TOM UPHILL, MLA

Uphill backs
youth brief

VICTORIA, B.C.

Support of the brief on unem-
ployment presented to members of
the legislature by the National
Federation of Labor Youth — was
voiced in the House by Tom Uphill,

~ (Labor, Fernie) last week,

“They should be found jobs, and
not denied the necessities of life in
a land flowing with milk and honey.
This country owes them an opport-
unity to earn a living,” he said.

“These young people are sincere.
in their endeavors,” the veteran
Labor member declared in oppos-
ing red-baiting of the delegation.
“They have the right’ to belong to
any. organization they choose.”

Uphill quoted extensively from
the NFLY brief during the course
of his remarks.

He also took up a_ repeatedly
voiced complaint of the Interna-
tional Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers, asking Labor
Minister Lyle Wicks to look into
charges contained in a Mine-Mill
letter that the workers at Kitimat
had not been free to choose their
own union. .

The letter, signed by Mine-
Mill district president Ken Smith,
charged that there was collusion
between the Alcan and certain
AFL “brass hats.“ While the
AFL had received every facility
for signing up members, Mine-
Mill organizers could not even
get a ticket to Kitimat. :

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An injunction against members
of the Vancouver Upholsterers’ In-
dustrial Union, Local No. 1, was
issued in Supreme Court this week
by Mr. Justice Manson. “The in-
junctions prohibits union members
from picketing the A. P. Madsen
plant at 1122 West Marine Drive.

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What promises to be one of the
largest joint trade union delega-
tions seen in Victoria for several
years is scheduled for this coming
Wednesday (or earlier if the need
arises), when union delegates from
CCL-CIO, TLC-AFL and Indepen-
dent unions will gather to have an
“on-the-spot” look at the Social
Credit government’s long-awaited
amendments to the Industrial Cén-
ciliation and Arbitration Act and
the Workmen’s Compensation Act.

During past_ years many unions
and central labor bodies have made
submissions to successive provin-
cial governments, urging drastic
amendments to these acts to bring
them into line with labor’s inter-
ests. Next week’s trade union dele-
gations will therefore highlight the
culmination of a long protracted
struggle to win legislation in both
fields designed to serve the best
interests of organized labor. .

Union leaders have urged all
delegates elécted to the Victoria
conference to be on call at a mo-
ment’s notice, so that a maximum
mobilization can be realized to back
up labor’s demands. With many
unions electing large delegations,
it is expected that the delegation
may total more than 500 unionists.

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Recent editions of the Calgary
Herald have lauded the efforts of
the FBI-sponsored Butte, Montana,
splinter group to raid and disrupt
Mine-Mill locals in Calgary, and
in Kimberley, B.C.

This wrecking crew, together
with the International Brotherhood

of Workers (IBEW-AFL) and the:

Chemical Workers Union (AFL) are
raiding Mine-Mill membership on
the old AFL-craft union concept
that: certain categories of trades-
men covered by Mine-Mill contract
“belong” to them.

The same right-wing union lead-
ers who accuse Mine-Mill of being
“Red” are now arguing that Mine-
Mill is not sufficiently “militant”
and promising Mine-Mill member-
ship a “better deal’ under their
leadership.

‘As in the case of Millard’s Steel
raids in Trail, and the FBI-spon-
sored Mason group in Butte, local
reports show Mine-Mill members
standing solidly by their union.

* * *

. Toronto Trades and Labor Coun-
cil has called for “a time study and
job-evaluation for MPs.” The coun-
cil declared that “they can’t all
be worth $10,000 a year” and urg-
ed upon the House of Commons to
be as ready as they were in boost-
ing their own salaries to “boost a

national minimum wage, an_in-

crease in unemployment insurance
benefits, increased old age pensions,
and a national health plan and
sickness benefits for workers.”

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‘Equality’ argued

by Wicks

Socreds reject Women’s Bureau

VICTORIA, B.C.

The Bennett government has re-

jected a CCF motion to set up a

Women’s Bureau of the Depart-

ment of Labor to be responsible

for the special problems of women
workers.

In rejecting the resolution, Labor
Minister Lyle Wicks said that the
government believed in the prin-
ciple of full equality between men
and women workers and felt it
should be encouraged. He gave
this as the reason for government
opposition to the proposed bureau.

In arguing for the resolution,
Frank Howard (CCF, Skeena) point-
ed to the psychological and social
problems peculiar to women which
necessitated such a bureau. He
mentioned the effects of poisons
in industry, constant standing, the
problems of the period before and
after childbirth, as some of the
questions that should be studied.

Mrs. Lydia Arsens (Socred,
Victoria), who opposed the re-
solution, said, “I can‘t believe
that an employer would allow
any conditions detrimental to
any employee, male or female.”
She opposed the entry of women
into such fields of work as driv-
ing buses. -

“Women have to work because

Nimsick asks gov’t

for hydro statement

VICTORIA, B.C.

Premier W. A. C. Bennett was
asked by Leo Nimsick (CCF, Cran-
brook) in the legislature last week
to make a statement to the House
on the government’s plans for de-
veloping the northern part of the
province.

“We should not have to depend
on the newspapers, seeing we are
in session,” said Nimsick in com-
menting on recent reports about an
Alcoa-Frobisher: deal on the Yukon
River hydro project.

of economic circumstances,” re-|
torted Robert Strachan (CCF, Co-
wichan-Newcastle). “The govern-
ment should give them every as-
sistance and protection.”

There was a need for special re-
search and data to make relations
with .employers more pleasant,
argued Tony Gargrave (CCF, Mac-
kenzie).

Following adjournment of the
debate, Frank Howard told the
Pacific Tribune that he was

- “completely surprised” by the

government's attitude. He urged
support by all interested or-
ganizations before the resolution
is again callled for discussion in
the House.

Howard said that he had already
received commendation from the
Office and Professional Workers’
Union (CIO), and AFL Office
Workers’ International Union
(AFL) and the B.C. Telephone
Workers’ Union, all of which num-
ber many women in their ranks.

Victoria labor leads
fight against bylaw

VICTORIA, B.C.

Mayor Claude Harrison’s bid for passage of new bylaw which would
permit him to censor all communications addressed to Victoria City °

Council and decide whether or not

they should be read to: council has

aroused as strong a protest from citizens as his recent statement, which :
he later claimed was misquoted, that “subversive” books in Victoria

Public Library should be burned.

Three hundred citizens attend-
ing a protest rally sponsored by
Victoria Trades and Labor Coun-
cil and. supported by Victoria
Labor Council on Tuesday this
week called upon aldermen to de-
feat the proposed bylaw as censor-
ship “contrary to Canadian demo-
cratic processes” when it ' comes
before council Thursday this week.

Demands were voiced at the
meeting that Mayor Harrison and
any aldermen supporting the by-
law should resign. ;

The meeting arranged for a tele-
phone campaign to win additional
public support for its protest.

Savery, Wilcox will
speak with Rodd

Dr. Barnett Savery and Stan Wil-
‘cox will share the platform with
Roscoe S. Rodd, QC, distinguished
Ontario barrister and national .
chairman of the League for Demo- °
cratic Rights, when he speaks at
Pender Auditorium here on Sun-
day, April 4, it was announced this
week. ‘‘Canadianism or McCarthy-
ism” will be the subject of Rodd’s
address.

Dr. Savery is a professor of
philosophy at University of British
Columbia and Stan Wilcox is presi-
dent of the Street Railwaymen’s
Union here. ie

On Friday, April 2, Rodd will
speak at Nanaimo.

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