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Shaughnessy shoppers ignore

civil defense alert for
strikebreaking bargain hunt

By BERT WHYTE

The scream of air raid sirens in the “Operation Beware” air raid alert last Saturday morning was
ignored and almost drowned out by the screams of bargain hungry strikebreakers from Shaughnessy
Heights as they surged through picket lines around the huge Slade & Stewart fruit warehouse at Union
and Dunlevy to buy thousands of dollars worth of “hot” fruit and vegetables to pack away in their ex-

pensive deep-freezers.

It was a disgraceful scene, and one which the trade union movement in Vancouver should prevent

from happening again.

- “My daughter,” one working class mother told me in areurt. “married a wealthy man. She’s got

about $36,000 in her own private
bank account. Yes on Saturday
she broke a picket line to buy
three lousy bags of scab potatoes.
Ym ashamed of her.”

There weren’t many workers in
the mob which congregated at the
strikebound wholesale warehouse
in response to the firm’s news-
paper advertisements offering bar-

gains at prices 40 percent below]
wholesale. But hundreds of ex-
pensive cars rolled up and dis-
charged hordes of well-dressed
men and women shoppers, who

ignored the picket line and jumped |

into the frantic scramble for
cheap fruit and vegetables.

They came staggering out lof

the warehouse, loaded down with
bags of potatoes, crates of conte-

Violence against pickets

Hundreds of shocked Montreal citizens witnessed this scene

of police brutality ordered by Premier Maurice Duplessis against
a peaceful mercy vigil for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg at the city’s
U.S. consulate on June 10, Ten women and three men were

arrested. Picture shows police
a police cruiser.

shoving a woman parader into

Inco cheats tax till

by $50 million deal

By HAL PROCTOR
SUDBURY

At least $50 million over the
next five years, much of it free
“of taxes, is the bonanza Interna-
tional Nickel (Inco) has uncovered
— but not in its fabulous mines.

Profiting by its connections with
U.S. State Secretary John Foster
Dulles, former member of Inco’s
executive committee, a deal has
been arranged to give Inco a new
$50 million iron ore extraction
plant tax free.

According to reports, Inco has
‘signed a new additional contract

Leong’s Hat Shop
543 Main at Keefer St.

Buy & Sell New & Used Hats

Hats Cleaned & Blocked
Price $1.00

with the U.S. Defense Materials
Procurement Agency to produce
10 percent more nickel for the
U.S. over the next five years —
a total of 120 million pounds. In
consideration for this “favor,” Inco
has announced it will build a new
plant for extraction of iron ore
from the nickel ore. Presumably
it will get at least the same extra
amount as that given Falconbridge,
40 cents a pound for nickel over
and above the market price.

If it had been a straight price
increase, it would be taxable. So a

_|special deal was cooked up — to

give the additional money in the
form of a new plant which can be
written off over the five years of
the contract. In this way, Inco
will be able to escape much of the
taxes it would normally pay. This,
of course, means cooperation with
the St. Laurent government.

lopes and huge bunches of ban-
anas.

Workers can’t afford to buy in
bulk — and the vast majority of
workers in Vancouver respect
picket lines. Not so the rich.
It was the very class of people
who dabble in Civil Defense pre-
Parations as a fashionable “pat?i-
otic’ pastime who ignored the
mock air attack alert in order to
grab cases, cartons, sacks and
crates of scab bargains.-

For a considerable time the
picket line of the Retail, Whole-
sale and Department Store Union
(CCL) managed to turn back pros-
pective customers. Some workers
attracted by the newspaper ads
turned away as soon as they saw
the picket line. And even the
drivers of Buicks and Chryslers
were at first disturbed by the de-
termined look of the 300 union
pickets. _

Then, shortly before the air raid
alert sounded, the bargain hunt-
ers from Shaughnessy and South

| Granville charged the picket line.

One savage motorist hit a picket

with his car, knocking him to the

ground. Angry pickets seized the
car and began rocking it, but the
driver stepped on the gas, heed-
less of the pedestrians ahead of
him, and sped through to the ware-
house yard.

Other motorists, septectead by
solicitous police, crashed through
the picket lines and began dis-

| |gorging their well-heeled custom-

ers. They descended on the vege-
table stalls like a swarm of
locusts. Soon a screaming mob:
of 5,000 were fighting over the
“hot” bargains. Some carted off
the booty withoutistopping to pay
the cashiers on duty. They were
that kind of people.

When union members stalled
their own cars in the drive to pre-
vent traffic going in or out of the
warehouse yard, several squads of,
police appeared as if by magic

| and forced the union cars to move.

After the mock air attack
Civil Defense headquarters plac-
ed the make-believe “death”
total at 50, with another 225
wounded by “bomb shrapnel,
flying bricks and mortar and
high explosive bomb concus-
sion.” .The CD authorities, it
appears, politely ignored the
mob scene at Slade & Stewart
warehouse, where casualties —
had there actually been an air
raid — would have numbered
in the thousands.

Effectiveness of union picket
lines prior to Saturday forced
Slade & Stewart to concoct its
giant strikebreaking scheme.
Strike of the Retail and Wholesale
Union had tied up the firm solid-
ly for several days, and thousands
of dollars worth of fruit and vege-
abtles: were on the point of spoil:

ens.

The union is asking monthly in-
creases for 15 job classifications,
ranging from $40 to $50, plus the
40-hour week and other fringe
benefits. It. has the backing of
both CCL. and TLC unionists.

Saturday’s mass strike-breaking
—even if the majority were well-
heeled enterprisers — was a dis-
graceful exhibition in a city as
union-conscious as Vancouver. It

-is up to the labor movement to see

that nothing like it ever happens
again.

| JUNE 28

| TT | At he | |

‘Buck hits back

TORONTO

The recently re-published RCMP
pamphlet which indulges in a
‘dying slander”, attack on the La-
bor-Progressive party, is not only
in violation of the federal Election
Act, it would be liable to prosecu-
tion in: the courts had it been
published by anyone except the
government.

Tim Buck, LPP national leader
and federal candidate in Toronto-
Trinity, delivered. a sharp counter-
attack on Justice Minister Stuart
Garson in a broadcast over radio
station CKFH here. He said of
the RCMP pamphlet:

“Tt defames me, Tim Buck, with
lying statements which the Hon.

Stuart Garson would not dare al-
low a jas of the RCMP to

No shred of evidence
jor RCMP slanders

make in a police court unless he
had proof that they wer
That isn’t all; if the RCMP bad
any evidence at all, even 2 80 *
of evidence that I am, guilt dirty
what they charge in their dirty:
contemptible slander, then neith of
er the RCMP nor the minister
justice would have any © ihe
for allowing me to walk t0
streets of Toronto — much le
be.a candidate in the federal Ke
tions.” a

Buck asked and’ answered a
question: ‘“Why does the mp
of justice allow such things?! M4

“It’s because the St. Laurent £0"
‘ernment, like George Drews
afraid to debate publicly the sat
damental nee of Cana
future.”

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James Pepper: Margaret and Eddie
Apps, Helen and Ken Walker, Mr.
and Mrs. A. Bingham and Mrs.
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tinued success in their work, as my
father would have wished it, and
always feel as confident of success
as he was. —George Pepper.

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for all. We meet at 3023 West
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indoors.
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