MacBlo p

f q

John Isaacs, Port Alberni,
writes: Automation and remodel-
ling at APD and Alberni Ply-
oe aad MacMillan Bloe-

S$ modification program for
Alberni Valley mills are already
well under way. Permanent lay-
offs for 160 workers in the ply-
woods division have already oc-
curred. There are rumors that
there will be no reduction in the
work force at APD. But one is
compelled to ask: If productivity
is not boosted with less men why
the investment in millions for
modernization? Is it to make for

} | better and easier working condi-

tions? It is hardly likely — work-

|} ] ets at Plywoods complain the
| work load is heavier.

It would appear that when
Mac-Blo’s Somass division is re-
modelled production will be such
in the two sawmills that the pres-
ent night shift at Somass will be
eliminated, thus doing away with
the short — 6% hours — shift
that has bothered the company
for some time.

It is safe to say that if the com-
pany puts millions into moderni-
zation, it must expect to get back
many more millions in profits.
There is no other way, assuming
production remains the same, to
make that increased profit except
by a reduction in the work force
or the wages paid.

The suggestion from the com-
pany that reduction of the work

| force through attrition is the solu-

tion will not change anything. Al-
though there may not be a great
number of layoffs at one time,

7 neither will there be any hiring of
“young people.

~ Doug Smythe, the economist
hired by the International Wood-
workers, claims that there is an
upswing coming in the market.
The present month-long closure
of logging camps is unusual and
does not indicate any such trend.
It is true that the lumber market is
a boom and bust affair but the
American economy does not just-
ify any Herbert Hoover approach
that “prosperity is just around the
corner.’’ After all, we were told at
the time the last contract was sign-

} | ed that the incréase in the cost of”

living wouldn’t be more than
eight percent. And we gave up our
COLA clause and took a four-
year pension freeze.

opan FORUM
lan spells unemployment

Inthe [WA convention preced-
ing the present agreement, a res-
olution carried by delegates in-
structed that a committee be
struck to investigate shorter hours
of work and early retirement. The
committee failed to act and presi-
dent Jack Munro made a public
statement that shorter hours were
not a priority for the [WA.

In my opinion, with the auto-
mation in the lumber industry,
early retirement and a shorter
work week are pressing necessi-
ties. i

To win that reduction requires
a united and determined struggle
as was the case when the 40-hour
work week was won in 1946. It
took the form of a demonstration

of 5,000 loggers and millworkers
at the legislature in Victoria and a
strike that lasted 37 days. No one
would disagree with the need for
the 40-hour work week — or the
need now for a reduction in the
present work week in the interests
of those young people who are
unemployed.

It seems to me that we would be
better off if we used our efforts to
win low interest rates for money
for housing and the expansion of
secondary industry for forest pro-
ducts, as well as increased funds
for silviculture. This would in-
crease employment today and
guarantee jobs for tomorrow.

Without such a policy, the fu-
ture welfare of the province is in
jeopardy.

(ARE YOU ON THE LIST?

Mike Harcourt, Vancouver
alderman, writes: Aug. 21 is the
day for Vancouver citizens to
protect their right to vote by
making sure they are on the vot-
ers’ list.

I urge members of your com-
munity to protect civic democ-
racy by talking to family and
friends urging them to check
with the city’s registrar of voters
to ensure they are on the list. Al-

B.C. municipality can register
to vote up to and including elec-

{ tion day, they cannot do’so in

though voters in every other

Vancouver.

Recently, I and three other
Vancouver aldermen put for-
ward a motion to protect civic
democracy. Our motion (first
introduced in 1979 and propos-
ed again this year—Ed.) was to
change the voter registration
time limit of Aug. 21 to election
day, Nov. 15.

The NPA majority voted
against the motion. Conse-
quently Vancouver citizens will
not be treated like every other
civic voter in B.C.

Remember — register to vote
between now and Aug. 21. ae

Folk festival article off base

Marcy Toms, ‘Vancouver,
writes: As a subscriber to the
Tribune, I should be accustomed
to your uncreative, non-investi-
gative type of journalism. As a
long-time active socialist, I know
I deserve better but the Tribune is
all there is. But that article by An-
na Holbech (‘‘Local folk artists

left behind at Jericho Festival,”’ ~

Tribune, August 25) really takes
the cake for not bothering to in-
clude too many facts.

Local artists, she says. Cana-

dian’ singers, she implies. They

were ignored and left behind, she
complains. Did Holbech bother
to goto the Festival? I did and this
is what I heard and saw.

The artists from British Co-
lumbia included Holly Aintzen,
Bim, Jim Byrnes, Ferron, Bob
Hadley, Geoff Noble, the Kit-
silano Kat Kickers and Phil
Thomas. Among those from the
rest of Canada, including Que-

bec, were Willie P. Bennett, Bob }

Carpenter, Figgy Duff, Hono-
lulu Heartbreakers, Lynn Mc-
Gowan, Connie Kaldor, Original
Sloth Band, Le Reve du Diable,
Stan Rogers, Stringband and
Susan Shewan.

Most of these people were
unknown to me before and I
thank the Folk Festival for expos-
ing me to their excellent music.

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‘Blockade’ to stop

mine pollution seen

The Nishga Band, the Native
Brotherhood of B.C. and the
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union have pledged to
line up boats in a ‘‘marine
blockade’’ to turn back the blasting
equipment bound for the foot of
Alice Arm where the Climax
Molybdenum Corporation plans
to sink a pipe that will spew toxic
waste tailings from its proposed
Kitsault molybdenum mine into
the inlet.

“The blockade will go up when
the federal fisheries department
gives Climax the go-ahead to blast,
which will be in a couple of weeks
when the salmon stop running,”’
UFAWU northern representative
Mike Darnell said.

The Kitsault mine has a permit to
dump 100 million tonnes of tailings
into the inlet over a 26 year period,
or 400,000 milligrams per litre per
month. The dumping permit, ac-
cording to NDP MLA AI Passarell

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(Atlin), allows 8,000 times the nor-
mal allowance under the federal
fisheries act.

The vigorous outcry by en-
vironmental groups, commercial
and Native fishermen since federal
approval of Climax’s plans in 1979,
which in turn helped the mining
company to secure a disposal per-
mit from the provincial govern-
ment, forced federal fisheries
minister Romeo LeBlanc to an-
nounce an internal investigation of
the permit.

“‘We are demanding a full public
inquiry of the company’s disposal
permit,’ Darnell said. “‘If that
doesn’t happen then we will go
through with the blockade. ’’

Fears’ are shared by the groups
involved in the blockade that Alice
Arm will become another Rupert
Inlet, where Utah Mines ‘was per-
mitted to dispose mine tailings into
that inlet near Port Hardy in 1971.

Rally hits Comox nukes

away from its earlier stand for
disarmament under pressure from
the Carter administration and urg-
ed people ‘“‘to pledge on this day
that we will work harder for peace
and for an independent Canadian
foreign policy.”’

In Hiroshima Aug. 6, mayor
Takeshi Araki called for a peace

_ summit between the U.S. and the
- Soviet Union and told 30,000 peo-

ple, “It is high time. . . to shift our
common path away from destruc-
tion to survival.’’

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