Friday, July 11, 1975

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15¢ VOL. 37, No. 28

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Oshima Day.

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alized.

Nagasaki.

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| Vigil, car cavalcade
to mark Hiroshima Day

Focussing its attention on the nuclear threat posed by the con-
Struction of the Trident nuclear submarine base at Bangor,

‘Washington, the Peace Action League will be holding a vigil in the
ancouver Courthouse Square, August 8, in commemoration of

|} This year marks the 30th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima,
devasted on August 6, 1945, (August 5 in North America) by the
} World’s first atomic bomb. Although an official U.S. estimate three
Months after the blast set the death toll at some 78,000, the city today

_ 78S an official roster containing the names of more than 200,000 vic-

_Under the theme, ‘‘No More Hiroshimas, No More Trident Subs,”
ils year’s vigil will continue from 4 to.9 p.m. A well-known speaker
S been invited to address the rally but arrangements have yet to be

pp, he Pacific Life Community which is one of the participants in the
day vigil, also plans a car cavalcade for the followimg day,
rking the anniversary of the bombing of the second Japanese city,

a bune that cars will start out from six U.S. and Canadian cities —
p kane, Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Victoria and Vancouver — and
lll converge on the site of. the sub base at Bangor. Departure and

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__ Pacific Life Community spokesman, Dr. James Douglass told the
; arrival times are expected to be set later.

‘HYPOCRISY AT ITS BEST’

Food monopolies

“Tt is ironic and hypocrisy at its.

best for these multinational food
chain monopolies to mount white
chargers to save the poor con-
sumer who they have been ripping
off from the beginning.”’

There is little else Meatcutters
union president George Johnson
could say as the food monopolies’
newly created Food. Council
pushed the possibility of a strike in
the retail food industry which could
hit the lower mainland by as early

: for oeetam’s flagrant disregard
ee laws of the land is not
: med to British Columbia or
Me alone,” charges Retail,

nplesale, Department Store
5 ton representative, Keith
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Sie representing Seagram’s
€rs at the New Westminster
eae commenting on a
4 Ution in the recently held
oar tional Beverage Workers
—€rence, held in Geneva,
tzerland. \
coe ee ates from 26 different
for ntries condemned Seagram’s
is their attempt to evade social
§lslation, collective agreements
Court rulings.”’
5 . case which prompted the
a ution occurred in Pizay,
; Nce where Seagram’s refused
an recognize the collective
Fe ment in force, inherited from
, pus management. The shop
C “% for the French union, the
and. was fired and blacklisted
“With aS now been more than a year
out employment.

Parte situation in France
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8 Eels the existing situation in
Sen? Sheedy commented. The
eram owned B.C. Distillery
Mpany has ignored repeated

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| Peace... said that the B.C.
again of- Labor’s hot edict
and he. Seagrams is working well
“4 8s effectively eliminated the
Pany’s sales in B.C.

the Tking through the Federation

Wes RWDSU has asked the

decini@” Labor Congress to
: Te a national boycott of all

an ©f2m’s products. ‘We expect

Sh answer within a week or so,”
Sedy said.

The Union has also filed con-

im of court charges against the

inn oy for their disregard of the

and a B.C. Supreme Court

On to reinstate the 80 em-

tne. _Who worked in the
€ry’s bottling plant.

decig
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dis

! pe have found employment for
__~ \¥ of them,” Sheedy said, “but.

@rd to reinstate 80 workers at .

ANTI-UNIONISM_ INTERNATIONAL

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certainly substantial com-
pensation is owed these people for
the lost earnings due to Seagram’s
illegal actions.”

The remaining 80 employees in
the plant have been on strike since
June 2. A voluntary contribution of
10% of earnings from strikers who
have found employment is helping

as next Monday.

agram’s

to maintain strike pay for those on
the picket line.

