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the Carpenters charged this week that discuss improvements to the Injured and disabled workers throughout the trade union move- “ip
d 4 since the Social Credit government Workers’ Compensation Act,” pro- have faced increasing problems in ment as a employers’ document. j
of! has been in office, its record on  vincial council president Bill Zander _ recent months as a result of a policy ‘But it would appear that one of
ert Workers’ Compensation “‘has been _ told a press conference Monday. of cost cutting and service reduction its major recommendations — to
t i a disaster’, resulting in lengthy “On the other hand, he has _ initiated by the WCB in line with initiate a well-organized com-
sO! delays in claims, and wholesale cuts responded to lobbyists from _ the general Social Credit policy of prehensive cost reduction program
call in wage loss benefits and disability employer groups such as the reducing costs in response to- covering all areas of the WCB
ress pensions. Employers Council of B.C., the employers’ demands. operations — has been’ im-
ocd! ‘Tabor minister Allan Williams B.C. Chamber of Commerce, the Two reviews of the WCB have plemented with the full knowledge -
tio! has ignored the plight of injured Council of Forest Industries, the been ordered by the Socreds since . of the labor minister,’’ Zander said.
on and disabled workers and last year. Vancouver Board of Trade and the they took office in December, 1975, As a result, he said, there has
i refused to meet with representatives B.C. Construction Association,’’ one of which — the P.S. Ross See PROFITS page 3
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no! | Kashtan has called on prime minis- scene of many top level discussions
cal | ter Trudeau and the leaders of the about Communist Party activity.
510" } opposition parties to support a CP The office remains a nerve centre
10 | demand that the McDonald Royal of CP activity, but there is very lit-
‘hall | Commission into the illegal activi- tle that the RCMP could find out
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at oo ovine cae atte | veillance in the Party’s central public record by the Party, Dew-
1in8 tion day, the Tribune | }¢adquarters in Toronto. nin ald:
ical eeieaacienic at some of The electronic bugs were discov- Nearly every day the press de-
) the developing debate on | ‘fed by CP executive secretary Al- partment of our Party issues press
| education and transit } {¢4 Dewherst.April.27-after.a tile releases to inform the people of this
| Policy, page 2 | from the false ceiling in his office COUNtry On our opinions which go
3 | fell to the floor overnight. Lodged Straight into the waste paper bas-
@ FEDERAL ELECTION: | in the ceiling above the missing tile Kets in the editor’s offices,’’ he
Communist Party leader | were found a number of sensitive Saids “and the RCMP has to.go to
Bill Kashtan distin- | condensor microphones and an am- the trouble of bugging our offices
guishes his party's | plification system, apparently link- ‘© find out what we are saying.
policies from all the | ed into the Bell Telephone system. | Wouldn’t it be simpler if the press
others in a major inter- | Experts brought in bythe CP and just printed what we’re saying?.” a
view, page 6, and on | by the Toronto media have con- | The Communist Party is a legal, ‘
page 3, a roundup of | firmed that the office was wired for registered political party that
campaign activities. electronic surveillance. operates within the laws of Canada,
|- In letters to Trudeau, Joe Clark, Dewherst stressed, and the buggings
Ed Broadbent and to the McDonald 4F€ an example of the illegal and un-
! Commission Kashtan called for a democratic harassment against the
“i full inquiry into the bugging and tor Party by the police and government.
“ the extension of the terms of refer- | The CP will be bringing in a team
ence of the McDonald Commission of experts to determine how extens-
to include the illegal surveillance of ive the bugging of the party’s head- pecs Sete 5 ay
the Communist Party. quarters is, after which further ac-’ Some 20 people, members of the Carpenters’ Union and the Injured
The bug discovered last week has _ tions will be considered. The party Workers’ Association, picketed the Workers’ Compensation Board
obviously-been in place for many also is demanding that Bell Tele- offices in Vancouver Monday to dramatize the Socreds’ cutback in
years, Dewhurst told the Tribune Phone Company give full co-opera- WCB benefits and services and to press the demand for changes to
| this. week. His office was romigty tion in the investigation. the Act. —Sean Griffin photo
~ CIA front linked to Socreds _) Bill Kashtan
. ® MAY DAY: The NDP, The so-called North American stating ‘‘anyone who endorses organizations including the John
Communist Party and Labor Party (NALP), a group __ our policies can join.”’ Birth Society and the Young to tour 4 Cc e
| B.C. Federation of Labor which has been closely tied to He immediately issued letters Americans for Freedom.
Shared the platform at U.S. intelligence agencies as well asking recipients — including Last year, the Washington- Communist Party leader William
Vancouver's annual May as ultra-right organizations has _ trade union leaders — to attend based publication Public Eye Kashtan will arrive back in B.C.
Day celebration with now been given the stamp of ap- a fund-raising dinner for his which closely monitors U.S. in- | mext week for a last week of cam-
thoughts about labor and proval by the Social Credit Party campaign. telligence activities published the | paigning in this province prior to
the elections, page 11. of Canada which last week In the letter he said he was contents of several recently- the federal vote..
f nominated NALP member “‘pleased to have been released FBI documents showing Pe : ce
a Carlo Dalla Valle to contest the © designated the MP candidate for that the U.S. branch of the es Sar = seoeer ae
i federal riding of Vancouver | Vancouver East by the Social  NALP had regularly passed in- ee campaign valine: an Virion
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| East. Credit Party of Canada,’’ and formation to the FBI. Campbell River and Vancouver
And the similarity in policy called the nomination ‘‘a The group had earlier been in- : : . ‘ |
= oe between the NALP and the tremendous step forward for the volved in goon-style attacks on In Victoria, Kashtan will speak
Social Credit policy has also | North American Labor Party’s various progressive ‘organiza- Sunday, May 13, 8 p.m. at me i:
figured in the provincial election program for a labor-industry tions. Charter Room of the Union Centre, 3
where at least one NALP can- alliance for technological pro- The Public Eye noted Market St. and Quadra Ave. yg
didate echoed the Socreds’ gress and for cleaning up Dope, = ominously that the activities of In Campbell River, he will speak
deliberate provocative references _Inc.”’ the group ‘‘closely followed the Sunday, May 14, 8 p.m. at the
to the ‘‘national socialism’? of While the NALP’s obsession _ pattern of fascist tradition.” Anglican Church Hall.
® ARMS: The $4.4 billion the NDP and gave full backing _—with ““Dope Inc.”’ and “‘fusion That pattern was seen in the { In Vancouver, he will appear Tues-
being spent in Canada on to the compulsory heroin treat- —_ sower’’ has tended to place its comments of one provincial day, May 15, 8 p.m. in the Roxanne
7 arms, would go a lot fur- ment program introduced bythe members in the lunatic fringe,in NALP candidate at an all- Room of the Biltmore Hotel, 12th
ther if applied to in-- Bennett government. ? fact, its connections are much ~ candidates meeting Monday who Ave. and Kingsway.
dustrial development Dalla Valle was nominated more sinister — in the U.S. enlarged on the Socred’s smear The Communist Party also an-
and manufacturing, a just shortly before the deadline where the group is based, ithas of the NDP as ‘‘national nounced this week its free time na-
‘new study proves, page by the federal Socreds which direct links withthe FBI andthe _ socialists’’. _ tional television broadcast, Sunday,
= : later reaffirmed his candidacy,  ClA as well as several neo-fascist See CIA page 3 _} May 13, 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on
sae ee steieies ae zs BIE CBC national television.