fice sitdown on the occasion

| Fits 35th anniversary and the

; fcrence of Harold Winch’s
: : ious legend-building in the
Vince, Steve Brodie, one of the

faders of the sitdown who was

: Roly injured by the R.C.M.P.
| “tote a letter with his recollec-

E ti
3 '8Ns of Bloody Sunday. Brodie is

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~ hear

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~ Placed t

lef

a tye . .
F ©W living in Victoria.

I read the article in the

Tribune this week reminding us

. during a great portion of
1 hundred years of exis-

~ lence, the R.C.M_P. has func-

toned as lawlessly as any

fase;
Pa tioree when their masters
€red them to do so.

ave not seen any of Winch’s
‘*: appearances but I have
fica of them. He seems to
dohi 8e for a good safe group to
ian Version of Bloody Sunday.
at and he even suggested
a Was dead to make sure he
a tame one on.
camer I received a call
ae lerre Berton asking if I
0 on with Harold Winch
€X-sergeant Wilson, chief

: ie: at the Post Office, June

938. I said I would welcome
iste ee’ to prove that the
tality hing was planned bru-

» both unnecessary and
nce all men present had
hemselves under arrest.
ilson has always claimed
unnecessary force was
s Would challenge him as
Prison, any force was used on
taken €rs who had asked to be

before the courts.
© scheduled program was

aban
oe and sunk without

Ince W

sed, |

ny
See May recall that, at the

ae the men charged with
Would to property, the judge
He Ot let Adam Smith John-
.__~> COUNSel for the defence,

ES digo |
Waress anything except Wood-

"4 ee Spencers Block. He
a Used the right to make
Nce to the fact that the

~ Jad submitted as prison-

erg
nae an hour before any
The « Was done.
my ee against the Crown on
By f, which was request-
Leagije the Civil Liberties
leftthey Was granted before I
Ub; -0SPital making the case

| u wacale
consige n° (under judicial

Specir: ation — Ed.) and an
é wouggiuestion discussed ay

ae contempt of court.
193g ae Was dragged through
nis 11 October, 1939 when, in
Lucas Of patriotism, E.A.
Quietly awyer for the League,
out Abandoned the case with-
Liber; ence either to the Civil
Prett €s League or myself.
hide Y shifty manoeuvers to
Order for pra but made to
his legends arold Winch to build
away hel So long ago and far
Sode j tIrecall the whole epi-

" detail from May 20 to

 Peneg ’ 1938 as though it had hap-

Some Yesterday. I still see

0
Ocasion ine People concerned
Meco ly but many have left

n
Kindest ice then.

Sake, to yor ceards for old times
Workers urself and all your co-

Qeen FORUM
| Brodie writes PT
} 0 “Bloody Sunday’

: jrillewing the article in the
4 fe. 22 issue of the Tribune
_ <‘0Unting the events of the Post

WOODWARD’S HIT

Wayne S. Huff, Victoria
writes: lamreporting to youa
very interesting episode which
happened to Mrs. Tarasoff and
myself on Friday, July 8 at Wood-
ward’s shopping area in
Victoria.

We were handing out free, the
special issue of June 22, “High
prices: what can we do’’. We
were at the mainentrance into
the grocery department when a
man, apparently with author-
ity, came to me with a copy of

the Tribune in his hand and,

asked, ‘‘Are you one of these
passing out this literature?’’ I
replied that I was, in order to
inform people of the high cost of
living and what they could do
about it.

He toldmethathe wanted me
“torefrain from passing out any
more and to get off the Wood-
ward’s property immediately.”’

He then went over to Mrs.
Tarasoff and told her approxi-
mately the same. We left.

We then went back to Woolco
where we had been before and in
a short time we had passed out
all the remaining copies.

It is my conviction that the
Tribune should publicize this
episode.

WOODWORKERS

Sam Vint, Vancouver wood-
worker, sent the following letter
for publication to The Barker,
Local 1-217 paper:

IWA Local 1-85, by majority
vote, rejected the bid by Cana-
dian Pulp for certification at the
Somass Millas stated in the May
23 International Woodworker.
‘A key factor in repelling the
raid was involvement of crew
members of the IWA. On elec-
tion day, loggers and other IWA
members manned information
picket lines outside the plant to
urge rejection of the Pulp
unions take over bid.”’

It must also be stated that in
addition to this fact workers
were concerned about the pen-
sion planand the 36¢ across the
board that came into force on
June 15.

Now that the crisis has passed,
serious consideration must be
given to the next time round
when conditions may not be so
favourable.

Consorting with the bosses is
no answer to the problems of the
working class. Many IWA offi-
cialshave forgotten the simple
axiom ‘‘You can’t serve two
masters.”

What’s bugging the mem-
bership, why all the talk about
Canadian unions? ae

General dissatisfaction
amongst rank and file members
stems mainly from lack of
leadership that fails to take the
membership into the direct
affairs of the union.

A point in question is job
evaluation; a bosses gimmick as
revealed by the Automotive
section of the Machinist Union
inapamphlet published on this
problem. Rank and file mem-
bers are left out of negotiations
anda select group meet behind
closed doors and plot ona graph
what changes should be made to
the wage structure usually to
the detriment of many by wage
cuts.

