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he The city of Vancouver’s con- sidered along with several other lawyer with federal Liberal con- heard from three NPA tly _of Vancouver. Eckardt’s
he troversial Governmental Review matters such as the powers of the nections; Robert Clarke, a pro- _ spokesmen, former city clerk Ron _ redistribution reduced the overall
he Commission began its series of mayor, length of terms of office fessor who has been outspoken in Thompson, Teal estate wheeler- representation of Vancouver in :
a8 public hearings Wednesday and for city council, and qualifications opposition to the ward system; dealer Brian Calder, and _ the provincial legislature from 12 :
e Thursday at Vancouver city hall for candidates. and Roy Bell, a right wing baptist Shaughnessy businessman out of 55 to 10 out of 57. More :
1 and was met with a challenge to its The five commissioners are all minister. Michael Francis. On the other side importantly, he said, “the boun- 1
of | credibility. handpicked by Vancouver mayor In establishing the commission, of the spectrum were the Commit- daries of the constituencies were ‘id
a) The commission, chaired by Jack Volrich and are well known Volrich and the NPA seemed to __ tee of Progressive Elector’s Bruce changed to favor the status quo.”” j
Is | Socred judge Lawrence Eckardt, for their right wing views. The have done the incredible. The Yorke and ‘‘AREA”’, a pro-ward With the new boundaries drawn up
ed was established by Vancouver’s chairman, Lawrence Eckardt, democratic victory of the committee based in Kitsilano. by Eckardt, the Socreds lost nearly
i tight wing city council earlier this presided over the Socred govern- _Plebiscite had produced a commis- Yorke attacked the credibility 10,000 votes but retained their six
i . year to avoid dealing with the 51.7. _ment’s electoral redistribution sion apparently intended to scuttle —_ of the commission and cited the — seats in Vancouver, Yorke pointed
percent majority decision of last ~ prior to the last election and or water down the wafd system, political connections of the com- out, while the NDP gained over ,
th fall’s plebiscite for a ward system engineered the gerrymandering and to place more restrictions on missioners as evidence of the pre- 20,000 votes and lost two seats, a
TS in Vancouver. that wiped out three NDP seats civic democracy by granting more determined conclusions that from six to four. q
Instead of responding to the and secured the re-election of the personal power to the mayor, ex- COPE suspects. There is: only one, issue of :
le Majority decision of the plebiscite, Socred government. Other com- tending the term of office and put- Eckardt in particular lacks substance before the commission,
0, the city referred the matter of the missioners are Ed McWhinney, a ting added financial requirements credibility, Yorke charged, after Yorke argued, and that is im- :
at Iward system to the Governmental’ professor active in the Conser- on candidates. his role in redistributing provicial plementation of the ward plebiscite
fe Review Commission to be con-  vative Party; Alan Campney, a Wednesday the commission seats to the disadvantage of'the ci- See CP page 3 q
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Members of the International Longshoremen and — s Union began seTtang up picket lines

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Pact ‘too long’,

The Canadian Area of the Inter-
national Longshoremen and
Warehousemen’s Union struck
West Coast ports Monday after-
noon after the B.C. Maritime
Employers Association and the
report of federal conciliator Justice
Henry Hutcheon failed to add
anything to the proposed contract
rejected by an ILWU vote last
month.

There was no dispatch for the
afternoon shift Monday and by five
p.m., ports in Vancouver, New
Westminster, Victoria, Prince
Rupert and other Mainland and
Island points were shut down.

Although the strike deadline had

say dock strikers

@ NUCLEAR POWER:

oh | Sie : Friend or foe? We
sf| at port sites on the Mainland and Vancouver Island Monday as the union launched its coast wide strike. _ originally been set for June 7, it was examine who runs the
Here, Local 500 members Bill Hutchison (left) and Herb Keay picket a container yard on Commissioner moved up following a lengthy nuclear industry, the
2 Senha Vancoliver waterfront ~Sean Griffin photo Meeting of the bargaining commit- growing demand for a
4 tee which voiced members’ moratorium on further
mt ° . e ° dissatisfaction with the failure of development and the
ef U n | a t ressu re the employers to resume any talks elements of a respons-
‘ {e) n SO F Gi ri y, @ following the committee’s rejection ible nuclear policy,
dt : of the Hutcheon report. pages 6, 7.
. e Hutcheon had been called in as a
‘| WI n Ss new co nt ra ct at | NCO conciliator after a recount had —
at shown rejection of the proposed
*| SUDBURY — The 11,700 across Canada which backed the tract, however, was the precedent- ye eee ae ey
A members of the United Steelwork- INCO strikers with unprecedented _ setting pension plan won which will anorherwolebe taken’
__ €ts Local 6500 have ended their material support and solidarity. allow for retirement after 30 years - se eee a
: ; eight and a half month strike The new contract is the best for of service, regardless of age and ata Considerably dissatisfaction was j
: . against Inco Ltd. by voting 67.7 per steelworkers anywhere in Canada guaranteed pension of $600 per expressed by ILWU members with
cent June 3 to accept a new agree- and will give a total of $4.07 per month. The benefits, first in Can- the length of the agreement—a
B | ment. hour more in wages and benefits ada, will become effective June, three-year pack was proposed—and
% The new agreement, signed Tues- than they were receiving when the 1981. ; the. SWE OL Dig encrease ee Dal-
; day, is a major victory for the strike began. Local 6500 president Dave Pat- ticularly in the last years.
ol union, and for the labor movement The key to the three-year con- See LOCAL pg. 12. Unionists at a number of picket i
it sites Tuesday echoed that criticism, 4
‘3 ’ | f emphasizing that the 90-cent in- ]
| 0 esian é ections qd rau crease proposed in each year ‘‘is 4
just barely equal to the cost of liv-

“People in Canada may have
heard that fair elections have just
been held in Rhodesia,’’ Saul
Ndlovu, envoy to Algeria for the
Zimbabwe African Peoples’
Union and one of two represen-
tatives from the Patriotic Front,

ing now. We-don’t know what it

| will be in two years.’’

A major factor in the strike will
be the stance taken by the newly-
installed Clark cabinet which met
for its first session Tuesday.

In two recent dock strikes—on
the West Coast in 1974 and on the

@ HOUSING: The last of a
series of three articles,
Fred Wilson shows how
a city-owned and run
non-profit housing cor-

_ poration would work,

told a Vancouver Audiencd¢, Tues-
day. ‘‘But how can there be free
elections when the people are
under martial law, when a curfew
covers 94 percent of the country
and violators are shot on sight —
and when voters are taken to the
polls at gunpoint?

“How can you have fair elec-
tions when they perpetuate a racist
constitution?”’

See VOTE pg. 3

age 2.
East Coast a year later—the federal eon i

government has moved swiftly to
abrogate the right to strike and e
legislate a return to work.

That the Tory cabinet. and the
new labor minister, Hamilton West
MP Lincoln Alexander would wait,
was expected although already the
media and at. least one government the U.S. economy. See
minister had begun to appeal to Economic Facts, page 7 |
Prairie farmers, in an obvious bid 10. : i ||
for pressure to end the strike. : |

GATT: Canada was
taken to the cleaners
with the new GATT in-
ternational trade agree-
ments and it will mean
closer integration with

JP
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SAUL NDLOVU (left), DZINGA]l MUTUMBUKA ... Patriotic
Front representatives in Vancouver. —Sean Griffin photo