YP ny fe ee g r e, Season's Breetings to all who | wish you health, but not with wealth 3 | wish you work and worry ; | wish you what | wish myself, Cz A share in man’s sad story. ¢ | wish you, on that next door day wo We coax the world to spin our way a A share in all its glory. ¢ — from ‘AVE’ by Joe Wallace | Sneelings Regional Committee ; B.C. Association of United Ukrainian Canadians have supported the Spanish people’s fight for democracy VETERANS OF THE MACKENZIE PAPINEAU BATTALION, INTERNATIONAL BRIGADES - from the Maple Ridge Club and the East Fraser Valley Communist Party of Canada i inaldiellelt : 3 : 3 3 2 5 : S Greetings for the New Year Vancouver Club Surrey Club Burnaby-Coquitlam Club Ginger Goodwin Club YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE / Jobs, education, peace CP leader terms Bill 46 ‘a new low in hypocrisy’ The Socred government’s in- troduction of Bill 46 ‘‘demonstrates that the trade union movement is faced with a struggle for its sur- vival’’, Communist Party provin- cial leader Maurice Rush said Tues- day in a statement on the legisla- tion. Rush said that the Employers’ Council of B.C. and the main multinational corporations were behind the legislation and that the Socreds were encouraged to use it by the federal government’s attack on the postal workers and by the lack of unity in the labor movement to fight back against anti-labor legislation. ‘*Premier Bennett’s statement that the government took the action it did because it was concerned with the education of our young reaches a new low in hypocrisy, coming as it does from a government which has drastically cut back on educational expenditures and reduced the op- portunities of our youth at every level,’’ Rush said. : “It is clear that the government wanted this special session of the legislation to broaden its anti-labor powers under the Essential Services Disputes Act. This was proven by the fact that Bennett called the special session without allowing time for the opposing sides to get together. It was further underscored when the workers BCTF opposes Bill 46 Continued from page 1 The Federation has recommend- ed that $30,000 be allocated to carry out an advertising campaign throughout the province ‘‘concen- trated on the attack against workers by the various levels of government.” Also part of the Federation pro- gram is a plan to provide all necessary support for the Canadian Union of Public Employees to take any legal action ‘‘against parties who have violated those sections of the labor code that invoke a duty to bargain in good faith, thereby pro- longing the dispute.”’ CUPE had worked out proposals for an organized return to work before the introduction of the back- to-work legislation but the sudden reversal of position by school trustees prevented an_all-party agreement to go back. The action by trustees indicated that the government had planned for some time to use the West Kootenay dispute as he pretext for further curtailing public sector bargaining rights. Earlier, the B.C. Teachers’ Federation voiced its opposition to what BCTF president Pat Brady called ‘‘the threat to include all public sector workers under the Essential Services Disputes Act.’’ Brady noted~that teachers were “‘concerned about the situation in the West Kootenays’’ but declared, «the legislation brought for- ward by the government goes far beyond what was needed to end the strike-lockout. It is a threat to free collective bargaining to all unions in the public sector. “We do not have the right to strike,’? Brady said, referring to teachers, ‘‘but we have always sup- ported the right of other groups of workers to use the strike tactic when other means failed to bring about a « settlement. If non-teaching school employees and other public sector workers are included under the Essential Services Act, they will lose something that has taken years to gain.”’ Brady also noted that a major issue in the West Kootenay dispute concerned the right of CUPE locals to bargain with individual boards rather than a employers’ associa- tion and voiced the BCTF’s agree- ment ‘‘without reservation’’ with CUPE’s desire. ‘This is a right we have insisted on for ourselves and we believe it - should continue to be available to our fellow workers in the school system,”’ he said. IFELIZ NAVIDAD Y PROSPERO ANO NUEVO! Season’s Greetings to all our Cuban and Canadian friends May Cuba in the 20th year of its revolution continue its great successes CANADIAN CUBAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION decided to call off the strike and return to work, but the government persisted in going ahead with its draconian legislation.” Rush said that the CP predicted in 1977 that the government would. ‘*push to have the Essential Services legislatron extended.”’ This has now been done, he said, and it is not likely to stop there unless there is mass protest to stop it. ‘‘Un- doubtedly the new legislation will strengthen the pressure from the private sector to outlaw strikes, and to press for right to work legisla- tion,’”’ he predicted. The Communist Party welcomes the stand taken by the NDP in op- posing the legislation, Rush added, but pointed out that ‘‘unfortunate- ly, the record of the NDP govern- ment is being used by the Socreds to justify government intervention in labor disputes.’’ But an important difference to note between the pre- sent legislation and the strike break- ing legislation of the NDP in 1974 is “the new sweeping powers of the Socred cabinet aimed against the very life of the trade union move- ment in B.C.,,’’ he said. “‘There has never been a time when unity of labor and all pro- gressive people was more urgent,”’ he continued, ‘‘The government must be stopped from proclaiming Section 11, and powerful united movement is needed to compel the government at the spring sesion of the legislature to repeal Section 11 and the Essential Services Disputes Act.” E on the path of progress and peace and the happiness and well-iseing of its people. 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