Tracing
footsteps

December 17, 1986
40°
Vol. 49, No. 45

ISSN 0030-896X

» Trades facing battle
at ALRT bridge site
sas hot edict attacked

— page 32

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With this large-as-life seasons’ edi-
tion of the Tribune, we conclude our i
Sst year of publication with a wish to '
our readers and supporters for peace |
and progress in 1987.

Keeping with the trend we set in
1985, we produced several special
issues to mark the continued struggle
for disarmament — and you respond-
ed by raising, for the second year run-
} ning, $100,000 in the annual financial
drive.

This year started off well, with the
electoral sweep Jan. 30 of all nine
seats by the Committee of Progressive
Electors in the Vancouvér school
board byelection.

Meanwhile the progressive major-
ity then on city council held the finest
annual peace event ever, with a three-
day peace symposium and the Walk
for Peace to highlight the nine-day
peace festival marking Vancouver's
100 years. The peace train did not
proceed as smoothly at the historic
meeting between U.S. President Ron-
ald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev at Rekjavik in October.

The International Woodworkers
months-long fight against contracting-
out has now ended, thanks to the uni-
ted efforts of labor — a message that
should continue in 1987.

We have suffered setbacks on the
provincial and civic fronts. But new
Premier Bill Vander Zalm has already

a

seer

: ” ig the recurring demand stated through signboards at a demonstration called to protest the Fraser-
aenctone NOM 1s af South African Zulu chiet Gatsha Buthelezi at the Hotel Vancouver Dec. 5. Buthelezi, accused of
pertitite sponsored tae ee wazuly homeland’ of which ha ia chlet misiaae color goon-like tactics to suppress
pale nctions against the racist Botha government voiced by the African National Congress, the

. inibel South Africans. At arally in Vancouver the preceding night, anti-apartheid spokesmen
United Democratic Fronta ainst Pretoria and urged Canadian workers to support the boycott of South African goods.
called for total sanctions aoe inte ungovernable and to force the white minority regime to step down have resulted in a
| Recent actions ee ae unprecedented in scope. Story on the rally, page 7: on the demonstration, page 8.
clampdown on p :

government corru
dissent, oppose the call for

shown talk exceeds substance, and the
new NPA council has already shed its
moderate image to show its true right-
wing essence. The honeymoon will
soon be over.

So despite the setbacks, we look
forward to a year of change — and
some hard battles — when our first
issue comes out on Jan. 15

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