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“What i ist like to be a student in Chile today?”

Come to a public meeting and hear:

PATRICIO LANFRANCO

President of Chile’s largest student organization

MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 7:30

Room L2 & 3, Britannia Community Centre
1661 Napier Street, Vancouver

Sponsored by Canadians for Democracy in Chile

1981 Annual

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PORT ALBERNI — The
three-day walkout by 700 workers
at MacMillan Bloedel’s Somass
sawmill over the use of a highly
toxic wood preservative, ended
last Friday when the workers’
won major concessions from the

company.

The workers “‘got what they
wanted most,’’ according to Ver-
na Ledger, health and safety of-
ficer for the International Wood-
workers. ‘‘They can hire a
qualified person to oversee a

medical history study of those
workers exposed to the chemical,
pentachlorophenol (PCP).”’

PCP is one of the chemicals us-
ed in a spray solution to prevent
lumber from darkening and to
prevent growth of fungus.

Worse however, is dioxin
which is a contaminant of PCP
and one of the most toxic
chemicals known to man.

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“MB hit by safety Sidi by anloly cael

Dioxin was one of the con-
taminants found in the defoliant
Agent Orange, used by the U.S.
in its war against Vietnam, and
has been linked to the greatly
elevated incidence of liver cancer
in those parts of Vietnam where it
was used. .

The walkout, spurred by the
company’s refusal to carry out
minimal health and safety orders
by the Workers’ Compensation
Board, won the workers a five-
point argument which remedied
some immediate problems on the
job, and projected a long-term
solution. ,

Over the weekend, MacMillan
Bloedel installed showers,
ordered paper respirators and
eyewashes, repaired containers
where the solution was leaking
and identified the pipes which
carried the solution.

The agreement also calls for
only qualified employees to use
the spray unit, and employees

have now been given the right to
shut off the spray unit if there is a
leak or the odor is too strong.

A spray subcommittee was set
up, which, in the short term,
would repair faulty pumps and
sprays, and in the long term,
review the method of treating the
lumber with the aim of finding
alternatives to the PCP-dioxin
solution. —

Many of the workers were
especially concerned about their
health, as respiratory and skin
problems have been common oc-
currences around the plant where
the spraying is done.

Port Alberni council member,
George McKnight said that the
council had unanimously passed
a motion Tuesday to ask the pro-
vincial and federal health depart-
ments ‘‘to take steps to test any
new chemical before ‘it is in-
troduced into industry or the
home.”

VERNON — Socred
patronage for Bill Bennett’s
home base of Kelowna at the ex-
pense of other Okanagan com-
munities has been linked to the
forced retirement of the director
of the Vernon Campus of
Okanagan College.

Vernon has swirled in con-
troversy since campus director
Frank Paul was given two days
to retire or face dismissal in
December by the college board.
According to Paul, the dismissal
was prompted by his refusal to
accept a lower priority for Ver-

non, in spite of ‘‘persuasion,
threats and probation’’ from
the college board based at the
Kalamalka campus in Kelowna.

munity leaders have called for a
public inquiry into the dismissal
of Paul. Vernon doctors last
week unanimously voted to ask
education minister Brian Smith
to conduct an independent in-
quiry into the issue.

The Okanagan and District
Labor Council added its voice to
‘the protest Jan. 7, pinning the
blame for the controversy on the
Socreds. Labor council
eae: Bert Nilsson charged

Students, faculty and com--

Socred patronage angers Vernon

that ‘“‘the grossly unfair treat-
ment of Paul” is the result of in-
adequate funding from the pro-
vince for the college and an une-
qual development of college ser-
vices throughout the region.
Nilsson charged that while
the Okanagan College was
mandated to provide education
for the entire Okanagan region,
program and capital funding
has not been available to serve
the entire area, and instead a dis-

proprotionate amount has been
centralized ‘“‘where the B.C.
government wanted it to go for
its own political reasons.”

The Socred appointed board
of directors has invested the vast
majority of capital funds in
Kelowna, ‘“‘the premier’s home
town’’, while Vernon was forc-
ed to operate a college campus
out of an old army barracks,
said Nilsson.

Witholding war taxes

KAMLGOPS — _ The
Kamloops Shuswap Peace
Council is urging taxpayers to
deduct from their inconte taxes

that portion which would go

towards arms spending, and it
has prepared: a special personal
declaration tax credit form to
make the deduction.

The peace council has
calculated that per-capita arms
spending amounts to $213.32
for each person in Canada.

The campgign to withold in-
come tax for war purposes and
to have the funds transferred to
a peace fund was initiated by the

‘but taxes unpaid would be

Religious Society of ’ Friends
(Quakers) in Victoria in 1978.

Speaking to the Kamloops
and district labor council at its
December meeting, peace coun-
cil representative Mike Gidora
described the proposal to
withhold taxes as ‘‘an act of per-
sonal conscience’.

John Wildman, director of
the income tax department in
Penticton, stated that the move
would not be seen as evasion,

assessed later, with twelve per-
cent interest added. 2

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