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August 14, 1989
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Vol. 52, No.28
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Guarantee of choice urged

as Daigle ruling welcomed

Women’s groups and pro-choice activists
across the province this week hailed the
unanimous decision by the Supreme Court
of Canada Aug. 8 in overturning the injunc-
tion order against Chantal Daigle and
called on the federal government to make
changes to the Canada Health Act to gua-
rantee that all women have the right to a
safe, fully-funded abortion.

At the same time, they emphasized, there
1s no need for Ottawa to enact a new law on
abortion.

“We are encouraged by the swiftness and
the unanimity of the (Supreme Court) deci-
sion,” Anita Braha, national co-ordinator
for the National Association of Women and
the Law told a press conference in Van-
couver Aug. 10. “This decision should send

TRIBUNE PHOTOS — SEAN GRIFFIN

a signal to Canadian women that rights to
bodily integrity and security of the person
are secure from malicious use of injunctions
to prevent abortions.

“We call on the federal government to
stand behind Canadian women to ensure
that there will be no punitive or restrictive

see DAIGLE page 2

Fishermen
beat back
concessions

It was a strike that from the beginning
put industry workers on the front line of the
battle over free trade as B.C. fishermen,
shoreworkers and tendermen faced demands
by corporate fish processors to drive wages
and conditions down to the levels prevailing
in the U.S. fishing industry.

But on Aug. 7, 18 days after they
launched strike action coastwide, members
of the United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union beat back concessions and
kept their collective agreements intact,
together with the modest wage increases.
The settlement package also includes an
agreement to put the issue of how federal
government trade concessions to the U.S.
will affect the fishing industry before an
industrial inquiry commissioner for binding
recommendations.

“The emptovers threw everything at us
but the kitchen sink — they wanted con-
cessions and they wanted them badly,”
UFAWU president Jack Nichol told the
Tribune following the union vote on the
tentative agreement. “But they didn’t get
them.”

At meetings called quickly Monday
night, shoreworkers voted 76 per cent to
accept the new three-year pact while tend-
ermen voted 84 per cent in favour of their
three-year contract proposal.

The agreements came following a full

see FISH page 8

Dr. Dorothy Goresky, president of the
B.C. Chapter of Canadian Physicians
for the Prevention of Nuclear War,
(top, at right) lights a paper lantern for
a child during the Lanterns for Peace
commemoration at Vancouver's Sun-
set Beach Aug. 6. The lanterns were
made by Vancouver school children
and at dusk more than 1,000 people
carried them down to the water (left)
in a ceremony organized by the
CPPNW to mark the 44th anniversary
of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
The lanterns are part of an ancient
Japanese tradition.