EE TCR —Sean Griffin photo Suspended after a walkout sparked by management's failure to conclude a new collective agreement, workers at the White Spot restaurants in North Vancouver, members of the Canadian Food and Allied Services — a Confederation of Canadian Unions affiliate — took to the picket lines for the first time this week. Walkouts have also occurred at other units in the restaurant chain, owned by the multi- national corporation, General Foods. CIA activities must be probed : Cont'd from pg. 1 : B.C. to have the facts of CIA operations when the people in the US., including the U.S. Senate select committee, are having trouble trying to get the CIA to give them the facts concerning the _ world-wide activities of this super- secret agency? One thing is certain about revelations disclosed up to now. The very worst that people suspected of the CIA was not bad enough. The CIA has been revealed as not only an_intelligence- gathering agency, but as an in- strument of U.S. foreign policy and the giant U.S. corporations. ’ Wherever U.S. investments and political influence has gone, there the CIA has. followed. The list of CIA horrors is unending. All the charges made above are not~the figment of a. paranoic imagination: they are widely admitted today. What is being held back by the CIA are the details — the facts which will reveal the whole iceberg of massive violence and corruption — and not just the tip. Have CIA agents been operating in B.C. — one of Canada’s richest raw material provinces and a major source of materials, with an economy dominated by U.S. corporations, and with a strong left ~ wing and radical movement? One would be naive in the extreme to believe that the U.S. government and corporations have no interest in B.C. affairs and are adopting a “hands off’ policy. How out of keeping that would be with what we know of the CIA now? But the CIA does not have to rely solely, or even mainly, on sending its agents into Canada to get the job done. Recent disclosures in Alberta, and now the charges in B.C., reveal that the CIA is cer- tainly operating everywhere. Some months ago it was revealed that Canada was operating a costly “research” facility in Canada’s north ostensibly for space research but which actually turned out to be a giant intelligence gathering agency for the U-S. It has also been known for a long time that there exists the closest integration of the RCMP. S&I (Security and In- telligence) branch with the CIA and FBI. This close tie has existed for a long time, at least since the launching of the cold war in 1945-6. This is the period in which the CIA has been engaged in its world-wide nefarious and shocking activities. In defending his charges, Hurtig called for a full public probe by Parliament of the CIA’s activities in Canada and offered to appear personally to present his material before such a body. The least Ottawa can do is to launch a full probe of CIA operations in Canada, but in our opinion such a probe — which must be open to the public — should go further. It should in- Vestigate the extent of Canadian integration with U.S. agencies such. as the CIA, and to what extent Canadian intelligence agencies have collaborated with the CIA in many of its ventures, and to what extent that collaboration is being _ continued today. LABOR SCENE Forge a labor alliance By BRUCE MAGNUSON Addressing the Eighth Con- vention of the Federal New Democratic Party, Joe Morris, president of the Canadian Labor Congress said: “‘The new leader (of the NDP) will be confronted immediately with the respon- sibility for guiding this social movement out of the political morass in which it has become mired, of building the morale and teamwork so essential for success; and of leading the party to the political victories it so rightly deserves. ...” When the right-wing social democratic and trade union leaders decided to restructure the Canadian labor movement from the top in the mid-1950’s, the aim was to broaden the base of social reformism within the working class. Hence the appeal for “a political realignment which would reflect the ideas and aspirations of the working people of Canada.” It was this which made the terms “social movement” and “‘party” interchangeable in terms of propaganda appeals to progressive electors across the country. The Regina Manifesto of the old CCF was abandoned in a move to the right to meet the conditions of cold. war and anti-communism. What came out of all this was a “new” social democratic party — the “NDP. That was‘in 1960. And, now, 15 years later, where are we? Here is what Joe Morris had to say: “‘.. . I would be less than honest if I said that the product of that decision — The New Democratic Party — had been all thatits founders had hoped for. In the short space of time ... the party has’ had notable~ and outstanding successes, as well as failures.” Today when inflation and unemployment are getting out of control because of the monopoly drive for maximum profits, the- ideas and aspirations of the. working people for a better life are being frustrated and crushed into dust in the most brutal manner. In such a situation one would expect that a party founded on ‘‘workers’ aims. and aspirations’ would flourish and grow in power and influence. But while the trade union movement has doubled its membership in 15 years, the number of Federal NDP MP’s elected in the 1974 election was cut in half, from 31 to 16. And, while the NDP holds power in three provinces, the greatest federal loses were sustained in B.C. where the party holds provincial power. No headway has been made in French Canada, and very little in the Maritimes. Only a small segment of organized workers are affiliated with the party. And only PACT RECOMMENDED Cont'd from pg. 1 Association chief spokesman Jerry : Spitz that the program was being used ‘‘to fill the union’s coffers.”’ The UFAWU had replied swiftly to the charges, calling them ‘‘sheer hypocrisy”’ and pointing out that the real concern of the Fisheries Association was the huge spread between the price charged by the UFAWU at its public sales and that charged the consumer at the retail level. . “Contrast our price with the $2.50 per pound being charged at the supermarket and itis clear that the fishing companies are the price gougers,’’ the union declared. The companies also attempted last week to bring an.end to the PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUGUST 8, 1975—Page 8 F strike through government in- tervention and binding arbitration in a request wired July 31 to premier Dave Barrett, labor minister Bill King and recreation and conservation minister Jack Radford. The Association had reportedly been vague about the form of arbitration it wanted but clearly wanted it to be binding. ‘This was a proposal right out of the policy book of the Employers Council of B.C.”’ the union stated in a release, referring to that organization’s efforts to impose controls on wages. The request was denied by Radford along with a’ suggestion that the companies return to the bargaining table. one out of every four members affiliated votes for it in federal elections. Only one-third of union delegates eligible attended the Winnipeg Convention. “‘.. Trade unions have sup- ported and nourished the ‘social democratic movement in Ganada as a political arm... ,” says Joe Morris. ‘‘The Canadian labor movement as an institution has adopted policy decisions on the~ majority of economic, social and political issues, which confront our members as Canadians. “These decisions are, in the main, complimentary to the vast majority of pglicy decisions arrived at in New Democratic Party conventions, but at times there may be a difference of em- - phasis. “On occasion there may be more pronounced differences and IL -believe there have been obvious and important issues of con- frontation between sections of the labor movement in Canada and elected New Democratic govern- ments in some of the provinces. I -would hope that these issues could be kept to a minimum with proper liaison and understanding and resolved quickly. I cannot stress too greatly the need for liaison on a continuing basis — particularly where the New Democratic Party is in a position of power.”’ The Joe Morris appeal speaks for itself. But obviously there is more involved here than a small matter of ‘liaison on a continuing basis.” The paternalistic and bureaucratic concept that the trade. unions should support and nourish a social democratic party in Canada as a “political arm”’ means a separation of economic from political struggle and the abandonment of the political struggle by the trade unions. It means leaving the politics of the class struggle to the tender mer- cies of the ‘‘experts”’ in the NDP, and to their parliamentary and/or legislative caucuses. ° But the class antagonism is an » labor, by the rule of labor over objective reality that cannot be wished away or bypassed in any way. It is all-pervasive. The dif ficult social ‘and economi¢ problems facing Canada and all capitalist countries today ale rooted in monopoly capitalism and imperialism, a socio-economic system which has become obsolé and is being replaced by a neW socialist system of society. We need to couple the scientific and technological revolution witha social revolution, a revolution that | replaces the present sta monopoly power by working class political power. Only such a neW |= system of society can meet to UK | full the rising expectations of ou! | age. S It is necessary to combine economic with political struggle, @ merge parliamentary with. extra parliamentary mass struggle: bringing into full participation bow the working class and democrati movements of the people, ail uniting all the broad masses W are exploited by monopoly capita It is not possible for any on@ party or group in our society to! this. It calls for a broad alliance © all anti-monopoly and progressiv@ forces. It demands, above all elsé the co-operation of socialists al communists to raise the social an political consciousness, and — unite the working class and ! trade unions as the core of a broa social movement capable © isolating and defeating the mull! national and national corporations political stranglehold on stat power. 2 - We must not confuse the nati nal | and public interest with that of th interest of big capital which acts 2 the exploiter of the people. We ar indeed entering into a new era, ! which the greatest challeng facing organized labor, th working class and democratt movement is to put an end once” andor all to the exploitation of ma” by man; or in other words replace the rule of capital ov” — capital. ae Unsafe trucks issue in post office probe Cont'd from pg. 1 recognizing the possibility of defective trucks, Hamilton said that the union will co-operate fully in the inquiry and will be presenting its point of view. The vehicles in question are the: light delivery vans of the Ford 130 series, and the Dodge 134 series. They have been modified for postal work and are equipped with oversize box areas. All three deaths involved these vehicles, and all three occurred in similar cir- cumstances which Hamilton said “clearly indicates a serious weakness in the vehicle.” The trouble area seems to be the suspension system of the vehicles, which Hamilton termed obviously deficient. With the poor suspension, and the oversize load the vans are carrying, any sudden and sharp change in the direction of the van will shift the centre of gravity and flip the van over. If the driver is driving with his door open, and is not wearing a seat belt, he will be thrown from the vehicle and crushed beneath it. This has been the case in the three deaths. Hamilton explained that the drivers find it nearly impossible to . drive with the doors closed becaus® Js the ventilation in the vans is 5° inadequate (the ventilation coh | sists of two small vents in ¢ ‘extreme rear of the van, far away from the driver’s area) that thé drivers feel as though they a suffocating. ‘‘And,” he said, ‘most of our drivers cannot wear Se@” belts because of the simple fact | that only about 80 of the 260 vans 1? | service are so equipped.” He pointed out that the union has asked all of the drivers to driv@ with the doors closed and wear se4” belts, but added, “if any drive! refuses to operate a van because w does not have a seat belt, we'lé | going to insist that the Post office | find him a van that has belts.” | The union has demands othe! than for which the inquiry will tale place. They have said that they wi “fight for proper ventilation in th¢ vans, the installation of fans and | seat belts, safety bars on all doors: | and an immediate upgrading of th® | suspension system.” ee fl Hamilton explained that all © | these are essential to provide safe | working conditions for the driv of the vans. “Right now, we ha an awful lot of very frighten drivers who simply do not feel $ in these vans as they are.”