LABOR _

It’s still no way for
- Concessions at G and L

" WINDSOR — After 15 months on the picket lines, the 125 workers
_ &t Great Lakes Forgings and the company’s sister plant, G and L

T0cessing, are as determined as ever to fight concessions.

embers of United Auto Workers Local 195, they have been out
nace Feb. 2, 1982 when management at Great Lakes Forgings locked

ts work force out. This sparked the strike at the sister plant.

Hat lockout came after workers refused to knuckle
ee, s demand for concessions. The workers spurned manage-
gate demand for a 25 per cent wage cu
._ 08 adjustment, and the demand for an

increase, read by the workers as speed up.

shi Ting the course of the strike the company
they pcanwhile the workers got stung again by t
Y learned that as a result of the receivership, the

OUut of their Vacation pay.

they Set it, it will come after the company’s asse
© Teceivers are still looking for a buyer.
ht now the workers are being supported by t
and through donations

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ongress, (CLC).

Ssions Emergency Fund”’

orale on the picket line, according to UAW sp
1 solid since day one of the lockout. Faced with a determined,

and united work force there hasn’t

tough
the picket line.

and j

Issue,

parupport messages and cheques for the strike fund should be marked
G vable to the financial secretary, UAW Local 195 and addressed to:
is Lakes Forgings workers, c/o Paul Hansen, Financial Secretary,

ment flowing from a general appeal issue

€ previous owners developed a healthy respect for the work force
ound wae etmination to win, during the last strike when a railway car
Mo Its-way through a wall of the plant.
ot Tal and financial support, however are always i

;~ > ©Specially when resistence to concessions 1S

Local 195, 1214 Ottawa St., Windsor, Ont. N8X 2E6.

—,

under to the

t, elimination of the cost of
18 per cent ‘‘productivity’

has gone into receiver-
he company when
could be cheated
ts have been sold.
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d by the Canadian Labor
pokespersons has

been any effort to challenge

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. ne ORONTO — Concemed with

€nial of academic freedom

ei in Ryerson Polytechnical

- te’s refusal to rehire

‘ “ad instructor Jeanne

Urban ire, world reknowned

ponner and Order of

iB Cipient, Professor Hans

menfeld returned his Ryerson
Wship, May 10.

latest ¢ development is one of the
hireq = McGuire’s fight to be re-
Year ab the institute after a two-
t ees During that period,
etro = was chairperson of the
lee of ¢ °ronto regional commit-
h he Communist Party.
at Ree She decided to re-apply
ing Car Son to continue her.teach-
cae McGuire was rejected
re She lacked the proper

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Arts degree.

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of Which Educational Workers,
Boe She is a member, see the
ally g Ic orientation issue as re-
discrimi kescreen for political
Party paetion on the basis of her
€mbership, and note there

are es) .
institure shed precedents at the
Without or- hiring instructors

MA degrees.

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the uy has argued throughout
NOt to that accepting a decision
eMplo Te-hire or to dismiss an
. he On those grounds at-
freedom, very basis of academic
SUch ag ” eet an institution
tr €rson is supposed to
€asure and uphold. Ppo
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Cept; Union points out that ac-
destroy Such criteria also de-
Union» V hat little job security
| pe oemics have been
> Struc N, and it threatens in-
achieves and workers who have
Place. Seniority in the work-

If management can arbitrarily
set hiring qualifications on such
vague, undefinable criteria as the
‘“‘wrong academic orientation”
then seniority and job security are
meaningless, as is protection from
vindictive or arbitrary actions of
superiors in the administrative
command chain.

As for her qualifications other-
wise, McGuire points out that she
was re-hired three times during
the four years she was at RPI and
that her service file uniformly and
consistently showed high evalua-
tions of her work, teaching skills
and understanding of the subject
matter she was teaching.

Dr. Hans Blumenfeld was
among the many academics and
others who protested Ryerson’s
violation of academic freedom in
refusing to re-hire McGuire. In
february, this year, he wrote to
the institute saying he would re-
nounce his fellowship awarded on
June 1, 1979 unless RPI reversed

its decision.

Blumenfeld, who has been

honored by many universities re-
turned his fellowship May 10 in-
forming RPI president : Brian
Segal that in his opinion ‘‘the in-
stitute has failed to live up to this
responsibility (for academic
freedom).”

In saa to Segal, he wrote
“to my regret I learn that you are
pursuing your original course at
the arbitration board. The board
will no doubt deal with the ques-
tion of contractual obligations. It
can not relieve the institute from
its crucial responsibility for
Academic Freedom.”

McGuire’s case is currently be-
fore the arbitration board. The
hearing began May 17 and will
continue at a date yet to be an-

nounced.

