ANGELA DAVIS and a supporter embrace shortly after she was freed on
bail last week. Angela called her release “a victory for the people” and
vowed to continue her work for the freedom of all political prisoners.
Her trial opened Monday of this week in San Jose, California. The B.C.
Committee for the Defence of Angela Davis this week called for re-
newed public action to win her freedom.

Ban underground nuclear

Kurt Waldheim, new
Secretary-General of the United
Nations, last weekend called for
the major powers to agree to a
ban on underground nuclear
tests.

He said that scientific and tech-
nological developments have
removed major objections to
policing such a test. In taking his
stand the UN Secretary-General
is reputing the official U.S.

High-rise fight

“No high.rise apartment
blocks here’’ is the slogan of the
Ad Hoc Committee on Rezening
in Kitsilano, as they issued a
call for all interested citizens to
attend Vancouver City Council
meeting on Tuesday, March 7th.
The Director of Planning and
Civic Development will bring in
a report at that time with sugges-
tions respecting limiting of
heights in the Cornwall Street
areas, north and south.

In a brief submitted to Council
last week, the committee urged
that a public hearing be called by
City Council to discuss the entire
matter of zoning in the Kitsilano
area. They also presented
Council with a petition con-
taining more than 4,000 names,
gathered in three days protest-
ing proposed 10-storey high rise
at 2880 Cornwall St.

Members and supporters of
the committee will be out over
the weekend gathering more
names on their petition, which
requests that the development
of 2880 Cornwall St. be stopped
together with any similar
development, pending a public
hearing. An information leaflet
will be handed out at the develop-
ment site, as well as other
places in Kitsilano, explaining
the committee’s position.

tests says new UN head

position which has up until now
blocked an agreement.

The U.S. has insisted that
there must be on-site inspec-
tion. The Soviet Union has indi-
cated its willingness to sign a
treaty and has maintained that
on-site inspection is not
necessary with the new scienti-
fic means now available to
detect any violation of such an
agreement,

The U.S. has_ blocked
agreement on such a treaty
because it wants to continue
underground nuclear tests, such
as the recent Amchitka test, in
the hope of developing new
super weapons which will give it
the edge in the cold war.

Last December the Federation
of American Scientists urged
the U.S. to drop its insistance on
on-site inspection. They said
that recent improvements in
seismology and other detection
means makes such inspection
unnecessary.

KURT WALDHEIM

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1972—PAGE 12

Vancouver’s inside and out-
side workers renewed their
pledge this week to ‘maintain a
united front in bargaining with
the city for new collective agree-
ments. This was a sharp rebuff
for Mayor Tom Campbell who
attempted to drive a wedge
between the CUPE locals and
the MREU (inside workers) by
insinuating one was being used
as a scapegoat by the other.

The inside workers last Wed-
nesday voted 85 percent in favor
of backing up their demands for
a 20 percent wage increase. On
Saturday, CUPE locals voted 93
percent against accepting the
offered increase of 7.5 percent.
CUPE locals include those from
Vancouver, Burnaby, New West-
minister, Richmond, Delta and
North Vancouver.

The 20 percent demand,
according to a statement issued
this week by the employees con-
cerned, is designed to bring
wages of Vancouver’s inside and
outside workers back into their
proper relationship to other
civic employees such as police-
men, firemen and electrical

workers.
* OK OK

A story from Vancouver
Island indicates coast fallers will

UNITY

Cont'd from pg. 1

government’s attack. United
action and cohesion of all anti-
monopoly, anti-Socred forces
provides the only answer to the
widespread dissatisfaction and
mass resentment over govern-
ment policies.

A united labor movement,
rallying around its all demo-
cratic and progressive forces
now under attack can bring into
being a united, or common front
capable of resolving the
common problems of all working
people and open the way for a
democratic anti-monopoly
alliance in the next election
which could end the big business
domination of the political and
economic life of this province.

Joint action today on the
immediate common problems is
the starting point.

