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VANCOUVER RALLY HEARS COMMUNIST LEADER. . . See pg. 3

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VOL. 33, No. 15

15°

STOP U.S. BOMBING

Back to
bargaining
lable now

Se tuver's civic workers
ae their fight for resump-
City ‘es hegotiations now to
Stagin all Tuesday after
shut § a 100 percent 24 hour
ee to protest refusal of
Icipal Labor Relations

Uureay t
or
talks. esume contract

About 1,000 union members
hall oe at Vancouver’s city
and ae union speakers

Harry Rankin
union’s action.
oy afternoon Mayor

is eae called off a
repres ed meeting with union
€ntatives.
e Civic unions, who are
tions ote Strike prepara-
ey Sah made it clear that
Over + nt to settle the dispute
(See € bargaining table.
Story, page 12),

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~ Bosses plot confrontation

The };
Bini bosses in B.C., spurred on by the
0

vernmes Council and the reactionary Socred
that the t, gave many signs this past week
With | y are plotting to force a confrontation
Proving, sad im the hope of compelling the
bUsinese ¢ Utions to back down before their big

Th *ss demands.
eMPloyers area of contract negotiations the big
Dargaini are refusing to get down to serious
the ma:© With the unions. These were four of

. ajo
Which il developments in the last few days
@ Th strate this:

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Presenting meeruction industry, where unions

; § 50,000 workers had their contracts
sal t arch 31, are running up against the
Pe Labor € employers, through the Construc-
Atgain ino §°lations Association (CLRA) to
b Connache™ faith. Last Thursday CLRA head
3 taken . an announced a lockout vote would
icateg t Y all construction companies. He
the wut. ane were preparing an industry-wide
cud Of the “a the bosses’ vote is expected by
nt : :

Moods 8 ‘ant forest industry the International
's of America turned down a proposal

a ‘
St Industrial Relations (FIR) that they

ke 10 days to “‘reconsider”’ their demands. The
nee apnopoliés represented by FIR have taken
to newspaper ads to attack the unions demands.
Meanwhile, the IWA has applied for a mediator.
The current contract expires in June.

e In the municipal arena civic workers unions
this week staged a 24 hour shutdown to demand a
return to the bargaining table. Municipal councils
represented by the Municipal Labor Relations
Bureau broke off negotiations on March 7 and
have refused to meet the union since.

e Expressing the arrogant attitude of the big
bosses in this year’s round of negotiations was a
statement by F.G. Peskett, head of the
Employers Council. He said it could be a good
thing if there were a 4 or 5) week $ civic strike.
This might help the municipalities balance their

budgets, he suggested cynically.

skett’s provocative attitude is
eee the pec insible attitude of the civic
unions, who have publicly declared they want to
avoid a damaging strike through bargaining, it is
easy to see who is responsible for the

confrontation shaping up in B.C.

Demand U.S. return
to Paris peace talks

Faced with total collapse of President Nixon’s

‘‘Vietnamization’’ policy,

the U.S. has launched a

massive aerial massacre of North Vietnam in the hope
of saving their puppet, President Thieu from being
toppled by the people of South Vietnam.

Speaking at a news conference
in Paris last Thursday Mrs.
Nguyen Thi Binh, foreign
minister of the Provisional
Revolutionary Government of
South Vietnam, charged that
Nixon ‘‘is starting the Vietnam
war all over again.”’ At the same
time in Paris the representa-
tives of North Vietnam (DRV)
demanded an immediate halt to
the escalated U.S. aggression
and the return of the U.S. to the
Paris talks. -

At a mass meeting at Temple-
ton High School Sunday night,
(see story pg. 3) a wire to Prime
Minister Trudeau was adopted
urging that Canada demand of
President Nixon that he halt the
bombing and return immed-
iately to the Paris talks with a
view to early agreement on the
total withdrawal of U.S. forces
from Indochina.

Also. this week,.the Central
Executive of the Canadian Com-
munist Party issued a_ state-
ment on the eve of President
Nixon’s visit to Ottawa,
condemning renewed U.S.
aggression in Vietnam. Hitting
out at the massive aerial, naval
and ground attacks and the
resumption of large scale
bombing of North Vietnam, the
statement said:

“This action was cynically
preceded by the U.S. decision to
postpone participation in the
Paris peace talks indefinitely,
and the out-of-hand rejection of —

the proposals for a political
settlement advanced by the
Provisional Revolutionary
Government of South Vietnam,
gives the lie to Nixon’s promises
for withdrawal of the U.S.
forces from Indochina.

“‘With the collapse of its
bankrupt ‘Vietnamization’
policy, the U.S. is openly striving
for a military solution, ignoring
the demand of world and
American public opinion for an
end to the dirty war in Vietnam
and the demand for a resump-
tion of the negotiations on the
basis of the 7-point peace
proposals of the PRG.

‘“‘This adventurist policy of
U.S. imperialism is fraught with
grave perils to world peace. The
Canadian people have repeat-
edly spoken out for the U.S. to
end its criminal aggression in
Southeast Asia. Now Nixon is
coming to Canada with new
blood on his hands.

‘We urge the Canadian people
and their elected representa-
tives, in the first place the
Government of Canada, to
demand that the U-S. stops its
cruel and criminal war in
Vietnam at once, withdraws its
armed forces immediately, and
let the Vietnamese people settle
their own affairs without outside
interference.

‘‘We call upon the great trade
union movement, the NDP, the
National Farm Union, student

See U.S. BOMBING, pg. 12

Defeat Bennett’s

wage freeze!

—See page 12