As the Tribune went to press
May 26, Quebec’s “‘Grande
Marche’’ for jobs was converg-
ing on Montreal, the site of a
gathering, May 28, expected to
number some 50,000 jobless
and their supporters.

May 12 saw the first con-
tingent leave Quebec City to be
met each day along the route to
Montreal by delegations in the
majorcitiesand towns alongthe
route. Organizers of the demo,
which include a coalition made
up of the three labor centrals,
and religious, unemployed,
youth and welfare rights or-
ganizations, cited four major
demands last week as the focus
for the march and the May 28
rally in Montreal.

These are: shorter work
hours, (as they note reducing
the work week to 35 from 40
hours would create some
300,000 jobs); an end to dis-
crimination against young wel-
fare recipients in the 18-30 age
bracket raising benefits to $399
a month with full indexation;
processing Quebec’s natural
resources in Quebec for the
people’s benefit; and conver-
sion of military industries into
socially useful and beneficial
industry to create more jobs.

* * *

As the accompanying photo
shows, Toronto’s unemployed
have been dogging Un-
employment Insurance offices
over the past few weeks leafiet-
ing the jobless and urging their
participation in the May 28
demo in Toronto. Unemployed
from around the province are
organizing delegations to at-
tend the rally demanding jobs
or an adequate income, exten-
sion of UI benefits, and job
creation, not bomb creation.

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The newly-formed Hamilton
Union of Unemployed is facing
the area’s jobless with a
dynamic and aggressive or-
ganizing program. Says or-
ganizer Terry Frazer: “‘We see
the HUU as a political pres-
sure organization, we have no
intention of applying for any
government grants. We’re not
here to service UIC claims but
to put pressure on the poli-
ticians to act in creating jobs.
The HUU will tackle or-
ganizing the jobless in much
the same way the trade unions
were organized, person by
person, door to door, in their

homes and in the UI offices.
The union held its first meet-
ing May 24 and plans a broad
campaign including petitioning
local government to reduce
bus fares for the jobless and
their dependents; seeking pub-
lic endorsements from
churches, the labor movement

-and organizations of students,

senior citizens, service clubs
and prominent individuals.
Public meetings and
demonstrations are on the
agenda as are plans to lobby
local and senior politicians for
action to create jobs.

— Mike Phillips

AFL president tells Lougheed
to act now to uproot racism

EDMONTON — In a letter to
Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed,
labor federation leader Dave Wer-
lin urged the premier to act de-
cisively against those who propa-
gate anti-Semitism and to initiate
strong government measures to
curb it and racism in general.

Werlin, president of the
90,000-member Alberta Federa-
tion of Labor issued the letter to
Lougheed in the wake of recent
controversies in the province
which saw Mayor James
Keegstra of Eckville fired from
his high school teaching job for a
history course which denied there
was a Nazi holocaust during the .
Second World War against Jews
and millions of other victims.

This was compounded by
statements made by a backbench
provincial Tory member, Stephen
Stiles echoing the Eckville
mayor’s claims and dismissing
the murder of more than six mil-
lion Jews and many millions more
citizens of the countries occupied
by the Nazis during the Second
World War, as *‘propaganda’’.

‘*As a first step’’, Werlin said in

a press release, ‘‘Premier
Lougheed should reassure the
public of his genuine concern
over anti-Semitism by dismissing
Tory backbencher Stephen Stiles
from the caucus. His excuse that
since Stiles has apologized for his
anti-Semitic statements he should
be allowed to remain in the
caucus is a whitewash of the
issue.”’

Werlin went on to contrast

Lougheed’s handling of the Stiles
affair with the expulsion from
caucus in the fall of 1980 of back-
bencher Tom Sindlinger because
he publicly expressed a different
opinion than the premier’s on the
Canadian Constitution and the
Heritage Trust Fund.

“Clearly Mr Lougheed places
greater importance on support for
his own political views than on
the public expression of racist
views from members of the
caucus’’, the AFL president said.

In his letter to Lougheed, Wer-
lin also urges the government to
revise the Individual Rights Pro-
tection Act to strengthen the hand

of the Alberta Human Rights
Commission in dealing more ef-
fectively with racism and hate
literature.

Werlin also called on the Tory
government to act quickly to
establish a code of ethics for
government officials and educa-
tors and to ban the publication or
circulation in Alberta of any pub-
lications which propagate anti-
Semitism or any other form of
racism.

School curricula and teaching
practices should also be closely
monitored, Werlin said, to pre-
vent the occurance of another
Eckville situation. ‘‘Given that
anti-Semitism was openly and
blatantly taught for more than a
decade in that community, the
public needs assurance that anti-
Semitism or any other form of ra-
cism is not being taught in other
schools in this province.”’

The AFL president said a pub-
lic awareness campaign in addi-
tion to the other ‘proposed
government measures is overdue
and should be undertaken

immediately.
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