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PENTICTON, B.C. (CP)
— In the drive to organize
bank workers, competing
unions must be careful not

to “‘divide the spoils before
the battle has even started,”
the British Columbia
Federation of Labor was

. Unity issue
gamesmanship

PENTICTON, B.C. (CP).
— The federal government's
national unity campaign “is

litical gamesmanship of

e worst kind,” Joe Morris,

resident of the Canadian
bor Congress (CLC), said
Tuesday. . _

Morris said in an in-
terview unemployment and
inflation are the country’s
major problems ‘‘and if we
can cure those two
problems, I think national
unity can go a long way to
being solved.”

Earlier, Morris said in a
speech to the British

olumbia Federation of
Labor the country is being
torn apart by the gas
mesmanship of politicians
“who care not one whit for:
the welfare of the country
but only for their political
security.” ;

Morris said the congress
“is committed to a united
Canada.”

“It is time we collectively
turned our hand to the wheel
of saving this country from

its politicians and from
itself."
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The labor movement must

become more politically

involved and should throw

its support behind the New
Democratic Partv—"'the

only political party we have
that Fives a damn about the

-hopes and aspirations of

working people.”

Morris said there seems to
be a widely-held view that
once a person becomes a
Jabor leader, he “is sup-
posed to | be neutered

politically.
el, I'm not that kind of

Morris said the British
Columbia labor movement
has problems, but it brought
some of the problems on
itself by nat working ac-
tively enough to reelect the
New Democratic. Party
government in the 1975
provincial election.

Some leaders of the B.C.
Federation of Labor had

. been harshly critical of NDP

licies which affected the

bor movement.

“We seem to have an
unconscious habit of eating
our own,” Morris said.

Delegates to the con-
vention approved a
resolution urgin
240,000-member federation
“and all democratic-minded
people to close ranks and
mount a campaign around a
common program to defeat
Social Credit at
provincial and municipal
levels of government.”

US. pulls out
of labor grou

WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Carter pulled the
United States out of the
tah nbr abe rt
Organization . (1LQ)., on
Tuesday, mar ‘the |
U.S. withdrawal from a
United Nations agency since
the world organization was
founded in 1945.

Carter said the ILO is no
longer . committed - to its
original purpose—to im-
prove the lot of workers
around the world. Critics
say the agency has increas-
ingly fallen under Soviet and
Third World domination.

As he was withdrawing
U.S. support from the ILO,
Carter criticized the UN
sharply for a ‘‘disap-
pointing” record on human
rights, but he pledged his
full: support to the world
organization. .

"The U.S. remains read:
to return whenever the
is again true to its proper
principles and procedures,"
Carte. said, His statement
was read to reporters by
Labor Secretary F.
Marshall.

REASONS FOR QUITTING

Marsalt gave these four
reasons for Carter’s
decision to withdraw from
the agency:

—The ILO has not applied

labor standards equally

among all of the countries
the world.

_ —“The agency frequently
in-

1
“without adequate

vestigation.”

—Politics often enters into
ILO considerations and
countries are condemned

‘ for “extraneous political”
reasons.

fe ‘tirst ”

Ray ©

—As_ originally
established, JLO delegations
contained representatives of
labor, industr and

emmment,..Each ,repre-,
aevied its Own ‘constituency...

the .

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Now too many delegations ©

represent ‘‘governnients
almost exclusively.”

The ILO aims at im- ,

proving world labor con-
ditions, living standards and
economic and _ social
stability. The agency has
been a main source of
statistics on hours, pay and
labor safety.

WON NOBEL PRIZE

In recent years, it set up
technical training courses in
former colonial areas of
Africa and Asia. It received
the Nobel peace prize on its
50th anniversary in 1959.

Carter’s decision will
weaken the ILO. The US.
contribution to the ILO has
been $20 million a year,
about one-fourth of its
budget.

However, Marshall said
the agency ‘will continue to
receive money from the U.S.
because it obtains part of
the regular U.S. con-
tribution to UN operating
funds. He said the U.S: also
will continue to contribute
labor information.

The secretary said the
impact on U.S. relations
with other countries will be
minimal and that the with-
drawal sets no. US.
ecedents regarding other
agencies,

He denied that leaving the
ILO would increase Soviet
influence in the agency.

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warned Tuesday.

“The 150,000 bank
workers are not going to be
organized by all of us sittin
on our narrow jurisdictiona:
interests,"’ Laraine Singler
of the B.C. Government
Employees Union told
delegates to the federation’s
annual convention.

