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September 10,
1986

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Vol. 49, No. 32

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SACTU urges renewed solidarity, action
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Police action deplored
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massed on the steps of the provincial legislature Tuesday morning as the “second
wave”’ of the strike by the Newfoundland Association of Public Employees (NAPE),
first launched March 3 in a fight for wage parity, entered its seventh day.

The province’s Confederation Building was virtually under seige by police with
officers guarding all entrances. NAPE public relations officer Brenda White said in
an interview from union headquarters that the doors of all the buildings were locked
and police “were barring all the doors, allowing no one in without a government
tag.”

Ata rally the previous day, Canadian
Labor Congress president Shirley Carr, in
St: John’s with other executive members for
a special meeting of the CLC executive
council, told 3,000 demonstrators at the
legislature: “Workers all across Canada are
solidly united with you.”

Carr condemned police brutality that
was renewed with a vengeance as the strike
was launched again Sept. 3. “‘It is the nght
of workers of the province ... to be free of
police harassment that is dictated by the
premier of this province,” she declared.

The same day of the rally, in Grand Falls,
42 strikers were seized and roughed up by
police before they were arrested and
charged with public mischief and obstruc-

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Yemational Woodworkers Local 1-217 members Gary Wong (I) and Glenn
thoerman were among hundreds of IWA members who have been out in
“Uni Pping centres across the province this week, distributing copies of the
| bub. s brochure explaining the union’s stand against contracting-out to the

Tin, ic. In Port Alberni, the district labor council took out a full-page ad in the
hay telling readers that the ads being taken out by Forest Industrial Relations
No © an echo of earlier campaigns in 1934 and 1946. The objective then, as
tive 7.75 "to smash the union or render it completely powerless of ineffec-

- the council's ad stated.

tion. NAPE representative Tony Hamilton
told reporters later that he was “shocked
and disgusted” with the actions of the
police.

“The RCMP were cruel,” he said. “They
were grabbing people by their throats. They
ripped people’s jackets and shirts off them
and threw them into the mud.”

The 42 arrested Monday brought to 160
the number arrested since the strike first
began March 3, including 28 people who
were arrested the first day of the strike’s
second wave Sept. 3.

The excessive police force which opened
the renewed strike confirmed suspicions
that Newfoundland Premier Brian Peck-
ford had never intended to address the long
standing issue of wage parity for NAPE
members but had merely hoped to use the

five months between the suspension of the

strike April 7 and its resumption last week
to dissipate union members’ militance.

But if anything, “our members are more
determined than they were last time to win
parity,” union president Fraser March
declared.

And it will be much more aggressive
strike this time, he said, adding: “We are not
going to trust them (the government on
back to work agreements.”

The 5,500 government employees, res-
ponsible for clerical and administrative
work as well as highways and snow clear-
ing, are demanding wage parity with hospi-
tal employees and others who earn as much
as $3,700 more than NAPE members
although their job classifications are
roughly the same.

see NFLD. page 12

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