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Lesage retreats before
general strike warning

ae and, united labor op-
ae Alas forced Premier Jean
endmente Quebec to pledge am-
Eee KO vital points’’ in an-
ready ay 94, which had al-
cane ad Second reading in the
~ &¢ Legislature,
2,164 fey conference of
argest 1 oe of the province’s
Ederatj sor body, the Quebec
‘ ae of Labor, instructed
includin lve to take any action,
t 8 calling a general strike

2 Tevent 2
bor code. Adoption of the la-

The
Conference
— *Xecuti ye € also gave the

er a _ Power to decide on
Mn Py Ction, including a march
& Beement by union mem-
revolving Slowdown, sitdown or
bill, ® strikes to combat the

In its
_ Oppositi
he 135,000. ition

federation zi
King of

nfeder

Nions,

to Bill 54,
Strong Quebec labor
lready had the solid
the 125,000-member
ation of National Trade

Earlier,
the OPPOSiti
i 5 Propose
ts Worst fi

the CNTU outlined
on to 50 points in
d legislation. Among
ee are a series
Bist. ictions on strikes
and collects Tight of association
right ES c ive agreements. The
4 i Strike is limited by se-
pial Conditons laid
Out can a Bariore a walk-

Unions sharply question exclu-
sion of 16 groups, ranging from
professional associations to
household servants, from col-
lective bargaining.

Most objectionable part, how-
ever, is a clause that restores
in principle the Masters and
Servants Act, that in effect
subordinates collective con-
tracts to the Quebec Civil Code,
thus putting an agreement at the
mercy of one individual who may
not like it and may take court
action.

CNTU denounced Bill 54 for
tending to imitate rather than
reject the labor practices of
former Union Nationale Premier
Duplessis.

At last weekend’s QFL emer-
gsency conference Provost jubil-
antly told union representatives:
‘You have given us extraordin-
ary powers. We have no inten-
tion of bowing before any com-
promise . . . You have given us
the authority to call a general
strike. If necessary we shall do
Som

The possible need for more
labor action was indicated by
the fact that while Lesage ex-
pressed willingness to amend
some clauses in the bill, he
also. warned that labor ‘‘cannot
expect to obtain all they de-
mand.’’

AUUC steps up peace fight

Atens;
Ble mee! activity in the strug-

EXiste eee ©e and peaceful co-

dele Was pledged recently by
Fehtio othe 11th national con-
t

ed Ukraine A SSoCiation of Un-
Prj a : » addre
Riese Minister Bert, tien
E Canes re Prompt action to
— Teements adian-U.s, nuclear ag-
Hance? 94 Secret military al-
Canada’ “Mantle U.S. bases in
— from ss Keep our country free
sss *°WWisition of nuclear

2 Saves
Stent these are the first
PS towards peace and

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Bovernment ations and

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aes Section of the main
Ng with the ferment

Mr
ihe pivlis Clarke, campaign-
or free transit passes
9ron age Pensioners in
oe aring Wilj finally get a
Exeoyy, fore the Metropolitan

LS April 28,

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7 Sask. vote
Botti PT went to press
{the y.rnoon of April 22
| Wey ple of Saskatchewan
(dan esting ballots to elect

Mog es OVincjal government.

Cop ae Challenge to the

Woo i ernment of Premier

from ‘loyd was coming

Tene, ‘iberals, headed by

Noy OSs Thatcher,

pean ae Tudy, provincial

: arty. me the Communist

Daj - Waging a strong

avaneing m Regina North—

S Policies which are
“shted and realistic.
x te Carry a full
Bs. _ Saskatchewan
i °xt Week’s issue.

in Quebec. It was delivered by
association secretary Peter
Prokop who stated that the ques-
tion was deeper than lanuage and
culture— it was a question of
understanding that there are two
nations in Canada.

Delegates instructed the in-
coming national executive com-
mittee to’prepare abrief for pre-
sentation to the Royal Commis-
sion on Bilingualism and Bicul-
turalism.

