f took fa. WHOLE FAMILY SLAUGHTERED. Pursuing its policy of gen- cide in Vietnam the U.S. stepped up its bombings of orth and South Vietnam this week. Photo shows a Viet- LABOR ROUNDUP: namese family of six wiped out by the fighting. The U.S. now has over 90,000 troops in South Vietnam. Oil, sugar workers enter fight for decent contract Workers in the B.C. oil in- thee? under the direction of fir union, the Oil, Chemical d Atomic Workers, recently a strike vote showing a a7 Per cent majority in favor. Strike action; The union re- a a conciliation board re- ™Mendation of a 25. cent an T wage increase over two jaa and is demanding a Peace 40 cents raise in a “year contract. rere 740 oil workers are now Ng their ballots in a go- $thment-supervised strike vote it is expected the outcome ‘a Closely parallel the earlier Strip uthorized vote, Should atte € action materialize, it will ; Ct all of the big oil concerns -C, and may probably have © nation-wide repercus- Will Som Sions, To pe HONORED. T. C. Douglas, NDP Dou.” Will be honored at a giant hig ue Night Sat., Oct. 16 to mark - will © Yrs in public life. The event at ise held in the Showmart Building Will 4 NE. Many prominent citizens oF 5 ake part. Laurier Lapierre, host e V program, ‘This Hour Has Presa, Days," has been invited to “© over the event. ’ At the B.C. Sugar Refining Company, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union has also applied for a government- supervised strike vote, following rejection by the company of a majority conciliation board re- ‘commendation, Some 270 work- ers are involved. The union demands included a 25 cent an hour increase in a one year contract, The concilia- tion board recommended a 30 cent-an-hour increase over two years, The sugar company ‘‘of- fered’’ 16 cents in a two-year contract, plus a hard luck tale that the B.C, Sugar Refining Company does ‘‘not share in B.C.’s shooting economy.’’ Company president Forrest Rogers lamented that a 100 pound bag of sugar that sold for $16.60 in October of 1963 is ‘‘now sell- ing for only $6.70, so these wage increases are not justified in our industry.’’ A union mem- ber commented that the sugar workers ‘‘didn’t share in the company’s $16.60 per bag pros- perity.’’ * * * The Amalgamated Transit Workers Union in Prince Ru- pert have been on strike for five weeks. Cause of the dispute is the refusal of the Canadian Coachways Company, which bought the Prince Rupert Bus Lines, to recognize the union as the duly certified. bargaining agency under B.C, labor laws. The strike has drawn wide support from quite a number of unions in Northern B.C., in- cluding the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, the Pulp Workers Union and the Ru- pert Labor Council. Union pickets provide informa- tion to the travelling public be- tween Prince Rupert and Prince George, and despite company in- timidation and misrepresenta- tion, keep the picket line solid. The company has issued printed material describing the ATW strike as ‘‘a reign of fear.” The union is now seeking to have the bus drivers of Prince George and Prince Rupert cover- ed by a federal certification, * * * Hearings before the Ontario Labor Relations Board on Local 598, Mine-Mill application for certification at the INCO Sud- bury properties has just con- cluded its fifth sitting. Concen- sus of opinion is that were it not for the obstructionist tactics of the raiding Steel Union repre- sentatives at these OLRB hear- ings, the verdict in favor of Mine- Mill as the certified bargaining ‘agent for the 17,000 INCO work- ers would already have been established, Mine-Mill counsel John Nelli- gan characterized Steel’s delay- ing tactics before the Board as ‘tturning these proceedings into a farce,’’ Board chairman Reed agreed, saying that ‘‘the Board is disturbed.”’ It is expected that another ses- sion of the board will finalize the hearings and expedite certifica- tion. Even with all the cards ‘¢challenged’’ by Steel, Mine- Mill still holds only a small fraction less than 50 per cent. (A minimum 45 per cent is re- quired under Ontario law in or- der to obtain certified bargaining rights.) | UBC students map fee boost fight A strong protest movement against new high fees at the University of B.C. is expected when about 16,000 students re- gister soon for the new term, This was indicated when 40 stu- dent leaders said this week they would ask the students to with- hold their second term fees as a protest against the fee in-' crease, Byron Hender, president of the Alma Mater Society, in an- nouncing the protest decision after meeting the UBC Board of Governors recently, said: “The fee increase will cause many students to make a finan- cial rather than an academic decision.’’ Fees at UBC were boosted by $56 in May, resulting in basic tuition fees of $428 a year for undergraduates in arts, sciences and education. Fees are payable in two instalments—half in Sep- tember and a second payment in January. Students will be ask- ed to hold back the second pay- ment, Talk among the university stu- dents indicates that plans are underway for a strong campaign by students to take their case to the general public and every: level of government, In a brief which AMS presi- dent Hender submitted to the Board of Governors on August 11 he said that ‘fin 1964 only 27.9 per cent of male students and only 2.8 per cent of female students indicated earnings that would be considered sufficient to finance a year’s university work.”’ Acting university president Dr, John McCreary said he sympa- thized with the students, but add- ed that fees could only be lower- ed if the federal or provincial government increase university grants, At present the federal govern- ment contributes only 20 per cent of the cost of the university, and the provincial government only 40 per cent. The rest falls on the students, apart from what is raised through various endow- ments and grants, Last week Premier Bennett announced that provincial go- vernment policy had been chang- ed, and that instead of the emphasis being on highways, Victoria will henceforth in- crease aid to ‘‘health, welfare and education.”’ The crisis facing the Univer- sity of B.C, and other univer- sities in the province will soon put Bennett’s announcement to the test. The first step the go- vernment can take to prove the Sincerity of its ‘‘new policy’’ should be to cancel the pro- jected fee boost by absorbing the extra cost. “STAY OUT OF OAS’ The statement by Prime Mini- ster Pearson last week at Banff —that ‘‘before long we will be taking our responsibility in the OAS’’—has evoked a nation-wide demand that Canada stay out of the U.S.-dominated organization. Although he refrained from saying that Canada will join im- mediately, Pearson’s statement, along with his admission that the Cabinet is giving ‘‘sympa- thetic consideration”’ to the prob- lem, is the first strong indica- tion the government is consider- ing the step. It is widely acknowledged to- day that the Organization of American States is an instru- ment of U.S, policy in the West- ern Hemisphere. The U.S, go- vernment has pressured Canada for some time to join the OAS, Her: purpose in doing so is to tie Canada in with U.S. plans to dominate Latin America, and to have Canada use its influence in support of U.S. policies, Commenting on the Pearson announcement, The Vancouver Sun asked editorially last Mon- day: ‘*Could we be anything more. than a yes-man to the United States? Election Cont'd from pg. 1 ed on the voluntary and equal union of the two great commu- nities in our country, English and French speaking. These three great basic issues are still before the country and, un- til they are resolved, we face an uncertain and uneasy future, ‘The world is rapidly chang- ing before our very eyes and our country needs to be part of these changes, not tied to old policies calculated to defend the status quo, a satellite and pri- soner of U.S. policies. We pro- pose new policies for the new times and will formulate our electoral platform with this in mind,’’ concluded Kashtan, U.S. defending the ‘Free World’ Vietnam Los Angeles Rie September 3, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3 Eee a