REMEMBER HIROSHIMA. The Japanese city is shown above following its inhuman devastation by a U.S. A-bomb on Aug. 6, 1945. Ever since then world public opinion has demanded: “Never again.” The twenty- sixth anniversary will be marked in Vancouver with a silent vigil at the Court House Square, Friday, Aug. 6 starting at 4 p.m. Hiroshima Day is sponsored by the Peace Action League and the public are urged to take part. Socred order endangers B.C. health services Cont'd from pg. when it charged in a statement that ‘‘This is just one more step, down the road to authoritarian government in our province.”’ The Loffmark order-in-council is no isolated event. It is part of the pattern which has seen the Socred government adopt more and more arbitrary ways of governing. It is part of the government’s shift to the right and its determination to impose itself on all movements and forces in the province which do not bow down to Socred dictates. We have seen this in the field of labor legislation where the cabinet, through Bill 33, has taken upon itself powers to impose compulsory arbitration, to order workers back to work under threat of punitive action. We saw it again when the FRENCH CP HITS PEKING ACTIONS PARIS — The Political Bureau of the French Communist Party recently issued a statement, condemning the actions of the People’s Republic of China in barring Communist deputies from taking part in a French Parliamentary commission to visit China in 1971 The PRC informed the French government that the presence of French Communists in the delega- tion was “undesirable.” The FCP statement condemned the collusion between the French government and the Maoists to bar French Communist deputies. A PRC statement published in U'Humanite said it “shows the real face of the Maoists as disrupters of the anti-imperialist forces.” government brought down amendments to the Public Schools Act which practically wiped out democratic control in the educational system, and gave sweeping powers to the minister of education and the cabinet. Along with that it wiped out membership provisions for the B.C. Teachers Federation in an attack on the teachers who had been critical of Socred educa- tion policies. Still on the statute books is the order-in-council passed in the heat of the War Measures Act days which gives the cabinet unrestricted right to fire teachers for ‘‘subversive’’ opinions. All these things should not be forgotten in the - present confrontation. They prove the correctness of the warning issued by the B.C. Federation of Labor last week that ‘‘We had all better realize that we cannot allow this government to continue to deny the freedoms of any group in British Columbia.’’ Having said this one cannot close their eyes to the inade- quacies of present health services and the undemocratic set-ups of hospital boards. Vancouver alderman Harry Rankin put his finger on the real problem and its solution this week when he called (see page 2) for restoration of all hospital boards to public control with such boards elected by popular vote in each municipality and regional district. “The most important issue of all is increased health expendi- tures, especially for hospitals, by the provincial government,” Rankin said. To that we say “‘amen.”’ The largest shipment of medical aid supplies ever sent from Vancouver to Vietnam is shown above before loading aboard a Soviet freighter PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1971—PAGE 8 LABOR SCENE: ‘Intervention’ is a no-no to Labor Minister Chabot Socred Labor Minister Chabot refuses to intervene in the 10- month Sandringham hospital strike in Victoria. He told a delegation of women he had no *‘authority’’ to do so. Victoria Voice of Women and Women’s Caucus told the minister that Sandringham officials have not lived up to the spirit of the B.C. Mediation Commission Act and have refused to bargain in good faith. The provincial government has intervened in labor disputes by ordering teamsters, bus drivers, hydro workers and others back to work. Does the refusal of management to bargain with employees come under a category over which the labor minister has no “‘authority’’? One of the delegation said “Mr. Chabot seems resigned to the fact that some people should work with no job security, with no grievance procedures, and no right to a fair hearing.” She pointed out that Sand- ringham workers receive lower wages than those received by 90 percent. of those working in the province. She said it pointed up more sharply than ever the wage discrimination where women are concerned. No better example of the. hypocrisy of Social Credit “Jabor’’ policy could be found than the Sandringham affair. * * * One thousand owners of fishing vessels in B.C. have signed a. petition which was submitted to Area Director of Fisheries W. R. Hourston. The fishermen state on this petition: ‘“‘I am the owner of a fishing vessel. I am in favor of all fishermen owning salmon vessels having equal rights to have the choice of paying $10.00 for a Class A license and opt out of the Buy-Back program, retaining all other privileges of an A license, or to have the choice of staying in the salmon vessel buy-back program by paying license fees of $100, $200 or $44. Equal rights and equal choice means equality between Indian and non-Indians.”’ Minister of Fisheries, Jack Davis had said previously that the opposition to his license control program with the extremely high fees was coming mainly from crew members and plant workers. The UFAWU _ spokesman states he cannot now repeat that charge in view of the fact that the petition was signed by over 1,000 boat owners which included members of the UFAWU, the PTA (Pacific Trollers Assoc.,) Fishing Vessel Owners Assoc., and Native Brotherhood as well as some who belong to none of the organi zations. Anderson ill Morris Anderson of Co- quitlam, one of our papers strongest supporters, collapsed at work recently and had to undergo an ulcer operation. He is recovering well and is expected home by the end of this week. Anderson is a shore worker and executive member of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union. The Canadian Labor Congress is aiming at office workers in. industrial companies and finan- cial institutions in a recently launched organizational drive. ~ “‘We’ll be moving into various selected citiés soon,” the CLC spokesman said. In the meantime here in Van- couver a meeting sponsored by the B.C. Federation of Labor on women’s rights is scheduled for August 19. Lena Kress, presi- dent of Local 264, IBEW, heads the committee. * * * Canadian Textile and Chemi- cal Workers are on strike at the Brantford, Ont., plant of the Texpack and Surgitex Com- panies. Texpack was formerly. a Canadian company but it is now owned by the U.S. Hospital Supply Corporation. Aside from the strike Texpack is accused by the union of using cheap 1942- issue bandages from U.S. Army Surplus. They are repacked under the _ label SAFECO. Watch for them in the drug stores and don’t buy! A spokesman in the office of the B.C. Federation of Labor said last week that their annual convention in November would Ginger Goodwin anniversary On August 2, 1918 workers in Vancouver downed tools for a 24 hour “general holiday” in protest against the shooting of Ginger Goodwin in the mountains near Cumberland by a_ police constable on July 26. Goodwin was a leading trade unionist who was widely known in the province for his organizing activities. He was secretary of the Western Federation of Miners local at Trail when he was called up for re-examination under the Military Service Act and his category changed. Instead of reporting for military service he left Trail for the Cumberland area. His shooting near Comox Lake with a soft- nosed bullet inflamed the working class. On the day of his funeral August 2 every worker in Cumber- land downed tools. The proces- sion behind his coffin was over a mile long. In Vancouver the workers downed tools from noon Friday to noon Saturday in protest. Picture above shows Ginger Goodwin's grave in Cumberland. probably deal with the que™ of the 40 hour, 4-day week: In the meantime more é more business operations it city are approving the Some employees in while jobs like the idea as well. ot Is it a forward step #7 claim, or dangerously ressive? : : Little has been said at question by labor: rept? tives, but a leading sett member, a retired railroe. Winnipeg, has this to sn ihe Commonwealth: “One wot most stupid and patheule® underway on this con Fi the trend to the 10-hour We! the four-day week. TO 6e hours a week in a four-day a backward step is take? url 10-hour day. Why not a ight-hour day: week and an eight a ee ry we have over half 4 rot! people almost the yeat , who work no hours a day: Bruce Magnuson, Labor ath tary of the Communist patil puts it this way: “It iet conceivable that expel ite labor leaders will be ee enough to overlook the “i involved in scuttling the ss work day: That is thea regardless of the num days worked in a week. tat “What is basic to He, union movement today ’ shorter work day with e ; te take-home pay. That ios answer to the redictribl to benefits that now accrue ie employers and which fro? increasingly derive 4g technological change increased productivity- The B.C. Governmel jl ployees Union this we ‘ i the government to eMSl" ral 6,000 of its employees gel deprived of unemP ett insurance coverage PY at legislation taking ef© ‘ ear. { , The brief presented PY g union says loss % aofif! ployment insurance Prandtl would prove a severe ©, naff to many temporary 2° iit time employees becaus? gt! insecure nature of thel! q ment. vert It accuses the federal os ment of shirking its a int bilities to ensure COP, ji unemployment insut4 provincial employees, Mr. Neil Stenberg “pel hild, chairman of the | ogi Committee of the ©" un Party of Canada, anil this week that Mr pit Tuomi, the party's bie not leader, will be seekind, nation as candidate gil Edmonton - Beverley. J pee ency in the forthcom!" ta election. sad i Mr. Tuomi, long, js, dent of Edmonton East iy years old. Born I” tive Alta., he has. bean peer the political life ot ” his life. The provinety ay wo a veteran of World the #) saw active duty with y ° adian Army !0 France.