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BLIND ON STRIKE IN TORONTO. Workers at the Canadian Institute of B ind are

shown on the picket line in Toronto. The average wage for these blind workers is
tween $48-$52 a week. One striker said he is supporting himself, wife and

child on $44 a week. They are demanding a guaranteed weekly wage of $60.

California Communist polls
86,149 votes in election

LOS ANGELES — Dorothy
Healey, Communist Party
Spokesman, received 86,149
votes for county sheriff,

Although the election law pre-
cluded Mrs, Healey being listed
on the ballot as the leading
Spokesman of her party, there
Was little question that more
People were made aware in this

—©@mpaign that a communist was
Tunning for office in this area than
ever before,

VIETNAM

Cont'd from pg. 1 .

To add to the picture: Re-
Cently Dr. Ursula Franklin of
Toronto, research director
for the Voice of Women,
Charged at a public meeting
that up to January, 1966, Can-
ada had contributed $250 mil-
lion in strategic war materials
to the U.S. war effort in Vict-
nam,

Parliament has never given
its approval to such policies
which violate Canada’s mem-
bership on the International
Control Commission,

It’s time Canadians de-
manded a full, frank state-
ment from Prime Minister
Pearson on the whole issue of
Canadian involvement in the
U.S. war in Vietnam, The
people of Canada want firm
assurances that Canada will
stay out of America’s “dirty
_War” in Vietnam, and that all
attempts by the U.S. to draw
Canada and Canadians into
that war will be repudiated,

Mrs, Healey, who is one of the

best known Communist spokes- -

men in the Pacific Northwest,
was supported in her campaign
by large numbers of youth, of
whom about 100 became the main
driving force of her campaign.

Speaking on campuses, Mrs,
Healey drew audiences far larger
than those attracted to meetings
of candidates for major con-
stitutional offices in the state,
At one rally at Valley State
College, organized by the Young
Democrats, 1,500 turned out to
hear her.

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CHEDD! JAGAN, leader of the People's

, Progressive Party of Guyana (formerly
British Guiana), will speak in Vancou-
ver's Kitsilano High School auditorium
on Wednesday, June 29th, under the
sponsorship of the Canada - Cuba
Friendship Committee.

LABOR ROUNDUP:
City strike wins support;
Woodworkers await report

In a letter dated June 12 to
His Worship Mayor W,G, Rathie
of Vancouver, President Jack
Flynn of the Vancouver Police-
men’s Union stated:

*The officers and members of
the Vancouver Policemen’s Union
would like to express to you,
and through you, to the Members
of City .Council, our whole-
hearted support of the strike ac-
tion taken by the Civic Employ-
ees Union (Outside Workers),

**As we are so vitally aware,
arbitration which is binding on
both parties, is not the answer
to this dispute, We addour voice
to those of other responsible
citizens demanding a re-opening
of negotiations between the City
and the Outside Workers Union
should the present effort being put
forth by Professor R,G, Herbert,
fail, ;

“Trusting that you will give this
matter further serious consider-

ation.”
* Ok OK

A “True Facts” bulletin issued
this week by the Outside Workers
Union further upsets Mayor Rath-
ie’s oft-repeated contention that
“this strike is not supported by
labor,”

According to the bulletin over
$15,000 in donations to the Union
strike fund have been received,
with more coming in daily, Cal-
gary Civic Employees Local 37
sent along a cheque for $1,643,
“that being $1.00 per member,”

“¢ Approximately $2,000 was
contributed by citizens using the

' Kerr Road Dump on Saturdays

when pickets were replaced by
observers, . .”

The Executive Board, Van-
couver City Hall Association. ..
sent a cheque in the amount of
$500. as an initial donation, . .”
More is to come from City Hall
(Inside Workers).

At the Kelowna convention of
the B.C. Division of the Canadian
Union of Public Employees
(CUPE) last week the delegates
assembled, “unanimously en-
dorsed support of your member-
ship in their strike, . .’? and
presented. guest speaker and
Union Secretary Jack Phillips
with another $585, to back up their
endorsation,

_ Vancouver Civic Employees
Union,. Local 407, which repre-
sents some 90 employees of the
Vancouver School Board hasalso
contributed from its general fund
and membership, $1,500. to the
strike fund, (This expression of
solidarity should have a special
significance to Mayor Rathie —
and to alderman Tom Alsbury,

_ —Ed.)

