Women’s news
and viewpoint

By RUTH DOHERTY

Last Sunday a memorial ser-
vice was held for the twenty-six
miners who lost their livesinthe
Granduc slide, and a Fund has
been initiated by the Union for
the survivors.

Widows of the slain men will
receive $90.00 a month from
W.C.B. and $35.00 for each child
under 16 years of age. Anyone
who has ever tried to fill up a
twelve-year-old will realize how
picayune this is, but even this is
an achievement, Years of tire-
less effort went into. winning
such benefits for’ workers and
their families,

Since slaves mined precious
metals for their masters in an-
cient Egypt, books have been
written vividly describing the
struggles and hardships of the
men who ventured below the sur-
face of the earth and their women-
folk .who awaited their home-
coming without certainty, lest
providence be tempted.

* * *

Under colonialism the most
cruelly exploited have been and
still are the tin miners and the
Africans who work in the gold
mines. Blood has been spilled
too wherever coal was mined,

Alongside this history of hard-
ship and death has gone a con-
sistent struggle for improved
conditions, safety precautions
and better pay, and the miner’s
wives have traditionally support-

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ed their men. Many a taleis told
of the women walking the picket
line when their men have been
driven off at gunpoint,

Whether the Granduc tragedy
could have been foreseen and
averted doesn’t seem to have
been established, but there’s no
doubt whatever that the import-
ant thing to the owners has been
to get the mine into production
as soon as possible and start
paying dividends to the share-
holders. It wouldn’t be the first
time lives had been gambled with.

* * *

In this automated age, men
must still bring the raw materials
to the surface before anything
can be built. These men who go
to the remote areas where most
of the minerals are located and
the women who marry them are
entitled to all the protection and
compensating amenities we can
give them, ©

Miners areamong the specially
privileged in socialist countries
and rightly so, Young men go to
schools to learn their trade be-
fore ever going underground, and
wages and hours are better than
average, It could happen here
too. 2

It isn’t the timid or weak who
go north today, and who knows,
perhaps a short time with such
a man is worth more to their
wives than a whole lifetime with
some complaining clod. May
they always remember.

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‘No forest license for

union-busting boss’

According to the “Kamloops
Sentinel” of March 18, Highways
Minister Gaglardi has offered
his services to conciliate in the
dispute between his Frolek Saw-
mills Ltd. friends and the IWA
strikers who have been on the
picket line since September 23,
1964,

Gaglardi is quoted as saying,
“I am sure a settlement can be
reached if everyone holds
steady.” From all accounts the
[WA picket line has been “holding

_ very steady” these last six months

--for the basic right of union or-
ganization and collective bar-
zaining--denied so far by Frolek
Sawmills Ltd. despite provincial
laws guaranteeing these rights.

(Some time ago the Hon, Davie
Fulton had volunteered to act as
conciliator, providing the “cli-
ents” of his law firm, the Frolek
Sawmills Ltd. agreed. Obviously
they didn’t).

Meantime the Western Can-
adian Regional Council ofthe IWA
over the signature of IWA Pres-
ident J.A. Moore forwarded a
letter to Cyril Shelford MLA
(SC), chairman of the Select
Standing Committee on Forestry
and Fisheries, This letter is
displayed in the “Kamloops Sen-

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The letter draws Shelford’s at-
tention to the facts of the strike,
and equally important to five
separate Frolek applications for
forest licences, In view of the

‘strike and the issues involved,
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with the law. Compliance with

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the provisions of the Labor Re-
lations Act is quite as important
as compliance with the provisions
of the Forest Act, ..

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support ofthe strikers, meantime

indicating to the Frolek scabs

that organized labor in B.C. will
not permit scabbing, Some of
them got the point.

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that community sentiment around _

Kamloops is strongly in support
of the IWA strikers,

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