‘ € ¢ 4 t ¢ Fight for wages, conditions goes on, say Textile leaders as AFL signs phoney pact MONTREAL a“ “The so-called ‘labor leaders’ of the Textile Union (AFL) have gone through the whole ordeal of betrayal, illegal procedures, police interference, phony negotiations, fraudulent vote and intimida- tion, in connivance with the Dominion Textile Company, to send the 6,000 textile strikers of Mon- treal and Valleyfield back to work,” a Canadian Textile Council press release declared this week. “In spite of all this, Sam Baron and Roger Provost did not succeed in convincing the majority Lewis hits at union raiding MONTREAL President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America has sent a message of solidarity to striking members of the Canadian Textile Council of Quebec, union officials have disclosed. Lewis’ letter, dated June 26 and signed with his flourishing signature, reads in part: I can understand your indig- nation at representatives of the American. Federation of Labor who sought to undermine the economic stability of your mem- bers in this strike. This prac- tise is most reprehensible and is now being resorted to by a number of organizations in the American Federation ‘of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Assuredly it is unwholesome and detrimental from every standpoint to organ- izations of labor of the North American continent .. . I wish for your members every success in your present effort and ap- preciate the felicitations which you extend.” ‘The Big Show’ feature at Labor picnic Can you use §500 cash plus valuable merchahdise? A new feature introduced this year at the annual United Labor Picnic gives the opportunity to some resident of the Lower Mainalnd to come away from the event feel- ing very much “‘in the chips.” The picnic will be held Satur- day, August 16, at Confederation Park in North Burnaby. All sup- porters who register for the Pic- ture-Pic contest and who attend “The Big Show” on the grounds ean participate in the offer of $500 cash plus merchandise. Ad- mission tickets to ‘The Big Show,” which includes musical attractions, national dances, wrestling and boxing, are on ad- vance sale at 50 cents. Golden Gate Cafe 136 E, Hastings St. “OPEN FOR SERVICE” * cl RAO Acta ane Da a ata of Dominion Textile employees to go back to industrial slavery. “After 96 days of solid strike only about 25 percent of the strik_ ers entered the mill in Valleyfield and 40 percent in Montreal. Many of them are thoroughly confused by a barrage of propaganda put on by the press and radio. They don’t know the score yet.”’ The council declared, however, that: “The fight for wages and de- cent conditions will continue until victory.” The council’s release said a vote had taken place on July 4 in which only a few hundred strik- ers participated. The workers and their elected leaders Kent Rowley and Madeleine Parent were not represented. “Bverything was ‘fixed’ by Pro- vost, the company and Duplessis’ Labor Board. They announced a big majority in favor of a return to work and the end of the strike. That is what confused the major- ity of the strikers,” the council stated. “The contract selling out the Dominion Textile workers was signed right after the vote. The Baron-Provost clique accepted all the company’s speedup clauses, those very same clauses which the: workers rejected when they voted to go on strike, April vee ‘ These clauses, according to Textile Council leaders, give the company the right to “... change the wages, the work- loads, to fire, transfer, classify, layoff or suspend any worker.” They said there was little doubt that with the new speedup plan, hundreds of workers will be thrown out ion the street, The council’s release continued: “The Dominion Textile workers refuse to be tied up to such a phony contract for two years, be- cause even the 11 cents increase does not mean ‘anything. It can be completely wiped out in six months, when the company begins to put in force the new clauses. “The majority of the strikers are still determined to fight it out and continue the strike until a real contract is signed with their @hosen representatives, R. Kent Rowley and Madeleine Parent, the president and secretary of the Canadian Textile Council.” Last Monday, in trying to pre- vent the scabs from going in, Kent Rowley was arrested along with 10 other people in Valleyfield. Rowley said he was hit over the head and badly treated in his cell. The Valleyfield police had the co- SSSOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSOSSE +] oy, Dunsmuir Varieties LUGGAGE & CHINA Special Discount To All Tribune Readers Bring This Ad With You 519 DUNSMUIR ST. SSOSSSSSSSSSSOSSSSSSSSHSE STANTON, MUNRO & DEAN Barristers - Solicitors - Notaries SUITE 515 FORD BUILDING 193 E. HASTINGS (Corner Main & Hastings Sts.) : MARINE 5746 MADELAINE PARENT operation of Duplessis’ provincial police, headed by Special Agent Paul Benoit of the anti-subversive squad. In Montreal, squads of mount- ed police and the Black Maria did the work at each mill. Val Bjarnason. 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