ea OPEN FORUM -) More children will die until

Autonomy ‘a tall order’. gov't acts, CFU leader warns

‘Larry Ryan, Victoria business
Tepresentative, Service Workers In-
temational Union, writes: In a re-

cent article (‘Autonomy key to
* CLC-trades unity,” Tribune, Aug.
15, 1980) Jack Phillips stated that
the Canadian Labor Congress

must eventually become a fully in-

pendent and autonomous trade
union centre. In my view that is a
order as the situation is quite
complex. It may work itself out
€ventually in the manner your col-
umnist suggests, hopefully in a way
doesn’t fragment the move-
ment.
I wouldn’t want to see us go the
ae of the Brewery Workers.
Having dropped their interna-
tional, they have not stuck together
either nationally or industrially.
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SPEAKER:

Government Employees Union
took them into affiliation (al-
though that solution, to my mind,
raises other jurisdictional issues).

In dealing with this thorny issue
I’m ever reminded of the efforts in
the past by the B.C. business and
political elite to split the workers
from their international organiza-
tions. At various times on Vancou-
ver Island the miners were subject-
ed to tremendous pressure to dis-
‘avow the Western Federation of
Miners and the United Mine Work-
ers. But the workers held fast.

The labor issues addressed by
Jack Phillips are always interesting
and thought provoking. But in this
instance, I’m a bit unsure of the
prognosis.

NPA bully
tactics hit

A. C. L. Hughes, Vancouver,
writes: Aldermen George Puil and
Warnett Kennedy really outdid
themselves last month in their
bashing of their fellow aldermen
Harry Rankin and Michael Har-

- court. I would think that such men

as Puil and Kennedy who set them-
selves up as representatives to man-
age our civic business would think
more highly of their reputations
than to carry on like Glasgow fish-
wives. But obviously not — espe-

_ cially alderman Puil who as a

teacher, brings disrepute to our
harassed profession. As for Ken-
nedy, good manners were left out

of whatever course it was he took to..
’ qualify as a city planner.

The whole Volrich gang is suf-
fering from the same ailment as the

- premier and his cohorts — the fear

syndrome: These bullies know how
utterly unfair and discriminatory
they have been to such groups as
the Downtown Residents Associa-
tion and, in fact, to all of us who
have dared to differ with their use-
less schemes.

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Vowing more mass meetings like
the one which drew over 300 people
in Abbotsford Sunday, Raj'Chou-
han, president of the Canadian
Farmworkers Union said the union
would continue to press the- gov-
ernment until a recent -coroner’s
jury call for the upgrading of living ,
conditions in farm workers’ camps '
is implemented, along with other
longstanding union health and
safety demands. .

“We are prepared to take our
campaign to Victoria until the gov-
ernment acts,’’ Chouhan said
Monday.

The jury’s recommendations,
including the immediate drawing
up of legislation setting health and
safety standards for agricultural
work camps and giving local health
inspectors the necessary authority
to enforce those standards, came
out of a two-day inquest into the
death of seven-month-old Sukh-

~ deep Madhar.

Sukhdeep, the daughter of a

farm worker family living in a

crowded horse barn that had been
converted into a primitive dormi-
tory by farm owner Jasnier Braich .
in Matsqui, fell out of her cot and
into a tub of water.

Her death followed closely the
accidental drownings of three
boys, aged 8, 9 and 10 years, July
26, inapondin Langley, while their
parents picked fruit in the adjacent
fields.

“We made recommendations
similar to those of the coroner’s
jury in a brief we presented to labor
minister Jack Heinrich in Febru-
ary;’’ Chouhan said, ‘‘but no one
believed us. Now they have seen
with their own eyes.”

_ The brief called for the inclusion
of farm workers under labor stand-
ards legislation covering hours of
work, payment of wages, child la-
bor, workers’ compensation, ma-
ternity benefits and the dropping of
a section of the Unemployment In-
surance Act that discriminated
against farmworkers. —-

’ Chouhan was ‘“‘quite satisfied’”’
with the jury’s recognition of the

ELECTRICAL, plumbing,

urgency of the situation in the cab-
ins, evidenced by its call for ‘‘all

known agricultural work camps to’

be immediately inspected ‘by local

fire marshals, health officers and’

building inspectors.on a routine ba-

sis,’’ but said their recommenda-
tions would mean nothing unless
implemented by the provincial gov-
ernment.

“The CFU will organize more
public meetings and are prepared
to demonstrate on the lawns of the
legislature in Victoria until the pro-
vincial government takes action,”
Chouhan said. “‘If they don’t, then
more children will surely die.

‘Farmworkers are not making
enough money to provide daycare
by themselves, so they are forced to
take their children to work,”’
Chouhan said in a press statement —
following the three drownings.

Along with day care, the CFU,
in a July telegram to health min-
ister, Rafe Mair, demanded that
the government upgrade living
conditions inside the cabins by ap-
plying the Industrial Camp Act to
agricultural work camps, as it now
applies to logging and: mining
camps. Mair will be sent another
such message in a letter this week.

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