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CHILDREN
WINNERS
IN STRIKE

Over the next few weeks the media will
play the guessing game of who the winner is
in the five-week strike we just went through.

It is very evident who the winner is when
you take a look at the smiling faces of the
teachers and students at a Vancouver
school for the mentally retarded.

It all started with a phone call to the
Regional Office from Richard Earl, Director
for the Association for the Mentally
Retarded. He was wondering if there would
be anyone in the IWA during the strike who
had some time on their hands and was
handy with saw, hammer and nails. That
prompted a phone call to 1-217, Vancouver,
who brought it before the Strike Committee.
The end result was a group of skilled
tradesmen (in the form of Clarence Murray,
Plant Chairman at Western Forest
Products, Marpole Division; Helmut
Tomani; Sam Agire; and Cheri Cuthbert)
setting out for the Eastside Children’s Place
in the Church of the Nazarene at Windsor
and Kingsway in Vancouver.

They got Western Forest Products, Weld-
wood, and M. & B. to donate the materials
and to fix a climbing platform, build

shelving, storage space, a changing table
and a sandbox.

“It?s just great. We tried every route,
including the Blue Army, but no luck. We’re

so pleased to haveit done after all this time”,
said Kathy McLennan, Acting Director at
the Eastside Children’s Place.

It’s a great example of working together;
of putting aside self-interest for a greater
purpose — and the companies and our
members alike are to be applauded.

August 21, 1981

Mr. Robert Mingay
Media & PR Director
IWA

500 - 1285 West Pender
Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4B2
Dear Mr. Mingay:

It is a pleasant task indeed to express, on
behalf of the Board of Directors and Carell
Barton, her staff and clients, our sincere
appreciation for the work done by your IWA
members at the Eastside Preschool. We are
especially grateful to Helmut Tomani, Sam
Arquirr, Gerald Cuthbert and Clarence
Murray, who have done an excellent job.
Please thank them for us.

You all have demonstrated, in a most
positive and significant fashion, that a
spirit of genuine concern and volunteerism
js still very much alive in our community.
There are so many disabled citizens who
need and deserve a helping hand from all of
us these days.

The “hand” that you and your IWA
members have given us will not be
forgotten.

Thank you again.

Yours sincerely,

Douglas A. Denholm
Executive Director

Helmut Tomani, one of three |WA members of Local 1-217 Vancouver, who spent their time during the forest industry strike
fixing a climbing platform, shelving units, changing table and sandbox at the Eastside Children’s Place in Vancouver.

Photo courtesy The Vancouver Sun

CKWH APOLOGIZES
TO FEDERATION

June 12, 1981

The Executive Board

B.C. Federation of Labour
c/o Mr. Tom Fawkes
Communications Director
8110 Boundary Road
Burnaby, B.C.

V5M 4A2

Dear Sir:

Please consider this letter to you, and to
the B.C. Federation of Labour as a whole, as
an apology from Radio CK WX for an Editor-
ial Commentary written, and voiced by, our
Roy Jacques at 6:53 a.m., May 28th, 1981.

Mr. Jacques in his editorial made some
references to Adolph Hitler. He then went on
to refer to a local labour situation and
referred to Mr. Jim Kinnaird, your Execu-
tive Director.

As General Manager of Radio CKWX, itis
my opinion that Mr. Jacques showed a
serious and unfortunate lack of professional
judgment in his commentary.

May I assure you, gentlemen, that Mr.
Jacques’ commentary was his work alone,
and does not in any way reflect the opinion
or feelings of this radio station.

We feel, and I am sure you would agree,
that editorialists must be given autonomy.
But we also feel that they must, in return,
exercise good judgment in their work.

Mr. Jacques in his May 28th editorial did
not exercise such judgment. I have made
him aware of our dissatisfaction with the

commentary, as well as that of Mr. Kinnaird
and yourselves. I am confident Mr. Jacques
will be more responsible in the future.

On behalf of our station, I also have
written a letter of apology to Mr. Kinnaird
personally.

Additionally, I have also ordered an
on-air apology to the Federation and to Mr.
Kinnaird.

It will be voiced by Jack Lee, our News/
Information Manager, and will be aired at
6:53 a.m. on Thursday, June 18th, 1981,
immediately following the Roy Jacques
commentary of that morning. A copy of the
apology is attached.

Radio CKWX wishes to thank the B.C.
Federation of Labour for its restraint in this
matter, and we trust that our demonstrated
concern in this matter will ensure the good
relations we have long enjoyed with the B.C.
Federation of Labour.

Yours very truly,
Tom Peacock
General Manager

Cage

That's Brownslip. | call him the magician ...he must bea
magician living on the salary we pay him.

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