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Vol. 43, No. 2

Split between CLC
and international
Building Trades
seen imminent

See William Stewart — page 5 —

Several hundred construction workers filled this square in
downtown Vancouver Monday for a memorial meeting for the
four carpenters killed last Wednesday when a concrete fly form on
which they had been working at the Canada Trust building site,
fell 36 storeys. Roy Gautier, (at podium) president of the B.C. and
Yukon Building Trades Council, was among those paying final
respects to the four — Gunther Couvruex, Don Davis, Brian
Stevenson, and Yrjo Mitrunen — at the memorial. An inquest Into

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separatist leader with racist
views accuses Trudeau of

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financing Communism. —

— page 6 —

“Delicia Crump, alderman
Harry Rankin and Shiv Narian
Singh Basi are among speakers
who are to address the Ladner
public meeting Sunday called by
the East Indian Workers
Association to protest the racist
firebombing of the Sidhu home.

The new time for the meeting
is 6 p.m., Jan. 18 at the Ladner
Community Centre, 4734-Sist
Street (at 47A Ave.), Ladner.

PHOTO—BILL DARNFLL

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the tragic deaths has been set for the end of the month and one of
the questions yet to be answered is whether an anchor cable,
usually employed to hold the form in place, had not been attached
to the crane or whether it snapped before the fall. The Carpenters’ |
Union will also be probing the accident although the construction
company involved has a better safety record than most in the in-

dustry.

Dock demands set

The Canadian Area of the Inter-
national Longshoremen and
Warehousemen’s Union presented
its demands Jan. 8 for the final year
of the three year contract — a con-
tract which was forced open at the
beginning of the year when infla-
tion over the preceding 24 months
surged past the 20 percent
“trigger” point provided in the
agreement.

ILWU president Don Garcia
told the Tribune Tuesday that
negotiators tabled demands for a
new COLA provision as well as an
extra hours pay for the day shift.

Under the already existing
COLA provisions, the current IL-
WU rate of $10.90 per hour should
rise to $12.20 Jan. 1, 1981, Garcia
said. :

The new COLA clause tabled

would use the Consumer Price In-
dex in November, 1980 as a base
and would be ‘‘triggered’’ by a six

“percent increase over the

November figure. Once triggered,

‘the COLA clause would provide <.

15-cent per hour increase for every
one-half percent increase in the
CPI. The increase would be com-
puted on the $12.20 wage figure.

The B.C. Maritime Employers
Association has not responded to
the ILWU demands. Garcia said
that negotiations are to resume

Jan. 19. a

The re-opening of the ILWU
contract has underscored the
dramatic increases in the cost of liv-
ing since the agreement was signed
in 1978. Longshoremen. only
agreed to the pact when the wage-
reopener provision was added.

wards

Vancouver, city council took the
first, but decisive, step towards im-
plementation of a full ward system:
for the city Tuesday with a six to
five vote to adopt alderman Harry
Rankin’s motion to ask the provin-
cial government for . enabling
legislation to have a ward system in
place for 1982.

The majority was forged with
the three’. COPE aldermen,
Rankin, Bruce Yorke and Bruce
Eriksen, the two TEAM aldermen
May Brown and Marguerite Ford,
and mayor Mike Harcourt.

Rankin’s motion fulfilled the
pledge of the COPE aldermen dur-
ing the 1980 election campaign that
they would move immediately to
implement the majority vote in the
1978 plebiscite on the ward system
which saw 51.7 percent of the
voters opt for wards.

The four NPA aldermen and
NPA backed independent Don
Bellamy all opposed the motion
and attempted to divert the process
with calls for another plebiscite on
the issue.

Ina futile attempt to split off the
TEAM votes, the NPA’s George
Puil offered to support a third op-
tion in a referendum — the partial
ward system previously supported
by TEAM and voted down by both
COPE and the NPA.

However Puil said any plebiscite
should require a 60 percent majori-
ty to be binding. He was quickly
contradicted by fellow NPA’er
Warnett Kennedy who thought it

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