Predicting that the strike could
be a long one, Sheedy said it could
become a ‘“‘challenge for trade
unionists and fair minded citizens
throughout Canada and North
America as our call for a boycott of

Role

The more than 700 delegates to
the largest convention in 25 years
of the Communist Party of the
United States last week in Chicago

unanimously re-elected Gus Hall.

and Henry Winston to the leading
party positions of general
secretary and national chairman.

The four-day convention which
opened June 26 in Chicago’s large
Ambassador Hotel was followed
June 30 by a mass rally of more
than 6,000 cheering members and
supporters in the International
Amphitheater.

Busloads of people came from 37
states to the rally which climaxed
the four day convention. It was
billed as the mass celebration of
the bicentenary of the American
revolution.

“In the main report to the con- —

vention, party leader Gus Hall
hailed the vigorous growth of the
party inmembership and influence
since the last convention. ‘‘Who
can seriously challenge the fact
that we are now the most viable,
most influential, the fastest
growing, best organized, most
youthful, the liveliest,perkiest and
most united force on the left bank
of U.S. politics,”’ Hall exclaimed.

More than 200 new members
were brought into the party during
convention preparations, Hall
noted. The growth in membership,
he said, has complemented the
recent electoral gains for the party
which have seen CP candidates get
as much as 35% of the vote in local
elections. Special mention was
made of the campaigns which

all Seagram’s products expands.”

elected. two communists, Alva
Buxenbaum and Amadeo
Richardson, to office in New York
city and the campaign of Mark
Allen in Oakland, California who
polled the largest communist vote
in recent years. |

The convention decided to seek a
place on the ballot in the 1976

see CPUSA pg. 8

Negotiations in the industry’s
two largest sections, the bakers
and meatcutters, ground to a halt
last week, the companies in both
sections refusing to negotiate any
further.

While both the Sun and Province
flew kites about “‘panic buying”’ on
the part of desperate consumers
and the mass destruction of fresh
fruits and vegetables, union
representatives told the Tribune
that a shut down in the industry
could be averted if the companies
would return to the bargaining

- table,

Hugh Comber of the Bakery
Workers Union local 468 says that
there is “room to negotiate” in the
union’s demand for a $3.50 across
the board increase.

The bakers say that the demand
is a reasonable one as they are
coming off a two year agreement
and need a catch up as well as
some insurance against an-
ticipated cost of living increases.
‘Tt is negotiable,’’»he stressed, but
said the companies’ prefer “‘to do
negotiations in the newspapers
rather than at the table.”

Johnson cites similar problems
with the meatcutters negotiations.
“Their game plan was to set up a

long -time ago,” he said. The »

companies’ “made a mockery of
mediation proceedings,” Johnson
charged. :

The calculated efforts of the food
chains to create a disruption of
retail services this summer had its
origins some months ago with the
establishment of the Food Council
— a new bargaining association
which unites all the major food
companies from Safeway and
Super-Valu to Weston’s and
Toastmaster.

The Food Council has joined
hands with two other powerful

see FOOD pg. 8

forcing shutdown

fz

Ed Broadbent succeeded in
capturing the NDP national
leadership this week but only
after the fourth ballot had edged
out runner-up B.C. MLA

.Rosemary Brown. The final count

was 948 to 658.

Wood unions

set deadline

B.C.’s three forest unions have
set. a joint strike deadline for July
16. ‘
The decision was announced
Tuesday after a session of the
liaison committee which united the
IWA, PPWC and CPU. About 50,000
B.C. woodworkers will be involved
in strike action if no settlement is
reached by July 16.

In announcing the decision the
three unions stressed.that it was a
unanimous decision. It had been
speculated that strike action would
be delayed for a_ provincial
government industrial inquiry
commission, but the meeting
discounted that option. :

Members of the Young Communist Leag

ue began leafletting McDonald's restaurants this week in a campaign

aimed at changing discriminatory minimum wage legislation which allows employers to pay a lower minimum
wage to workers under 18. (Story, page 2).

—Sean Griffin photo