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“Before I went to Saigon, I had learned and read that
napalm melts the Flesh, and I thought that’s nonsense, because
I can put a roast in the oven and the fat will melt but the
meat stays there. Well, I went and saw these children burned
by napalm, and it is absolutely true. The chemical reaction of
this napalm does ‘melt the flesh, and the flesh runs down
their faces onto their chests and it sits there and it grows

there . . . These children can’t turn their heads, they were so
thick with flesh . . . and when gangrene sets in, they cut off
their hands or fingers or their feet; the only things they cannot
cut off is their head.”

— Martha Gelhorn, writing in last January’s issue of the
Ladies Home Journal

LABOR SCENE:

This is important!

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Thanks to special arrange-
ments for this 50th Anniversary Tour, Air Can-
ada will fly you Vancouver-Moscow return at a
discount of better than 40% off the regular 21-
day excursion fare. HOWEVER, in order to qual-
ify, all participants must have their deposits in
Globe Tours’ office by October Ist. This is DEFI-
NITELY the final date for booking.

September 8, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE— Page 12

Unions call for strongef
anti-pollution program

This week’s session of the
Vancouver and District Labor
Council unanimously approved its
executive’s recommendation that
the provincial government must
extend its Fraser River pollu-
tion control by also prohibiting
industrial waste being dumped
in the river,

While commending the govern-
ment for its action in requiring
all municipalities affected to in-
stall sewage treatment facilities,
and that no municipal raw sewage
be dumped, the VLC urged that
industrial waste also come within
the government order.

The VLC further proposed,
since the costs of installing sew-
age treatment plants would con-
stitute a too heavy financial bur-
den on the already overloaded
municipalities, that the cost ar-
rangements for such plants be
shared by the three levels of gov-
ernment, with the federal govern-~
ment assuming the largest share,

Secretary Paddy Neale re-
ported that both the VLC and the
BCFL had been bypassed by the
sponsors of the recent Fraser
River pollution conference in
Surrey, and consequently had no
opportunity to present intended
briefs before that body.

The VLC also adopted an ex-
ecutive recommendation urging

the Prince Rupert Fishermen’s
Co-operative to rehire 40 of its
employees’ involved in the recent
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers strike, as all other
fish packing plants did at the
terminaion of the dispute.

In current UFAWU-Co-op ne-
gotiations for a new wage con-
tract, the latter are demanding
strike penalty clauses while con-
tinuing its anti-strike victimiza-
tion of those of its employees
involved in the strike. The VLC
motion was brief and to the point;
“rehire those 40 workers first —
then anew collective agreement,”

“I always thought,” stated a
VLC delegate, “that the co-ops
were part of a workers’ move-
ment, always friendly to labor,

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