> Native leader Leonard Peltier, imprisoned in the United States on framed-up murder charges, has been acquitted on charges of at- tempted murder of a Milwaukee Policeman in 1972. The Milwaukee charges were one of three sets of charges that were used to extradite Peltier from Vancouver to the U.S. The second set of charges, for allegedly shooting at police in Oregon have been dropped as well. Peltier was convicted on the third charge for the death of two FBI agents at Wounded Knee in 1975, despite the testimony of the main FBI witness that the charges against Peltier were false. Peltier has been declared a political prisoner by Amnesty International. Peltier wins acquittal (. LEONARD PELTIER . acquitted on one set of charges, but still imprisoned on framed-up murder charges. Surrey Co-op workers fight for job security In a job security fight similar to that waged by workers at B.C. Telephone Co. and Elsewhere in B.C., about 240 members of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union are entering the fourth month of a lockout at Surrey Co-op. The central issue at the Surrey Co-op is an increasingly familiar one for workers in all industries: Contracting out. The particular form that this dispute takes is the management demanding the right to grant customers discounts for picking up bulk orders of grain and feed for farm animals, and to allow customers to make their own arrangements for delivery, in- cluding the rental of trucks for group deliveries. Bs __The union has pointed out that such a provision would eliminate jobs for union members and has insisted that customer pickups be allowed only on the basis of “one PUT CANADA BACK TO WORK _ Hear Jack Phillips Communist Party candidate Vancouver- Kingsway Tues. Feb. 14, 8 p.m. Trout Lake Community Centre 3350 Victoria Dr. truck, one owner, one farm.” In January the dispute went to. mediation and mediator Clive McJee proposed compromise conditions to reduce the discount offered to customers for pickups ‘and to adhere to the “‘one truck, one owner, one farm’’ principle. At first, management negotiators expressed satisfaction with the mediators proposals, but shortly afterward, taking a page from B.C. Telephone Co’s tactics, Co-op general manager Eugene Kaulius informed the union that he had ‘‘whipped the directors into line’? and the compromise proposals were rejected. Days later, on Jan. 23, the management informed the union that further bargaining was useless unless the RWDSU would agree to a provision granting free reign for all pickups. Management also filed for court injunctions to restrict picketing at Co-op operations and has called for police action against picketers. The dispute is a particularly sore one for many Co-op members who +have maintained the progressive tradition of the Co-op movement and find the union-busting tactics of management distasteful. Evidently though control of the. Co-op has passed into the hands of business-oriented management which place its desire to in- crease profit ahead of the job security of Co-op employees. Munro pledges bargaining rights for B.C. fishermen Federal labor minister John Munro came to the closing session of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ convention last Saturday to sell tripartism. And although his pitch fell flat, Munro brought the convention to its feet with his announcement that he would this week go to the federal cabinet and ask for an amendment to the labor code to include bargaining rights for fishermen. The amendment to Bill C-8 would bring to fruition 85 years of struggle by fishermen who have long since established bargaining rights’ in fact with the fish processing companies. But for all of these years, suc- cessive provincial and federal governments have refused to recognize in law the trade union rights of fishermen, each govern- ment claiming the matter to be the other’s jurisdiction. The matter was brought to a head in December by a Supreme Court decision that refused to rule gn jurisdiction, asserting that it was a secondary matter to the fact. that the Canada Labor Code does not include reference to fishermen. The Supreme Court decision came in the midst of an investiga- tion of the union by the Combines branch of the government that sought to declare fishermen ‘‘co- adventurers” with the companies and without trade union rights. The union responded to the Combines attack and the Supreme Court - decision with a national defense campaign that im- mediately won the support of the labor movement across Canada. It. was. the pressure of_ that campaign that undoubtedly sparked Munro’s statements that the fishermen would finally be granted bargaining rights in the Canada Labor Code. Munro predicted that the amendments to the Labor Code would be presented to parliament by mid-February, but they must first get cabinet approval. UFAWU president Jack Nichol told Munro that the union should have input into the drafting of the - amendments to the Act, because it is the fishermen ‘“‘who know the problem most _intimately.’’ Whatever the final wording, Nichol said, ‘‘the law must clearly spell out that the fish processing com- COMMUNIST PARTY JOBS RALLY Feb. 16 - 8 p.m. SWEDISH HALL 1320 E HASTINGS VANCOUVER HEAR | FRED WILSON Federal Candidate Vancouver East JACK PHILLIPS Federal candidate Kingsway MUSIC... 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On sale now from CP office, Pacific Tribune, Co-Op Books JOHN MUNRO ... pitch for tri- partism falls flat. panies are the employers of fishermen.” Nichol said that the union regards the Combines attack on it as a separate matter that they “believe is political and an attempt to smash this union.” He brought the convention to its feet a second time when he declared to Munro, “‘We’ve told ministers before and we'll tell you now, nobody will smash this union, take away our right to bargain, or when necessary to strike.”’ Citing the cabinet order-in- council that exempted the federal uranium cartel from Combines legislation as precedent, Nichol called on Munro to impose a similar order-in-council calling off the Combines investigation of the union and dropping the related charges against seven union members for allegedly impeding the investigation. The point was underscored in the question period when Don Garcia, regional president of the Long- shoremen’s Union, took the floor to tell Munro that he represented a trade union committee in defense of the UFAWU which enjoyed the full support of the B.C. Federation of Labor and the Canadian Labor Congress. Munro refused to make any statements about the Combines charges, however, and spent his time in a futile attempt to convince the UFAWU that the labor move- ment should join in the ‘“‘de- control” program, on an “equal basis”’ with business and govern- ment. Consecutive speakers lined the microphones to take issue with Munro on tripartism, making their rejection of his appeal abundantly clear. Earlier in the convention, delegates had adopted a strongly worded resolution against tri- partism that described it as “‘blind groping for simple solutions to complex economic problems.”’ Noting the commanding position in Canada’s economy by U.S.- based multinational corporations, the resolution asserted, ‘‘To be co- opted into a social contract of compliance and acquiescence would be a betrayal of the working people.”’ TWU returns to work Continued from pg. 1 pletely abdicated their respon- sibility to provide telephone ser- vice to the people of this province.”’ In 1969 the company imposed a similar demand on the union to end a strike and used the phasing in period as “‘an additional weapon of © punishment’”’. The company recalled the employees back to their jobs as they wished, Donnelly charged, but they ensured that the most active union members — members of the union executive, strike committee and the flying pickets — were the last called back. ‘‘We cannot and will not tolerate a repeat of this hap- pening,’”’ he said, ‘‘we are going back.” - : The back to work procedure insisted upon by the company would continue the animosity of the dispute, he added, because union members would be forced to work alongside management personnel still performing the work of TWU members. The practical aspects of a return to work are not at stake, Donnelly asserted. ‘‘It’s supervisors stealing our jobs. The theft stops Monday.” As the Tribune when to press, no response had been made by the company to the union an- nouncement. TWU members normally spend about four hours per month arranging work schedules, the claimed, and the company has been given four days to make the proper arrangements. After 13 weeks of struggle for job security, Monday morning at about 6 a.m., the ‘“‘traffic shift’, made up mostly of women TWU mem- bers, will appear at B.C. Tel operations throughout the province to claim their jobs. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING COMING EVENTS FEB..12 — Sunday, Feb. 12 at 2 p.m. Grand Concert, Russian People’s Home, 600 Campbell Ave. Full program. Spons. by FRC. Everybody welcome. FEB. 18 — Banquet and Dance at the Russian People’s Home, Saturday, Feb. 18. Supper 6:30 p.m. Dancing 9-1 am. with Harry Hoshowsky Orchestra. Tickets in advance phone 254- 3430, 255-6488. Spons. by FRC. Everybody welcome. NOTICES THE B.C. WORLD YOUTH FESTIVAL COMMITTEE would like to borrow any Canadian or International Festival posters. We will return them. Also, can we have your old Festival slides in order to duplicate them? The older the better? If so please phone Sue at 254-9797. BUSINESS PERSONALS Dressmaking and Alterations — phone 434-3544. MOVING? CLEANUP? — Wanted articles for resale. All proceeds to P.T. Phone 526-5226. ‘“‘The Goodie Bin.” HALLS FOR REN’. WEBSTER’S CORNERS HALL — Available for banquets, meetings, etc. For rates: Ozzie, 325-4171 or 685-5836. UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE — 805 East Pender St., Vancouver. Available for banquets, wed- dings, meetings. Ph. 254-3436. RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME — Available for rentals. For _ reservations phone 254-3430. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FEBRUARY 10, 1978—Page 11