MILITANT DISPLAY PAYS OFF

Chinese seamen win,
Co. comes to terms

ing the settlement, as he had in
having charges against them dis-
missed in court.

Thirty-two striking Chinese sea-
men of the British freighter ‘Lord
Codrington’? have won complete

Members of the Scottish Committee of 100 have set out on

a 550-Mile trek to London protesting the

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stationing of Polaris missiles. They will carry a replica of a Polaris with them. The black rocket has the
slogan “Death to one million children" painted on both sides. ‘

Socreds hold Columbia seat

The Social Credit government
has managed to hang on to the
Columbia riding, despite a loss in

the percentage of votes. Last issued the following statement,
Monday’s by election, called to when the results were announced: of the Columbia ~2.or 10, leave e A company undertaking (in. The heartwarming display of
“The Socred government seeks the impression that the good writing) not to prosecute or bring international solidarity emphasiz-

fill the vacancy created by the
death of incumbent Socred MLA
Orr Newton, saw Frank Green-
wood garner 1,087 votes. Runner
up was Tory Dr. Al Trott, with
657 votes.

Results are based on 22 of 24
polls counted.

In retaining the seat, Social
Credit’s percentage of the pop-
ular vote dropped to 37 from 42
percent.

Biggest disappointment of the
tally was NDP candidate Bev
Haris’ 578 votes, representing only
20 per cent of the popular vote, a

drop from 29 percent in 1960.
B.C. Communist Party pro-
vincial organizer Charles Caron

through the results of the Col-
umbia by election to leave the
impression that this ‘victory’ of
430 votes over its nearest oppon-
ent constitutes support for its
treacherous policy on the Col-
umbia.

“What the vote shows once
again, in fact, is the ability of
the monopoly parties, with their
well - oiled propaganda machine
assisted by U.S. dollars, to deceive
the voters.

“It is outright deception to
leave the impression, as the Van--

Treaty protests mounting

_ Last week’s announcement that
agreement had been reached be-
tween Ottawa and Victoria on the
sale of downstream benefits to
the U.S., has set in motion a chain
reaction of opposition to the entire
Columbia river treaty.

Speaking in Golden, B.C., on the
eve of the Columbia by-election,
NDP national leader Tommy
Deuglas reiterated his party’s
complete opposition to the treaty
as it now stands.

Labelling the treaty a Sellout,

- Douglas asked: ‘‘What will the

people of B.C. get? They will ©

get nothing. We are going to give
away a great river.’’ Canada al.
ready exports raw materials, he
went on. Now it will export pow-
er and jobs.

He also blasted the federal-pro-
vincial accord as a betrayal be.

cause Parliament had been as-
sured that nothing would be done
until the external affairs commit-
tee had considered the matter.

Along similar lines, C. S. Jack-
son, Canadian president of UE,
has wired Prime Minister Pear.
son that “your government has
no mandate to dispose of our
vital resources and jeopardize
Canada’s future.’ The wire urged |
that public hearings should be
held before any further commit-
ments are undertaken.

And in Vancouver, the Columbia
River For Canada Committee
pledged in a press release that it
would resist the giveaway to the
last, adding that it will never
consider this treaty to be ‘‘bind-
ing on us. If it is forced through,
we will demand its abrogation.’’

The Steelworkers union and
International Nickel have sign-
ed a 3-year agreement in Sud-
bury, with only a portion of the
large local voting for the new
plan.

Only 4,937 of the 12,500 work-
‘ers voted to accept the terms
of the contract, which alleg.
edly boosts miners’ wages by
18%c an hour over the three
year period.

The settlement shocked the
Mine Mill union, which com-
mented:

“Thus, less than 40 percent
of the INCO workers in Sud-
bury have imposed the check-
off deal on the rest of the IN-
CO men. It is the first time in
history that any company has
granted an irrevocable check.
off to a union when everybody
concerned knew that the union
did not represent a majority
of the men involved.”’

| Mine Mill hits INCO pact

Attacking the wage increases.

negotiated, Mine Mill charged:
“The company, on the basis’
of increases it has escaped be-:
tween January 1, 1962 and the
present, has saved a minimum
of $2 million that should have
been in the workers’ pockets
already.” :

Under terms of the contract,
Sudbury workers have surrend-
ered:

® Control of checkoff (all

monies checked off by INCO
now are controlled by Steel’s
secretary in Pittsburgh, U.-
S.A.);
. © Control of contract (the
contract is between INCO and
Steel’s head office—the local
no longer has any say);

® Canadian autonomy and
self government in their union
and the right to free political
expression (their dues money —
will now support the political ”
party of Steel head office’s
choice).

couver Province did in its July

. 16 issue, that the voters did not

elect the NDP candidate because
they favored the Bennett sellout:

stand taken by Tommy Douglas
on this issue, cost the NDP this
election.

“It is more correct to say that
the vacillating position on the
Columbia followed by Bob Stra-
chan, provincial NDP leader, is
the largest single contributing
factor to the drop in the NDP
vote. :

“If the NDP — in the long
period of struggle to save the
Columbia—had led this struggle,
the people of the Columbia rid-
ing, as elsewhere, would have
been won to the understanding of
what is at stake on this great
national issue to the future of
Canada, and would have acted ac-
cordingly.

