Joun R. CUNNINGHAM

W. MERRILL LECKIE

JON L.JESSIMAN

JOHN A.GEMMILL
TERRANCE A. KOWALCHUK
ROBERT R.WALSH

HARRY C.F. SPRING
DAVID ROBERTS

: ROSIN BRAMMALL
JOAN F. WILLIAMS.
JOHN M. PARKS.
ROBERT V. BURNS

: COUNSEL: VERNON R.-HILL, OC.

Mr. Olsen

PLEASE REFER TO:

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Dear Sirs:

of your rates.

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BARRISTERS & SOLICITORS

JOHN 0. MONTGOMERY
ROBERT H. SPRING
PETER G. BERNARD

P. DONOVAN LOWRY
JACK S. OLSEN

April 2nd, 1974.

We act as solicitors for International Ship Owners
and from time to time are faced with the problem of obtaining :
Court Injunctions against picketers picketing some of our clients'
ships at terminals in tne Greater Vancouver area.

We wish to line up a photographer who would be prepared
to go cown to the waterfront on short notice, and take photographs
of the picketers and picket signs with polariod equipment, so that
we could obtain nhotographs right away.

If your firm would be interested in obtaining this

work we would ask that vou contact the writer at your convenience
so that we may discuss this matter with you and chtain some idea

Yours very truly,

MONTGCMERY, SPRING &

CUNNINGHAM

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GETTING READY TO STRIKEBREAK. The above letter was received from an anonymous writer at the PT
office last week. It’s apparently a letter sent out to photographers by a large firm of lawyers in the Bentall.
Centre, Vancouver, seeking to recruit photographers for strikebreaking purposes. Stating that they are acting
‘as solicitors for shipowners, the letter asks that the photographer be prepared to go to the waterfront on
short notice “and take photographs of the picketers and picket signs” to help. shipowners get court
injunctions. The letter is dated April 2, 1974.

parley, backs
firemen strike

With British Columbia airports
continuing only limited operations
behind the striking firemen’s
picket lines, the Central Executive
of the Communist Party decided
last week to postpone their national
convention to the earliest 3 day
weekend available, May 18-20.’

Originally scheduled to com-
mence on April 12 and carry on
through the Easter weekend, the
convention would have taken place
in. the absence of 35 elected
delegates from B.C. :

In announcing the postponement
the Communist Party’s Executive
gave voice to the firefighter’s
cause with a resolution ‘‘ex-
pressing our party’s solidarity with
the striking firefighters,’’ and
condemning ‘“‘the policy of
procrastination on the part of the
government, who’s failure to act
swiftly to bring about a just set-

tlement is responsible for
disruption of air transport
facilities.”

The Party noted that planned
disruption of public services had
become a regular feature of
Federal Treasury Board policy in
«2 attempt to ‘‘create public
resentment and anger: which it
then hopes to turn against the
workers.”

The announced intention of the
NDP government to put through
Bill 75, the interim rent control bill,
before adjourning for a 12-day
Easter recess last Wednesday was
blocked by the opposition parties
and especially by the Socreds who
refused to give the required
unanimous consent that would
have allowed third and final
reading.

The Bill, which would have rolled

- back rents to eight percent as of

January 1, 1974, is therefore held
up until the legislature reconvenes.
When the Bill is passed it will be
retroactive. However, it does not
come into law until passed by the
legislature. In the meantime,
attorney general Alex Macdonald
has urged landlords to abide by the
limit set in the Bill.

In early debate on second
reading all three opposition
parties united to oppose it. The
vote was 32 to 17 after three days of
debate during which opposition
spokesmen brought in all the stock
arguments of the big landlords why
the Bill should not become law. The
debate around the rent rollback
legislation exposed the opposition
parties as representatives of the
interests of the major real estate
companies. |

CP postpones | Rent rollback bill
blocked by Socreds

Liberal spokesman and former
leader Pat McGeer used the debate
to launch an attack on tenant’s
leader Bruce Yorke. At one point
he was compelled to withdraw
some statements at the request of
Speaker-Gordon Dowding.

In defending the Bill, attorney
general Alex Macdonald said the
interim eight percent rollback is
needed to correct situations as the
16-to-33 percent hike by Biock

Brothers. “Large landlords such |

as Block Brothers will lose
revenue,” Macdonald said,, “but
Block Brothers can afford to roll
back those rents because Block
Brothers have made fantastic
profits for the past few years.” :

Premier Dave Barrett told the
Legislature that Bill 75 was related
to the fight against inflation and
that “the government is very
concerned and this is why we are
pressing on with Bill 75” for im-
mediate approval.

