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LETTER TO CHABOT

es Stewart of the Marine
Boilermakers Union last
®ek wrote a letter to Labor
Mister James Chabot. A copy
48 sent to the press:

Sir: In an address to the
nutified Accountants of B.C.
requested the trade unions to
ant temporary membership to

boeare recipients, the inference

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a that by granting
ay nbership = a job
lomatically appears.

May we point out the trade
Mons do not create jobs but
Sanize those who have jobs to
een the exploitation by
ther lovers. The employers are
the Ones who create jobs, being
© Owners of the land, mills, -
Bs. manufacturing, building
Ustruction, etc.

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tt me say that I know of no
a union that will deny
pibership to an unemployed
Benet if such membership
pu/d guarantee a job. . . The
€ union movement in its
pention and councils has
myeistently cried for
eye nment sponsored housing,
ty oPment of rapid transit for
80 areas, building newer and
Uh needed hospitals, the

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ding of trade delegations to

in hewly developing countries
frica and the socialist

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large extent this has fallen on
deaf ears and now when the
results of a policy of placing all
our eggs in one trading basket,
dependence on U.S. exports and
imports, we are faced with an
emergency which by your
statement it would appear, the
blame rests on the trade union
movement.

We in the trade union
movement have consistently
advocated the processing of our
natural resources in Canada in
order to develop secondary
industries rather than the
giveaway of those natural
resources for the development of
some other country.

We refuse to accept the
responsibility for the jobless
situation that bankrupt policies
of industry and government have
brought about.

WINTER WORKS

H. Ball, Surrey, B.C., writes:
With regard to the intention of
the Federal government to spend
close to one hundred million
dollars on a winter works
program, I am wondering what
will be the result by next spring
when this money will have been
spent. Will it have created any
permanent jobs? I think not.

If the government were to take
this money and build a steel mill,
it would be far more beneficial in
creating jobs, both for now,
during the winter months, as
well as for the future by helping
to establish other industries
from which many other new jobs
would come.

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IWA convention calls for
frade with all countries

The daily press last week
played up in-fighting at the
Regional IWA convention, but
ignored significant highlights of
the five day meeting in the
Georgia Hotel. Warm greetings
of welcome to Soviet Premier
Kosygin from the assembly, and
resolutions which urged
increased trade with nations
‘not affected by the (U.S.)
monetary crisis’ revealed the
delegates to the 34th annual
convention were concerned with
much more than raiding and

Alf Campbell
mourned

Well known in Communist and
progressive labor circles for
many years, dating from the
Hungry Thirties, Alfred Cowie
Campbell died in the Vancouver
General Hospital on October
23rd. He had been in poor health
for the past two years, suffering
from diabetic and _ heart
ailments.

Alfred Campbell, better known
to his wide circle of friends and
colleagues as “‘Alfie’’, was a
highly skilled plumber and
steamfitter, intensely active in
the union of his trade and widely
known in trade union circles in
Manitoba and Saskatchewan for
the progressive policies he
consistently advanced.

For a number of years Alfie
served on the national body of
the Canadian Labor Defense

League (CLDL) together with |

the late Rev. A. E. Smith and
Becky Buhay. On the CLDL Alfie
also played an active role in
Winnipeg, and later in Regina
and Saskatoon. In both areas
Alfie was also an energetic
organizer of the Communist
Party of Canada, and for a
considerable time on the
editorial staff of the Canadian
Tribune.

In his editorial work Alfie
specialized on the farm
problems as they prevailed in
those years, and was one of the
most penetrating and forceful
writers that the Canadian
working class had produced in
the field of farm and labor
journalism. On a number of
occasions Alfie was also the
Communist Party standard
bearer in election campaigns,
the most notable being in the
Prince Albert federal
constituency, in which he
contested the seat with the late
Liberal chieftain Mackenzie
King on the initial debut of that
crafty politician’s search for a
‘‘safe’’ seat.

A keen student of Scottish
bagpipe music and theory, Alfie
wrote an extensive memoranda
on the pibroch and its Gaelic
interpretations by Scotland’s
great masters of pipe music.

Alfred Cowie Campbell is
survived by one son, Donald
Campbell of Edmonton, Alta.

It is the wish of close relatives
and friends that all tributes (in
lieu of flowers) be sent to the
Canadian or Pacific Tribune, the
Communist and progressive

- labor press of his country, to

which Alfie’s allegiance and
devotion never faltered nor

dimmed.
\Viemorial service will be held

at the Boilermakers Hall, 1219
Nanaimo St., Saturday, Oct. 30
at 10:30 a.m.

Tom McEwen.

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jockeying for positions at the
top. :

The resolution which stirred
warm discussion had to do with
“raiding’’ locals of Canadian
Pulp and Paper Workers. The
decision to embark on such a
policy was not taken without
strong opposition from the ranks
and from one or two officers.

A substitute resolution urged
that the convention ‘“‘instruct it’s
officers to extend an invitation to
all unions in the wood working
and related industries to
participate in preparations for
joint collective bargaining in
1972.”

Further, it states that in the
event that— the leaders of any or

- all of these unions fail to respond

in a positive way, then the
officers of the IWA be
empowered to conduct a
campaign publicly and amongst
rank and file members of such
unions for a policy of co-
operation for the mutual
advantage of all woodworkers in
the struggle against the common
enemy, the boss.’

It stressed that hostility and
mistrust must be replaced by co-
operation, co-ordination and
compromise for the mutual
advantage before one union in
wood would be possible.

Although delegates okayed the
raiding resolution, they failed to
vote funds for the executive to
carry out such a policy.

Fallers on the Island have been
staging a cut-back in production
to protest the lack of progress in
talks with the big forest
companies. A resolution which
asked for a separate local for the
loggers was rejected at the
convention, with a counter
decision to place negotiations in
the hands of the regional

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“Fer years he nad me believing the
union contract forbids him to do the
housework!”

executive board, composed of
the presidents of all locals and
the five man council.

The loggers slowdown is a
result of safety conditions
existing on the job, work
probation periods, travel time,
and other grievances indigenous
to the hazardous occupation.

An earlier renort from the
safety director of the IWA, D. A.
Smith pointed out that in 1970
there were 53 fatalities in the
industry, 41 of them from
logging, log hauling, log sorting
or booming.

Bosses ‘union’

exposed at VLC

Mel Kemmis of the Bakery
Workers Union last week
exposed the type of contract the
“Christian Labor Association”’ is
negotiating for its members. At
the: last meeting of the
Vancouver Labor Council,
members listened with outrage
and amazement as he detailed
the facts: more than $100 a week
difference in the pay scale of
Venice Bakery in North
Vancouver where the
‘‘christians’’ profess to
represent the - workers,
compared with the wage scale of
the legitimate Bakery Workers
contracts.

‘‘During wage negotiations
employer and employees
representatives get down on
their knees and pray together,
and obviously they all pray for
the same thing — nothing,”’
Kemmis said scathingly.

‘‘The members don’t know
who their officers are; where the
meetings are held or any other
facts about their so-called
union.’’ He urged the VLC to’
investigate and inform workers
that the association is nothing
but a tool of the employers.

‘Incidently, the Dutch Reform
Church which allegedly spawned
this association was one of the
vociferous religious sects which

attempted to rally Van-
couverites into their antiKosygin
demonstration last week. )

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