N

“Before I went to Saigon, I had learned and read that napalm melts the Flesh, and I thought that’s nonsense, because I can put a roast in the oven and the fat will melt but the meat stays there. Well, I went and saw these children burned by napalm, and it is absolutely true. The chemical reaction of this napalm does ‘melt the flesh, and the flesh runs down their faces onto their chests and it sits there and it grows

there . . . These children can’t turn their heads, they were so thick with flesh . . . and when gangrene sets in, they cut off their hands or fingers or their feet; the only things they cannot cut off is their head.”

— Martha Gelhorn, writing in last January’s issue of the Ladies Home Journal

LABOR SCENE:

This is important!

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Thanks to special arrange- ments for this 50th Anniversary Tour, Air Can- ada will fly you Vancouver-Moscow return at a discount of better than 40% off the regular 21- day excursion fare. HOWEVER, in order to qual- ify, all participants must have their deposits in Globe Tours’ office by October Ist. This is DEFI- NITELY the final date for booking.

September 8, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE— Page 12

Unions call for strongef anti-pollution program

This week’s session of the Vancouver and District Labor Council unanimously approved its executive’s recommendation that the provincial government must extend its Fraser River pollu- tion control by also prohibiting industrial waste being dumped in the river,

While commending the govern- ment for its action in requiring all municipalities affected to in- stall sewage treatment facilities, and that no municipal raw sewage be dumped, the VLC urged that industrial waste also come within the government order.

The VLC further proposed, since the costs of installing sew- age treatment plants would con- stitute a too heavy financial bur- den on the already overloaded municipalities, that the cost ar- rangements for such plants be shared by the three levels of gov- ernment, with the federal govern-~ ment assuming the largest share,

Secretary Paddy Neale re- ported that both the VLC and the BCFL had been bypassed by the sponsors of the recent Fraser River pollution conference in Surrey, and consequently had no opportunity to present intended briefs before that body.

The VLC also adopted an ex- ecutive recommendation urging

the Prince Rupert Fishermen’s Co-operative to rehire 40 of its employees’ involved in the recent United Fishermen and Allied Workers strike, as all other fish packing plants did at the terminaion of the dispute.

In current UFAWU-Co-op ne- gotiations for a new wage con- tract, the latter are demanding strike penalty clauses while con- tinuing its anti-strike victimiza- tion of those of its employees involved in the strike. The VLC motion was brief and to the point; “rehire those 40 workers first — then anew collective agreement,”

“I always thought,” stated a VLC delegate, “that the co-ops were part of a workers’ move- ment, always friendly to labor,

Bernhardt in the Wall Street Journal “Only $1.95. Say, that IS a won- der drug!”

Don’t hesitate

YOU’LL NEVER GE! A BETTER DEAL!

21 Day 50th Anniversary Tour of USSR departs Vancouver November 4, 196 3 and includes 6 cities:

@ SEE the Monument to World War Il dead at Stalingra? @ HEAR an unparalleled operatic performance

@ BE at the Gala Nov. 7 Banquet in Moscow : | @ ENJOY the warm sun and sands of the Black Seq y

ONLY $895 COVERS EVERYTHING!

You have just 3 weeks to act! Contact: |

GLOBE TOURS

2679 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 6, B.C.

Ph. 253-1221

ph. 254-2319 gg)

|

ye! But it sure doesn’t took # )

in this case.”

The VLC body als0 ni support to some 9 4 ot workers, now faced W" ty out and strike actiOMe © jig holsterers Internatio ma covering some 14 furni ufacturing plants i are scheduled to take# ote ment-supervised strike © week,

ve! gover

f Management in 4 ni these furniture plants®) ai to head off the takiné ret eft vote by locking UY 4, yo ployees on the eve of |

The Canadian pals a we Union @ PY Workers Gold rive! ’

scheduled to vote whether to take § F joo? to back up the wnlOl | iit for a $50 a month OS 5 gi bonus, plus specific pret not included in the e

tract.

av Whatever the outeoll igi PPWC vote, the bie sed” | 1-217, Vancouver Canadian Pulp and 1WA ers Union that officers “. « * to our member bs organization We P moral and finan gsi should this become

0'