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573 East Hastings St.
Phone 254-3711

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hospita

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gains community support

By ERNIE KNOTT

Sandringham hospital is part
of a national private hospital
chain which made a pile of

‘money last year by underpaying

its staff and over-charging its
elderly patients.

The staff in Victoria, mainly
women earning the basic
minimum of $1.50 per hour and
having no job security, has been
organized into a CUPE local.
These women have been on.
strike for several months for
union recognition, and to get a
decent wage and better working
conditions.

Management has _ stubbornly
resisted despite wide-spread
public support for the strikers.
Such figures as Dr. G. Scott
Wallace, Socred MLA for Oak
Bay and Msgr. O’Connell of the
Catholic church, as well as the.
organized, labor movement have
declared their sympathy with
the women.

The company has resorted to
using all the dirty tactics in the
book to protect its scab labor. A,
home guard service run in part:
by ex-convicts using police dogs
and the city police are some of
the methods employed to harass
the strikers and volunteer
pickets.

The labor movement and its ~

supporters have been main-
taining a round the clock vigil to
prevent delivery of fuel oil to
bring the matter to a head. The
upshot has been a wave of
violence with shots fired through
the fuel oil company’s storage
tanks, bomb threats, and picket
line action. Strikers have been
run down by company and scab-
operated vehicles.

This issue reaches much

further than the Sandringham -

dispute. It has become a minia-
ture Caesar Chavez farm
workers struggle for it has now
come out that the struggle of

Labor veterans mourned ;

JAMES (SCOTTY) GORDON

Many friends attended a
memorial service to James
(Scotty) Gordon Tuesday.
Alderman Harry Rankin paid
tribute to Scotty who was born in
Scotland in 1911.

Migrating to Canada in 1927, he
leaves his wife, Ethel, two sons,
Arthur and Ian, and a daughter,
Alice.

Scotty was active in the Single
Unemployed Union in the
Thirties, taking part in many
demonstrations. He served
overseas for three years as an
NCO in the Engineers during
which he was wounded and decor-
ated for bravery.

A socialist most of his adult
life, he was also an active trade
unionist. For three years he was
vice president of Local 452,
Carpenters, and at the time of
his death was an elected
business agent of the local union.

Scotty was a strong fighter for
world peace, and an ardent
reader and supporter of the PT.
He will be sorely. missed by his

family and his many friends.
ates —H.P.

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age of 89.

Though ill for a number of
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migrated from Spain to the U.S.
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Martin was married in Port
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wife, three’ sons and grand-
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these workers who represent
thousands of other private
hospital employees and other
underpaid service workers in
B.C., is also the struggle of the
Victoria daffodil pickers who
receive .90 cents to $1.25 an
hour; the strawberry pickers
and other agricultural workers
who receive starvation wages.

The company, on the basis of
its super-profits, is now prepar-
ing to build a multi-million dollar
retirement complex in Oak Bay.

Organized labor and the public
generally must continue to
support these brave women on
the picket line who are receiving
$20 dollars per week, so that they
can carry through the struggle of
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