. \ } : : | | | | : Nagasaki Day rally at Canadian Forces base demands: : | : | } : Close to 500 people from as far away as Vancouver and Vic- torla converged on the Canadian Forces Base in Comox Saturday to commemorate the 35th anniver- sary of the bombing of Nagasaki with the demand that the federal government remove all nuclear weapons from the base where they were first installed 15 years ago. For two hours before, cars from the mainland as well as centres on the southern Island made their way north in a long motorcade. By the time it reached the base, it numbered close to 100 cars, each marked with a placard demanding: ‘Remove nukes from Comox.” Organized jointly by the B.C. Peace Council and the Comox Valley Nuclear Responsibility, the demonstration recalled earlier pro- tests against the installation of nuclear arms at Comox — in 1963, in 1965 and again in 1974 — but this time demonstrators brought a renewed urgency prompted by the U.S. cold war campaign and there- cent Pentagon computer errors which launched fighter planes pois- ed for attack. “Those planes at Comox armed with nuclear warheads are on five minute alert,’? B.C. Peace Council vice-chairman Bert Ogden told the crowd outside the Canadian Forces base,” and those same planes were among those launched when the ‘Remove nuclear arms from Comox removed,”’ he declared. Victoria Voice of Women representative Kay McPherson also addressed the rally before demonstrators lined up for another car cavalcade and a march to a se- computer malfunctioned at the cond rally in nearby Courtenay. Pentagon. “It shows you how close we are to catastrophe — and will continue to be as long as nuclear weapons re- main on our soil,’”’ he warned. “‘We’ve been coming here ever since nuclear weapons were first in- stalled at this base — and we’ll keep coming back until weapons are As they left, children released hundreds of helium-filled balloons into the air, each carrying the famous paper origami crane sym- bolizing the children who died at Hiroshima and bearing the message: Ban all nuclear weapons at Comox Now. The message also noted that the 7 balloons would ‘‘travel the minimum” range of radioactive fallout from accident or attack at Comox.” At the rally in Courtenay’s Ryan Park, Community Party provincial chairman Jack Phillips joined Donna Tyndall from the United Native Nations and Edith Adam- son from the Victoria Coalition for World Disarmament in reiterating the demand for the removal of the weapons. Phillips warned that the Trudeau government had moved See COMOX page 7 cl CFU wins two farms The Canadian Farmworkers Union spring organizing drive gained momentum with the winn- ing of a second certification two weeks after the union’s breakthrough certification at Jensen Mushroom Farm in Langley, July 18. The certification of 10 workers at Ron Ferguson’s alfalfa sprout farm in Richmond, Country Natural Foods Farm Ltd., was seen as a victory for the union which, CFU president Raj Chouhan pointed out, ‘‘is growing daily. “Ferguson is the main supplier of alfalfa sprouts in the province,”’ he’ said. The union has sent a letter to Ferguson notifying him of its readiness to bargain for a first con- tract. . Winning the fight to act as a bargaining unit for the workers at the Jensen Mushroom Farm was the first big step in the CFU’s spr- ing Organizing efforts. Attempts by the employer to overturn CFU’s application to the Labor Relations Board by arguing that CFU Local 1 was “‘just a paper union’ and did not represent the majority of Jensen employees, were shot down after two days of hearings by LRB chairman Don Munroe. _ Munroe ruled that CFU Local 1 did represent the workers, stating that the CFU consisted of “dedicated people who have won the support of the labor movement for their cause.”’ TOP: Led by Wayne Bradley (right) who chaired the rally, demon- strators march down the kilometre-long hill leading into Courtenay. BOTTOM: Danielle Bilodeau makes her message clear as she joins others outside the Canadian Forces base to protest the presence of nuclear weapons at Comox. TRIBUNE PHOTOS—SEAN GRIFFIN Social ownership m of energy is the ‘only way’ — CP TORONTO — The Communist Party of Canada told the federal committee on energy and oil substitution that the only way Canada’s energy resources could be made to serve the people of this country and its economy as a whole, was to take energy ‘‘out of the hands of the multinationals through social ownership.”’ In an 800-word outline on July 31, the Communist Party put before the Special Committee on Alternative Energy and Oil Substitution its long-standing pro- posals for achieving an energy policy designed to benefit Canada and Canadians. The outline stressed that the pro- posals contained were within technological and economic feasibility. In an accompanying letter the party requested the right to appear before the Commission at one ofits | - public hearings, as well as to placea further elaborated brief before the House of.Commons special com- mittee. Canada is fortunate to have “ample stocks’’ of oil, gas, hydro power, coal and uranium, the outline noted, but these “‘are presently owned by the multi- national corporations to whom the federal and provincial govern- ments have made concession after concession in the form of higher prices and profits, subsidies and tax exemptions, all at the expense of the people and.of the Canadian economy. “The Communist Party urges social: ownership of resources and their development under joint federal and provincial crown cor- porations.”’ The-outline continued, insisting See TAKE page 8 22nd Games: \*'— The closing Lord Killanin (r) closed the 22nd Olympic Games calling on the world not to ‘use sport for politi- cal means’ and to unite in friend- ship. And it was the athletes » who made the Olympic flame brighter despite the U.S. efforts to extinguish it. Stories, photos page 6, 7. Padding the voters’ lists It’s a bill to pad the municipal voters’ lists and give an extra boost to developer-oriented candidates — that’s how alder- man Harry Rankin characterizes the amendments to the Mu- nicipal Act introduced Aug. 8 by Bill Vander Zalm. See page a a a