Amidst new revelations of
RCMP crimes and increasingly
hollow denials of further
wrongdoing by solicitor-general
Francis Fox, doubt continued to
linger over the ‘‘secret’’
memorandum allegedly sent by
Security chief Colonel Robin
Bourne to labor minister Allan
Williams but dismissed by
government officials as a hoax.
~- The memo was given to
reporters at the Penticton
Convention of the B.C. -
Federation of Labor by the
officers of the Federation. It
had been received by secretary
Len Guy through the mails in an

Friday, November 4, 1977

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unmarked envelope _ post-
marked Vancouver.
Listed as ‘‘Secret’’ and

headed ‘‘Special Intelligence
Request,’’ the memo said: ‘“‘Our
investigation of Mr. Paul
Weiler, Chairman of the B.C.
Labor Relations Board, has now
been concluded. We will for-
ward our report to you under
separate cover in the next days.

“Your request pertaining to
Messrs. L. Guy and J. Fryer are
(sic) being processed at this
moment, and will also be for-
warded to your office as soon as
possible.”

Although unsigned, the memo

listed as addresser Col. Robin
Bourne, Security Planning and.
Analysis Branch of the solicitor-
general’s department and was
directed to provincial labor
minister Allan Williams. It was
dated Oct. 13, shortly after the
strike by ferry workers.

In issuing photostat copies of
the. memo to the press,
Federation secretary Len Guy
acknowledged that the letter
could have been fabricated as a
hoax but pointed out that his
sources indicated that it could.
be authentic and called for a full
investigation.

See SECRET pg. 12

Doubt lingers over ‘secret’ gov't memo

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INTELLIGENCE MEMO... a hoax?

cP condemns
RCMP crimes

Revelations of RCMP break-ins,
- 4rson, theft and political sur-
Veillance of MPs political parties
and labor unions was called
_ Shocking,” but “only the tip of the
_Keberg”’ by B.C. Communist Party
leader Maurice rush this week.
The most serious aspect of the
Whole affair is the statements
made by prime minister Trudeau
and solicitor-general Francis Fox
_ “lat they would change the law to
Make the RCMP,s crimes legal,”’
USh said, ‘‘The government
Seems intent on using this scandal
to strengthen the role of the police.
at could move Canada towards a
Police state.”
The CP leader said there must be
4 full public disclosure of all RCMP
Wrong doings and of all facts that
May implicate politicans and
Sovernment Officials in the crimes.
We're not strangers to illegal
acts of the RCMP,” Rush said,
They have been hounding us for
years, following our cars and
Watching our homes. On a number

Gerald Yetman,. president of the Nova Scotia Federation of Labor,

‘e -

brought the 700 delegates to the Penticton convention of the B.C.
Federation of Labor to their feet twice Monday as he related the
‘desperate’ unemployment in the Maritime province and pledged a
renewed fight for jobs. (See convention stories, pages 1, 12).

—Sean Griffin photo

PENTICTON — With the call,
“Nova Scotia has shown us the way
— what are we waiting for?”,
delegates to the B.C. Federation of
Labor convention turned the
debate over the Federation’s
report on unemployment into a
resounding demand for action and’
a condemnation of .government
indifference to disastrous levels of
unemployment.

The debate over the convention
committee report took up a whole
session of the convention Wed-
nesday morning as delegate after
delegate took the microphone to
reiterate the demand.

And Roy Gautier, chairman of
the special committee on unem-
ployment echoed it again at the end
of the debate, stressing to the
convention, ‘‘Action is the name of
the game.”’

of Occasions we have supplied the
authorities with license numbers
other evidence of illegal

— Surveillance, but nothing was ever
done,

“But it seems what started out as
an operation against communists
@S become an attack on the whole
democratic movement and even
4gainst major political parties and
_™embers of Parliament.
“The evidence presented in the
ast few weeks has made it clear
that the RCMP is completely out of
©ontrol,”” Rush said.

“They must be stopped now,” he
Said,

Company arguments shattered

Suspicions are rife at the West
Coast Oil Ports Inquiry that the
federal government has ordered
commissioner Andrew Thompson
to bring his investigation into the
arguments for and against a
supertanker oil port to a speedy
conclusion.

