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Committee of Progressive Electors city council candidate and long-time West End activist Carole Walker points out to

mayoral candidate Harry Rankin and other COPE candidates development planned in her neighborhood. The walking tour
fast Saturday stressed the need for rent controls and affordable housing in the high-density area and in the rest of the city.

i Rankin’s vision of anew Vancouver

Vancouver is a “great city” with an
“unfulfilled potential” that can be real-
ized with the election of a mayor and
council devoted to ending poverty and
racial and sexual discrimination, building
affordable housing and overseeing eco-
nomic development based on Vancouv-
ers and British Columbia’s natural
resources and established industries,
mayoral candidate Ald. Harry Rankin
declared Wednesday.

In a keynote speech to the prestigious
Canadian Club, the mayoral candidate
for the Committee of Progressive Elec-
tors said fair wages, protection for small
business and development that accounts
for Vancouver's “natural setting” are part
of the “vision” he and his running mates
have for Vancouver.

Rankin told B.C.’s top business people
that COPE’s answer to development —

meaning new buildings — is “tyes.

“But rows of skyscrapers along False
Creek and along our waterfornt — no,”
said Rankin, saying city council’s role
must be “to arbitrate between the eco-
nomic requests of the development indus-
try and the social needs of the city.

“That requires a mayor who is inde-
pendent of development interests and
who can truly speak for all the people of
Vancouver,” he said.

Rankin said the city’s “potential” can
be fulfilled with the mayor and council
playing a “vigorous role in guiding the
economic development of our city”
which would be “multi-faceted” and
include the banking, tourist and hospital-
ity industries.

But in stressing that that development
be based on Vancouver’s key natural
resources and industries, COPE’s may-

oral hopeful was making a clear distinc-
tion between his vision and the proposal
put forward by the Social Credit leader-
ship last month.

Premier Bill Vander Zalm — a close
associate of Non-Partisan Association
mayoral candidate Gordon Campbell
— announced during the provincial elec-
tion campaign his “vision” of Vancouver
which included the imposition of the
government’s pet project — the so-
named “economic free zones” — on the
city. The zones, which be established
through legislation passed during the last
government of former premier Bill Ben-
nett, have drawn the fire of trade unio-
nists and community leaders since these
are exempted from B.C.’s labor code, pay

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November 5, 1986
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Vol. 49, No. 40

More than 200 union representatives at
an emergency B.C. Federation of Labor
conference voted unanimously Tuesday to
back a six-point program of support for the
striking International Woodworkers,
beginning immediately with public meet-
ings aimed at winning community support
for the union’s fight against contracting-
out.

But if there is no movement from the
forest companies towards a settlement of
the dispute over the next few weeks, the
federation will step up economic action,
leading possibly to regional shutdowns,
B.C. Fed president Art Kube and IWA
leader Jack Munro warned.

“I want to make it absolutely clear that if
there is no settlement over the next few
weeks, the federation will accelerate its sup-
port action on behalf of the IWA,” Kube
told reporters following the B.C. Fed meet-
ing Tuesday morning.

Underscoring the union’s stand were the
latest corporate reports from the forest
industry, showing dramatic increases in
third quarter profits for Canfor Corp.,
Weldwood and B.C. Forest Products.
“Even after three months on strike, they’re
showing record profits,” Munro said.

Kube emphasized that the support action
on behalf of the TWA could take a number
of forms including regional work stoppages
and a call by the federation for other unions
to support the IWA in shutting down some
forest operations.

“It could also lead to the federation
declaring all supplies to and from the pulp
mills hot,” he said.

He added that they were “not actions
that we’re contemplating now but if they’re
required to bring about a settlement, we
won’t let the IWA down.

“The IWA will not be defeated — I hope
“Ye industry understands that,” he declared.

see UNIONS page 12

Socreds boosting
S. African wines

B.C.’s Socred government has doubled
its imports of South African wines and spir-
its in an effort to circumvent the federal
government's sanctions on South African
products, charge anti-apartheid activists
who staged a demonstration at Vancouver’s
waterfront Wednesday.

Some 40 people, mainly members of the
Anti-Apartheid Network, the Southern
Africa Action Coalition, and SACTU
(South African Congress of Trade Unions)
Solidarity Committee were served injunc-
tions ordering them to cease picketing at
Centennial Pier, where the latest shipment
of South African liquor was bein 2
unloaded. i

On Tuesday, longshoreman Rico Willi-
ams, an Anti-Apartheid Network member,
was fired for ing to handle to nine

see SAN NS page 12