Portrait of a monopoly

| GENERAL TELEPHONE & ELECTRONICS CORP. (N.Y. |

owns 56% of

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| Anglo-Canadian Telephone Co.|

owns 100% of
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100% of
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| Automatic Electric (Canada) Ltd.|

which owns

50.1% of
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and 100% of

|Canadian Tel. & Supplies|

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B.C. TELEPHONE co.| | Sylvania Electric (Can.) Ltd.|

and 100% of
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| Dominion Directory Co. Ltd.

and 100% of
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The above chart from the booklet “Who owns B.C.?”
— owned by the giant U.S. General Telephone and El
real profits. This huge monopoly is one of the most vio

| Lenkurt Electric Co. of Can. Ltd. |

shows the corporate structure of which B.C. Tel is a part
ectronics Corp. Through this structure B.C. Tel cloaks its
lently anti-labor in North America.

LABOR SCENE:

IWA wins big victory
on labor vs boss rights

A question of the utmost
importance to labor, the right of
a workingman to his job, has
been determined by a lengthy
Arbitration Board hearing into
the action of MacMillan-Bloedel
in its arbitrary layoff of some 186
Vanply mill workers in January
of this year.

Totally disregarding the terms
of the IWA agreement on
seniority or other protective
clauses, and using the weather
as a pretext to declare an
“emergency”, the M-B manage-
ment despite all union efforts for
consultations aimed at seeking a
Satisfactory »solution, the
company went right ahead with
its big layoffs. 2

FOREST PROBE

Cont’d from pg. 1

since the forest monopolies
cover up their tracks expertly.
Many people close to the forest
industry are of the view that the
forest monopolies, who always
work in concert, are trying to
achieve two objectives with their
present policy: One is to force
prices up through monopoly
manipulations which would
create a scarcity; and at the
same time deal a blow to the
woodworkers who are mounting
pressure on the monopolies to
reopen the agreement this year
for a substantial wage increase.
The case for a substantial
increase in wages doesn’t stand
or fall on whether the highly-
inflated prices the companies
were getting for lumber remain
at the high level they were at.
The profit picture of the industry
over the past year and in the first
quarter of 1969 fully justifies a
substantial interim wage
increase. And, the rise in the
cost of living, interest rates,
higher taxes, rents, etc., make
an interim wage boost this year
an absolute necessity for

= woodworkers and their families. |
- PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 27, 1969—Page 12

.

Harvey Murphy, past
president of Mine-Mill and long
prominent in B.C. and national
labor affairs, represented the
IWA on the Arbitration Board
hearings.

The union claimed that no
“emergency” existed, and that
the M-B arbitrary layoffs was
not in accordance with the union
agreement regarding seniority
provisions, based on a policy of
“last on — first off’? in such
cases. This the M-B company
flagrantly disregarded and
assumed to itself the sole right to
dispose of employees at will on
the time-worn assumption that
only. management held
-‘jurisdiction” on the issue of
terminating an employee’s job
regardless of seniority.

The Arbitration Board’s
ruling, released Tuesday of this
week provides that the full
amount of back wages for the
time lost through the M-B

“emergency” layoff must be
paid to all its 186 Vanply
employees; a union victory.

which not only establishes an
important precedent, but makes
clear that management, large or
small, no longer holds the sole
“right” to deprive a wage earner
of his job (and livelihood),
regardless of the ‘“‘emergency”’
pretext for doing so.

Members of the Board were M-
B representative W.J.
Esselmont, Board chairman Dr.
Noel Hall, and IWA representa-
tive Harvey Murphy.

* KOK

Meantime, IWA workers at the
M-B Menzies Bay Division,
angered and frustrated by the
refusal of the company to abide
by the terms of _the union
agreement covering union
Security as stipulated, had
advised the company that as long
as hordes of non-union
contractors were being used by
M-B “‘to undermine _union

conditions’”’ the IWA workers
would govern themselves
accordingly.

The company responded in the
usual manner by securing an
obvious “‘blanket’’ injunction,
applicable to‘‘all IWA employees
of MacMillan-Bloedel at Menzies
Bay, Kelsey Bay and Eve
River’’, and especially directed
against local president Max
Salter and camp chairman Nick
Chernoff.

Menzies Bay IWA Local 1-363
bulletin states however.that “‘out
of this fuss the union gained a
statement from R.M. Bibbs, vice-
president Industrial Relations
for MacMillan-Bloedel ... to
guarantee that the company in
future will not layoff regular
IWA employees while employing
‘contractors (non-union Ed.) in
similar jobs.”

