Wednesday, September 4, 1985

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Vol. 48, No. 32

Refuting
the myths
about
unions

— page 12 —

Images

of the
working
life

— page 10 —

UAW making
labor history
— page 6 —

Star Wars: keeping Ca

nada out
— pages 4, 5

RIBUNE

on pick

Anti-apartheid drive
mounting despite ban
ting of ship

—— a
Bette cnmnecane
nh ses

Urging supporters to do everything possible to put economic pressure on the apartheid regime, Southern Africa Action
Coalition president Zayed Gamiet addresses rally outside Surrey-Fraser Docks in New Westminster Tuesday, called by
Concerned Citizens Against Apartheid to protest the arrival of the Dutch ship Nedlloyd Kingston carrying steel from South
Africa. Some 200, including representatives of several unions, the B.C. Federation of Labor and the Confederation of
Canadian Unions, turned out for the rally which unanimously endorsed a resolution calling on the federal government to
“impose mandatory economic sanctions on South Africa until the government ends the state of emergency, uncondition-
ally releases Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners and initiates negotiations with the true and authentic leaders of
the people of South Africa to dismantle apartheid and to establish a system of government providing for free and
democratic rule embracing all the people of South Africa.”

The Dutch-registered ship Nedlloyd
Kingston brought its cargo of South Afri-
can steel into the Surrey-Fraser Docks
early Tuesday morning — but no long-
shoreman moved to offload it for at least
the first day despite a sweeping ex parte
injunction which barred citizens from set-
ting up a planned picket line.

Throughout the morning, fork lifts and
trucks crossed and re-crossed the docks,
handling cargo from four other vessels tied
up at the Fraser River dock. But not a
crane or winch moved on the Kingston,
one of three Nedlloyd ships which regu-
larly call on West Coast ports with South
African cargo.

And at a rally upon the hill, on a site
chosen to avoid contempt proceedings
under the terms of the injunction, B.C.
Federation of Labor secretary-treasurer
Cliff Andstein told a crowd of 200 that the
steel “still has a long way to go” regardless
of the immediate effect of the injunction.

“The steel still isn’t off-loaded, and even
when it is, it still has to be delivered. Even
when it is delivered, using injunctions and
the police, it still hasn’t been used some-
where,” he declared.

City urges sanctions, page 2
No caving in, page 7

“There’s a long way to go — and all of
us should keep up the fight.”

The rally and boycott action by long-
shoremen came amidst a mounting cam-
paign against apartheid and renewed
demands in this province and elsewhere
for disinvestment in South Africa, boy-
cotts of firms doing business in South
Africa and government-imposed sanc-
tions against South Africa.

week by a declaration from the Canadian
Labor Congress that it would support
longshoremen refusing to offload the
Nedlloyd Kingston’s cargo in line with the
call by the International Confederation of
Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) to “promote
industrial action to harass South African
interests in any way.”

B.C. Federation of Labor president Art
Kube had declared Aug. 22 that the labor
movement would be taking action to stop
the cargo from being offloaded as a pro-
test against the apartheid regime.

But on Aug. 30, the ship’s agents
Transpacific Transportation Ltd. together
with Western Stevedoring, Surrey-Fraser
Docks and the B.C. Maritime Employers’
Association were in Supreme Court seek-
ing an ex parte injunction to prevent anti-
apartheid demonstrators from setting up a
picket line at the entrance to the docks.

The resulting order, signed by Justice
Taylor, was sweeping, reminiscent of
injunction orders issued against trade
unionists in the 1960s. It enjoined anyone
from:

@ Wrongfully and without lawful

see NO RESPITE page 12