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SITE OF BANGOR SUB BASE. Photo shows the site where the U.S. is

FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1975

Second Class Mail Registration No. 1560

VOL. 37, No. 14

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Tribune

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A call for ‘‘teacher militancy,”
demands on the provincial
government to live up to its
commitment to reduce teacher
pupil ratios as well as recom-
mendations for stronger ties with
organized labor, emerged as
central issues in the annual
meeting of the B.C. Teachers
Federation.
~ Outgoing president Jim Mac-
Farlan told the more than 650
delegates to the convention that the
BCTF ‘“‘can become, and in fact,
has become an agency for social
change.” d

Social and political themes
dominated the president’s report in

j-ewhich *MacFarlan~said bluntly,

ilding its Trident sub missile base at Bangor, Washington. Pouring of

pate provincial NDP government
sy Ivered a cheque for $1,000. last
€ek to match money raised in
“ontributions by peace, labor,
Pacifist, church and environmental
Stoups to send delegates from B.C.
attend the Conference for a
uclear Free Pacific, meeting in
va, Fiji this week.
= conference, which will run
ie Monday, April 1 through to
Nday, April 6, is expected to

“entre on discussion of a treaty

aimed at winning commitment
™M Pacific rim countries to

nuclear free,

be urPose of the conference, which
ngs together a wide representa-
N of pacific, environmentalist,

ob ce, religious and labor

gennizations, is to prevent
Calation of nuclear weapons in

Conte acti and runs directly
‘tary to the purposes of the U.S.

ident sub base which will turn -

© Pacific into a major area of
Uclear armaments.
study Conference is expected to
Latin a similar treaty signed by
nuch American countries to keep
of cae Weapons out of that region
Bie. World. The Latin American

ty is known as the Treaty of

& Cement for the base has already begun and these deadly subs are
cect to become operational through the Strait of Juan de Fuca by

Tlatelolco. Representatives from
30 countries are expected to take
part in the Fiji meeting.

The return of the B.C. delegates
from Fiji, which includes Jim’
Douglass of the Pacific Life
Community organization whose
group ~ spearheaded recently
publicity about the threat of the

Bangor base, is expected to give a .

spurt to the public protest in B.C.
against the base. :

The Tribune has learned that
plans are under way by many
concerned groups to combine ef-
forts to more effectively mount a
public campaign against the
Trident sub base. Last Monday a
meeting called by the Quakers in
Victoria set up a committee which
was given the tentative name of
“committee for Survival.”

The meeting, which was at-
tended by NDP MLA Peter Rolston
who introduced the issue in the
Legislature and is sponsoring a
resolution asking the Canadian
government to protest the base,
agreed to call a conference on
Saturday, April 12 in Victoria to
consider a plan of action. It is
expected that Jim Douglass will

attend and report on the Fiji
conference to the meeting.

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“repression is the product of our
schools.” He said that the modern
school, modelled on the “cor-
poration and the factory system”
helps to ‘‘oppress the vast
majority”? for the benefit of the
powerful affluent minority.”
MacFarlan’s report as well as
the executive report and several

resolutions contained sharp
criticism of the provincial
government and _ education

minister Hileen Dailly for failing to
carry through with the govern-
ment’s promise to reduce the
teacher-pupil to 1:18.5 in 1975.

“A commitment is a com-

mitment,”’ the president’s report
stressed. He said that according to
the BCTF’s analysis, there were
ample funds in the current

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regime. The almost total collapse of the U.S. pup
absence of popular support among the people.

education budget to carry out the
promised classroom reductions
and challenged the minister to
state that local school boards
should submit budgets based on the
reduced ratio.

“There is no doubt that this
government has a long and positive
list of accomplishments in the field
of education,” the report stated,
“but there is also a substantial
balance sheet on the negative
side.”

Referring to the
made public by MacFarlan several
weeks ago, the report “insisted”
that the education minister “‘order
all such records, lists, telegrams,

“blacklist”

letters, etc., in the files of the
district’ superintendents’ be
destroyed.”

Labor relations occupied a
central focus for convention
discussions and a large section of
the president’s report. Not least in
this area were the problems in-
curred by the teachers themselves
during last year’s bargaining.
MacFarlan said that the issue,
simply stated, was the desire of the
school trustees to ‘“‘trample on our
historic right to local bargaining.”
He went on to say that any
provincial government which

See BCTF PARLEY pg. 12

Delegates to the Vancouver and
District Labor council have
denounced the West Coast Ports
Operations Act passed by
Parliament to force striking
longshoremen back to work.

A resolution
unanimously by the council
Tuesday night condemned the act
as ‘‘strikebreaking legislation’’
which represented ‘‘a*clear danger
to the collective bargaining rights
of all workers.”

The executive motion also
condemned the federal govern-

‘ment for introducing the

adopted .

legislation and expressed ‘‘sharp
criticism”’ of all MPs who voted for
it.

ILWU Canadian Area secretary
Frank Kennedy told the council:
“Tf we allow this ‘to pass without
opposition from. the _ labor
movement, some other union is

_ going tobe next to face compulsory

arbitration.”

He also asked that the resolution
be. forwarded to the Canadian
Labor Congress and the B.C.
Federation of Labor for further
action.

PEOPLE’S MILITIA are shown in training. The liberation forces of South Vietnam scored
ictories this week, and have liberated nearly three quarters of South Vietnam from the Thieu puppet
pet regime came with startling suddeness indicating the total

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