More than 100 unionists picketed ou

’y a U.S. management firm entitled “Strategies for Maintain
tion of Labor charged that the firm was probably “counsel
Code.” (See story, also Labor Comment, page 12.)

Ke On

B.C. Fed blasts employer

Native spokesmen in Vancouver
have charged that Socred minister
of human resources Bill Vander
Zalm is guilty of “‘racism”’ over the
government’s new program to
force young welfare recipients out
of Vancouver.

In his latest move to slash social
assistance expenditures at the
expense of recipients, Vander
Zalm announced last Thursday in
Victoria that a program would
soon be introduced that would
force young recipients — mainly
Natives — out of Vancouver by
cutting off social assistance.

The minister mentioned as
‘‘possibilities’’ continued
assistance outside of Vancouver
and aid towards moving costs, but
he made it clear that the govern-
ment intends to cut off assistance
for ‘‘thousands.... mainly young
Native people from northern
communities” this summer in

, welfare plan

young Native people “‘should move
back to where they came from — to
the reservations where there is
more opportunity plus a_ better
environment” was “ignorant and
racist,’’ Mearns said.

“Half of the Native people in
B.C. are non-status Indians who do
not come from reserves and are
not covered by the Indian Act,’’ she
pointed out. And those young
people that left the reserves did so
because there is neither op-
portunity nor a good environment
there.”

see MINISTER'S pg. 2

Rankin hits
bank policy

Vancouver city council turned

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more than in the past,’’ Vander government of South Africa, but

Seminar on union-busting —

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The B.C. Federation of Labor
Mounted a picket line Monday

Outside the Vancouver Hotel, site

of a union-busting seminar by a
New York-based management
firm, to press
demands that the seminar “‘be
opened to public scrutiny to ensure
at it is not counselling a violation
of B.C.’s labor laws.”
The seminar, organized by the
company, Advanced
Management Research, was held
4M secret in the hotel Monday and
esday, and reportedly attracted

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representatives of several large
employers, including Honeywell,
Royal Insurance, Merit Oil and the
Okanagan-Similkameen Regional
District.

Each of those attending the
seminar had to pay a $495 ad-
mission fee. It was closed to the
press because, organizers claimed,
the presence of reporters “might
inhibit discussion.’

Originally scheduled to be held
at the Shefaton Hotel but moved

suddenly to a new location and
date, the AMR seminar was billed
as ‘‘Strategies for Preserving Non-
Union Status” and offered various
lectures. and classes on union
busting.

“This is a serious intrusion by a
U.S. management consulting
concern on the rights of working
people,’”’ said B.C. Federation of
Labor secretary Dave Mcintyre
who noted that the AMR’s attitude

see RIGHT-TO-WORK pg. 12

VLC appeals for delay
in passing Forest Act

The Vancouver and District

Labor Council Tuesday added its:

voice to the numerous labor, en-
vironmental and community

E groups demanding the hoisting of

the new Forest Act until the next
session of the legislature to allow
for public study and debate of the
Act. °

But in defiance of the growing
public demand for the delay of the
legislation and in breach of an
earlier pledge to allow the public to
have input into the legislation, the
Socred government pushed the
Forest Act, Bill 14, together with
its companion Bills 12 and 13,
through second reading on Mon-

terpart in New Westminster in
calling for hoisting of the
legislation until the next session of
the legislature.

On Monday, the IWA Regional
Office issued a joint statement with
the B.C. Truck Loggers’
Association also calling for the
delay of the legislation. Bill 14
‘will not intensify degree of
manufacture or expand produc-
tion,’”’ the statement said, “‘It will
not create new jobs; it will
threaten existing jobs.

“We want legislation that serves
B.C. and which does not give ad-
vantage privilege and monopoly to
foreign companies without
assuming commitment to B.C.”

Zalm declared.

But Native spokesman Debbie
Mearns, president of the Van-
couver Indian Centre Society,
responded to Vander Zalm this
week calling his statements
‘illogical and racist.”

Vander Zalm’s statement that

not before Rankin focused public

criticism on the banks’ support of

the South African regime.

The motion was co-ordinated
with a delegation to council by the
Stop Bank Loans to South Africa

Committee.
see CITY pg. 10

Nigel Morgan mourned

ca’s shame, the | 4ay- Opposition spokesmen in the eo
Rosenbergs were The VLC endorsed a telegram Jegislature referred to the joint a
murdered 25 years ago sent earlier by council secretary statement Monday in an effort to ;

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Paddy Neale protesting the “undue
haste in seeking passage of Bill
14,” The telegram said the

legislation was the most important

to come before the House in many
years and should not be rushed
through. : :

The labor council action was
rompted by an urgent letter from
the Vancouver local of the In-
ternational Woodworkers of
America which joined its coun-

convince the government to hold
off passage of the Act. An NDP
sponsored motion to delay . the
pasage of the Act until the next
session of the legislature was
defeated by the government,
however.

Even Liberal leader Gordon
Gibson voted with the NDP
claiming that the government is in

~ the pocket of the eight giant forest

firms that dominate the industry.

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Nigel Morgan, whose name for 32 years was synonomous with
that of the Communist Party in this province, died Saturday.
morning, June 17 after a long illness. He was 64.

A memorial meeting has been set for Saturday, June 24, at 1 p.m.
in the Templeton Secondary School Auditorium, 727 Templeton
Drive in Vancouver. Bill Kashtan, general secretary of the Com-
munist Party, Maurice Rush, who succeeded Morgan as provincial
leader on his retirement last October, and Vancouver alderman

Harry Rankin will pay tribute.

see HE GAVE pg. 11

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