And just as we went to press
Local 1-217 of the IWA, itself
facing possible strike action
soon, forwarded another $1,000
to help the Outside Workers in
their strike,

The Union Bulletin also lists
some 30 major trade union or-
ganizations in B,C,, AFL—CIO—

_ CCL affiliates and Independents,

which have forwarded letters to
City Council, as well as financial
aid to the Outside Workers Union,

supporting their strike and urging
resumption of negotiations,

Meantime, industrial inquiry
commissioner Prof, Ray Her-
bert, appointed by Labor Min-
ister Peterson to seek a formula
for settlement of the civic strike,
is presently engaged in a federal
labor case in Kelowna, with the
Vancouver Outside Workers six
weeks strike left to“coast along”
until the commissioner can get
around to it, A “strategy’? which
smacks of “collusion” between
City Hall and Victoria to penalize

unions they cannot intimidate,
= * OK Ok

Armed with one of the highest
percentage strike votes in B,C,
labor history, some 21,977 to
1,321, and a “No Contract-No
Work” “guideline” to its Nego-
tiating Committee, International
Woodworkers of America(IWA);’
can “hit the bricks” any time
after June 15 when the present
wage contract expires,

IWA leaders have indicated
however, that no strike action will
take place until Mr, Justice Na-
than Nemetz, appointed by the
Socred government as a sort of
“mediator” in the lumber in-
dustry dispute, brings down his
report, And as one IWA spokes-
man told the PT — ‘It had better
be good!”

Meantime, IWA strike prep-
arations according to union local
papers are pretty well completed,
While facing its own big job of
winning its wage and other con-
tract demands, the IWA has con-
tributed generously to the strug-
gles of their fellow workers in
other industries, Some $3,000
has come from the Vancouver
local of the IWA to the Lenkurt
strikers, while substantial dona-
tions have also been made to the
Vancouver Civic Employees Un-

ion (Outside Workers) strike,
* * *

Sherwin Williams Paint Com-
pany office workers, on strike
for 12 weeks, reached agreement
with the company last week, Wage
increases up to $70 per month
were won along with other fringe
benefits, | Another major gain
was the reinstatement of all
workers fired by the company
for taking strike action. This
latter is a very important gain
since. Sherwin Williams went to
considerable lengths to victimize
its striking office employees,

Public support of the Sher-
win Williams workers played an
important part in their victory,
because of pressures brought to
bear on retail outlets of the

company’s products,
* Ok Ok

The following statement was
issued this week by K.A, Smith,
National President, International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers ( Canada):

“I must brand statements ap-
pearing in a news story in the
Vancouver Province (Monday,
June 13th), alleging that there
have been meetings between our
Union and the United Steelwork-
ers of America with a view to
merger as purely speculative,

*T state categorically that no
such meetings have occurred in
Canada and insofar as the Can-
adian Executive Board and mem-
bership is concerned, none are
contemplated, Our Convention
position of last January remains
today ‘the position of our Union,
on this matter. At that time a
proposal for meetings and talks
on the question of merger was
unanimously rejected by our Con-
vention delegates,

“In the United States, and this
is perhaps where the confusion
arises, meetings of the Industrial
Union Department of the AFL—
CIO have taken place in whichour
Union has participated together
with various other unions in-
volved in forthcoming negotia- .
tions in this industry, These
sessions have included both the
United Steelworkers of America
in the brass and copper industry,
as well as Mine Mill and several
other unions,

It is the long term policy of
our Union to seek active co-
operation and co-ordination of
tactics in all bargaining on both
sides of the Canada — Uhited
States border,”’

Charges of assault and obstruction were laid against the above trade unionists

who participated with hundreds of others on the Lenkurt picket line. Their cases
come up in the Burnaby Police Court in August. Front row, left to right: Mrs. Edna
Sheard, grandmother and wife of IBEW member; Tom Clarke, |WA; Jeff Powers,
Marine Workers. John Wood, IBEW. Back row, left to right: John Borris, Carpen-
ters; George Sharp, IBEW; Thomas Turbett and Walter Pooghkay, IKA. John Long-
worth, a Longshoreman is missing. All of this group except Mrs. Sheard are in-
cluded in the 29 facing contempt charges next Monday.

June 17, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

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