ra Canada can block oil port— The federal government has the Power to block the location of an Oil port inthe Straits of Juan de Fuca, regardless of whether the Trans Mountain or all-American Northern Tier project is chosen, the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union told the National Energy Board hearing in Vancouver Thursday: Under questioning from UFAWU co-ordinator Arnie Thomlinson, a panel of UFAWU Witnesses, fishermen Bert Ogden, Frank Cox and Fred Pearson, and €Conomic advisor Bruce Yorke, charged that oil tanker traffic in the traits of Juan de Fuca will have a Potentially devastating effect on -C.’s fishery, and that the federal 80vernment has the power to stop any unilateral U.S. action which Could endanger Canada’s interests. The NEB had previously ruled that it had no jurisdiction over the building of an oil port on U.S. ter- “tory, but according to the evidence of the UFAWU’s Yorke, the federal government has jurisdic- Hon under the Boundary Waters UFAWU Treaty of 1909 which established the International Joint Commission to administer the treaty. Article four of the treaty states that ‘‘boundary waters and water flowing across the boundary shall not be polluted on either side to the injury of health or property on the other,’’ Yorke said. The union then read into the record a communication®* from the legal advisor to the Jcint Commis- sion, J. L. MacCallum, in which he stated that the Commission could have jurisdiction over tanker traffic and oil ports in the Straits of Juan de Fuca, if the matter was referred to it by either government. The UFAWU evidence buttresses a motion placed before the NEB Wednesday by former West Coast Oil Ports Commissioner Andrew Thompson. Thompson’s dramatic motion called for the Trans Moun- tain application to be thrown out because the NEB has no way of judging marine environment safety in U.S. waters, once it ruled the matter outside its jurisdiction. ‘Call session’ Delegates to Vancouver and District Labor Council and NDP MLA Rosemary’ Brown this week echoed the demand that the Bennett government immediately calla ses- sion of the legislature. The demand had been ‘voiced we earlier this week by NDP opposi- tion leader Dave Barrett and pro- vincial Communist Party leader Maurice Rush. “‘This legislature has been con- vened less than any other legislature in the country,’’ UFAWU delegate Continued from page 1 Farm Workers demand ah RAJ CHOUHAN .. . “we will ve to win our rights.” (~~ ECONOMIC FACTS By Emil Bjarnason and David Fairey _ Authoritative research estab- Ishments, such as the Science Council of Canada, have recently added their voices to those of us in the labor movement who have for several years now been warn- 8 of the de-industrialization of Our €conomy. This de-industrialization is part- y the result of increased €pendence on foreign investment a Partly symptomatic of an Nomic system in decay. It has roa brought about by a concen- Fae Investment in resource ~8ction for export in the euaty sector and branch plant Sembly operations in the secon- te a This in turn causes oo he weaknesses to the detri- < of the development of an in- 8rated manufacturing industry. oe de-industrialization of est a in terms of decline in in- ihevitan in productive industry ina ably results in the de- UStrialization of employment Percentage ie) site Py ‘S eclincunities and a. relative _ of productive employment OPPO austrial Division G.D.R. Canada Change 76/70 , ne in the level of employment tunities. And at this very momer 1970 1976 1970 é Productive i i vernment in 1976 GDR Canada Oductive industry. the Conservative go : r AGG : : i a ram- Manufacturing & Crafts 3,259 3,332 1,768 1,921 2.2 8.7 ¥ Oductive industry is that sec- Ottawa is embarking on : eae 538 566 Fe Be .s is oe Of the economy where employ- _ page to “‘privatize’’ the economy, leet si ae ote ae res eee Produces something material supposedly to correct the situa- ther : : chi ansible, such as lumber, ma- tion. Total Productive _—=—-3,978 4,139 2,451 2,791 4.1 13.9 fous» houses, cars, stoves, As demonstration of the fact ®ods, clothes and so on. Non- that the de-industrialization of Trade 858 848 1,328 1,644 -1.2 23.8 UCtive industry relates to non- Canada (and other so-called ad- Transportation & terial and intangible services vanced capitalist . countries) is Commuication 581 605 698 824 4.1 13.1 a h as banking, insurance, real caused by the degeneration and Other Non-Productive 1,355 1,548 2,929 3,749 14.2 28.0 ate, medical care the armed arasitism of the private enter- (including gov’t) rotces, Police and fire protection, aes system itself, we need only Total Employment— 6,772 8,018 7,406 9,008 18.4 21.6 a Public and private services in compare the structure of industry all sectors Sneral, and employment in Canada with =~ ation 17,058 16,786 21,297 23,110 -1.6 8.5 he relative declines of the that of any advanced socialist y, Although Williams’ announce- ment of new legislation did offer some promise of protection for farm. workers, the two Socred ministers’ comments underlined earlier statements by FWOC presi- dent Chouhan who told the cour- thouse rally, ‘‘It is clear that nothing will be simply given to us, that we must win our rights through our organized strength and with the help of our allies in the working class movement.”’ Chouhan was one of a number of speakers at the broadly;supported rally, including Canadian Labor Congress representative Dick Larsen, Tom Fawkes, publicity end fo discrimination director of the B.C. Federation of Labor and Lloyd Ingram, Van- couver local president of the Cana- dian Union of Postal Workers. The FWOC president said that farm workers ‘‘are among the most oppressed people in the country. ““As the thousands of men, women, old people and children who work on the farms will testify,’ he told the 300 people at the rally, ‘‘they have the worst con- ditions of work and receive the low- est wages. . . They get up at six in the morning to go to the fields packed like cattle in overcrowded vans. They work in the sun and the rain without any drinking water or toilet facilities. ‘‘After working 12 hours or more a day, the farm workers receive a wage which is often as low as $1 per hour,”’ he said. “That is why the farm workers in B:C. “have formed the Farm Workers Organizing Committee to initiate the struggle and to develop it until we have a union of farm workers which alone can fight for and defend our rights adequately.”’ Chouhan said that FWOC already has more than 1,000 members and ‘‘farmworkers recognize us as the source of their strength and are becoming more militant in relation to their employers.”’ , VLC, Brown urge John Radosevic charged at Tues- day’s council meeting, where dele- gates unanimously endorsed the de- mand for the session. The devastating effect-of high in- terest rates on the wood industry, the crisis caused by unconstitutional sections in the Family Relations Act, the ‘lettergate scandal’ and the the unfreezing of land in agricultural reserve to developers all require full debate in the legislature, he said. Radosevic also cited the need for discussion on an energy policy for B.C. as reason enough for a session to be called before spring, as Ben- nett has announced. ‘‘Bennett has been making an oil policy with Alberta premier Peter Lougheed without any recourse to the legislature,’’ he said. Human resources critic Rosemary Brown wants the legislature to be recalled before Christmas so that three crucial.sections of the Family Relations Act, can be made.legal. Maurice Rush last week demand- ed ‘‘action by the legislature - not more cabinet orders-in-council.’’ ‘De-industrialization’— sign of a failing system number of jobs in productive in- - dustry over the past 20 or 30 years has been dramatic both in Canada and the United States. In the last decade alone in Canada the pro- portion of total employment which is in the productive sector has declined by five per cent. More than 70 per cent of the work force is now employed in the non- productive sector. ; One of the excuses given peren- nially by the business community and conservative politicians is that there is too much government In- tervention and control of the economy. They cite ‘‘creeping so- cialism’’ and increasing public en- terprise as the main causes of lack country of similar size, (but far less endowed with natural re- sources). In the accompanying table it is shown that the distribution of em- ployment as between productive and non-productive sectors of the economy is dramatically different in the socialist German Democrat- ic Republic from what it is in Can- ada despite the ravages of the Sec- ond World War on the GDR. The figures demonstrate that not only has the relative number of work- ers engaged in productive industry COMPARATIVE GROWTH RATES AND EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRIAL DIVISION CANADA AND THE GERMAN: DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLIC 1970-1976 in the GDR been maintained at more than half the total work force but the percentage of such workers engaged in manufactur- ing is double what it is in Canada. Consequently, even with the high level social services provided by the state in the GDR, the propor- tion of the work force engaged in the non-productive sector is con- siderably less than half of the total work force. : Interesting in this comparison as well, is the relative number of people engaged in the trade sector. — a In the GDR, employment in trade declined between 1970 and 1976 (the latest figures available) by 1.2 per cent in absolute numbers com- pared to a growth of 23.8 per cent in Canada. Obviously the GDR is becoming far more efficient in this 4 sector too. Also significant is the fact that total employment grew in the GDR in this period by slightly less than the percentage growth of em- ployment in Canada (18.4 per cent compared to 21.6 per cent), while at the same time the GDR experi- enced a 1.6 per cent decline in overall population compared to a population growth in Canada of 8.5 per cent. These facts demonstrate the so- cialization of the economy is clearly not the cause of de-indus- trialization in Canada. | PACIFIC TRIBUNE— NOVEMBER 9, 1979— Page 3 ee