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Fireboat
will stay

COPE alderman, mayor}

Mike Harcourt and delegations
from waterfront unions joined
at Vancouver city council Tues-
day to block the downgrading
of the Vancouver fire depart-
ment fireboat, seen as indispen-
sable to worker and public safe-
ty in Burrard Inlet. :

Council had a proposal be-
fore it to reduce the boat’s full-
time crew from six to three and
to place it on ‘‘standby,’’ with
the staff and money savings
shifted to South Vancouver
where there is a population in-
crease.

The proposal was opposed by

Firefighters Union president
Bing Pare who pointed out the
key role the boat played in re-
cent fires at the Pioneer grain
terminal and the Vancouver
Marina. He was supported by
delegations from the B.C.
Maritime Council of Unions,

| the ILWU, CBRT Local 400,

UFAWU, Grainworkers Union
and Vancouver and District
Labor Council.

“We have thousands of
workers down there, and it is
not just a matter of lives. Jobs
are at stake as well; if one of
those (industrial sites) goes up, it
will be a long time before people
get back to work,’’ the VDLC’s
Paddy Neale told council.

A close vote saw COPE al-
dermen Rankin, Eriksen and
Yorke, and mayor Harcourt
win alderman Don Bellamy’s
vote in a 5-5 tie. The tie vote
leaves the fireboat and crew in-
tact.

By ROD DORAN

Further consofidation of
Canadian. autonomy for
longshoremen, members of the
International Longshoremen and
Warehousemen’s Union, should
be of considerable interest to
members of international unions
in Canada attempting to achieve
autonomy.

The ILWU in Canada has been
an example of how full Canadian
autonomy can be implemented
while strengthening the bonds of
international solidarity between
Canadian and U.S.

longshoremen on the west coast.

The 24th biennial international
convention of the ILWU held in
Hawaii earlier this year endorsed
changes to the constitution pro-
posed by a special constitutional
convention of the Canadian area
held in April of this year. In addi-
tion to strengthening its structure,
the Canadian proposed that the

changed to: ;

@ Provide that the Canadian
area president (elected from the
Canadian ranks) represent the
Canadian area on the interna-
tional executive board;

@ Eliminate the position of
regional director, until now an
appointee of the international ex-
ecutive board.

As it stands: now, all dues
monies remain in Canada and
there are no appointed union
positions in Canada. Charters for
Canadian locals are issued by the
Canadian area.

The achievement of full
autonomy was the result of a con-
scious policy of the international

\ Canadian area. In addition,

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international constitution be

involving discussion with the |

outgoing regional director Craig
Pritchett played a major part in
the process including phasing out
his own position.

The Canadian area, originally

set up in the 1950s, has developed .

to the point where it has its own
Canadian constitution, its own
conventions which make all deci-
sions affecting the Canadian
membership and adopt policies

_on domestic and international af-
fairs. It elects its own officers by
referendum ballot and draws up
and negotiates its own contracts.
In short, the Canadian members
of the ILWU have complete con-
trol over their own affairs.

In understanding the good -

relationship that has developed.

between Canadian and USS. -

longshoremen on the west coast,
it is necessary to appreciate the
progressive, militant tradition
and fighting history of the ILWU
under the leadership of former
president Harry Bridges. Expell-
ed from the Congress of In-
dustrial Organizations (CIO) dur-
ing the McCarthy years, the IL-
WU refused to follow the line of
the AFL-CIO in echoing the cold
war policies of the U.S. state
department. It refused to insert
anti-communist clauses in its con-
stitution and upheld constitu-
tional guarantees which provided
that there would be no religious,
racial or political discrimination
practiced by any affiliate of the
-ILWU. The Canadian area in-
- cluded this democratic clause in
its constitution.

ILWU charts new autonomy course

It is no coincidence that the
union which takes this stand on
international issues also leads the
way in the longshore industry in
wage rates, working conditions
and rank and file democracy.

Harry Bridges, who will
celebrate his 80th birthday this
year, is no longer international
president, but the progressive
tradition that he and other
pioneers helped to establish is still
the hallmark of the ILWU. For
example, the international con-
vention just held in Hawaii con-
demned the arms buildup of the
Reagan administration; sharply
criticized the U.S. government
for not ratifying the SALT II
agreement; called for a nuclear-
free Pacific; advocated legislation
to outlaw the activities of the
KKK and Nazi organizations;
and recalled the discriminatory
internment of the Japanese-Am-
ericans and Aleuts during World
War II and demanded that fam-
ilies now be compensated by the
U.S. government.

The officers’ report to the con-
vention raised the priority and
urgency of the campaign for
peace, stating: ‘‘Nowhere is the
need for action more pressing
than on the question of peace. . .

The formation of American
foreign policy is now in the hands
of men who believe that nuclear
war is a viable policy option, who
believe that all peoples struggles
for self determination and
economic progress are all directed
from Moscow.”

tant tradition continues in IL-

_ communism and the pro-U.S.

HARRY BRIDGES . . . his mili-

WU.

It is evident that the movement
to achieve autonomy, leading to
the eventual establishment of a
sovereign and full independent
Canadian trade union movement
is closely connected with the fight
against class collaboration, anti-

policies that are expressed by
some international unions. The
members of the ILWU in Canada
will continue to play an important
part in this struggle.

(An extensive summary of the
ILWU convention is contained in
the May 15 issue of the ILWU
paper The Dispatcher, available
from the Canadian area office of
the union.)

Rod Doran is a member of

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