a GALINDO MADRID... . battle to stay not won yet. his Chilean refugee Galindo Madrid has been granted a ministerial permit to remain in Canada but immigration minister Ron Atkey has said that the permit will only be for one year, during which time Madrid must seek a third country. The reprieve, announced. by Burnaby NDP MP Svend Robin- son at a press conference Satur- day, allows for a one year exten- sion if a third country is not found within the first year. If Madrid has not left for another country by the end of the second year, the case will be reviewed again by the im- migration department. But in a bureaucratic twist of immigration law, Madrid must _ leave Canada temporarily in order to discharge a deportation order pending since July. . Madrid wins ministerial reprieve Madrid’s supporters are conti- nuing to demand that he be allow- ed to remain permanently in - Canada where he has worked ~. steadily since 1977. ‘Why doesn’t the government end the charade?’’ Robinson told the press conference, ‘*Why doesn’t Atkey welcome Madrid as a refugee into this country in the same way that 50,000 Indochinese refugees have been welcomed?”’ Atkey’s decision to back off a July 26 order to have Madrid deported back to Chile, where he would face certain imprisonment and possible death, came in the wake of “‘hundreds of letters and resolutions from across Canada supporting his right to stay,” Robinson said, in addition to a special appeal from the United Nations High Commission on Refugees. The prestigious UNHCR had formally reviewed Madrid’s case and had asked Atkey to allow him to stay in Canada, Robinson said. Robinson, who earlier this year took Madrid into his home in the face of the deportation order, welcomed the reprieve but attacked the inconsistency of the government’s position and the limits placed upon the permit. ‘‘It doesn’t make sense to allow him to stay in Canada, but only for a year,”’ he said, ‘‘Other countries are going to ask Why on earth yourself?’ ”’ Robinson encouraged Madrid’s supporters to keep up the fight to have the Chilean seaman granted permanent refugee status in Canada. North Vancouver District activist Ernie Crist gave a victory sign after Sweeping to victory in Saturday's municipal vote, coming at the top of the aldermanic poll. The election of Crist, a shipyard Worker endorsed by the. Vancouver labor council, is a major breakthrough for the labor movement in civic politics. Labor scored nother breakthrough in the Prince Rupert elections. A roundup of OW the labor and progressive movement fared in the elections is , largest p the Trib Ninth lar : Adhere to On Page 3. Fred Wilson photo Siisoee bi » By RICHARD ORLANDINI = EEONTO — The derailed tank a: aining. deadly chlorine gas Ich led to one of the world’s te evacuations: in Proper] ga, Ontario — was im- Y Positioned on the train, une learned in a series of in- "etviews this week. a x — the treat of a massive rup- caused a chlorine tank car which reside the evacuation of 224,000 “its in Mississauga, Canada’s oe ai city. The evacuation Cansai ave been necessary if the fan Pacific Railways had © the Canadian Transport ssion’s “Regulations Con- Cc hg the Transport of Dangerous _~°Mmodities by Rail.” CPR broke regulations In Mississauga crisis On Tuesday, Nov. 13, three days after the spectacular derailment and the explosions of propane Cars, Wil- liam Stinson, the railway’s execu- tive vice-president, said in an inter- view with the Globe and Mail that the cars were spaced ‘‘according to regulations. The cars in that Ppartic- ular combination were all right as far as federal regulations go. However, that same afternoon, the Tribune called Ken Smith, a public relations spokesman for the CPR and asked: ‘‘What was the derailed chlorine tank car coupled to?’”’ In reply Smith said the sequence of the coupling of the cars involved in the accident was, “propane, chlorine, caustic soda.”’ This sequence of coupling the See PROFITS page 12 all for on Tory sparks Fed meet | Carpenters Union president Bill Zander brought 800 delegates leap- ing to their feet Tuesday when he told the B.C. Federation of Labor convention that prime minister Clark was coming to Vancouver and. urged them to ‘“‘give him the reception he deserves’’ for his gov- ernment’s. policies in jacking up in- terest rates and cutting back unem- ployment insurance. Zander’s call came at the end of the debate on the federation’s un- employment committee report and protest policies gave a dramatic focus to the report and the resolutions submitted as part of it. The spontaneous standing ova- tion also prompted the conventions committee to call a demonstration at the Hotel Vancouver Thursday, when Clark arrives to address a $150-a-plate dinner. Zander had earlier told the con- vention angrily that it was time ‘‘to get off the public relations kick in See ACTION page 11 ‘Labor faces attack’ Fed president warns B.C. Federation of Labor presi- dent Jim Kinnaird told the 700 delegates at the opening session of the Federation’s convention Mon- day that they were witnessing ‘‘an organized attack against the whole labor movement”’ and warned that they would face ‘‘new challenges in the 1980’s. - “The signs are clear — we have to be prepared to fight,’’ he said. The address was Kinnaird’s first as president of the Federation and although the tone was significantly different from that of his predecessor, George Johnston, who retired last year, his remarks were a clear indication that the problems facing the labor movement had not changed since the 1978 convention. ‘“‘When we look around us, we see working people in this province under attack like they have rarely been attacked before; we see governments that have demonstrated clearly the inability to change the system, to make B.C. an equal place for all to live; we see employers who have only one goal, to suck as much from out of the economy before the bottom falls out. “We see politicians that are leading the nation down a road that must surely end_in social and economic chaos,”’ he said. In urging delegates to ‘‘unite in a common purpose,’’ Kinnaird pointed to the ‘‘unity slate’? on which he and Federation secretary Dave Macintyre had been elected the year before. They had defeated Bob Donnelly and Al Peterson who had closely identified themselves with the militant policies of retiring officers George Johnston and Len Guy. The reference was one of many in Kinnaird’s speech to the leadership. issue which dominated the 1978 convention and provided a continu- ing undercurrent in the debate this year. He emphasized early in his ad- dress that the ‘‘change in leadership does not mean that the basic prin- ciples and goals of that organiza- tion must change”’ although he add- ed, ‘‘We may have approached challenges from a different perspec- TIVE That change in approach was evi- dent in his address as well as the ex- ecutive council report, both of which gave greater emphasis to See FIGHT page 11 Na tes a momen et ‘ i _@ RACISM: A Vancouver cabaret has been found guilty of “blatant rac- ism,” but Vancouver city council has refused ta take any action agai =the club, page2, 0 2 | | @ LABOR: Jack Phillips has been talking to CAIMAW_ president Jess Succ- | amore, and in the first of two articles he examines | CAIMAW’s role in the la- bor movement, page 12. @ GRENADA: Canada has been caught with dirty hands in an aborted coup attempt against the pop- ular Grenada govern- ment of Maurice Bishop, page 7. @ MEANY: The old reac- tionary of U.S. labor is fi- nally stepping down, but the man that the estab- lishment has in mind to replace him won't be much of an improve- ment, page 5. @ URANIUM: Although the province of Saskat- chewan has uranium mines slated for develop- ment, the plans didn’t sit well with delegates to the NDP convention, page 8.