Even though their message — that survival depends on ri
Weapons — was serious, demonstrators enj

dding the world of nuclear
joyed the brief sunshine and the enter-

BRITISH GWE Ui tii) dk

&
Perry

TRIBUNE PHOTO—SEAN GRIFFIN

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tainment at Saturday‘s rally marking the anti-nuclear protest. At right, Dr. Tom

‘Declare Canada nuclear-free zone’ —Perry

Dr. Tom Perry, a member of the
1adian chapter of Physicians for
Social Responsibility told 2,500
anti-nuclear protestors in Vancou-
ver Saturday that the federal gov-
ernment ‘‘should get rid of the nuc-
lear weapons stationed at Comox

_ and Bagotville, Quebec and should

declare Canada a nuclear-free’

zone.

“Tt should then seek a treaty with
the U.S. and the USSR respecting
that nuclear-free status,’’ he told

the open-air rally which ended an
hour-long march across Vancou-
ver’s Burrard Bridge to Sunset
Beach.

Some 2,500 people, carrying a
colorful array of banners and plac-
ards took part in the march, one of
several actions throughout the pro-
vince and across the continent to
mark International Day of Anti-
Nuclear Protest.

The march and rally, which fo-
cused on the threat posed by nuc-

May Day Greetings —
to the labor movement

Trade Union Research Bureau
138 E. Cordova, Van.

681-2338

‘May Day
greetings
for labor
solidarity
in 1961

CUPE Local 900
Kamloops

lear weapons and the arms race,
was organized by the Coalition for
a Nuclear-Free World.

Perry was one of several speak-
ers at the rally which also heard
from United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union president Jack

Nichol, David Dorrington of the.

Coalition, B.C. Peace Council
president Carmela Allevato and

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, from the Physicians for Social Responsibility, addresses the crowd of 2,500
who filled the beach-front park.

Native representative Nilak Butler,
among others.

He echoed the warning, voiced
by several conferences of physi-
cians in the U.S. and Canada, of
the almost total destruction that
would result from only a small nuc-
lear bomb falling on Vancouver.

Because of that, he said, ‘“‘it is

not our job to consider how we.
would treat the victims of nuclear
war — but how we, as physicians,
can prevent nuclear war.”’

Allevato emphasized Perry’s call
for the removal of nuclear wea-
pons, adding that rally participants
“can do something about it — to
tell your government to take ac-
tion.””

Municipal strikers would get $3.15
in proposed new GVRD agreement

After 13 weeks, 9,000 striking
municipal workers in the Greater
Vancouver Regional District have
won a tentative collective agree-
ment which, if accepted in ratifica-
tion votes this week, will have the
workers back on the job Monday.

The proposed two year collective
agreement provides for a $3.15 per

_ hour wage increase for outside

workers, about 31 percent spread
over the two years, anda larger per-
centage increase for clerical work-
ers who will receive an average
17.22 percent in 1981, 14.69 per-
cent in Jan. 1981 and another 1.5
percent’on July 1, 1982. All work-
ers will receive a $400 cash bonus
for signing.

However the lowest paid clerical
workers will receive more due to an
adjustment guaranteeing a mini-
mum monthly wage increase of
$260 in 1981. The adjustment, said
to have been a key in the settlement,
will see the lowest paid clerical
worker, a clerk-typist 2, receive an
additional $111 per month for 1981
in addition to a $149 per month
general wage increase.

Fraternal May Day Greetings
to all working people

Vancouver, New Westminster and District
Building and Construction Trades Council

The adjustment, coming on top
of the higher percentage increase
for the clerical workers, was an im-
portant move in the direction of the
union’s demand for equalization of
base rates between male outside
workers and female inside workers.
But the gains were blunted by the
failure of the union to have the ad-
justment worked into the wage set-
tlement, and instead the clerical
workers will receive a one time only
cash payment.

Although the principle of equal
pay for work of equal value was not
established, the unions’ aggressive
stand on the issue undoubtedly got
a better settlement for clerical
workers, and established the issue
as a key one for future bargaining.

The agreement is also a consider-
able improvement over the
GVRD’s ‘‘final offer’? placed on

_the table at the beginning of the

strike in January which offered on-
lya 15 percent increase in a one year
agreement and which included a
demand for a new health and wel-
fare package which the unions
could not accept.

Outside workers were originally
offered $1.30 in the first year,
which has now: been raised to
$1.75; and the employer demand
for a new health plan has been
withdrawn. :

The agreement is also a 15 cent
per hour improvement over the
GVRD’s second ‘‘final offer’’ of
$3 per hour over two years which
forced a breakdown in negotiations
two weeks ago.

The GVRD expected the $3 offer

‘to split union ranks, but mass

membership meetings instead gave
an overwhelming vote of confi-
dence to the union negotiators.

Concert

Nicaraguan folk group Man-
cotal and Luis Enrique Mejia
Godoy, internationally acclaim-
ed performers, will perform at a
Solidarity with Nicaragua con-
cert in Vancouver, May 8, 8
p.m., Legion Hall, 2205 Com-

mercial Dr.

| C. Sloan, secretary-treasurer J. Biddle, president

MAY DAY
GREETINGS.

from the
United Fishermen & Allied Workers Union
—Local 1

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