They endorsed Prokop’s re-
marks to the effect: ‘‘We oppose
forcing the French language on
English-speaking Canadians and
vice versa, but we are for the
teaching of all minority group
languages at all levels and their
inclusion in all school cur-
riculums as optional subjects.”’

T .
°. free transit campaign

delegation of pensioners and
others supporting the free
passes.

The stranglehold of daily news-
paper silence over her campaign
was finally broken when the Tor-
onto Star ‘‘exposed’’ the fact
that she is chairman of the Com-
munist Party in Toronto.

After the story, one 75-year
old phoned to tell her: ‘“‘That’s
good work you're doing, dearie;
don’t let the Star stop you!”

At a public meeting sponsored
by an Action Committee for Free
TTC passes, Mrs. Clarke
criticized the Star for its red-
baiting. Only after 6,000 signed
cards were returned to her and
after the campaign was taken up
by many organizations and indi-
viduals did the Toronto press
try to lampoon it.

‘Red-baiting is not going to
change the fact that in this city
there are hundreds of thousands
of people who agree on the need
for the free passes,’ she said.

WINs scala lop Canadian businessmen

off to study Soviet Union

By BERT WHYTE

More than 40 of Canada’s top
businessmen will visit the Soviet
Union from April 30 to May 14
on a fact-finding tour.

It won't be a tourist trip. The
group, made up of leaders in
many industrial fields, will break
up into small sections as soon
as they land in Moscow and
proceed directly to a thorough
probe of specialized sectors of
the economy.

Before they set off under the
guidance of Soviet ministers they
will attend a briefing in Mos-
cow given by Konstantin Rud-
nev, deputy chairman of the So-
viet Council of Ministers and
chairman of the state commit-
tee for scientific research coor-
dination.

Some of the results of this
trip could be:

. * A better understanding on
the part of Canada’s business of
how socialism operates.

* An increase in trade be-

tween Canada and the USSR.

* A stepped-up exchange of
scientific, technical andbusiness
information material between the
two countries. ;

Ignorance of socialism has long
been an ally in the ‘‘cold war’’
waged by capitalism against the
Soviet Union. Enlightened capi-
talists like Cyrus Eaton have been
the exception, not the rule.

Is it too much to hope that
this visit to the USSR of some
of Canada’s best business brains
will eventually lead to an end-
ing of the political ‘‘cold war’’
and its replacement by better
relations, and straight economic
competition?

It isn’t likely that any of these
rich Canadian businessmen
(many of them millionaires) will
come back believing that social-
ism is a better system than capi-
talism.

It is probable that some of
them (those who do not already
subscribe to coexistence) will

Burrard profits up by 33%

Burrard Dry Dock, one of three
struck firms in B.C.’s shipbuild-

CLARENCE WALLACE, president of
Burrard Dry Dock (which also owns
Yarrows Ltd. in Victoria) anda
director of 19 Canadian companies.

ing industry, announced last week
that its profits in 1963 went up
by 33 percent over the previous

. year.

According to a report on the
Vancouver Sun’s financial page,
Burrard president Clarence Wal-
lace said in the annual report
that ‘‘net income forthe year was
$1,393,291, an increase of $341,-
841 over the previous year.”

The three struck companies
(Victoria Machinery Depot is the
third) have never denied their
ability to pay workers more;
on the contrary, their position is
that they and they alone shall
determine what each worker
in the industry will receive for

-his labor.

The 22 unions involved are de-
manding a 30-cent-an-hour wage
increase, spread over a two-

year contract. They have insisted ~

all along that the companies could
afford such a boost in wages.

realize that it is in Canada’s in-
terest, and their’s, that the ‘cold
war’’ end, that trade be increas-
ed and competition as to which
system is the most efficient —
socialism or capitalism — be
decided in the future by econo-
mic achievements.

Communists (in Canada as

. well as in the Soviet Union) are

confident that socialism will win
such an economic race, and pro-
vide the greatest good for the
greatest number. If capitalists
have as much confidence in ‘‘free
enterprise’’ as they profess to
have, peaceful economic rivalry
should not frighten them.

