{ } - ot ‘Burchett on Kampuchea For 25 years, as he says, re- nowned Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett has “‘sup- ported the Cambodian people in their most difficult mom- ents.” Never were they more difficult than during the geno- cidal regime of Pol Pot. Bur- chett, who began a cross-Can- ada tour speaking on his latest trip to Cambodia tells of the Pol Pot regime — and the new government struggling to re- build society, page 3. ee SERPS UY SEE TS Top: More than 3,000 public employees i in Italian Cultural Centre wave placards in mass protest over pension legislation. Bottom: Overflow audience fills park grounds. Mike Kramer, Canadian Union Public Employees representative, addresses the crowd. 4,000 jam Italian Centre as pension profests grow * More than 4,000 left their jobs ing park.Some3,000people were unionists to “register a protest” Tuesday to turn out en masse to in the hall while another 1,000 and called on them to make the the Italian Cultural Centre, as listened to speakers outside. rally on the Legislature lawn, government employees continued Inside, B.C. Government scheduled for June 17, the biggest their campaign of rallies against Employees president Norman of the campaign. the Bennett government’s pen- Richards reiterated the demand H foarte 4 sion legislation. for the withdrawal of the legisla- ae ame vi aah oe Ae Altogether, 10,000 govern- tion and warned that if the ding Saco cane with tite ment employees were reported government had not set up a yp» Nae Sons off the job in Greater Vancouver _ meeting to discuss the withdrawal : ¥y Tuesday afternoon. by June 20 the BCGEU would —__ Ray Mercer of the Canadian ' Within minutes after the conveneaspecialemergencycon- Union of Public Employees, also |} scheduled time for the rally had ference to outline a program of addressed the rally, chaired by arrived, the main hall at thecentre — further action. Vancouver and District Labor eopaaD forcing organizers B.C. Federation of Labor Council president Syd Thomp- to hold another rally in an adjoin- president Jim Kinnaird urged son. “y ‘ procedures An island in the storm As the government of Maurice Bishop strives to develop the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada, it has called on those who left the country to flee poverty to return, page 7. And the Grenadian ambassador to the Organization of American States outlines the program undertaken by the new govern- ment, page 9. e id Wood tradesmen organize} Tradesmen in the forest industry, dissatisfied with wage lev- § els and conditions for the trades, have formed a special or- @ ganization, incorporated under the Societies Act, to advance their cause within the three unions in the industry. Labor_@ Comment outlines the new group’s program and looks at its background — and future, page 12. =a aan % — Rory eg — ceacemenornimercas dae sas BS + a he fo ee OE 3 eee SS a ae. = ‘ 4 : ? 3 at Can.-U.S. salmon talks Canada is ‘‘perilously close’’ to signing a new salmon interception treaty with the U.S. which will worsen the present imbalance in _. which the U.S. takes more than double the amount of Canadian salmon, than Canadians take of U.S. salmon. Negotiations this week in Van- couver between representatives of the federal department of fisheries and external affairs and their U.S. counterparts were reported to have agreed to the principle that each country should harvest only the amount of salmon which its rivers produce. But United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union secretary treasurer George Hewison, an ad- visor to the Canadian side in the talks, has warned that the much touted principle of equality ‘“‘has no application in fact. ‘The U.S. wants to increase its level of interception and decrease ours, that is what is really thecase,”’ - he said. Salmon interception between Canada and the U.S. is regulated by the 1932 Fraser River Treaty, amended in 1965 to give U.S. fishermen-50 percent of all Fraser River salmon. Canada has been trying to negotiate a new treaty since 1971 to redress the imbalance which sees U.S. fishermen take five million salmon each year as opposed to the less than two million U.S. fish taken by B.C. fishermen. Hewison now states that the union has ‘‘new scientific informa- tion’’ to prove that the imbalance is actually worse. It had previously been assumed that 50 percent of the salmon caught by the west coast trawl fishery was bound for U.S. rivers, but now the union knows that only 10 to 15 percent are U.S. fish. ‘“We’ve been fishing our own fish. The imbalance is greater than suspected,”’ he said. In this weeks’ negotiations, the Canadian side advanced three See TREATY, page 11 New Land Use Act will strip civic power Legislation which will re-write planning, zoning and development ins calls BG. municipalities and cities will be in- troduced in the current session of the provincial legislature. The legislation, called the Land Use Act, the Tribune learned this week will denude Regional Districts and municipal and city councils of important planning powers while giving developers almost everything they have been Although the legislation is ex- pected to be introduced in the legislature in the near future by municipal affairs minister Bill Vander Zalm, little of its signifi- cance has been made public. Vancouver director of planning Roy Spaxman has not seen the legislation and is not aware that it will affect the city of Vancouver in any way. ; Coquitlam mayor Jim Tonn has seen the legislation but he told the Tribune that he is sworn to secrecy until if is presented in the i , The other major group to have seen the legislation in advance is the See DEVELOPERS page 2 One last week With this issue, we enter the last and most crucial week of the 1980 financial drive — with more than $21,000 yet to raise. The full details are on page 11 but in short, we’ve got to raise $3,000 a day, every day, by June 21. We think it can be done. But only you can make cer- tain.