Soviet Union has a large and attractive display (shown above)
the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. The booth was
ened by Albert Engibarov, head of the Soviet trade delegation
Canada. He is shown here cutting the ribbon opening the
Oth. He welcomed the recent Canadian-Soviet trade pact and
id that major trade deals are now being seen by both countries.

1 first session of the Pearse
l commission on forestry
Dleted its hearings in Prince
k Ree last week and will move on
hea, <1. Parts of the province to
hh eet emissions, and will hold
love gs in Vancouver in
tacp ber which are expected to
 , 2bout four weeks.
a Submitted at the Prince
he ©° Hearing indicated some of
ome et problems which will
Hist ‘fore the royal commission.
2} briefs centred on the issue of
k ey paure — that is how B.C.
dn: ods shall be organized and
‘nistered. Present tenures,
Ver 80 back a long ‘time, hand
|  uee tracts of B.C. Crown
8 to large forest companies to
oth Naged by them in one form or
er for various periods of

"Ses which run for 21 years and
PWood Harvesting licenses
4h," tun for 10 years. The bulk of
at pS eest Tree Farm licenses
sft Up for renewal in 1979 — 20
Wek expire at that time.
the . of the major corporaticns

"ince George area urged in
‘ Submissions that tenures be
T extended for longer periods,
t forest lands be owned out-
ell y-forest companies. This is a

4 ‘4 Crown lands to be alienated
4 €tely to the forest companies

‘some form of government
n. It’s obvious that the big

PARKSVILL

Orest companies ask
Or more giveaways

forest monopolies in B.C. will put
up a major fight before the royal
commission to extend further the
giveaway of public forest lands to
private capital.

The reasons_given by the forest
companies for longer term tenures
or. outright ownership of . forest
lands is that this is required for
“proper planning’? and to ensure
capital investment — which should
read ‘‘more profits.”

Another issue aired at. the
hearings was the inadequacy of

present reforestation programs.

One of the biggest forest com-
panies in northern- B.C., Nor-
thwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.,
which is owned by Noranda Mines
and the Mead Corp. of Ohio, said
that present reforestation
programs supply only 25 per cent
of the number of trees required.
This bears out charges made by
B.C. foresters in recent months

_that B.C. forests are being

drastically overcut.
The B.C. Communist Party will

be presenting a brief at the Van- |

|Beaver Transfer|

couver hearings in November
which is expected to call for a
complete revamping of forest
tenures, with all forest licenses
phased out, and B.C.’s forest lands
to be managed by a Crown agency
which would ensure that the
benefits of public ownership of the

‘forests is passed on to their

owners, the people.

20th ANNUAL VANCOUVER ISLAND LABOR PICNIC
Sunday, August 31, 1975. :

(from 1 P.M. to 7 P.M.)

(Rain or Shine)

‘George McKnight MC

Salmon B-Q, Corn, Men and Women’s Tug-O-War, Labor Queen contest,
Prizes for oldest union card, youngest holder of union card.

E COMMUNITY CENTRE

Bargaining rights fight
crucial for fishermen

By only a bare majority, salmon
fishermen voted to end their 27-day
strike last Thursday to ‘‘regroup
and strike again when we are ina
better position to fight the com-
panies.”

Last Thursday’s vote opted for a
return to work by only a 58.9%
majority. The contract with the
fisheries association is a one-year
agreement and identical to the
offer that had been rejected twice
in previous votes.

“It would be too simple to call
this strike either a victory or a
defeat,” UFAWU business agent
George Hewison commented in an
interview with the Tribune, “I
believe we extracted everything
possible from the situation.”

The new contract sets minimum
prices of 62 cents per pound for
sockeye, 45 cents for cohos, 24
cents for pinks and 30 cents for
chums. Only a modest increase
over 1974 prices, the new
agreement was won against over-
whelming odds.

As Hewison related, with an
extremely poor salmon run, the

use of injunctions, open collusion ©

by the federal government in
support of the companies, fairly
widespread strikebreaking and the
splitting activities of the Native
Brotherhood, the objective
possibilities were weighted against
the strike. :
“The lesson of this struggle is
how to strike,” Hewison stressed,
“How to bring economic power to
bear against the employer — to
achieve ‘maximum results,”’
Without a large salmon run the

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economic power did not exist, he
said, and the modest gains won are
solely attributable to the militancy
and unity of UFAWU members. He

pointed the early tieup of PTA

boats, and the demands of some
shoreworkers for an early strike
deadline as examples of the need
for proper timing in strike
situations. ~_

“The forces that gave rise to this
strike will be there again next
year,”’ he continued, “‘but with a
better fish run and time to heal the
scars that prevent unity of action
we will be in a much more
favorable position.”

‘The winning of collective
bargaining rights for fishermen
has emerged as the crucial
task for the union. The use of in-
junctions during the strike was the
chief factor working: against the
union, he explained, because
“injunctions were being used to
smash picket lines and the
breaking of picket lines ultimately
leads to the breaking of a strike.”

Injunctions were served on the
union to prevent picketing on four
occasions during the strike, two of
which were ‘‘ex parte injunctions”’
supposedly a thing of the past-in
B.C. At Oakland Industries and
Coast Shell Fish on Vancouver
Island, where two of the in-
junctions were served, Hewison
said that the picketing had ‘‘vir-
tually ground down
operations’? but when the in-
junction was served “‘it broke it
wide open.” .

“Fishermen,” he said, ‘‘are in
the same position as the early

trade unions before the passage of

their .

the first trade union act in 1904,
subject to all the penalties of
common. law for breach of con-
tract, watching and besetting and
conspiracy.”’

_ The injunctions were in direct
violation of the provincial labor
code, he noted, and the provincial
government has to accept a
measure of responsibility for
refusing to exercise its jurisdiction
over labor matters in the province.

Another injunction, at Bella
Bella, to prevent picketing of the
Central Native Co-op, pointed out a
new company ploy that the union
has to contend with — ‘‘the instant
co-op.’”’ Obviously a front for the
Japanese monopoly, Marubeni
‘Corporation, the Native Co-op was
formed just prior to the strike to
allow for continuous marketing of
fish during the strike. The for-
mation of the co-op also effectively
eliminates union organization
among the plant workers. The
injunction in this case is clearly
unjustified as shoreworkers are
granted bargaining rights under
the provincial labor code.

The injunctions opened the door
to widespread strikebreaking,
Hewison said. He said the union
has compiled a list of 300 to 350
vessels that scabbed during the
strike. Most were members of the
anti-union Pacific Trollers
Association, but many were in-
dividual fishermen, he said, who
“bent to the economic pressures on
all fishermen.” A laxity toward
strikebreaking in past years is also
partially responsible for an in-
créase, he recognized, and this

See FISHERMEN pg. 12

William Kashtan, general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada,
was presented with a medal marking the 30th anniversary of the victory
over fascism awarded by the central committee of the CPSU and
Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In presenting the medal to Kashtan,

during a recent visit to the USSR, V. |.

Zagladin said it was in

recognition of Kashtan’s role in strengthening Canada’s part in the
common cause of defeating Hitler fascism and his contribution to

efforts for lasting peace.

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