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| Occupation

Outside the sign reads “Till
hell. freezes over’’ — and in-

side, the 200 members of the

United Auto Workers have oc-
cupied the Houdaille plant in
Oshawa, Ontario demanding
that the company negotiate
severance pay and pensions
for those who will be out on
the street when the plant
shuts down Oct. 31. And sup-
port for their demands is
growing, page 5.

Brewery

workers
will step

‘up action

The Brewery Workers Union
and the B.C. Government Em-
ployees announced Monday their
intention to step up action in the
three-week old lockout and will
cut off all retail imports of U.S.
beer as of midnight Thursday.

The announcement, made
after weekend meetings with the
B.C. Federation of Labor and
other unions, came following the
continued refusal of the three
breweries, Carling-O’Keefe,

‘Labatt’s and Molson’s to come

up on a three-year wage offer,
and the refusal of labor minister
Jack Heinrich to appoint an in-
dustrial inquiry commissioner in
the dispute.

In announcing the joint union
action to curb imports, BCGEU

general secretary John Fryer also

reiterated the call for Heinrich
“to use his good offices to get the
two parties back to the bargaining
table.”’

The Brewery Workers Union is
an autonomous affiliate of the
BCGEU.

Fryer added that the two un-
ions’ decision was partly due to
the reneging of a commitment
made by Bob Wallace, general

‘manager of the Liquor Distribu-

tion Branch, when he increased
the amount of beer allocated to li-
censees from 10 to 90 cases a
week and allowed the importa-
tion of beer to ‘‘unprecedented
levels.”

“The LDB, together with the
federal customs agency, has ap-
parently decided to assist the
breweries in their determination
to continue the lockout in order to
force the brewery workers into
submission. We are not going to
let this happen,’” he said.

The three breweries, which for-
merly bargained separately but
now go to the table with a com-

Wood: policies for jobs

As the layoffs ‘in the lumber industry continue, some leaders of
the IWA have rejected the suggestion of a shorter work week,
looking instead to an upswing in the U.S. economy or more
diversified markets. But as Jack Phillips comments, a program
to put woodworkers back to work would require more than that
— and shorter hours would be part of it, page 8.

Defence fund aids novelist

Two years ago, lan Adams wrote a bestselling novel. Now he is
being sued by a member of the RCMP who claims that the figure
represented in the book was-him. The case is of such
significance that the Writers Union and the Canadian Publishers
have come to Adams’ aid, page 7.

Peace organizations in the U.S.
have reacted with alarm to U.S.
president Jimmy Carter’s ‘‘Direct-
ive 59”? — disclosed on the eve of
the Democratic Party convention
— a new strategic plan which em-
phasizes a U.S. nuclear first strike
and signals a new round of infla-
tionary military spending.

The ominous significance of
presidential directive, which gives
the military presidential authority
and re-orders targets to give top
priority to striking Soviet military
installations and government cen-
tres, was underscored Monday by
U.S. defence secretary Harold
Brown who refused to rule out the
possibility that the U.S. would be

the first to use nuclear weapons.

Brown made the statement during

a television interview.

In fact, the new directive is a first

strike strategy, based on the de-
velopment of more sophisticated
U.S. missiles which, in the jargon
of the Pentagon, would be ‘‘un-
cannily accurate’ and thus capable

. of apre-emptive strike against Sov-
iet installations.

It is also based on the idea, gain-
ing renewed popularity in the U.S.
administration, that a nuclear war
is ‘‘winnable.”’

Coupled with Directive 59 wer
two others: Directive 58, which
provides for rapid evacuation of

TRIBUNE PHOTO—SEAN GRIFFIN

BREWERY WORKERS ... taking joint union action to counter
combined campaign by Labatt’s, Molson’s and Carling-O’Keefe.

mon. bargaining position, im- Other contentious issues in-

posed the lockout Aug. 5 after
talks had broken down in the key
areas of wages, the length of the
contract and erosion of union
rights.

“In previous years we negotiat-
ed with the breweries separately,”’
Brewery Workers Union presi-
dent John Langley told the Trib-
une Wednesday, “‘but now they
have all banded together to bust
the union and impose on us the
same wage and conditions pattern
that they have right across the
country.’’

The breweries final offer was
$1 an hour in each year of a three-
year contract — below even the
$1.05 an hour that Ontario brew-
ery workers received in each year
of a three-year pact.

Workers in this. province have
refused to accept that contract
without a COLA clause and are
demanding a two-year contract
with a $1.05 an hour increase in
the first year with protection
against inflation in the second,
Langley said.

clude the attempt by the breweries
to undermine union hiring. ““The
union sends out people, then the
company interviews them, then
accepts or rejects them on the
flimsiest of excuses,’’ Langley
said.

“They just don’t like us send-
ing them union labor,”’ he added.

In addition, the breweries want
to keep the wages of temporary
employees to $8 an hour, with no
increase for three years and no
retroactivity. ‘‘We just won’t go
for that,’’ Langley said. ‘“Tem-
porary employees should get the
same general wage increases as
other union members.”’

In announcing the cutoff of
imported beer, BCGEU com-

munications director Robbie |

Robinson emphasized that the
union’s argument was “‘not with
the beer drinking public but with
three eastern-based multina-
tionals that are trying to force an
Ontario settlement on B.C. work-
ers:

Carter's ‘first strike’ strategy hit

top military and government per-
sonnel in the event of a nuclear war;
and Directive 53, which orders
stepped-up cooperation between
the U.S. and American Telephone
and Telegraph and other com-
munications corporations in prep-
aration for nuclear war.

U.S. administration officials in-
sisted that the U.S. policy was still
one of deterrence and that the new
strategy was only devised to ‘‘in-
crease our options.’’ But Brown’s
comments in refusing to renounce
the first use of nuclear weapons
and the significance of the directive
in giving heightened authority to
the Pentagon indicated renewed
U.S. aggressiveness.

The influential British weekly
Manchester Guardian warned in
an editorial: “‘It (Directive 59) also
means. . . that the US. is prepar-
ing for the eventuality of a limited
nuclear war.”’

Michael Myerson, executive sec-
retary of the U.S. Peace Council,
termed the directive ‘‘the most alar-
ming news of our generation.

“*This is a decision which, if car-

ried to fruition, dwarfs by compar- .

ison the consequences of Hitler’s
decision to strike eastward or Tru-
man’s decision to drop the atomic
bomb on Japan,” he said.
He emphasized that the strategy,
See BREZHNEV page 7

Jean-Claude Parrot, president
of the Canadian Union of Postal
Workers slammed the postmaster-
general’s department for its pro-
posal that internal postal security
and investigation men be given full
status as police officers, as the com-
mission hearings into the post of-
fice security wound up in Van-
couver last week.

“What is coming out of the
hearings is that the amount of theft
by postal workers is so minimal
that a private police force in the
post office is totally unjustifiable,”’
he told the Tribune Tuesday.

Parrot added that the security
and investigation (S and I) men
were ‘‘abusing the power they have
right now,”’ citing their action in

S and I police powers -
‘totally unjustifiable’

disciplining postal workers,
photographing picketers during
Strikes, escorting scabs across
picket lines, and checking into the
political background of CUPW
members using RCMP computer
files.

The clause which would confer
full police status to S and I, and give
them the right to arrest, obtain
search warrants and carry
weapons, is part of the draft legisla-
tion which would establish the post
office as a Crown corporation.
Postmaster-general Andre Ouellet
has. said that the proposal would
not be approved until a commis-
sion of inquiry reported its findings
on post office security.

See POLICE page 8