_ Mosher, Beynon named

Alberni school trustee Mark Mosher has been nominated by the
Communist Party to contest the new federal riding of Nanaimo-

A former chairman of the school board and president of the Alberni
local of the Longshoremen’s Union, Mosher has for the past four
elections received more votes than any other communist candidate in

Canada.

He was the unanimous choice of a joint meeting of the Nanaimo and
Alberni CP clubs last weekend in Nanaimo’s Tally Ho Motel. Mosher
told the nominating meeting that his campaign would centre on the

issues of unemployment, inflation and Canadian unity.

The CP also announced this week the nomination of Jim Beynon in
the new federal riding of Mission-Port Moody. A shipyard worker, |

Beynon is the chairman of the Pa

Committee.

rty’s East Fraser Valley Regional

‘Beynon has been a candidate for the Communist Party in both
wovincial and federal elections, and ran in Vanceuver South in the

1974 federal election.

More CP nominations will be announced next week as constituency
neetings are scheduled for Vancouver East, Kingsway and Van-
souver South ridings. The CP is expected to field 15 or more can-

lidates in B.C.

MARK MOSHER

JIM BEYNON

Jobs, freeze on fees
aim of NUS campaign

By MIGUEL FIGUEROA

CALGARY — Student leaders at
the conference the National Union
of Students held here Oct. 21-23
voted overwhelmingly to organize
a mass campaign to fight back
against what they called the
“bankrupt”? economic policies of
both federal and provincial
governments.

Tuition fee increases, cutbacks
in student aid and discriminatory
restrictions directed against
foreign students were all con-
sidered to be critical issues facing
students, but NUS delegates
singled out the unemployment
crisis as the most serious problem
facing the Canadian people and
students. The conference voted to
“demand that the ‘federal govern-
ment develop a_ continuing
program of job creation towards
the existence of full employment. .
. wherein there is a job available
for every person who desires to
work.”’

The NUS, which represents some
350,000 vocational, college and
university students in English
Canada, has also advocated that
students work closely with trade
unions and other democratic,
community organizations in a fight
for jobs.

The Union’s mass campaign
planned to culminate-next spring,
will centre on the demands for job
creation, a freeze on tuition fee
levels and major reforms in
student aid. The campaign will be
co-ordinated through the
provincial student federations and
the campus union and is expected
to include educational forums with
invited speakers from labor and
community groups, general
meetings and mass rallies.

The students’ demands will be
formally presented to the federal
government by
leadership. :

Student representatives also
slammed the phony arguments
advanced by prime minister

the national.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER: 11, 1977—Page 12

Trudeau and others that many
Canadians are
because they are ‘‘too educated.’’
Delegates pointed out that both the
federal government and provincial
governments are trving to
rationalize the education system to
provide vocational and academic
graduates whose training is
tailored to suit the immediate
needs of monopoly.

“Relating a university, college
or vocational education to the short
term needs of the marketplace will
not solve the unemployment
crisis,” the NUS statement
declared. ;

unemployed

‘Cease attack on UFAWU’

B.C. Fed tells Combines

Cont’ d from pg. 1
angrily rejected the suggestion,
however, saying that any idea that
the two were similar was ‘‘absurd.
We have to oppose bureaucratic
fisheries policies and have to serve

. on advisory bodies to protect

fishermen’s interests,’’ he said.

In a pointed reference to the
Combines attack on the UFAWU,
Nichol also noted ‘‘Some of us have
to appear in court soon but that
doesn’t mean we like courts. There
are some things in this system we
don’t like but we have to accept.

‘But we don’t have to accept
tripartism.”’

Machinist’s delegate Harold
Thayer who had earlier pointed to
the dangers of labor being ‘‘co-
opted” during Monday’s debate on
indistrial democracy, re-
emphasized his opposition to
tripartism and warned that the
Congress seemed to be looking at
the Manifesto, ‘‘as a_ possible
rapprochement with the Liberals
at a national level.

“We can’t sit down with a
capitalist party,” he said.

Throughout the discussion on the
officers’ statement, debate
refected the policy divisions of the
previous years’ convention as key
spokesmen for both the In-
ternational Woodworkers of
America and the B.C. Government
Employees Union voiced their
support for tripartism as an
alternative to the ‘‘adversary”
system.

IWA delegate Lyle Kristiansen,
recently appointed as minority
groups relations officer for the
regional office of his union,
suggested that those who opposed
tripartism were “wrong and silly”
and were ‘“‘so locked into the ad-

versary system that they can’t see

any other way.”’

That position was repudiated,
however, as the more than 700
delegates at Thursday’s session
voted overwhelmingly to endorse
the officers’ policy statement.

Elsewhere in the Federation’s
week-long convention, delegates
voted unanimously to adopt a
special resolution denouncing ‘‘the
unwarranted attack by the
Combines Investigation Branch on
the UFAWU.”’

Bill 92 repudiated

Cont'd from pg. 1

itself co-ordinate and
the delivery of
services during

would
guarantee
emergency
strikes.

But the program of action called
on the trade union movement to
boycott the government’s
“Essential Service Advisory
Agency,” and the activities of any
“fact finder’’ appo‘nted under Bill
92.

