Return to B.C. Fed — Trades unity urged

Friday, November 26, 1982

40° Vol. 44, No. 46

- Reagan finances
new escalation of |

Labor supported
_ candidates hold _
ground on Nov. 20°

— page 3—_

chemical weapons —

‘Wards, housing top priority
as COPE, Harcourt elected

The cheers rang out as the
aTgest crowd ever to gather at a
Ictory rally for the Committee
- Progressive Electors heard
lat the labor-backed civic party
low had the largest representa-
('0n of any group on Vancouver
“}Y council.
And the satisfaction that
“Pollowed a well-fought cam-
Paign was increased with the
"EWs that voters again approved
~ Ward system the basis for
uncil, and possibly parks
-Catd representation, with an
ed majority of 57 percent
of SIX percent above the results
' the 1978 plebiscite.
“Iya. Undreds jammed the gym-
Um at the Vancouver Indian
kG €ntre on East Hastings Street
3 Y night to anxiously

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alt the results of the crucial
election, in which Van-
€T voters were asked to
the support they had
lit for progressive civic
OPE When they elected 10 - . UY
It paudidates in 1980. Newest COPE alderman Libby Davies (I) celebrates at election headquarters with three-year-old
ioe tuntil after midnight son Lief and husband Bruce Eriksen, who also won re-election to city council

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British Columbia’s three major
unions have taken an historic step

4 with an agreement to meet Dec. 1
} and work out a response to Mac-
| Millan Bloedel’s wholesale closure
} of logging operations and pulp

mills across the province.
The International Wood-

} workers, the Canadian Paper-

} workers Union and the Pulp,
} Paper and Woodworkers of

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| Canada have decided to bury their
i differences and plan a united

fightback against the “‘toughest’’
forest products employer.

“‘Mac-Blo has adopted a much
harder approach to this depression
— they’ve refused to modernize
their equipment and yet they’ ve in-
vested more money in Brazil and
other operations elsewhere,”’ said
IWA spokesman Clay Perry, ac-
cusing the forest giant of
“‘ruthlessness.””

IWA delegate Frich Ewert told
last week’s B.C. Federation ‘of

| Labor convention that M-B ‘‘has

the worst record of all in the in-
dustry — the worst layoffs in the
history of the province.’’ He also
targeted the company’s expansion
in Brazil, where trade unions are
repressed, and Pine Hill in
Alabama, a state with ‘“‘right to
work”’ union-busting legislation.

CPU president Art Gruntman
has also cited the corporation for its
“hardnosed’”’ attitude that has
worsened the economic slump in
the forest market.

The one-day meeting, which

| signifies a departure from the usual
| acrimony among the unions, will
§ bring together representatives from
_/ all M-B worksites in the province.

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hots and campaign workers

% tis tickling out of the rally,
te that the electorate had | ~

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and n style restraint policies

ye business mega-projects

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then the 93 polls that had } en Tagon

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Opp ums showed all three: | Demonstrators from the
ith yerettetmen re-elected, United and Baptist churches,
hing the ven Harry Rankin top- | the B.C. Federation of Labor
he yo Polis as he did in 1980, | and individual trade unions,
|) BrixgZS@! alderman Bruce | and representatives of End
| fi and Bruce Yorke joined | the Arms Race were among
fe An Souncil. those protesting the defense
eo the polls gave the | contract seminar sponsored
i Ope news that a fourth by the federal and jalebgtson
Omm Candidate — long-time governments and the Pen-

Nity worker and parks tagon Monday. The seminar,

COmmisg;
loner Li ia) attended by universities and
as joining fo ere science minister Pat McGeer,
Q & the three in- ache
iets to make COPE th has rekindled fears of furthe

‘ ; oe university involvement in

Y With the most seats military research (see People

The cheers st > and Issues, page 2 and story
See arted in earnest f page 11).

TRIBUNE PHOTO -~ SEAN GRIFFIN

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