te ac } ii Ds To, Secon it vet tf sosvenna i canestits im) FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1954 LPP projects new coal policy BLAIRMORE, Alberta A special ane of the Crow’s Nest Pass LPP regional com- mittee held here recently to discuss the crisis in‘the coal industry cll tll yi Uy ec Wee UNE e hammered out a platform to present to the governments of Alberta and British Columbia. Present at the conference were delegates from Fernie, Michel, Coleman, Blairmore, Frank, Belle- vue and Hillcrest. Ben Swankey, Alberta LPP leader, addressed the meeting. OR a hI Recognizing “the serious slump eo Boe oe in the coal industry and the bleak ed ee nn A future facing unemployed coal miners” the delegates, charged that “the Alberta government’s $100,000 rehabilitation scheme is entirely inadequate and is in fact a hoax aimed at falsely raising hopes among miners at a time when the government really has no solution to offer except that of sending a handful of miners to work on farms in the Lethbridge area.” The meeting resolved to urge action by the, provincial govern- ments of Alberta and B.C. along these lines: 1. Full support for the pro- posed United Mine Workers dele- gation to Ottawa demanding fed- eral action to keep out at least Continued INVASION Declaring that “early invaders * were.never able to subdue these people,” Murphy added that “Dul- tes and the United Fruit Company. will not succeed either. “The people of Guatemala have practised by a people’s govern- ment, and they will never. resi until another freelv elected gov- ernment is established,” he pre- dicted. “The U.S. State Department is fearful that the democratic winds blowing in Guatemala might show the oppressed peoples of Central and South America how they can win democracy,” said Maurice Rush. “The land reform’ in Guatemala opened the eyes of neighbors to the South, and that is why the United States is de- termined to crush the peopie’s movement and restore the dic- tatorship in Guatemala.” Rush denounced the do-nothing policy of the Canadian govern- ment on the pretext of having “no official information.” Ottawa did not hesitate when it was a tion in Korea, he observed. “Troops were committed even be- fore parliament met to consider the situation.” A resolution calling upon the Canadian government “to sup: port measures in the United Na- tions to halt the aggression,” was passed unanimously. the Vancouver committee of the Labor-Progressive party. United Labor PICNIC. SUNDAY, AUG. 8 4600 EAST HASTINGS NORTH BURNABY tasted the fruits of democracy 25 © question of backing U.S. interven-: The meeting was sponsored by 7 CONFEDERATION PARK | two million’ tons of U.S. coal a year and make this market avail- able to coal from western Can- ada. . 2. To urge Ottawa to ‘immedi- ately increase unemployment in- surance benefits by 50 percent and to make them continue for as long as miners are jobless; also that until such action is taken: by Ottawa, the provincial govern- ments should provide adequate unemployment benefits to all min- ers whose unemployment insur- ance has run out. The meeting also resolved to urge upon the Alberta govern- ment that it: @ Use some of its accumulat- ed oil revenues to help establish an industry in the Crow’s Nest Pass that would process coal for its many valuable by-products. ® Give full support to the establishment of a steel industry in Alberta (using the iron ore deposits recently discovered in the Peace River) which would provide a substantial market: for coking coal as well as create thousands of new Jobs., They piled it high at the U.S. Army-Senator McCarthy hearings. Photo shows a stack of testimony towering six feet, compiled dur- ing the 36-day squabble. Spec- tators and TV viewers felt that it was mostly a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Some $2C,00C,000 worth of heavy construction Saulbmekt (such as the machines shown above) iS _ being offered for sale by Aluminum Company of Canada as the Kitimat proiect nears completion. The ‘company hopes to sell much of it to Australia where it would be useful for the Snowy Mountain deve lop" men! described by Alcan officials as “similar to our operation’ at Kitimat.” : ine=-Mill asks probe of Kitimat “Tf there ever was a situation needing a thorough investigation, it is the labor’ management relations in Kitimat,” International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. says the current issue of Union News, organ © Unless existing labor laws are enforced in Alcan and Kitimat other companies ‘will follow the