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, ilitary base not only for the purpose of waging war against the Viet-
~§ People, but as a threat to all South East Asia.

Charles Stewart to speak
at city May Day rally

: Charles Stewart, business
agent of Amalgamated Transit
Union, Division 101, will be one
of the feature speakers at this
year’s May Day rally in Van-
couver, sponsored by the Trade
Union May Day Committee,

He will share the platform-
with Kenneth A, Finis, Negro
trade union leader from San
Francisco, The concert-meet-
ing will be held in the Queen
Elizabeth Playhouse, Sunday,
May 2 at 8 p.m, :

Theme of this year’s May Day.
will be “Peace, Freedom, Se-
curity,”

NEXT WEEK

30th Anniversary
Souvenir Issue

@ 20 PAGES IN COLOR
@ IMPORTANT ARTICLES
@ PICTURES, CARTOONS

AND MANY INTERESTING FEATURES

LABOR ROUNDUP

Labor council hits Meany
support of U.S. war policy

This week’s session of the
Vancouver and District Labor
Council (VLC) approved arecom~
mendation “calling upon the Ca-
nadian Congress of Labor to
strongly oppose AFL-CIO execu-
tive endorsation of President
Johnson’s war on Vietnam,” as
stated by AFL-CIO president
George Meany,

At the conclusion of a lengthy
discussion on this motion,
“Chuck” Stewart of the Street
Railwaymen proposed an amend-
ment to add that “this is the
opinion of the members of this
Vie

“Anyone who speaks for labor

- jn the U.S, or Canada,” stated

another delegate, “has no right
or authority to support such
policies, and should be publicly

i——} condemned,”

Delegate McNeil of the ILWU
said that at the Nuremberg trials
“we hanged the Nazi warlords
for such crimes, and should prob-
ably consider hanging a few
others, President Johnson doesn’t
speak for the working class of
his country any more than Pear-
sen does, and obviously neither
does Ari-GCIO president George
Meany, He has plenty to do at
home — liberating 50 million
Americans from poverty,”

Another delegate declared that
Meany’s endorsation of the U.S,
war in Vietnam represents the
working class as “supporting an-
other war, and labor is much,
too silent about it, Are we going
to ask our young people to fight
a war which their parents don’t
believe in? We should be sending
food and machinery and text
books to Vietnam, instead of

killing.”
ek

A letter from the Oil& Chemi-
cal Workers to the VLC urging
greater participation of rank-
and-file union members is plan-
ning strategy and action in sup~
port of the Bookbinders strike
at Mitchell Press, sparked a
spirited discussion,

VLC secretary Paddy Neale
stated that there had been more
activity during the past two
months relative to the Mitchell
Press strike than in the past
two years, Neale also declared
that “the door is open” to all
who wish to help win this strike,

The VLC also strongly pro-
tested the large number of police
cars and officers “tied-up”
around the Mitchell Press plant,
engaged mainly in scab-herding,
“There is no violence,” stated
Neale, “nor threat of violence,
yet four police cars stay around
for hours, mainly to intimidate
pickets, A sheer waste of tax-
payers’ money.”

Vic Spencer of the Postal Em-
ployees added a final punch-line
when he drew VLC attention to
thése “little blue papers” (traffic
tickets) handed out to the public,
and bearing the legend * in fine
print, “Printed by Mitchell

Press.”
* * *

Two Centennial projects were
approved by VLC delegates, One
from the Marine Workers Union
proposing a nation-wide cam-
paign for the seven-hour day to

be won by 1967; the other in-
troduced by the VCL’s Commit-
tee on Human Rights, signaliz-
ing. the 20th anniversary of the
UN Declaration, and urging legis-
lation to enforce all such rights,

* * *

The VLC executive reported
receipt of a letter and printed
material from one DavidStanley,
self styled organizer of the so-
called “Natural Order” with
headquarters established at 1630
Albernie St,, Vancouver,

Secretary Neale strongly con-
demned the setting up of this
organization and regretted that
“such an “organization could be
permitted in B,C, to spread race
hate in violation of civil rights”
and stressed the need of legis-
lation to curb such activities,

The printed material from this
racist organization is in English
and French, while content is
mainly anti-Semitic, Omitted
from the materials received by
the VLC from “Natural Order”
was a small yellow slip mailed
to other individuals and organiz-
ations, announcing the date of an
“open forum debate” on the typi-
cal nazi subject, “The Jews Killed
Christ,”

ILWU delegate McNeil report-
ed that other similar racist publi-

cations from U,S, centers and
organizations such as the*Thun-
derbolt” published by “State
Rights,” were still coming into
Canada freely,

Delegate John Hayward of the
Street Railwaymen expressed the
hope that Premier Bennett’s re-
cent statements about “preserv-
ing our water heritage for our-
selves” is genuine, “At least he
is weakening,” stated Hayward,
“but we were sold out on the
Columbia, and surely not again,
and again, You are being literally
raped,” Hayward told VLC dele-
gates, in the alienation of B,C,
resources,
cet: * * *

Last week’s organized violence
against IWA pickets at the seven-
month Frolek Sawmills. strike at
Kamloops by agroup of hooligans, |
was brought to the attention of the
Kamloops and District Labor}
Council meeting by IWA Regional|
representative Bob Ross,

Ross told the KLC that “our
people are not going to sit back
in face of such actions, and will
defend themselves,” Ross dis-
played to council delegates some
of the weapons these “goons” had
confronted IWA pickets with, and
the threats that they had made,
The opinion is widespread that
these latest acts of violence
against IWA pickets has been in-
stigated by the Frolek Sawmills,

The New York Times.

THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1965.

MORTON SOBELL IS

INNOCENT

PRESIDENT JOHNSON
and must be FREED
SAY

HAROLD C. UREY * BERTRAND RUSSELL * MARTIN BUBER

and thousands of others

Above is a portion of an advertisement published March 11th in |
the Ne

Times urging freedom for Morton Sobell. The ad is signed by a Hetlob iianaiatane _

pererernts and contains an appeal to Pres. Johnson for a ‘Citizens’ Full Par-

don.’ Sobell has served more than 14 years imprisonment as a result of the Mc-

eee hysteria during the Korean War. The ad appeals to the public to write

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