renee USE Lauer | breaking purposes tee tt at tid oti y ‘4 oa gi Vol. 18 No. 23 Phone MUtual 5-5288 Authorised as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa 10c VANCOUVER; B.C. FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1959 It was decided, however, that “if any further complications or delays develop, and if neg- _ Otiations are not completed conference be called immedi- ately to take place no later than June 28.” ; Defeated by a voice vote was a motion that before the con- ciliation board award is hand- ed down the policy committee 2 instructed to conduct a u strike vote. = ia Syd Thompson stated that 4 the policy committee had not «seen the policy statement pre- mted by Morris before it was brought to the convention. ‘ The union had. instructed the gotiating committee to. seek 20 percent increase this year the IWA settled for nothing last year) but the committee in negotiations made a counter- roposal to employers suggest- | ing a 14-cent hike in 1959 and 14-cent hike in 1960 on a two-year contract. The previ- by June 22, that a delegate . | | TWA dela ys deadline, goes to conciliation The special IWA convention held here last Saturday reluctantly “received” a report presented by president Joe Morris extending the “no contract, no work” June 15 dead- line and agreed that the union would go to a concilation board in the current wage dispute with operators. ous IWA convention had re- rejected the idea of a two-year contract, will deliver the main report to the 13th B.C. district convention of the Labor-Progressive Party here this weekend. Some 100 delegates from all parts of the province are expected to Nigel Morgan attend the two-day sessions in Clinton Hall. : D TAXPAYERS FIGHT STRIAE A one-inch Canadian Press story buried in inside pages of most daily newspapers last week revealed t hat the Canadian Broadcsting Cor- portion, television producers. tempt to break the strike). The CP dispatch, datelined Ottawa, May 27, said: “The CBC paid out about $174,500 from January 1 to March 7 for security and protective services at Montreal, the Com- mons was informed yesterday. The publicly owned corpora- tion was hit by a Montreal strike of French - language television producers from De- cember 29 to March 7. Some violence occurred.” ~ A short, revealing and in- teresting admission indeed. No one was trying to attack the CBC or take it over by storm, It is public knowledge, however, that the Montreal police were used to exercise violence against the strikers and also to arrest a number of them. é Was this $174,500 used to pay the Montreal police force? If it was so used, who gave the CBC permission to misuse public funds that way? Was the government and the department of labor unaware that public money was so spent? Or did it give the green light to the CBC to use funds to break a strike? And why are the opposition parties silent about this report? For that matter, why has the Can- adian Labor Congress not con- demned it? Ree te The CBC is not the only publicly . owned corporation which has exposed its anti- labor bias. The employees of the gov- ernment . owned Polymer crown corporation at Sarnia -have been on strike for 10 weeks. That strike need not have taken place at all. In any case it could have been settled quickly on the basis of the reasonable demands of the workers. Why hasn’t it? Shouldn’t publicly owned crown corpora- tions be used as models with respect to labor relations? It hasn’t happened because the Diefenbaker government is (Continued on back page) See CBC as a publicly-owned corporation, used taxpayers’ money for strike- during the recent Montrea! strike of French-language (Unity of the labor movement defeated the CBC at- #i€i PIERRE BERTON GOOFS Bald fabrication in Vancouver Sun The tricks of the daily press are many and insidious. For example, take the series of articles in the Vancouver’ Sun by Pierre Berton on his visit to the Soviet Union. The technique used by Ber- ton is to ignore the typical and seek out those misfits in socialist society who are at odds with’ their environment —the spiv who buys Canadian or American dollars on the black market; the girl whose main interest in life is listen- ing to jazz on the Voice of America and who dreams of tasting Coca-Cola. A Soviet journalist visiting Vancouver and using Berton’s technique would give his read- ers at home a “true picture” of life in Canada by inter- viewing a Beatnik at The Cellar. and mingling with dope addicts in cheap hotel washrooms on Hasting Street. Sometimes the technique backfires, when outright fab- rication is resorted to. This happened to Berton in the Sun of May 30, which featured ie “You’re doing great Pierre! Keep up the good work!” | on the front page an article headlined “Berton Dates Moscow Girl’ and carried a picture of a pretty girl, os- tensibly a department store sales clerk who adores Yank- ee jazz, and wants to drink Coca-Cola and “learn to do the hula hoop.” Unfprtunately for Berton and the Vancouver Sun, the photo is a fake. It was picked up from the magazine Soviet Union, No. 3, 1959, page 15. The girl’s name is Nina Seri- kova. She is not a store clerk, but a skilled operator in the Second Moscow Watch Fact- ory. Recently she was honor- ed for inventing a device that can polish 21 case rings simultaneously, enabling her to polish as many rings as nine operators used-to do be- fore. In the original photo Nina had shoved a magnifying glass up on her forehead to face the cameraman. The Sun experts painted this out—not too skillfully. So much for the. ethics of the daily press!