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Three or more different types “A firm hand on the tiller” is the role Adlington envisages of structure were rapidly reduced for the, president. to one general plan inlast thursAdlington’s suggestion to deday’s meeting of, the university crease debate was backed up by act committee; university chancellor Ira Need~ .1lthough *in his opening adles. ,“The decision must be made dress committee chairman Ted by the president, whether he’s Batke claimed several ways of right or wrong. Wrong decisions governing the university should. are better than no decisions at all’, be seriously considered and mapbecause they can always be chanped out. little more than a psuedoged”, Needles stated, to expand parliamentary design was touch.on the idea. ed upon during the two hour meetFrom this line of questioning ing. . arose a compromise situation usThe form of one-tier governing an executive advisory counment discussed is to consist basi‘cil for preliminary discussion. cally of a 60-member board comFederation of Students presiprised equally of administration, y dent Tom Patterson agreed with faculty, students, and members this plan but felt the president’s from the community’s corporate role should be reduced to a coboardrooms. The president will ordinator of this council or still be making all minor day-toboard. Elimination of the “we/ day decisions. they way of thinking” which now Batke attends the board meetexists between students and ading approximately once a month ministrators was one of the results to discuss and ratify the deciPatterson felt the move would ’ sions of the president and\ f deal accomplish. with major questions. Batke pointed out the presiAn opponent to this form was dent’s advisory council as it now representative of the university exists can’t really make decisions. staff and operations vicepresi-. It is possible for the president to dent Al Adlington. ignore the wishes of .“We must give more power to completely the individual administrator. I the council Patterson stated that under the fear too much debate will cause board set-up, the inefficiency as compared to the new governing would have to argue business executive approach, ” president again with advisory council memwas his argument.

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bers when he took such a decision to the board, as they probably would be members of the governing board also. Needles felt ‘the ,chances of such a disagreement ever occuring were very small, however Batke reminded him the composition of the advisory council will not necessarily remain the same. I At present the council consists of vicepresidents, deans and the university treasurer. Minor debate following this point was directed at the composition ‘of such a new council, if it was to advise the president.

Patterson. and Needles were in agreement in that it should have similar composition as the large board. Needles suggested an abridged edition of the board in the form of a l5-member executive council, which would delve deeper into issues in order to streamline meetings of the large group. Patterson .felt that even though any decisions made by the,smaller council would need to be ratified by the board, the executive committee would be powerful en: ough to nearly finalize decisions. For this reason, if the original

idea of equal representation was to be maintained, the executive cauncil must be of identical representa tion. - All suggestions made at the meeting were left open for further consideration and despite nonexistence so far, room still exists for an entirely different structure of government to come under consideration. The next meeting of the committee, to be held tuesday may 27 at 3 o’clock in the board and senate room, is open to anyone interested.

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No.velist protests _-foreign professors fact was discussing “the identity MONTREAL @INS)--Canadian novelist Hugh MacLennan last i of our country.” weekend told :a gathering of uniMany speakers ‘at the symposium lashed out” against the versity professors that a massive influx of professors from other ,* hiring of so many foreign profs, calling it unfair because other ’ countries has created a situation countries limit the number of here which can only be described foreign profs hired by their as a program of national suicide., universities. MacLennan was speaking at In the U.S. and Britain foran emergency symposium held eign profs account for less at Sir George Williams Univerthan 3 percent of the total. sity called after the Department “There is no anti-Americanism of Manpower published figures in Canada,” MacLennan said. \ showing that Canadians got only “On the other hand there is a 14 percent of the, Canadian uninervous feeling about expressing versity teaching jobs in the past concern about things Canadian. ” academic year. In a panel discussion later, hired ’ Canadian universities Anthony Raspa of Loyola College 1013 profs from the U.S., 545 from said, “Some of us have been Britain, 722 from other countcalled Nazis. Some of us have ries and 362 in Canada. been threatened with being fired MacLennan said Canadian unfor discussing the issue. ” iversities will be destroyed unless Gwen Matheson of York Unlegislation is passed quickly to iversity said Canadian , studies place a quota on foreign profesare being neglected. ’ ‘. sors. “A specter is haunting Can“Why should he-the Canadian ada,” she said. “It is the ghost of taxpayer-pay for the erosion of creeping colonialism. We have his own country?” he asked. ourselves to blame. Canadians consider themselves second-rate He said profs attending the disease is sapsymposium will be accused of be- and a malignant ing illiberal but the gathering in ping the vitality of our culture.” .

Engineers

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What was originally billed as from the upper echelons of the coordination de; artment. a cluster of angry engineers turnWhat followed was rather ed out to be little more than a mild. motley handful of mildly complaining work-term returnees at ‘Several questions were raised coordination’s first bitch session. but deftly turned aside during The session was first conceiv the first 50 minutes. Questions raned in chem,eng prof Ted Batke’s ged through percentage of tuition first year engineering &lass two fees going to coordination (unweeks ago. Discussion of genknown); to legal contact with eral work-term pgrievances rapcompanies (none) ; to coordinators idly narrowed down’ to one spe- not visiting jobs (no straight ancific case. A novice engineer had swer). failed to get a job in coordination’s ; When the James Bay floor answer to computer dating. story was finally raised, Through subsequent interviews he sweeper landed a job with a company at Copp explained that he would have to see the student personally. James Bay-sweeping floors. At the end of the term he arrWith a suggestion that the stuanged not to return in the fall. dents read more of what the calHowever his coordinator told endar has to say on the question him he must return or fail his and the observation that “our work-term. biggest t problem is misunderIn an effort to solve the probstanding” Copp closed the discuslem, David Copp was summoned sion.

U OF W WELCOMES YOU with just a small part of its operating surplus that wasn’t spent this year on books or other education frills. The rest will be used for b&dings. 5 J

SurpIUs~ goes to buildings~ . About $600,000 saved from the get by $170,000- to $180,000 a=-’ According to Gellatly, the 196869 operating fund will be ording to Gellatly and $148,000 tenth anniversary fund drive is available for use in the universtill continuing. “Mr. Adlington according to Petch. This amount sity’s capital building fund. : will come off the $784,000. (operations vicepresident) is The underenrolment in - may working on it,” he said. “One or Interim administration presi1968 cost the university about two significant gifts could tihange dent Howard Petch was not defthe whole picture. ” inite about the proposed use of $100,000. the accumulated operating surThe university is continuing The university will continue plus, but administration treasurer with its building plans and h8s with the planned buildings, even Bruce Gellatly made it clear the approval from the provincial govthough $1,500,000 is needed for the five-percent share of ’ buildings first priority would be the univerernment to proceed with an addsity’s five-percent share of capi- - itional three floors on the arts given initial approval by the protal expenditures. . library building, new engineering vince. and architecture buildings, them- 1 “We’ll “We will have to examine the get it somehow,‘* said use in relation to our priorities,” istry addition, psychology buildGellatly, “Probably through a “When each building and an audio-visual center. said Gellatly. combination of more fund-faising, ing comes along, we’ll see how As of march 1969, the universitransfers from eoperating surour capital position is, and if nety’s capital fund had only enough pluses, perhaps a new fund-raiscessary ask the board (of govermoney to cover its five-percent ing campaign, or through an inshare of the buildings under connors) to authorize a transfer from crease in the level of capital supthe operating surplus. ” struction (up to and including the port by the provincial govern According to Gellatly, only an humanities building). ment.” / problem unforseen operating would rate as a higher priority than building: He saw the only library increase coming from the academic development fund, as A building next to the library Petch suggested that the soluannounced in march. I in parking lot D? tion might be to have branch offPetch stated, “It (the operatYes, it’s possible. -It’s either ices of the registrar’s and busi-.’ ing surplus) may go into capital there’or in the originally planned ness offices in the library first funding (of buildings), it may go spot north of the phys-ed building floor with the main operations of into the library if needed, or for the administration building. these departments in a building there may be additional expenAccording to interim admininorth of phys-ed. This idea is ses carried over from this year stration president Howard Petch being studied by academic serthat we haven’t seen yet.” there is now some reconsideration vices head Pat Robertson and / As well there could be expenon the part of several admiwill go the president’s council ses because of space problems in -stration departments about the before fall for final discussion. September. “Maybe we’ll have original location. “The center of Other than the admin building to build some portables,” Petch population is more in this area a- location, campus development is joked. round the library,” he noted. planned for the next three The operating surplus was pro“Having offices here would be solidly years. jected to be $784,000, but a summore convenient. The problems The administration builhg mer-term enrolment about 70are mainly esthetic ones, since tiompletion dhte 80 students under projections the view of the library would be has a tentative of 1972. found the university over its budblocked. ”

