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SOLIDARITY WITH RUPERT STRIKERS. Photo shows Teamsters’ representative Bill | Schone, left, welking the picket line in support of the bus drivers. In the centre is pker and on the right is Tom Frietas, secretary of the Prince Rupert Labor Coun- cu.

Oil workers strike

for decent

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' The opening round of an oil- Workers strike which could be- Come national in scope began Monday of this week when the British-American (B—A) mar- keting plant in Burnaby was Struck by the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, Picket lines have been established at the Burnaby operation and also at B—A’s storage tanks at the foot of Butte Street,

Wednesday, the B—A opera- tion at Kamloops was also struck, while operations at Port Moody and Coal Harbor is being picketed by boats manned by the oil- Workers,

The Oilworkers’ Union has Voted to strike seven other major

_ Oil and gasoline distribution com-

Pahies “in B.C, but plans to-hold

_ Off strike action on these com-

_Panies pending the outcome ofthe —A strike. These plants in- Clide Texaco, Standard, Imper- lal, Home, Shell, Pacific Petrol-

. ae and Royalite, It is expected at B—A plants in Moose Jaw,

Tandon and some. Ontario cen= €fs may be closed by strike action by the weekend,

The Oijlworkers’ Union is Seeking a 40¢ an hour wage hike, Plus increased vacations, jobse- Curity, extended employee insur- Mee and other fringe benefits, in ® one-year contract, The com-

Nelson Clarke, national cam- > &0 chairman ofthe Communist : arty will open a national tour = B.C, next week when he ar- he to address a large number fen rallies, He will also Bla with party committees to

“n the election campaign,

Clarke will be in B.C, between tember 20 and 28, Provin- headquarters of the Com- “nist Party announced this week Pe

Morgan well

on eel Morgan, B,C, leader : Be the Communist Party, is 3 Ing released from hospital

the end of this week and is

Cted back at work early in Ober,

Doctors who conducted tests i there is nothing of a ser- Sie Nature and after a brief ae be able to resume his

contract

pany has offered a 35¢ increase in a 30-month contract.

Monday of this week the oil- workers at B—A’s Saskatoon re=- finery were locked out with se- curity guards and police dogs patrolling the plant. Following strong union protests the dogs were later removed.

LABOR ROUNDUP: -

!'WA debates problems created by automation

The 28th Annual Regional Con- vention of the International Wood- workers of America (IWA) which opened its sessions Monday of this week in the Georgia Hotel, Vancouver, has already rolled up a sizeable job of work for the IWA,

Main emphasis in Regional President J,A., Moore’s address to convention delegates centered upon the need of new measures in wage and contract negotiations

‘ designed to safeguard against the

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displacement of workers through

‘automation and technological ad-

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Caron to speak at North Van

Charles Caron, Communist candidate for Coast-Capilano, charged this week that “Prime Minister Pearson called the Federal election because big business in Canada wants a strong government which would stand up to the public demands for increased social legislation and peace,”

The Communist candidate will kick-off his election campaign with a public rally in the IOOF Hall, 155 East Keith Ave,, on Wed, Sept, 22 at 8 p.m,

At that time Caron will out- line his party’s program and deal with the importance of the Nov, 8 election for Can- adians, Speaking with Caron will be the national campaign chairman of the Communist Party, Nelson Clarke.

Nelson Clarke speaks at election rallies

that Clarke will appear at the following public events:

Mon, Sept, 20 he will address a Vancouver South nominating

meeting at 8 p,m, at the Peretz _

School, 6185 Ash St,

Wed, Sept, 22 he will speak with Communist candidate Char- les Caron at the IOOF Hall, 155

E, Keith Ave,, at 8 p.m.

Thurs, Sept, 23 he willaddress a public meeting in Alberni.

Fri, Sept. 24 he will speak at a nominating meetingin Victoria,

Sun, Sept, 27 he will address a public meeting in the Fraser Valley.

His final public meeting will be in Vernon on September 27 where he will speak in support of Sandy Mowers, Communist candidate

‘for Okanagan- Revelstoke.

