Unions lining up behind CLC ©

A meeting of officers and staff
Tepresentatives of all - B.C.
€deration of Labor affiliates has

N called for August 30 to plan
Strategy and coordinate activities
or the federation’s participation in
€ Canadian Labor Congress’
national day of protest, now set for
October 14,

The federation’s strategy
Meeting flows from a meeting of

Cc regional directors and
Provincial coordinators held in

tawa last week, and will launch a
Massive campaign to mobilize full
Support, both from within the labor
Movement and from the general
Public, for the day of protest.

Though details of the CLE plans
for mobilization have not been
finalized it was learned that CLC
executive vice-president Julien
Major has been given the over-all
responsibility for the campaign,
and that Congress executive
secretary John Simonds will serve
as national coordinator.

Simonds will be in Vancouver for
the B.C. meeting as the first stop of
a national tour which will take him
to labor councils, local union
meetings, and meetings of
provincial federations. of labor.
Major will be making a similar
tour of the country.

In B.C., Federation secretary

Friday, August 27, 1976

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Vol. 38, No. 34

20°

Len Guy pledged that the B.C.
Federation of Labor ‘‘will be doing
everything possible to make Oc-
tober 14 an effective day of protest
and solidarity’? against the
Trudeau government’s wage
control program.

Guy reiterated the federation’s
condemnation of the Anti-Inflation
Board, and singled out the recent
dispute involving the Sun and
Province newspapers in Van-
couver as evidence of what the
AIB’s’ effect on _ collective
bargaining is. ‘‘Time and time
again, union after union has
negotiated a collective agreement
only to have the AIB create strike

situations by interfering with the
tentative agreement or by rolling
back agreements after they had
been negotiated.”’

As the CLC began its
mobilization campaign, response
from the labor movement has been
overwhelmingly in full support of
the day of protest.

Lynn Williams, Canadian area
director of the United Steelworkers
of America, announced that the
USWA will ‘‘join the national day
of protest and keep on fighting to
protect our contracts and
bargaining relationships until the
prime minister regains his sen-
ses.” Williams called the antics of

the AIB “‘terribly destructive to. the
fibre of democracy,’ and said
“there is no choice left but to fight
— and we’ve fought for our
freedom before.”’

The Canadian director of another
international union, Dennis Mc-
Dermott of the United Auto
Workers predicted that October 14
will be a day of total shutdown in
the Canadian automobile industry
and that ‘not a car’ will roll off
any assembly line on that day
where the UAW has a contract.

One union, the International
Association of Machinist and
Aerospace Workers made it clear

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The Central Executive Com-
Mittee of the Communist Party of
anada has appealed to ‘“‘all
€mocratic Canadians and their
°rganizations to urge the Canadian
S0vernment to demand through the
hited Nations the immediate
Withdrawal of all U.S. army per-
Sonnel stationed in Korea, and the
Mediate removal of all nuclear
mens located in Korea’”’
Owing the latest in a series of
vee provocations in the United
wrens demilitarized zone bet-
sean the People’s Republic of
®rea and South Korea.

The August 18 provocation led

directly to the deaths of four North
Creans and two American
Soldiers.

i The CP appeal warned that the
‘cident, which were termed
Warlike provocations of the U.S.
. My command” has created a
€ry grave situation in Korea. “A
e may break out there at any
Me,”’ the CP said.

the tecting back to the origins of
y, first Korean conflict, the
C Mmunist statement reminded
thre? dians that the government of
es country has ‘‘a grave
€sponsibility to avert the

sibility of another war.
That war was preceded by the

very same kind of U.S. war
provocations which are taking
place today. The people of Korea
and of the whole world do not want
or need a second Korean war. What
is needed is the peaceful

reunification of Korea worked out
by the Korean people and _ their
governments.”

Danger of continentalism
looms in 200-mile talks

The all-too-familiar danger of
U.S. continentalism is expected to
face Canadian negotiators when
Canada-U.S. talks on the new 200-
mile limits open in Ottawa Sep-
tember 1.

Although these will be the first
talks scheduled on the new
economic zones — slated to go into
effect next year — the emphasis
that the U.S. has placed. on. a
continental approach in other
resource questions suggests that a
similar approach will prevail.

United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union business agent
George Hewison who, together
with UFAWU executive board
member Walter Tickson attended
a meeting with industry officials
and Canadian negotiators last
month stressed that the enactment
of the 200-mile economic zone will
create a number of problems
which require that Canada have a
clear perspective for resource
policies. ;

“But the real danger,’ he em-
phasized, “‘is that the United States
will be advancing a continentalist
position aimed at complete in-
tegration. of fisheries.”

The fears of fishermen have
some ground since U.S. negotiators
advanced just such a positien in
reciprocal salmon talks with this
country earlier this year.

Making it worse, however, was
the fact that Canadian negotiators
virtually acquiesced before the
U.S. demands and indications are

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South African police loose police dogs on black demonstrators.

that U.S. proposals advanced in
those talks will be accepted by this
country.

Many of the difficulties in talks
onthe 200-mile limit arise from the
fact that this country is in the
unique position of having an in-
ternational boundary both to the
north — in Alaska — and to the
south.

Although the firm establishment
of boundaries would entail
resolution of complex issues on
both the Atlantic and the Pacific

coasts, it would nevertheless
guarantee national sovereignty
and would enable this country to
manage the fisheries resource in
her own interests.

The U.S., however, will probably
put aside the issue of boundary
determination in favor of  in-
tegrating Canadian and U.S.
fisheries into one continental
““pond.”’ ‘ mae’ cae

Since all existing bilateral
treaties would be subordinated to

See CONTINENTAL pg. 8

Increased opposition to Jan
Voerster’s racist South African
government from that country’s
black majority ‘continues to be
answered with bullets from the
apartheid police and military
forces.

Since June, more than 250 black
South Africans have died as a
result of police assaults on
demonstrations by blacks
demanding an end to South
Africa’s apartheid system. The
majority of the demonstrations
have been staged in the black
townships which lie on the out-
skirts of South Africa’s major
cities. It is in these townships,
which are kept completely apart

from the cities themselves, where
most black South African laborers
live, only to be transported into the
cities where they represent more
than 80 per cent of the South
African work force.

The latest of a series of police
assaults have come about as South
African police attempt to crush a
three-day work boycott by South
African blacks which was called by
the banned African’ National
Congress. The boycott has resulted
in about 80 per cent of all black
laborers refusing to report to work.

Though South African govern-
ment officials continue to claim
that the unrest in that country is
the result of a ‘minority of
agitators” the fact remains that
with each day, new voices are
added to the demand for an end to
apartheid, including those of a
number of prominent whites.

So-called ‘‘moderates’’ repre-
senting seven of the nine tribal
areas which the government has
unilaterally established in an effort
to divide the country’s black
population, have denounced the
government’s apartheid policy.
The seven leaders called for an end
to apartheid, and demanded that
Voerster. immediately begin
planning for the demise of that
racist system.

Though most news reports claim
that the anti-apartheid demon-
strations are confined to the
township of Soweto, which lies on
the outskirts of Johannesburg,
South African officials themselves
now admit that demonstrations
have been held in Port Elizabeth,
Pretoria, Cape Town as well as in
Johannesburg itself.

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