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The federation’s board of student activities has three events lined up for the next week. Tonight there’s a dance with Terry and the Pyrates at food services at 8:30. Admission is’ $1 with ID, $1.50 without. Whiplash will be there to fill in when the band stops for a break. Next tuesday the second BSA pub night and dance will be held in the campus center pub. This one will cost 50~ and it starts at 8:30. Whiplash will be there to keep it going until midnight,

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the nurse on duty had taken a re-4 student who had been experiencing throat spasms was asked port. An appointment was made with-a throat specialist who gave to leave the health-services infirmary the morning ’ after his him a complek examination. Robertson attempted to ob.worst attack-because it was the Victoria day ‘holiday and there tain the results of this examination wouldn’t be anyone on duty. from a doctor at health services. “I am sure if there was anyGerald Robertson, math 2B, had been suffering from the thing wrong the specialist would let usknow,” was the reply. spasms for about two weeks and had spent some time in the healthservices infirmary before the i Victoria day incident. Sunday he suffered his most serious breathing difficulties and was taken from his Village room to K-W Hospital by ambulance for treatment and then returned to Although Ontario’s colleges of health-services. At 8:30 the following’ morning applied arts and technology (the Victoria day holiday): he was * ‘ (CAATs) have. been in existence awakened by nurse Sadie Wood who for three years, their presidents met for the first time with the comresides in the apartment in the mittee of presidents of Ontario unbuilding. She advised him that she iversities last week. was leaving for the day and there The meeting was described as would be no one in the infirmary., “general and exploratory.” After giving him the telephone CAAT presidents were particunumbers of other health services larly interested in the formula nurses, she took him by car to the grant plan for university operating Village. I funds, since similar formulas are Pure math prof Henry Crapo, now being devised for their collRobertson’s Village tutor, said it egks. would have been less serious had The meeting established an Robertson been released at a time eight-member joint committee when people were available in to examine common problems such the Village to look after him. as admission procedures, prof esSince it was the holiday weekend, ‘. ,- : d‘““- sional training and recognition. this was not the case, by professional ?associations, and A few days prior to this inciof teachdent, Robertson had suffered a training by universities ers for the CAATs. seizure while in the infirm,ary and

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Formir NDP voter Al Adlington, operations vicepresident, formally renounced proletarian travel and bought himself a Cadillac. He pays its used, but adds that the original owner was a . genuine freenterprise capitalist of fine upstanding community stature. i

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+ .The *dommit$ee was set up in the early days&f the university to regulate an influx of beer-mugs and sweatshirts bearing the coatof-arms. Its terms of reference were to provide guidance in the use of the arms by the university and its students, regulating commercial reproductionand registering the

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Committee chairman Howard Petch told senate that the corn-’ mittee had not done anything for, several years and ‘was somewhat useless. i Responsibility for the. area will be taken over by operations vicepresident Al Adlington.

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Faculty don’t like elections. That’s the consensus from the first appointments of deans made since the’university government report was released last november. Most of the report’s recomendations are being followed, but the idea that every faculty member should have a chance to say yes or no to potential deans has not found acceptance- in science, where W.B, Pearson was appointed for a five-year term, and in math, where statistics prof David Sprott was recently reconfirmed in his deanship for another three years. The report’s procedure suggests a nominating committee of five faculty members elected by their faculty council, a faculty member from ,outside the faculty concerned and the academic vicepresident as chairman be formed when the deanship is vacant through resignation, death or expiry of term of office. After receiving nominations the committee is to,pick one and conduct a faculty-wide poll to determine. the candidatels acceptability. If he is generally approved; the appointment: goes to the senate and board of governors for final approval. ,.

Although the fir,st half of this procedure has been generally followed, the election stage has been bypassed in favor of extensive consultation. by committee -members with other faculty. Interim administration president Howard Petch hopes that this process will be enough. “I fear that having a vote might imply that committee members don’t have to consult others as much as they should,” he said. He suggested that the modified version of the recommended procedures has worked , quite well so far. Statistics prof Greg Bennett feels the report creates awkward situations for both first-time appointments and reappointments. “A lot of ,good people will not sit around while the whole faculty kicks the thing aro.und. Also, some eminent mathematicians might not be too happy about junior faculty having asay,“he said. “If the present dean is willing to have his name reconsidered you can’t go to people outside the university if the position isn’t really vacant. The report really doesn’t cover this.” v-% ,a’ suggestea’ -1 mat *n--1 me II - report 1 leaves 1 Bennett I-

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University secretaries and the Chevron staff aren’t the only people upset about the recently released Secretary’s Manual produced by the personnel department and reviewed in last week’s Chevron. In a memo dated may 15, political science prof Terry Qualter asked interim administration president Howard Petch, other members of the president’s council and all chairmen of academic and administrative departments, “Have you examined the ‘Secre-

the committee in a dilemma if the faculty wants to get rid of an incimbent clean who offers to stand again.

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tary’s’Manua1’ which has just been issued to your secretary? If not you should look at it now.” ’ IIe recounts how the poli-sci ,secretaries reacted-“first with amusement, then with bewilderment and finally with anger.” Qualter calls the manual “a demeaning, puerile and often off-. ensive document which, as an example of bureaucratic silliness and waste, is rivalled only by the early editions of the systems and prodedures manual.” After documenting many of the more insulting items, he notes that “a properly prepared man-. ual can be of great help and assistance to a secretary and to her department. -. . It is a great pity that genuinely relevant material appears only after - all the silly nonsense in the first Ihalf of the manual.” Qualter concludes with a sugg: estion that all secretaries return the manual and ask that it be replaced with a new booklet of about. 20 pages “containing nothing but the real information that a person intelligent enough to be hired in the first place is likely to need to carry out her job efficiently.”

“If it was university policy to declare the office open then there would be little doubt about the c$enness .of the office. Then we could tell -interested applicants that the incumbent is also* a candidate,” he suggested. However, this seems to be the intention in L the report itself, since it recommended a fixed five-year term and the establishment of. the nominating committee “at the end of term of office of an imcumbent.” As well as the appointment of two fullterm deans, three acting deans have been r Co/&u\ c~~vo~&jons named for the coming year. If you ever wondered what conPetch stated -that acting deans were apvocations were all about, the follpointed in, math in consultation with _the owing excerpts from a Waterloo dean’s nominating committee, in engineering Lutheran University press rewith executive committee of the faculty coun lease might be instructional. cil and in grad students with the whole grad council. “More 4han 600 to receive degrees at WLU’s colorful spring‘conThe arts faculty general group Wednesday vocation ” “WLU conducts its colnamed Prof. Warren Ober, english chairman, orf ul spring convocation. ; .” as acting deaq for one year while dean Jay “ : .conferring degrees in the colMinas serves as interim academic vicepres\ . orful ceremony. . .*’ ident. 4-I , \ ‘_

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Chevroti bans dope ads WATERLOO, Ont. (GINS)--The Federation of Students Incorporated announced Wednesday that is has turned down a $700,000 bid from combined tobacco and Mafia interests to run ads for cannahis and cannabis derivatives. The announcement put an end to speculation that the Chevron would lift an interim ban on dope advertising which followed recent fast moves in the smoke industry. “If their business is growing and selling marijuana for high pro-

fits, they are out,” said a Chevron spokesman. The American Tobacco Company recently copyrighted the trade marks Pnanama Red and Acapulco Gold and all major tobacco companies have been buying up grass (and the land it’s on) in Mexico. The $700,000 that the Chevron has turned down represents slightly less than 1500 percent of the paper’s current annual advertising revenue. -adapted

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RESEAR(=j: AS > STANTS WANTED At its last meeting, Students’ Council set aside funds to employ people to do fulltime research. It is hoped that work can be done. on problems of student and graduate unemployment, educational financing and student aid, university curriculum and teaching methods, etc. The work done will depend upon the talent and interest available, and suggesttons for projects will be welcome. ONE OR TWO RESEARCHERS WILL BE EMPLOYED THIS SUMMER AT A SALARY OF $75 A WEEK. It IS hoped that one researcher will have qualifications in economics, such as a graduate degree or comparable experience. Researchers will be responsible to and work in co-operation with Students’ Council and its boards. SUBMIT APPLICATIONS IN WRITING, STATING QUALIFICATIONS AND INCLUDING, IF POSSIBLE, SAMPLES OF PREVIOUS WORK, TO HELGA PETZ, c/o FEDERATION OF STUDENTS. DEADLINE IS FRIDAY 30 MAY.

