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: Joining thousands around the world
Marking the anniversary of the

Weto uprising in South Africa, more

Pan 200 people demonstrated outside

offi Energy Minister Pat Carney’s

the — Vancouver Monday to protest

im uth African government’s latest

a POSition of a state of emergency and

~_ Teiterate the demand that Canada

th aa full economic sanctions against

Tacist regime.

acti Mey’s office was the target of the

Ne On, organized by the Anti-Apartheid
fe Ork, because sulphur shipments to

Pee Africa, through Crown-owned

mili 22248, constitute half of the $300

tha ©n annually in Canadian exports to

t Country.

thate hour-long rally, seen by

Pe eds of rush-hour commuters

he, v8 by the downtown intersection,
. from several speakers including

RB C Ray Tingley, Ald. Harry Rankin,
- Federation of Labor women’s

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rights director Astrid Davidson,
Anglican minister Rev. Tom Anthony
and representatives of the SACTU
Soldiarity Committee and the UBC
Committee for Divestment.

“We are standing at a decisive
moment in history,” Rev. Tom Anthony
told the crowd, emphasizing that a
program of sanctions could be decisive
in dismantling apartheid. :

“Yet the federal government, in the
face of all the deaths, in the face of all
the repression, is wringing its hands and
saying, ‘something should be done.’

“Yes, something should be done. The
time for sanctions is now — not
tomorrow, but now,” he declared.

“We are saying: not one dollar in
goods to or from South Africa until
everyone, black, brown or white, shares
in democracy in that country,” Ald.
Harry Rankin said to cheers.

Carney’s executive assistant Raymond
McAllister spoke briefly, insisting that

REV. TOM ANTHONY... .the time for the government to impose sanctions is now.

the federal government was “committed
to ending apartheid.” But he was
drowned out by chants of “full sanctions
now” as he attempted to defend the
government’s inadequate measures.

Last Tuesday, Vancouver city council
endorsed a resolution calling for
expanded sanctions against South
Africa, and committed the city to
undertake to:

© Cease the purchase of goods from
South Africa;

e Ensure that council is not
represented at any function attended by
representatives of the South African
government, including trade missions;

@ Seek to enforce the UN sport and
cultural boycotts by withholding use of
city facilities for any such events;

e@ Name a street, building or public
facility after a prominent opponent of
apartheid, such as Nelson Mandela.

U.S. triggers new arms race

— page 8 —

Fletcher’s
contract
highlights

parity issue
at Gainers

A demonstration of labor solidar-
ity unprecedented in Alberta history
and the prospect of strike action in the
company’s Vancouver operations has
brought a breakthrough tentative set-
tlement at Fletcher’s Fine Foods in
Red Deer, Alberta.

And that agreement, which report-
edly will give Fletcher’s workers par-
ity with those at Canada Packers,
“has thrown down the gauntlet to
Peter Pocklington,” the owner of
Gainers, Alberta Federation of Labor
president Dave Werlin said this week.

United Food and Commercial
Workers representative Dave Cher-
rille confirmed this week that the
Fletcher’s pact was “‘in line” with the
Canada Packers contract, adding that
the union will be recommending
acceptance when the ratification vote
is held this weekend. It will cover

Solidarity, page 4
Pocklington, page 6

workers in both the hog killing and
dressing plants in Alberta as well as
processing plants in this province.

Fletcher’s, run by a government-
appointed board of hog farmers, was
prodded into the agreement by the
possibility of a strike in B.C. which
would have cut off any processing
facilities.

The agreement also followed last
Thursday’s mass rally at the opening
of the Alberta legislature where some
10,000 people, according to legislative
security police estimates, turned out
to support the strikers and to echo the
Alberta Federation of Labor’s demand
for changes to labor legislation.

The rally, organized by the AFL,
was the largest labor demonstration
in Alberta since the 1930s, and heard
speeches from Canadian Labor Con-
gress president Shirley Carr as well as
several union leaders, NDP opposi-
tion leader Ray Martin and the
National Farmers Union.

With ratification of the Fletcher’s
contract expected, there will be
renewed pressure on Pocklington
“who won’t be able to talk anymore
about an eastern settlement that’s out
of step with the Alberta market,”
Werlin said.

“It’s been signed by an Alberta
plant —and Fletcher’s is a lot smaller
than Gainers,” he said.

The pact will also give farmers a
market for their hogs, thus relieving
any resentment that might have deve-
loped against the strikers. For the last
two tweeks, farmers have had to sell in
the U.S. at considerably reduced pri-

CES. see GAINERS page 12

RIBUNE

Rally echoes demand:
‘Full sanctions now