Friday, July 24, 1981

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30 Vol. 43, No. 26

Poland's
Solidarity
— who
leads it?
—page 9—

Britain:
the old

poor laws
still hold

—page 5—

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TRIBUNE PHOTO— SEAN GRIFFIN

IWA PICKETS . . . at Vancouver's White Pine mill.

65,000 on picket lines
as inflation nears 15%

The 7,300 members of the
Canadian Paperworkers Union
struck pulp mills all around the
province July 20, shutting down
the entire wood industry and br-
inging to more than 65,000 the
number of workers who have
been compelled to take strike ac-
tion to back demands for sub-
stantial wage increases in the
faces of a constantly escalating
cost of living.

The CPU members’ strike ac-
tion followed the shutdown by
48,000 International Wood-
workers July 13 and by the
5,500 members of the indepen-
dent Pulp, Paper and Wood-
workers of Canada July 14.

It is the first time in the
history of the industry that both
pulp and wood unions have
been on strike throughout the
province — a measure of the
determination of the workers to
win wage increases to offset in-
flation that has already reached
14.3 percent according to
Statistics Canada. :

But it is also a measure of the
determination of the major
forest companies to resist
wage demands despite their own
record profits.

The chief industry negotiator
told unionists as final offers
were tabled that there was ‘“‘not
one red cent more.”’

The final offers tabled by
both employers’ groups, the
Forest Industrial Relations and
the Pulp Industrial Relations

TRIBUNE PHOTO— SEAN GRIFFIN

Margarita Sandborn, the representative in Canada for El Salva--_ tion in that Central American country. The rally in the city was Bureau fell far short on wages
dor’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, called on demonstrators one of many actions across the country against U.S. invoive- : .
‘ 4 gets - x : : ak on adjustments for tradesmen
'n Vancouver Sunday to bring “massive international pressure ment in El Salvador on behalf of the right wing junta of Napoleon anid. for p workers, on
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time. For the IWA, the offer
made no provision on the im-

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Local 1-217 of the IWA warned
— page 2— See 65,000 page 12