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- . Tenseness and intensity are strange bedfellows, as Spanish pianist Rafael Orozco demonstrated tuesday night at the arts theater. For ‘in an ideal performance, an artist unifies’his great personal excitement’ for a piece with the tremendous depth of insight and subtlety required to round out the discipline of portraying a final work of art. Orozco is a very young pianist-merely 23-and someday will be a brilliant concert performer, -but ‘as yet he has not quite mastered the. technique of guiding tenseness into union with intensity. Beginning with an uninspired fi/ozan sonata in A minor, Grozco rushed into a preparatory frenzy for the gymnastically challenging Toccata by Schumann-letting volume. control and suavity go by the wayside as he did so. His unmistakable ner-, vousness twitched in his right foot during periods when the tone pedals were’ not required, and only settled down far into the third .piece of the program, Scenes from childhood,‘ also by Schumann. It was in this selection, and in the following &a’ta no. ~3 by Prokofiev that he revealed his potential for mature and moving w$rk; for suddenly, in * brilliant flashes, both sonorous and reflective sections of the works came vividly to life in a combination of technical wonder and emotional depth. The whole performance, was characterized by a dazzling and spectacular style of playingAN extemporaneous style. I was indeed surprised to hear Orozco’s extroverted interpretation applied to the last selectionChopin’s Twefvb studies, opus lo--but the change was refreshing from often static interpretations of Chopin. Orozco’s Spanish blood will prove in the next de- .’ cade to give an exciting and novek”soul’ to his in-

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least l0 points, and therefore ‘this bid can not be made. 1. With, both sides vulnerable, partner opens one 1 (c j With 13-15 points and flat distribution, the diamond, and the next hand passes. What do.you bid bid of 2NT is correct since you do not have a four2 with each of the following.hands’? card major suit. (.a) S-A, 10,5,3 H-Q,J,8;2 D-8,2 C-Q,8,2 1 1’ (d) Having no four-card major and flat distri(b) S-A,,10,5;3‘ ‘H-Q,8,2 D-8,2 C-Q,J,8,2 bution with 7-9 points, the correct bid over a minor (c) S-A,J,3 H-K,J,B D-&,8,2 C-Q,10,8,2 is 1NT. (d) S-9,10,3 H-K,J,2 D-J,8,2 C-Q,9,8,2 2 (a) This i.s the type of support for partner’s ‘. 2. With both, sides vulnerable, partner opens one suit that is not shown immediately. The correct bid heart, and the -next hand passes. ‘What ‘do you bid ’ of 2D allows the responder to bid hearts on his next with each of the following hand? bid and therefore show that he has at least i0 points. ‘(a) S-A,5,3 H-J,.10,3,2 D-K,Q,9,3 C-3,2 (bidding at the 2 level) and heart support. (b) S-A,Q,5,3 H-10,3 D-K,9,3 C-A,J,9,3 2 (b) ‘Thecorrect bid is 1s and not2NT. ‘As men(c) SA,Q,J;5,3 H-J,10,3,2 D-A,2/ C-4.,3 . ’ ‘tioned‘above, you cannot bid NT’s over a minor or (d;. S-K,Q,S H-Q,9,5,3 D-A,Q,5,3 C-10,3 hearts if you hold a four-card major. 1 (a) ‘When partner opens a minor, suit (i.e., clubs ( 2 (c) Both 1s and 3H are correct on this hand. I or diamonds)‘- and responder has 6-11 points, he prefer to bid 1s with this type of hand, as it allows i bids (at the 1 level) his longest suit or the lowest me more ‘bidding room. This will be important if ranking of two suits the same length. The correct my partner shows interest in slam. bid on this hand is therefore 1H and not 1s. 2; (d) The correct bid of 3H allows you to describe 1 (b) The correct bid for this hand is 1s. A bid of your hand completely in one bid. If you bid 2D it ‘over a minor denies holding a four-card major .may. take 2 or 3 more bids before you fully describe I , 1NT I ,A’bid at. the t wo level (i.e., 2clubs) promises at your hand to your partner. . ‘. Chevron staff

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ICTURE XNY ONE OF Canada% majar cities-Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg or, Vancouver-in, the grip I of a general strike. Workers by the thou‘sands are OG inthe streets. Industry is shut down,, skoies closed and telephone and telegraph. ser2 .vice cut off. Mail delivery is stopped, public trans; 1 .‘ILgortation is at a standstill and milk and bread s/ , ,delivered only by permission of ihe strike commit,I 1 tee.Impossible? Improbable? And yet it happened in , _ Winnipeg 50 years ago this month, an almost ‘for/ : ~ -gotten chapter in Canada’s labor history that shook the country and influenced the course’of y ’ labor and politics for years to come. . For 41 days in the spring of 1919, from May 15, to June 2S, the general sympathy strike by 35,006 workers in Winnipeg commanded headlines around the world#The strike was a demonstration _a of labor solidarity never again matched in Canada. But it also aroused the violent hostility, of the Dominion ,government and the Establishment in Winnipeg and split-the city into-. two antagonistic, embittered camps. Before the strike was over, city’council had disI . missed the police force and replaced it with 2,000 F4 special police armed with sawed-off wagon yokes the size of baseball bats. Soldiers back from the ,.‘ ’ _ ’ ‘war took sides in the fray, and eventually the Moun_ ’ ties and troops were brought in. Capping it all was \ a clash at Market Square. on Bloody SaturdayJune~ 22-that left two dead and scores injured. I The objectives of the strike, collective bargain-% ing and industrial unionism, .were ahea& of their time. Today they are taken for granted, but in Winnipeg in- -1919 those goals were .unacceptable I t6 many in the seats of power. The general strike was in support of a walkout by workers in the building and metal trades, the latter dominated by three large companies. To~ I day, the three metal firms’, Dominion Bridge, Vul’ can Iron (now Bridge and Tank Western) and Mani itoba Iron Works (now Manitoba Bridge and Engineering), are solidly organized on an industrial ~ - basis- by the United Steelworkers ,of America. _. But in 1919 the workers in each plant were splinteri ed into more than a dozen crafts. The employers, ’ known as the Ironmasters, refused to recognize or bargain with a Metal Tr-ades Councilembracing all the workers and unions in-the-metal plants and in the railway shops in Winnipeg:’ a . . / With- Canadian troops still on Russian soil in wpposition to the new, revolutionary Soviet gov,..ernment, the turbulence in. Winnipeg was regard: ed by many iti Ottawa as a rehearsal for revolI/ ution. The Winnipeg Free Press labelled the strike The Great Dream of the Winnipeg Sovieta headline that set the tone for newspaper reac-2 _ , tion across Canada.. But to the workers in Winnipeg, caught up in the spirit of labor and social unrest that prevailed in the country, the strike aims were nothing more revolutionary than higher wages to catch up with the soaring cost of living and *the right to collective bargaining. Workers in ‘the metal and building trades struck on May 1 and 2‘ and appealed to the. Winnipeg Tr>des and Labor Council for support. There, , were immediate calls for a general strike, anda strike ballot was taken among the affiliated ’ unions. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of a walkout: 11,000 to 524. _

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Thursday, May 15,, 11 a.m., an eventful moment in the history of the labor movement. Workers poured from factories, -shops and offices. Within 48 hours nearly 35,000 organizeti and unorganized workers out of a population of 200,000 were on .strike. Street carsheaded for the barns; elevators telegraph service was halted ; stop,ped running; telephones went ,dea*d tis operators left their switchboards i rejtaurants and stores closed; newspapers stopped publishing; gasoline “became scarce. And for the .first day or two milk and bread deliveries were cut -off. Winnipeg was split down the middle. On one side were the strikers ‘and‘sympathizers; on the other, the Establishment and its supporters led by the Citizens’ Committee of One Thousand, composed of businessmen, professional people and the like. The strike left a legacy of bitterness. It also created the legend of the martyrdom of the strike leaders who were jailed on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the .government. But .a look at, the events suggests that if there w& aconspiracy it tis ’ betieen the government of Sir Robert Borden in Ottawa and the Winnipeg Establishment aimed at crushing the strike by arresting the strike leaders. _ _. ’ I ’

