Ce —Fisherman photo

SOLIDARITY WITH RUPERT STRIKERS. Photo shows Teamsters’ representative Bill |
Schone, left, welking the picket line in support of the bus drivers. In the centre is
pker and on the right is Tom Frietas, secretary of the Prince Rupert Labor Coun-
cu.

Oil workers strike

for decent

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' The opening round of an oil-
Workers strike which could be-
Come national in scope began
Monday of this week when the
British-American (B—A) mar-
keting plant in Burnaby was
Struck by the Oil, Chemical and
Atomic Workers Union, Picket
lines have been established at the
Burnaby operation and also at
B—A’s storage tanks at the foot
of Butte Street,

Wednesday, the B—A opera-
tion at Kamloops was also struck,
while operations at Port Moody
and Coal Harbor is being picketed
by boats manned by the oil-
Workers,

The Oilworkers’ Union has
Voted to strike seven other major

_ Oil and gasoline distribution com-

Pahies “in B.C, but plans to-hold

_ Off strike action on these com-

_Panies pending the outcome ofthe
—A strike. These plants in-
Clide Texaco, Standard, Imper-
lal, Home, Shell, Pacific Petrol-

. ae and Royalite, It is expected
at B—A plants in Moose Jaw,

Tandon and some. Ontario cen=
€fs may be closed by strike
action by the weekend,

The Oijlworkers’ Union is
Seeking a 40¢ an hour wage hike,
Plus increased vacations, jobse-
Curity, extended employee insur-
Mee and other fringe benefits, in
® one-year contract, The com-

Nelson Clarke, national cam-
> &0 chairman ofthe Communist
: arty will open a national tour
= B.C, next week when he ar-
he to address a large number
fen rallies, He will also
Bla with party committees to

“n the election campaign,

Clarke will be in B.C, between
tember 20 and 28, Provin-
headquarters of the Com-
“nist Party announced this week
Pe

Morgan well

on eel Morgan, B,C, leader
: Be the Communist Party, is
3 Ing released from hospital

the end of this week and is

Cted back at work early in
Ober,

Doctors who conducted tests
i there is nothing of a ser-
Sie Nature and after a brief
ae be able to resume his

contract

pany has offered a 35¢ increase
in a 30-month contract.

Monday of this week the oil-
workers at B—A’s Saskatoon re=-
finery were locked out with se-
curity guards and police dogs
patrolling the plant. Following
strong union protests the dogs
were later removed.

LABOR ROUNDUP: -

!'WA debates problems
created by automation

The 28th Annual Regional Con-
vention of the International Wood-
workers of America (IWA) which
opened its sessions Monday of
this week in the Georgia Hotel,
Vancouver, has already rolled
up a sizeable job of work for
the IWA,

Main emphasis in Regional
President J,A., Moore’s address
to convention delegates centered
upon the need of new measures
in wage and contract negotiations

‘ designed to safeguard against the

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displacement of workers through

‘automation and technological ad-

Fu,

Caron to speak
at North Van

Charles Caron, Communist
candidate for Coast-Capilano,
charged this week that “Prime
Minister Pearson called the
Federal election because big
business in Canada wants a
strong government which
would stand up to the public
demands for increased social
legislation and peace,”

The Communist candidate
will kick-off his election
campaign with a public rally
in the IOOF Hall, 155 East
Keith Ave,, on Wed, Sept, 22
at 8 p.m,

At that time Caron will out-
line his party’s program and
deal with the importance of
the Nov, 8 election for Can-
adians, Speaking with Caron
will be the national campaign
chairman of the Communist
Party, Nelson Clarke.

Nelson Clarke speaks
at election rallies

that Clarke will appear at the
following public events:

Mon, Sept, 20 he will address
a Vancouver South nominating

meeting at 8 p,m, at the Peretz _

School, 6185 Ash St,

Wed, Sept, 22 he will speak
with Communist candidate Char-
les Caron at the IOOF Hall, 155

E, Keith Ave,, at 8 p.m.

Thurs, Sept, 23 he willaddress
a public meeting in Alberni.

Fri, Sept. 24 he will speak at
a nominating meetingin Victoria,

Sun, Sept, 27 he will address a
public meeting in the Fraser
Valley.

His final public meeting will be
in Vernon on September 27 where
he will speak in support of Sandy
Mowers, Communist candidate

‘for Okanagan- Revelstoke.

.vances in the wood industry,

Intended as one of labor’s
approaches to offset labor dis-
placement by automation, the IWA
president advanced the idea of
abolishing the accepted hourly
pay basis, and introducing a

r
ha
‘

also calls for such employers to
“maintain a worker on its pay-
roll until alternative employment
is found,” and also that “special
subsidies shall be paid to all wor-
kers over forty years of age, or
who have completed 15 years of
service,” etc,

@ The demand for a full public
inquiry into all phases of forest
management and its effects on
employment in British Columbia,
Such an inquiry also to determine
conditions under which all
alienated forest land may be re-
turned to the public domain,

X Other provisions of the reso-

weekly or monthly wage standard,

The IWA leader stated that

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“this method of payment would ©

also be easily adapted to a guar-
anteed annual income and sever-
ance pay if such is what the
members desire,”

» He urged that the idea be fully
explored in preparing for coming
IWA wage scale conferences,

Resolutions already adopted by
the second day of the IWA Reg-

‘ jonal Convention include;

o.

