Labour conference calls for defeat 0

PENTICTON, 2.2. (CP)
— The British Columbia
Federation of Labor opened
its annual convention
Monday with a pledge te do
all in its power to defeat the
“rotten, anti-labor’
governments in Victoria and

ttawa,

“All trade unionists must
dedicate themselves to a
common foeam to rid us
of the disastrous Social
Credit government in
Victoria and the insensitive
and equally catastrophic
Liberal government in Ot-
tawa,” federation president
George Johnston told 568
delegates.

Jonnston said the Jabor
movement - across the
country “is under attack
from the right—from_ the
business community, from

reactlonary media com-
mentators and from un-
sympathetic and hostile
governments.”

“It seems obvious to me
that if we don’t pull together
now, in our greatest hour of

, we may not have a
recognizable labor
movement to carry on the
struggles we have un-
dertaken over the years."

Johnston sald the 240,000-
member B.C. federation Is
still split as a result of dis-
agreements at the last
annual convention and “‘one
of the areas of disagreement
was over the New
Democratic Party.”

Some delegates to the last
convention blamed
federation leaders for
contributing to the defeat of -
the NDP in the 1975 British

Columbia election because
the labor leaders were
unrestrained in their
criticiam of NDP policies
affecting labor.
CONTINUE SUPPORT

Johnston said Monday the
union movement must
continue to officially sup
port the NDP “but if the

F makes mistakes, as it
did: on back-to-work and
other labor legislation, then
we'. as a trade union
movement must stand by
our trade union principles...
and point out those
mistakes.”

Johnston said that “sadly
in British Columbia in 1977
we do not have solidarity in
the trade union movement.”’

“To ignore this situation

would be to sweep it under
the. carpet and io miss a-

Weiler wonders about renewal

VANCOUVER (CP)
Paul Weiler, chairman of
the British Columbia Labor
Relations Board, said
Sunday he has decided not to
seek renewal of his five-year
contract with the gov-
ernment.

Weiler said he will leave
his post at the board next
summer in order. to accept
the Mackenzie King chair of
Canadian studies for one
year at Harvard University
in the United States.

He said he informed
Labor Minister Allan
Williams “‘about a month
ago’’ of his decision not to
return for a second term.

Weiler, who was ap-
pointed under the previous

ew Democratic Party
administration, rejectec
suggestions that his move is
prompted by dissatisfaction

with the labor policies of the
current Social Credit
goverment,

“I'm leaving because I've
got something that’s really
great to go to,’’ he said. “It
will be a great decom-
pression chamber from the
turbulent world of industrial
relations in B.C,

sonally that it’s now out that

I'm leaving,” Weiler said.
ENJOYED JOB

-Weiler has been the only
chairmanof the Labor Rela-
tions Board since it was re-
formed and given sweeping

wers under the provincial
abor code brought in by the
NDP in 1973.

Weiler’s contract of-
ficially expires next Oc-
tober, but time-off he has
earned during his first four

years will enable him to
leave the LRB sometime
during the summer.

Weiler stressed he won't
be a “lame-duck” chairman
despite announcing his
departure a year early.

‘The labor relations
board is different from the
political world,” he said. -

“We'll continue to
establish policies as we've
always done. We've got a lot
of new legislation to put
some flesh on, too.”

Weiler, who came to B.C.
from the law faculty at
Osgoode Hall in Toronto,
said he has enjoyed the
experience more than
anything else he has ever
done.

“We've done things that
have never happened before
in labor relations in Canada.
We’ve made alot of law.and
I think pretty good law,” he
said.

CHANGES NOT MAJOR

“] think everybody in-
volved in industrial
relations recognizes that
things are much better.
under the labor code and the
administration of the labor
relations board. I think
there has been very sub-

; Sea _dmprovements in

Dorzstability in the

- ‘And this hasn't been my

accomplishment. It’s been a
board accomplishment. ‘We
have an 18member board
with tremendous talent and
expertise nte )

He claimed not to be
overly concerned by labor
legislation brought in by the
Social Credit government.

“They have made con-.

siderable changes in the
labor code, but not major
changes,’”’ said Weiler.

Escaped prisoner at large

VANCOUVER (CP) — Police were still searching today
for a 35-year-old prisoner who walked out of the city jail to

freedom Saturday.

A police spokesman said that Louis Flores, who was in the
jail awaiting transfer to the Lower Mainland Regional Cor-
rectional Centre (Oakalla), was in a group of prisoners
being transferred from the fifth floor of the jail to the third.

“The elevator was out of order, and in the shuffle, he just
kept walking down the stairs to the ground floor door, where
he was let out as a released prisoner,” the spokesman said.

Flores is not considered

ngerous.

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totally out of line with what
has been happening in B.C.
for the last five years.

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very valuable opportunity at
thig convention to seek

solutions to our: past con-
flicts.””
He said the labor

movement has suffered
under the federal anti-

inflation program of the
federal fovernment and,
provincially, ‘the Socred
government has made a
major political blunder in
moving so quickly to show
that they are governing in

Inco not afraid :
of retaliation.

TORONTO (CP) — A
senior vice-president of Inco
Lid. has denied a story in
the The Star on Saturday in
which he is quoted as saying
Inco is laying off Canadian
employees rather than those
in Indonesia or Guatemala
because _ it feared
recriminations in those
countries, -

Waiter Curlook issued a
statement saying the
Canadian reductions had
nothing to do with the
company’s Indonesian and
Guatemalan operations.

He refused to elaborate.

‘In an interview with The
Star which was distributed
by The Canadian Fress,

rlook said:

““T don’t think there’s any
doubt in our minds that

Third World countries like
Indonesia and Guatemala
are much more likely to act
quickly against Inco if we

took measures that would '

serlously-affect their social
and economic development
programs.”

In his later statement
Curlook said:

“The Guatemalan and In-
donesian projects have not
been factors in our
(Canadian) decision,

“The cutback decision
was based on the fact that
our production, all of which

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the interests of the powerful
and the wealthy in B.C.”
aProperly organized and
roperly united, we can take
ia message to the people in
the next federal election,”
Johnston said.

“We can and must do our
part in turfing the rascals

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