Singler and other
delegates criticized the
federation executives for
urging affiliates to back
local 15 of the Office and
Technical Employees Union
(OTEU) in its campalgen to
organize bank workers.

The federation executives
said in their annual report
“if the labor movement is
not careful, differences
between unions may well
get in the way of the ef-

ective organization of one

of Canada's most exploited

Ferry

VANCOUVER (CP)
The executive of the British
Columbia Ferry and Marine
Workers’ Union has voted
unanimously to recommend
acceptance of a proposed
first-agreement with the
BC. Ferry Corp., union
president Shirley Mathieson
said Tuesday. .

The proposal is contained
in mediator Clive McKee’s
report and has been sent to
Labor Minister
Williams.
report were not released.

Mathieson said in an in-
terview there still were
some outstanding Issues to
be resolved, including hours
of work.

Spokesmen for the Crown
ferry corporation were
unavailable for comment.

McKee was appointed
special mediator by the
labor minister in hopes he
could solve the areas of
bitter disagreement be-
tween the two sides which

Watergate
burglar
charged »

NEW YORK (AP) — Con-,
victed Watergate burglar
Frank Sturgis has been
charged wi harassing a
woman who claims they
both were assigned to as-
sassinate President John
Kennedy in Dallas, Tex.

Sturgis, 52, of Miami was
seized Monday night in the

Manhattan apartment of ©

Marita Lorenz and charged
with harassment and
coercion in connection with

the testimony she gave |

investigators for the House
of Representatives com-
mittee on assassinations.
The committee is in-

Allan . &
Details of the -

groups of workers.”
Singler said the federation

‘-was contributing to the

problem by specifically
picking out the OTEU for
support.
MAKES STRIDES

An independent union, the
Service; Office and Retail
Workers Union of Canada
(SORWUC), has made the
most headway in organizing
B. C. bank workers.

SORWUC, a relatively
new. union dedicated to
organizing working women,
has won certification from
the Canada Labor Relations
Board to represent workers
at 15 bank branches.in B.C.
and has applied for certifi-
cation in 10 other branches.

Singler said she was dis-
appointed the federation
executive had not recom-
mended the Canadian Labor

&

Congress (CLC) policy
which urges all affiliates in
the labor movement to ‘'to
rally and organize ... to set
up a national union for bank
people.”

- A delegate from the
Canadian Union of Public
Employees (CUPE)
suggested that the Canadian
labor movement should
support OTEU organizing
efforts in the provinces

where SORWUC isn’t
organizing.
Len Guy, secretary-

treasurer of the federation,
defended the executive
recommendation to support
the OTEU because it is
federation policy to back its
affiliated unions.

Guy referred
executive report to a
damaging split in the
federation which hurt B.C.

in the

Recommend acceptance

led to a week-long strike by
ferry workers last month.

The strike, in support of
contract demands for
overtime pay and job
security, was carried out in
defiance of a government-

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ordered 90-day cooling-off
period and a Labor
Relations Board cease-and-
desist order.

The 2,600 union members
decided to return to work
after the sides gave McKee

| Bankers.among the most exploited

get out and organize, unions told

labor leaders in their fight
against sections in two bills
introduced by the Social
Credit government.

“It is extremely difficult
for your executive to stem
the tide of anti-labor
legislation when ‘a labor
spcil b up nt
criticizes the action planned
by the executive council and
affiliated unions,’’ the
executive report said.

“Not only did. such
criticism weaken the cen-
tral labor body’s bargaining
strength on the specific
issue involved in this case,
but the criticism prevented
your elected vebanning
tatives from planning
similar strategy when
further legislation was in-
troduced that threatened
our existence.”

He apparently was

workers eye settlement

16 working days to reach a
solution in the dispute,
during which time there
would be no harrassment by
either side. That period ex-
pired last week but the sides
continued mediation efforts.

THE HERALD, Wednesday, November 2, 1977, PAGE 5

referring to Jack Munro,
regional president of the
International Woodworkers
of America, who had
ridiculed a poll by the feder-
ation executives to assess
support for a general strike
against anti-labor laws.
Munro said he had not

been told specifically
whether the repor! referred
to him

The possibility of a
general strike was rais
after the introduction of two
government bills with
sections which would
decertify . the unions

representing employees of
the now-disbanded Van-
couver Resources Board
and would abolish the
faculty association of Notre
Dame University in Nelson,

Those sections were sub-
sequently withdrawn, but a
new amendment was
brought in removing
university faculty members
from the jurisdiction of the

ed 35.C. Labor Coda

Guy refused to name the
person referred to in the
report ‘‘because it is a dead
issue now.”

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