“The NDP leadership in this
province still has’ to learn this
lesson.”

The by-election was a subject
for parliamentary debate this
week, when Bert Herridge charg-

ed that U.S. consul in Vancouver, :

“

Avery Peterson, showed ‘‘ex-
tremely bad taste”’ in sitting in on
election meetings and taking de-
tailed notes of the proceedings.

This U.S. interference was rem-
iniscent of incidents during the
April 8 general election.

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City jobless

hit lack of
proper welfare

The Vancouver and _ District
Unemployed Council has protested
to the Department of Social Wel-
fare regarding the social allow-
ances being doled out to 28 Douk-
hobors presently in Vancouver.

Many of the Doukhobors are
elderly people who, according to
the jobless council, are forced to
exist on a mere pittance.

_ The government department is
seeking to justify the rates paid
and its use of the so - called
“means test’.

Mikes

Se a

success in their demands on the
ship’s British owners. Backed by
a high.degree of labor internation-
alism (in particular, by the Long-
shoremen’s union) the seamen
won:

© Immediate withdrawal of all
charges against tne entire crew;

e Payment of all wages, over-
time, bonuses, etc. up till the time
of their departure from Vancouver
to Hong Kong;

e Transport of all 32 crewmen
to Hong Kong, with fares paid
by the company;

e Payment of six pounds sterl-
ing to each of seven jailed sea.
men (over and above wages) as
compensation for being imprison-
ed; :

© Return of their Seaman’s Dis-
charge Book, properly endorsed
so as to prevent future blacklist.
ing;

any other kind of action against
the men for their display of mil-
itancy.

Once an agreement between
the company and crew, incorpor-
ating the above points of settle-
ment, had been signed a copy was
given to each of the seamen and
their picket line by the vessel
withdrawn.

Vancouver lawyer Andy Joe
represented the seamen in winn-

The dispute had arisen -out of
deplorable working conditions, low
pay and company refusal to live

up to even the miserable terms of — |

the contract under which the sea-

men had shipped out on the ‘‘Cod.

rington.”

Vancouver labor leaders had
described conditions aboard ship.
as ‘something out of a 19th cent-
ury novel.”

Hailed at VLC meet

The entire crew of 32 men were
present at the Tuesday meeting —
of Vancouver Labor Council. Each
of the crew members was intro. —
duced in turn to the delegates and
the entire group received a stand-
ing ovation from council. They
reciprocated by also standing and
applauding.

One of the crew members ex-
pressed the thanks of the entire
group to Vancouver’s labor move-
ment thruigh lawyer Andy Joe.

ed what is becoming a well-known
fect — that Vancouver is con-

sidered by seamen all over the [
world to be a safe haven for —

settling disputes.

This crew had never belonged |
to a union, but when they ar- |
rived in Vancouver they organized |
themselves quickly, with the able {|

and friendly assistance of the
Boilermakers and other interested
sections of the city’s labor move-
ment.

Resist Cuba pressure |

Attempts by U.S. imperialism to _

further its economic boycott of
Cuba are meeting with growing
resistance around the world. The
growing awareness that trade
with Cuba is mutually advantage-
ous was mirrored by a recent dis.
patch in the New York Times,
which said that ‘new efforts by
the Kennedy administration to
stir up its allies into imposing
a trade and travel ban on Cuba”
were not going over too well.

The dispatch referred to a U.S.
State Dept. “‘request’’ to Britain,
Canada, Mexico, and Spain to
cut its Cuban dealings and sor-
rowfully stated: ‘But none of the
four countries has agreed . . . to
curb air and shipping lines car-
rying persons and goods to the
Caribbean island.”’

According to the newspaper re-
port, Canada relented to the ex.
tent that it ‘“‘has agreed to search
Cuban planes making fuel stops
in Gander, Nfld., as part of their
lengthy. Havana-Prague flight.”
The Canadian government had
refused, however, ‘‘to halt the
flights or stop weekly cargo runs
from Toronto to Havana. ..°”

Even the fascist dictatorship
of Spain flouted the U.S. demand

and stated that it wishes to in--

crease, rather than cut back, all —
its air and shipping services to the —

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island.
The latest news of resistance tO s

U.S. strong arm methods came on —

the heels of a statement in Parl
iament by Trade Minister Sharp,
in which he revealed that the
Liberal government is giving —
“careful consideration” to trade
with socialist countries in the
hope that ‘“‘progressively,’’ stable
markets may be found.

The trade minister also pointed —
out that in return, ‘‘we must e%
pect to see their goods find a
place in the Canadian market” —

Sharp’s admision indicates tha
negotiations for future wheat sale
to People’s China can no longe
be handled on a hard cash basis—
at exhorbitant prices—as they
were in the past.

It also indicates that prese”
Canada-USSR _ trade, conducted:
on a 2-to-1 basis in Canada’s
favor, may well be a thing of the
past.

It remains to be seen, howevel
whether Sharp's “careful consid
eration” is genuine or merel}
lip service.

“Sure Oi’ remember -your darling great-grandfather W®
Mr. Khrushchev!”
July 19—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—P:

JAX in the London Evening standé i
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