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Williams who has failed to uphold
human rights and has ‘‘undermined
established law.”

The report also noted several
areas for change in the Federation’s
structure including an increase in
the number of vice-presidents as
well as the size of future conven-
tions and conduct for floor debate.
Several of the changes will be in the
constitution committee’s recom-
mendations slated for introduction
later in the week.

But the report was largely a
chronological outline of the Federa-
tion’s activities — and it was that
feature which prompted sharpest
criticism from delegates.

United Fishermen and Allied
Workers’ Union delegate George
Hewison told-nearly 700 delegates
at the opening session that the con-
vention was probably the ‘‘most
critical in the history of the Federa-
tion.

‘“‘How can it be otherwise when
150,000 are pounding the streets
looking for work?’’ he asked. ‘Or
when we have a government in Ot-
tawa that is reminiscent of Iron
Heel Bennett, bringing the country
to the brink of depression.”

‘At a time like this, we need ac-

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Action that times demand’
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tion,”’ he said, adding that the
report ‘‘doesn’t have the focus we
need for a program of action.”’
‘It’s a good chronology of events
— but it doesn’t give delegates
something to take hold of and
become seized with the kind of ac-

‘tion the times demand,”’ he said.

Telecommunications’ Workers
Union delegate Bob Donnelly prais-

‘ed the officers for their action in

organizing the mass rallies against
Bill 46 and UIC cutbacks and for
their pledge of support to postal
workers, but was critical that the
executive council ‘‘didn’t even
spend all the money that was raised
for the unemployment campaign.

“This is the most devastating
economic situation faced by
workers for a long time,’’ he told
the convention, ‘‘We need to
mount a campaign that will say
loud and clear that we aren’t
prepared to accept it.’’

Donnelly also criticized the of- ,

ficers for not making a tougher
stand on the food prices report.
““We should have said: No matter
what happens, there will be no scab-
bing in this province,’’ he said.

Carpenters delegate Lorne Rob-
son also urged a strengthening of
the report.

He told delegates that the ‘‘offen-
sive by big business and the cuts in
unemployment insurance are
drastically affecting our members
— and the report should say so
angrily.”’

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our work as a labor movement on
unemployment.

‘‘None of us has done the job
that we should have done on unem-
ployment,”’ he said.

“We've got to mobilize the un-
employed — and we’re talking
about not only our own members
but young people who have never
had a job.”’

The Federation committee’s re-
port singled out unemployment as
“the major social and economic
problem facing working people’’
and warned, ‘‘neither senior level of
government seems at all concerned
that levels of unemployment remain
unacceptably high.’’

It pledged to continue to work on
the nine-point program on unem-
ployment adopted at the 1978 con-
vention.

A composite resolution, one of
several which buttressed the com-
mittee’s report, demanded that
federal government roll back the re-
cent restrictions in unemployment
insurance and scrap any further cut-
backs.

It called on the Federation to
‘“Scontinue its roll-back rallies and
membership participation activ-
ities’’ and urged the Federation and
the CLC to intensify the fight back
program against the legislative at-
tacks on the Unemployment Insur-
ance act.

The resolution echoed the de-
mand for action voiced by scores of
delegates during the debate on the
report and resolutions and the ear-
lier executive council report.

Carpenters delegate Colin Snell

called on the Federation to ‘‘extend
a hand of solidarity to the whole
community’’ in waging a campaign
on unemployment.
_ Dennis Brown, United Fishermen
and Allied Workers Union delegate,
told delegates that they would have
to organize the unemployed
“wherever they are — at Manpower
offices and at UIC offices.”’

Kamloops Labor Council dele-
gate said that the job of mobilizing
the unemployed ‘‘ is a job for the
trade union movement.

“It’s up to us to organize and
mobilize the unemployed,”’ he said,
“nobody else is going to do it.’

The sellout of energy resources as
a major cause of unemployment
was earlier cited by delegates in en-
dorsing a resolution calling on the
provincial government to ‘‘disclose
all proposed dam projects’’- and
compel B.C. Hydro to justify any
projects before ‘‘full and open pub-
lic hearings.’’

The resolution pointed specific-
ally to the Kemano II project pro-
posed by Alcan but also noted the
“proliferation of similar projects”’
which include Hydro’s Site C dam,

- the Peace Canyon and Revelstoke

dams and others.

The projects have been linked to
applications by Hydro for massive
exports of power to the U.S.

**When we met with B.C. Hydro,
we were told that the dam construc-
tion was solely concerned with the
needs of British Columbians,’’
UFAWU delegate Jack Nichol told
the convention.

*““But,”’ he said citing Hydro’s ap-
plication now before the National
Energy Board, “‘I submit to you
that that is not so.

“In fact, B.C. Hydro wants to
export an amount of power that is
equal to 95 per cent of the generat-
ing capacity of the Bennett Dam.”’

Carpenters’ delegate Lorne Rob-
son warned that Hydro’s policy also
marked a change from previous
practice of selling only surplus
power.

“‘Now Hydro intends to export
firm power,’’ he said.

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In response to a delegate from the
Electrical Workers who had sug-
gested that Hydro’s dam construc-
uion would ‘‘enable us to escape the
shortages that the U.S. faces,’’
Robson warned, that Hydro’s policy
had only one objective: to sell off
energy resources.

“We may have a few construc-
tion jobs now but'we’ll have no fac-
tories and no jobs in those fact-
ories,’’ he warned.

“We need a full public inquiry —
and a policy to ensure that our re-
sources are developed at home,”’ he
said, adding that the province
should be developing an ‘‘east-west
power system linked to the rest of
Canada — not to the U.S.”’

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