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NEWs ITEM: NDP national leader Tommy Douglas told a Meeting in Kelowna last week that the Canada-U.S. cuto Pact was a $50 million handout to the three biggest car a Makers, including General Motors. ‘‘The firms are pocket-

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ing the savings from tariff cuts instead of passing them on to consumers,” he charged. He demanded full-scale in- vestigation into secret deals between the Liberal govern- ment and the big car makers.

‘In solidarity with the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Strike at British- American Oil, the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers Union (UE)

S cancelled out all “credit _ rd* purchases of B—A pro- ~ ucts, and has called on its en- Te membership to stop buying A products until “a satis- Ctory strike settlement is achieved,”

‘UE national secretary-trea- Slrer George Harris stated the action of his union was taken “to Protest against the labor rela-

LABOR ROUNDUP: Oil workers support grows,

tions policy of the company,” and which as the UE letter to B—A said, left the Oil Workers Union «no other alternative than to withdraw their labor, . .”

CPR court injunctions, com- pany intimidation and scabbery, organized hooliganism at British American (B—A) gas stations, has not lessened the determina- tion of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union to win its current strike struggle with the powerful B—A oil company for a new union wage and working contract,

By JERRY SHACK (Special to PT) stint MLoops — The longest a ae in Kamloops history—at eon €k Sawmills—has ended in a Victory for members of the oe the dramatic announce- last Saturday that the com- Stang has agreed to sign the ard IWA agreement,

pital Signing is expected to 2 a Place shortly,

aa September 24, 1964, 18 the had gone out on strike at Dey Mill, which had just been oe Organized, Now, a full year Com ‘ With the mill virtually Settle etely shut down but no a Ment in sight, the men de- to observe the “anniver- ~ With a get-together at the __1€ ‘of one of the strikers,

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Wie Privileged to be invited ot the Sathering, which was one Sentat; post remarkably repre- See fs this reporter has ever 5 thet he ranks of the strikers . Bite Moslems, Hindus, Jap-

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their union rights that nothing could shake their unity, Indian and Pakistani walked the picket line together arm in arm while their brethren half way around the world were fighting in Kash- mir, Sons on strike yelled “scab!” at their father who (at one time) was crossing the picket line. Ac- cording to the woodworkers, there were many such incidents,

Nor was support lacking from other quarters, Teamsters, rail- way workers, civic employees and others’ helped man picket lines. And bartenders in many Kamloops hotels simply refused to sell any beer to scabs.

Now, the long strike was over and the mood was one of victory and celebration, After an out- sider sang a few Canadian folk songs, everybody stood up and sang “Solidarity Forever.” This was followed by songs and dances from India, Pakistan and Poland,

Finally, the time came to leave, As we walked to the door these men, who had just finished a whole year without let up on the picket line, were discussing help= ing to man the lines set up by striking oil workers at B-A sta= tions in Kamloops.

Can there be any doubt about the outcome of the oil workers’ fight, when they can count on support such as this?

Since the B—A oil marketing unit strike began other unions including Seamen, United Fisher- men, Teamsters and most union affiliates of the B.C, Federation of Labor are giving active aid and assistance to the Oil Wor- kers strike,

The B—A strike now covers_

company operations in Ontario, Saskatchewan and all main B—A distributing points in B,C, Up to. press time the Oil Workers had not taken any additional strike action on their “48-hours notice” served to Imperial, Shell and Standard Oil,

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At the September 21 session of the Vancouver and District Labor Council, (VLC), delegate Les McDonald (IBEW) reported that Local 213 of the IBEW has condemned the statement by B.C. Hydro co-chairman Gordon Shrum that labor costs will cause a rise in electric power rates, «This is an outright falsehood,” he said.

“The labor movement called for Canadian development of the Columbia River, instead of giving it away to the United States, THe position of the B.C. Government at that time was that Peace power could be supplied just as cheaply, and we didn’t really need the Columbia.

