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Hot reception greets Wallace in Toronto

Governor George Wallace of Alabama, America’s No, lracist and self-announced candidate for President, received a hot recep-

tion in Toronto last week whenhe .

arrived to speak at the Lions In- ternational convention,

More than 400 white and Negro placard - carrying pickets pa- raded before Maple Leaf Gardens during the appearance ofthe pro- ponent of race hatred and segre- gation in the US, Inademogogic speech the Alabama governor at- tacked liberalism and defended his racist position,

Comment among many dele- ‘

gates was cool to Wallace and

many delegates sat silently with '

folded arms after the speech, Both the governor and his wife were.at all times surrounded by

the most elaborate security guard —

Toronto has ever seen,

News that Wallace would speak at the Lions convention shocked the people of Toronto and led to wide protests, The Canadian An- ti- Apartheid Committee, withthe cooperation of some 40 organiza- tions, organized the mass picket lines which appeared at the Gar- dens on Wednesday night and again Thursday morning,

A five-member Toronto com- mittee, headed by Rabbi Abraham L, Feinberg, issued a statement of protest. The ‘committee re- presented the Anti - Apartheid, Committee, Home Service As-. sociation, United Negro Associa-' tion and the Toronto and District Labor Council,

"FREE AT LAST. Famed Mexican ortist, David Alfaro Siqueiros, was pardon- ed this week after serving four years on a trumped-up charge. A world-wide campaign won his re- lease.

“LIONS YES—WALLACE NO!” This

was the greeting Toronto gave Ala- -bama’s racist governor last week.

The committee’s statement welcomed the Lions to Toronto but expressed shock that Wallace ‘had been invited to speak, It said: ‘George Wallace has be- come by his own word and deed the symbol and spokesman of racism, of a program and ideol- ogy abhorent, we believe, to the vast majority of people,’’ The statement concluded by respect- fully requesting the Lions to un- reservedly affirm and support the principles of racial justice and brotherhood,

Earlier the Toronto Labor Council backed the ‘‘anti-Gover- or Wallace’ movement, and ac- ted on an emergency executive resolution requesting the Toronto City Council to ‘‘deny any official welcome to the Governor of Ala- bama,’’ One TLC executive member, J, Pole- Langdon, point- ed out that Wallace ‘‘is against everything the labor movement .Stands for: he’s a racist and he also pushes for ‘right to scab’ laws,”’

The Toronto Committee of the Communist Party backed the pro- test movement, A statement by its chairman, Phyllis Clarke, said ‘‘such democratic protests are certainly in the tradition of

our city which rejected Senator

Joe MeCarthy in another period of history and only recently or- ganized strong resistance to the ‘Cass police state bill,”’

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Organized labor in B.C. has moved to consolidate recent gains recorded pi historic struggle with some of the biggest monopolies in Canada by taking st@P ly unite ‘its ranks even more closely and preparing to meet any further monopr™

attacks on its traditional rights.

This is the fundamental result of-an extraordinary conference held by the B,C, Federation of Labor last Friday, July 10, at the Bayshore Inn in Vancouver,

Almost 300 delegates, repre- senting 74 unions and four labor councils took part in the confer- ence, A closed session, held in the afternoon, is understood to have adopted a five point pro- ‘gram to consolidate recent vic- tories and lay the groundwork for future gains,

The five points are reported to be;

@ Reaffirmation of a policy first laid down in 1960, whereby all affiliates taking strike action must notify the BCFL so that all-

‘in support can be mobilized, -

_ @ All unions be requested to ‘insure that their by-laws are ‘amended to allow immediate con- tributions to striking affiliates, @ The BCFL executive com- mittee be empowered to estab- lish a defence fund, probably in the vicinity of $2 million, ® All affiliates refuse flatly to handle goods which have been _ labelled ‘‘hot,’’? Bill43 notwith- standing, ® All picket lines declared le- gitimate by the federation to re- ceive complete and unqualified respect,

Prior to the close afternoon session, delegates reviewed the course and ultimate victory of

C.M.&S.—profit hungry monopol

By OBSERVER

The Trail-Kimberley strike, if it occurs, will be the first strike experienced by the C.M, &S,. monopoly in 45 years, This gigantic monopoly has been extraordinarily successful, throughout its history in avoid- ing strikes — and in maximising profits, :

From the formation of the com- pany in 1906 until 1944,C.M.&S, ran a strictly company-town, company-union setup, During the first world war an attempt to organize Cominco was defeated when the principal organizer, Ginger Goodwin was suddenly. called up for the army, even though he had already been re- jected as medically unfit, Shortly afterwards he was murdered,