Brilliant but nqotley group. Those hauled off to jail were a brilliant, articulate but motley group of socialists, syndicalists, and moderate unionists. Many la’ter attained political office and other high positjons. Among those whose careers were advanced by participation in the strike was J.-S. Woodsworth, . later national leader of the CCF, which he helped found. Woodsworth, whose role in the strike was brief andminor, was arrested on charges of. seditious libel after he took over as editor of the Western Labor News following the arrest of editor William Ivens. ‘Woodsworth spent several days in jail, but was never brought to trial. The strike brought a hysterical response from Winnipeg employers. They branded the leaders Bolshevists and regarded the strike itself as a revolutionary weapon of the\One Big Union (Chevron, April 1 I!,., which w-as then being established as , a challenge to the prevailing, orthodox ._craft unionism.It was’all happening at a time of unrest and discontent. The. cost of living had gone up 75 per-cent during the war years while building trades wages, for example, had risen by only’18 per cent. The radical Western labor movement was militant and at odds with the conservative union leadership in the East because of the latter’s co-operation with the Borden coalition government. It was anrered by restrictions on freedom of speech imposed by ordersyin-council and by the continued ‘internment of socialists who had been arrested during the war for holding pacifist views. Winnipeg was a focal point for union radicalism. . A series of strikes had taken place in Western Canada in 1918 and one in Winnipeg had almost assumed the proportions of a general walkout. The settlement that year was hail,ed as a victory by the unions and undoubtedly contributed to their enthusiasm for the general strike the following year. It was against this background that two events took place in Western Canada that later figured

in the attempt to brand the general strike a Red plot to seize power and in the conspiracy charges against the union leaders. The first of these was a meeting on Sunday afternoon, December 22, 1918, in Winnipeg’s ornate Walker Theatre.It was sponsored by the Socialist Party of Canada and adopted resolutions demanding the repeal of all wartime orders-in-council, release of all political prisoners and withdrawal of troops from Russia. Six of %he 19 strike leaders later arrested took part in- the meeting. One was Robert Russell, a machinist from Clydeside and a leading member of the radical wing of the Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council. A Scot with a colorful vocabulary, Russell championed Russia and socialism, and in a burst of enthusiasm assured the gathering: “Capitalism ‘has come to the point where - she is defunct and must disappear. ” Despite some of the wild talk, Russell and his associates were radicals and socialists in the British tradition rather than on the pattern of the Russian revolutionaries. Nevertheless, it was all dutifully recorded by Sergeant F.E. Langdale of the Winnipeg Military Inteiligence. Others at ’ the meeting were R., J. Johns, a a platform spellbinder _and young Cornishman, colleague of Russell-in the Metal Trades Council; editor. and former Methodist minister William Ivens; John Queen, a genial Lowland Scot and cooper by trade, who w&s later’ to be mayor of Winnipeg for seven terms; Fred Dixon, a labor member of the Legislature and a moderate; and George Armstrong, a’ founder of the Socialist Party of Canada. \ Equally important was the Western Labor ,Conference held in Calgary a month before the strike. .Out of this conference cam.e the proposal for the One. Big Union, conceived as a supercolossal industrial union dedicated to the Marxist concept of, theclass struggle in which the general strike figured as an important weapon. The -Calgary meeting quickly came under the control of a militant minority, including a few of the men who were later to be arrested in the general strike. y -3

&ill for a general strike A flurry of resolutions, called for restoration of full, freedom of, speech, release- of all political prisoners, removal of restrictions on working class organizations, establishment of a six-hour day, and-if necessary to get the shorter work day-a general strike on June 1. The parliamentary system was condemned and the Soviet system endorsed. ” The radicals also pushed through a resolution to hold a referendum among Western unions on the question of secession from the. international organizations in order to create the ,O.B.U. But before the referendum could be completed; Winnipeg was plunged into the general strike. The industrial and economic paralysis that began on May 15 affected every facet of life. There was no mail delivery; post offices were closed and Postmaster P.C, McIntyre asked, Ottawa to stop the movement of all but first class mail to Winnipeg. The fire brigade struck and was replaced by a force of 350 voluntegrs. Waterworks employees walked out leaving behind a skeleton staff that

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maintained a maximun enough to pump water building, but no higher. Garbage piled ‘up,Jr; and even the police vote were persuaded by the at their posts. The Winnipeg strike ti cities, but none of then workers rejected a call by June 1 more than symptom of the dissati cross the country. e ; But the attention of t Winnipeg. The failure o ies to make deliveries after the strike, eredte

In its special _ issue, the Chel the: Jong- histtir Canada, makin the’- Winnipeg . 1919. What were. $t “Radicalism !” - ism !” have l sin( ard labdr polic One Big Union i *And paralleling repression of the Establishm actedLcausing death and inju& Here is a corn Winnipeg riot-! its 50th anni\ Globe magazir, _test and brought-charg tempting to starve inf ..day or two deliveries y To run the strike, th labor council appointe a central committee 0 directionof. the syn hands of a committee 4 ficers of the council. This committee, du? the strike, included rn views as socialist Rob ocrat John Queen, as cal unionists James Wi cil, II. Veitch and J.L. 1 To keep crowds of1 asked theatres to stay tors, no less than the ers who were asked to they would be regarder To allay their fear

d 30 pounds pressure, the second story of a @y baggagemen quit, X49 to 11, to strike, but ike committee to stay . ;ered walkouts in other ras as se,vere. Toronto c a general strike, but @O had walked out, a ction deeply rooted anatiop was focused on *cad and milk cornpan,day morning, the day & greatest public pro-

wil xommunity In pointed .out hf. : ;vio!ence - .in brief note of neral strike q* _ ’ ?- challenges of rd “Communbecome standalthough the ;!was killed. I today’s violent blitical ’ dissent; : then over-rechaos,. injury, /. c te -story of the ke-dkbaukh .oi~ ;ary, frbm the tf 3 may 1969.

at the strikers were atand invalids. ~W@hin a estored. ions affiliated, with the committee of 300, with But in its initial stages y strike was in the 8 plus the executive ofhe Red Five by foes of ’ such diverse political :ussell and social demas orthodox, non-poli ti:, president of the counide. ;treets, the committee But the theatre operaand bread wagon driv.n to work, were afraid :abs. 1 to maintain control

of the strike, the committee issued cards about 12 by 16 ipches in size,* with the inscription: “Permitted by Authority of the Strike Committee.” These tiere later produced at the trials as .evidence that the committee was attempting to usurp _ the functions of the government. , The’ Winnipeg Tribune proclaimed : ‘As the strike progressed, the leaders communig cated with the &ikers- through a daily Strike Bulletih edited byIve&. On May 30, the Strike Bulletin set out the,aims of the Strike. WHAT W-E WANT: _ 1. The right to collective bargaining. I 2. A living wage. 3. Reinstatement of the strikers. WHAT WE DO NOT WANT: i 1. ’ Revolution. 2. Dictatorship. 3. Disorder. Until some returned soldiers j began holding parades and demonstrations in suppbrt of the strikers and -others responded with counterldemonstrations, the strike was orderly and ;the mood peaceful. Birt oppqnetits !of ,the strikers were preparing theif blow. Acting Justice Minister Arthur Meighen and I+bdr-Minister Gideon Robertson. formerly a vid&pr&ident of the Telegraphers’ Union. who had-been appointed to the Senate, came to Winnipeg to investigate the strike. After talking to ’ leaders of the Citizens: Coinmittee they went away convinced that the city wa,? ir;l the hands of .the Bolshevists. P

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A few weeks later in the House of Commons, Meighen said the extension of industrial unionism at the expense of craft units would ultimatelylead to the unity of every organization in the Dominion to applypressure in every dispute. “This is the perfection of bblshevism.“ It was a cry echoed by the Winnipeg newspapers which had resumed publication. A newspaper published by the Citizens’ Committee said the fight in- Winnipeg .was to’prevent, the establishment of bo!shevism and “the rule of the Soviet here and then to expand it to all over this Dominion.” The Citizens’ Committee, operatirig out of the. gGa?d of Trade b@l.ding, was the busie$.,place in ’ tdtin. From it, the bommittee directed v‘i>lunteers who manyed fire engines and kept J the ptiblic utiliti& functioning. / ‘” -The strike committee lobked’.for a compromise to end the. general -strike, bdt..‘the Ironmasters refused td bargain’ until’it was’ended. James Winning, the moderate president of the labor council, told city council: “Give us a guarantee that collective bargaining will be recognized and we will be back at work in 48 hours.” But the mood of the,efn$oyers and the federal government was anti-corripromise. In fact, Meighen and Senator Robertson are suspected of having applied pressure to abort a compromise move. Ottawa struck hard at the strikers. Its first move was to dismiss 19q postat employees who j rejected an order to return to work, pledge they would ‘never again participate in a sympathy strike, and withdraw from the labor council. Telephone workers received a similar capitu-

late-or-be-fired ultimatum from the government of Premier.,T.C. Norris. The police, who had remained on the job, were ordered by city council to sign an agreement that they woulcl withdraw from their unioh and refrain from suppqrting any sympgthy strikes. The almost daily parades and demonstrations by returned soldiers, led by R.E. / Bray, had increased tehsion and raised tempers. Although the three veterans’ organizations, the Great War Veterans, Army and Navy Veterans and Imperial Veterans of Canada, were nominally neutral or hostile to the strike, the majority supported it. As &any as 10,000 persons marched- to the skirt of bagpipes and the roll of drums. Three times they descended on the Legislature, demanding Premier Norris compel the iron companies to bargain and laws guaranteeing the right to collective bargaining. ’ -: On one occasion -returned soldiers opposed to -the strike maqched on City Hall behind a placard which read : a’We sWill yain tain Constituted Authority, Law And order, Down With The High Cost of Living, To Hell With The Alien Enemy, + .1God Save The KiNG%” .: . ,

