bone ts ernest athe WS" aaee topet Friday, August 1, 1975 7, No. 31 BIC v0.3 RiBUNE Corvalan seriously ill CUT calls for protest The Central Federation of Chilean Trade Unions has issued an emergency appeal to save the life of Luis Corvalan, imprisoned General secretary of the Communist Party of Chile. gravely The appeal warned that Corvalan is ill. with asthma, . hemorraging, and that the fascist junta has denied him urgently needed medical treatment. Corvalan was transferred to the ‘Tres Alamos”’ concentration and torture camp last month where he has been kept in- communicado. : The CUT telegram, dated July 15, also noted the danger for the lives of Ezequiel Ponce, Carlos Lorca and Richard Largos — G aes SS leaders of the Socialist Party; Francisco mez — leader of the Chilean teachers union and the CUT.- and Jorge ulcers and uentes Alarcon — leader of the Movement of Revolutionary Left (MIR). All were arrested in July. SS CUT pointed out that the denial of entry to Chile of a United : tons delegation on Human Rights combined with the wave of Trests indicate a new offensive by the fascists. hey urge a “‘counteroffensive of increased solidarity and protest.” etters and telegrams can be sent to: UN Secretary, Kurt Waldheim, ae Nations Building, New. York, N.Y.10017; Hon. A. MacEachen, eee of External Affairs, Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Ont.; lean Embassy, Horacio Arce, 56 Sparks St., Ottawa, Canada. United walkout closes B.C. salmon industry Bes Fishermen and Allied nd €rs Union shoreworkers, nen and fishermen closed aa the B.C. salmon industry # rding to deadline last Friday Bota Fisheries Association ia nae despite a flurry of last Satin talks, failed to make any Icant changes to previous igh and introduced a new and for a two-year agreement. Teas Negotiating committees were : mmending rejection of the pe ation’s last offers. Stren HAV strike was also is Sthened this Monday as ig eonbers at the Prince Rupert . Tmen’s Co-op, members of 1 Own CLC-chartered union, the engenmated Shoreworkers and S, walked off the job after te ok Westminster NDP MP: fer tt Legatt is scheduled as the €a atured speaker at this year’s Ir . frostima Day vigil, August 8 i a to 9 p.m. in the Cour- i Square in Vancouver. Rivers morating the 30th an- Japan ry of the bombing of the Nagas Cities of Hiroshima and cine” the vigil is intended to tiny: Public. opinion to the con- far threat of nuclear weapons Hitoshir® powerful than the ang ma and Nagasaki bombs Particularly the nuclear Ben planned for Bangor, Spo race Action League, Slide. pes the event, said that ighlighting the pertinent be aie ut the Trident base would disp] n, along with a photograph aa of Hiroshima and A ae consuley light march to the U.S. Dim h..© {ollowing the vigil at 9 . Sho S also been scheduled under Comm: Nsorship of the Pacific Life © Unity. voting 94 per cent to reject the same offer made to UFAWU shore- workers. The united strike action by UFAWU and Amalgamated Shoreworkers members, however, seemed to have little effect on the vessel owner-dominated Native Brotherhood of B.C. which con- tinued its raiding and strike- breaking activities launched earlier this year. See NATIVE pg. 8 SURVEY SHOWS DISPARITY Corporate profits up while economy down Belying claims of “poor returns on investments,’ Canadian big business reached ‘‘new heights”’ in both sales and profits in 1974, according to the list of the top. 100 corporations published by the prestigious business weekly, The Financial Post. Despite what the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has called the “sharpest and longest downturn since the 1930s’? which was reflected here in massive layoffs, particularly in the forest and auto industries, the 100 corporations _ showed a record year with 33 companies reporting sales in ex- cess of $500 million: Only 26 companies qualified for that position in 1973. As The Financial Post noted, “Canadian big business is getting bigger.” Included under a separate listing are the “big 10” in merchandising which also showed a substantial increase in sales and profits. Companies on the Post’s annual list are ranked according to sales — in dollar terms — and are in- cluded on the basis of deriving at least half those sales from manufacturing, resources or public utility operations. Ford Motor Company, despite production cutbacks and sweeping layoffs last year and this, retained its top position among the 100 companies, pushing its 1974 sales beyond the $4,000 million mark. All the other auto manufac- turers, namely General Motors of Canada, Chrysler Canada and American Motors were also in- cluded on the list of 100. Significantly, the corporate leaders in the B.C. forest industry were well up on the list, most of them retaining their relative positions from the previous year. One company, Canadian Cellulose, which recently signed the advertisement published by the forest giants complaining that See CORPORATE pg. 8 As the strike by members of the Office and Technical Employees Union against the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia _moved into its tenth week, OTEU members stepped up_ their pressure on ICBC with mass demonstrations outside ICBC offices and along Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver. While little comment about the strike has._emanated from government sources, the B.C. Federation of Labor made it clear this week that the labor movement considers provincial government interference as a main stumbling block in the way of a settlement. “On the evidence it is clear that the provincial government’s primary concern is not to seek an equitable solution of the ICBC dispute,’ Federation secretary Len Guy said in a release, ‘‘Cor- poration negotiators have had their hands tied so that they are unable to negotiate freely. The Board of Directors, dominated by three cabinet ministers, shows no desire to expedite a settlement even though continuation of the dispute for a long period insures chaos in the Corporation for many months after settlement.” ss On the evidence it is clear that the provincial government’s primary concern is not to seek an equitable solution of the ICBC dispute,’’ Federation secretary Len Guy said in a release, ‘‘Cor- poration negotiators have had their hands tied so that they are unable to negotiate freely. The Board of Directors, dominated by three cabinet ministers, shows no desire to expedite a-settlement even though continuation of the dispute See FEDERATION pg. 8 SHOREWORKERS ON STRIKE; a | eco ocr ys we we . | high, U Holding the atike 7a ay plant at the foot of Gore Avenue in b at 11 a.m. sharp last Friday, pee in the coastwide strike. Only Canadian Fishing Compa Vancouver walked off t joining other industry wor' FAWU shoreworkers at the —Sean Griffin photo three days later, shoreworkers at the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-op, members of the Amalgamated Shoreworkers and Clerks Union, also downed their tools after voting 94 per cent to reject the same offer from the B.C. Fisheries Association.