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| LABOR ROUNDUP:

Over the past weekend, striking
Workers in Vancouver. and
®a set up a picket line in front
he residences of five know
Titish— American (B—A) scabs,

Mainly supervisory and sales
Personnel of the struck oil com-
any, engaged in trucking “hot”

>A products from its refinery

Supply depots to service

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Pickets carried placards rea-
rs 8: “Scab driving B—A Pro-
Cts,” as a means of informing
© neighborhood of the identity
Vocation of their “neighbor”

Sa B—A strikebreaker.

an Oil workers union also
“8€d this week that B—A plans
Dike." its Port Moody refinery

labor Eto operation with scab
E Thes Smuggled in by cars,”
F Stor, Cars declared a union
: €sman, are loaded with men
Newspapers over their heads
ine recognition, and are
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steantime, on the national
At © of the Oil, Chemical and
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: © front for wage increases
{ ato ety against growing

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Mayor Joe Fabbro of Sudbury
°rwarded a wire to Ontario
eany Minister Robarts for
decision by the Ontario
Mines ype tations Board on the
tion ill application for certifi-
Yehare 4s the bargaining agent on
Co, °f International Nickel
Pany (INCO) employees.

sa Sudbury mayor’s letter
thy °S the point that “Each
- the uicertainty continues among
Mployees of INCO about the
© of the application for a
Cation vote “now before

) r Relations Board, ..
my “Uses harm to the econ-
atmo of Sudbury by creating an
Degpie tere of doubt in which
are hesitant to make

Of any resumption of nego- -

financial plans or commitments
for the future, . .I therefore
earnestly request you to assist
us by doing all within your power
to enable the Board to render
its decision at the earliest pos-
sible date,”

Mayor Fabbro’s appeal to
Premier Robarts was backed up
by a wire to the Premier from
Terry Mancini, area supervisor
of the United Steel Workers’ Un-
ion and by Nels Thibault, presi-
dent of Sudbury Local 598 of
the International Union of Mine
Mill and Smelter Workers, whose
union application for certification
contained well over the pre-
scribed number of cards required
by the Board to render an unques-

tioned decision,
* OK OK

At its regular meeting on Sep-
tember 16 the Kamloops and Dis-
trict Labor Council unanimously
adopted a resolution calling for
the reinstatement of the Team-
sters Union within the Canadian
Labor Congress. Similar senti-
ment has been expressed by the
Vancouver and District Labor
Council and by other labor bodies
throughout B.C,

With big strike struggles now
going on and others looming up as
a result of concerted monopoly-
government attacks upon labor
standards, ultimate victory is
contingent upon maximum labor

~ unity. Many prominent labor men

are taking the position that the
time has come to end “jurisdic-
tional” internecine warfare and
the arbitrary removal of mili-
tant and progressive unionsfrom
the CLC,

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Following up its decision to
establish a permanent co-ordin-
ating strike headquarters to co-
ordinate labor unity in strike ac-
tion, and keep the public fully
informed, the B.C, Federation of
Labor illustrated its historic de-
cision with a bigadvertisementin
the local press last week, entitled
“Those Strikes, Oil. . .Beer,
Why?

Centering on the advance of
automation the BCFL ad makes

Monopoly irresponsibility
| hit by labor federation

clear that “Labor isn’t against
automation, But it demands that
huge monopolies assume apublic
responsibility.”

“Oil and Brewery workers say
this public responsibility is job
security. . .The monopolies say,
as did B—A, “an employee would
be entitled to unemployment in-
surance,”

Thus, says the BCFL ad, “both
Oil and Brewery workers. are
striking as much for principle
as economic fear, as much forus
as for themselves,”

The BCF Lstrike co-ordination
and information headquarters can
become one of the mostimportant
establishments of this period,
worthy of widespread union and
public support, :

CBC BAN

Cont'd. from pg. 1

parties to appear on hot seat,
“This Hour Has Seven Days”
I have requested right to appear,
Have been advised that CBC reg-
ulations prohibit it. CBC regu-
lations refer to free time political
broadcasts not programs suchas
above,

*Decision of above producer
manifestly unfair and discrim--
inatory and may arise from out-
side pressure to’ prevent our
participation in the program,
Urge you request reconsidera-
tion,’’