Our president is recommend-
ing the scrapping of evaluation

and utilizing revisions In its
place.

Speed up and compliment of
crew where the boss has a free
hand with devastating results to
safety standards.

Contracting and sub-con-
tracting a serious problem in
the woods with gypos being used
by the boss to carve up the
unions.

Dissatisfaction stems from the
results of last year’s nego-
tiations, voted on by the member-
ship and passed with small
majority causing a serious
split.

What is required is a program
to unite our union. A program
that will put the interest of the
membership first. Included in
that program complete auton-

omy which embodies full rights _

to conduct the business of the
union is Canada.

There is a growing desire on
the part of Canadians for an
independent and united trade
union movement. This would be
aunifying force inthe building
of one union in wood and turn
aside the bosses offensive who
utilize the so-called Canadian
union to fragment the WA.

Dave West
mourned

Trade unionists and pro-
gressive people on the Pacific
Coast suffered a grievous loss
this week with the passing of
Dave West, 46, last Saturday.
He was involved in a serious
automobile accident a few
‘months ago in the Fraser Valley.

Born in Manitoba, Dave’s fam-
ily moved to B.C. when he was a
child and settled in Chilliwack.
On leaving school during World
War 2, he joined the Canadian
Navy and was assigned duty as
a gunner onmerchant ships. At
the end of the war he joined the
deep sea merchant marine,

In 1949 he was active in
the Canadian Seamen’s Union
strike on the Great Lakes and
served asa member of the strike
committee in Liverpool, Eng.
Between 1960-66 he was
secretary- treasurer of CBRT
Local 400. He served a Six
months prison sentence in 1963
arising out of his participation
in the allied Engineering strike
in 1962 and wasa victim of the
Socred’s anti-labor policies.
Dave served as delegate to CLC,
BCFL conventions and as Van-
couver Labor Council delegate.

A dedicated trade unionist, he
was for years a member of the
Communist Party and an active
supporter of the peace move-
ment and labor press.

The PT expressesits deep con-
dolences to his wife Yvonne, his
three children, Danny, Timothy
and Sandra, and to his three
.brothers. é

Harold Pritchett spoke at the
funeral service which was held
at the Burnaby Funeral Home,
Tuesday, July 24 at ll a.m.

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The U.S. has its Water-
gate, England its sex scan-
dals and Ontario has the $44
million Hydro caper with
Premier William Davis
desperately trying to smile
away the relationship be-
tween a hefty contribution to
the Tory election chest and
the allocation of the new
Hydro Centre in Toronto to

ONTARIO PREMIER DAVIS

Scandal rocks Ontario

the firm of Canada Square
Corporation.

Hearings are being con-
ducted on the connection he-
tween the Premier and his
close personal friend who
runs a large construction
company who got the con-
tract which runs into mil-
lions of dollars.

Commenting on the issue,
William Stewart, Ontario
Communist Party leader,
said last week, “‘this govern-
ment is obviously up to its
neck in corruption. There is
an almost uninterrupted
chain of events pointing to
this fact.”

He said these events ‘‘must
not, however, be allowed to
turn the energy resources of
Ontario into the private pre-
serves of Canadian andU-S.
monopolies.’ Stewart
pointed out that the proposed
change of status of Ontario
Hydro from a public utility to
a Crown corporation, which
the government is consid-
ering, should be halted.

MLA urges B.C.

wines at Peace

Portuguese and South Afri-
can wines must be removed
from B.C. liquor store shelves.
This was the unanimous opinion
of about 100 people in atten-
dance at the public library, Mon-
day night, who came to listen to
NDP MLA Emery Barnes speak
on the African national libera-
tion struggles. Barnes himself
pledged active support towards
the boycott of the wines, both in
and out of the legislature.

“‘Our government in this prov-
ince is capable of wielding a
mighty big stick, economically,
if we stop playing games and get
downtoit,’’ Barnes said, ‘“‘Asa
member of the legislature I
shall defend this position. The
least that we can do is to-with-
draw the liquors from our
shelves.”’

One member of the audience,
who identified himself as being
of South African origin, gavea
lucid example of the corrupt and
miserable conditions forced on
to black labor by the South Afri-
can racists. He pointed out that

‘in the production of the most

common South African wine,
“‘Paarl’’, black workers are

han on African
Council rally

forced to accept portions of
their wages in wine.

The meeting also concurred
that the liberation strugglesin
Southern Africa were but “‘one
more reason to press for
Canada’s unconditional with-
drawal from the NATO pact”.

It was pointed out that through
NATO’s military aid to Por-
tugal 40% of the entire Portu-
guese budget is used to maintain:
their military presence in South
West Africa, Canada is an act-
ive participant in Portuguese.
colonialism.

As well as demanding the
removalofthewinesfromB.C.
liquor stores, the meeting gave
full endorsement to a resolu-
tion calling for international
sanctions against all Por-
tuguese and South African
goods. The resolution, intro-
duced by the B.C. Peace Coun-
cil, sponsors of the meeting,
also demanded the expulsion of
Portugal and South Africa from
the United Nations until such
time as they are prepared to
abide by United Nations resolu-
tions and decisions.

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