FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1975 Encwpies of labour \ é ‘Wee story). It of the demonstration of more t _More than 700 trade unionists Picketed the Sandman Inn. con- Struction site last Friday as the @gliardi family stepped up its forts to maintain its non-union ‘Ontracting operations in the Province despite a Labor Relations Card ruling ordering them to stop Scriminating against union labor. Ross Russell, director of | Eyeanization for the United yy ccttical, Radio and Machine Orkers, will be featured speaker h Vancouver’s May rally being aS at the Technical School, 600 block £. Broadway, Peter Rolston and Nigel an will also speak. : 700 PICKET SANDMAN SITE The pickets, most of them building trades workers from nearby job sites, rallied in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza briefly before demonstrating outside the Sandman site at Georgia and Cambie in Vancouver. B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council leaders Cy Stairs and Roy Gautier, B.C. Federation of Labor officers, Len Guy and George Johnston and several other trade union leaders addressed the meeting. Former Social Credit highways minister Phil Gagliardi whose. family, including sons Bill. and Bob, contracted the Sandman job with non-union labor, watched the demonstration from across the street as demonstrators marched around the site with signs declaring, ‘““Enemies of Labor — the Gagliardis’’ and urging changes in the labor code to allow information picketing. The Gagliardis were later or- dered by the Labor Relations Board to stop their discriminatory practices of hiring only non-union labor and were told by the board to reinstate with full pay a union carpenter who had been fired from the job early in February. : Board member Angus. Mac- Donald who brought down the ruling noted in his decision that there has been “‘a systematic effort to keep the job non-union” and to “weed out trade unionists applying : _ for the job.”’ Change * LABOUR, ¥ CODE. Permit INFORMATION, PICKETING —Sean Griffin photos han 700 trade unionists outside Sandman Inn construction site Friday. In responding to the decision, Bob Gagliardi offered the lame excuse that union workers would not go to work on the project as there were information pickets on the site. Phil Gagliardi made similar remarks in a CBC radio interview Tuesday morning. Project manager Gordon Jahrig exposed the fallacious arguments, however, when he testified before See SANDMAN pg. 12 - which is using VOL. 37, No. 16 Canadian Aid for Vietnam Civilians committee in Vancouver Tribune has received an urgent cablegram from the Committee for the Defence of World Peace in Hanoi requesting emergency aid for the newly freed areas of South Vietnam, especially food, medicine and clothes. The cablegram, addressed to Dr. Alan Inglis, chairman of CAVC, and his wife Kay, was received on April 11 and states: “Facing near collapse the Thieu- Ford administration plan to continue the war and _ intensify United States involvement by airlifting more weapons and material for Saigon while con- ducting forcible evacuation of the _ population and coercing away so- called refugees and orphans. “These are but United States- Thieu preconceived manoeuvres and should be denounced as ex- tremely hypocritical and inhuman acts, repeating the same previous U.S.-Saigon crimes. “Please call upon Canadian public opinion and people to take immediate action against those crimes and campaign for emergency aid to South Vietnam’s newly freed areas, especially food, “medicine ‘and clothing.” This appeal came only a few days after CAVC issued a public appeal for funds to rush to Vietnam daily media who are _ busy spreading the U.S. propaganda line “humanitarian” appeals to cover up plans for stepped-up U.S. intervention to prevent the collapse of Thieu. The warning contained in the Vietnam cable charging that the U.S. is seeking to step up its in- volvement in the war, was under- scored this week in statements by President Ford and state secretary Kissinger indicating the U.S. government is seeking Congress approval of a plan to send up to five divisions to protect the evacuation ‘of some 6,000 U.S. citizens and an estimated 200,000 Vietnamese. The sending of such a force to Saigon, which could number up to 100,000 men, is obviously more than for evacuation purposes, especially in light of the assurances given by the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam guaranteeing safe conduct to U.S. forces. It’s more likely purpose is to bolster the defence of Saigon and prevent Thieu’s imminent collapse. Commenting on this danger, Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield warned against an evacuation operation becoming a pretext for new U.S. intervention in Vietnam hostilities. In.a statement issued Monday, April 14, the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Canada _ warned, “Canadians should be alert to the efforts of the Ford Administration to step up military intervention in Indochina behind a smokescreen of See VIETNAM, pg. 3 ig day in Nanaimo NANAIMO: — A city council approved tag day held here on Saturday, April 12, for aid to Vietnam civilians raised nearly $300. Part of the proceeds are to go to further the work of the Nanaimo Peace Council, which applied for the tag day. Nanaimo city council also ap- proved the. signing of a proclamation for World Disar- mament Week which calls on citizens to do what they can for world peace. (See details on page 3.) 7 Frowning with annoyance, former Socred highways minister Phil Gagliardi watches demonstration with son Bob from inside his Cadillac across the street. Both Gagliardis as well as another son, Bill, are part of non-union Sandman construction project. a y r ad