BOX SCORE SUB RENEWALS IN 100 — TO GO 800 NEW SUBS IN 10 — TOGO 190 DRIVE ENDS NOV. 15 WE URGE ALL PRESS CLUBS TO STEP UP THEIR EFFORTS Don't delay. Renew today ite B.C. and Yukon Territory Wilding and Construction Tades Council convention held 4St week dealt with a number of 7 |“Slutions which will form the Bo Policy of the Council and S affiliates in the coming year. he 56,000-member council is Weesentative of 46 local unions Eo a membership of 49,000 {rkers, and three District Uncils which have a combined membership of 7,000. Total resubership is divided into five yovonal councils in B.C. and the Ukon. Ray Haynes,, secretary of the federation of Labor in an Pening address called upon the legates to unite for orthcoming wage negotiations. » Pointed out that the Big Winess Social Credit Vernm dy and Wilk ent was ready ‘Sputes which have plagued the att unions for years must be anon under control by the ¥ lliates themselves, or Nacrnment will intervene, Ynes predicted. Delegates denounced the anq ployment situation in B.C. to endorsed the 8-point Poem submitted by the B.C. leuctation of Labor to the Slslature early in the year. 4 he concept of growing nadian autonomy within the €rnational Building Trades lj : accepted by delegates, in Ady, With the objectives of 8Nced by the 1970 convention the CLC, et of the more controversial ae facing the convention was delivery of materials to ®on “tiliates to the Council. further step to unity in svllations was agreement to a r, earn of joint bargaining haoenizing that only the rine degree of unity is is to be successful in the next A, the employers group. ‘Building. unions unite for wage negotiations By BUILDING TRADES WORKER A resolution calling .on all building trades to jointly make shorter hours a major demand received endorsation of the delegates. : Some delegates tried to make the existing jurisdictional fight with the IWA a key issue of the convention. Open warfare is not the answer, the Executive Board decided, and a four-point program calling for further meetings to resolve the issues was agreed upon. Prime Minister Trudeau was urged in a telegram from delegates to take the matter of the Amchitka tests before the Security Council of the U.N. J.Kinard of IBEW Local 213 was elected as president of the Building Trades Council. Struction sites by non- IN MEMORIUM CATARINA D’AMICO Born in Petro Perzia, 1909 — died Vancouver, B.C., October 4, 1968 Ever remembered for her warm humanitarianism; her sensitivity to the suffering of others; her implacahle struggle against the slaughter of war, starvation, slavery and discrimination; and for her keen awareness of the inequalities of the capitalist system and consequent deter- mination to support the Com- munist movement whose aim is to irradicate them. HER LOVING HUSBAND, PETER and Yvonne, Rita and Tony tai of negotiations with. ’ \ ~ Canadians, then we say — ‘call as This kind of merchant marine we DON'T want The following article appears in the recent issue of “Ship and Shop” which is the official organ of the Marine Workers and Boilermakers Union. It is written by William Stewart, secretary- treasurer of the union: A group of Canadian consulting companies assigned to a study of a Canadian Merchant Marine some years ago have finally submitted their report to the federal Transport Commission. The report, according to the Victoria ‘‘Daily Colonist’’. contains the following: 1) Canadian loadings of major deep-sea bulk commodities are expected to increase at more than nine per cent annually. 2) Canada’s Pacific Coast ports are likely to get an increased share of Canadian loadings of bulk commodities as Pacific markets expand at the expense of traditional markets in Europe and the United States. 3) Canadian crew costs would be about 70 per cent more than similar expenses for ships from low cost countries. 4) Government financial assistance will be needed to develop a privately owned deep- sea Canadian fleet. 5) The largest fleet in the study would employ about 448 men if Canada decides to support only potentially-economic ves sels. 6) Using two fleets of different sizes as examples, the study concludes they would produce an annual gain in Canada’s balance of payments of $4.3 million to $10.1 million. : The report goes on to state, a quoted in the ‘‘Colonist”’ that Canada has’a salt water fleet of 895,000 tons and ranks 26th in world size. What the news item omits to mention is that the 895,000 tons of ships are registered in other countries, consequently do not pay taxes to Canada. Above all they do not employ any Canadians, and again no taxes to Canada from the wages of the officers and crewmen of the ships. Point one and two of the report shows a lack of foresight and an apparent willingness to keep Canada as the “‘hewers of wood and the drawers of water.”’ What they are saying is that we should be building for bulk exports and that ‘lucky us” on the Pacific Coast, will have increased bulk exports (read: coal, oil, lumber, raw logs, liquified gas, etc.) The Marine Workers & Boilermakers Industrial Union has no objection to the export of raw materials to countries in need. But when so-called Canadian companies like the CPR exploit our resources, own the railroads that transport them to our seaports, ship them in their own vessels that they have built in foreign shipyards, then register the ships in foreign countries and refuses to employ halt. To add a crowning insult, the news item has the following to say: ‘Canadians are no longer attracted to the sea as they once were, say the consultants. But Canadian crew costs are 70 per cent higher than those on low cost foreign vessels.” It was in 1949 that the CPR and CNR precipitated a fight with the then Canadian Seamen’s Union (CSU) and ably assisted ' by the Canadian government, smashed the union and then proceeded to liquidate the Canadian’ from our merchant marine. It should be noted that the CSU was in the forefront of the fight to extend and maintain a merchant marine. Where does the figure 70 percent come from if we have no merchant marine now to compare with foreign countries? We do know that a 250,000 ton tanker employs less crew than the 10,000 ton wartime “Victory” ships, so obviously with so few men employed and the extremely quick ‘‘turn around’’ by modern ships, the wage differential is so infinitesi- malas to be no factor at all. But what is wrong, and a very big but it is, is the evasion of corporate and other taxes by the big, and in the main foreign, corporations who presently control the export (read: give- away) of our natural resources. The reasons for the statement come loud and clear when we compare the first part of the news report and the last, “‘the group assumed that the ships for the Merchant Marine would be built outside of Canada’’: ‘Canadians don't want to go to sea’. In other words. they are suggesting in a backhanded way a Canadian Merchant Marine built outside of Canada and manned by foreigners. The trade union movement and all its allies must give a resounding NO to any attempt to institute a subsidized merchant marine built elsewhere and manned by other than Canadians to be engaged only in bulk exports. We need a merchant marine, yes, but one that will be built in Canada and manned by our own seamen, to carry our trade in finished products, as well as raw materials to and from our ports. We have consistently stated that all nations with shipbuilding and shipping capabilities are in receipt of some form of government assistance. Credit guarantees for buvers. tax benefits. operating subsidies. special depreciation allowances, low interest loans and outright government ownership are some of the forms used. We believe an investment from the public treasury into modern shipyards, with government orders to build a merchant marine, would be sound economics. This program would stimulate all sections of the economy. 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