The program wen: on to
guarantee ‘“‘maximun_ possible
support” to any af te that
chooses to defy the « ing off

period allowed f nthe
legislation, andtoanyai ate that,
after consultation » h_ the

Federation, decides to x; action
that would put it in cc tempt of
court.

Support was also assured to any
union that “wishes to boycott a
hearing or activity of the Labor
Relations Board because of the
Board’s intervention as a result of
a politically motivated order by the
provincial government.’’ The
Federation will also back up af-
filates ‘who choose to ‘‘ignore’’
Labor Relations Board rulings
extending strike notice beyond 72
hours.

The action program wound up
with a call for an ‘‘emergency
convention,” to be called “‘the next
time the provincial government
introduces legislation which
seriously attacks the trade union
movement, and that such an
emergency convention be in-
structed to plan and co-ordinate all
the moves necessary to resist such
legislation.”

The labor movement has not
sought confrontation with the
Socreds, the statement said, but

_if the government continues to

escalate its attack on labor, ‘“‘we

_ have no alternative but to respond :

to this provocation with all possible
force.”

Closely tied in with the policy
statement was a resolution on the
ferry workers dispute, still
unresolved, that threatens to
become the first test of the
government’s essential service
legislation. Noting that the union
has accepted all the terms of the
special mediator’s' report,
delegates unanimously condemned
the B.C. Ferry Corporation and
called on it to ‘‘behave respon-
sibly,’’ accept the mediator’s
report and conclude the collective
agreement.

The resolution, a composite
based on several submitted by a
number of union locals, demanded
that solicitor-general Francis Fox
and consumer and corporate af-
fairs minister Warren Allmand
drop all charges against the union
and its members; that the
harassment of the UFAWU by the
Combines Investigation Branch
cease immediately; and that any
investigations into the fishing
industry be conducted in public.

Seven members of the UFAWU
are currently facing charges laid
under Section 24 of the Combines
Investigation Act, of having
“wilfully impeded a_ hearing.”
Moreover the Combines in-
vestigation of the UFAWU,
although postponed indefinitely

last December, could be reopened
at any time.
The Federation resolution also

demanded that fishermen be af.

forded collective bargaining rights
under the B.C. labor code, a key
demand since fishermen remail
outside the provisions of labor
legislation making them pal
ticularly vulnerable to attack.

Vancouver Labour Council
delegate Syd Thompson drew 4
shanding ovation from the cor
vention when he added to the final
demand of the resolution a call for
the CLC to initiate a national
campaign on behalf of the UFAWU
— and pressed for the establish
ment of a defence committee with
oneof the Federation officers at its
head. ~

a

Chilean citizens tell

of detention, torture

Cont'd from pg. 1
sense of the tragedy involved in the
wholesale destruction of human
values being brought by the
heinous repression of the Pinochet
regime. . .’’

Six of the witnesses listed their
personal experiences at the hands
of the junta’s jailers, telling of
kidnappings, beatings and tortures
endured by themselves and their
families.

The three women, all of whom
are returning to Chile, told of their
families who are among the 2,500
people in Chile who have
“disappeared.”

Ana Gonzalez testified before the
inquiry that her husband, her son
and her pregnant daughter-in-law
were all abducted in April, 1976 and
have not been seen since.

Gabriela Bravo’s husband
vanished June 25, 1975. He was a
former member of Parliament and
a former secretary of the
Socialist Youth of Chile.

Ulda Ortiz told the inquiry that
her husband, a construction union
leader, disappeared in July, 1974.

“All three women said that they
know of hundreds of other persons
who have disappeared,’’ the
commission’s report said. ‘Mrs.
Bravo was told by another prisoner
that he had seen her husband in
prison and knew he had been
tortured.”

The commissioners’ report
declared that, according to the
evidence presented, the Chilean
junta has used innumerable
methods to suppress the people
including arbitrary arrest and
detention incommunicado, con-
fessions elicited -by torture,
blacklisting from employment and
denial of basic rights of education
and health care:

“Its is obvious that in many
cases, the combination of sup-
pression of human _ liberties
amounts to a-complete denial of
human rights, including the right
to life itself,’ the report said.

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GABRIELA BRAVO... heft
husband missing since June, 1979:

Inits final recommendations, thé
commission called on the UN
establish the whereabouts and fate
of the ‘‘disappeared”’ prisoners i?

‘Chile and to “put pressure, by
every means at its disposal i

cluding the use of sanctions
necessary, to bring an end to the
repressive regime in Chile.”
It called on the federal goverl
ment to: ;
e Give strong support to actio?
by the UN;
o Act consistently with the
Canadian condemnation of thé
Pinochet regime in the UN by
denying economic or financial
assistance to the junta;
- © Investigate the allegations of

-activities of Chilean secret polic®

agents in Canada;

e Provide a safe haven fof
Chilean refugees who wish to comé
to Canada. to escape politi

repression in their own country: -

The inquiry’s findings are to bé
presented to the UN and to thé
Canadian delegation which will bé
present at the General Assembly
this month.

The report. was also to be fol
mally presented to prime ministe!
Trudeau and external affaif®
minister Donald Jamieson |!
week, :

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