Chilean democratic.organizations around the world have called for international protest against the latest repressive actions against Chilean trade unionists by the fascist junta. On Jan. 22, the junta ar- rested Manuel Bustos and Alimiro Guzman, president and secretary of Coordinara, the Coordinating Council of Trade unions, thus launching a new wave of repression against workers’ organizations. The two were detained on charges of ‘‘impersonating trade union leaders.”’ The Canadian Labor Congress has sent a letter of protest and will be co-ordinating letters from affiliates. Protests should be sent to General Augusto Pinochet, Edificio Portales Diego, Santiago, MIGUNE SUSTS SEars Gereesse GVRD negotiations: Employers ‘all out’ for strike, lockout — page 12 — Chile. . Union seeking gov't inqut id. : as Nabob strike grows ugl to rk- his for it. | on ni- \eir ler-| hat by igh bly z ‘bi- a 2 ose < a 3 DP 2 m- : . .... 2 { ere LEFT: striker Rena Rutland holds up her bandaged right arm, _ lines. Behind her, at CAMRWU offices, is Cathy Braithwaite. uld broken six weeks ago in a picket line scuffle with the professional RIGHT: in a photo taken by strikers, a scab trucker roars across g0- 8trikebreakers hired by Nabob to truck hot products across picket _ picket lines late at night. He was also seen carrying a handgun. ig By SEAN GRIFFIN across the picket lines in darkness each entrance, the number _ trucks themselves — many leased red Over the telephone, union andloadthem under the watchful _ stipulated by court order. from Bow-Mac in Alberta — are of president Hugo Tims says, witha eyes of security guards. But almost since the 200 the same as used by scabs at En- os touch of grim humor, ‘‘I’ve got The scene is Nabob Foods Ltd. workers were locked out. last dako. a One eye closed over — and therest There is little to suggest the September, the scene on the pick- These he vicdheabiGe aa of my face wasre-arrangedonthe temper of this strike-lockout out- _ et line has been a visual echo of what eee desline wah 4 Picket line last night.”’ side the company’s huge facility other, earlier strikes — at Adams og oe = fs te ee on At the union office, striker at Lake City industrial park in Laboratories in Surrey and the 2 Re ot Sana ae a Rena Rutland shows her heavily Burnaby. There is only the Endako Mine at Fraser Lake. tcldthe T — ee SS ims 000 bandaged arm — only just outof | union’s trailer, and a sticker with In face, at least two of the une y- a the cast after having been broken its name, Canadian Allied drivers have been identified by “They’re making the dispute ae Dec. 15 in another incident. Manufacturers Retail and members of the union at Endako dirtier every day. Most of them | In both cases the injuries were Wholesale Unon — since as the same men who piloted carry around copper pipes filled uns the work of professional November, Local 1600 of the trucks loaded with scab-produced with lead. And they threaten to oe strikebreakers, hired thugs who United Food and Commercial molybdenum across picket lines beat your brains out.’ ba barrel their semi-trailer trucks Workers — and two pickets at in that long, bitter strike. And the See ENDAKO page 12 ), it : A Two committees of the Van- Onstad said the race relations based projects in conjunction couver School Boardhavemoved program was “‘a beginning, a with parents, community groups start on an ongoing educational and cultural organizations. swiftly to combat racism in the schools, voting at a budget meet- ing Monday to request provincial funding for a new race relations program. COPE trustee Gary Onstad re- ferred to the recent racist attack on a young East Indian couple in ' ~ Vancouver and called the $20,000 budget request for the program “a modest one given recent . events.” Fi oo The couple were sitting in a car when a group of about 20 youths — most of them students from the nearby Windermere school — roughed them up and smashed the car windows. program that seeks to bring about a more harmonious society.” Projects that will be under- taken by the committee heading the program are still in the discus- sion stages but they include buy- ing some relief time for teachers so they can attend workshops on how to deal with racism in the classroom, hiring special consult- ants in race relations, and work- shops in the community with par- ents, students and school staff. In an earlier interview, COPE trustee Wes Knapp stressed that school staffs have ‘‘to get going right away” in initiating school- ‘As long as we get the ball roll- ing,’’ Knapp said. “‘It angers us (the board) when we hear some school officials say that they don’t have a problem with rac- ism, or when they are reluctant to acknowledge that incidents like the one near Windermere are race-related.”” : The new program was one of many items in a proposed overall budget increase which was char- acterized by its humanity and sen- sitivity to problems faced by teachers and students in Vancou- ver schools. Some of the specific proposals Interview: |Grenada Premier Maurice | Bishop — page 7 — included beefing up transporta- tion to handicapped students and providing staffing and programs _ for children with special needs, such as children with English as a second language (ESL), under- achievers, and students with speech and hearing problems. Of significance for elementary teachers all over the province was the proposal to hire 32 instructors at acost of $350,000 to provide 40 minutes of classroom preparation time a week for Vancouver ele- mentary teachers. An expanded ESL program costing $356,755 received enthus- iastic endorsement from the rep- resentatives of parent and teacher associations packing the gallery.