.vances in the wood industry,

Intended as one of labor’s approaches to offset labor dis- placement by automation, the IWA president advanced the idea of abolishing the accepted hourly pay basis, and introducing a

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also calls for such employers to “maintain a worker on its pay- roll until alternative employment is found,” and also that “special subsidies shall be paid to all wor- kers over forty years of age, or who have completed 15 years of service,” etc,

@ The demand for a full public inquiry into all phases of forest management and its effects on employment in British Columbia, Such an inquiry also to determine conditions under which all alienated forest land may be re- turned to the public domain,

X Other provisions of the reso-

weekly or monthly wage standard,

The IWA leader stated that

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“this method of payment would ©

also be easily adapted to a guar- anteed annual income and sever- ance pay if such is what the members desire,”

» He urged that the idea be fully explored in preparing for coming IWA wage scale conferences,

Resolutions already adopted by the second day of the IWA Reg-

‘ jonal Convention include;

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@A joint provincial and federal survey of the B,C, lumber industry which will provide fac- tual information on employment levels in all sections of the in- dustry, and factual information on the rapid increase in labor productivity over a ten-year period,

The establishment of a gov- ernment board to exercise a measure of control on companies closing down or re-locating in which the interests of displaced employees of such companies are disregarded. This resolution

lution projects the feasibility of a Crown Corporation to conduct research and operate selected projects to assure the full utili- zation of timber resources and assist in the development of re- lated secondary industries,

‘The submission of a protest to the Canadian government through the media of the CLC, against the display of misleading advertisements in other coun- tries about employment oppor- tunities in Canada, The reso- lution emphasizes that many immigrants under public assis- tance schemes have left Canada because “employment and social conditions” in this country have been misrepresented to them,

. On disarmament the IWA con-

vention again demanded that-the federal government bring abouta removal of nuclear weapons from

Canada and ban those inhuman.

weapons in Canada and the rest of the world,

The IWA Regional Convention sessions are ‘scheduled to con- clude Friday of this week,

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A Mine-Mill press release dated Sept, 8 reports that the Ontario Labor Relations Board hearing into Mine-Mill’s appli- cation for certification at the International Nickel Mines, mills

and refineries in the Sudbury dis- trict have ended, OLRB Chair- man Reed has also announced that “a decision will be handed down as quickly as possible,”

Final and official recount of the application cards favoring Mine - Mill as thebargaining agency showed 7,214 “sound cards.” This is 49.5% of the 14,569 International Nickel em- ployees and 658 more than the number required: for the 45% needed for the OLRB to order a vote,

Mine-Mill officials are con- fident that such a vote, when ordered by the OLRB “will re- store to Local 598, the bargain- ing rights held for.17 years before the raiding Steel union won a disputed 15 vote margin in 1961- 62 which gave the raiding union “*bargaining rights,”

Van. South to nominate

The national campaign chair- man of the Communist Party, Nelson Clarke, will address a Vancouver South nomination con- ference on Monday, September 20, 8 p.m,, at the Peretz School, 6185 Ash Street.

Clarke, who is on a national campaign tour, will kick off the local party’s election campaign at this meeting and is expected to outline the party’s campaign strategy.

William Stewart, secretary of the Vancouver Committee, has indicated his intention of seeking the Vancouver South nomination, He ran there in the 1962 federal election, :

Hootenany lovers will be thrilled by popular local folk singers who have some special songs written for the occasion,

Canada needs independent policies, Douglas tells |IWA

NDP national leader Tommy Douglas charged before the In- ternational Woodworkers of Am-=

_erica convention, meeting in Van-

couver this week, that the Lib- erals want to slow down Canada’s economic growth He also made a strong bid for peace and co- existence

In a speech which was enthus- iastically received, and which was followed by adoption of a resolution of full support for the NDP in the Federal election cam- paign, Douglas stressed the need for policies to place the needs of the people before the monop- olies

Douglas called for full medi- care, universal old age pensions of $100 a month at 65, and urged policies to expand the economy He pointed to the Gordon Com- mission report which stressed that Canada will need a million and a half new jobs by 1970 and said that Canada needs an independent economic policy

_ Douglas placed the NDP - squarely on the side of peaceful

co-existence when he said he agreed with a statement made by the head of theSoviet Parliamen- tary delegation during his tour of the Soviet Union as a member of the Canadian Parliamentary

delegation.

TOMMY DOUGLAS’

The NDP leader quoted the Soviet spokesman as having said that the superiority of this or that economic: system will be determined only by history but that in the meantime the peoples must learn to live in the same world in conditions of- peaceful co-existence,

. Addressing the IWA conven- tion earlier, International Presi- dent Al Hartung pointed to the situation in South East Asia and said that war cannot be consid- ered as asolution tothe problems of the working people, He con- demned those leaders of the labor movement who have supported the war in Vietnam on the grounds that the war creates jobs in the armament industry,

He made it clear that the in- terests of woodworkers as of all other workers can only be ad- vanced by policies of peace and by policies which utilize the great Productive capacities of our countries. and America to ad- vance the living conditions of the workers of the whole world,

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