e I. | 7 e e The most severe sentences handed out by a Vancouver court i qa | Cc mony years in charges arising froma labor dispute were given ass haa a ] this week to two men who took part in the Allied Engineering picket line on Nov. 6 : The two men, David West labor Bill 43. 5) a rere ininy se and Joseph Hendsbee, were He said Bill 43 has three " each sentenced to six months things designed to weaken 3 by Magistrate Gordon Scott. the trade unions; ee 5 Other union pickets, arrested e Prohibition er informa- | at the time under various tional picketing and the : : Su ibe were given lesser secondary boycott. This has : FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1962 1 ri &é es an pete ere always been one of the few | VOL. 22; NO. 48 VANCOUVER, B.C. ‘iagistret Ra Mea ways by which labor could : salam agistrate Scott said: ‘“Van- : e we : couver has had its experiences a Sobre aS Green hints nuclear with strikes much damage Oe eee es ment. ‘ has been done from time to e Establishment of unions weapons for Canada time. It’s not going to start as legal entities, liable to suit- | é pane have anything to this enables unscrupulous cor- "|, Two statements made by top figures in the Tory cabinet ve ae de eee porations to force unions, par- indicated that the Diefenbaker government has moved closer of the Canadian Beth ehook ticularly smaller unions, into ' | to a decision to adopt nuclear weapons in Canada and for : : endless expensive litigation to I. Sorcon oetbens. e Railway agus ae the point where, regardless of Speaking at the University of B.C., External Affairs other eee Sey cay Pe the outcome, the local union Minister Howard Green, said that the decision on whether Se see ae oe ie es a is gravely weakened, if not Canada accepts nuclear arms “depends entirely on world aha “a asic ae ae destroyed. Be scons” our others recelye in€eS DAVE WEST, union leader, e The indiscriminate allow- : totalling $350 for unlawful . ae = This stand is seen as a retreat by Green from his former ees tel Ncisinata | Scott given severe jail term for his ance of _ temporary ex-parte ; Stand against nuclear arms, and indicate that the line of also imposed $100 fines or 20 part on picket line. injunctions whose temporary , efence Minister Harkness, to acquiring such weapons, is win- days in jail on Dave West existence seems to stretch 1 Ning ground in the Tory cabinet. Donald Cox, Joseph EEN os Bon. See Seep ane A i This was further confirmed in a statement also made .nq Patrick Kirby for “un- pisase effort. 0 this week by Trade Minister George Hees, who is mooted 8 j.,wful assembly’, but ordered ce — Saaee pee Rian the man being groomed to succeed Diefenbaker as leader Of these sentences 6 minecons labor's strike weapon is re- P the Tory party. Hees told a group of University of Toronto (yrrently with their jail term. mnaved: tania eee Students that Canadian troops in Europe are now armed with At press time the Pacific eee = ra ee erat Quclear weapons. Tribune learned that action years nace Se ee if —— = is being taken to appeal the EELS a pattern of anti- i NP A ins ho @ on labor senvences: union activity has developed ° |) p LABOR'S STAND which “threatens to result in : Indicating what labor de- B.C. undergoing labor strife a _ tm HARSH Voters staying home By WILLIAM E. STEWART mands was a statement by B.C. Federation of Labor secretary Pat O’Neal, publish- ed in the latest issue of the “Labor Statesman,” publi- cation of the Vancouver and ‘Bill 43 must go,’ unions demand LABOR SHOCKED BY PENALTIE unequalled in North Amer- ica.” LABOR COUNCIL STAND As the Pacific Tribune went to press the Vancouver Labor With election day Wednesday, December 12 draw-, race is beginning Council issued the following statement from its. closed District Labor Council. i ig close the Vancouver mayorality to warm up. William Rathie, the NPA- i R choice for mayor is find- § Social Credit and Com- Unist plots against him and ) TANT, Secretary-General ‘ s © United Nations, speak- ty . John Hopkins Univer- roca Baltimore last ‘week, “a5 that ‘the spirit of com- ec which marked the Slons between _ the Ovi = let Union and the United Si Sy in the case of Cuba Some help the solution of War he the outstanding cold Mes of the world today.” is flinging mud in all direct- ions. He has attacked the Pacific Tribune for exposing his big business connections, and told an_ election rally Tuesday the first thing he’ll do if elected is to run the Pa- cific Tribune off the streets. Rathie has no program, just a promise to get rid of button- and-boots methods at City Hall. He fails to answer why it is that the NPA, on whose ticket he is running, has been in control of City Hall for 25 years and built the buttons- and-boots administration he is talking about. Rathie is getting a big play from the two Vancouver daily papers who realize that he has not got near the personal pop- ularity of his opponent Hal- ford Wilson. The strategy of the NPA appears to be to play down the election, banking on a good turn out from the west end of the city and a poor turn out from other areas. This they feel gives them the best chance of holding Van- couver for the NPA and the big business interests it re- presents. See NPA, pg. 3 Charging that there is no hope for industrial peace in B.C. as long as Bill 43 re- mains on the statute books, O’Neal hit out against anti- PAT O’NEAL, BCFL secre- tary, who charged Bill 43 was at root of B.C. industrial dis- putes. meeting Tuesday night: ‘We discussed some of the problems facing labor—prob- lems which have been caused W. H. Herridge, NDP—M.P. for Koote- nay West, is shown receiving a Stand- ing ovation at the recent convention of the United Electrical workers union in Toronto, after charging in a speech that Canada was being sold down the Colum- See LABOR, pg. 3 bia River by the draft treaty. Herridge recently urged in the House that the present treaty be scrapped and Gen. Mc- Naughton be called in to negotiate a new one with the U.S. "