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| Wea, to the testing of U.S. nuclear-
Hy lips hardware in Nanoose Bay.
T} Coy, Contingent of some 50 British
aeons demonstrated outside the
Teg, Forces Maritime Experimental
Range (CFMETR), located in the
South ancouver Island community just
Whi, ©! Parskville, to protest the pact
one allows the U.S. navy to experiment

Watery Submarine weapons in Canada’s

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ay agreement was renewed for 10
tion.’ despite previous large demonstra-
fey, Sf local opposition, on June 19, just a

days after contingents of peace

marchers set out from Victoria and com-
munities on the northern part of the island
to gather at the two-year old peace camp
maintained by the Nanoose Conversion
Campaign.
Songs and chants marked the arrival at
approximately 10 a.m. Saturday morning
of the Victoria contingent — marchers
from the northern group had arrived the
previous evening — who had walked the
distance from B.C.’s capital to participate
in the demonstration. :
“Included in their ranks were six
members of the Central America Peace
March, an international demonstration
which visited several Central American
nations last December calling for an end
to foreign intervention in the region.

Marchers from Victoria arrive at Nanoose Bay on Saturday morning to join others from northern Vancouver Island and
's of the Nanoose Conversion Campaign at Canadian Forces testing range.

Hornby Island resident Betty Fair-
banks said the idea for the two-pronged
peace trek to Nanoose came from a slide
showing of the Central American march
this spring. “The question arose, what can
we do here, and we decided we could walk
to Nanoose Bay,” she said. -

The renewal of the test pact, under
which submarines that are equipped to
carry Tomahawk cruise missiles and other
nuclear weapons enter the bay and Geor-
gia Strait, was announced with little fan-
fare last Thursday.

Last January, the Nanoose Conversion
Campaign drew hundreds to a conference
calling for conversion of the base to peace-
ful uses and an end to Canadian involve-
ment in the U.S. Star Wars scheme.

June 25, 1986
40¢

Vol. 49, No. 24

Trades pact
defeat for
CLRA plans

By FRED WILSON

The spectacle Monday of three
Building Trades unions continuing to
picket in defiance of a memorandum
of agreement between the B.C. and
Yukon Building Trades Bargaining
Council. and Construction Labor
Relations Association is evidence, if it
were ever needed, that the truth is
rarely as it appears.

In the case of the three would-be
“militants”, International Boilermak-
ers secretary treasurer Don Vinoly,
Elevator Constructors business man-
ager Earnie Blades, and Plumbers

Analysis

business manager Norman Farley,
the protests over the “concessions” in
the proposed pact ring hollow.

To sort out the motivations behind
the rhetoric it is useful to know that
Don Vinoly, is president of the B.C.
section of the breakaway Canadian
Federation of Labor (CFL). The
CFL, in 1985, signed the infamous
“Ensuring our Future” policy memo-
randum with the Canadian Construc-
tion Association that called for major
concessions throughout the industry
with argumentation not much differ-
ent than heard recently in this pro-
vince from CLR’s Chuck McVeigh.
The major obstacle in the path of
implementing that policy in B.C. is
the accredited bargaining agent for
the trades, the B.C. and Yukon Build-
ing Trades Bargaining Council. Vino-
ly’s main objective is nothing less than
the destruction of the bargaining
council.

Just prior to the conclusion of the
negotiations between the Building
Trades and CLRA, Vinoly and the
other two issued a leaflet condemning
the limited concessions contained in
the pact. Since then his statements
have been less concerned with the
terms of the agreement and focused
on the main issue — the charge that
the bargaining council has failed to
represent the three unions.

A clause in the bargaining council
constitution provides that no member
union can be forced to accept involun-

see ORGANIZING page 12

With this issue, the Tribune’s front-
page takes on a new look, with a re-
designed flag. The previous flag has
served well since it was introduced in
1975 but the editors wanted a new
design that conveyed a sense of
movement — to reflect the times
we’re living in. It was previewed at the
Tribune’s Victory Banquet Saturday
where 350 supporters celebrated reach-
ing the drive target (details, page 11).

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