LABOR ROUNDUP:

Mine-Mill launches drive
towinSudbury bargaining

The National Organizational
Conference of Mine-Mill, held in
Sudbury, Ontario during January,
Save unanimous approvalto many
important resolutions on the
building and consolidation of
Mine-Mill in Canada,

Primary among these was one
Calling for “the total mobiliza-
tion of the forces of the union
for the campaign in Sudbury to
establish Local 598 as the col-
lective bargaining agent for the
14,000 workers employed by In-
ternational Nickel Company
(INCO),

Determined to win back the
Wage and other losses sustained
as a result of Steel union raiding
on Mine-Mill jurisdiction at INCO
operations, and the wide wage

differentials” and losses which
followed as a result of Steel’s
Taiding campaigns, Mine - Mill
Plans to “make application for
bargaining rights of the Sudbury
INCO workers as of May 11 of
this year,” and at the “comple-

tion of certification procedures
. . will proceed to give INCO
notice of bargaining.”

Emphasizing that 1965 will
mark INCO’s “production, sales
and profits the highest ever at-
tained,” the Mine-Mill conference
projected a new collective agree-

ment for wage and other eco-

nomic gains for INCO workers
“based on the standards won at
Cominco” (Trail) by Mine-Milt,
Many of these gains are incor-
porated in a 10-point program
covering wage increases, a five-
day week, conditional overtime
and tradesmen’s wage rates, sick
benefits, retirement plans, etc,

The conference also approved
a uniform wage-contract expiry
date between Sudbury, Falcon-
bridge, Thompson and Port Col-
borne (INCO operations) in order

that the nickel workers “can ex-:

ert their tremendous bargaining
strength” to win improved wage
and working standards,

Another conference resolution

Tim Buck

munist Party chairman,

Sat., Feb, 13, Nanaimo.

Tues,, Feb, 16, Vernon,

Great interest is being shown by the public in the forth-
coming speaking tour of B,C, by Tim Buck, National Com-

Here is where he will speak:

Wed, Feb, 10, Cloverdale (Elks Hall).
Fri., Feb, 12, Victoria (Williams Aud,, 749 Broughton St.)

Sun., Feb, 14, Vancouver (Pender Aud.)

All meetings start at 8 p.m.

meetings

Public auto insurance
plan urged by Morgan

A non-profit government auto
Mobile insurance plan at cost
Was urged this week by B,C, Com-
munist Party Leader Nigel

Morgan in a radio broadcast
Sunday,

Speaking on his weekly broad-
Cast on CKWX, heard every Sun-
day at 6:55 p.m,, Morgan said
that with auto liability coverage:
Now required by law, and with a
20 percent or more boost in in-
Surance rates hanging over the
Public, the government must be
made to act, Morgan said the rate
Mmcrease will cost auto users an-
other $1 million,

Last week Socred backbencher
Cyril Shelford, Omineca, told the
Legislature: *The insurance
Companies should have to justify
this tremendous increase.” He
urged establishment of a special

Committee of the Legislature to
MVestigate,

New Democratic Party MLA
Arthur Turner, Vancouver East,
Called for action along the lines
of the Saskatchewan scheme
which gives auto insurance
Coverage at about half the B.C,
cost,

e

Pointing to the crisis facing
B.C, municipalities, Morgan said,

Any hope municipal taxpayers
May have had about tax relief or
any major change in provincial
8rants to B,C, cities and towns
Went up in smoke last Thursday
when Municipal Affairs Minister
Dan Campbell told the Legisla-
ture: ‘The entire diatribe about

municipal financing is straight
political hot air’.”

Morgan said that the govern-
ment had not heard the last on
this issue, The one thing B,C,’s
124 municipalities have in com-
mon, said Morgan, is an acute
financial problem which is grow-
ing more Serious every month,

He charged that local taxes
have reached the breaking point
in the main urban centres and
that they take a whole month’s
earnings from the average work-
ing man’s annual income,

1130 K.C.

CK WX 6:55 P.M.

SUNDAYS
COMMUNIST PARTY’S
WEEKLY RADIO
COMMENTARY

by NIGEL MORGAN

“called upon every Mine-Mill
local union in Canada and the
United States to lend every sup-
port” so that “the program will

“pe brought to life” on all INCO

operations,
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Charles Millard, executive
member of the Canadian Labor
Congress (CLC) and member of
the three-man Maritime Union
Trusteeship, set up in 1963 by
the Pearson government as a
“supervisory” body in the mari-
time industry, has proposed in a
letter to the CLC the establish-
ment of a “labor - sponsored”
trusteeship to replace the pres-

ent body,

The report of this “trusteeship”
now in the hands of Federal Labor
Minister MacEachern, but not yet
made public, does not contain
Millard’s signature, but only that
of his “trustee” colleagues, Mr,
Justice Victor Dryer, who re-
signed from the post last De-
cember, and Judge Rene Lippe,

Current reports would indicate
that the “majority” on this “trus-
teeship” body seeks to broaden
its area of operations, by seeking
“legislative powers” to force
constitutional changes upon
unions under its control,

Whatever the differences with-
in the trusteeship itself, or the
merits of Millard’s proposals,
Canadian labor is in broad gen-
eral agreement for an early ter-
mination of the present body.

