a resolution stating that salary adjustments -for postal employees are long overdue, and urging all affili- ated unions to assist the Can- adian Postal Employees As- sociation in every way pos- sible. _ 24 at 8 p.m. | (AFL-CIO). Bill 43 protest meeting As part of the fight against Bill 43, the anti-labor legislation introduced by the Socred government, the Building Trades Council is sponsoring a gigantic public meeting at Exhibition Gardens here on Tuesday, March The list of invited speakers includes Bill Black, B.C. Federation of Labor president; Pat O’Neal, BCFL secre- _ tary; Lloyd Whalen, Vancouver Labor Council president; | Ald. E. A. Jamieson, VLC secretary, and Ed Kennedy, | western director of the Building Trades Deyartment ; } | } | } 8 pressure on Premier Small- wood. It is proposed that the nine - milion member Inter- national Transport Workers Federation be asked to organize the boycott, which would be aimed mainly at shipments of pulp. ; Vancouver Labor Council on Tuesday unanimously endorsed a resolution giving full support to the IWA and Teamsters in Newfoundlfnd, and demanding that Ottawa disallow Small- wood’s. legislation aimed at breaking the loggers’ strike. “We are not going to sit idly by and see fascism creep up on us,” said Bill Stewart (Marine Workers). “What Smallwood (‘Smallmind’) has blatantly done in Newfound- land is being insidiously in- troduced in British Columbia by Bill 43. We can stop it, not by voting funds, but by taking direct action.” Syd Thompson (IWA) de- clared that union organizers in Newfoundland ‘“‘sit at night in _ their hotel rooms with shot- guns across their knees, afraid to go to sleep for fear of mob violence incited by the govern- ment.” (On Wednesday a mob arm- ed with axes wrecked the IWA office at Bishop's Falls, with police conspicuous by their absence, Later the ROMP “launched a hunt” for the raidcrs.) Strike of civil servants *(above) on Friday last week only lasted three hours and 50 minutes before the govern- ment secured a temporary injunction banning picketing. But the Socred government received such a scare (it was the first strike of civil servants in Canadian history) that legi- slation was introduced in the dying moments of the current session to amend the Constitution Act to bar another civil servants’ strike by banning picket lines at any government puilding. It came while the government and employees were waiting a court decision on whether the temporary injunc- tion against picketing should be lifted or continued perm- anently. “This is a damnable piece of legislation,” said CCF opposition leader Robert Strachan as the bill was introduced and given first reading Wednesday. Bill Black, president of B.C. Federation of Labor, called the legislation “a further demonstration of the Socred government’s attitude to organized labor.” ier Smallwood to esti m P