Ont. labor d
‘Nationalize

tecDBURY — More than a
Ousand miners and citizens
Packed the Steelworker’s Hall in
Sudbury, Ontario October 23 to
oe union leaders and politicans
€spond to the mass INCO layoffs
at Sudbury and Thompson,
Manitoba,

But if there was any doubt in the
weds of top union leaders or NDP
©aders Ed Broadbent and Stephen
}. wee what the workers wanted to
| _*ar, it was quickly dispelled by
Cheers and standing ovations for
Peakers who demanded the

emands
INCO’

nationalization of INCO and the
stopping of the layoffs. ;

“These companies aren’t in-
terested in. us, and anyone who
tries to tell us differently either
doesn’t know what they are talking
about or are lying to us,” Mine Mill
and Smelter Workers Union leader
Jack Signac told the stormy
meeting. ‘‘The only solution is the
outright nationalization of the
nickel industry.

“Any politician who opposes:

nationalization of these industries
See INCO pg. 3

Thompson flew to Ottawa last
week to confer with federal
ministers and on his return im-
posed a one hour limit on cross
examination of witnesses. He also
returned without any agreement to
extend the time for the inquiry, or
for extending funding for par-
ticipants beyond the end of the
year.

Ottawa’s apparent haste to shut
down the Thompson Inquiry un-
doubtedly derives from the success
of oil port opponents, led by the
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers’ Union, which have
shattered the arguments of oil
companies that were to have
proven ‘“‘a compelling need” for a
west coast oil port.

Developments in the United
States are also putting the federal
government under pressure to
conclude the West Coast Oil Ports
Inquiry and to make a decision
favoring one of the schemes. In-
formation released this week by
the UFAWU research team drew
attention to a bill in the U.S.
senate, sponored by Senator
Melcher of Montana. The
“Melcher Bill” would require U.S.

president Carter to make a
presidential declaration of
preference for both a southern
continential oil pipeline and for a
northern continental route.

If the Melcher Bill passes, and it
is expected to, it will set up the
same kind of ‘‘blackmail’’
situation that the U.S. exploited to
secure Canadian agreement for the
Alcan line. Carter will choose
between a Kitimat-Edmonton-
Chicago route or the “northern
tier” route across the U.S. Canada
will be put in the situation of
meeting another Carter deadline,
or, as the oil port proponents will
argue, the economic benefits of
pipeline construction will go to the
US.

The feeling around the West
Coast Oil Port Inquiry is that
Trudeau has told Thompson to
bring the Inquiry to a close so that
federal government can appear to
make an “independent”’ decision in
favor of a Kitimat route.

On the basis of the facts
presented so far, however, the
government will have great dif-
ficulty in using the Thompson

See “NO NEED” pg. 3

The Federation’s committee on
unemployment, struck off
following a special conference on
unemployment held in May, em-
phasized, “Unemployment is the
most pressing problem facing us
today. .. itis a national disgrace.”

The committee’s report outlined
the various campaigns initiated by
local unions as well as that charted
by the Canadian Labor Congress
and laid out a five point-program
for Federation action on the issue.

The program called on affiliates
to monitor unemployed statistics in
their locals, to negotiate
technological change clauses in
contracts and to press for shorter
hours. of work on contract talks.

The committee report also urged
the Federation’s executive council
to:

e Hire an unemployment co-
ordinator for a period of not less
than three months; ;

e Establish store-front unem-

ployment offices in various
communities throughout the
province;

@ Initiate an publicity campaign
to bring the disgrace of unem-
ployment to the public;

e Establish a special fund;

e Co-ordinate trade union,
community group and unemployed
support with a view to a massive
rally at the opening of the
Legislature early in 1978.

With the opening of the debate,

See B.C. FED pg. 3

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* FRANCE: Basic economic |
policy is at the heart of the |
split in the French Left, |
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|* UNEMPLOYMENT: The |
Communist Party outlines |
its program to put Canada |
back to work, page 6, 7. '
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