UNIONS TO
MONOPOLY ATTACK

Call special parley on Alberni strike

The B.C. Federation of Labor, representing over 100,000 trade
unionists, has called a special convention next week to deal with the
explosive situation created by the action of the province’s biggest forest
monopoly, MacMillan, Bloedel & Powell River, in laying charges before
the Labor Relations Board against four unions in the Alberni Valley

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i. JULY 3, 1964
+25, NO. 27

THIS WEEK

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the €ek in the land ofthe free,’’
Prom, Rited States of America,
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Were ; Champions of both races
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iter, Whom to punish as valiant
they, “tonists pressed on with
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Attany,  umming beaches on the

le Ocean at St, Augustine,
© sudden and dramatic sava-

Race violence erupts
In ‘land of the free’

gery of white supremacists in.
Dixie has not been met with any
show of strength by the Johnson
administration, Contrary to his
**firmness’’ when it comes to
napalm bombing Vietnamese vil-
lages, Johnson has adopted a
**Jeave-me-out-of-it’’ attitude as
blood flows in increasing quanti-
ties all across the southern con-
federacy,

Commenting editorially, the
U.S, Worker stated: ‘‘the jack-
boots of the Nazi stormtrooper
are echoing through the South...

**But the moment of truth has
arrived, President Johnson must
assume the leadership of the
people in the final battle against
the white supremacist forces,
whose violence and terror are
keeping the nation from achieving
its free and democratic destiny...

**Racist terror must end! De-
mocracy must be won for ourna-
tion!’”

arising out of the office workers strike.

A meeting of B.C, Federation
of Labor officers and unions
involved took place last Friday
to discuss the situation, Follow-
ing this meeting the Federation
sent out a call to all affiliated
unions-for a special convention
for Friday, July 10th, at 10 a.m,
in the Bayshore Inn, Vancouver,

The call stresses that because
of the serious situation ‘‘all
affiliates are especially urged
to attend,’’ The labor parley
will meet three days after the
Labor Board Hearing on MBPR

eharges against the unions in-)

volved opens on July 7th,

The company is charging the
unions with unlawfully restrict-
ing production in the Alberni
Valley and is asking the board
to order the unions tc cease
activities interfering with prod-
uction, Unions involved are the
International Woodworkers of
America, Pulp andSulphite Work-
ers, the Electrical Workers and
the United Paper Makers and
Paper Workers.

The adamant position of MBPR
in refusing to settle the office
workers. strike, which centres
on union security, has idled 3,000

-members of these unions who

have refused to cross. picket
lines, and about 1,500 loggers
in the surrounding area, Last
week the unions involved introd-
uced a‘‘work-to-rule’’plan under
which unions holding contracts
with MBPR would not work over-
time, work to the strict letter

‘of the contract and observe all

safety regulations .

Commening on the action
of MBPR, which was announced
by the chairman of the comp-

Racist violence exploded across the U.S. last week
only within days of the passage of the Civil Rights
Bill. Photo shows police aided by club-swinging racist
hoodlums attacking ‘‘wade-in’’ demonstrators seek-

oS

PAT O’NEAL. secretary of the B.C.
Federation of Labor warned MBPR
chairman J. V. Clyne that his com-
pany was not going to be allowed
to “ride roughshod over tle
people of the Alberni Valley and
organized labor.”’

any, J.V. Clyne, B,C, Federation
of Labor secretary Pat O’Neal
said ‘‘we are not going to stand
idly by and see J,V. Clyne
ride roughshod over the people
of the Alberni Valley and org-
anized labor,”

Pointing out that this mon-
opoly has one of the worst re-
cords in labor-management re-
lations, O’Neal said: ‘‘It should
be clearly pointed out that it
was the-actions of the comp-
any, intimidating other unions,
refusing to bargain in good faith
(with the Office Employees Un-
ion), or to accept the same
conditions it has given other
unions, that has precipitated this
dispute,

‘J warned five weeks ago
that we were heading for a
collision unless saner reason
prevailed on the part of the

ing to integrate beaches in St. Augustine, Fla. At the

company, The company is
now prepared obviously to use
its economic and corporate might
to starve the unions into sub-
mission,

**Now the company is trying
to get the Labor Relations Board
to order a union to engage in
strike breaking . It is going
to be extremely interesting to
see how the board handles this
matter, -whether it is going to
see that honest trade unionists
are compelled to scab to suit
J.V. Clyne,”’

Expected to take up most of
the agenda are the Alberni and
other strike situations, as well
as plans for combatting any
attempt by theSocred government
to introduce some sort of comp-
ulsory arbitration, as has been
widely reported recently,

‘*MacMillan-Bloedel’s move
for prosecution of the trade un-
ions involved in the Alberni off-
ice workers strike represents
a dangerous challenge to allB.C,
labor’’Nigel Morgan, B,C, leader,
of the Communist Party declared,

“It marksthe beginning of a
new round in monopoly’s anti-
labor offensive, Faced with the
organization of its office workers
new attempts to weaken and if
possible destroy labor are under-
way to force workers to scab
on their brothers’ he charged,
“Labor has no alternative but
to fight back, and the Special
Conference called by the BeG-
Federation of Labor should have
not only the united support
of every trade unionist, but of
every democratically - minded
British Columbian’’,

beginning of the demonstrations it was hard to tell >
whether police were trying to aid the racists or Up-
hold the law by their violent actions against men,
women and children demonstrators.