fesist ral

Nobody — but nobody — except the boss can gain from jurisdic-

thal disputes and raiding.

‘ Is is the position taken by a pater of concerned members

‘Local-217 IWA in a pamphlet lStributed last week to mills aid plywood plants in this area.

© workers are disturbed by

“cisions made at the recent av A convention to step up ltisdictional disputes with the Tyanenters and other Building 4 ades unions, as well as an all- it raid on the Canadian Pulp

orkers.

At the convention a number of al 217 members spoke pert the plans to finance and a On jurisdictional disputes

Taids. For their pains they Sa" expelled from President

hompson’s caucus.

ue members state they are a union in wood, but sucha s ation will not be achieved by eo une the axe’’ for one on er, and wasting union dues

(0stly leaflets, legal fees, etc. elo 1s high time we all of us eos ranks and went out

; edly to get the wages, hens conditions, safety

psures and legislation we me need’’, the leaflet says. Rove union cannibalism is not

answer,”’ ;

local IWA members | d tactics

The members who stand for unity say Local 217 needs more meetings in the plant; more rank and file discussions involving the entire union membership in all plants to examine a whole range of pressing problems; to work out answers, and to develop a campaign for united action against the bosses. —

CANUCK SERFS?

Wages and fringe benefits paid

to woodworkers in the southern United States are about half that paid in the northwest U.S. and in British Columbia.

operating in that region is our own MacMillan-Bloedel.

“By 1975 the IWA bargaining ~

power in B.C. and the Pacific Northwest could be in jeopardy . . . if we cannot find a way to upgrade the wages in the South’, an IWA top official told delegates to a recent donvention of the international union.

B.C.’s Premier Bennett is touting a ‘‘U.S.-Uber-Alles”’ free trade with the Americans, under which B.C. woodworkers could become another cheap labor source like the wage slaves in

ou Georgia. Who wants it?

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By ERNIE CRIST

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There has been a good response to our appeal with the

our goal

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tests

Ban all aim of group

One of the forest monopolies—--

The Coalition to Stop the Amchitka Nuclear Blast met on November 16 to discuss the future of the Coalition which is made up of people from many organizations — churches, labor groups environmental groups, women’s organizations and peace groups.

Those attending the meeting felt that we should not lose the impetus gained by this summer’s work and that the course of the coalition should be broadened to include nuclear responsibility involving all nuclear nations. It was decided not to dissolve the Coalition but to elect a steering committee to prepare a detailed plan for presentation to the organizations which have been co-operating through the Coali- tion.

A statement of goals accepted by the meeting follows:

That we affirm that. the concern of the Canadian Coali- tion to Stop the Amchitka Blast must be continued. Our goal should be the end of all nuclear bomb testing by all nations. To this end we will need some structural identity, budget and

~ staff. We need to be thinking in

national terms. Our goals should be in terms of:

(A) Continuing research into radiation hazards (war and peaceful use)

(B) Continuing effort to make the result of this research as widely known as possible.

(C) The planning of strategy to deal with crisis situations involving any bomb test by any nation. 258

(D) Cooperation with all people of all nations who share

this concern. (E) Steering committee to be

set up at this meeting to ~

accomplish these aims. Discussion dealt with means of co-ordinating the various groups which place emphasis on different phases of the problem of nuclear responsibility but who are all agreed that there must be an end to all nuclear

bomb testing by all nations.

9 om “So, today is your 25th anniversary with the corporation. —_ Mr._-er-. what’s-your-name?”’

"| US. scientist describes

Vietnam ‘automated death’

By RUTH DOHERTY

Last Wednesday evening at the Unitarian Church 150 people heard Dr. Bert Pfeiffer, dispassionately and with scientific restraint describe the ecological effects of U.S. action in Indochina despite troop with- drawals and ‘‘winding down”’ of American participation.

Herbicide warfare has been discontinued, he said, but the

: Department of Defence is

innovative and imaginative and have found more efficient methods. Herbicides defoliated valuable hardwood forests but left the timber, killing the man- grove which provided charcoal for cooking, destroying food supplies and poisoning the drinking water.

In Cambodia one C.I.A. clandestine night raid by Air America plands destroyed vast rubber plantations, thereby undermining the economy of Cambodia which depended on rubber exports.

Now that phase is over. It is announced that the use of 7.5 ton concussion bomb ‘‘Daisy- cutter’’ for saturation raids will continue at the rate of 30,000 tons a month. These aluminum powder bombs create a tornado- like negative air pressure, com- pletely clearing 780 acres of all vegetation and killing all life, even the worms in the ground as

CRISIS IN INDIA

Dr. A.M. Kahn will give a first

hand account and answer ques- tions re. the Pakistan-India crisis when he speaks at the Public Library Auditorium, 750 Burrard St., on Monday, November 29 at 8 p.m. Auspices the B.C. Peace Council. All welcome.

well as people in- underground bunkers.

Some plows with 22 ton blades which can decimate 6000 acres of land a month are now in operation.

Dr. Pfeiffer compared this apparently senseless destruc- tion to the extermination of bison herds on the American prairies which, by removing their source of livelihood, forced the Indians into sub- mission.

All this was graphically illustrated by slides and film. One moving sequence showed the tranquil, Cambodian country- side prior to the invasion, with people going about their work. In contrast we were shown typical “prosperity hamlets’’ where millions of refugees live on handouts behind barbed wire, while collaborators lounged by private swimming pools.

Scenes of utter ruin taken from the air in Airforce helicopters showed a landscape pitted by huge bomb craters and served to complete a picture of degrada- tion of science to brutality.

In response to a question from the floor as to Canada’s role Dr. Pfeiffer suggested that it might be useful if the Government could be induced to public I.C.C. reports by Canadian representa- tives. At the time the U.S. first bombed Cambodia on the pretext that it was a Vietcong sanctuary, the I.C.C. was called in and saw that all the corpses were Cambodian no Vietnamese. What action did they take, if any? Had their findings been made public at the- time, things might have been different. Why does the govern- ment refuse to release these reports?

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