oll UH ay ty Rl Mabel 0101 cn LAU A Ls Lee hs en Business interests behind move to cut industry taxes = Bruce Yorke, unanimously endorsed by a packed nominating meeting as COPE’s mayoralty candidate for the November civic elections, told the audience Sunday, “We're going into this cam- Paign united and we’re going to turn the city upside down.” (see Story) —Sean Griffin photo Fines of $350 imposed in Combines sentence United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union vice-president Ken Robinson and fisherman Dave McIntosh were fined $350 each in Provincial court Sept. 28 after being convicted last month on charges of “impending an inquiry pies the Combines Investigation ch? Rolbinson and McIntosh, two of the seven UFAWU members Urgent request for Vietnam aid _ The World Peace Council has issued an urgent appeal for aid to the 12 million citizens of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Vietnam has been devastated by Massive floods throughout the country’s nine provinces. onations can be sent to the Canadian Aid to Vietnamese See, Box 2543, Vancouver, charged, were found guilty by judge David Hume following a lengthy and contentious trial. The remaining five — UFAWU president Jack Nichol, secretary George Hewison, vice-president Walter Tickson, welfare director Bert Ogden and past president and trustee Homer Stevens — were acquitted. The UFAWU has filed notice to appeal the convictions. The Crown has also appealed, seeking to reverse the acquittals — clearly indicating that the federal government has no intention of abating the Combines attack against the Fishermen’s Union. In fining Robinson and McIntosh, judge Hume rejected a request from defence lawyer Harry Rankin for an unconditional discharge, insisting that such action would be “tantamount to countenancing this type of activity.” An unconditional discharge would have left Robinson and McIntosh without criminal see UFAWU pg. 12 ee Information revealed by Van- couver Labor Council secretary Paddy Neale Tuesday indicated that a proposal before Vancouver city council’s finance committee Thursday afternoon to cut in- dustrial taxes in the city by 21.8 percent was drafted in concert with some of the city’s biggest industrial and real estate concerns represented on mayor Jack Volrich’s economic advisory committee. Neale told delegates to the VLC’s regular meeting that the first decision of the committee was to approve the report of city finance director Peter Leckie, himself a member of the economic advisory committee, which called for tax cuts for industry and higher taxes for residents. Neale was appointed as a labor representative to the committee by mayor Volrich on the ‘“un- derstanding it was to advise the city how to attract light industry and jobs to Vancouver,”’ he told the Tribune, ‘‘But itsoon became clear that it was a set up, to be used to push for lower taxes for industry.”’ For three months the economic advisory..committee..has..been discussing the need for lower taxes on industry, Neale said, and it was quick to jump on Leckie’s tax proposal when it was presented last Friday. Neale was the only vote against endorsing the finance director’s report in the 19 person coMmittee which reads like a who’s who in big business. Discussing the alleged hardships of business under the new taxation system ‘is about the only thing we’ve done on the committee,” Neale said. ‘‘Of course its all on the pretext that lower taxes are needed to attract industry to Vancouver.”’ See analysis of tax proposal, pg. 3 Leckie’s report was released September 22, but the discussions between himself, Sid Fancy of the city’s economic development office and businessmen on the advisory council have been going on since August, long before Leckie’s “analysis” of taxes produced the recommendations for tax breaks for industry. Other members of the economic advisory council include: Brian Calder, manager of Wolstencroft Realty; Pat Carney, of Gemini North; Cecil Cosulich, president of Rivtow...Straits;-. Ulrich...Freybe, president of Freybe Sausage; Michael Goldberg, faculty of commerce at UBC; Alex Hart, See CITY pg. 3 COPE nominates Yorke for mayor The Committee of Progressive Electors (COPE) became the first civic organization in Vancouver to nominate a full slate of candidates for the November 15 election Sunday evening as it fielded 21 candidates headed by mayoralty candidate Bruce Yorke and COPE alderman Harry Rankin. About 300 COPE members packed the spirited nominating meeting at the Ironworkers Hall in Vancouver and unanimously en- dorsed a resolution naming COPE president and civic activist Bruce Yorke as the mayoralty candidate. The motion to name Yorke as the mayoralty candidate was put by Dave Schreck, former manager of the Vancouver Resources Board, who withdrew from the mayoralty contest in a gesture of unity and accepted a nomination for alderman. Terming Schreck’s action ‘‘a marvelous thing’’, Yorke told the meeting that COPE ‘“‘is going into this election united...We’ll turn the city upside down.” ~ After discussions with the COPE leadership, Harry Rankin decided that he would run for re-election to council as alderman again’ this year. Rankin is the senior alder- man on council who topped the poll See COPE pg. 2 LCUC voting on pact Members ot the Letter Carriers Union began voting across the country this week on the tentative settlement negotiated last week which ended the union’s series of rotating strikes. The LCUC had initiated the rotating strikes September :21 to back demands that the 19 cents cost-of-living-adjustment to which they were entitled under the old agreement but which had been disallowed by the AIB, be added to the current COLA. The treasury board had adamantly refused to consider the demand. Although-details of the national vote are not expected to be known until Oct. 10, officers for the Vancouver local have already indicated their dissatisfaction with the pact. The Local 12 executive recom- mended that members reject the agreement although it warned that the justice department had already framed legislation to force members back to work in the event of a shutdown. It termed the legislation ‘the most vicious anti-labor document ever drafted’. It apparently makes the union subject to fines of $50,000 per day and calls for dismissal of workers who refuse to comply. ’ students’ e STEEL: The problems of upcoming steel bargain- ing talks and the strike at INCO are outlined in a Canadian Tribune four- page supplement, page 47. e LABOR: Commentator Jack Phillips criticizes the Canadian Labor Con- gress executive’s ar- bitrary decision to sus- pend exchanges with Soviet trade unions — and looks at CLC presi- dent Dennis McDer- mott’s earlier comments on the issue, page 12. e INQUEST: Janice Harris reviews Langara Studio 58 dramatization of the 13-day inquest into the death of South African student leader Stephen Biko, page 10. AUTONOMY: Continuing the campaign begun in 1970, the B.C. Provincial Council of Carpenters is pressing the case for | Canadian autonomy at the Union's international | convention in St. Louis, page 11.