The special ‘‘closed’’ session
of the Vancouver and District
Labor Council held Tuesday of.
this week following a _ wide-
ranging and at times hot debate
on B.C. Federation of Labor
(BCFL) policy as it affects the
current strike of the Oil,
Chemical and Atomic Workers

Union against six major oil.

companies operating in B.C.
ended with the adoption of the
following motion.

“That a meeting be called by
the BCFL Executive, together
with representatives of the Oil
Workers Union and
representatives of other unions,

directly or indirectly affected by

the oil strike.”’

The purpose of this meeting,
probably to convene this week,
will be ‘‘for the purpose of
reviewing the policy to date, and
considering what other steps

may be taken to make the Oil _

Workers strike more effective ee

PROTEST BLOCKS COUNCI.

Rankin demands rap
transit plan for city

By MABELRICHARDS

It has taken weeks— even months— but city aldermen are
getting the message: Vancouver people want a rapid transits
to move people through the city rather than an extravagant C0
of tunnels and freeways to move cars.

Led by Alderman Harry
Rankin, scores of people have
become involved in the fight to
introduce a modern rapid transit
system through petitions to
council, briefs, letters and phone
calls. That struggle paid off once
again on Tuesday when Swan
Wooster Engineering plans for a
system of tunnels and by-passes
were rejected, with Rankin
casting the deciding vote in each
instance.

That some of the younger
aldermen were beginning to
have doubts about saddling the
city with elaborate plans which
it was admitted would serve with
‘efficiency only until 1985, was
obvious in the queries and
wrangling that went on during
the Tuesday session.

For the first time the subjects
of rapid transit and financing
crept into the discussion.
Alderman Hardwicke said, ‘‘We
are looking at only half the pie.
We must have the whole picture
which must involve rapid transit
as well.”’ :

In answer to a question, Swan
Wooster engineer Leighton
acknowledged that over 7,000
cars were funneled during peak
periods to and from the east,
south and south-east sections of
the city, as against some 2,300 to
and from the north shore. These

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figures corroborate what Fe
has consistently mains
That the real problem } 7h
areas other than congesl®™
the north shore crossings:

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position when he said th
city must complete a study
traffic problems, not just ©)
connected with the PPE yy
north shore crossing :
highway approaches, eld!
made a commitment. PE

“You know and I know '
said, “that we haven! a)
made a start on financil® | ay
plans. The only thing ie |
might do now is to oe
where they wish a by-pass oe |
I have found that people i
whelmingly for rapl e
and therefore I cann@ |
conscience vote for any “
plans submitted by
Wooster.”’ gil

The battle will be joined *
when council meets #
weeks. : ;

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citizens who have made 4
attempt to drag the rel if
city fathers into the 20th ceh”
will have another chanet. |
make it plain that rapid tral
the only solution to the pr? idl
of moving people in a TP

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Westminster Communists |
nominate longshoreman |

Roderick Doran, 42-year old longshoreman, was nominated! dt

Sunday to carry the Communist banner in the forthcoming Provint
election in New Westminster constituency.

“|
Doran, who immigrated from meeting, ‘Yet the rich a

Glasgow twenty years ago, lives
at 426-8th Street with his wife
Velda -and four children, the
youngest of which was born the
day before his nomination.
Coming here from Prince
Rupert, where he had served for
three terms as president of the
Labor Council, he is a member of
the Central Committee of the
Communist Party and organizer
of its Fraser Valley Regional
Committee.

“Soaring food and housing
costs and taxes are cutting deep
into our pockets,” Doran told the

ROD DORAN

never had it so good. Profil’;
higher than ever, |
government handouts al isi
concessions are growing. 7! if
the money that has got vod
tapped to maintain our hosP! ve
provide the housing Ai
educational facilities and D™
old age pensions up in line
rising living costs,’’ he said.
“Neither the Socred
Liberal policies provide
answer to these questi?
Doran charged. ‘‘And nor
the right-wing policies of if
NDP candidate nominate qe
this constituency, committe?
he says he is to free enterpri
Addressing the meeting, N

Morgan, Provincial leader ? ihe

Party, sharply condemned
Bennett government’s !
vention in hospital affairs W
is threatening closure of al
Royal Columbia Hosp!

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province that isn’t desper@’ 4
short of accommodation. ai?
the money has got to be foum®,
provide these requireme”
British Columbians will p4Y ,
substantial part of the clos? i
two billion dollars Canada Wf

spend on so-called defence |

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year. Electing a fighter like
Deran will help get actio? |
divert some of this w2@
expenditure to people’s nee
declared Morgan.

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