THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

in the Royal Towers, New Westminster. Three hundred and fifty delegates attended the
day-long session to plan strategy to defeat the proposed Bill which completely restricts

labour’s rights in collective bargaining.

SPECIAL CONFERENCE ON BILL 33 held by the B.C. Federation of Labour March 5 :
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MEMO RIGHT TO JOIN HOSPITAL UNION

FROM
MATHER

OTTAWA — A friend in the Commons’ Gallery sent mini-
memoes: ... “Conservatives ... a lot of talk, a lot of complaints,
no policy, no plans . . . Liberals . .. Government is a leaking
ship with former Captain taking to life-boat ... Quebec... We
will hear from the elite, not the work-a-day masses . . . Stan-
field . . . He did better in the Gallery.”

OUR POWDER DRY: In the light of the recent Commons’
confidence hassle the next general election may come this
summer, this fall or next year. The New Democratic Party
means to be in good shape to meet it. Federal public relations
people are already organized for the campaign . . . Nominating
conventions in large numbers are taking place in the next six
or seven weeks . .. A system of speaker-tours has been blue-
printed with participation by provincial NDP leaders and
elected Members inter-provincially . . . (Note: a survey in
Saskatchewan following the provincial election showed that a

majority of NDP candidates elected had been in the field 10
or more months prior to the election).

QUOTE OF THE MONTH: Speaking of the Liberal Gov-
ernment’s delaying or ditching of action on the Carter Report
on tax reform, the Watkins Report on Foreign Control of
Canada’s economy and the still pending Canada Development
Corp. Tommy Douglas said: “This Government is like a blind
Samson with its hands tied. It cannot agree on what it should
do. One part of the Government wants to go one way, and one
part of the Government wants to go the other, and in this pro-
cess of indecision they have brought the Country to its present
state. How, therefore, can the Government now ask us to vote

BACKED BY CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION ©

The right of hospital work-
ers to join a union without
fear of punishment from their
employer has been confirmed
by the board of trustees of
the Catholic Hospital Asso-
ciation.

In a statement the board
said hospitals should be
guided by “the social teach-
ings of the Church.”

“They should, in a spirit of
justice and respect for human
dignity, recognize their re-
sponsibility to provide an op-
portunity for happiness, per-
sonal achievement and secur-

FEDERAL BILL SLAMMED

The federal government’s bill to change the ground

ity for those who participate
in this form of Christian
service.”

It said hospital employees
alone have the right to decide
if they want to belong to a
union.

“This statement . . .is not
to suggest that hospitals
seek unions or encourage
their employees to form a un-
ion. The unionization or non-
unionization is the decision of
the employees themselves.”

The statement says hospi-
tals have certain responsibili-
ties. These are:

rules governing the Canada Labour Relations Board will
facilitate the breakup of national bargaining units, create
inter-union warfare and throw the labour movement into
chaos, the Canadian Union of Public Employees charged

in a brief prepared for the Commons committee on
labour and employment.

To furnish equitable terms
and conditions of employment
for their employees;

To guarantee employees
practices that conform to all
standards established by com-
petent public authority.

To furnish remuneration
and benefits that compare fa~-
vorably with those that pre-
vail for the community for
comparable occupations;

To adopt and observe stand-
ards of enlightened personnel
practices.

The statement also sets out
rights which hospitals should
have.

These include the right to
be represented by competent
industrial relations counsel
and to form associations with
other hospitals in a commun-
ity for the purpose of doing
joint collective bargaining.

As well, it says the hospital
has the right_to seek satisfac-
tion that a union does in fact
represent the majority of its

employees.
—CUPE Journal

o Be ° SEES
confidence in it, to vote confidence in the fiscal, monetary and

economic policies that have brought this country to its worst
state in several years? The Government’s stock has not been
lower since it took office nearly five years ago. Unemployment
is higher, interest rates are higher, the cost of living is higher,
and the dollar is much more vulnerable and much weaker.”

DID YOU KNOW? — Canada’s spending on so-called
defence is now approximately $360 a year for a family of four.
The military-Government complex in the U.S. now pours $45
billion a year into 5000 towns and cities where over eight
million Americans, including members of the Armed Services,
or about 10 percent of the U.S. labour force, earn their pay
from war spending.

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It may not all be due to
separatism, but more and
more homes in the wealthier,
residential areas of Montreal
are going on the selling block.

- Real estate agents here say
that the number of homes for
sale in these areas has doubl-
ed in the past year, and that
prices for many. of them are
down as much as 15 per cent.

Realtors list many other
reasons for the abundance of
available homes, but they do
not hide the fact that the fear
of separatism is a major fac-

tor

Inthe Town of Mount
Royal, for example, one of
Montreal’s upper class sub-
urbs, more than 1,000 of 5,000
single-family dwellings could
be sold within six months to
a year, agents say.

The town was the site of
the recent march in support
of 106 strikers at 7-Up’s local
plant. The march was over-
run by separatists who caus-
ed a great deal of havoc in
the area, and a bomb was
found later, placed under a
mail box.

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