- ed delegates from throughout!

all unions be included

Foreign policy debate grows
as national statement issued

A New Party Seminar in: Douglas’ speech was the re-
Trail, B.C. last Saturday urged; lease from Ottawa of the draft
banning of nuclear weapons’ foreign policy statement of the)
and a policy of complete neu-| New Party which will be pre-
trality for Canada. | sented to the founding con-

The Seminar, which includ-; vention.

southern B.C., also urged that/ Party draft statement contain

membership in the New Party | some good proposals on for-

should be open to all unions} eign policy but still try to ride

inside and cutside the CLC.
Delegates sharply condemn-) alliance from which Canada’s

ed the aggressive action of the! foreign policy stems.

United States and took a stand |

for the right of every nation |
to political self-determination. | Vernon Banquet

The meeting endorsed the| Honours McEwen
Vancouver Labor Council reso-| VERNON: Serving the dual
lution against U.S. BEEreSsION anode se _bavsting he PT
2, ane : ‘ financial campaign and as a
Also this week, Premier T-) |: tnday tribute to its editor,
Semmes Sf Saskatchewan, Tom McEwen, a fine banquet

eng Shes ee of pe — were staged in this Okanagan
in Victoria that Canada shou centre last saturday.

not allow nuclear weapons on
its soil. Old timers gathered from
Douglas urged that Canada} many interior centres were
stop being a_ political andj introduced ‘by MC Nick
economic satellite of the U.S.,] Klim. A high tribute was
recognize China, and support} paid to the PT and its staff
the nations trying to throw off| by Sandy Mowers. McEwen
the yoke of foreign exploita-| was presented with a wood
tion. He sharply criticized) carving of the famed Okan-
U.S. action in Cuba. agan red hawk carved by Or-
Almost simultaneously with ville Mowers.

CRA Hits BCE Transit Cut
Urges Public Ownership

The recent, cut in Vancouver bus services by the B.C.
Electric came under sharp fire this week from Civic
Reform Association secretary. Mona Morgan.

In a statement she said ‘ ‘the |
transit cut projected for May}

| cheaper and more convenient

19 adds further proof that the| Service than the public can get
B.C. Electric with its round of} by private auto, the Toronto
service cuts and fare increases,| S¥Stem earned a net profit of
eannot provide our city with $1 million last year.
an effective transit system.” By reducing bus fares the
Mrs. Morgan said that only a| Toronto Transit Company is
publicly . owned -system pro-|trying to attract still more
viding cheap and fast service) customers and at the same
ean answer the growing traffic; time keep the number of priv-
problems of Vancouver. ate cars on city streets to a
She said many cities are dis-| minimum.
cussing the problem of bus “These things,’ said Mona
service, traffic congestion and; Morgan, “can only be done
auto parking, but so far Tor-| where the transit system is
onto is the only one doing} publicly owned and _ that’s
much about it. By offering what we need in Vancouver.”

YCL CONVENTION DANCE

SATURDAY, MAY 13 — 9 P.M.
HASTINGS AUDITORIUM

Dancing - Good Music
Folk Singing - Lunch

EVERYONE WELCOME

Both Douglas and the New}

| two horses on NATO, the Key}

Rumors that AFL-CIO Pre-
sident George Meany might re-
sign have broken out into the
open in U.S. labor circles.

The Butcher Workman, of-
ficial organ of the Amalgama-
ted Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen featured the possi-
| bility in a red-lettered quest-
ion on its cover: “Will Presi-
dent Meany Resign?” This
| article reveals that talk about
Meany’s resignation was cir-
culated widely around Miami
during the last AFL-CIO Ex-
ecutive Council meeting.

Also, a recent conference of
some 100 top. union leaders,
called by the AFL-CIO Indus-
trial Union Dept., vigorously
expressed its discontent with
things as they are. Sharp cri-
ticism was directed at Meany
for failing to implement the
AFL-CIO Executive Council
plan for machinery to resolve
jurisdictional. disputes.

The conference named a
committee to present its de-
“mands before Meany.

Meany is also running into

New Party seminar asks Will Meany Resign?

