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UFAWU
APPLICATION
In other business this week, council delegates voted $5,000 to finance a campaign aimed at countering big business propaganda about causes of inflation.
The campaign, initiated by International Woodworkers of America 1-217, was approved in principle at last month's council meeting.
Affiliated unions are being asked to match the $5,000 from the labor council and donations already have been pledged or received from a number of locals.
Neale said it is hoped to utilize as many avenues as possible in taking labor's point of view to a wide audience. The campaign will centre on such issues as productivity and wages, price fixing and profits, and taxes, real and hidden.
'EXPOSE HOAX'
Intensity of the campaign, Neale said, will depend on how much support is generated from local unions.
The campaign can become "part
and parcel of bargaining this year by key unions in the prov-
ince," said William Stewart, Marine Workers Union. "It can play a vital role in exposing the gigantic hoax being perpetrated by big business and the news media about the causes of inflation."
Bruce Elphinstone, IWA 1-217, said the campaign has a potential for "doing an excellent job by mobilizing the rank and file." He charged that trade union "docility" in the past has been partly responsible for the proliferation of erroneous ideas about the causes of inflation.
VIETNAM WAR CITED
W. Waywood, Carpenters Union 452, urged that the campaign include an exposure of the U.S. war against Vietnam as the biggest single factor in the North American inflationary spiral.
"In effect, governments are asking working people to have less and work harder so that more funds can be pumped into dirty U.S. wars in Vietnam and elsewhere," he charged.
Council delegates this week also lashed out at a news blackout
GDR Non-Recognition Bars Pollution Curb
Refusal by some governments to recognize existence of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) reportedly was a factor in the failure of a six nation conference last year to advance constructive proposals for curbing pollution in the Baltic Sea.
The conference, sponsored and hosted by Sweden, was held in September on the island of Gotland in what has been described as the "world's most polluted sea."
Participants represented the governments of Sweden, Denmark, Finland, East Germany, West Germany and the Soviet Union.
Although a protocol was signed in which all Baitic states expressed an "interest in keeping the Baltic clean," the conference failed to reach its main objective of adopting joint measures to fight pollution.
Main stumbling block appears to have been the refusal of some western governments to support the call for a follow up meeting at the ministerial level. This would have implied recognition of the GDR.
A spokesman for the Soviet reclamation and water conservation ministry said later an international treaty, to which the GDR would have to be a signatory, is required if progress is to be made.
It is not possible to solve the problem on a "bureaucratic level when only heads of various departments participat e," the spokesman said.
The Baltic Sea is threatened by increasing concentrations of poisonous sulfides and parts of the sea around Gotland are already completely lifeless. Pesticide content in fish and marine birds is 10 times higher than in the North Sea.
imposed by the Pacific Press monopoly on an important meeting held January 29 in Vancouver by the labor backed Committee of Progressive Electors (COPE).
The meeting, attended by some 200 members, was addressed by former NDP MLA Norm Levi, speaking on welfare problems in Vancouver, and Alderman Harry Rankin, who dealt with current items of civic business.
The COPE meeting resolved to present a brief to city council on False Creek redevelopment and. to support the Vancouver Labor Council petition opposing B.C. Hydro rate increases.
Neither the Province nor the Sun carried any news of the meeting, although a Province reporter was present, council was told.
LIBERAL TIES
A statement from COPE read to the meeting charged the apparent news suppression is linked with the Sun's suport for the Liberal civic group, TEAM.
During the last civic election, the statement said, COPE activities were played down by the Sun which, at the same time, gave publicity "out of all proportion" to TEAM and the old guard establishment Non Partisan Association.
"This is what happens when one firm, Pacific Press, which owns both papers, gains a monopoly. The result can be that news is managed, contrived, manufactured and distorted to suit selfish business interests," COPE charged, adding:
"We can well understand the charge (made by) the Canadian Labor Congress to the senate committee on Canada's news media recently that labor news is 'skimpy or distorted'. (We) agree with its proposal that 'appropriate legislative measures' are needed to curb the dangerous and unhealthy concentration of the mass media in the hands of a few corporations."
In debate, John Hay ward, Amalgamated Transit Union 101, urged that a copy of the COPE statement be sent to the senate committee. The statement spelled out clearly a glaring example of a press monopoly "deliberately not reporting a newsworthy and important issue to the public," he said.
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THE FISHERMAN
FEBRUARY 6, 1970
Alaska Expects Pack Of 5.6 Million Cases
A 1970 salmon pack of 5.65 million cases, highest s&ce the 1941 pack of 6.9 million cases, is being predicted
by Alaska fish and game department.
The department's estimates include an expected sock-eye pack of 2.89 million cases and a pink pack of 2.27 mil-
The all time record was established in 1936, when the
Alaska salmon pack of all species totalled 8.5 million But neither the sockeye nor pink pack records date
The sockeye record was set in 1934 with a pack of 2.62 million cases, and the pink record in 1941 with a pack
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