Pie sacsccamnammcmememmersicmmed emacs | || The Let LEFT The podium at the solidarity conf * Madrid rally heralds pe a he “tremendous unity and mili- ing! ae of the historic Madrid hid vasrence in solidarity with Chile froé Hl echoed last week by delegates gatl aa this province as they returned ia the international meeting held a nf 9-12 in the Spanish capital. | Pry Zander, president of the B.C. Saag Council of Carpenters, dl Be Press attache Maria McLeod 4 a Part of the Canadian or) ,8ation which also included iat! !Ward Pawley, Manitoba NDP cab } ae and former attorney-general; 3 Say Duerr, Canadian Co- tr pe ating Committee with Atel Cqnccratic Chile; Evelina Pan, rate Sune Peace Congress; Linda ae executive president 8 0 ent Christian Movement; Alain “ Nuelette, Conseilde la Paix et Comite de la Solidarite avec Chile Democratique; - Miriam Edelson, Ontario Federation of Students; and Henriquez Matos, Portuguese- Canadian Democratic Association. “You could not help but be deeply moved to see more than 750 delegates from all around the world concerned about the situation in Chile and gathered together to discuss what they could do about it,’? Maria McLeod told the Tribune. Zander echoed her remarks, noting the ‘tremendous militancy”’ of the conference and the “tremendous feeling of unity considering the broad range of representation.” Chilean leaders including Hortensia Allende, widow of erence held in Madrid’s Convenciaon Hotel. broad Chile solidarity murdered president Salvador Allende, Isabel Letalier, widow of Orlando Letelier, assassinated by DINA in New York; Nestor Arrias, leader of the Christian Democratic Youth of Chile; and leaders of the parties of Popular Unity also addressed the conference, the largest and most representative ever held in solidarity with Chile. Luis Corvalan, general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile and freed only two years ago after more than three years in Pinochet’s concentration camp was given a thunderous ovation as he told the conference: ‘‘It is very easy to understand how moving it is for a Latin American to come to Spain for the first time and feel its people’s solidarity and see how this | : ‘ 7 - : =e Pioneer of miners’ union mourned any king people from Nanaimo — “Md district turned out in large fun bers Monday to attend the 3% eral service for Ellen Greenwell 9 © passed away Wednesday, Nov. in Nanaimo at the age of 85. Orn in East Wellington on June » 1893 into a miner’s family Ellen Nwell was one of the pioneer ©men on Vancouver Island who Elped build the miners union ee the long difficult years when miners fought for unionization. Asa young woman she played an &Ctive part in the 1912 miners strike ting which the mine bosses and ernment sent in more than 1,000 Militiamen and artillery to smash le strike. She was one of the Witnesses called to testify on behalf an miners in the court actions Ich followed. in 1933, when the big organiza- nal drive was launched by the A ne Workers Union of Canada to Tganize the Nanaimo miners, her ore RiBUN home became a headquarters for the union then struggling under conditions of illegality. Nineteen years before, on Nov. 20, 1914, she had married Tom Greenwell, a miner from Nova Scotia who had moved to Nanaimo to work in the mine. He became one of the founding members of the union and predeceased her in October, 1949. Outspoken on community issues and highly regarded in her com- munity, Ellen was elected a member of the Nanaimo school district in 1948. ; She was also one of the early working class women to take up the struggle for women’s rights and was an active member of the Women’s Labor League. Recognizing that it was not enough just to fight for unionization and better wages, and that a more just social system was needed, she became a socialist and | An important message on af to our readers and advertisers joined the Communist Party in the early 1930’s, remaining a member for many years until ill health forced her to give up her activities. In a warm tribute to her life’s work, Maurice Rush, B.C. pro- vincial leader of the Communist Party, said: “For Ellen Greenwell the class struggle was no theoretical question. She knew from her whole life’s experience that there are miners and mine bosses and that for miners to win a decent life they had to fight the mine bosses. “As a young girl she developed a militancy and deep class con- sciousness that was to stay with her all her life and left a stamp on everything she did.” Rush said that when the true history of B.C. labor is: written Ellen Greenwell will find an honored place in its pages. The Tribune joins with its readers in expressing its condolences to her sons George and Donald and daughter Rurth, to her sister and seven grandchildren. You Are Invited To The VAN EAST XMAS BASH country, so close to us, has taken the road towards democracy. ‘Spain has lived long years under fascism,’’ he said. ‘‘Chile has already suffered five years under this inhuman regime but it too will return to democracy to a democratic system superior to the one it knew before.’’ He told the delegates: ‘“There are now in opposition to the tyranny, besides the parties of Popular Unity and MIR, the Christian Democratic Party and other groups of the left and centre, right wing republicans and, what is highly indicative, a military opposition. The Carpenters president at- tended a special session of trade union action held during the conference which heard various national trade union leaders outline their actions taken by their re- spective movements. The trade union session called for an increased international action to - isolate the junta; to cut off credits and foreign investment; to end existing government agreements with the fascist junta; to intensify the boycott of Chilean products and to prevent their entry into foreign markets; and to develop greater support for the under- ground Chilean Central Trade Union Federation (CUT), both inside the country and abroad. The conference culminated in the Final Act of Madrid adopted at the final session by a standing ovation of the nearly 800 delegates. The document warned that Chile “is not an isolated case, but rather RIGHT: Luis Corvalan, general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile, speaks. a country ‘‘where imperialism’ achieved one of its objectives in its strategy of maintaining the entire content under its power.” “The struggle of the people of Chile and of those who are in solidarity with them is that of all peoples of the world who fight for their liberation and the right to choose, in accordance with their own reality, the paths which lead to better destinies,’’ it declared. The Final Act denounced ‘‘those governments and institutions which sustain Pinochet’s regime’? and called for a ban on the supply of arms and other resources to the junta and for action by interna- tional bodies to supervise and safeguard human rights in Chile. It -also called for ‘‘punishment of those responsible . for . the assassination of the former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier.”’ | In this province, delegates to the B.C. Federation of Labor them- selves affirmed the conference solidarity with the adoption of a resolution calling for the release of information about the 2,500 dis- appeared prisoners in Chile, and for the implementation of UN resolutions which demand the restoration of human rights. Zander also noted that Anselmo sule, president of the Radical Party of Chile and a vice-president of the Socialist International, would be touring the province in February and urged wide backing of the tour by the trade union movement and political parties. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING MING EVENTS BUSINESS PERSONALS DEC. 9 — Help celebrate Jack Phil- lips 65th Birthday, Sat., Dec. 9 at 8 p.m., Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender St. Dancing, food and refreshments. Adm. $5, OAP and unemployed $4. 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