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Nils Thibault: (centre), Canadian president, is seen here

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arvey Murphy (right), Western vice-president and

rank McLaughlin, Local 1014, Western Nickel, at the Mine- Ill western district convention here this week.

Fishermen ask lifting

of Fraser

closure

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: 4 beopening of the Fraser River between Patullo Bridge IsSion Bridge to commercial salmon fishing was called

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of the area on September 16,

hie years ago the then ra of fisheries James cea had this closure im- Unpor It proved to be the most top Par act of his entire and at that time the Fort . €y local of United Fisher- ion ae Allied Workers Un- ag aed for~his resignation Inister, by r Meeting was sponsored Urq Srt Langley and Albion Zi Nays locals and the Kat- ative Brotherhood. Stevens, UFAWU © hi secretary, outlined th Istorica] background of © closure. Wate said that Sinclair’s “blue Wron t €ory” had been proven ada p.When the U.S. and Can- atte ached agreement in Se- Whiey, “St February on a plan Tho Prevents offshore sal-_ hing Net fishing. The idea be- eq ,)Melair’s plan, announc- Clog 4 the same time as the Semeq of the upper Fraser, Men ¢ to be to push fisher- ‘oe Urther out to sea. Sire Vvens stated that the clo- “Onsen Uld not possibly solve Mason ation problems of the Cit, « 2%ea. None of the ben- ing 12 terms of longer fish- ity “©€ks or improved qual- Salmon have resulted Sure US* discriminatory clo-

public meeting of fishermen and interested citizens -— aturday. Present regulations call for an automatic closing

George Hahn, MP for New Westminstér and Tom “Irwin, MP. for Burnaby-Richmond, pledged full support to the fishermen in their efforts to get Fisheries Minister An- gus’ MacLean fo rescind the present regulation.

Intent of Workmen's Compensation subverted, Mine - Mill charges

Intent of the Workmen’s Compensation Act is to give pfotection and coverage to in- jured workmen, but this is being ignored by the present chairman of the Workmen’s Com- pensation Board, J. E. Eades, who should be removed. :

' This demand was raised in the officers’ report presented Monday this week to the 14th

annual convention of the Western District Union, International Union of Mine,

Smelter Workers.

‘In our opinion the WCB spends for too much time in trying to find ways and means of keeping the man outside of the operation of the Act, rather than finding ways under which he may get compensation, to which years of work under conditions that affect him physically have entitled him,” said the report.

Fault is not with the WCB staff, bound by rule and regu- lation, but of those in charge “who make ‘the rules, for the unnecessary hardship to work- men, which could easily be avoided by a slight change in some of the rules and regula- tions.”

Endorsing the demand of many B.C. unions for removal of WCB chairman J. E, Eades, the Mine-Mill report states that “someone with far more experience in labor relations and someone less arbitrary and capable of showing decent consideration in their dealings with working men should be appointed.”

On the issue of compensa- tion for silicosis, of vital con- cern to miners, the report says:

“Due to the sitdown strike by Mrs. Bea Zucco at the of-

~ fices of the WCB and the Par- liament. Buildings, a great deal of publicity in local news- papers was given to the sili- colic miners.

“Mrs. Zucco made a tour of the mining camps in B.C. and received substantial support in donations to help fight the case’ of her husband, Jack Zucco, who is in Pearson TB Hospital, Vancouver, suffering from tuberculosis superimpos- ed on silicosis. He has been denied a pension by the WCB.

“Following the final rejec- tion of his claim, a specialist having examined him under the provisions of Section 54A,

PICKET LINE SONG, 1957

and having certified to the fact that in his considered opinion Zucco was suffering from sili- cosis, «a: writ was issued by John Stanton in Supreme Court against the Compensa- tion Board. Senator Farris agreed to act as senior counsel and presented the case before Mr. Justice Lord, who has de- cided in favor of the board. An at‘empt has since been made to secure from the Attorney- General’s department, a fiat to sue the WCB, which has so far been refused.”

The report reviews a con- ference held in Vancouver last year on silicosis, at which a resolution in favor of a Royal

Commission to investigate the Silicosis sections of the Work-

Be active’

Mill and

men’s Compensation Act was passed unanimously. Mine-Mill is demanding that Section 8, sub-paragraph 5 of the Act, which defines silicosis,

-be amended by deleting the

last eight words which’ read, “accompanied by a substantial. ly lessened capacity for work.” On widows’ allowances, Mine- Mill urges the government to bring before the following points:

® That widows’ pensions be imereased at least to $125 from the present $75 per month.

® That each dependent be allowed $50 per month instead of $25.

@® An immediate grant of $1,000 instead of the present allowance of $100.

for peace

—not radioactive’

“We are being poisoned every day in the food we eat, in the air we breathe — and the antidote is action,” says an eight-

page mimeographed leaflet being distributed in

thousands of

copies throughout this province by B.C. Peace Council.

“Be active — not radioac- tive!” the pamphlet urges, and lists various ways in which people interested in presery- ing world peace and stopping further nuclear bomb tests can make their voices heard:

® Visit your member of par- liament. Ask your friends and neighbors to go with you. (B.C. Peace Council is organizing delegations.. For information phone MArine 9958).

® Write your MP, if you can’t visit him, urging him to make a stand now against the nuclear tes’s,

® Use the phone. Telephone your friends and neighbors

Walk around the clock—they did

* In the nineteen forties many songs were composed on the picket. lines as the workers battled the great corporations, following the end of the Second World War, writes lLabor’s Daily. Here is a song com- posed by striking. workers’ in Jefferson. City, Tenn., this year. The. workers were on strike against Johnson’s Spring Company and walked the picket line from February un- til May. The strike was won.

The song is sung to the tune of Rock Around the Clock. The strikers call it Walk Around the Clock which is ex- actly what they did.

Qne o’clock, two o’clock, three o’clock walk Four o’clock, five o'clock, six o’clock walk Seven o’clock, eight o’clock, nine o’clock walk.- (Chorus)

We're gonna walk around the clock tonight,

We’re gonna waik, walk, walk till broad daylight,

We're gonna walk around the clock tonight.

We'll walk out there till we’re soaked to the skin,

We'll walk out here till John--

son gives in. (Chorus) We're gonna walk out hére till our feet get wet, We're really gonna make old Johnson sweat:

(Chorus)

We'll walk ou’ here both day and night, We’re gonna stay out here till he treats us right. (Chorus)

We'll walk in the rain, we'll walk in the snow,

But we're gonna let old John-

son know. (Chorus)

It goes on for 20 verses, with the chorus after each one, but that’s all we have room for here—except to add one which goes:

They nailed up the windows but we’re gonna shout, They're keeping rats in as well

as us out,

September 13, 1957 —

asking them to write their

MP.

® Pass resolutions. Organiza- tions will take up this ques- tion — and pass resolu- tions, circulate petitions — if it is suggested.

® Parliament opens in the micdle of October. Follow John (and all the others) to Ottawa wih your de- mand to “Stop the Tests.”

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