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While the new draft is still under:
Official wraps indictions are that a
New super Labor Relations Board
'S going to be proposed with a
Number of satellite boards that

Will allow the state machinery to
Provide “effective intervention”,

When “necessary and possible”,

' While avoiding confrontations with

most powerful unions that
‘ould bring the government down
cnet’ direct. arrogant action
Usually reliable sources indicate
b € new Labor Relations Board (to
ln headed by a tough professor of
a from a leading Ontario univer-
me With former [WA president
ack Moore as vice chairman) is to
€ given wide ‘‘discretionary
Powers”, It will have authority to
peopl workers” from long-
‘tablished union. security
ons: to handle injunctions
‘41 anti-picketing and strike con-
. S (taking over the role of the
Jurts): to determine appropriate
tisdictions of unions; and to im-
%e compulsory settlements. in

me Teas of “public interest and

Welfare’,

Gate wonder the Employer's
itt of B.C. is gloating and “‘op-
~Mistic’” about what they see com-

Mg. And, little wonder that B.C.

a Secretary and leading NDPer
issi Haynes, found it necessary to
“ue a press release this week war-

hi ee, ‘
58 that “grave dangers are in-

Neen in any legislative in-
wy uce with the union shop.”
© do not believe there is any
\cation for singling out the

y_2@ union movement in this way.

ace we prepared to sit quietly
Won ile the union shop, which we

Over years of struggle, is erod-
Y legislation,” the B.C. Fed
Ment said.

Uch more than warnings are

Pon

. Sost ) youn
Writes. ad, West Vancouver

eDtem I read with interest the
“aed 14, 1973 edition of the
‘ ak Tribune and paid specific
tot to the Tom McEwen
olumn,

the 4M a Socialist and a member of
€w Democratic Party and

i fee
Meme Ptised to note that Mr.

, Wen regards ane
‘Nother =e s the NDP as just

lade as he says, the Waffle has
th a obscurity a formation of

e
the \ has again taken shape in
Weak it Given that this group is

- It does not mean that

8009}; :
‘alism is dead within the NDP.

Scilist mi caucus of Left-wing,
Is

' tt members of the NDP does

IS a very loose politically
Seneous
Yals. T

etro :
divig grouping of in-
he group which is

Nahor alarmed hy dangers
In new NDP legislation

needed, however. A serious crisis is
obviously in the making unless
mass public pressure can persuade
the NDP caucus (of which the
Cabinet now constitutes a clear
majority), to abandon its present
collision course and change the
present draft.

First, the B.C. Federation of
Labor's brief outlining labor's
demands needs to be made the
property of every trade union. It
needs to be popularized, and taken
up as the minimum that labor will
be satisfied with. Labor needs to be
alerted to the grave dangers in-
dicated, and mobilized to lobby
and exert mass public pressure to
counteract the employers influence
on the government.

In the final analysis, the legisla-
tion will not depend on the
willingness of certain right-wing
leaders to serve monopoly in-
terests. It will primarily depend on
the ability of the people of B.C.
(led by the labor movement) to
mount an effective struggle for
anti-monopoly action by the
Barrett government. In this every
trade union organization, the labor
press, the Communist Party, and
also sections and individual
members of the NDP itself, have
an important role to play.

largely made up of B.C.’s finest
left-wingers presents a Marxist
analysis of the tasks facing
socialists in Canada.

The continued: existence of a
national Left Caucus in the NDP is
highly problematic. With working
class militancy now beginning to
rise and with the mobilization of
NDP rank and file, it appears that

the socialists in the NDP will gain

strength.
Conditions are maturing in the
NDP that show that socialism is

not dead within the party. The:

ideal to which a generation of
veteran CCF — NDP men and
women have devoted their lives to
achieve one goal, SOCIALISM.
And we socialists, look forward
to the upcoming NDP provincial
convention with great eagerness.

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Block -Bros. Industries,
one of the largest real estate
companes in B.C., an-
nounced last week that its
net profits almost doubled in
the first six months of this
year. Monthly sales of the
giant firm now exceed $100
million per year.