/ aThere. were so many parades .thtit even some of the participants became confused which grdup they were in; The. Strike Bulletin noted: “Wednesday $ome of the soldiets got into the wrong parade by mistake. ” . The atmosphere in Winnipeg was becoming supercharged. Embittered by lack of progress toward their goals, the strikers again cut off milk and bread deliveries on June 3. The Citizens’ Committee set up depots in 10 psblic schools, where‘people would pick up supplies. The police, who had stayed at th+r jobs. continued to reject demands that they pledge not to strike. Council reacted on June 9 by firing all but 15 of tpe 140-man force and replacing them with special deputies who had been recruited ip advance at $6 a day. The first violent clashes were only hours‘away. \

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ment’s intention was to arrest, intern and .deport the strike leaders. . , The blow fell during the early morning hours of June 17. A-force of 50 Mounties and 500 deputies roused 10 strike leaders from their beds and hauled them off to jail. , I The arr’ests were fpllowed by raids against the Labor Temple, the Ukrainian Hall. and Liberty _Hall. Truckloads of books and pamphlets werecarted away. Rounded up in Winnipeg were Russell, Queen: Heaps, Afmstrong, Bray and Ivens. Johns. who shad been absent from Winnipeg during the entire period of the strike, was arrested in Man: treal as he was about to leave on a speaking tour for the O.B.U., and socialist activist Willian? Pritchard, who had spent- less than a week in Winnipeg, w’as seized on a westbound CyEi train at Calgary. But a storm of protest from labor across Canada stopped the government from acting to deport the strike leaders. The indictment against the eight men brought to trial took 52 minutes to read: the crux of‘ it was that they had engaged in a seditious conspiracy. The Walker Theatre meetirig and the Calgary cpnvention, where the proposal for forming- the O.B.U. was made, figured prominently in the charges. Even before the June. i7 arrests the resolve of some strikers hag been weakened by a published offer from t$$ iron companies of a form of tollective bargaining, although it fell short of recognizing the Metal Trades Council. . The strikers had also received no sympathy from the craft union oriented Trades and LahorCongress and its president, Tom Mqore. After the strike collapsed, Moore condemned it as a dangerous adventure. But despite-his hostility to the general strike, Mo.ore warned the government. that the labor movement would not stand for strong-arm suppression of legitimate labor demon, strations. The Winnipeg strike committee. faced with au,ban on parsdes, urged strikers to keep off the streets. ‘But the r.&usned soldiers decided to hold a protest march on June 21 anyway. ,. The parade began forming less -than 12 h-ours after the arrested union leaders had been released on bail from Stofiy Mountain penitentiary: -they had b&n freed on the coi?dition that they ,-take no furthe; ‘part I’n the strike. They kept their. proI+&, but th’is failed, to,co@ the tempers< . of-their, _- ~ supporters.

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The next day was sunny sand yarm and crowds swarmed intd’the streets. Two of the special depu- . ties appeared at the cprner of Portage and Main, and were taunted: As *,the crowd swelled and: began slioving- the deputies, reififorCements of moun1 ted special police rode into the m.ob which. retqli-. ated wi,th a shower+f stones. * Ma’in. Street ,was. thronged as.th& ‘parade fokm. In the’melee Skrgeaqt-Major F.G. Coppins was _ ed. While some of the’ war veterans took up posi5’ , hit by a stoneswhich broke two ribs. - tions for the march,. several thousand others rangThe battle bfetween strikers and: special police’ ed in front of the Royal Alexandra l$otel where a flowed back and forth, along Main Street for more delegation was .arguing with Labor Minister than five hours. Scores were injured. Robertson, Mayor Gray and A.J. Andrews. the Rymors sivept Winnipeg of an impendink govspecial prosecutoi. G~ay asked them to call off the ernment crackdown and that 100 to 150 strike lea-, parade,- but the spokesean for the veterans reI ders were slated fbr arrest. Four military regi‘fused. Gray was equally firm- in his refusal to it-i&ments in Winnipeg were on standby orders and draw the streetcars which had just reappeared on extra ’ contingents of Royal Northwest Mounted the streets. The crpwds. impatient for6 action. atPolice moved in. tacked-a street ear which had stalled. A few days earlier, Parliament in Ottawa had acted with nnprecedented haste in adopting an ‘Charge of the Fright Brigade ’ amendment to the Immiiration Act“tb permit de-> ‘partition of ‘citizens ‘not born in Cqnada., The Suddenly. the-sound of galloping horses could be L*’ . amendment was given the required three readings heaid along -Portage Avenue tind about 50 1Ioun, -’ in l&s than 20 minutes. t&s ttir&d.+do.wn Main Street .,. charged .into the . A telegram from Senator Robertson to Prirrik crowd and whaled away with baseball brats. ‘, Minister Borden showed clearly that the .governThey stormed their way through the mob. tht’ni \ . ‘,_ con tir!llcd 011 m3 t pry’. , I ,

turned and fought their way back under a barrage of stones, bricks and chunks of concrete. At least two of the horses lost their riders the first time through. In the midst of the chaos, Mayor Gray read the Riot Act in front of City Hall. The Mounties regrouped again and charged their horses into the mob, this time with revolvers in their right hand and the clubs in their left. They started firing as they approached the City Hall. A crowd was attempting to overturn a burning street car as the Mounties fired a second round at them. While the crowd scrambled for cover Mike Sokolowiski fell with a bullet through his heart and died instantly. The wounded lay in the street moaning, and some were trampled underfoot. The Mounties continued their drive into the crowd and fired a third volley before breaking into the clear. Reforming, they rode north and were reinforced by several hundred club-swinging special police who lined up across Main Street and forced the crowd back. During the mopping up operation there were several bloody clashes in the side streets between the crowd and the specials. Casualties were high: more than 30 wounded, most of them by gunfire; six Mounties in hospital; Sokolowiski dead and Steve Schezerbanowes, shot in both legs, to die later of gangrene. Mayor Gray claimed the first shot came from the crowd, but the Western Labor News maintained that all the shots were fired by the Mounties. By nightfall, the streets had been cleared and _ the downtown area was under military control. Soldiers armed with rifles patrolled the streets while army trucks with mounted machine guns guarded intersections. The Western Labor News, which Woodsworth was editing with the help of Fred Dixon, denounced the police action as “Kaiserism in Canada.” Its editorial landed Woodsworth and Dixon in jail on charges of seditious libel. One of the counts against Woodsworth was publishing this passage from Isaiah: “And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall enjoy the work of their hands.” With the leaders arrested and the march crushed the strike had been defeated. On June 25 it was called off. Many of the workers then found themselves black-listed by the employers and all doors to employment barred to them. Leaders of the strike movement were especially discriminated against. The Winnipeg Telegram urged: “They should be permanently blacklisted. They should be made to wander about.” The general strike had ended,in failure, but the issues were to be fought again for more than a year at the leaders’ trials. D.C. Masters in his 1950 book, The Winnipeg General Strike, states: “One thing alone is certain: intervention by the Dominion government smashed the strike, but provided the Western labor movement with a tradition of martyrdom.” The trial of the eight accused soon turned into a trial of the O.B.U. as the prosecution sought to link it with the Winnipeg general strike. The Crown prosecuted Russell separately, seeking to piece together a picture of a conspiracy to overthrow the government from statements made at the. Walker Theatre, the Calgary convention and during the strike. The defense attempted to show that the strike was a dispute over wages and collective bargaining. After 23 days of evi-

dence and argument, Russell was convicted and sentenced to two years in penitentiary. In the second trial, that of the seven other labor leaders accused of seditious conspiracy, Queen, Heaps, Pritchard and Ivens-all superb speakersdefended themselves. Theirs was an oratorical performance seldom heard in any court. Pritchard’s speech alone, studded with wit and socialist philosophy, took two days, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., to deliver, and when printed ran to 216 pages. Heaps spoke for a full day and was the only one to win an acquittal. Bray was convicted on only one count and sentenced to six months. The other five were convicted on all seven counts and given one year. Dixon, who was tried later on charges of sedi‘tious libel, successfully defended himself. The jury deliberated for 40 hours after listening to a hostile summing up by the judge.

