“Unsavory bunch of right wingers’

_ Bosses group hits CUPW

By MIKE PHILLIPS

TORONTO — ‘We are facing
another postal strike. Here’s a
Plan that will help to put the
CUPW in their proper place.”
_So said.a nearly full page adver-
‘isement in the Sept. 16 issue of
the Toronto Globe and Mail
_ Sponsored by the National Citi-
_ Zens’ Coalition.
~The NCC, a right-wing group of
Orporation and banking execu-
lives posing as a public voice, is

SO notorious for the smear cam-
Paign it recently launched against
Public service unions demanding
the government abolish pensions
Mdexed to cost-of-living in-
Creases,

The Public Service Alliance of
Canada (PSAC), the bargaining
agent for most federal civil ser-
vice workers, countered the vici-
OUs Campaign with an educational
and advertising offensive of its
Wn, defending the right of all
Workers to indexed pensions and

lasting many of the myths about
Wages and working conditions of
Public employees in the process.

The NCC advertisement which
| @Ppeared in the Globe, outlined
| the main contract demands the
Canadian Union of Postal Work-
€ts (CUPW) has been unsuccess-

l In getting the Post Office even

©-discuss, then urged the public

{0 write their MPs ‘requesting the

Necessary legislation to make post

Office strikes and other monopolis-
Union strikes illegal.’

Ih addition, the big businéss
Soup called for volunteers to es-
tablish a ‘*Volunteer Alternative
10 the Postal Strike, or VAPS to
Scab on the workers in the event
l a postal strike.

Demands Are Public
CUPW president Jean-Claude
Parrot, responding to the NCC
advertisement, said ‘tas a group
of businessmen, they should be
ore interested in a better postal
Service than trying to create one
Ol their own.
k ‘Our demands are public
cp ledge, democratically de-

‘ded upon and endorsed by our
members, We realize they are a
Negotiating position and our
A mbers know we have to be
eo in negotiations’? Parrot

h He Said it was obvious the NCC
oa examined the numerous

Ports and studies of the post
:

) National Citizens’ Coalition

74 Victoria Street, Suite 902 :
Toronto, Ontario M5C 2A5
1-416-869-3838

A federal non promt corporation

office over the years, all commis-
sioned at the public’s expense,
which indicate what needs to be
done to ensure a more efficient
and less costly postal service.

‘There is a solution’, Parrot
said, ‘‘and that is making the Post
Office a crown corporation which
was also recommended by a gov-
ernment study. It’s time some-
thing was done about it.””

Asked by the Tribune if there
was a possible connection bet-
ween this latest big-business at-
tack on his union and the current
advertising campaign being con-
ducted through the media by
Canada Post, Parrot said it
couldn’t be proven but it wouldn't
surprise him,

Unsavory Bunch

PSAC vice-president William
Doherty described the NCC as an
“unsavory bunch’? whose con-
trolling bloc was made of ‘“‘anti-
labor, anti-democratic people
who are the heads of major corpo-
rations and financial institu-
tions.”’

This statement is backed by re-
search the PSAC conducted on
the NCC during the ‘‘Great Pen-
sion Debate’’. The union found
the ‘‘citizens’’ were the directors
of some of the major corporations
and financial institutions in the
country — “‘the kinds of institu-
tions that don’t like to have to
compete with the public service
(insurance) plan.”’

In an exposé in the May 1977

issue of Argus Journal, the PSAC
newspaper, the writers quoted
Peter C. Newman’s recent book
The Canadian Establishment,
which described NCC head Colin
Brown as a life, insurance super-
salesman.

‘*Brown’’, Argus found, “‘is on
the Clients’ Advisory Executive
of London Life Insurance Com-
pany, and the director of several
corporations — J.G. Field and
Co., MacLean-Hunter Cable
T.V., Gould Outdoor Advertising
Ltd., Crown Trust Local Advis-
ory Board, Mathews Group Li-
mited.

Brown’s Friends

They also looked at some of the
organizations and clubs he be-
longs to, including the London
Hunt and Country Club, Toronto
Golf Club, Toronto Badminton

and Racquet Club, and London

Squash Club.

A partial list of NCC members
and directors includes: Hon. J.V.
Clyne, Canada Trust Co.; Hon.
Ernest C. Manning, Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce,
Manufacturers’ Life Insurance
Co.; F.W.P. Jones, Royal Trust,
AVCO Finance, etc.; Donald
G.M. Coxe, Mutual Life Assur-
ance Co.; P.W. Hunter, McCon-
nel Advertising; Pierre Coté,
Guarantee Co. of North America,
Bank of Montreal; Harold P.
Conner, Central and . Eastern
Trust Co., Phoenix Assurance
Co.

SOCIAL PROGRAMS BADLY NEEDED

Cutbacks will hurt the poor

sha ORONTO —‘‘Premier Davis
Ould reassert his control over
b dp ovincial government so that

ly heeded, promised social

8tams can be implemented .

Cahout delay,’’ said Michael
tage Coordinator of the On-
5 © Anti-Poverty Organization
n Sept. 15. :
Carson charged that the “‘pig-
eoucd insistance of the provin-
a treasurer Darcy McKeough
es his goal of a balanced budget
981 could have drastic con-

“quences for Ontario’s poor’’.