“Now the chickens are coming home to roost, We refuse to accept the proposition that the public will now have to pay, in the form of higher light bills, for

‘the foolish mistakes of the Social

Credit government, Shrum should be condemned in no un- certain terms by the entire labor movement,” McDonald said, * * Ox

Chairman of the Workmen's Compensation Board (WCB), J. Edwin Eades, told delegates at the annual convention of In- dustrial First Aid Attendants last week that B.C,’s annual industrial accident total is now nearing the 100,000 mark,

The WCB chairman stated there is asteady rise as indicated from industrial accident totals of 73,437 in 1960 to that of 87,827 in 1964,

City labor parley airs

Nafive Indian

The B.C, Federation of Labor conference on educational and employment opportunities for B. C, Indians was told last Satur- day that discrimination and lack of training combine to hinder progress,

The charge was made in the Prospectus prepared for the con- ference which was attended by 65 persons, most of them church leaders, trade unionists, Native Indians and government officials, The parley was held in the Bay- shore Inn,

The Prospectus around which a panel discussion was held said that the system under which Na- tive Indians now live stifles in- dividual initiative, “The rela- tionship between the Indians and the Indian Affairs Branch is highly paternalistic — a case of doing FOR rather than doing WITH. Substantial economic de- velopment both on and off the

UJPO HITS SHILO PLAN

The United Jewish Peoples Order, Vancouver Section, has taken steps to protest against allowing German Arms tests to be conducted at Shilo, Man- itoba,

A letter over the signature of Harold Berson has been forwarded to Prime Minister Pearson and to allnews media in Western Canada, supporting the protest of the UJPO’s National Resident Board.

The letter from the national headquarters of the UJPO asked the Prime Minister to cancel the proposed plans to test German equipment in Canada and branded the scheme as “an afront to the memory of the sons of Canada and world who laid down their lives to stop Nazi Germany’s conquest of the world,”

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acter of Canada and include the right of self-determination of each of the two nations as the basis of a new free, equal and voluntary confederal union,

The platform ends with an appeal to labor and progressive Canadians to unite to win new policies and to defeat the candi- dates of the old parties by elec- ting the largest block of pro- gressives ever to sit in the House of Commons,

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reserves cannot be achieved under such a relationship,”

It urges more responsibility be given to the Indians and na- tive leadership encouraged, It also proposes that development programs be broadened and made more flexible and that they en- compass housing and employment and capital availability,

The panel was told how under the present system the Native Indian’s freedom is restricted by requiring approval of the Indian Agent and the Indian Affairs Branch, Present policies pre- vent diversification of their ec- onomic activities,

It was also pointed out that until recently B,C. Indians wor- ked in the primary industries such as logging, fishing and agriculture, but that this pat- tern is changing. “Indians to- day are beginning to seek se- curity in the same way as the white men do, and they are real- izing that such security lies with building up seniority on the job, They are gradually entering in- dustry and joining unions,”

Labor was urged to take a leading role in assisting the In- dian to find a place in both old and new industries,

OBITUARY

Pearl Adamec Mrs, Pearl Adamec, a staunch supporter and builder of thepro- gressive presS passed away August 26th, 1965,

Pearl was born in 1901 in the family of a poor farmer-home- steader in Northern Alberta, During her childhood due to cir- cumstances she was forced to work by helping her mother and at a later age, helped her father on the field, The school educa- tion in the farming districts was non-existent during that period,

Living for a number of years in the coal-mining towns she actively participated in the min- ers’ strikes on the picket line or collecting funds for relief to the miners’ families,

During World War II Pearl was working hard for Red Cross also collecting clothing for Rus- sian and Ukrainian people, the victims of the Nazi invasion,

In many financial campaigns for the progressive press, she was very successful in getting new subscriptions and sustaining fund, She was a good supporter of the Communist Party although she never was a member of it,

With the passing of Pearl Ad- amec the progressive movement has lost one of its best workers,

peoples,”

Canadian CP greets China on anniversary

William Kashtan, national leader of the Communist Party, this week sent the following cable to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China:

“Warm fraternal greetings to your party and Chinese people on occasion 16th anniversary of Great Chinese Peoples Revo- lution. Wish you continued successes in building socialism your great country in conditions of peace,

“Present international situation threat to peace and calls for firm united action all Communist, Workers Parties common struggle against U.S, imperialist aggression and for strength- ening world solidarity support heroic Vietnam peoples,

“For peace and friendship between our countries and

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