Wednesday, December 4, 1985 ens Newsstand Price 40° Vol. 48, No. 45 turn the B.C. Federation of Labor’s hot edict against the company’s servi- | since 800 employees walked out Nov. 20, faced a “rocky road” in its eRe page 3 | attempts to have the B.C. Supreme Wednesday. PWA services were declared hot and intimidate picketers, has threat- gee €ned the Unemployment Insurance Y E S i ads. The airline had run a series of Advertisements informing the public the position that the court has no Jurisdiction in the dispute, which must | Hot edict Ces, in PWA’s latest attempt to defeat its striking employees. Named in the Supreme Court suit, Court quash the hot declaration, said One of the union officials involved. ING Local 115» administrative | Noy. 28 at the B.C. Fed’s annual con- vention. In a statement read by presi- dent Art Kube, the federation noted Suan AO enefits of unemployed mechanics | -- -and has refused to bargain in good : faith,” the edict was necessary. that “our business is still flying.” Kube told the Tribune it would bea Pretty goddamn frosty Friday” if be resolved by the B.C. Labor Rela- tions Board. ; ___ Their remarks underscore the cru- which opened Tuesday, are the B.C. officer Roy Tubbs said PWA officials ) mi n ar ro eS @ Walked into court “pretty cocky” rave that hot edicts aren’t usually issued so eg e . APARTHEID Following the issuing of the edict, WA was successful in obtaining its ial nature of the PWA challenge to Pacific Western Airlines is seeking ce (= oi , | a Supreme Court injunction to over- | | Fed, the International Typographers & Union (ITU) and the Vancouver-New ‘aye fa | Westminster Newspaper Guild (TNG ee i 4 Local 115), - But the company, which has / | &mployed scab labor on its flights Dec. 3, but left at the end of the court day with no injunction. The court hearing was to resume farly in a labor dispute, but since the airline had “employed scabs since the first day of the dispute, has hired pro-. N 0 fessional strikebreakers under the ae 8uise of security personnel to harass FR EEDOM ING and ITU members at Pacific Press, publishers of The Sun and the Province, refused to handle PWA’s |. Court injunction: ““We can kiss our freedoms goodbye.” Tubbs said the unions were taking the hot edict, which is one of organ- _ ized labor’s key solidarity weapons. see PWA page 3 A poorly-a ttended seminar in which South African Airways sought to involve Vancouver travel agents in boosting the nation’s sagging tourist trade was hit by demonstrators outside Holiday Inn Harborside Nov. 28. Only some 20 agents reportedly showed up to the seminar, which took place at a time when more than 113,000 bookings have been cancelled following the state of emeregency imposed by South Africa’s racist government. An article in the Nov. 2 edition of The Daily News in Durban, S.A., reported a 50-per cent cut in tourist trade in a front page article. A recent Airways brochure S: With this Tribune will ski ts to convince travel agents abroad that, despite the massive demonstrations against apartheid, “Visitors to South 2 Week to ene ~~ staff to nrepaie Rca feel very welcome and safe.”’ The Anti-Apartheid Network sponsoring the demonstration plans a conference the enlarged, year-end issue. It will be beginning Dec. 6 at the Vancouver Planetarium (Phone 873-6322). eout Dec, 17.