@A joint provincial and federal
survey of the B,C, lumber
industry which will provide fac-
tual information on employment
levels in all sections of the in-
dustry, and factual information
on the rapid increase in labor
productivity over a ten-year
period,

The establishment of a gov-
ernment board to exercise a
measure of control on companies
closing down or re-locating in
which the interests of displaced
employees of such companies are
disregarded. This resolution

lution projects the feasibility of
a Crown Corporation to conduct
research and operate selected
projects to assure the full utili-
zation of timber resources and
assist in the development of re-
lated secondary industries,

‘The submission of a protest
to the Canadian government
through the media of the CLC,
against the display of misleading
advertisements in other coun-
tries about employment oppor-
tunities in Canada, The reso-
lution emphasizes that many
immigrants under public assis-
tance schemes have left Canada
because “employment and social
conditions” in this country have
been misrepresented to them,

. On disarmament the IWA con-

vention again demanded that-the
federal government bring abouta
removal of nuclear weapons from

Canada and ban those inhuman.

weapons in Canada and the rest
of the world,

The IWA Regional Convention
sessions are ‘scheduled to con-
clude Friday of this week,

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A Mine-Mill press release
dated Sept, 8 reports that the
Ontario Labor Relations Board
hearing into Mine-Mill’s appli-
cation for certification at the
International Nickel Mines, mills

and refineries in the Sudbury dis-
trict have ended, OLRB Chair-
man Reed has also announced
that “a decision will be handed
down as quickly as possible,”

Final and official recount of
the application cards favoring
Mine - Mill as thebargaining
agency showed 7,214 “sound
cards.” This is 49.5% of the
14,569 International Nickel em-
ployees and 658 more than the
number required: for the 45%
needed for the OLRB to order a
vote,

Mine-Mill officials are con-
fident that such a vote, when
ordered by the OLRB “will re-
store to Local 598, the bargain-
ing rights held for.17 years before
the raiding Steel union won a
disputed 15 vote margin in 1961-
62 which gave the raiding union
“*bargaining rights,”

Van. South
to nominate

The national campaign chair-
man of the Communist Party,
Nelson Clarke, will address a
Vancouver South nomination con-
ference on Monday, September
20, 8 p.m,, at the Peretz School,
6185 Ash Street.

Clarke, who is on a national
campaign tour, will kick off the
local party’s election campaign
at this meeting and is expected
to outline the party’s campaign
strategy.

William Stewart, secretary of
the Vancouver Committee, has
indicated his intention of seeking
the Vancouver South nomination,
He ran there in the 1962 federal
election, :

Hootenany lovers will be
thrilled by popular local folk
singers who have some special
songs written for the occasion,

Canada needs independent
policies, Douglas tells |IWA

NDP national leader Tommy
Douglas charged before the In-
ternational Woodworkers of Am-=

_erica convention, meeting in Van-

couver this week, that the Lib-
erals want to slow down Canada’s
economic growth He also made
a strong bid for peace and co-
existence

In a speech which was enthus-
iastically received, and which
was followed by adoption of a
resolution of full support for the
NDP in the Federal election cam-
paign, Douglas stressed the need
for policies to place the needs
of the people before the monop-
olies

Douglas called for full medi-
care, universal old age pensions
of $100 a month at 65, and urged
policies to expand the economy
He pointed to the Gordon Com-
mission report which stressed
that Canada will need a million
and a half new jobs by 1970
and said that Canada needs an
independent economic policy

_ Douglas placed the NDP
- squarely on the side of peaceful

co-existence when he said he
agreed with a statement made by
the head of theSoviet Parliamen-
tary delegation during his tour of
the Soviet Union as a member of
the Canadian Parliamentary

delegation.

TOMMY DOUGLAS’

The NDP leader quoted the
Soviet spokesman as having said
that the superiority of this or
that economic: system will be
determined only by history but
that in the meantime the peoples
must learn to live in the same
world in conditions of- peaceful
co-existence,

. Addressing the IWA conven-
tion earlier, International Presi-
dent Al Hartung pointed to the
situation in South East Asia and
said that war cannot be consid-
ered as asolution tothe problems
of the working people, He con-
demned those leaders of the labor
movement who have supported the
war in Vietnam on the grounds
that the war creates jobs in the
armament industry,

He made it clear that the in-
terests of woodworkers as of all
other workers can only be ad-
vanced by policies of peace and
by policies which utilize the great
Productive capacities of our
countries. and America to ad-
vance the living conditions of
the workers of the whole world,

September 17, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

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