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mo STEELWORKERS TOLD
Labor must beware

of consulting role

WINNIPEG
Canadian
labor leaders must guard
against being co-opted by busi-
hess and government when they
participate in three-way eco-
nomic meetings, delegates to
the United Steelworkers of
America policy convention said
Wednesday.

A policy statement endorsed
by the convention said labor
might be offered a consultative
role in the framing of new eco-
namic policy and “‘in one sense
this development is lang over-
due.’

“At the same time, we must
recognize that the government
is now committed to a long-
term strategy which, in labor's
view, is morally indefensible
and economically urigound,” the
steelworkers said.

“Labor therefore cannot en-
gage in consultations about how
such a strategy may be carried
out and labor cannot be satis-
fied with less than a comptete
reversal of the strategy itself.’’

Delegate Sen DesRoche from
Hamilton, Ont., said he was ap-
posed to three-way economic
consultation because ‘‘the gov-
ernment is agalnst us, the man-
agement is against us and we
cannot win.”

DISAGREE ON MEANING

{cP} 9 —

After the policy statement

“was approved, there was some

disagreement over its
meaning. -

Don Taylor, head af the eco-
nomic policy commitee, said
the statement was meant as 4
warning to the labor leaders.

“They may have one idea
about what they want to do and
government may have an idea
that is quite different—in fact |
think they have.”’ said Tavlor,

But Lynn Williams, head of
fhe steelworkers’ Ontario dis-
trict and a member of the Ca-
nadian Labor Congress (CLC)
executive, sald he did not inter-
pret the policy statement as a
directive to the CLC fo stop
consultations with the gavern-
ment. ; ‘ ;

Williams said the labor move-
ment wants nothing to do with
current federal economic pol-
icy—it wants tobe in on the for-
mation of new policy.

For instancé, Willlams said,
the CLC wants immediate re-
moval of the anti-inflation pro-
gram of seiective wage and
price controls “but there isn’t

. going to be a y agreement an

voluntary restraint’ in ex-
achange for early removal of the
controls, ‘scheduled to run until
the end! of 1978.

‘Finance

Donald
Macdonald says the govern:
ment
cannot liff the program, im-
posed in Oclober, 1975,: unless
there are guarantees that bor
and business demands will not
prompt a fresh surge of _in-
flation.

CLC president Joe Morris
said in an interview the labor
movement's immediate gaal is
“4o get out of wage controls and
that will remain the focal point
of any discussions that we have
with the government.”’

Last month, labor. govern.
ment and business leaders held
their first three-way economic
meeting to discuss the controls
program. The date for a second
meeting has not yet been set.

Morris said both labor and
big business representatives

Minister

take the position that there is-

no need for a commitment to

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voluntary restraints

“because
there is already a built-in re-
straint in the economy and the
longer they keep contrals on,
the much mo ¢ of a drag it be-
comes on the economy.

When asked fo comment on
some delegates’ fears that the
CLC is selling out fhe labor
movement's Interests by con-
sulting with business and gov-
ernment, Morris said ‘&there is
obviously some education work
to be done here.’’

The economy Is in a mess and
if there are to be long-term im-
provements, “we have to put
something in place that will
provide for a ‘continuing dia-
logue between business, govern-
ment and labor."

‘STATE OF CRISIS”

The steelworkers’ statement
said the economy Is in a “state
of prolonged crisis ... and
both unemployment and_ in-
flation, have taken on more
frightening dimensions because
of federal and provincial gov-
ernment policies that have
failed to get at the causes of
econamic diseases,‘’.

Recent price Increases ‘have
made it clearer than ever that
the gova nment and the anti-
In
flation board are content to con-
trol wages and are unable cr
unwilling’ to hold the ine an
prices,’ said the union, which
has 197,000 Canadian mem-
bers. ‘

"On the basis of anti-iaflation
board statistics. we estimate
that rollbacks of wage and
‘Salary Increases added up to at
teast $340 million by mid-Febru-
ary and tolal losses in pay and
fringe benefitu may reach the
biilion-dollar mark before ie
end of the anti-inflation pro-
gram.”

By comparison, profit reduc-
tions “have been insigniticani—

the AlB reported last December
that 169 f.ems had been
eh'q7ess revenues tasting
$15 miltton.’”

The steelworkers called for
major economic reform. start-
ing with removal of the federal
controls progra..

There should be substantial ,
cuts in personal income tax for‘

persons in the low and middle
_income range and a removal of
spending ceilings on social pro-
grams. =

_ The steelworkers also called
for a prices review board to

measure and inform the public °

about price behavior .In basic
industries,

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JAMES BAY
Land claims pact ©
ok’'ed by Commons

Otfawa }cp} — A govern-
meni bill giving federal ap-
proval to a land claims agree-
s jtween the Quebec gov-
ernment and Crees and Inuit of
northern Quebec was given fi-
ral reading Wednesday in the
Cammoans,; © ;

Bul voting on the bill, re-
ferred to as a modern-day
treaty, was delayed more than
an hour until the government
could round up enough of ifs

upporters to autvote the com-
bined forces of Progressive
Conservatives, New Democrats
and Social Credit MPs.

The final vote was 102 to 83.
a efore the vote was
jaken,

Bob Holmes, Conservative In-
dian affairs spokesman, warned
that Oftawa might have to pro-
tect fhe Cree and Inuit from

. Proposed GJezec language laws

making French. the primary
language in education. :

He said the James Bay pact
would allow young Cree and In-
uit to be taught in their native
tongues as well as French.

Holmes warned that the Que-
hec government may erode this
part of the agreement unless
Ottawa is vigilant.

The James Bay bill gives 6,-
500 Cree anc 4,200 Inuit about

$225 million over two years,
aiong with ship of small
parcels of Jand for their com-
munities andexclusive seg rd
ss al aver

larger tracts of land.

MUST SURRENDER TITLE

In return, ihe natives must
surrender their aboriginal title
to northern Quebec, a 430,000
square-mile area that con-
stitutes about 60 per cent af the
province's land area, They also
might end their legal battle
against the James Bay hydroe-
lectric project.

Earlier, the government de-
feated by a vote of 106 to 95 an
amendment proposed by
Holmes that would have pro-
tected the land claims of na-
tives not Included In the James
Bay agreement.

Those claims are = ex-
tinguished :
by the agreement but the Que-

bec government has sald tt will

negotiate separate
agreements.

“Wally ' Firth (NDOP—
Northwest

Territories) said his party
‘twould not like fo be blamed by

history for having supported -
such bad legislation,”

THE HERALD, Thursday. say 5. 1977, PAGE A3

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