Chile meet
October 19

B.C. Fed director Jim Kin-
Naird and Vancouver alder-
man Harry Rankin will be
Speakers at a public meeting
Oct. 19 called to protest the
conference of Chilean and Ca-
nadian businessmen. __

The meeting, scheduled for
7 p.m. in the Hotel Vancou-
ver’s Waddington Room, is
sponsored by the Canadians
for Democracy in Chile and
the Counter-CALA Com-
Mittee.

| _ Adelegation of city councillors
from the Japanese port city of
Yokohama — a sister city to Van-
Couver — appealed to Vancouver
unionists Tuesday to join efforts
} ‘© curtail the arms drive and to
work together for peace and soli-
darity.

The appeal came from Reiichi
Takeda, the chairman of the Yo-
Kohama port council and a
former leader of the Japanese

Activist
urges IWA
program
on layoffs
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| Reiichi Takeda (centre), chairman of Yokohama port council, an
Workers, shakes hands with Vancouver and District Labor Council vice-president Doug Evans after |
addressing the labor council meeting Tuesday. Behind him is VDLC president Frank Kennedy; at |

| left is interpreter Takeshi Asami.

enori Ishizawa and Tsugio Kane-
hira — together with their inter-
preter Takeshi Asami, are here on
a fact-finding mission officially
representing the city council of
Yokohama.

All three are members of the
Japanese Communist Party
which has 11 seats on the
96-member council. Kanehira has
been on the council for 10 years
and Ishizawa and Takeda have

‘Let's join peace efforts’
Japanese councillors urge

d a former union leader of port |

‘‘We are very interested in the
education system here with its
emphasis on individual learn-
ing,’’ he said, pointing out that
the central problem in Japan is
the direct control of education by
the central government which ap-
points all local school boards.

The Japanese councillors met.

here with Vancouver city council,
with the school board, port au-

_ thorities and other bodies. They

TRIBUNE PHOTO—SEAN GRIFFIN

B.C. Federation of Labor ex-
ecutive director Jim Kinnaird
reiterated the demand this week for
a royal commission in the opera-
tions of the Workers’ Compensa-
tion Board following the Federa-
tion’s disclosure that WCB com-
missioner Joe Miyazawa approved
a controversial letter to doctors of-
fering a way to circumvent a court
ruling ordering the opening of files.

The disclosure prompted
Miyazawa’s resignation Tuesday.
Dr. John Gibbings, the WCB
director of medical services, who
had been directly implicated in the
letter to doctors, resigned last

_month over the incident.

Those resignations, coupled with
the imminent retirement of WCB
commissioner Dr. Adam Little and
several board dismissals have
created a crisis in the WCB.

They have also sparked a renew-

ed demand for a full inquiry from

the labor movement and the

warned in a statement Sept. 29 of
the “‘shift in WCB policy . . . away
from protecting workers to protec-
ting employers in this province.”

The contentious letter, itself a
reflection of the pro-employer bias,
was sent out Aug. 20 by Gibbings.
It criticized the Court of Appeal
ruling — giving workers access to
their files when conducting an ap-
peal — as a ‘‘retrograde step’’ and
offered doctors a way around the
ruling by using telephone consulta-
tion which he promised would re-
main confidential.

The letter, which the Federation
disclosed had been approved by
Miyazawa, also announced that
employers would be given access to
files. Later, Miyazawa and another
commissioner, Mike Parr, con-
firmed the employers’ access in a
formal Board ruling.

Access to files by employers,
which was not ordered in the ap-
peal court decision, has been widely

rally outrages labo

An attack Sunday on an anti-
| racist rally in Vancouver by
| stick-swinging members of the
| ‘‘People’s Front Against Racist
| and Fascist Violence’’ and the
| “East Indian Defence Commit-
} tee’? brought swift reaction
| from unionists this week as
| delegates to the Vancouver and

District Labor Council voted

unanimously to condemn the
| provocation.
| Earlier, a meeting of some
| 200 people at the Trade Union
| Forum also backed a motion of
} condemnation, echoing the
| widespread reaction which has

Port workers union who address- _ each been on for six years. also presented a banner to the Ca- : } ;
€d the delegaiest0 the Vancouver | Members of the Yokohama _nadian Area of the International | | = Kastciabatiges violent, un: CRATES Eon A
and District Labor Council meet- council regularly make visits to _ Longshoremen and Warehouse- See ae a reat at N ... ha-
ing Tuesday other cities on the Paciic to study men’s Union. es a or 40 members of teeta vate ookers after at-
He told unionists that Japan, their social services, education They were to continue onto the | Def eople’s Front and the a ratty.
like Canada, was under enor. systems and other aspects of civic _ U.S., to Seattle, San Diego, Los | Defense Committee, which both Incredibly, People’s Front
Mous U.S. pressure to increaseits administration. Angeles and New York but were | | Share considerable membership spokesman Charles Boylan,
arms spending, with the conse- _Ishizawatoldthe Tribuneinan _ denied visas by the state depart- } and leadership with the _ who speaks for various
Quent effect that would have on _ interview that they are particular- ment which claimed it needs 40 | | D0tOriousultra-left CPC(M-L),  CPC(M-L) groups, shouted
inflation andworkers’ livingstan- _ly interested in the work of the days to get approval from the p-convergedt on the rally platform _ througha bullhorn after the at-
; Vancouver school board and the White House, an unprecedented } wielding placards mounted on _ tack, accusing onlookers and
The appearance before the la- "school system because of growing qualification. Pahoa of two-by-two lumber. rally | participants of
bor council was one of several social problems in Japan involv- _Ishizawa said it was the first | | © eral people were injured in-  “‘h 2 |
Meetings the three held here dur- ing juvenile delinquency and the _ time that a delegation from the [| | ene one man who is in The rally in Vancouver's |
ing a week in Vancouver increasing incidence of school one been denied entry to = eS on eee with a frac-  SeeAcees ]
_ : e U.S. i . Ss

| Union raids spark debate over

autonomy

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