Many people have already ex-
pressed indignation at this at-
tack on democracy and on a leg-
itimate Canadian political party,
The public is urged to write or
wire the producers of *This Hour
Has Seven Days® demanding that
they stand by the democratic
principles which the program
has often claimed it stood for,
Letters should be addressed to
Douglas Leiterman, producer;
CBC, Toronto,

The public is also urged to
protest to the local CBC station
by writing or phoning and de-
manding that the public be allowed
to hear the Communist position
and to be permitted to judge its
merits themselves,

Hit Bladen report
rejection of free
university education

Charles Caron, Communist
candidate in Coast-Capilano,
called last Thursday on the fed-
eral government to shoulder the
full cost of elementary education
and for the removal of university
fees,

Speaking at a meeting called
by the Grade seven and eight
social studies department of
Caulfeild Elementary School for
students and their parents, Caron
challenged the Bladen Report for
its proposal to table free tuition
for 10 years as a deliberate at-
tempt to thwart the growing de-
mands for free university educa-
tion,

He stated that. the report’s
pretext of no money was exposed
by its warning to the provinces
not to go ahead on their own,
Caron said that money can be
found to provide free tuition fees
for all students with the ability
to attend university.

Caron said a foreign policy
based on peace would make
possible diversion of money now
being wasted on armaments to
meet social needs such as this,
He said industry uses the young

* financial,

minds trained in our univer-
sities but refuses to support
the universities except through
“charity’? handouts. He urged
a capital gains tax on big busi-
ness to support the universities,

The Bladen Commission Re-
port on university financing urged
large federal aid to higher edu-
cation but also opposed free uni-
versity education, This reaction-
ary stand by the commission has
come under sharp fire,

Last week the Canadian Union
of Students, representative body
of Canadian students, issued a
statement in Ottawa in which it
condemned the report for op-
posing abolition of student fees
and for assuming that the present
level of fees will be maintained,

The CUS statement said: “Tui-
tion fees constitute a very real
social and psycho-
logical barrier for those high
school graduates considering a
university education.” They wel-
comed the decision of the New-
foundland government to provide.
free tuition to all university
undergraduates,

Kashtan to speak af city
rally, other B.C. centres

*What’s At Stake November
Eighth?” will be the subject of
a series of election rallies to
be addressed by William Kash-
tan, National Leader of the Com-
munist Party next week,

Arriving in Vancouver Wed-
nesday, October 20 on the western
leg of his national tour, he will
be interviewed on Channel 2’s
“Seven O’Clock Show.” On
Thursday, October 21, he will
speak on the U.B.C, Campus at
noon on *Free University Fees.”
That afternoon he will go to
Victoria where he will speak in
the Williams Building Auditorium
at 8 p.m, with Commander “Eck”
Morrison, Communist Party
in that riding,

Friday, October 22, Kashtan

speaks with Coast—Capilano
candidate Charles Caronat 8 p,m,
in Powell River’s Moose Hall,
On Saturday they will speak at a
reception in North Vancouver,
1.0,0.F, Hall at 8 p.m,

On Sunday, October 24, he
travels to Okanagan- Revelstoke
to speak with Communist candi-
date Alex “Sandy” Mowers at an
election banquet in the Vernon
Elk’s Hall, commencing at5 p.m,

On Monday, October 25, he will
speak with candidates William
Stewart and Charles Caron at
Vancouver’s main Communist
Election Rally in the Pender
Auditorium at 8 p.m, Immed-
iately following the meeting he
will leave by plane for Fort
William,

World opinion condemns
Rhodesia’s racist gov't.

The crisis in Rhodesia is ex-
pected to erupt at any time as
Rhodesia’s racist Premier Ian
Smith, is scheduled to meet this
week with his cabinet to consider
the next step to declare Rhodesia
independent and establish a dic-
tatorship of the white settlers
over the more than four million

Negroes in the central African
country,

The United Nations General
Assembly has roundly condemned
Premier Smith’s plan to declare
independence from Britain in
order to perpetuate white rule,
The Assembly urged Britain to
take whatever action was neces-
sary to block the plan,

This week the British Worker
editorially called for the govern-
ment to act now to stop this act
of treason by suspending the
Constitution and taking over Rho-
desia, The African People’s
Union, the representative voice
of the African majority, has
called for suspension of the Con-
stitution and an immediate con-
ference to work out a new Con-
stitution based on the principle
of ‘one man, one vote,”

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