Rifts grow in AFL-CIO ©

GEORGE MEANY
. - man in trouble

trouble on other issues. In-
cluded among these is the
growing demand for the ad-
mission of the Teamsters Un-
ion and labor unity. Last
month the Hotel and Restaur-
ant convention urged immed-

iate action to ‘“‘bring all the

expelled unions back into t
ranks of the united [al
movement.”

The resolution said «it |
been’ abundantly demons
ed that the expulsion of ?
lions of union members of é :

ti

ferent international unl@ 4
from the main body of lay
has . . . damaged, disunit
and weakéned labor’s fight
capacity...”

Meany has been sever®

criticized for lack of leaé
ship in the fight against ™
employment. Other source?
friction are Meany’s attitlly
toward the Negro people, ©
matized in his bitter exch@ of
with A. Phillip Randolph, fe
his position on foreign poll@
which is facing its first PY
lic challenge in the
movement. (PT reported
week on the Chicago conlé
ence of trade unions *
peace and jobs). 3
Adding it all up, there : :
ingredients for a formid@
revolt, which might expl@
why rumors are rife
Meany might quit.

Meeting In Oslo

NATO s

Portugal’s Foreign Minister,
Dr. Noguera, took the chair at
NATO’s Ministerial Council
which met in Oslo this week.
and immediately showed the
character of the NATO alli-
ance.

Banging the same anti-Com-
munist drum as the U.S. Sec-
retary of State, Dean Rusk,
he sought NATO aid for Por-
tugal’s massacre of Africans
in Angola by talking of “the
dangers of Communist pene-
tration in Africa.”

The same theme was bela-
boured in different terms by
NATO’s new = secretary-Gen-

Regier Against
Nuclear Arms

Opposition to nuclear arms
for Canada was expressed by
Burnaby - Coquitlam M.P., E.
Regier (CCF) in a letter to
one of his constituents last
week.

Writing in reply to.a peti-
tion sent him urging no nu-
‘clear weapons for Canada
| Regier said he would try his
| best to impress ‘‘upon the gov-
ernment and upon the country
| the futility and yes even the
|danger of present defence
policy, which seems to be a
steady drift in the direction of
‘nuclear weapons” for Canada.

ows true colours

eral, Dr. Stikker, Norway’s
Foreign Minister Lange and
by Dean Rusk.

Rusk made it clear that the
U.S. intended to make its
fourth - coming . disarmament
talks with the Soviet Union
just an exercise in procedural
wrangling. He assured his fel-
low NATO Foreign Ministers
that the U.S. was deterinined
that the talks would not cover
matters of substance.

Rusk sought to buck-up the
Foreign Ministers with tales
of plans for “big space pro-
jects” to the Moon, Mars and
Venus, for which no dates.
have been set.

He also told his allies of
U.S. plans to step-up inter-

YCL CONVENTION
MEETS SATURDAY

The Young Communist
League of British Columbia
will meet in Convention in
Vancouver this coming week-
end, Saturday and Sunday,
May 13, 14.

Considerable atiention will
be given at the convention to
the problems facing young
people. Much aitention will
also be given to further build-
ing the youth movement.

A convention dance will be
held Saturday night at the
Hastings Auditorium, starting

at 9 p.m.

vention in South Viet at |
adding a threat of intetveg)
tion in Germany if the sow
Union signed a peace ba
with the German Demoet
Republic.

Canada’s Howard Gre
cautioned the U.S. to go sl
in Cuba and spoke a8 ae.
unilateral action, but ral |
said that outside interfere)
should only occur with
port of other Latin Ameria

nations, og |
4

Britannia Mines: :

wage talks ;

A wage package of 1
spread. over three yeal
being recommended bY —
bargaining committee of 00
663 Mine Mill and S®
Workers at Britannia
Bas:

The settlement was W?
out with the help of a P
cial conciliation office?
the workers had reject)
sliding scale wage based ong :
price of copper. {

Over two hundred wore }
are involved in the agre@l
During negotiations the
Sound Mining Company
ened to close their op? ah,
and arbitrarily lopped off :

ek a HS Oi rea et ati a alt aA

i

workers pension plan. pi
ter issue is still before
ration. 4

iY
May 12, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Palt