The obstacles to such united
action have got to be removed.
Conferences of the teachers,
hospital workers and nurses,
government and municipal
employees, trade unionists
(unaffiliated as well as
affiliated) is a good beginning.

Sharp issue must be taken with
those in the labor and political
movements who try to confine
the broad movements of the
people the narrow, ‘‘one-hand-
behind-your-back’’ game of
parliamentarism; and who
fear broad unity, mass public
action, and who want to “‘leave it
till the next election.”

““All energy needs to be
devoted today to stimulating
and achieving unity-in-action on
today’s immediate problems, to
curb the monopolies and the
Employers’ Council and their
government in Victoria, and
bring into being a broad demo-
cratic alliance that will halt the
dangerous right trend and
advance the people’s interests to
put British Columbia on the road
to progress,’’ the Communist
Party appeal concluded.

in rejection of latest offer

take job action at an early date
to implement the recom-
mendations of the Nemetz report
of 1970 as contained in the IWA-
FIR Coast Master Agreement.
Date for action was set for
March 13, according to the
reports.

A committee of 8 fallers has
been elected, representing
various areas of the Coast.

*

John Fryer of the B.C. Govern-
ment Employees Union told a
businessmen’s conference at
Harrison Hot Springs that rising
unemployment and not infla-
tion is Canada’s most alarming
economic problem.

The trade union:

movement places far greater
emphasis on the attainment of
full employment than it does on
the achievement of stable
prices,” he said.

“It is nonsense from an
economic or any other point of
view to attempt to curb inflation
by restricting wages without
putting controls on all other
forms: of income — salaries,
profits, rents, interest rates,
professional fees and unin-
corporated business income,”’
Fryer said.

* OK OK

John Young, of the Prices and
Income Commission told the
Same audience at Harrison he’d
spent the past two years writing
a report on the problems of infla-
tion and “‘preparing contin-
gency plans for a price and
income control system “‘if this
should become necessary in the
future.”

QUILT CASE

Cont’d from pg. 1

Communist Party, joined forces
with the native people who
turned out in number. The pro-
vincial committee of the Com-
munist Party was in session last
Saturday, and voted unani-
mously to delegate provincial
leader Nigel Norgan to join the
protest on their behalf. °

Simon Fraser students gave
tangible support last week when
the Student Society donated $250
to the family of Fred Quilt and
another $100 to the Quilt Com-
mittee to be used ‘“‘to educate

and fight against injustice and
racism.”

The New Westminster and
District Labor Council last W al
blasted the provincial gover
ment’s wage curbs on publ
employees, with one delege
saying that although teachel
have been singled out so fat, ee
writing is on the wall for othel
workers.

The executive was instrucl

to write protest retters 10
Premier Bennett, Educate”
Minister Brothers and Labol
Minister James Chabot.
ea

TENANTS

Cont'd from pg. 2
appoint a bona fide tenant ie
and its main activity has bee i
operate the hated ‘‘secuf
deposit’’ racket.

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Hence, it is not the preset
powers and operation of
Board that are the issue © 4l
Judge’s ruling, but the pote
powers of a properly constitu fo
board— such powers as justillé it
tion for rent increases, J™, |
cause for evictions,
collective bargaining right
tenant organizations. 1
precisely these powers that@. |
currently being sought
tenants.

Because of this fact the
couver Tenants Council §
last week that ways and ae:
will be found to appeal 1, |
Judge’s ruling. True to fora
Grievance Board _ itself by
abdicated any responsibility |
asking City Council for diret. |
on March 7th, the last poss! |
day for a legal appeal!

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Recently the labor and dem
cratic movement has sho). |
increasing support for the acl!
ties of the organized tena? ee
and tenants themselves M4),
become better organized. 10 a
forthcoming federal, proving.
and municipal elections ri i
activity will no doubt result |,
the question of ‘‘tenant rig?”
becoming a major 186 i
Tenants are confident that ©, |
all round activity will resuy |
clearly defined laws estaD¥P, |
ing full citizenship rights ‘he
economic ‘‘muscle’’ for
majority of urban residents