| BETTY GRIFFIN. .”

. B.C. Federation of Labor pres-
Ident Jim Kinnaird unveiled to
500 unionists at a Federation
Tally Wednesday at the PNE

9f economic action’ to support
workers in B.C. ~

__ 4he program of action, unani-
Mously adopted by a_ special
Meeting of the B.C. Federation of
Labor executive board expanded
'O include representatives of labor
Souncils, calls for stepped up co-
Ordinated action in each of the
Present strikes and beyond in an-
Ucipation of further disputes in
: months. .

f is is only a start of a long
ight we have got ahead of us,”
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~ B.C. FED RALLY. .

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banner and placard-waving

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The program, read to the rally
by Federation secretary Dave
MacIntyre, included four points:

e Direct solidarity actions in-
cluding public rallies around the
province in conjunction with la-
bor disputes. The Federation’s
plans call for rallies around the
forest industry’s and fishermen’s
negotiations and a rally in the
Kootenays around steelworkers
negotiations. A final rally around
construction negotiations will be
held in the fall. ‘

re) Coordin oF ba ae
struggles by the B.C. Federation
of es One Fed staff member
will be assigned to each dispute.

@ Picket line actions to be es-
calated. Federation hot edicts are
to be enforced and, in a change of

- policy, multi-tenant buildings will

ing union Jeaders

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be picketed in their entirety — a
decision aimed directly at the
B.C. Tel strike. The policy will
also see picket lines bolstered with

members of supporting unions. .

@ Boycott of ‘‘expedited’’
Labor Relations Board hearings.
Seen as particularly significant,

MUNICIPAL STRIKE
— See pages 3, 12

affiliates are asked not to attend

LRB hearings called on the initia-
tive of employers to force a cur-
tailment of picketing actions.

‘This program has teeth in it.
It will make employers think long
and hard about confrontations
with the: labor movement,”’ de-
clared Kinnaird.

TWU president Bill Clark re-

; Federation’s action program.

policy into effect.”

-mer said that his union was ser-

EMERY BARNES ... NDP
MLA for Vancouver Centre.

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ceived a standing ovation from
the rally as he denounced the at-
tempt of the B.C. Telephone
company to link the union’s wage
demands with demands for arate
increase. from the CRTC.
Clark told the rally to ‘“‘get
ready when you go back to work.
Weare going to put that picketing

CUPE spokesman Mike Kra-

ious. about reaching settlements
with municipal employers, ‘‘but
we’re also serious about equality
— equality with the forest in-
dustry, equality for tradesmen
and equality for women.”

He appealed 'to the crowd to
“climb on the phones and get to
your aldermen. They are the ones
who can end this strike.’

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AG must
act now fo:
stop KKK

— Barnes

NDP MLA Emery Barnes
called on attorney general Allan
Williams “‘to face up to his
responsibilities now’’ and take
action against the Ku Klux Klan
in B.C. Barnes cited a recent
news story about Klan officials |
in New Westminster urging
their members to prepare for
“‘an unavoidable race war’’ by
arming themselves with rifles
and handguns.

Speaking at an NDP consti-

, tuency meeting in Esquimalt last

week, he said that Williams’
failure to take any action against
the Klan was leading to a
deteriorating situation among
racial and ethnic groups in B.C.

‘Williams must understand
that acts of racial hatred and
violence can lead to equivalent
actions on the part of those sub-

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“Anoose
over us’,
says TWU

Justice Ken Meredith Tues-
day suspended sentence on the
Telecommunications Workers
Union until after their dispute is
over—leaving what the union
called ‘‘a noose hanging over
our heads.””

TWU president Bill Clark

said that the sentence—the
penalty for the TWU occupa-
tion of B.C. Telephone of-
fices—‘‘leaves the rope awfully
close to our necks.”
- TWU delegate Dolly Storey
echoed Clark’s comments
before the Vancouver and
day, warning, “‘If our pickets
step out of line one inch we
could be back in court —and we
could even be banned from
picketing.” :

Clark had earlier apolized to
the Supreme Court for the oc-
cupation, which was carried out
in defiance of a court injunc-
tion, stating that it was not in-
tended as an affront to the
authority of the court.

Meanwhile, mediation talks
with federal mediator William
Kelly were continuing in Van-
couver.

Federal labor minister Gerald
Reagan had named Kelly as
mediator following a speech in
Parliament in which he had
been critical of B.C. Telephone
for its refusal to accept the
recommendations of another
federal mediator, Ed Peck. —

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