WILLIAM KASHTAN
“A Lobia of two roads.”

Poland's
struggle
for

socialist
renewal

— page 9 —

Pressure mounts

on AG to press
charges on KKK

Housing rights march attracts 300

The Red Door Rental Agency, the Greater Vancouver Renters As-
sociation, the YWCA Housing Registry and other organizations
facing Vancouver's housing crisis led 300 demonstrators in a
march from Vancouver city hall to the site of B.C. Place on False

Creek Sunday to demand government action on the housing
crisis and to declare their intention to take militant action to pro-
tect their rights. See story, page 2.

TRIBUNE PHOTO— JOSHUA BERSON

EI PRES

DAVID PATTERSON. . . mili-
tant Sudbury Steelworkers
leader wins post of largest
Canadian Steelworkers dis-

_ trict.

Patterson wins vote |

Steelworkers Local 6500 presi- |

dent David Patterson, who led |
the historic 8%-month strike {.

against INCO last year, won a de- |
cisive upset victory over incum- |

bent Stewart Cooke for the key: |
post of director of the Steelwork- |
ers’ 90,000-member Ontario re- |

gion.

The final tally will not be |

known until next week but Pat-

terson won handily with an esti- |

mated 9,000-vote majority over |

’ Cooke. The election is for a four- 1

year term.

In his own local in Sudbury, |
Patterson won resoundingly with |

6,447 votes to Cooke’s 1, 115. In |

the big Stelco local at Hamilton, |
‘he polled 4,477 to Cooke’s 1,099.

Full details next week. a

Seer

CUPW
ready
to take
strike
action

June 18

— page 6 —

The crisis
in our
west
coast
salmon
resource

— page 3 —

The provincial government |
came under growing pressure |

: this week to take action against

the Ku Klux Klan following last |
weekend’s cross burning at |:
Stave Lake in the Fraser Valley.
About 40 KKK supporters
were participants in the event

4 near Mission, B.C. and some |

| were reported carrying rifles.

Socred attorney general |
Allan Williams has repeatedly }

| refused to use provisions of the }
| Criminal Code to allow prose- |
} cution of the KKK for incite- |
| ment of hatred. The only action |
| bythe government was taken by }

labor minister Jack Heinrich, |

E responsible for human rights |
} legislation in B.C., who com- |
fl missioned a report on KKK ac- |
| tivities from lawyer John}
| McAlpine. However the report |

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a

| Against Racism spokesperson
| Delica Crump said she was |
| disgusted with the lack of action
| by theattorney general’s depart-
| ment. “‘They have had all the in-
| formation they need about the
| activities of the KKK for a long
| time, and they have done

| nothing,” |

has been suppressed by the |
government.

Under sharp questioning
from NDP MLAs Stu Leggatt |
and Emery Barnes in the |
legislature this week, Williams |
said an RCMP investigation of
the Stave Lake event was under- |
way and that charges were |
possible.

In Vancouver, Committee

she said.
“They were armed at that |

E cross burning,’’ said Crump. |
} “‘Who will protect us against |
' this threat?” i

Communist Party provincial
leader Maurice Rush added his |

§ voice to the demand for action |

by the provincial attorney |

; general Wednesday, noting that |
‘labor minister Jack Heinrich, |
| responsible for human rights |
| legislation in B.C., apparently |
| has knowledge of at least eight |
j other cross burnings that have |

taken place in B.C. |

“Why won’t the government |

| act against openly racist and }
| pro-fascist groups like the KKK }
i when there is clearly wide |
| latitude within existing laws for |
| such action andthe public wants |
} action taken?”’ he questioned. |

“Events like that at Stave |

| Lake are a brazen call to racists |
| of every stripe to come out of |
| hiding and to step up public ac- |
| tivity. If the Socreds do nothing, |
| it will be tantamount to giving a |

green light to an upsurge of |

| racism in B.C. The responsibili- |
| ty of the government can not be |

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