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nt Workers Union on the picket line outside Mr. Jax
trike action at Surrey Classics, a Mr. Jax subsidiary,
35-hour week. The clothing manufacturer, owned by two
Winnipeg, had moved production from Surrey Classics to the
ng the picket line. ILGWU organizer Phyllis Webb said the union had ‘100 per
f the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers certified at Mr. Jax. The

By KIM BOLAN
SAN SALVADOR — Dora Milagro
avez del Carranza sat reading a news-
Paper with a family friend when the military
. sued her small house here and opened
t¢, killing the visitor before he could get up
Tom his chair,
Sa shaken Carranza ran to protect her
Tee young children, soldiers blasted her
ree times before turning their automatic
2 6s to kill her four-year-old son Erick.
Says € don’t know why they did this,” she

Sraph of the smiling boy clutched in her

in were doing nothing. We were
Volved in nothing.”

Company was expected to go to the IRC Friday for an order to remove pickets.

The vicious assault on her home came
May 31, the day before the extreme right-
wing party, the Nationalist Republican
Alliance (ARENA) took over the presid-
ency of this tiny, war-torn country. _

Her husband has been a political prisoner
for more than a year and now Carranza
cannot return to their small house, nearly
destroyed in the attack. She is in hiding
here, recovering at the home of a friend.

In the past, the United States has sup-
ported the right-wing Christian Democratic
Party because of ARENA’s links to death
squads and because its founder, Roberto
D’Aubuisson, is suspected of the 1980
assassination of popular Catholic Arch-

bishop Oscar Romero.

But now that ARENA holds the power,
the U.S. appears glad to continue more than
$2 million a day in military aid.

“The Americans don’t give a damn about
democracy; they just care about their inter-
ests,” says Guillermo Ungo, head of the
National Revolutionary Movement and the
united left’s presidential candidate in last
March’s elections.

“They just changed the sheets and went
to bed with ARENA.”

In the days leading up to its ascension to
power and in the months that have fol-
lowed, ARENA has launched one of the
most intense campaigns of terror in the

see SALVADOR page 3

August 21, 1989
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Vol. 52, No.29

Gov't slammed for closing
the door on UIC hearings

Despite the government’s own statistics -
showing the devastating impact of cuts to
the unemployment insurance program, the
parliamentary committee studying the cuts
is hearing only a handful of interveners in
B.C. — and is closing the door to several
groups, including the Communist Party,
CP provincial Fred Wilson charged Wed-
nesday.

“These hearings
area farce. (Employ-
ment Minister) Bar-
bara McDougall has
admitted that over
80,000 people in Bri-
tish Columbia will
be affected by the
changes to the UI
program and _ the .
parliamentary com-
mittee will hear the
grand total of 28
hand-picked presentations,” Wilson said.

“Clearly they would like to avoid what
the Communist Party and others have to
say about the dismantling of social security
in Canada,” he charged. '

WILSON

Action urged to halt bill
page 2

Wilson said the party was informed Aug.
15 that it would not be permitted to present
its brief when the parliamentary committee
holds hearings in Vancouver, scheduled for
Sept. 1] and 12. A number of other groups
were also told they would be left out, includ-
ing the B.C. and Yukon Building Trades
Council and the B.C. Provincial Council of
Carpenters whose members will be signifi-
cantly affected by the cuts to the UI pro-
gram.

The parliamentary committee is to begin
next month hearing representations across
the country on Bill C-21, the draft legisla-
tion which would implement the $1.2 billion
in UI cuts announced by the Tory govern-
ment in mid-April.

see GOV'T page 8

MASKED PROTESTER ... taking pari
in union march despite police, army ter-
ror.

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