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arms race, wage freeze

By BETH CHOBOTUCK
Concern over  anti-labor

' legislation, the acceleration of the .

arms race, and the unchecked rise

‘Mm the prices of food, housing, and

Services was uppermost in the
Minds of delegates to the 13th
iennial Northwest Convention of
€ International Longshoremen’s
and Warehousemen’s
€derated Auxiliaries in Van-
Couver last weekend.

_ Theconcern of the delegates was

Union.

reflected in the officers’ report,
jointly delivered by president
Dawn Rutter and secretary
Wenonah Drasnin. The officers
report blamed. many of the
problems ‘which the American
people face at home on _ that
country’s harmful foreign policy.
The report pointed out that while

‘the American people face rising

unemployment, soaring taxes,
increasing poverty, and a chaotic
situation in education and health
services, U.S. military and
economic involvement in Angola,

May Thomas mourned

The eS movement this
Week mourned the passing of May

Omas who died quietly in her
Ome in Vancouver March 13. She
Was 80,

Born July 16, 1895 in Bridgend,
: uth Wales, she came to this
pay 3 in the 1920’s and settled in
‘iy hbridge, Alberta with her.
Usband, Griffith Lewis Thomas.
b ley had moved to Vancouver
Y the time of the great Depression
fi both became active par-
Cipants in the struggles that

“nsued. May joined _ the
a
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Housewives League as well as the
tenants‘ organizations of the day
and later affirmed that. com-
mitment to working people by
taking out membership in the
Communist Party.

She carried that tradition
throughout her life, participating
actively in several aid
organizations during the war years
and later adding her voice in the
struggle for peace. She became a
member of the Canadian Peace
Congress, and took part in their
campaign for signatures on the
Stockholm petition.

In her later life, and even after
the death of her husband in 1965,
May had an active political life as
an executive member of three
pensioners organizations, taking
up issues- on behalf of senior
citizens.

Her partisan voice on behalf of
working people also found an echo
in her four children — _ two
daughters and two-sons — all of
whom participated in the
progressive movement. Jim and
Glyn Thomas are both active trade
unionists, members of the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, Local 213.

Aside from her own children,
May is survived by 12 grand-
children and two great- grand~
children.

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As well, the report said,
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cost of these movements of
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domination of the Canadian
economy by large American
monopoly interests in this country.

The officers’ report sharply
condemned the anti-labor actions
of both Canadian and American
governments. The roundest
criticism was directed at the
Trudeau, government’s in-
troduction of Bill C-73 which the
officers’ report said was legislation
designed to replace free collective
bargaining with compulsory ar-
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Canadian people under the guise of
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ILWU Canadian area president
Don Garcia emphasized many of
the points raised by the officers’
report in his address to the con-
vention. ‘The Anti-Inflation Act
(Bill C-73) has been directed solely
toward wage control,’ Garcia
said. ‘It has not touched prices,
profits or professional incomes at
all.”

The convention adopted
resolutions demanding the with-
drawal of anti-labor legislation and
bills in both the U.S. and Canada.

Other resolutions demanded that
governments provide improved
services at lower costs, childcare,
full employment policies, housing
within. the means of working
people, and increased social
security.

Two of the strongest resolutions,
one protesting the Trident sub-
marine base at Bangor,
Washington, and the other, calling
for a 50 per cent reduction in arms

spending, were passed
unanimously. As well, the
delegates called upon their

governments to actively support
the York Conference on World
Disarmament scheduled for the .
end of this month in York,
England.

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