i j Forest profits biggest ever IWA UNITES RANKS u WIN PAY HIKE F Ba if RAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1964 ing Proachj, A PEACE LOBBY. Photo shows some of the delegates ap- ing the Parliament Buildings last Wednesday. Nearly 100 ®rsons from Lower Mainland and Island centres took part in the ™Pressive nC. Fo demonstration to keep nuclear arms out of Canada and us follow-up action, see story below. ‘Urge ‘free vote’ in House a Nuclear arms motion vuwite up its peace lobby last Wednesday, the ace Council had called Ree ue to write Socred €nt Whip, Bert Price, of his urging that a free vote House Party be allowed in the ing ee on the NDP motion urg- from val of nuclear warheads Lod griian soil, Coun 1 ardner, chairman oft e Soej,,, 2. S2id he hoped that the Vote Credit government will intr Cae ely on the motion Bare iy fd by NDP MLA Dave are ask However, he said, we low ing the Party Whip to Darty. 4 “free “vote’? of his tO B, . ON th Go e@ ” A aa Vote’*, Gardner ex- Tedit ype ans that each Social ' _ “MLA will be allowed to follow his own conscience and convictions and not be governed by a decision of the party cau- cus. As the Government has al- ready (in 1961) passed a unani- mous resolution requesting the Federal Government to keep nu~- clear weapons out of Canada, a free vote on the question is the logical procedure.”* Gardner stressed the impor- tance of the public writing to Bert Price. ‘*Governments are always influenced by public op- inion. In this particular case, the odds are in our favor as there are a number of Social Credit MLAs who are on our side. We must dump a huge stack .of mail on Mr. Price’s desk urging that a free vote be taken,’’ he said. The International Woodworkers of America closed ranks last weekend at its Wages and Contract parley in Vancouver to adopt a united program for its 25, March 16. Top among the demands are for all workers in a one year contract, benefits. Despite a campaign by the daily press and company pro- pagandists aimed at splitting the ranks of the IWA, the 1200 dele- gates at the conference succeed- ed in hammering out a united program for this year’s contract demands. All coast woodworkers strong- ly support the present program of demands and hailed the un- ity statements by Vancouver lo- cal 1-217 president Syd Thomp- son and regional president Jack Moore. Differences between the ~ two leaders were inflamed by bosses’ propaganda to split wood- worker’s ranks. Thompson said that his ‘union local supports the demands work- ed out?’ at the conference and that ¢¢ the bickering among ourselves is over and all the fire will now be concentrated on the employ- ers.’’ Moore expressed the same sentiments when he declared that there is no dissension in the union over this year’s demands. Included among the other de- mands of the union are the fol- lowing: @ Seventy cents an hour in- crease for all tradesmenand im- provers. @ Changes in travel time pro- visions for loggers to ensure re- gular pay from marshalling point to job site and back, instead of the present arrangement under which loggers are paid at level rates for time spent on company property over 10 hours in one day between leaving and return- ing to marshalling point. @ Improved health and welfare plans to provide an increase 000 coast members in negotiations opening a 40 cent an hour wage hike and many important fringe in weekly accident and sickness benefits from $35 a week for 26 weeks to $50 a week for 39 weeks retroactive to the first day of disability. @An additional weeks’ va- cation with pay for all employ- ees with the stipulation that va- cations must be taken. @ Double time for overtime, instead of time and a half. Other fringe demands include a provision for an upward re- vision of piecework and hourly rates for shingle and shake- mill workers; pay days every se- cond Friday instead of twice a month; deletion of the present contract provisions for a joint industry committee; for a revi- sion of rates for new and chang- ed categories, It also calls for a survey of categories and rates for planer- men and that wages and conditions in the master agreement be in- cluded for work performed by See IWA, pg. 3 Support urged for ‘No Sugar Week’ he Women Against High see Committee of the Great- er Vancouver area is appealing to all women to support the ‘*No Sugar Week’’ from March 2-9, initiated. by a group of. women at Quesnel, B.C. The letter from Quesnel, says in part, ‘*A group of indignant Quesnel women would like to ap- peal to the rest of the house- wives in B.C. to protest the high cost of living in Canada, and in particular, the inflated price of sugar, ‘*We ask you to refrain from buying sugar for one week, be- ginning March 2-9, to help us bring to the attention of the gov- ernment, our concern over the lack of control of prices of staple goods.”’ The ‘*‘Women Against High Prices Committee’? in Greater Vancouver plans to distribute thousands of leaflets at shopping centres in the various areas on Friday, February 28, They are appealing to all shoppers to re- frain from buying sugar, syrup, sweets, etc., for that week. The Committee pointed out that to be really..effective, extra sugar should not be bought ahead of time — if sweetening is required, please use B.C. honey. They are also appealing -to various women’s organizations, ‘trade union auxiliaries, trade un- ions primarily composed of wo- men members, labor councils, and all interested individuals to support the campaign to lower the price of sugar. They suggest that everyone write letters to their local papers, to their MLA in Victoria, and to their MP at Ottawa, urging immediate action by the governments to bring the price of sugar back to the Oct- ober 1962 level of 73¢ per lb, Anyone wishing further infor- mation from the Committee which See PRICES, pg. 8 These headlines from the New York Herald Tribune and New York Times this week show how the U.S. press is whipping up hysteria to create a war fever over South Vietnam. CS GONSIDERINES cy BROADENING i. heel HN ae way 4 Sieapaiiip As Aurak t ¥ \ ie Sg A ON iy! nes a Hy Sands / t Re a uU. s. whips wy dover over South Vietnam A campaign to heighten hys- teria over South Vietnam to jus- tify further U. S. military inter- vention is under way. This week it was announced that U.S. Defence Secretary Mc- Namara, is to visit South Viet- nam early in March at President Johnson’s request to investigate . the worsening situation for the U.S. puppet regime there, Announcing the visit Monday the White House refused to deny reports that the U.S. government is considering plans to extend the war into North Vietnam by guerilla and other operations. The U.S. now has 17,000 ‘*mil- WT | ee 0 ee itary advisers’’ backing the re- gime with arms and $1,500,000 a day to carry on the war. The State Department announced that a high-level committee had been set up to co-ordinate U.S. op- erations in Vietnam. This week the Soviet Union, in a Tass statement, charged the U.S. was toying with the idea of invading North Vietnam and warned that ‘‘the Soviet people could not remain indifferent to such developments.’’ (See page 3 for program of S. 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