ei:

‘ate how Joan Arnold of Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. reacted to
Ent Ford’s pardon of Nixon.

| fam Pent’d from pg. 2. The federal health minister,
De healt o™ the federal minister of revealed that he has told the
48] Com Mare Lalonde. provincial ministers that “the
a Bien menting on the B.C. federal government should not be
if ag .cment’s welfare over-run, put in the position’’ of being at the

d :
ty “dmitting that the money went

TeVerthe People’s needs, he
Wea si less took advantage of the
| Wor 1 '© indicate that the
af

twisin G0vernment is considering

of the present formula to
ogra Per cent of welfare
Troy; tS under the federal-

Vines
Py ial Canada Assistance

L

Panecnde Said the federal
: Rises was ‘‘concerned”’
and ae the high rate of inflation
Mending weis™ of government
Nation € as a contributor to in-
Movin’ 24 Said he will press the
ledep “lal welfare ministers at a
November ovincial meeting in

Sharia. £0r revisions of the cost-
agreements.

mercy of provincial governments
on such heavy cost items as
welfare. Now, he said, he has a
better case. “The government of
B.C. has proven my point beyond
any questions.”’

Obviously Ottawa has been
looking for some time for a pretext
to cut federal spending on social
welfare programs. Lalonde’s
statement indicates that part of the
Liberal government’s “fight
against inflation’ is to cut back on
social. welfare programs. If the
public allows Ottawa and right
wing politicians in B.C. to use the
NDP government’s mistake to
attack the very good and necessary
social welfare plans it would be a
sorry day for B.C. and Canada.

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CUPE says substantial

pay hike a must in ‘75

B.C.’s second largest union, the
Canadian Union of Public Em-
ployees, has announced that 1975 is
going to be a “‘‘big year for labor
and a year of confrontation’’ in
which CUPE will be after ‘“‘sub-
stantial wage packages”’
perhaps in excess of 25%.

The announcement came from
CUPE representative Aubrey
Burton at a press conference last
Tuesday called to outline the
union’s demands as preparations
begin for negotiations.

Burton said that already a
majority. of CUPE locals have
accepted the recommendations of
the B.C. division for coordinated
contract demands, starting with
the demand for an interim wage
increase of $50 per month across
the board for all CUPE members
regardless of when their contract
expires.

“The interim adjustment is
made necessary by the fact that
our wage gains have not only been
eroded, but completely
eliminated.’ Burton said, ‘Our
people have made it clear in the
Kamloops and Interior strikes that
they will be after heavy wage
packages. The 25% that teachers
are asking for may not be
adequate.”

Burton went on to explain that
the 16% inflation rate so far this
year has already overtaken the
12% wage hike that CUPE got last
year. The $50 interim wage hike is
a catch-up measure intended to
offset CUPE’s lost ground. Burton
said that if they do not get the in-
terim wage increase “‘it will make
it just that much harder in
negotiations.” ;

While he indicated that the wage

GROUND BEEF

Cont'd from pg. 3

the food chains, it isn’t likely to

happen.

In conclusion, the Review
Board’s report made a few minor
recommendations and, ~ while
tacitly accepting the inevitability
of high beef prices, urged con-
sumers to Cultivate a taste for
cheaper soyburger — which, by the
Board’s own admission, is 20%
water.

Food prices researcher H. K.
Warren also asked some of his own
questions about the report on
ground beef. He noted that the
department of consumer and
corporate affairs had investigated
several retail outlets of ground
beef and, of 609 samples examined
over the period from March, 1972 to
March, 1973, 152 failed to conform
to federal standards. Yet, Warren
pointed out, only 11 of these were
convicted. And they were only
given fines ranging from $50 to
$850.

Warren’s concluding question in
a letter to the Review Board is one
that thousands of Canadians have
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demand would be as high as 25%,
Burton said it was an “‘unspecified
amount” that would be finalized in
negotiations. In addition, CUPE
will be asking for a COLA clause,
shorter hours for outside workers,
a one-year agreement, and con-
siderable upgrading of clerical

- wages which, with a present base

of $478 per month, is, as Burton:
termed it, ‘‘a completely
depressed salary situation.”’

Negotiations for 1975 contracts
are to begin presently and will
include 18,000 CUPE members
throughout B.C. The key fight is
expected in the Metropolitan
Vancouver area where eight CUPE
locals and the Municipal and
Regional Employees’ Union
bargain jointly. All CUPE locals on
Vancouver Island, Fraser Valley
and Okanagan have their contracts

. expire jointly with the Lower

Mainland. -

“If we don’t make substantial
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Labor minister .Bill King
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employees of the Insurance Cor-
poration of B.C. this week that he
will force them into a joint council
under sections 57 and 58 of the new
labor act which were proclaimed
during the firemen’s dispute last
month.

When the controversial sections
of the act were proclaimed to
break the firemen’s strike, they
came under sharp fire from labor
and the Communist party. Under
this section unions face arbitrary
dictation by the labor minister and
labor board. The sections can be
used to interfere in the internal
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