VICTIM OF U.S. ATROCITY. Photo shows a survivor of U.S. massacre at
South Vietnamese village of Song My. Do Chuc, 48, gestures with his
mangled hands as he describes the massacre.

Young Communists fight

for needs of

By P.J. O’KANE

In Vancouver on Sunday, Nov.
2, 1969, a ray of sunshine broke
through and shone on the road to
progress, in the form of the
Young Communist League of
B.C.

Twenty five young people —
workers and students — joined in
a discussion of problems facing
young people today.
Consequently out of the
discussions the Y.C.L. was
established.

Today’s rapidly changing
world challenges many young
people with dreams of space
travel, overcoming disease,
prolonging life through the
miracles of transplants,
discovering the wealth of the
sea; while we live in a world still
torn apart by bloody. wars,
famine in the midst of plenty,
unemployment and poverty,
pollution which is reaching
across the whole of the earth.-

Millions of tons of ores and
timber, natural gas, electric
power, etc. are exported out of
Canada. This sellout of the
natural resources of B.C. by
W.A.C. Bennett and Co. is a very
important issue today as. it
stifles growth of new industry in
B.C. and consequently creates a
lack of jobs. The Y.C.L. will take
up this fight to preserve our
natural resources for our own
use.

There has been’ much
discussion about a Merchant
Marine in Canada. Many young
workers in the shipbuilding
industry in B.C. are asking the
question: why in 1968, 4,248 ships
were loaded and unloaded in

Birchard dies

Ivan Birchard, veteran
Communist leader, and for many
years business manager of the
Pacific Tribune, passed: away
this week following a_ long
illness. Funeral service will be
held at the Burnaby Funeral
Parlour, 4276 E. Hastings St., on
Friday, Nov. 28 at 1:30 p.m. The
PT will pay a special tribute to
him in next week’s issue.

B.C. youth

Vancouver and none of which
flew the Canadian flag. The
Y.C.L. will deal with this
question as well.

The unemployment situation in
our province is chronic in
comparison to the natural
resources in our province: The
latest DBS report in 1969, from
January to July, shows that
February had the highest
percentage of unemployment —
9.3 percent, to the lowest in June
with 4.3 percent. In July the
figure rose to 4.9 percent of
B.C.’s work force.

It must be pointed out that this
figure does not take into
consideration the many people
on social welfare, old age
pensioners, those not registered
for Unemployment Insurance or
whose claims have run out, or
most important the wives and
children (and other dependants)
of the -unemployed heads of
families. This would bring the
figure of those affected by
unemployment to catastrophic
numbers. The Y.C.L. can and
will point out the answers to the
question of unemployment.

The Young Communist League
will introduce the perspective of
Socialism to young Canadians
through a series of discussions
dealing with Marxism-Leninism
and its approach to today’s
social contradictions.

The Y.C.L. will create a much
broader base for the Communist
party in its structure and contact
with the masses in society. The
Y.C.L. will undoubtedly aid the
struggle of the working class in
vigorous objective political

~action by the application of
Marxism-Leninism.

These are but a few reasons
for the existence of a Y.C.L. No
doubt there are many more. The
Y.C.L. will contribute much to
the emancipation of the working
class - toward socialism in

Canada.
* * *

For information about the B.C. ~

Young Communist League
write: Rm. 408, Ford Bldg., 193
E. Hastings St., 684-1451.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 28, 1969—PAGE 12

Labor’s anti-injunction
fight needs upgrading

Pacific Press, publishers of
the Vancouver Province and Sun,
presently in dispute with its
typos, pressmen, mailers and
stereotypers over the terms of a
new wage. contract, is reported
suing for damages against these
printing trades unions for an
alleged ‘‘slow-down”’ in
production.

The publishers also seek an
injunction restraining the ITU
(Typos) from ‘‘counselling,
encouraging or committing its
members not to work overtime’”’
when and as management
demands. During working hours
such an injunction is intended to
specify at just what speed an
employee shall be expected to
maintain in the performance of
his (or her) duties. In short, just
how slow is slow?

This week the Vancouver -
New Westminster Newspaper
Guild representing some 650
editorial, advertising,
circulation, maintenance and
other Pacific Press personnel,
voted 68.8 percent in favor of
strike action to back up wage
demands.

Negotiations are _ being
conducted by representatives of
the Joint Council of Newspaper
Unions, including the Guild and
the four printing trades unions.

During recent months the
increase of exparte or other
court injunctions in wage
contract disputes has steadily
increased.

Today wage negotiations
between union and management
don’t get very far without a court
injunction being issued against
the union, ‘‘restraining’’
effective strike action; so much
so that a prominent labor leader
has now defined the exparte
court injunction as a “‘built in
feature of modern collective
bargaining to buttress the
employer against the worker.”’

Injunctions set at naught all
preconceived freedoms and

rights of workers to ‘‘withhold —

—From BCFL pamphlet “Compulsion.”

their labor power’: in the
struggle for decent Wages and
working conditions.

