SACTU | a | delegate . | | urges support May Day in free Managua} | — page 12— zon PEE Aeon _ — page 9 —iaae leader touring Canada. Unity of labor | urged as VDL votes to kee Trades seated In what is expected to be a precedent-setting resolution, the Van- couver and District Labor Council called Tuesday for ‘‘flexibility”’ from the Canadian Labor Congress to allow labor councils and provincial federations to maintain the affiliations of Building ; Trades unions while a solution is sought to the divisive 1 ; eee CLC—Building Trades dispute. | . pce Let The resolution, adopted at Tues- : bP Mika be nie ; | + ', day’s council meeting after a | lengthy and often impassioned debate, declared the council’s sup- port for the CLC executive L i) council’s stand in upholding Con- a or e r $s gress policy but noted: “‘This labor council is convinced that the loss of the 12 Building Trades unions at ¢ this time would create disunity in war n oO i the Canadian labor movement and untold hardship for the federations 1 and labor councils.” re) en “The VDLC urges the Canadian Pp Labor Congress to allow flexibility to labor councils and federations of “ , ' labor to maintain the status quo rf while the executive council of the wa are CLC continues to meet with the se eae Building Trades unions until a set- 2 tlement of the problems is omens { tik reached,”’ it stated. page : = es ae = me at erans Peo = The resolution, copies of which Sa . .. several hundred fishermen, including trollers who had bussed en masse from Victoria, and will be sent to labor councils all raser River gillnetters confronted Romeo LeBlanc in Richmond last Thursday to demand the lifting of over the province, also declared ishing restrictions, a tougher stand with the U.S. in negotiations for a new salmon interception treaty, support for the proposal for resolv- 7d revoking of permits for the Amax mine at Alice Arm. BOTTOM . . . 200 trollers jammed Victoria's ing the dispute advanced earlier this Nner harbor Wednesday, uniting union and non-union fishermen, in.a “sail in” to begin the protest. | month by the B.C. Federation of Shag Labor executive. In a meeting May 1, the Federa- tion executive was urged to ‘‘do everything possible to have the Building Trades remain in the B.C. Fed and the CLC, through methods approved by the CLC, the Federation and the Building Trades including payment of CLC and B.C. Fed per capita to the B.C. Fed with the portion of per capita designated for the CLC to be held in trust until the dispute reaches a finality.”’ : That position was later put before CLC president Dennis : McDermott and rejected, although Pos page 7— the Federation, in a letter to the = See KEEP page 3 \ \ i '