aWay, P t | Agreement on information ends hunger strikes World protest forces hand of Chile junta The history-making 17-day hunger strike which had Sparked solidarity action all } 2round the world came to a | dramatic end at noon Wednes- | day with the sudden announce- Ment from Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet that informa- ; tion about some of the dis- appeared prisoners would be released. v _News was scanty at press | time but the Tribune learned | that the junta had agreed to re- lease information about the 617 } disappeared persons who had en documented by the Vicar- ate de la Solidaridad in Santi- ago, the Catholic solidarity organization which had kept records on many of the prisoners. The compromise was reached following meetings between the junta and Chilean Cardinal Raul Silva Enriquez who was acting as an intermediary be- tween the strikers and the junta. Pinochet was to make a pub- lic announcement regarding the 617 prisoners at 9 p.m. Chilean time. The hunger strikers, although they had ended their fast, were remaining at various strike locations awaiting the announcement. In Vancouver, a hunger strike, begun May 27 in sym- pathy with those striking in Chile, ended at 8 p.m. Wednes- day following the news that Pinochet had been compelled to act. The reversal in the junta’s po- sition — the phoney ‘“‘amnesty”’ of April 19 had been intended as a public disavowal that there were any prisoners in Chile — only came as a result of mass- ive pressure from all around the world demanding that informa- tion be released about the miss- ing prisoners. In Chile itself, hunger strikes, the first of which began in the UNICEF offices and three churches in Santiago May 22, had by this week been staged in several locations in both Santi- ago and Concepcion. see NDP pg. 11 Union representative Christina Prince pickets outside the Muckamuck Restaurant in Vancouver where Native Indian employees went out on strike last Thursday in support of demands for wage increases and reinstatement of fired workers. (Story, page 12). —Sean Griffin photo Keep us Demand to hoist Forest Act wins wide support fighting AS we go into the last, crucial © weeks of the financial drive, the chart shows $34,823 — still 8n alarming $19,000 shy of the 54,000 we so desperately need ‘o keep the Tribune publishing and fighting. And that’s only part of the Story. Only last week, the Second of two 10 per cent in- Creases in printing costs €came effective. Together they will add more than $6,000 to our costs. _ Yet this year has been one of Promise for the Tribune. Our Circulation is up considerably with new readers being added -€very week. We have seen the Paper win new respect among Working people, in the trade Union movement, among those ggling for disarmament, anadian sovereignty and Native rights. And we need to a out with a stronger voice But we must reach the $54,000 ~ and go over. If you can make 8 donation, or add to the one You've already made, do it now. June 24 is only two short weeks _ —Sean Griffin, Editor The demand for the hoisting of the Socred’s proposed new Forest Act (Bill 14) continued to: gain public support this week as the New Westminster local of the International Woodworkers of America joined in demanding the delay of the Act’s passage. IWA Local 1-357 business agent Terry Smith told the Tribune Wed- nesday that the Local had voted at its last regular meeting to demand that the government provide further time for public study of the legislation. The IWA resolution has been forwarded to the New West- minster and District Labor Council for further action. The Campbell River also went on record demanding that the Act be delayed. The Camp- bell River council objected to the increased tenure of tree farm licenses for the large corporations and to the scrapping of the prin- ciple of ‘‘sustained yield’’ in forestry management, and called on the minister of forests to delay passage of Bill 14 for one year. The Labor Council also called on and Courtenay Labor Council last week the government to “hold public hearings to give the public an opportunity to make some input into the handling of this major resource.” The Society for Pollution and En- vironmental Control (SPEC), the Federation of B.C. Naturalists, the Coalition for Responsible Forest Legislation, the Federation of Mountain Clubs of B.C., and the Sierra Club last week as well joined in calling for the legislation to be put over to the next session of the legislature. The Communist Party, which first demanded the delay of the passage of the Act two weeks ago, has characterized the proposed legislation as one of the most scandalous resource sellouts in B.C. history. “‘It will open up a new phase of monopoly domination. in the forest industry,’’ CP leader Maurice Rush declared. As expected, forest company spokesman Don Lanskail has spoken out against any delay in the passing the legislation, saying that the forest companies have been waiting for the legislation for four years. ..inevitable,”’ Party’s central executive declared Elspeth Gardner, president of Canadians for Democracy in Chile, i talks to hunger strikers in the Canadian Memorial Church Friday. —Sean Griffin photo Fish treaty break said ‘inevitable’ “The breakdown of negotiations between Canada and the U.S. on the issue of. a boundary and fisheries agreement was the. ..Communist Monday in Toronto. The breakdown was inevitable, said the CP, because of ‘“‘a one- sided fisheries agreement which favored the U.S. at the expense of Canadian fishermen. “The U.S. has been using current negotiations for a Canada-US. fisheries treaty on the east and west coast to strengthen its demand for control of historical Canadian fishing grounds on both coasts, and to fix boundaries under the 200-mile limit which would take from Canada long established rights .and sovereignty over Canadian territorial waters,” the CP charged. Canada suspended the interim fishery agreement with the U.S. last week in response to U.S. violations of the agreement and an aggressive U.S. stance in negotiations aimed at winning con- cessions from Canada on new maritime boundaries. But Canada’s overdue action came only under intense pressure from fishermen on both coasts and other fishery advisors on the federal government to cease making concessions to the U.S. and protect Canada’s interests. “The alternative to the scrap- ping of the interim agreement was complete capitulation to the U.S. demands and the sacrificing of our national interests,’’ George Hewi- son, secretary-treasurer of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union commented last week. “For eight years Canada has abandoned one principled position after another. Now the government must develop a national fisheries strategy and the will to stand by it. Compromise has served only to whet U.S. demands.” It was clear this week that the Canadian government took the action against the U.S. only after the Americans had made the in- terim fishing agreement, signed earlier this year, conditional on Canada conceding to the U.S. position in the negotiations for permanent maritime boundaries projecting to the 200-mile limit. In. the negotiations for the .per-. a manent maritime fishing boun- daries the U.S. has laid claim to large areas of Canadian waters on Georges Bank on the east coast and at Dixon Entrance and in the Straits of Juan de Fuca on the West coast. The fishing boundaries would in effect be actual boun- daries delineating sovereignty over the continental shelf and mineral resources as well. Unable to resolve the boundaries See FISH pg. 12 INSIDE e CANADA: It may not be what it used to be, warns a secret B.C. govern- ment position paper, unless Ottawa toughens its position with the U.S., page 3. e VIETNAM: Nancy Po- cock, Canadian Quaker just returned from the Vietnam-Cambodia border area reports that thousands of refugees are crossing into Viet- nam, page 10. e DISARMAMENT: The United Nations disarma- ment session has been one of the most signifi- cant coming together of | governments in history; news, analysis, pages 6-7. wee eta eters eT citi PR A atc acs