ES He Teferred to earlier state-

Ents by McKeough that social
neograms would have to be cut to
“9 ach this fiscal target. ‘The trea-
mists balanced budget is a

worthwhile goal and may have
been achievable without severe
hardship when the forecast was
made last spring,”’ Carson said.

‘*But because of the poor per-
. formance of the Ontario
economy, the provincial govern-
ment has suffered a severe re-
venue shortfall, making drastic
cuts necessary if the balanced

budget target is to be achieved,”’:

he explained.
“The poor of Ontario mustn't

be made to pay the price of an
unworkable scheme,’ he said.

He drew comfort from . the
~statements of the Premier last
weekend at the Progressive Con-
servative Youth Association
meeting in Port Carling which

downplayed the McKeough plans
for social program slashing.
‘*The Premier recognized the
injustice of penalizing those who
can least afford it for the

economic difficulties of the pro-

vince,’ Carson said.

Confusion still exists over the
fate of social programs, he said.
Rumors of a power struggle in the

’ Conservative caucus only serve

to increase anxiety.

“Tt has been suggested that <=

McKeough is using his balanced
budget issue to take a run at the
leadership of the Ontario Conser-
vative Party,”’ Carson said.
“The needs of the economi-

cally defenceless in this province ~

cannot be sacrified to promote
that political goal.”’

By DAVID GUTNICK

HALIFAX — In response to
growing unemployment in Nova
Scotia, the Metro Coalition for
Support for the Unemployed,

made up of 12 organizations, has .

called for a mass demanstration at
12 noon, Sept. 28. Meeting at Vic-
toria Park, demonstrators will
march through Halifax to the
Nova Scotia legislature, where
they will demand ‘‘the right to
meaningful employment.”’
Georgina Chambers, speaking
for the Coalition at a press confer-
ence, Sept. 22; said the group de-
mands “‘that the government and
corporate sector provide jobs
which give working people a liv-
ing wage rather than the minimum
wage, and an end to the bandaid

BOYCOTT
OUTDOOR OUTFITS

The Public Service Alliance
of Canada is asking its mem-
bers not to order PSAC jackets
from Outdoor Outfits Ltd. in To-
ronto honoring a request from
the United Garment Workers
Local 253 which is on a legal
strike against the company:
Sixty employees are involved.

approach to severe unemploy-
ment.”’

J.K. Bell, representative of the
Nova Scotia Federation of Labor
on the Coalition maintains that
“‘recent government actions
through the new unemployment
legislation, Bill C-27, the Anti-In-.
flation Board, and the cutbacks in
education and social services,
only serve to aggravate the un-
employment situation.”’

The Coalition is urging the un-
employed, the employed, and
students to turn out and show
their support for the demonstra-
tion. The body, which sets a pre-
cedent for Canada, is made up of
the Halifax Metro Union of the
Unemployed, Nova Scotia Fed-
eration of Labor, National Union
of Students, Nova Scotia Labor
Research and Support Centre,
Halifax-Dartmouth and District
Trades and Labor Council,
Halifax-Dartmouth Building
Trades Council, Communist
Party of Canada, Voice of Wo-

“men, New Options School, Nova

Scotia Women’s Action Commit-
tee and others.

The demonstration coincides in
part with a three-day convention
of the Nova Scotia Federation of
Labor (Sept. 28-30).

‘Free Pretoria Twelve’
demands Ottawa demo

Demonstrations were held ac-
ross Canada on Sat., Sept. 17 cal-
ling for the release of the *‘Pre-
toria Twelve’’, African National
Congress members charged
under the Terrorism Act in South
Africa. The Terrorism Act bans
such activity as reading progres-
sive literature, gatherings of more
than two people and recruiting for
the ANC.

The main demonstration took
place at the South African em-
bassy in Ottawa and at Parlia-
ment. Over 120 people picketted
the embassy and héard speeches
by Yusuf Saloojee, head of the
ANC (Canadian Section) and
Charlie Stimak, chairman of the
Free Pretoria 12 committee of
Canadians Concerned about
Southern Africa.

Saloojee questioned the right of
the South African regime to try
the Pretoria 12 saying that ‘‘those-

on trial should be the racist ruling.

OTTAWA — Demonstrators protesting here demand
the “Pretoria 12” now on trial in South Africa.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 30, 1977—Page 9

regime, not these patriots.”
Stimak, speaking on the steps of
parliament, called on the Cana-
dian government to recognize the
democratic feeling of the Cana-
dian people and press for the re-
lease of these and other South Af-
rican political prisoners. He cal-
led on the government to cut all
political, economic and cultural
ties with the apartheid regime.

A demonstration was held in
Windsor at the Federal Building
sponsored by the Windsor CCSA
with the support of the Windsor
Labor Council, Peace- Council
and student organizations of the
University of Windsor.

A joint demonstration took
place in Winnipeg calling for the
release of political prisoners in
both Chile and South Africa, high-
lighting the repressive nature of
both regimes. Demonstrations

were also held in Vancouver,
Edmonton and Regina.

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