Friday, November 19, 1982

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40° Vol. 44, No. 45

Brezhnev:
the final
tributes
are paid

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TRIBUNE PHOTO — SEAN GRIFFIN

Cruise protest

Metro Toronto and Ontario
| 'OVincial police officers haul
_ | 8Way one of about 1,500
| ®Monstrators in front of the
| Litton Systems plant in the
| Suburb of Rexdale on
®Membrance Day. More
io 300 police were brought
to break up the peaceful
Sit-in, the latest in a series at
the plant which manufac-

8s the guidance system for
® U.S. military’s Cruise at-
‘8k missile.

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Take control

of Mac-Blo,

banks,

B.C.

Fed demands

Delegates to the 27th annual
convention of the B.C. Federation
of Labor this week demanded the
nationalization of banks and other
financial institutions and called for
“‘public control’? of forest giant
MacMillan Bloedel.

The 840 delegates at the PNE
Agrodome overwhelmingly passed
the nationalization motion from
the Marine Workers and Boiler-
makers Industrial Union Local 1,
which cited high mortgage and in-
terest rates that make it ‘‘impossi-
ble’? for many workers to own a
home.

It called on the Canadian Labor
Congress to demand that the Cana-
dian government nationalize the
banks and all major financial in-
stitutions and to drop interest rates

charged that it was “‘criminal’’ for
M-B to take money out of the pro-
vince and invest it in countries such
as Brazil and Spain. ‘‘The profits
from the forest resource should
stay here in this province,”’ he said.

The resolution had been amend-
ed by the resolutions committee to
read ‘‘public control” rather than
“‘nationalization,’’ a move which
prompted some confusion over the
meaning.

But United Fishermen’s delegate
George Hewison emphasized how
the labor movement should
understand public control.

“‘What we’re talking about here
is democratic control,’’ he said.
“We're not talking about com-
panies like B.C. Hydro where

_ Robert Bonner runs the show.”’

‘Organize jobless’, page 12

for housing mortgages ‘“‘to an af-
fordable level.”

“Unless we have democratic
control of the banks, we don’t have
control of our economy,”’ said
CUPE delegate Jim Quail.

Another resolution, called on
the federation officers to begin a
campaign aimed at bringing Mac-
Millan Bloedel under public con-
trol.

Urging support for such a cam-
paign, unemployed Port Alberni

woodworker Dave Crosby told .

delegates that he was one of hun-
dreds permanently laid off by M-B.
“The company has told us that it
has no responsibility for us,’’ he
said,

IWA delegate Earl Foxcroft

He called the resolution part of a
‘program to take control of our
economy out of the hands of the
multinationals and put it into the
hands of the people of B.C.”’

Delegates also endorsed resolu-
tions calling for legislation to en-
sure minimum processing of
resources at home, the establish-
ment of a basic steel industry in the
province and for opposition to the
Northeast coal project until there is
proof it is of benefit to the people of
the province.

Federal NDP leader Ed Broad-
bent addressed convention
delegates Tuesday, demanding the
establishment of a massive
municipal works project.

ALRT can be stopped

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