Alsbury forced to hack ffl up on gules deal In o July 22 issue of the eg Tribune, Vancouver Employees’ Union (Outside Workers) condemned | the association of NPA alder- man William Rathie with a newly formed garbage syndi- cate, up for the pur- pose of running a metro gar- oage dump as a private busi- with the City of Vancou- | ver as the largest cash custom- er. strongly set ness, Both the Vancouver Sun and; Province ignored the union’s| press release which was pub- lished in full in. the Pacific} Tribune. Instead, these dailies tried to make an issue of the| | Vancouver East. But the union fact that the secretary of the] union, Jack Phillips, To Keep Healthy — Visit HASTINGS STEAM BATHS 766 E. Hastings - MU 4-0644 Expert Masseurs in attendance Bill Litwin, Proprietor Open Day and Night l See REPAIRS Duroid, Tar and Gravel Reasonable AGutters and Downpipes NICK BITZ BR 7-6722 GAS HEATING SALES AND INSTALLATIONS = MERCIAL @ INDUSTRIAL @ RESIDENTIAL | Harry C. Weinstein GAS CONTRACTOR 3823 West 12th Ave. CA 4-7304 over | whose name the release was issued, had accepted nomina- | tion as a provincial candidate ;+ for the Communist Party, in secretary. replied. sharply. and | publicly raising the. issue. of | what constitutes. a fair stan- dard of public. morality for | members of municipal coun- ceils. This. prompted: the news |desk of the Sun to contact Mayor Tom Alsbury’ in’ Van- | couver and George S. Mooney, | executive director of the Can- | adian Federation~ of Mayors and. Municipalities; whose of- fice is’ in. Montreal. Both re- plied with: a tion” of Rathie. A few days later, a leading | editorial in the Sun demolish- ted that defence. The editorial | sharply i tedly questioned. the pro- priety of the scheme and poin- referred to the findings }of the Royal Commission’ set |up to enquire into the affairs |0f the then-mayor Hawrelak | of Edmonton. This was a sig- nal that could not be ignored, | because Hawrelak went down \to defeat in the election. | ed: the | City Hall, | solidly |trade unions |\the interests. of the. workers. |'There remained. with “us..no ‘“Jegal- vindica- | Maritime Union, theaded by | Joseph Curran has come out | for increasing trade- | union exchanges between the | | AFL-CIO and _ socialist soun- | | tries. | Curran, just returned from | a tour of the Soviet Union, said that his union.will invite ‘a delegation from the S. U. to |visit the U.S.A. He said he ; hoped the U.S. state depart- |ment would facilitate the visit. In part he-stated, ‘‘the Soviet represent well doubt on how important the role of the union is in the de- cision on all government prob- lems in the U-S.S.R.” e A strike is in progress in the ‘housing and apartment’ area of the building trades-in Tor- onto. The strike, largely. con- ducted by immigrant workers, is aimed at closing the gap be- tween construction wages> in the house building industry and those received in other In short, the editorial warn- and the CVA minor- | |ity headed by the mayor, that | it was time to stage a retreat. Alsbury lamely apologised two |days later, making generous | quotes from the Sun editorial. | Apologising for his earlier de- | fence of Rathie, the mayor | said: “I expressed myself bad- ly in my previous statement | because I talked only of legal aspects.” Jack Phillips, Union secre- tary, in a statement to the Pacific Tribune expressed him- self as pleased with the latest developments. “This proves the correctness of our posi- tion” he stated. “We maintain PRIOR GARAGE & SERVICE 219 Prior St. MU 3-2926 COMPLETE AUTO SERVICE & REPAIRS Auto Body Work HING LEE, Proprieior George Gee G & B HEATING Lid. $10.75 Installs an Automatic Blue Flame Gas Heating System © NO DOWN PAYMENT ¢@ No Payment Till Oct. 1st, at Only 5% Interest 4415 Hastings Street CY 9-4919 Sun’s. NPA friends in | that the cay council should { sections of the construetion_in- | dustry. New: locals have been estab- lished recently in Toronto | (apparently based. largely _on |immigrant construction work- | ers). Over 3,000_.workers. have | joined these locals in the last | few weeks, and are the core | of the strike action. | Reports make it clear that ipserupioe® contractors are sing. immigrant. workers a td Italian) as a source of cheap: labor. either proceed with. the build- ing of an incinerator at First and Manitoba, as authorised by the voters, or else. obtain a land-fill site to be operated | bublicly. TY Sask. CCF convention B R des urges neutrality fight SASKATOON — A stand in favor of Canadian neu A delegation of the National trality was taken by the annual convention of the Sask | atchewan CCF last month. Delegates unanimously adopt ed a resolution which declared: “That since sciéhtific and | military experts agree that | there is no satisfactory protec- | tion against nuclear attack and | since billions of dollars of mil- itary expenditure have not provided. 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