Unions reject forced labor WILL NOT BOW TO COMPULSION. . . See below FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1972 Tribune EOE. SO e CRESAICEMETD RR ES VOL. 33, No. 23 “Labor minister Chabot’s provocative ultimatum ordering B.C.’s building trades unions to settle their 44 contracts or face compulsory arbitration is nothing but a bare-faced attempt to bail out the CLRA,’’ Nigel s AT ROYA a nonstr 9: NC No Forced SRA Bargaining Yes — Compulsory Ar Bc | See dal : this ea Made it very clear Com at it will not bow to appear sory arbitration and aie the discredited When oR Commission even Cabin £ted by the provincial As aaa Bill 33. Ministes ma Went to press Labor if the , cabot announced that don’t we ding trades unions Noon ae With the CLRA by i “dnesday the Cabinet, Minster at night in New West- and oa Would impose Bill 33 Mission " the Mediation Com- Compuls © step in to force a Unions cho, Settlement on the ert has boasted for en walki week that he has Orde; 4 ~!ng around with the The ia 'S pocket. Buildin nediate reaction of the throug trades Council. Kinnaing Its President Jim Was: “We’]] ignore the o t 3 COLLECTIY, et { A _ BARGAINING us ¢ i ees , = cu Y ene j a ‘BARGAIN! eae “a PR — Yin AReITaR Od : . yg ROPOSES + coOMPULSORt \ a ey comp No! Fe j YE CHABOT M& - ‘ hesremon >! S! imposes @ 4. NO! , ‘ynionists © ] : BTN NEW WESTIN ER its a erie pon the decree aimed at forcing u he Wednesday night as the Cabinet met ecdin Y arbitration on construction work inside th ers. Photo shows som damn thing; it’s as simple as ee eT unions have made it clear from the beginning that they will not appear before the Mediation Commission and would not accept compulsory itration. Srna said Wednesday that the union did not want this battle and that if given another week a settlement would have been possible through collective rgaining. gies Sone 18 of the Media- tion Commission Act (Bill 33) a government order would et the parties in the dispute 2 hours to resume work an provides stiff penalties for individuals and organizations. The Building Trades Council went into emergency session Wednesday and the B.C. Federa- tion of Labor, which has led the bitration No!” and epresenting many unions ith placards f the demonstrators with p f 1 °CLRA Proposes, Chabot Imposes — — Carey Robson photo ott of the Mediation Com- mean and the fight against compulsory arbitration, has called a meeting of staff members of unions for noon ay. des ati civic workers in the Lower Mainland this week were casting overwhelming votes against the settlement terms of the Mediation Com- mission in their dispute with the municipalities. Garbage 1n land may sme ‘ mell is no worse U Mediation Commission’s terms — that appears to be the opinion of the vast majority of civic workers. In Vancouver the vote among 611 tside workers (CUPE) was 6 5 104 in support of the Joint Negotiating Committee. See CIVIC WORKERS, pg. !2 the Lower Main- I] rotten, but the than the Morgan, B.C. leader of the Communist Party charged following a meeting of the party’s provincial executive Monday night. “The announcement that the cabinet is going to take a hard line stems from the fact that the: contractor’s association’s two month old lockout is collapsing, and with it the government’s anti-labor, ‘wage-freeze’ policies. The Carpenter’s Union alone has signed 151 new agreements all over the province, and a whole number of sizeable construction jobs have worked right through — with firms having changed their names to get around the lockout restrictions.” Morgan said Chabot’s talk about the urgency of hospital and school construction is down- right dishonest. He _ said everyone knows the unions agreed right from the start to continue working such jobs. “Tf Chabot and the cabinet were genuinely concerned about the ‘public interest’, instead of using state machinery to oppress labor, they’d call on the contractors to lift the lockout on such projects, as was suggested in a full page union ad in this week’s press,”’ Morgan declared. ‘‘Instead, the Social Credit government’s ulti- matum is aimed at the unions — instead of the employers who are responsible for the lockout.”’ He charged that Chabot did a right-about-face when he went to _ a special cabinet session in Terrace after a meeting with the CLRA, because the bosses groupbecause the bosses group called for government inter- vention to stem a back-to-work movement and rising dissatis- faction within their own ranks. Morgan charged that the Socreds are getting desperate. “They are running into increased hostility from the popu- lace on their election tour of the province, and they haven’t for- gotten how few votes separated a dozen of their MLAs in the last election from defeat. They are desperately casting around for an election issue to mobilize the reactionary right behind them. They are worried, and not without good cause.”’ The Communist Party leader said the Social Credit’s ‘big whip’ labor policy has failed. ‘They introduced Bill 88 to break the bargaining power of the powerful building trades unions. It had to be withdrawn before the Legislature ended, and the attempts since of Labor Minister Chabot and the CLRA to write it into new contracts has failed. “Union after union has voted down the 6.5 percent maximum wage increase formula of the Socred government, the latest See CHABOT, pg. 12 World protest frees Angela —See pg. 5