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LABOR ROUND-UP ~°

None.

Alberni office workers
Win wide union support

cat by 60 members of
Internat; 5, Office Employees
enki nal Union, has closed
P mill of MacMillan, Bloe-
berni, Powell River at Port Al-
out
fee Tuesday, and roughly
Pulp & e Eo belonging to the
Solidly ulphite and other unions,
ine Peepected their picket
» Closing down the plant.

Tom Ro

told y berts Local 15, OEIU

last eee Labor Council
46 to a a the strike vote was
i a his was an exception-
‘ Ong vote, he said, in view
Riise Sa that less than 24
ae Ore the vote was taken,
Worker nee Save every office
awa S advising him his
Whera i being raised by any-.
Such a} mM 11 percent and up.
Oost had never been dis-

Cus
Sed with Union officials.

Ron
loca) on he, from OEIU sister
Tepresenting workers

COLUMBIA

Cont'd from Pg. 1

or, me naskatchewan law profess-
A Peimyer, told the hear-
€rsio, .-2tY Prevents any div-
He ape, of the river basin,
Nesseg ; 4 With two other wit-
Saskatoh Tom the government of
Beges om David Cass -

Pe ad of Saskatchewan’s
for tai ation, said the need
Teguj ‘Tle water in’ the future

mires
Sion ighte Set Vation of diver-

s
ial st Bored Calgary indust-
boar A © has served as awater
W, Bo sultant for BiG.
Calg e told a meeting in
IS totany 7 SCay that the treaty
Said «in Unfair to Canada, He

betveen gioesn't read as atreaty
lik : aly countries but
Nation b Teed upon a conquered
y the Victors,’’
®
Ka :
Mine. yqiy) mith, president of the
+ Wion wired the chair-
a . Committee charging
Urren eveals a long t
4 g term
to th *t of Canadian interests

earings in B on urged at-site

Tes
to Mp and letters can be sent

g heson °r chairman John R.
Xternay | tanding Committee on
Nong ffairs, House of Com-

’

sity rally
4 S. Vietnam

ag U.S. Dirty War
them ofan” Will be the
8 in fess protest meet-
Thursq £ Fisherman's Hall,
Wins.’ June 4 at 8 p.m.
z ay Stewart, city sec-
te Communist Party
¥% =a the meeting,
eae organized by
CP ver Committee of

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shar, U.S.A. has suffered
ang ;. \°Yerses in Viet Nam
Port ; Tying to whip up sup-
ee further involvment
there MPerialist adventures

The
Nam, People of South viet

ay. “Serve fur support from
hej a, of the world for
tional SiC struggles for na-
ance ‘dependence. Attend-
Way this Meeting is one
— ®ve such support.
Qi.

The office employees went.

at B.C. Hydro Authority) pledged
all out aid. ‘This strike is going
to have a crucial effect upon
organizing white collar workers
in B.C.,’’ he said, adding that
from an act of solidarity with
striking shipyard workers at
Yarrows recently, Local 15 had
passed on to tackling one of the
largest monopolies in the prov-
ince.

Syd Thompson (Local 1-217,
IWA) left the chair at the meet-
ing to tell delegates his local
would help in every possible way
to ensure a fair deal for the
office workers. ‘‘If MacMillan,
Bloedel and company want afight
they couldn’t have picked a better
time and we are prepared to
put in our licks to help our
brothers and sisters win their
battle in Port Alberni,’’ he stated.

Thompson said conciliation of-
‘ficer Pete Fisher is expected
to bring in his recommendations
for woodworkers within a matter
of days—probably by the week-
end. He held out little hope the
proposals would favor the union
and said his local was preparing

for the worst.
e

About 3,000 carpenters have
voted 97 percent in favor of
strike to back up their wage de-
mands. The rest of the province’s
6,000 carpenters are still voting.

Two conciliation boards have
been set up in the mining indust-
ry—one to deal with the Mine-
Mill - Cominco dispute and the
other with Mine Mill and Ana-
conda, which employs about 300
men at BritanniaBeach. The Com-
inco board will hold its first
meeting in Trail on Monday, May
25th.

e

Vancouver’s Outside Civic
Workers have written Vancouver
Labor Council, thanking it for
support which helped win the
civic workers strike. VLC re-
ceived the letter and agreed to
write Mayor Rathie and City
Council, protesting announced
plans to impose an austerity pro-
gram which would result in lay-
offs for outside workers.

Prime Minister Pearson’s an~
nouncement that Parliament will
be asked to vote soon on a dis-
tinctive Canadian flag and to de-
clare ‘‘O Canada’’ as our nation-
al anthem, has stirred wide pub-

lic debate.

This issue was discussed at
the recent Communist Party con-
vention and a resolution was
adopted which read:

‘‘This 18th Convention of the
Communist Party of Canada ex-
presses its support for the de-
mand that steps be taken to adopt,
in time for the centennial of
confederation, a genuinely Can-

"e

Will this be the new flag?

adian flag whose design would
symbolize the equal federation
of French and English-speaking
Canada and that ‘‘O Canada,”’
be declared our national

anthem.’’

Watch next week’s PT for
further comments on the flag and
anthem issue.