Thus it may also be noted that
three big timber tycoons in
recent days have banded
together to ask for a court
injunction which would prohibit
the IWA regional and local union
leadership from telling or
“councelling union members to
refuse to work overtime,’
should the timber barons
demand such overtime _ be
worked.

Company legal talent in this
instance argue that the IWA has
applied this ban on overtime
work merely for the purpose of
bringing pressure on _ the
operators for a reopening of the
present IWA master contract in
order to secure an interim wage
increase to meet spiralling living
costs. The IWA_ spokesmen
argue, and correctly so, that in
face of rising unemployment, it
is imperative that such
“needless overtime’’ be
removed. Scores of IWA
members in the Franklin River
operations of MacMillan Bloedel
are being continually harassed
by injunctions and threats of
more injunctions on _ this
“compulsory”’ overtime issue.

Mr. Justice Dryer, the
presiding judge at these IWA-
management hearings, observed
that union-management
relations should be regarded as
‘something like a marriage. . .
after all the parties have to live
together.”’ -

Many old-time loggers and

-millworkers, before the coming

of the IWA and after, have vivid
recollections of that
“yelationship’’ as seen by the
learned judge, together with
some very apt descriptives of
such a ‘‘marriage.”’

Four fallers from the M-B
Franklyn River operations on
Vancouver Island picketed the
MacMillan-Bloedel Ltd.
headquarters in Vancouver this
week in protest against the
arbitrary firing of seven fallers
on Nov. 13 for alleged ‘“‘fishing”’
during working hours. In the
industry the loggers term this
old established custom in the
B.C. logging camps as a “‘fish
fry’:

The scene of considerable
dispute between the loggers and
M-B management during recent
months, with anti-[WA court
injunctions as numerous as flies
in the area, the opinion is widely
held that the M-B ‘“‘fish
conservationists” are using this
alleged fishing incident to
further lower the boom on the

IWA. Who wants to condone

Gaglardi waves ‘big stick’
against welfare recipients

= B.C.’s new Welfare Minister Phil Gaglardi threatened to use the
“big stick” against thousands of B.C. welfare recipients when he told
a business management association meeting last week that the
Socred government is considering taking people off welfare who

_ refuse to work.

He told the Data Processing Management Association in a
speech that “‘able-bodied people are receving government aid. And
the government is you. You're paying for it. But if they won’t work
we'll have to use a little ingenuity, we’ll have to provide a little

incentive. We may have to cut them off.”
Gaglardi later told a press interviewer that, ‘‘We’ll probably give

them enough for food to keep alive but its clear we need some kind of
incentive to get these type of people back to work.” Apparently the
incentive he is thinking of is a little bit of starvation.

“fish-frys’’ during working —
hours? Timb. .e. .r.r.r.

With this steady escalation of
restraining injunctions against
labor in its strugle against highly
inflationary living costs, the B.C:
Federation of Labor antl
injunction fight requires to be —
moved into high gear once again.

i
School freeze —

Cont'd from pg. 1 ee

emergency accommodation —
already— including lunch rooms, —
school libraries and even gymS
at times. Essential progressiv@
innovations— kindergartens, day
care centres and  specidh —
attention needed by handicapped
children, are being withheld.
“Planning, which has bee
chaotic at best of late, would be
impossible under the propose
scheme. And, what little loca!
autonomy remains would be
eliminated to all practica
purposes. a -

“The Provincial Executive of
the Communist Party has
written the Provincla
government demanding that the
projected freeze on schoo
construction be dropped. We
support the position of the sch0o®
trustees, B.C. Federation °
Teachers, and others that ue
cabinet reconsider its arbitraty” |
decision. :

“We urge the widest
expressions of labor,
community, and other
progressive organizations ie
insist the projected policy be
tabled at least until
Legislature can debate it.
Session is now less than tw?
months away. A great avalanche
of opposition is needed if
children of this province are 1°
to suffer. ore

“The broadest sections of public
opinion must be aroused
challenge the disastrous course
the Bennett administration has
taken, and compel action |
make adequate  financi@
resources available p
education. Any other course wil
postpone and multiply the crisi§_
in our. schools’’ Morga? :
concluded. ‘Seventy-five millio?
dollars of school bylaws cann?

be delayed without dome
irreparable harm.”

WHY FREEZE?

Dave Barrett, NDP leadet:
charged that the provincia”
government is playing politics
with the future of B.C. childre?
by imposing the scho0 |
construction freeze. He said thé a:
financial disaster of re, §
Columbia River treaty is th?
reason for the cutback. i

Barrett pointed out that in July
Premier W.A.C. Bennett boaste@
that the 1968-69 public accounls
showed a claimed ‘‘financl@
miracle’ of $50 million ¢a5
surplus and another $130 milli’ .
surplus in the PGE railway.“
said this $180 million should havé
been used to finance adequa!
education, health and welfare
BGs

The B.C. Parent-Teache!
Federation sent a telegram iv
Bennett saying it was strong
opposed to the cutback in new
classrooms. : 4