It is the second major real
estate company in B.C. in as
many weeks to report a
sharp rise in profits.

Recently Dawson
Developments Ltd. reported
protits for the nine months
ending July 31. had increased
five-fold.

Notice to readers

If your paper has been arriving
late the last few weeks, here is the
reason: The PT’s print shop moved
recently to larger premises and is
introducing new, more modern

‘equipment. The result has been

considerable dislocation. We hope
the kinks will be ironed out shortly,
and the PT will be able to return to
our regular mailing time on Thurs-
day afternoon.

Until that time we ask our
readers to bear with us.

How times
have changed

The following editorial appeared
in August-September issue of the
Vancouver Civic Employees Union
Newsbulletin under the heading,
“Turn of the Wheel: ”

In 1950, Donald Guise and Jack
Phillips. delegates from this local
union (then known as Federal
Union Local 28) were denied ad-

mittance to the Trades and Labour -

Congress convention in Montreal.
Along with a number of delegates
from other unions, they were vic-
tims of the cold war purge in the
trade union movement, a purge ex-
ported to Canada from the United
States. Conform or get out! That
was the edict!

When Guise and Phillips
appeared before the executive
council, they were asked a number
of loaded questions. For example:
“Why do you support the Ban the
Bomb Petition? Are you working
for Moscow?” It was a kangaroo
court and no meaningful appeal
was possible. The local union was
suspended and-remained indepen-
dent until 1966.

In August 1973, the Vancouver
Labour: Council, following the ex-
ample of the Toronto Labour
Council, voted to send a delegate to
a world peace congress to be held
in Moscow next October. They

- were informed that the council

would run into no restrictions from
the national office of the Canadian
Labour Congress. Speaking to the
resolution as a member of the

‘Council executive was Jack

Phillips, 23 years older than he was
in Montreal.

Interviewed by your editor,
Phillips had this comment: “It was

disturbing and difficult period in
the labour movement. Com-
munists, socialists, progressives
and militants were, in many cases,
hounded because of their opposi-
tion to cold war policies. Today,
what they advocated then, has
gained wide acceptance and even
wider tolerance. If an idea is right,
it will come into its own, sooner or
later. It is much more difficult now
to defeat a good policy because of
the label that may be attached to
those who advance it.”

Peace Arch rally Sunday
to protest supertankers

A demonstration to protest the
U.S. plan to bring supertankers
down the B.C. coast will be held at
the Peace Arch this Sunday,
September 30 starting at 2 p.m.

The protest is timed to coincide
with the U.S. Congressional vote
on the proposed trans-Alaskan
pipeline, and environmentalist
groups from both sides of the
border are expected to take part in
the demonstration.

The protest action is sponsored
by the The Scientific Pollution and
Environmental Control Society
(SPEC), the B.C. Sierra Club and
other groups.

Gary: Gallon, chairman of the
action committee for SPEC - said
that “the U.S: will be considered
an environmental aggressor if it
realizes its plan to bring super-
tankers along the Canadian-
American international boundary
through the Strait of Juan de Fuca
to the Puget Sound refineries.”

Meanwhile, it was announced
from Ottawa last week that Exter-
nal Affairs Minister Mitchell
Sharp will meet U.S. Secretary of

State Henry Kissinger Tuesday to
reiterate Canada’s opposition to
the planned Alaska supertanker
route near B.C. coastal waters.

The Federal government has
been under severe criticism for its
weak stand against the U.S. super-
tanker plan. In a statement in
Parliament Sharp indicated that
Ottawa is still dragging its feet in
failing to take a firm stand.

Sharp told MPs there is no
urgency on the issue. “‘It is not a
matter that has to be dealt with to-
day or the next day.” He said the
Alaska pipeline will not be com-
pleted for some years, therefore
pee is time to negotiate with the

LS.

While it is true it will take some
time to build the pipeline, but once
the decision is made by the U.S. —
which appears to be soon — the
plans to pump the oil to Valdez and
down the Pacific Coast on super-
tankers will go ahead.

Environmental groups obviously
feel there is no time to lose, and
have consequently called for a
large public protest Sunday.

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