Noting labor’s decisive influence in electing an NDP government, delegates to the Vancouver and District Labor Council Tuesday night called for legislation in the new session to institute government car insur- ance and called for the scrapping of the Labor Relations Board as well as the repeal of all anti- labor legislation still on the books. e A resolution presented by Jack Cody, IBEW 213, noted the $100,000 campaign launched by the Insurance Bureau to block government insurance and pointed out that the money “could be better spent to provide cheaper rates’’ instead of being used ‘‘to frighten employees about the loss of their jobs.” “The insurance industry is anything but competitive,” Cody charged. The resolution calling on the government to institute ‘“‘compulsory no-fault government auto insurance’’ passed unanimously. Delegates also reacted angrily to a letter from provincial Labor Minister Bill King stating that it would be ‘‘improper to act’’ on dismissal of the Labor Relations Board ‘‘until all representatives of the labor- management world have an opportunity to make their point of view known.” Scrap Labor Relations Board, enact car insurance, The letter was in reply to a motion passed by a prior meeting of the Council calling for the scrapping of the present three-man Labor Relations Board and its replacement by a body ‘‘more in tune with the stated labor policies of the government.” Council President Syd Thomp-. son said ‘‘we don’t want to wait a year or a year anda half to see this most obnoxious anti-labor legislation removed. © We demand that all pieces of anti- labor legislation be removed at the next session.” “This is a Socred-established board, steeped in Socred reac- tionary politics,’’ Operating Engineers delegate Jim Mal- ange charged, ‘‘and we don’t need legislation to remove it. It should be dismissed and the sooner the better.” Dave Werlin, CUPE 1004, emphasized that the ‘‘Socreds are still in power as far as labor legislation is concerned.’’ He pointed to the certification of the PNE workers where the employer, with the agreement of the Labor Relations Board, had designated 28 out of 41 employees as ‘‘supervisory staff’’ and therefore not part of the union’s bargaining unit. “The Board is in complicity with the employer to emas- Hundreds pay tribute to Don Guise “‘When the history of this period is properly written, Don Guise will stand among the tall men of his generation of labor leaders.” These were the words of his co- worker for many years, Jack Phillips, who paid a stirring tribute to the memory and work of Guise at a service in the Fish- ermen’s Hall last Saturday, attended by some 250 trade union. ists, friends, members of the family and municipal officials. The large attendance - of members of the civic workers union as well as union leaders and workers from other indus- tries, was a measure of the high respect in which Guise was held. BorninArcola, Sask.,hecame to B.C. in 1940, after having taken an active part in organi- zing the unemployed in Alberta during the depression, and working in the bush in Northern Ontario. He went to work in the shipyards and subsequently in mining. His gifts as an organi- zer were soon recognized and he joined the staff of Mine Mill. In 1947 Don left the staff of Mine-Mill and went to work for the city of Vancouver. Six months later he was elected busi- ness agent and secretary-treas- urer of Vancouver Civic Em- ployees Union (Outside Work- ers.) and played a major role in winning many advances for civic workers. When the civic workers re- turned to the Canadian Labor Congress through affiliation with CUPE, after being ex- pelled for a number of years, Guise was appointed national CUPE _ representative. retired in 1969 because of poor He - memory DON GUISE health. He was 64 years of age at the time of his death. Guise never concealed his left wing and socialist opinions, and was a strong supporter of the fight for peace and the working class press. He was a member of the Communist Party for most of his active life and was proud of his affiliation with the party which he saw as expres- sion ofthe high working class ideals for which he devoted the major part of his life. The PT joins with the many who attended his service, in expressing its condolences to his wife Dorothy, daughters Val- erie and Carole and son Donald, and eight grandchildren. The family requested that in- stead of flowers donations be sent to the Canadian Aid for Vietnam Civilians, Box 2543, Vancouver 3. Vancouver folk singer Tom Hawken sang ‘‘Joe Hill’’ and other labor songs in tribute to the memory of Don Guise. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1973—PAGE 12 says VLC culate the union in collective bargaining,’’ Werlin charged. “We got rid of the Social Credit, now let’s get rid of their apparatus,” he said. The resolution presented by the Executive and subsequently endorsed by thedelegates called for joint action with the B.C. Federation of Labor to prepare a statement for the next meeting outlining labor’s position on anti-labor legislation and to make that position “clearly known’’ to Labor Minister King. In another motion endorsed by delegates, the Amalgamated Transit Union called for representation of both the ATU and the Vancouver Labor Council on any transit commit- tee that might be established. “There are rumors that B.C. Hydro is going to be in charge of planning a transit system,” Doug Kemp, ATU, pointed out. ‘Andthereare other rumors that there is going to be another study. The last study cost us $4%2 million.”’ “The working people use the system, in the main,”’ he said, “and they have a right to planning decisions for a transit system.”’ The Council also moved to continue pressure on President Nixon to complete a peace agree- ment in Vietnam. The Sign Now petition was circulated among delegates and $10 was allocated to pay for the cost of wiring the signatures to Nixon. In reply to a letter from the Vietnam Action Committee seeking labor support for Satur- day’s demonstration, Jack Phillips, CUPE 1004, rapped the committee for its attempts to prolong the war by attacking Canada’s probable role as a peace-keeping force in Vietnam after hostilities cease. ‘“‘Who are we to tell the North and South Vietnamese what the terms of the peace agreement will be?”’ Phillips said, ‘‘The Vietnamese want a peace agree- ment and if that is one of the terms, then we will support them.” No action was taken on the letter which was received and filed because of the Com- mittee’s position. Urges gov't action Noting the “lack of good faith marking U.S. peace hegotiations during the period of the war in Vietnam,”’ the Vancouver local of the Finnish Organization sent a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau urging continuing pressure on President Nixon until a peace treaty is signed and implemented. Osmo Lahti, spokesman for the organization welcomed the first government resolu- tion and emphasized that “this peace initiative is absolutely necessary to pre- vent renewed bombing, to stop the killing and finally to end the war, the most unpop- ular in world history.”’ The resolution was adopted by a membership meeting of the Finnish Organization January 14, CAPITALIST < I “SVERYTHINGS Going UP I | — THAT'S GOOD «| Mass wire to Nixon: ‘inaugurate peace The Vancouver Sign Now for Peace in Indochina Committee is collecting names this week on a mass telegram to U.S. presi- dent Nixon to be sent Friday night, on the eve of Nixon’s inauguration Saturday, Jan. 20. At press time indications were that thousands of people are Signing the wire, the text of which reads: BEEF PRICES Cont'd from pg. 1 While the population of Canada has increased and the annual per capita consumption of beef has risen from 70 pounds in 1960 to 85 pounds in 1971, the amount of edible red meat in cattle has increased by an even greater amount. In 1950 only 48% of the steer was available for meat but in 1971, 57% was available and itis estimated that by 1973, 61% of the steer willbe ediblered meat. In other words, where 1000 head of choice cattle were needed in 1950 to produce a given amount red meat, in 1973 only 840 cattle will be needed to yield the same amount of meat. Balanced ration feeding, intro- duction of new cattle breeds and hormone feeding has enabled the industry to increase the edible amount of meat per car- cass — at a lower cost to the producer. By their own brochures the companies admit that wage costs have been steadily declin- ing in ratio to the sales dollar and that the number . of employees has also been declin- ing largely through the intro- duction of automation. Clearly not due to a shortage of beef Cattle or increases in wage costs, the unprecedented price increases to consumers can only be attributed to the greed of the industry for higher and higher profits and the greed of shareholders for higher dividends. 4 4 bia, urge you r “f peace in Indochina — immediate cessation 0 | bombing and the signing of ¥ nine-point peace agreements” the Dell Hotel, Surrey, Tue™ night Bruce Magnuson, nati labor secretary of the a munist Party, and PT edt Maurice Rush, said that” peace forces should not let WP their efforts to demand the @ sign a peace pact to end the™ in Vietnam and to press [0 end to U.S. interference in I china.”’ ; They warned that Presif Nixon was the most dec@ and double-dealing preside? U.S. history and that only W? pressure can ensure peace. NDP GOV'T Cont'd. from pg. 1 | could be made in prices m being charged the public. 4 Strong action is also need® the forest industry — not d talk. Recently, High¥ Minister Bob Strachan chalt the forest companies — : “criminal irresponsibil! over the latest round of Pi boosts. He said some lum prices had gone up as much percent and 70 percent 1? last year. f Strachan warned that } creases continue, the ind will be faced with govern® controls. He said the blam@ the increases could not be PU labor since the recent IWA S® ment only added about 15 ¢ to the cost of 1,000 fee lumber. ‘ ~ The big monopolies cann? allowed to run wild and chi everything the traffic will D If Ottawa puts off acti! prices, that does not mean should not and cannot act. NDP should tell the big ™ polies to roll back prices oF government action at the ( ing legislative session to them under public control.