lead of the Almu inum Company Full text: of the Union Bews™: article reads: “With loud fanfare the Alon inum Company has announced ‘that it has made an agreement . with itself covering labor rela- tions. lowed a ‘confession’ of the presi- dent of the Aluminum Workers Union that he was sent into the Aluminum @ompany operations as an international representa- tive. of the Steelworkers, where- upon the Aluminum Workers Union in an executive meeting expelled him, and the Aluminum Company of Canada summarily fired him. “This was all done on the ex- posure made by Walter Owen, QC, lawyer for the Aluminum Company: What has this got to do with the ICA Act of British ~ Columbia, which sets out strict penalties for companies interfer- ing in the affairs of a labor org- anization? ' “An agreement was announced. Who made the agreement? Who withdrew the case from a con- ciliation board? *Why did the Aluminum Company announce that it needed the posting of half’ a million dollars bond for good behavior?. Was that bond post- ed? What about the law that says they shall not make any threats or impose financial .or pecuniary conditions? “In the last issue of District». News we printed an affidavit showing that the company was using policemen: to, spy on labor, and that a policeman was fired : BURNABY, B.C. Appearing. before _ Burnaby municipal council Monday this week a three-man National Fed- eration of Labor Youth delega- tion demanded better swimming - facilities. “The beach site that was set aside at one time is no longer available because of oil seepage from barges,” pointed out NFLY spokesman Alex Kucher. “The only piace Burnaby young people can swim is in Deer Lake,” be continued, “which is inade- quate to handle big crowds, And there isn’t a single indoor or out- door swimming pool in Burnaby.” and B.C. will ‘ This announcement fol- because he refused to continue the vractise. This affidavit was communicated to the department of labor in Victoria, but to this date no reply has been received. What power has the Aluminum Company of Canada over the pro- vineial government and its de- partment! of Labor? / ‘In all the talk by the AFL, end particularly the CCL, about the tremendous dictatorial pow- ers assumed by the department of labor, we are also told how good the previous Labor Rela- tions Board was, yet it was the previous LRB that put through ‘he certification of a phony cap- tive union, and it is the present department of labor which now has no LRB independent of the department that is condoning these outright violations df the law for the benefit of the Alum- inum Company and a. few AFL _ big shots who are imposing a com- pany union ‘set-up. What’s the difference? “From all reports labor rela- tions in Alcan and Kitimat are conducted by ex-RCMP officers, and- the real president of the Aluminum Workers ‘Union is Walter Owens, QC, the lawyer _for the Aluminum Company. ‘If there ever was a. situation that needs a thorough investiga- tion and the facts made public, it is the labor-management rela- tions in Kitimat. They not only stink to the high heavens, but are open and unashamed viola- tiens of the basic’ rights of the Burnaby swim facilities scored by youth delegation Kucher stressed that there are 4,000 more school students in Burnaby today than there were three years ago and this growth is likely to continue. - “T appeared before council a year ago to make a similar re- quest for petter swimming facili- ties,” said Kucher, “but absolute- ly nothing has been done to date. It is time our youth had some decent beaches and pools, and the big oil companies should \. share in the cost.” Only answer council’ members could give was that “we’re aware o. the situation, but we elas the money.” ‘become a feudal compound for big corporations.’ workers, and constitute the most lawless disregard to the existing laws of British Columbia. “The representations made PY Mine-Mill from the very. besit ning of this mockery of the law chould call for a complete i _ vestigation as we proposed the? If the Aluminum Company © do it, and they are doing it, other companies can also; 4 P.C. will become a feudal come pound for big corporations.” ANNUAL PEACE GARDEN PARTY and Games Program of Entertainment Puppet Show Afternoon Tea Treasure Hunt SATURDAY JULY 10 - 2 P.M. 4022 PERRY ST. Admission 50c Take No. 19 (Kingsway-Joyc®) or No. 21 (Victoria to 54th) bus. Alight at Kingsway and Dumfries. Walk one. block ahead {0 Berry: Turn left 0” Perry. ‘ ~ B.C. PEACE COUNCIL Q. 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