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One year to martyrdom All were out of jail within a year. They were acclaimed as heroes and martyrs by Winnipeg labor. Queen, Ivens and Armstrong had been elected while still in jail to the Manitoba Legislature in the 1928 elections. Woodsworth, who has been described by Masters as the real heir to the legacy of the Winnipeg strike, despite his comparatively minor role, helped organize the Independent Labor Party and in 1921 was elected member of Parliament for North Centre. In 1932 he became the first national leader of the CCF. Heaps sat in the Commons with him from 1925 to 1940. Pritchard and Johns are the sole survivors of the group of 10. Pritchard, still an ardent socialist, lives in Los Angeles. After his release from jail he became active in municipal politics on the West Coast. Johns, who lives in Victoria, became director of technical education for Manitoba. Russell never gave up his dream of One Big Union. The O.B.U. had a meteoric rise in Western Canada after the general strike, but by 1922 it was a spent force. Russell stayed with it, however, as a general organizer until his death in 1966. Masters concludes that there was no seditious conspiracy: “The strike was what it purported to be, an effort to secure the principle of collective bargaining. ” *** The Winnipeg strike cast a long shadow over the Canadian labor scene. Its failure held back the development of industrial unionism and helped turn labor in the direction of the general strike. The failure of the Winnipeg sympathy strike doomed the general strike as a future economic weapon. During the 1946 rash of postwar strikes, Communist-led unions called for a general strike, but the proposals went unheeded by the rest of labor. The closest Canada has since come to’a general strike was in 1965 when the British Columbia Federation of Labor called for a two-day general strike in support of striking oil workers. The decision created divisions within the labor movement, with some major unions stating they would not participate. But a settlement of the oil workers’ dispute seven hours from a strike deadline averted a test of strength between labor and the B.C. government. Labor today has recognized that the general strike must inevitably take on a political and revolutionary character, and responsible union leaders in Canada are not prepared to use the strike as a political rather than an economic weapon. Barring any excessively repressive legislation, the Winnipeg general strike was a phenomenon such as Canada is not likely to witness again.

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The remaining -members did con- .*nd -an increase of over ‘$lU@ZYO hurry to get their budget passed in i postage costs. .-Incidentally, stitute a ‘quorum :and decided to that they rammed the final reading one of the) main jobs -of-a: Chewon continue,“said Patterson. through, right . after 5 hours Of l According _summer _researcher is to try :exterm&relapreliminary reading, forgetting : to ‘find. a. way, through the maze *of tions chairman Larry Caesar, 1the the president’s previous state$1000 is -already covered -in the /,new Ipostal ~regu#atiims to --gt?t ment on april 26 that that prelower rates. Ibudget. - The -$500 film is. inchrded liminary reading and questioning “0 YTbe -Chevron salaries were .exin the education board budget. was to be on ‘Saturday, and final. .plained above, .zand I the. bound& uoil ,The folio vu&g figures Iare passing and revision was to b i umes are the equivalent for .‘Chevfrom federation : business Lmanager on sunday. j ronstaff of free yearbooks for-corn‘Pete Vates: Orientation %_67‘lost The procedure ’ was bad; the tpen&um staff and free~dmission to 83% Homecoming 6-7 --cLeared ’ _ budget a farce. _major rweekend .events .‘for weak- 7 I 1.. ,$l32, Win;terland68~‘lust $63, ‘Grad There is no contingency. In the -ball 68 .profitad byS191, .‘Summer -‘t endw~mmittee-members. budget there is a figure $1,579 but weekend! 68 ewas $5QO-in the. ckzar, .-The pboto -capital. bu&lget is _to be 1 out of that “contingency” is to ‘Orientation 68 , lost $2538 :-and used this Fyear - to buy. an *enlarger come a $1,000 Biafra donation Homecoming 68 made ~$200. “Th.e -for the p’ublications board darkand a $500 film (appropriately . loss on Groundhog. was $72,0 75. ram. Thk expenditure %.,will zom. called “Yellow peril”). :a -On ’ contingent y financing: the ,plete. the new.daikroom and sho.uld A contingency is necessary. Not I besufficientfor tan years. 17937;68 f&al year (Steve’ freland since Stewart Saxe ran Orientation was president) started .with a de- ** *As ;for - the *‘Cyri/ Levitt quote, r-e: in 1967 (our centennial)’ has a ficit of +$P9,025 avd gave thea1968+o&ted -more .accurat&Ly (it -was major weekend or a grad ball 69 fiscal Syear a ‘&Jrplus of ,‘$socrS. YA &J&S a .bu&k,, and’l’m Jewish.” broken into the black. CompendA decision ~was made during IBrhm ‘the Mtitor ium has never broken even. Grller’s- president y tot shift”$20;D00.in oundhog bills are still coming in. -revenue to the anext fiscal . year, evef ywhere headihg for a loss of $13,000 if we Mter “litter so -,he started oat theoreticaI#y are lucky. Yet in the present bud- . $74,000 in;the yed, %ut mot ‘a: pdl: to &mk By.the-time John,‘Bergsm& MS \What the ‘hell’s coming off in events and no contingency exists electe’d, ller’s _government &had rthe campus center anyway?to fall back on. . accumulated a *$15, WO -&on tinI cigar& bums everywhere f on : the Don’t expect much from your However, ‘Bergsma :hand.gew. fcaipet, : slashes. and stains, in. anti 70/71 student fee, you will be pay<ed Patterson :a $2000. deficit. T&I on >the ‘upholstery . of some very I ing for the good times you have in _ only rmajor social weekend loss .ce~pensive &furniture ; and -man. 69/7& in ‘t&o years (Groundhog at : that billiard table looks. likesomeDo you know that $65,350 of $12,015) -occurred during , Bacgonti.3 mwalked across it zin spike*. . those good times is going towards sma’s administration. -It’s “getting. to, the noint where. salaries in and around the federl As -far as Igood times -are convvbhen rl -bring .a visitor . through ation. Some are necessary, cerned, ‘Patterson says ;if :his 4’have+to apolo@ae~ for this oneesome are tradition, some are garbudget goes ..as p#anmd- there : wjPl ‘beautiful l&ding. :BM I make: no 9 abag&-much is hidden. “summer be, some $free +dances coffered &out apologies ;for ‘the irresponsible employresearch, ” “off-term of profits from the studentFact& . stutients who make t this “1iviq-g ment, ” “research”~ and ?esear& itiesboard. room of 4he campus” a$igsty. ‘If ’ and study” all mean people paid -* YVow -on ‘to s&a.fl-es. The total -this is i how some :peopleslwant dto from student fees. Why so much for people, employed ;by the -f&fP& live, why force itonothers”! money spent on research? The eration for this /year ‘is $66,256, Going .to get sick ‘from being ’ board of external chairman with., the braakdo vur~as fohows: :dzhxu&? ’ SW, <go 40 the campus says-to pick up* the slack in the -$36;;350 for t-permanent .stz#ff center r&o sleep Lit off-+at least rest of Canada. .. .CUS doesn”t (fvur secretaries, -the bn.sine.ss have a large enough program. Try <manager and the ,siulff *of , the ~~yourmess; let~other~,a~mire:it, I to find the $1,350 that Orientation Y%mpus Shop-and-pastoffice) SXsgrasting. l3urthcr, :I . can think chairman gets or the $150 that $ l I ; 700 for _the: federationpraai.of : better $&aces *to sleep :t ever _ winterland chairman gets-even dent, *radio waterfor, t’mnzger ‘h~r.of,b~.,,fel~~?).:an~dI seexo if he loses $13,000. 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The bourgeois press often prints both sides . ..but the truth may be very h ardk to find . The boycott of California grapes is not a very radical issue. The grape pickers aren’t trying to change anything except the laws which withhold from them the rights to organize and bargain collectively with their employers-something non-agricultural workers have had for years, with government agencies supervising. What is radical about the struggle is that the growers have maintained enough influence over the government to prevent such union rights for over 30 years. Now it seems the Nixon government is trying a compromise-the same rights that industrial workers have, but the agricultural workers will effectively be barred from striking during the harvest season. So the battle isn’t over. It will be decided in the grocery stores of north america. And the growers are getting unfair assistance from the media. * * *

been discussed, in addition to simple news reports that said some proclamation was read or a certain store was picketed. The first occasion was a blatantly biased article in the Record’s business column, the main feature of which was an Italian grocer saying, “This a free country and I’ll sell California grapes if I want to.” The rest of the column was anti-worker. The Record’s farm column discussed grapes twice. One column was anti-boycott and a later one pro-boycott. The anti-boycott statements were based on a belief that it was simply an American problem, requiring an American law to be changed. The later column consisted mainly of quotes from a letter from Marshall Gan of the United Farm Workers (UFW). Ganz proved, with documentation, that: l Where 13 wine-grape growers accepted agreements with the UFW, the situation is functioning well and conditions and wages have improved considerably. l In every instance where farm workers have had a chance to vote, they have voted overwhelmingly for union representation. This was substantiated by a Toronto fact-finding committee led by former Toronto controller William Archer. l U.S. government statistics show the average California farm worker earns $2,034 a year. The average harvest wage is $1.52 an hour in a state where the average unskilled non-agricultural wage is $3 an

