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The 69-day strike of 27,000 IWA. coast woodworkers ended Sunday with acceptance of the Deutsch formula for settlement and the workers were streaming back to their jobs this week. Official end of the walkout was announced by unien and management negotiators in these words: “Memorandum of agreement ending the coast forest strike has been signed. Pickets will be withdrawn site sea and work can now be resumed.”

The strike began. July 6 and fave rise to a spate of employ- er injunctions, Under ‘settle- ment terms no legal action will be taken against the union or its members for any action during the strike.

The new contract will give a 20-cent-an-hour increase Spread over two years, with an extra 10 cents an hour for tradesmen, plus implementa- tion of a job evaluation pro- gram. The IWA members voted 73 per cent in favor of accept- ing, but only a little more than half the strikers took part in the balloting.

A strike of 1,100 inside wiremen was averted when the United Brotherhood of Electrical Workers agreed to accept an 18-cent increase over two years. The present hourly wage is $3.10.

Judgment has been reserved in B.C. Court of Appeal in the appeal of Local 97, Ironwork- ers, against conviction of con- tempt of court. It is not known when the judgment will be an- nounced.

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About 100 B.C. delegates will attend the IWA conven- tion which opens September 21 in Minneapolis.

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Seamen working for British Yukon Navigation and Young and Gore tugboat firm have been ordered by the Canada Labor Relations Board to vote on whether or not to certify the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and Gen- eral Employees. The men have| up to now been represented by the Seafarers’ International Union.

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CONQUEST

This last consideration be- eame in- fact the basis of im- perial policy toward Quebec: to permit French survival on terms _agreeable. to Church and seigneurs, in such a way as to use Quebec as a counter- revolutionary base against the strivings for independence in the colonies to the south.

When the American Revolu- tion came, the British were horrified to discover that over wide areas the seigneurs were unable to keep “their” peas- ants from welcoming the rev- Olutionary armies and, under their wing, setting up elected authorities for the first time in their history!

‘This experience played its part in the successful pressure for elective assemblies in 1791 — along with the de- mand of the new-come “‘Loyal- ists” for.the representative in- stitutions they were accustom- ed to. (Nova Scotia, in the face’ of resistance from offic- ialdom, had -won an peel In 1758).

The ‘next. 60 years saw the inter-weaving of two vital strands of struggle: the demo- cratic forces in French Can- ada fighting to uphold their right to a distinct national identity; and the general col-

opened to industrial capitalist

onial struggle for self-govern- ment. Here, the solidarity of English and French Canadian democrats, and the support of both by Chartist workingmen in Britain, were vitally im- portant; and it is this side of the matter,. particularly, that today’s nationalists in Quebec fail to see or draw conclusions from.

By 1848, along with “res- ponsible governmént,” recog- nition of French language rights was won. Confederation confirmed it. The\ way was

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growth in Canada as a whole: though with marked advant- ages favoring Anglo-Canadian capitalists, linked strongly with London and increasingly with New York.

Yet the coming of capital- ism preserved large areas of

national inequality, as be- tween French and_ English Canada; and 20th century

monopoly-capital has intensi- fied them. A host of grievan- ces come to focus in the fact that the right of national self- determination for French Can- ada has yet to be embodied in Canada’s constitution.

These are some of the reas-

ons why the Conquest still stirs debate — even after 200 years!

The Soviet icebreaker Lenin—the first ato mic-powered surface ship—made its maiden voyage on the eve of Premier Nikita Khrus hchev’s trip to the United States. The 16,000- ton vessel is capable of breaking through ice over six feet thick and uses only a feW grams of its atomic fuel every 24 hours.

VCL censures union leader for

washing dirty linen in public

By a vote of 109 to 79, Vancouver Labor Council delegates on Tuesday approved @ council investigating committee report which criticized Sam Jenkins, president of Mat ine Workers Union, for-an article he had written in his union’s paper dealing wes VLC affairs. Recommendations of the probe committee, that steps be taken to “control” -actions of union journalists, touched off a hot debate and finally the question was laid

over to the next council meeting.

Jenkins’ article erred. be- cause he “washed some of labor’s dirty. linen in public,” said one delegate. linen in this case being Lloyd Whalen’s frantic scramble to get on the VLC payroll; third vice-president Mel Kemmis’ resignation over the issue; and the weird 143-142 vote to ac- cept the resignation of Kemmis which followed.

The probe committee’s re- port clearly showed that Jen- kins had erred in certain state- ments in his article in Ship and Shop. But the Marine .Workers leader, in a fiery defence of his right to write as he pleased, argued that the factual .mis- takes were ‘‘picayune’”’ and ir- revelant.

“The bulk of my article dealt

Peace parade

Persons wishing to take part

in the B.C. Peace Council par-'|.

ade on the banning of nuclear weapons are asked to gather at the council’s office in the Shelly Building, 119 West Pender (Room 414) at 1 p.m. this coming Saturday, Septem- ber 19. Paraders will march for an hour in the downtown area, along Hastings and Gran- ville.

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with the manipulaticns and machinations of Whalen to get on the payroll,” said Jenkins. “Stick to the report—there is no mention of such matters in the report,” SueaP at chair- man Whalen.

“T did not intend in any way to’ slander this council,’ Jen- kins continued. “I am defend- ing my honesty and integrity, and freedom of the press.” . “This summer we’ve had ex- amples of courts interfering with labor papers,” commented Orville Braaten. ‘‘Surely this

council.is not going to ool

the same path.” AS

Other. deleeates stressed a.

desire for a “responsible” 1a

bor press, and the need for

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John Brown, Lloyd Whalen and George Johnston were elected to represent VLC at the coming B.C. Federation of Labor convention.

Resignation of Ed Sims from chairmanship of the Political Edugalion Comnilttee was ac cepted. i

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PUBLIC MEETING Hear STEWART _ HAROLD PRITCHETT

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