BSBSer BCRBSeezaeesre \ — eT eee tr etinent ~ COPE picks candidates to launch ‘86 campaign / 3 o E e ‘.. i bs COPE city council candidates (left, fro Carole Walker, Libby Davies, Bruce E Nomination meeting Sept. 10. if Organization is the deciding factor in the Noy. 15 civic election in Vancouver, ton the Committee of Progressive Elec- ®rs has won it, hands down. embers of the labor and community »aCked civic alliance gave repeated stand- 2 ovations to COPE mayoral candidate, C d. Harry Rankin, and the rest of the OPE slate for city council and school “Nd parks boards, at a nomination meet- 28 Sept. 10. ne ith no one contesting the nominees C those slates recommended by the OPE executive — and with members the oving the recommendation to leave €€ council seats open to Ald. Bill Yee two running mates — COPE mem- Uy, TS set the stage for another solid COPE- Aity campaign this fall. he overwhelming sense of unity and Mmitment at the COPE nomination Tally in the Vancouver East Cultural etre wii —which also saw COPE staff a oe m COPE president Jim Quai riksen and Bruce Yorke ple members receive ovations — stood in stark contrast to the scene that was to unfold at the right-wing Non-Partisan Association meeting on Saturday. The plans of the revamped, business bankrolled organization to unseat the progressive alliance that has run city council for the past four years were dealt a serious blow with the unceremonious dumping of the NPA’s trump card, broadcaster Carole Taylor. Taylor was cut from the ballot, along with education activist Chris Taulu, when supporters of businessman Gim Huey packed the meeting and gave their candi- date, a contender not approved by the NPA brass, an easy win. He joins eight other NPA candidates for a slate that leaves a seat open for the remaining member of The Electors Action Move- ment, Marguerite Ford. _ Aside from revealing the deep divisions within the NPA ranks and leaving NPA ; H ate hailed Lyle: \ 1) Pauline Weinstein, Jean Swanson, Frank Kennedy, dged fight for jobs, services and public housing at electoral strategy in tatters, Huey’s upset victory constitutes an embarrassment for the association. It has been running, for the past three months, television ads feat- uring Taylor, who had the solid backing of NPA mayoral candidate Gordon Camp- bell. That development gave new meaning to the words of Rankin, COPE’s senior alderman and an 18-year veteran of city council, when he told the nomination meeting that the NPA is known for its “unprincipled politics. “The NPA has a flexible conscience that allows them to be all things to all people — that’s what we call political dis- honesty,” said Rankin. He was referring to the opposition of council’s right-winger to the four-year capi- tal plan that had passed through council the preceding day. While NPA and TEAM for- see WEINSTEIN page 2 September 17, 1986 40° Vol. 49, No. 33 Don’timpose 90 days, IWA tells Vander Zalm NANAIMO — Intemational Wood- workers regional president Jack Munro Monday, called on Premier Bill Vander Zalm not to intervene in the forest industry dispute by impos- ing a 90-day cooling off period, warn- ing that it would be unfair to force IWA members to make a decision between defying the law or risk losing their jobs to contracted-out “share- croppers. “This is the 55th day of the strike and I want to say to the premier — this is not the situation for a 90-day cooling off period,” Munro told the opening session of the [WA conven- tion at the Coast Bastion Inn. “The issue is just too basic for that. “We're talking about the survival of our union and the survival of our membership. Benefits of years of organization will be lost if the employers win this issue,” he said. The IWA leader emphasized that many of the pulp mills were running out of chips and may soon be com- pelled to shut down, putting further economic pressure on the major forest companies to settle. But if a 90-day cooling off period were imposed, and striking IWA members ordered back to work, it would allow those com- panies to rebuild their stockpiles. “Tt would be unfair of the govern- ment to say to workers that they'll Labor role crucial, page 12 IWA independence, page 3 Unity can win, page 7 have to choose between obeying a possible: law which will probably mean that they won’t have a job, that they’ll lose their homes and end up standing in a goddamn food line watching a sharecropper go to work to do their job,” Munro said. “We can’t walk away from this strike and let the-pulp mills restore their stockpiles to do this all over again 90 days from now.” Munro’s comments came during a vehement opening speech to the con- vention in which he assailed the forest companies for seeking to become the landlords of British Columbia’s forests and to force workers to become sharecroppers through the contracting- out of IWA work. “This strike is about the chief exec- utive officers of the major forest com- panies wanting to become the land- lords of the forest industry ... with us as the sharecroppers,” he said. “And if it continues any further, we'll be walking around saying ‘yes sir’ and sO Sil. & Munro’s attack on the companies” bargaining stand won _ repeated applause from the 150 delegates, demonstrating that the determination with which IWA members entered the strike has not abated. despite eight weeks on the picket line. The four-day meeting is the first see MUNRO page 3 oe TTT,