In the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, there have been four major occasions on which the grape boycott has DELANO, Calif. - The grapevines stand in trell.ised ranks, green-sleeved, precisely spaced, as disciplined as troops in closeorder drill. Their cross-pieces are angled at right shoulder arms; they make of the flat brown earth a crowded battlefield. It is for possession of this battlefield that California’s tablegrape growers and an AFL-CIO union are struggling. The conflict long ago stretched beyond the Delano community. For the past 3 l/2 years, wellmeaning liberals across the counttry- not to mention a number of politicians on the make-have been giving full-hearted support to the grape boycott urged by Cesar Chavez, and to the supposed “grape strike” behind it. Chavez is director of the Urited Farm Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO. When it comes to recruiting union members, Chavez is a flop; his UFWOC has recruited amazinalv few. But when it comes to mounting .

a publicity campaign, the man is an undoubted genius. He turned up recently with a bylined piece in Look extolling his non-violent piety. His “boycott” bumper stickers blossom on half a million autos. In dozens of parochial schools such is the gullibility of the nuns that little children compose insulting letters to grape growers as exercises in english. Hippies, yippies, priests, professors, political figures, and housewives with time on their hands are whooping it up for the downtrodden grape pickers of Kern County, California. It is a hoax, a fantasy, a charade, a tissue of half-truths and Last month, whole fabrications. since Chavez blundered into his first big public relations error, the union’s effort has become something more, a brazen, ugly, and undisguised bid for “closed shop” power over the lives of farm workers everywhere. To swallow the Chavez line you

And that, for any average K-W Record reader, clinches the case against the grape pickers, the farm organizers and the grape boycott. A little checking reveals the following interesting facts. l

K-W Record managing .editor Edward Hayes, on being questioned as to why there was no news service credit on the story, said it came in the mail “from some American news service” and the credit had been inadvertantly left off.

The copy in the Record article was only slightly more grower-biased than a recently-distributed pamphlet called the growers’ side of the Delano grape story. And it is quite true that some strike-breaking workers are being paid well.

The allegations against Chavez and the “facts” about wages and working conditions are completely out of line with what the regular news services have car-

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must believe that grape workers in the Delano area are miserably paid, wretchedly housed and cruelly treated. You are urged to help feed “hungry the cchildren,” victims of the system that denies men a living wage. “At the present rates,” says an UFWOC handout given to me, “a farm worker who is fortunate enough to work 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, would earn $2,386.” This is moonshine. The reporter who checks payrolls, goes into the fields, talks with workers, visits their homes, inspects the labor camps, and otherwise covers the story, gets an entirely different picture. * The going base wage for grape workers is $1.65 an hour. At 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, this would produce annual earnings of $3,432. Yet the hypothetical example has no meaning. This is not how grape workers work. The typical Delano worker-if there is any such being-is a mid-

dle-aged Mexican-American with little formal education and few skills beyond those of grape and vegetable culture. He has a wife and two or three teen-aged children. As a resident alien of 10 years standing he must register annually with the immigration service. Otherwise, he is free to live his proud, humble, independent life as others do. Such a worker may have a dozen different employers during the year. He goes where the work is, from one vineyard to another. Thus, there is no such thing as an ordinary “bargaining unit,” for the workers move around freely. 0.0 George A. Lucas, a middlesized grower, sent out 3,500 W-2 forms on workers last year. In summer, the work is hard and hot; at other times, it is picnicpleasant. Families take their lunches to the fields. Recently, I talked at length with one such family of four, With the base wage,

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In addition to the right-to-work committee, there have been at least two other fronts financed by the growers to counteract the grape pickers’ boycott. It is quite possible the Record’s story came from one of these fronts. * * *

There is nothing wrong with the commercial press printing the growers’ side. But when it is printed as fact and when it contains gross exaggerations and misuse of statistics there is something wrong. The article was placed very prominently, and the page was personally handled by Record editor-in-chief Carl Schmidt. The issue is non-radical; the workers are

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hour. With many growers, the $1.52 (or whatever 1 would be the hourly rate for a whole family. not just the qingle man. l The Canadian market for California grapes was worth $20,000,000, so it wasn’t simply an -American problem. -The Record’s farm editor accepted all these things and published them in his column-the first fair hearing the grape pickers got. He was definitely convinced when he found out that the “right-to-work” committee supposedly organized by the workers to fight against union “hooliganism and coercion” was organized and funded by the grape growers, not the workers. The average K-W Record reader who had read everything in the paper this far on the grape boycott. would probably lean just a little toward the pickers (even though the farm column is buried somewhere after the sports, and the business column has a more attractive layout 1. At this point in time, it could be said that’the Record had presented both the growers’ and pickers. sides fairly. But the fourth occasion is where the truth comes outabout the Record’s unfair bias, not the grapes. The article in question was published prominently (on page 5) under the headline: Life isn’t all that bad; A new look at the grape picker. That article follows : plus incentive supplements, they expected to earn about $325 for the week. At harvest time, this doubles. They drive a 1968 station wagon. A son is in college. Out in the fields, the workers speak of the Chavez union with fear and contempt. They tell of threatening telephone calls at night, of repeated acts of vandalism and intimidation. They are fearful that beleaguered growers, anxious to end the nation-wide boycott, may yet sell them like so many head of lettuce to the UFWOC, which thereafter would control when and where they worked. It is this press-gang power that Cesar Chavez is seeking. He wants his union to become the sole source of agricultural workers, under contracts that would forbid the growers to hire any nonunion man. This is what the fight is all about and it is incredible that liberals, professing a love for the little fellow, should be helping him toward his goal.

being exploited and they ar.e using the most nonviolent way open to them (the boycott) to get the law changed and win their rights. What happens ? The Record prints both sides : their favored side (the corporate, union-busting growers) prominently and with the final say, and the truth (buried somewhere inside past the sports pages). The Record’s farm editor probably disagrees quite strongly with the editor-in-chief’s stand if the content of the two farm columns is any indication. But the readers of the K-W Record won’t know that. And the K-W Record rarely prints letters to the editor which criticize the Record or its policies. ’ That’s called freedom of the press. It should be called freedom if you own a press.

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“. ..the Winnipeg general- strike grow crops, assemble things rawas a. phenomenon such as,-Can:- the;. than the pieces of paper callI ‘ ada.is not likely to witness again.?’ ed capital. We agree %ith the facts iti.-WilIsaiah was I saying the same . fred List’s’account’ofl~~‘~trike, . -‘$ort of thin&$&en fleopletiake ’ the world in their work,. they ’ but noi the eonc’ltisions.!-1 . The L&t i $&le c,-G&_-printed, should get, the benefit ‘of their however, ‘.hecause there,&% still labor. .people arou’nd who do not even _ It’s’ not ‘surprising then to see believe there was v?olence in the .~Chitthe owners formed the opposiWinnipeg general strike;’ &uj , $ipn to the Winnipeg general strike; .’ . L”lst is about the only labor report--.. evbn to the point where the T. er in’Canada who can report oh Eaton Compahy supplied weaplabor disputes arid have neither ens ahd horses to the special force of deputies. side challenge his facts. .But,. the belief ‘that it couldn’t What happened in the aftermath happen in Canada today is based of the repression in Winnipeg was . on hope rather than objective a legacy of ‘martyrdom, but a . reality. Quitettrue, most ‘Vespon- control in the hands of the piecesible” union ,leaders, ar’e &ippy meal -unionists like Tom Moore. “Compromise” was achieved beonly to pursue bread-and-butter -* issuesand stick to the rules as the cause-the One Big Union was phyEstablishment allows for the sically smashed. Even that compromise I was game. But the nature! of that way of . radical in 1919,but it is recogniz1 playing ’ brings charges that ed as everyday practice today. the union leaders a& as b+d as But recognized p’ractice’ isn’t the-capitalists and the very, rules working weil enough today. ; ’ EvenXhough the worker of toof’the gaine must be changed. . The rank-and-file working man’ day is well off by comparison to is probably not as ready to go his parents, ‘the relation betw.e’eh back to political strikes as the Es- himself and his employer is essetitablishment is eager- to implk- - tially the same.’ ‘rhe strain ‘of the ment the repressive proposals of - hidden antagdnism is‘ breaking the Rand and Woods reports. But *through the veneer -of comprothe working man is not far’ from tiise. With %.projected decline in real tionsidering political action. . Not much has changed since wages in 1969, and the possibility the heyday of the One Big Un- of direct government repression ion. Everyone’s standard of living of unions as recommended by has risen. But the gulf between the Rand and Woodsreports, work-’ owner-managers and the worker ing people are demanding that ha’s grown. Since 1961, execu- unions fight back, and are even tive:lev<el salaries have gone up ‘taking, to the streets to demon60 percent ,while warking-class strate I their refusal to ,knuckle salaries went up only 40 percent. under. They can see their bargaining - Welfare programs continue to take a higher proportional toll “power” and the benefits of out of the worker’s paycheck their own labor come to them than the executive salary. only at the pleasure of their * * * e.mployers. Unions that accept ’ Back in 1919, when J.S. Woods- this, governments and parties worth was arrested for ‘&oting Is-. that_ support it, are no friends of aiah, he quoted a passage which theirs. That’s what eaused the Winriic,alled into mind Marx’s labor theory of value-that it is people peg strike, and it may very well . ’ &ho build bridges, dig mines, do it ag&n.