* Between World War I and World War II, unionism was kept out of Trail and Kimberley by an elab- orate company union system pat- terned after the methods Mac Kenzie King devised for Rocke- feller in Colorado, following the

By JERRY SHACK

the office workers’ strike in Al- berni. BCFL secretary Pat O’Neal stated that almost all of labor’s difficulties stemmed di- rectly from this province’s anti- labor legislation,

Underlying all the historic strike struggles of the immediate past, he said, ‘‘is the facility with which employers can obtain scabs,’’ It was high time, he de- clared, that this practice was outlawed,

Walter Allen, president of the

Alberni local of the IWA, who was

.& member of the Alberni Emer- gency Strike Committee, stated that there were some ultra-criti- cal trade unionists who were ‘claiming the strike settlement ‘was not a complete victory,

‘*Make no mistake about it,’’

he said, ‘fit WAS a victory, The

union has been established, to stay, at MacMillan Bloedel & Powell River.’’ He also made the key point that although it was a victory for the entire labor movement, it wasn’t accomplish- ed by labor alone,

**The entire community helped to win this strike,’? he pointed: out, ‘‘because ‘everyone from chain stores, merchants, and tle whole people extended every con- sideration to those idled,’? This was a recognition that workers are duty bound no to cross a picket lne, he said,

Ludlow massacre, Wages were on the typical company-union carrot and stick system, with alow basic. wage and a bonus at the discretion of the company to keep employees obedient, With this went a pension payable at the discretion of the company to ‘‘loyal’’ employees,

Even after the establishment ~ _

of bona fide trade unionism by the Mine Mill union, in 1944, C.M, & S, managed to find ways of hampering union activities, In this it was assisted by allies inside the labor movement who split the workers in 1950 in the course of the notorious Trail raid by the Steelworkers, there-

by depriving the workers of gains ~

that could have been made in that period by united action,

Today, however, Cominco faces a membership united as never before, under the leadership of. the Mine Mill, and determined to win long overdue gains,

This ruthless exploiter of.

labor has been one of the most profit abl e monopolies in this

Yearly average — Miner 1996-15 $1,200 1916-25. 1,728 1926-35 1,781 1936-45 . 2,134 1946-55 3,936

' 1956-63 5,832

Annual Earnings, C.M.&.S. Contract

Annual Dividends, C.M.&.S. Shareholder on Original Investment of $30,000

$ 1,207 2,520 9,100 18,369

. 56,812 34,172

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Joly 17 196A «a NEED ‘July 17, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE

This point was carried i further by John Hayward: #4 eamated Transit Union, the conference:

_ “The natural resources of don’t belong to MacMillan’ del, nor do they beloné ra provincial government.

children, and to our children, And when 2 oa like MacMillan Bloedel ¥ use our own natural Te" in order to starve an enu™ th munity into submissio? those resources should bé away from it,’

Several delegates spoke theme that now is the time tend white collar org f ‘Longshoreman Mark Mosh so a member of the En Committee said ‘‘theré sot tirely new spirit prevale® ait Albernis, Those towns a i open for organization n° d victories achieved are “anit :

for us to get out and of8®

And Tom Roberts of Lott OEIU - the local which so et forest monoply - said thel oa was being flooded with PY" te by professional and othe ati collar workers for org? :

“It?s impossible fo our size to do an adequate Roberts said, ‘*The ent ys | movement will have toh@® |

r many

country, It has fo n 50

been one of the mai of income of the Canadia® owe? Railway Company, whic? if 51 percent interest iM” on which it makes almos® profit as on its two pillio® railway property. There can beno better bat tion of the manner inWMe inco exploits its employe! ‘the comparison shown © 1¢s below of the relative ©? cof a Cominco employee 2% yas? inco shareholder, which neh ‘in evidence by the union ‘cent conciliation hearin&+

After collecting UP io in a single year in an the above shareholder os sell his shares, which 9 rf cost him $30,000, for 7

It is eStimated that # C.M, & S, made 2 of over $3,00 on every’ its of work performed t ployees, The full cor nh union’s demands, incl eek duced working hours» punitive pay, wage incl 0

ately ten percent of tha”

The above capsule ie the company’s history es: shows why the B.C Fy labor movement shoul’ al the 4,000 workers 4 is _Kimberley who are aoa ye win a fair deal in : negotiations, 7