ALD. RANKIN

Harry Rankin sworn in as city alderman

Alderman Harry Rankin — that’s the new title of Vancouver's popular inde- pendent-labor spokesman— as he was sworn in ata ceremony in City Hall cham- bers Wednesdoy afternoon.

Final tabulations on the December] 4 election shows that Rankin polled 44,073 votes and topped the poll in 47 of the city's 102 polls. He carried all polls in the eastern half of the city, most of them by a huge ma- jority.

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LABOR SCENE:

Labor Council calls for Pat O’Neal’s resignation

Highlights of the first 1967 session of the Vancouver and District Labor Council (VLC) centered on the bugging of the Canadian Pulp Workers Union convention in the Vancouver Ritz Hotel last fall, and those involved in that affair,

Recommendations of the VLC Executive submitted to the dele- gate body for consideration and approval, called upon the B.C, Federation of Labor to:

e Request the resignation of BCFL executive member and In- ternational Pulp and Sulphite Union representative Pat O’Neal for his role in bugging the con- vention of the rival Canadian union;

e That the BCFL publicly dis- associate itself from the conven- tion bugging and all such invasions of individual privacy;

e That the BCFL should pub- licly declare the right of all workers to ‘‘join a union of their own choice”, and that the B.C, Labor Relations Board “re- consider the situation at Har- mac”, (The LRB has twice refused certification to Canadian union workers at Harmac, despite the fact that no less than 80-percent of the mill workers have indi- cated their support of aCanadian union),

@ That the VLC is emphatical- ly opposed to publicizing the bugged tapes of the Canadian union’s convention by any royal commission investigation, and that the VLC position be present- ed to the Canadian Labor Con- gress (CLC) as one of protecting at all times “the integrity and good name of the Canadian labor movement,’”’

recommendations except ae one calling for the resigna~ tion of O’Neal were unanimously endorsed by VLC delegates. On the O’Neal issue two delegates argued that he should be given “aq fair trial” by labor before ousting him from the BCFL ex- ecutive,

Sid Thompson, president ofthe Vancouver Local of the IWA out- lined the part played by O’Neal, publicly admitted by the latter in the bugging episode, not only in securing the services of a private detective, formerly an RCMP Security and Intelligence operative to bug the hotel, but admission of payment of $250.00 retainer to get the job done, and in which other RCMP personnel had _ obviously colloborated. “These ex-RCMP security and intelligence people are not just ordinary private detectives,” said

Thompson, “but have a very special interest in the labor movement”,

Thompson pointed out that only a few years ago as secretary of the BCFL, O’Neal had requested legislation prohibiting any “in- vasion of privacy through elec- tronic devices”, If that was the position of the BCFL then, “why is it not the position of the BCF'L now to come out boldly and clearly and condemn O’Neal for his actions?”, said Thompson,

Delegate Cox declared that

.O’Neal “had already condemned

himself, and there was no need as some argued, for a ‘fair trial’ by labor”, Doug Evans (IWA), an executive member of the BCFL, declared that “if O’Neal attends the next session of the BCFL Executive, I intend to walk out, I will not sit with anyone connected with the RCMP, O’Neal has exposed himself as a fraud in the labor movement”*,

VLC delegates approved th? posting of a substantial reward for the apprehension of the per son or persons who sent a bomb- charged christmas parcel 1 prison guard Frank Newton, which caused him the loss of both hands when it exploded on opening Delegates also voted a donatio# of $100.00 to aid Newton’s sof Norman, also seriously injured by the explosion.

Nominations for VLC execu tive officers for 1967 were opel” ed and will be concluded at thé next regular session, followed by elections. All present officer and standing committee chairme! were nominated,

Last week Chief Justice Wilso® of the Supreme Court of B.C ruled the Sargent commissi0? investigation into the Ritz bug ging as “invalid”. Following an eight-day sitting the commis) sion’s “terms of reference” gav@ it no legal right to conduct th? type of inquiry it was engaged il

The new “terms of reference” under which the Sargent com” mission must now proceed i based upon an investigation iN quiring into the need or other wise of legislation safeguardiné the right of “privacy”, rathe! than on prejudicial bias favoring one union against another, (At the termination of his last hearing | Sargent announced that thé bugging tapes recorded would bé made public, This in the view of organized labor and the publi? generally, constituted a gros® compounding of the very evil the commission was supposed to be investigating.

Under new “terms of refer-_ ence” the commission reopens it hearings in Vancouver this week