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Businessmen ‘will applaud the Trent of 1000students--more-than saving of $600,000out of the 1968- . can be blame&n the registrar’s 69 operating budget and ,its ap-’ ineptitude alone or the fallability plication to capital _ \ building y . ex- df the comptiter7.soperators. pansion. The univers?ty has approval After all, isn’t that what bus- for more. buildings because it has iness (sqrry, education) is all, a- too . many students per square sbout-most to show for the’fewest foot. And the simple f&t of /not dollars, more graduates trained being able to pay its share of the . at less operating cost? , cost does not halt the pursuit of, ‘And didn’t it all become neces- bigness for bigness’ sake. sary because the business barons This is ,not to say that $aces in - who benefit from- the university university should be denikd to ’ decided they wouldn’t contribute would-be students because the edusignificantly to the tenth anni- cation offered is not perfect. The versary fund because they knew overt and covert barriers to unithat in the end the money could varsity are high enough now. *** be found in the taxpayers’. This funds that are carrying the rest ~ is a complaint against bureaucrats who seek more power of the load? I ‘And do they really care that thtiough the simple -device ’ ,&f controlling the same share of a quality of ‘education is sufferingbecause theytre only interested bigger Operation*. 1 Y‘ . ‘The ,ineptitude of some of the in graduates that are trained and admin+trators on this campus is. socialized, not educated. _ ’ due simply to the fact they got a’ * * * And while the administration job on ‘the ground floor of- a onemust have done something right storey building and found them- i to come up with the’ surplus, we selves running a skyscraper ten 1 know they don’t scrimp on the years later. landscaping or the bureaucracy, This is also a complaint against and we ,do know the library is a- academics that seek. expansion .. mong the worst in the province so there will be room for new and the working Staff salaries a- work-without questioning the continuing ,relevance or value of mong the lowest. We also know why’ the univer- old work. sity has approval for more buildFor example, faculty metibers’ I ings than it has #the money for. desire Ito do research in cheimisYearly enrolment growths of “try is encouraging more gradutwenty percent .heve I .becorrie a ate ,students and producing more ,habit for the people who. run this PhD’s than the country can prouniversity. ‘vide ’ useful jobs for-and- the I j There is no cdncern’kforwhether research in many cases’& of little ’ the university ,can pro&de a real inno,vative value. education and proper facilities or The pursuit of bigness in the - - whether there are even jobs.avail- university, like the pursuit of bigsablefor the-graduates. . -nes”sin industry, is only done by 1 The pr6blems of scheduling, cutting corners and producing an liousing, library and summer incretisixigly inferior prtducf. jobs were aggravated this year The question is when will’we-ever . by qeptember : is68 overenkol- learn.> - ’ \

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‘Liberation News Service subscriber. the Chevron is published 6ver-y friday’by the publications board of the Pederation of Students (inc), University of Waterloo. Content is independenT of the . publications board, the student council and,the university administration. Offices in the campus center ,phone (519) 744-6111, local 3443fnews and sports), 3444‘(ads)., 3445 (editor), direct ni&t‘L9000 copies line 744-0111, editor-inchief: Bob Verdu,n * : Celebrating the almost-revolution with a nod to one of the most significant (and least known) events in Canada’s history, it’s the almostrevolutidnaries: #Jim Klinck, Dave X. Stephenson,!Alex Smith, swiretand, dumdum jones, Cyril Levitt, Tom Purdy, Ross Taylor, Gaq? Robins, Wayne Smith, Brenda Wilson, Louis Silcox, Louis Silcox (twice cuz we missed him last w-k), Bryan Douglas, Peter Vanek, Steve Izma, Bill Brown please corn& honie;hihowareya to Saxe and Peterson, fraseiken (now spying on ‘the instirancit industry) dropped in for a visit, Harley ha&only a‘few more hours of freedom, and have you- e@r spent-half an hour looking for a synonym, starting wit#_H, for “alliteration”?

An Unholy Establishment Alliance of cops and clergy upholds law’n’order

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Rev Dr Sidney Kerr (center right) leads his flock of cops and faithful folio wers in to Preston 3 Temple Baptist Church.

Cries for Law and Order aren’t restricted anymore to the lunatic fringe of the status-quo (alias the right wing). And the Ku Klux Klan isn’t the only pseudo-religious group pushing Law and Order as a way of maintaining an established power (its own). Right here in Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada, the organized Christian church is showing an antisocial change bias that is frightening for an institution supposedly dedicated to the uplifting of the downtrodden and the dissemination of human, Christian (i.e.-radical) beliefs and values. Rev Dr Sidney Kerr of Preston’s Temple Baptist Church expressed his socio-economic bias when he said, “We’re very much concerned about the riots on our campuses and streets by minority groups who are quite vocal. We believe it is the responsibility of the police to protect property and to see that law and order is maintained.” (Note there is no mention of due process of democracy, especially protection for minorities, and ‘law and order’ is treated as a singular quantity. ) “But,” he said, “very often when they do this, they’re put in a very bad light public-relations-wise.” Kerr was the initiator and prime mover of a Preston mother’s day parade and church service-“for law and order, for decency, for democracy.” No business in Preston refused to help sponsor the parade, Kerr said. Full-color, full-page newspaper ads were easily paid for, and “we could have had a lot more sponsors.” (No doubt. What would have been the result of a similar campaign for funds to help the poor or the underprivileged? ) The member of Parliament for Waterloo riding, Max Saltsman was invited to address the service briefly. (Saltsman is in the New Democratic Party, but is by no means a radical. ) “It is ironic,” said Saltsman, “that such a lawabiding area as Waterloo County should be the first to decide a counterbalance is needed for lawless demonstrations.

The next logical step: organize the faithful into vigilante forces to uphold law ‘n’order and preserve and s.tatus-quo, That’s what happened in the Winnipeg general strike. The city policemen were dismissed because their sym-

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“We live in a free society where dissent is acceptable. There’s a:danger of overstressing this whole business of people conforming-of law and orderand by so-doing, putting down legitimate dissent.” Saltsman then said he saw some purpose for a special day for police. (He was probably thinking the purpose was to show support for the police against real crime: the sort of thing that people turn their backs on rather than help. ) “They have to walk somewhere in between: enforcing the law and at the same time displaying some humanity for those involved in brushes with the law.” For his efforts, Saltsman received the following telegram the next day from Kerr: “I feel it was unethical of you and unworthy of a member of Parliament to accept our invitation to a police appreciation service, the purpose of which was made clear to you, and for vou to use the occasion to make a political speech which undermined the purpose of the meeting and was, to say the least, insulting to our guest. ” Their guest was the Waterloo township police chief, Thomas Livingstone. During the service, Livingstone condemned Ontario’s legal-aid system. “I’ve never believed in legal aid,” he said, “We know that we are dealing with professional criminals. It is you and I who are often helping to pay for these people through legal aid.” During the service, Kerr had said, “The pendulum has swung too far left. We’re going to try to get it back around the center.” If that unholy establishment alliance of cops and clergy represents the center, then there really is no safe middle-of-the-road between right and left extremes for the apathetic and liberal masses to cling to. The choice is quite clearly one between the statusquo and social change.

pathies were with their striking fellow working men and because they would not disband their own union. They were replaced by eager volunteers at $6 a day (a good wage then)and armed with the 1919 equivalent of axe-handles.