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Sponsored by B.C. chapter
Congress of
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Hear: Laurette Sloan
k Pres. Ligue de
Femme, Quebec

Phyllis Webb

Sec’y Van. local
CUPW, Exec. council
member B.C. Fed. of
Labor.

Hannah Polowy
B.C. Commissioner
Federal Year of the
Child Commission

: Federal Election
Candidates:

Margaret Mitchell
New Democratic Party

Betty Griffin
Communist Party

Entertainment, bake sale
Admission $3. donation

SUNDAY, MAR. 11,
1:30, PNE,

B.C. BLDG.
THEATRE

Role of Combines
bared in questions

Union charges that the current in-
vestigation by the Combines branch
is aimed solely at the United
Fishermen and Allied Workers were
given further substance in hearings
last week as Combines investigators
repeatedly questioned UFAWU
representatives about the union’s
collective bargaining actions.

Union president Jack Nichol and
past president Homer Stevens both
appeared last week before the
Restrictive Trade Practices Com-
mission which reopened hearings
under the Combines Act January
29, purportedly to continue its in-
vestigation into the ‘‘whole fishing
industry.”’

But questions posed to the two
unionists clearly indicated that it is
the union’s bargaining role which is
under investigation and- attack.
Both were asked numerous detailed
questions about the union’s strike
rules, bargaining procedures and
hot declarations.

The UFAWU representatives
have declined to answer questions
relating to the union’s. collective

‘ unions

bargaining position, however,
maintaining that Section 4 of the
Act specifically exempts trade
and combinations of
workmen.

Commission chairman Les Blond
has rejected that exemption claim-
ing that fishermen are not
“‘workmen’’ or employees,
although the Combines branch has
yet to challenge it in court.

Homer Stevens was to appear
first at the hearings Feb. 22 but he
did not turn up and union counsel
Ian Donald sought an adjourn-
ment, pointing out that Stevens
needed to prepare for the herring
fishery. It was turned’ down,
however, and the former president
was ordered to appear Tuesday
under threat of arrest.

Questioning of UFAWU
witnesses resumes again March 12
to 14 when Nichol and union
secretary George Hewison are to

‘appear. Stevens is also to appear

again following the completion of
the herring roe season.

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stand on the withdrawal of Chinese
troops by organizations across the
country, the federal government
has so. far only echoed the U.S.
position, which equates the inva-
sion of Vietnam with the overthrow
by the National United Front for
National Salvation of Kampuchea
of the Pol Pot regime.

The Ottawa demonstration which
followed” earlier rallies and
demonstrations in Toronto, Mon-
treal, Winnipeg and. Vancouver,
came as fighting increased in inten-
sity in the Vietnamese-Chinese
border regions: :

While a Vietnamese counterat-
tack late last week had successfully
driven Chinese forces back from the
important provincial capital of
Lang Son, the Chinese were
reported to be amassing forces for a
major assault,

Earlier, Vietnamese foreign
minister and vice-premier Nguyen
Dui Trinh sent a letter to the foreign
ministers of the non-aligned na-
tions, of which Vietnam is a
member, urging them to back Viet-
nam against the Chinese invasion.
abe invasion, he said in his letter,

1S a gross encroachment upon the
non-aligned movement as a whole,
and an action undermining peace

and stability in Southeast Asia, con-

Stituting a threat to world peace.”

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Sad year for transit

Nathan Davidowicz, Vancouver,
writes: While the GVRD and the
minister of municipal affairs con-
tinue to disagree on tra.isit
organization and financing, transit
ridership. has ‘continued to decline
through the 1978 calendar year. The
1978 ridership in B.C.’s major ur-
ban areas was 100.8 million revenue
passengers, a drop of 3.5 percent
over 1977 and a drop of 7 percent
over 1976.

In contrast, the figure for all the
major urban areas in Canada went
up to 1,217.5 million revenue
passengers, a 2.55 percent increase
over 1977.

The biggest decline occurred in
the Greater Vancouver area mainly

due to the foliowing: increased
fares, cutbacks in service, labor
disputes, no proper planning and
goals for improving service and in-
creasing efficiency.

In the city of Vancouver, where
the trolley busses are the backbone
of the transit system, they were sub-
ject to a 7 percent decrease in the
number of miles operated.

All in all, it was a sad year for
transit in B.C. The longer we delay
proper action on transit the more it
will cost us, as it is harder and more
costly to win back passengers after
they switch back to the automobile.
And we have lost over 7.5 million
revenue passengers in the last two
years.

Self serving officials

Jim McQteen, Vancouver,
writes: It is interesting to note that
some of our self-serving elected of-
ficials and their well paid advisors
are, as usual, into the public trough
with both feet while preaching fiscal
restraint at election and budget
times.

The most blatant examples are
mayor Volrich’s jaunt to the British
Isles with his wife, ald. and Mrs.
Warnett Kennedy, Gerry. Lenosky,
former executive assistant to the
mayor (and Seiko watch expert),
and Fritz Bowers, city manager.
This little trip cost the taxpayers
$7,414.31 exclusive of the British
Airways free tickets from Toronto
to London and return.

The NPA dominated Van-
couver School Board is the next
fiasco. While cutting the budget
drastically they went ahead and
voted to spend over $6,000 to at-
tend meetings in Israel, London and
Miami Beach. Surely they are
holding the line on expenses by cut-

ting essential services in order to~

take luxury trips to boost their own
egos. Why not also go to Timbuc-
too and the South Seas as well? A
few more cutbacks in things like
books and teaching would cover
more trips.

On the provincial level we see our
premier girding up for an election

as he writes a letter to the citizens of -

the province on official stationery
with the letterhead of his office pro-
minently displayed. This letter tells
us all how fortunate we are to get
‘ta piece of the rock’’. Hell, didn’t
we always have a share in our pro-
vince? When the taxpayer has to

pay for this kind of propaganda in
order for the premier to further his
own ‘political ends it becomes
ludicrous.

No need to go further to the
federal level, we have many more
examples to quote on that score.
With a federal election on the
horizon you can be sure there will
be more wasteful expenditures by
our well paid representatives who
don’t mind how much they gouge
the taxpayer.

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