Business VIPs

Included in the group are such
business VIPs as James A. Rich-
ardson, vice-president of James
Richardson and Sons_ Ltd:
Philip C. Garratt, chairman and
managing director of deHaviland
Aircraft of Canada Ltd.; Herbert
H. Lank, president of Dupont of
Canada Ltd.; Walter Lattman,
vice-president of Massey-Fer-
guson Ltd.; John H. Moore,
president of John Labatt Ltd:
MacKenzie McMurray, president
of Dominion Bridge Co. Ltd.;
David S. Holbrook, chairman and
president of AlgomaSteel; James
W. Kerr, president of Trans-
Canada Pipe Lines Ltd.; Oakah
L. Jones, president of Consum-
ers’ Gas Co,; Ralph D. Parker,
senior vice-president of Inter-
national Nickel Co. of Canada
Ltd.; Gordon R. McGregor, pre-
sident of Trans-Canada Air
Lines; David Kinnear, vice-pres-
ident of T. Eaton Co Ltd.

Also in the group are several
politicians and public figures in-
cluding Senator Wallace McCut-
cheon; William E. van Steen-
burgh, federal deputy minister.
for mines and technical surveys:
Stanley J. Randall, Ontario
minister of economics and
development; Gordon M. Shrum,
chairman of B.C. Hydro.

HALFWAY MARK NEXT WEEK

By JERRY SHACK
(Drive Manager)

Latest standings in our
Press Drive for $18,000 show
that $4,800 has come in to-
‘wards this goal. This rep-
resents an average of $1,200
a week entering the PT cof-
fers, which is a good start
on a tough haul.

But, it also represents ex-
actly HALF
of what is
needed to
have a suc-
eessful
drive, be-
aeuse we
require
52,400 each
and every
week if we
are going to :nake it.

Two clubs that sre show-
ing the way for everybody
else are the Vernon and Han-
ey-Maple Ridge clubs. Both
of them have alread) ¢ one over
the top—Vernon with 107.1
percent of its quota -ulfilled
and. Haney—M.R. right behind
with 106.7 percent.

In the city, leacing clubs
are Pt. Grey (56.3 percent)
and Victory Square (55.9 per-
cent).

Leavin; aside percentages
and turning to dollars and

Press Drive hits

cents, we find the province
with $1,942 in on $7,000 and
the city with $2,873 on $11,-
000—a fairly tight, close race.

Some clubs have taken ad-
vantage of the fact that new
subs count towards the drive
this year. During April, we
have been averaging about one
new sub a day, but the maj-
ority of clubs have yet to win
their first new reader.

So, we have only scratched
the surface in this regard,
e
There seems to be an
awareness that the political
atmosphere in our nation is
changing. This awareness has
manifested itself in many ways
during the drive so far and it
might be useful to illustrate.

A man sells a piece of pro-
perty — not a huge farm, or
anything like it—and donates
$250 towards the drive from
the proceeds.

An old timer in the labor and
progressive movements
passes away. He has barely
enough money to cover the
costs of a decent funeral, but
makes good and sure his paper
isn’t forgotten. He leaves a
$10 bequest to the PT.

An old age pensioner walks:

into the PT office. ‘°I don't
smoke or drink,’ he says,
**so I managed to save a few

$4800

bucks out of my pension che-
que during the past year. I'd
like the Trib to have it.’’
And he promptly walks out of
the office, declining even to
leave his name, but leaving
$40.

These are not isolated ex-
amples, They are merely
three out of dozens of illus-
trations we can use to show
that people are experiencing
a political re-awakening, and
realize the vital role played
by the PT in British Colum-
bia.

That’s where our ‘Moscow
Gold’? comes from,

With people such as these
backing us, we know we'll be
O.K. a

At a meeting last Saturday
of the provincial committee of
the Communist Party, its
members’ pledged to raise
nearly $2,000 for the Press
Drive. The PT thanks these
comrades for such a warm
response.

e

REMINDER; All bundle or-
ders for the May Day edi-
tion must be in our office by
Monday, April 27. Remember,
all orders of 100 copies or
more go at the special price
of four cents a copy.

Has YOUR club placed its
order yet” :

April 24, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7