. Memorial service.

Manitoba Fed
charts plans

The Manitoba Federation of
Labor has joined with the
Canadian Labor Congress, other
provincial federations and labor
councils in Manitoba to launch a
full employment campaign.

The decision highlighted the
Manitoba Federation of Labor
convention September 22-25 in
Winnipeg, where delegates backed
up the demand for jobs with
resolutions calling for a 32 hour
work week with no loss in pay and
massive public works projects.

The convention also endorsed a
strategy of legal co-ordinated
strikes if wage controls are not
lifted by the end of the year.
Member unions whose contracts
expire after January 1, 1978 will be
urged to walk out and refuse to sign
new contracts until the controls
end. 5

Manitoba’s provincial NDP
government came under fire from
the Federation for failing to with-
draw from the federal anti-
inflation program. Neither were
the delegation from the Manitoba
Government. Employees

@ 2 Association happy with the per-

j formance of the government, as
We’re on the move

provincial servants still are out-
for a thousand subs this fall. It’s our annual sub drive

side the Labor Relations Act
without rights of full and free
when we call on our readers to renew their subs and help
ost our circulation.

collective bargaining. A resolution
from the MGEA calling of the

In Vancouver, Broadway club is off to a fast start. A
Greek member of that club has sold nine new subs, and

we SB A Ls

The Southern African Action Coalition joined with thousands
throughout the world in voicing their denunciation of apartheid
as they mourned the death of South African Black leader Steven
Biko who died Sept. 12 while in police custody. Amidst flowers
donated by several organizations, mourners stood vigil Monday
in the First United Church and later heard various speakers
including SAAC chairman Zayed Gamiet [above] address a brief

—Sean Griffin photo.

Federation to withdraw support for
the NDP until bargaining rights
were granted to provincial em-
ployees, however, failed to pass the

he says he is just beginning. Whoever does sell the most éonvention.
subs will be duly honored with a $50 library from Co-op The Griffin Steel strike. , fresh in
Books. - delegates’ memories, the con-

vention also voted to petition the
provincial government for
legislation banning strike breaking
practices and the hiring of scabs.

The Federation also pledged to
continue its work with the Win-

Next week: Vancouver Island.

Stay with us and cheer the drive on!

: = 5 nipeg Chilean Association and its
' =) fraternal links with the exterior
VENCOU NES : commission of CUT (the Chilean
BROADWAY 90% | 28% |45% Central Union of Workers).
NI[LO MAKELA — |2496|20% e,0 e
VAN. EAST 15%| 19% | 18% Petitioning set
SOUTH VAN. “4%|20%|17% for October 15
we a The B.C. Peace Council has
POINT GREY — |23%|16% issued an urgent appeal for people
Me to assist in its petition campaign
WEST END 10% |20% | 13% Saturday Oct. 15 as it marks In-
cs 0 ternational Day of Action to End
OLGIN — |60%/10% the Arms Race. Petitioning will be
between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.
PETER McGUIRE | 12%| 4%| 7% Volunteers are asked to gather at
c -the Peace Council offices at Room
KINGSWAY — 8%| 5% 712 - 207 West Hastings, Vancouver
. at 1 p.m. For more information
BILL BENNETT Tapes Eee ol a. phone the office at 685-9958, 11 a.m.

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on jobs fight

As a result of the questionnaire
published in the last two issues,
asking people to give their views on
the Tribune, we have had a number
of letters outlining readers’
opinions. One of the rst to respond
was Harold Dean who, although he
did not fill out the questionnaire,
did send us a lengthy letter.
Several excerpts from that letter
appear below.

0

I welcome the fact that you are
calling upon people to offer their
criticisms of the Tribune whether
they be “praise, criticism or just a
ho-hum’’.

Before I offer my point of view I
should like to say a few things
about the whole question of
communications. That is, the
means of communications has
broadened very widely. The
average citizen now finds himself
inundated with all sorts of material
and it is not really a question of just
finding something to read, but
rather sorting out what one should
read from amongst the mass of
material.

Having this background in mind
I would like to point out some
examples which I think the
Tribune should follow.

Dyson Carter has_ been
publishing Northern Neighbors
now for some years and, in con-
trast to- other progressive
magazines and publications, his
readership has been increasing.
One thing which he always tries to
do is to make sure that his articles
are brief, optimistic and full of
enthusiasm and are about subjects
which obviously have great in-
terest to his readership. That is,
they are usually quite topical
subjects. The main point is that he
is brief and to the point.

One other thing, too, which he
has learned and which is most
helpful is that he has many people
who write to his magazine, and

Qe FORUM

who expound on various points
which he has published. Naturally,
much of what he says is quite
controversial and, of course, some
of the letters are quite critical
while some are full of lavish
praise. Nevertheless, he never

insults his readers by just throwing -

their letters in the wastepaper
basket (something- which the
Tribune has repeatedly done with

my letters). He always gives them -

acknowledgement by publishing a
line or two from their letters. That
portion of his magazine is widely
read because not only do people
find out that he has responded, but
they alsofeel that he has read their

letters and that they have some —

bearing on his approach. He has a
tremendous following now, mainly
because he has what I consider to
be a very democratic approach.

The Tribune has suffered for a
long time from the lack of these
things which Dyson Carter has.
This is, you‘give somebody the
right to write an article, or an
editorial, and even though the
Tribune is cramped for space and
this person could not tell you the
time of day unless he used about
half a page, he writes at great
length which obviously stifles the
readership. I could give you many
examples.

Certainly in the Vancouver Sun
they can afford the luxury of

allowing someone to write full page .

articles but the Tribune cannot
really afford any such luxury. For
example, when your assistant
editor, Sean Griffin, writes a book
review, he takes up about half a
page in the paper when it could
have been done in perhaps two
paragraphs.

I think that the first thing that
you could do to improve the paper
would be to publish at least ex-
cerpts from the various letters.
And do not be afraid of a little
controversy.

and more...

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ON HIS 80th BIRTHDAY

October 15, 8 pm, 2809 Wall Street, Van.
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