Following lengthy wage nego-
tiations between ship owners and
seamen in the B,C, coast indus-
try, a signal victory has resulted,

Covering all licensed and un-
licensed personnel, the wage
package contains a 24-percent
wage increase over a 32-month
period, with time-and-half paid
for all over time (the first time
in the history of the B,C, coast
industry), In addition there is a
40-cents per hour increase for
“standby” while a ship is in dry-
dock, and a three-week vacation
with pay after five years’ service.

An official of the Canadian
Brotherhood of Railway and
Transport Workers (CBRT) told

* the Pacific Tribune “the prime
- reason for these substantial gains

arises from the fact that, for the
first time all four seamen’s
unions. were involved, including
the SIU, as a united body across
the bargaining table,”

A HEALTH CHARTER

FOR CANADIANS

SYMBOL OF LABOR’S DRIVE FOR MEDICARE. The above symbol is being used by
the Canadian Labor Congress in its drive for a ‘.Health Charter for Canadians”
by July 1, 1967. About 100,000 postcards have been printed as part of this
drive. Cards are available from the B.C. Federation of Labor, 517 E. Broadway,
Vancouver. :

Demand for S. Vietnam

cease-fire grows in U.S.

The U.S. government this week
sent White House advisor Mc-
George Bundy to Saigon in the
midst of a growing crisis for the
government's policy in South East
Asia, :

Faced with spreading opposi-
tion in the U.S. against the un-
popular war, the political crisis
in South Vietnam, the growing
strength of the liberation move-
ment, and world support for the
people of South Vietnam, Presi-
dent Johnson is said to he ser-
iously concerned.

In addition to many prominent
citizens, political figures and
newspapers speaking out against
U.S. involvement, recently 100
clergymen in the capital called
on Johnson to order a cease-
fire,

This week North Vietnam call-

ed on Britain and the Soviet:

Union as co-chairman of the

MANY RALLIES IN U.S. Above is one of the many rallies held recently in the

Geneva Conference to stop the
introduction of South Korean and
other troops into South Vietnam.

The Soviet Union announced

‘this week that Soviet Premier

Kosygin will visit North Vietnam
soon as head of a delegation,
Only a month ago Foreign Min-
ister Gromyko assured the Dem-
ocratic Republic of Vietnam that
the Soviet Union will give it “all
necessary assistance” against
attack,

At that time Gromyko con-
demned the U.S. provocations
aimed at extending aggressive
military operations to the north.
The latest incident came last Sat-
urday when two warships, one of
them American, withdrew from
North Vietnam waters under fire.

U.S, students are planning a
huge Easter marchto Washington
to demand an end to U.S. inter-
vention,

U.S. to urge ending of the Vietnam war. This one was in Washington Square,

New York.

Columbia hydro for U.S. aluminum

By NIGEL MORGAN:
Press announcements that
Pechiney of France, andtwo other
major aluminum producers, have

- chosen Washington instead of

» B,C, for expansion oftheir smelt-

' ing facilities should provide an
important lesson for us, :

The reason given for their

' choice — cheape r, long -term_

electric contracts from the Co-
lumbia’s Bonneville Power Ad-
ministration—fully confirms the
warning given by the Communist
Party in opposition to the Colum-

| bia River sellout.

This is precisely what our
party warned against in briefs to
the Legislature and city coun-
cils, Surrender ofthe Columbia’s
cheap power potential, by dedi-
cating the Canadian side to U,S,
storage is bound to work an in-
creasing hardship on B,C, and
result in lost job opportunities
for Canadians.

With two mill power available
in Washington, even the Kitimat
smelter’s future could be jeop-
ardized—where they are depend-
ent on 3} mill power — nearly
double the cost for the most im-

portant element in aluminum pro-

duction,

The establishment of this $60
million INTALCO plant at Bell-
ingham should be borne in mind
in connection with new plans for
U,S, control over B,C, water re-
sources, and the expanding alien-
ation of our natural resources,

Such surrenders have got to
be stopped, We must tell the
United States that we are quite
capable of developing our own
resources, and that from this
point on it’s going to be done on
a firm basis of “Canada First,”

February 5, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3