“FEW SUCH MEN’
Labor council pays
tribute to Stewart

“It is a sad moment for this
council,” Syd Thompson told the
hushed delegates in opening
Tuesday’s meeting of the Van-
couver and District Labor Council,
“with the loss of a long time
brother, Bill Stewart.”

It was the first meeting of the
council since Stewart’s untimely
death April 12, a loss deeply felt by
the delegates for whom Bill’s voice
was a familiar feature of council
meetings for more than a
generation.

“He was the chairman of this
council’s organization committee
since 1965 and a vice-president of
the B.C. Federation of Labor. And
perhaps what meant as much to
Bill as anything was the fact that
he was a member of the provincial

“committee of the Communist

Party of Canada.

“But he was much more than
this — he was a fine, warm person
who had beliefs and principles that
he carried with him to his grave.

There are few such people around.

He worked not for personal gain
but for the needs of working people
— all his life.

“This council and the whole
labor movement will miss him
deeply,” Thompson said.

National Farmers Union
president Roy Atkinson also ad-
dressed the council and outlined
the struggle waged by the union to

Tights with the huge corp?

poor return to farmers in be

win legislation at both federal
provincial levels which wl
farmers to certify for ©
bargaining rights. : :

He noted the dominance
production of corp!
agribusiness with such com
as Kraftco which uses its mo”
position to squeeze both the
and the retail consumer: 4

The NFU launched 4 me,
boycott of Kraftco in 19720
effort to win collective ba

He emphasized too the i

milk production parll
where Bree to producers
fallen substantially whit
ices continue to clim”: |
: “Collective bargaining ri
farmers would. benefit bo
mers and consumers, é
told the delegates, ‘“‘becals
we would be in a 4
negotiate prices right tr
the retail level.” i
Elsewhere in the coun¢ Pe
delegate Cliff Rundgre®
out that the wage packab®
by the Construction é
Relations Association ade h
building trades negotiation,
end of the contract “woul :
keep up with the increase”
cost of living at the prese?
inflation.” :

BEEF INDUSTRY

Cont'd from pg. 11

$39.70 per hundred. Yet the
wholesale price was $80.00.

In other words, because of
competition from U.S. cattle and

CP EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES
AT DEATH OF BILL STEWART

“The untimely death of Bill Stewart is a great loss to the labor
movement of British Columbia and the whole of Canada as it is a severe
blow to the Communist Party of which he was a long-time and devoted
member,” says a telegram from the Central Executive Committee of the
Communist Party of Canada, signed by William Kashtan, general

secretary.

“Bill will always be remembered as an outstanding champion of a
united, independent and sovereign trade union movement, the cause of
peace, democracy and socialism. Please accept our condolences at this
difficult time,”’ says the wire addressed to B.C. Communist Party leader

Nigel Morgan.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1974—PAGE 12

increased Canadian stocks of beef ;

the price to producers dropped

approximately 14%. But the
‘wholesale price changed very little
and the retail price hardly changed
at all, varying only slightly on
-certain cuts of meat. :

In fact, supply and demand is a
rule that the food processors and
retail outlets ignore completely —
except when it provides a further

excuse to raise the price and ex-

tend profiteering.

And if the price, as a result of the.

ban on U.S. cattle, does increase, it
will be nothing more than that —
profiteering.

CHILE JUNTA — close up.

Laberge to address
1974 May Day rally

Quebec Federation of Labor president Louis Labers*
‘highlight a list of speakers at this year’s May Day
Templeton High School auditorium, 717 Templeton

Sunday, May 5.

Laberge, CNTU president Marcel Pepin and Quebec
Federation president Yvon Charbonneau were jaile¢
Bourassa government in 1972 for their Common Front PF?
behalf of 210,000 public service workers who had bee?
_ therighttostrike by the repressive Bill19. =
Since that time, the Common Front has emerged agailt

to be
Drive

— this time to campaign around a militant program

flation and in defence of workers’ living standards.
_ The Common Front anti-inflation campaign will emP

_ theme of this year’s May Day rally with its call to ‘‘unilé

higher prices and profits’. Lorne Robson, vice-pre

sid

_ B.C. Coordinating Committee to Roll Back Prices is 8°
_ Speak as well as provincial Communist Party leader Nig
_ Provincial consumer affairs minister Phyllis you