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FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1959

IWA 1-80

veek.

y The resolution declared
that Bill 43 was designed at
the request of employer

| Wroups “and their spokesmen

Mn government” for the purpose
“shackling and destroying
Whe trade union movement.”
-) It said “the regaining of
traditional democratic

| Nights of trade unions must
Mow become the main task
| )f the whole labor move-

_ Mnent in a continuous, ener-

, etic campaign to have Bill
2 repealed.”

The meeting called on B.C.

“Wederation of Labor to spon-
or mass public meetings in
Very centre where there

Yre labor council affiliates,
Ind urged any and every

{ \ther means of action up to

‘Wnd including “stoppages of
york.”

Speaking at the meeting

fere Joe Morris, IWA dis-

ee

fict president, and Robert
“Strachan, MLA for Cowichan-
gNeweastle.

’ Nominations for officers for

demands

‘ ight against Bill 43

_ DUNCAN, B.C. — Action “up to and including stop-

pages of work” to defeat Bill 43 was demanded in a resolu-
“Vion passed by delegates attending the annual meeting of
Wocal 1-80, International: Woodworkers of America here this”

the coming year were held.
Elections take place in April.

Nominated for president are
George Smythe and. Stan
Abercrombie; first vice-presi-
dent John Colwell and Lorne
Atcheson; third vice-president
W. T. Morgan and A. McLeod.

McEwen to speak
on missile bases

Tom McEwen editor of the
Pacific Tribune, will speak on
the establishment of U.S. mis-
sile bases in Canada, at a pub-
lic meeting in Pender Audi-
torium next Wednesday, April
1 at 8 p.m.

The Diefenbaker government
has already agreed to Washing-
tons demand for atomic mis-
sile bases in North Bay, Ont.
and Mont Laurier, Que.

These Bomarc bases, said Mc-
Ewen, will mean automatic
involvement of Canada in any
U.S.-organized war.

“Action, not words” was. the militant demand of some 3,000
trade unionists who ignored a chairman’s “no discussion from
the floor’ ruling at a meeting in Exhibition Gardens on Tuesday

Labor Minister jeered

at UFAWU convention

Provincial Minister of Labor Lyle Wicks was given a cool
reception in his first appearance before a labor organization
since passage of Bill 43 when he spoke to the 15th annual con-
vention of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union

called by the Building Trades
Council to oppose Bill 43.
Angered by the “go slow”
theme of several speeches,
rank and file voices shoute
“How about a general strike?”
and finally “took over” the
meeting during discussion of a
resolution from the platform,
and rose one after another to
urge direct action to smash the
newly-introduced anti - labor
Jegislation.

A “vote CCF at the next
elections” line advocated py
some speakers at the rally
got a cold reception from the
audience, and when Ed Ken-
nedy, western director of the
Building Trades Department
(AFL-CIO) attempted to be-
fuddle the issue by injecting
some anti-Communism into the
debate several workers
shouted, “Sit down!” and “Get
off the platform!”

Unity of all sections of the
labor movement to defeat Bil
43 was the plea made by
Homer Stevens of the United
Fishermen and Allied Work-
ers Union, when he took the
platform during discussion
from the floor to pledge his
union’s support to “every ac-
tion taken to wipe out this
anti-labor law.” Some 160
UFAWU convention delegates
had adjourned their sessions
to march to the meeting en
masse as a demonstration of
solidarity.

The meeting endorsed a

resolution submitted by the-

chair which stated that “any
action by any employer under
Bill 43 against any Building
Trades union shall be consid-
ered as an attack on all.”

The resolution also called
for all affiliated urfions to

“declare a holiday on the-

next vrovincial election day
to enable the unions to see
that all members, their famil-
ies and friends, vote for
MLAs who pledge themselves
to work for the repeal of
this act.” — ;

Points made./by the main
speakers were: .

(Continued on back page)
See ACTION

_ members of

Saturday.

He was jeered as he hur-
riedly left the hall after one
question had been asked fol-
lowing his speech, pleading
a “previous engagement” as
reason for the quick depart-
ure. “You have an appoint-
ment at 3 o’clock today,” one
delgate left standing at the
mike shouted, “but you won’t
have an appointment in the
next government.”

Delegates listened to the
Minister who was 20 minutes
late in arriving at the con-
vention, defend the legislation
as “fairly establishing a bal-
ance between management
and labor.’ Wicks argued that
a “change’ was necessary and
“the time no longer exists for
special” dispensations called
upon 50 or 60 years ago.”

He said the Bill laid out
picketing rules which estab-
lish the “legal position” of
trade. unions.
‘Lhis position, he said was
pieviously unclear.

He said the Bill gives con-
ditions to management and
labor which are “not identical
but equitable.’

Prior to the Labor Minister
speaking, delegates from the
floor asked him to remain for

questions in view of the im-

portance of legislation passed.

at the last session of the B.C.
legislature.

Several of Wick’s remarks
were greeted with murmurs
cf protest and only a handful
applauded at the conclusion
cf his address.

The only question Wicks
answered was whether any
unions or union leaders in
B.C. had asked for the legis-
lation. He said “No.” A long
list of management groups
who had submitted briefs ask_
ing for legislation similar to
that. passed by the govern-
inent was read out by union
secretary Homer Stevens.

Wicks defended the gov-
ernment’s action by claiming
that “only two out of 17
proposals” contained in one
brief from management had
bcen incorporated into the
law.

He claimed that “This sta-
tute makes clear what the
law is‘and is a protection to
the workers of this province.”

The convention had earlier
called for defeat of the Social
Credit government in the
next elections and delegates
affirmed this position as
Wicks left the convention.

Nfld. IWA. head to speak

H. Landon Ladd, IWA organizer in Newfoundland,
will visit Vancouver next week to address a public rally
in®Georgia Auditorium on the loggers’ strike.

Stu Hodgson, secretary of the IWA Vancouver local,
told. a mass meeting at Exhibition Gardens that the date
had not yet been set, but unions should be “alerted” to
turn out in force and give moral support and financial
assistance to the striking Newfoundland loggers.

DEFEAT BILL 43

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