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Pickets at Wagner Engineering, 1742 West Second in Vancouver. Some scabs are working at the struck plant, a few of whom have been recruited from the U.B.C. office. See story this page.

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sole reason for that was the refusal of the Canadian govern- ment and the Quebec govern- ment to find solutions to the economic problemsin Quebec. Their only action was repres sion.

Following Pare’s address, the people at the rally unanimously approved a resolution demand- ing the unconditional release of Laberge, Pepin and Char- bonneau and senta letter tothe three conveying the ‘‘thoughts and solidarity of working people in B.C.”’

Jack Phillips, who addressed the rally on behalf of the Van- couver and District Labor Coun- cil spoke of the many achieve- ments of the trade union move- ment since May Day last year— of the defeat of the Socred government through many militant labor struggles, of the election of a minority govern- ment with the NDP in the balance of power and of the part labor in B.C. played in bringing about a ceasefire in Vietnam.

Phillips reminded the provincial government of its commitment to organized labor and of the trade unions’ united de- mand for the repeal of all anti- labor legislation to ensure the growth of the trade union move- ment and toprevent the return to Social Credit power.

“Our labor council is not unmindful of positive achieve- ments such as the Land Act, government auto insurance and other legislation,’ he said, ‘‘but the labor movement must gear up for the fall session. We must. have a new Trade Unions Act.”’

He called for labor to press for the implementation of the anti- monopoly program outlined by the B.C. Federation of Labor, for policies for full employ- ment and the development of secondary industry under public ownership.

Speaking for the National

‘Farmers’ Union, Walter Miller, :

NFU. vice-president, criticized

the federal government’s lack of decisive action on food prices and said that ‘‘what is needed more thana prices review board is a profit review board; new eco- nomic policies to serve people and not profits.” ‘

He told the rally of the fight of the NFU to gain bargaining rights for farmers and called for support of the Kraft boycott-asa means of assisting in that fight.

Further resolutions endorsed by the rally called for the repeal of all anti-labor legislation asa top priority; for Prime Minister Trudeau to demand that Presi- dent Nixon cease all bombing of Laos and Cambodia and for

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the ICCS to ensure the preven- tion of war and thereturnof U.S. agression in Vietnam.

PRICES BOARD

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“‘We urge the government that the legislation to set upa prices review board must give it power to halt profiteering, curb price increases, and roll back prices on food and the basic necessities of life wherever they can be shown to be exces- sive.”’

Copies of the petition are avail- able by calling Mrs. Pat Ander- son, 939-0245 or Mrs. Elaine Podovinnikoff, 987-4585 or by writing to Mrs. M. McLean, secretary, Box 5594, StationF, Vancouver 12.

In announcing the setting up the board, the Consumer Af- fairs Minister said it will be sev- eral weeks more before the makeup of the board is deter- mined.

Following his announcement, the New Democratic Party said the present proposal of the governmentis ‘‘seriously inade- quate,”’ and that ‘as a govern- ment policy to contain food prices, it is incomplete and unsatisfactory.” Se

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Delegates to the Vancouver and District Labor Council Tuesday night unanimously en- dorsed a motion, presented by George Hewison UFA WU dele- gate, to wire Prime Minister Trudeau demanding that Nixon ““cease_all bombing Laos and Cambodia and that, according to the Vietnam peace accords, the Vietnamese people be allowed to settle their own af- fairs.”

Hewison said that ‘‘we are one step away from being embroiled in war again’’ and echoed the call of the May Day rally Sun- day for labor not toremain silent while the U.S. continues the violations of the Paris agree- ment.

The meeting also heard a re- port from Distillery Workers Local 69 president Keith Sheedy on the continuing strike at Sea- gram’s New Westminster plant, now into its tenth week.

“Unfortunately, 90% of our strike has been directed at the international office,’’ Sheedy said. Earlier, Distillery Workers international presi- dent Brandenberg had con- tacted the B.C. Seagram’s plant and had told management ‘‘not to offer Local 69 any more than what the other plants in Canada had settled for.’’ The interna- tionalrefuses tograntany strike pay tothe local and has done vir- tually anything possible to crush the local’s bid to sign its own contract.

The B.C. Federation of Labor is organizing interest-free loans through various affiliates to augment previous donations and is planning a meeting with the Canadian Labor Congress to discuss a national boycott of Seagram’s products tohelpthe local win a settlement. A U.S. boycott is also being contem- plated. The labor council pledged its full support to the struggle of the 180 workers in the plant.

All Seagram’s products have been declared hot by the trade union movement. The company

Watergate & Vietnam

EDITORIAL

The men who brought you the lies, deceit and gangster-style action of Watergate are the same ones who are bringing the world the lies, deceit

— one of the largest and weal- thiest in the world — markets such products as Gordon’s, Lord Calvert, Adams, Woods Rum,.:Captain Morgan Rum, Hudson’s Bay Company Whiskey, Chivas Regal as well as some others.

In another strike action at Wagner Engineering, recently certified by the Marineworkers and Boilermakers Union, Bill Stewart charged that students were being recruited at the placement office at the Univer- sity of B.C. to work as scabs in the struck plant.

Some 30 workers walked off the job April 25 after several fruitless attempts tonegotiate their first contract. The

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It has resumed spying flights ove Vietnam. It has failed to remove the a thousands of mines in North Vietnam’s COO

waters— so far only three have been exp! dia! The tragedy for Canada is that Cana

company would not accept 4 conciliator and branded Sus gested conciliator Ed Sims#@ “Communist.” The sho steward in the plant was fired for, in the words of the ownels “insubordination and backtali to foremen.”’

Cameron Craig, chief place ment officer at the U.B.C. offi? said that ‘his office did nottae sides in strikes.’’ When he we asked whether posting anol of employment at the plant dit in fact, constitute taking sides; he reportedly replied that” if be didn’t post the notice, We am taking your (the union) sida Further action is being a sidered to stop the office recruiting of scabs.

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and gangster-style action now being practised in Indochina.

The immorality of Watergate characterizes the same immoral policies being pursued by the U.S. leaders in Vietnam. There, the order of the day is lying, cheating, cover-ups and violence. This ‘‘Watergate’’ immorality in Indochina has brought the world once again to the point where the U.S. is threatening a full resumption of the war.

Facts are that the U.S. has been sabotaging the Paris Accord from the beginning, while pretending to the world thatit wants peace and accord in this troubled part of the world. |

Since the cease-fire went into effect the U.S. has rained 110,000 tons of bombs on the most populated areas of Cambodia and an unspecified tonnage on Laos. It has retained some 8,000 “‘advisors’’ in civilian clothes in South Vietnam. It has reneged on its agreement to pay for the rebuilding of some of the damage done in North Vietnam. eS a

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officials go along with the U.S. policies and jum in to defend what the U.S. is doing at every ef A case in point was the helicopter incident, ilots an ICCS helicopter flown by Air Americ@P is was shot down over NLF territory. Care representative, Michel Gauvin and Ext nt? Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp jumpe re 00! back up the U.S. pilots’ claim that they W© ous

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down vehicles, that North Vietnamese eer LL them down. This whole lie has now explo ace our faces, and Canada is left with egg 07 Pe because it accepted the Watergate-type C7" and big lie. : The lesson for Canada in Watergate ! : must end our subservience to the to! Indochina and insist that the U.S. live UP [n! Paris Agreement, that the U.S. get out? china, thatitstop bombing Cambodia one and allow the people of Indochina to sett! : own affairs. — — :

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