HISTORIC MOMENT. Photo shows Egyptian work:

of the Nile after Soviet Premier K

ser pressed the button to complete f'
Asian dam which will change the face
ile—is nearing com
See story on page 10 on the building

long dreams—control of the N
ance rendered by the Soviet Union.

of the dam.

ers greeting the diversion

hrushchev and Egyptian President Nas-

he first stage of the building of the
of North Africa. One of man’s age-
pletion thanks to assist-

imperialism’s fan-

Yemen. Determined to protect
the holdings of British oil mon-
opolies in the area, the Home
government is pouring in fresh
troops, helicopters, etc. in a
frenzied effort to discourage the
growing wave of protest against
allowing Britain to retain her
bases in newly-independent
countries.

And the Labor Party in Britain
to its everlasting shame, not
only condones this open colon-
jalist policy, but in fact argues
that it is necessary and that a
Labor government could ‘‘do a
better job.’’

However, in other quarters,
this naked colonialism is being
raked over the coals, Last Mon-
day, the UN Committee on Col-
onialism condemned Britain for
her actions in South Arabia and
demanded immediate cessation,

The committee called the at-
tention of the S curity Council
to ‘the dangeruus _ situation’
which it said prevailed in the area
as a result of *‘recent British
military actions against the peo-
ple of the territory.’’ Such
actions, the committee said,

WORLD

British colonialism rapped

British
atical desire to maintain bases
in the Mid-East has led it into
going as far as bombing defence-
less villages in Aden and the

‘*have endangered international
peace and security.’’

- A resolution to this effect was
adopted by 18 votes to three,
with two absentions and one nation
absent.

Meanwhile, Soviet Premier
Khrushchev, on a state visit to
the United Arab Republic told
a gathering of 100,000 youth in
Cairo his government considers
it ‘*barbaric’’ to bomb men, wo-
men and children. Because of
such ruthless intervention in the
internal affairs of sovereign
states, he said, ‘‘the liberation
movements will increase and ex-
pand.’’

The next day, speaking to the
Egyptian National Assembly,
Khrushchev drew wave after wave
of applause when he said all
foreign bases in Africa and else-
where should be abolished. De-
mands for ‘‘the abrogation of en-
slaving treaties which were im-
posed by Britain on some count-
ries of the Middle East, whick
allow the entry of British forces
into those countries,’’ are ‘‘just
and reasonable,’’ he said.

‘¢We consider the best solution
would be the complete with-
drawal of all foreign forces from
the territory of others,’’ Krush-
chev stated.

Italian CP shows growth

The Italian Communist Party’s
annual membership drive has al-
ready registered more members
than in the whole of last year,
the party newspaper Unita said
last week,

The paper said 1,615,253 party
members and 148,830 Youth Fed-
eration (Young Communist
League) members had been reg-
istered by May 5. The results,

including 137,510 new members -

in the party and 39,230 in the
federation, were a reversal of
a trend of many years. i

The gains made by the Italian
party reflect a general, world
wide trend. Recently it was re-
ported that the Communist Party
of Argentina had recruited 18,-
000 members last year andother
parties report similar results.
(Argentina’s population is about
the same as Canada’s),

Chile on verge of changes

HAVANA — ‘‘Panic-monger-
ing’’ by rightist elements in
Chile, in order to prevent the
election on Sept. 4 of Salvador
Allende, candidate of the Popu-

lar Action Front for president, |

was charged here in an inter-
view by Orlando Millas, Com-
munist member of the Chilean
Parliament.

The rightists, he said, sup-
ported by U.S. imperialism, have
engaged in deliberate stock spec-
ulations to. create the impres-
sion of financial panic, and in
suspensions of bank credits for
small businessmen. They alsotry

Strikes in Spain

_ A new wave of strikes has
hit in the Asturias—the mining
region which rocked Spain’s
fascist Franco regime to its
very foundations in the spring
of 1962, Pit after pit has been
closing and miners’ going
out on strike for better con-
ditions and the right to org-
anize genuine trade unions.

Last Wednesday, an addi-
tional 550 men downed tools,
bringing the total upto 34,000.
The same day, a bomb went
off in Madrid, marking the
fourth consecutive day that a
bombing had occurred in the
nation’s capital.

to provoke industrial conflicts, he
declared,

**In this panic-mongering,”’ he _
continued, ‘‘they are helped by
some trade union leaders who are
tied to the U.S, State Dept. They
mouth revolutionary phrases and
work closely with the Trotsky-
ites and the Nazi strike breakers
to provoke the workers to pre-
mature actions, They inject
themselves into street meetings
and demonstrations and commit
acts of violence, to split the un-
ited Popular Action Front.’’

These charges were substan-
tiated by Salomon Corvalan,
member of the central committee
of the Chilean Socialist Party and
general secretary of the PAF,

In an interview, he stated that
‘*there are groups who have made
contact with the military to en-
sure a military coup*in Chile
before or after the elections.’
He further stated that the reac-
tionary elements, in their des-
peration to prevent the election
of Allende, are trying to imitate
the Brazilian example by appeal-
ing for help to the military.

Many observers are of the op-
inion the Chilean people are on
the verge of undergoing the tran-
sition to socialism by peaceful,
parliamentary means. :

May 22, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3