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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. DOUBLE PROFIT

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.

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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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