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Wednesday, Sept. 28, 1983

Newsstand O<EERTEND 48
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40c Vol. 46, No. 36

Rosenberg
Inside:
Access to

education

demanded
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execution
mirrored

in new film

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: Was more picnic than protest but the message was ho less poinves as nevaral
hundred children and parents gathered in Grandview Park Sunday for a pi cee
§gainst the budget.’ Amidst a profusion of Solidarity balloons, people watc ve
Skits, played the Socred wheel of fortune and listened to fired bomen rights
Commissioner Renate Shearer. Children also staged their own march aga on ;
Udget during the event which wound up week four of the Solidarity Coalition's

Petition campaign.

Solidarity in the park
|targets gov't budget

Students backed Simon Fraser Student

SFU students slam Socred bills

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Society's call to join Solidarity Coalition's fight

against Socred bills at open-air meeting Thursday. (Story page 11).

TRIBUNE PHOTO — SEAN GRIFFIN

Warning that the Social Credit govern-
ment’ ‘‘is*determined to ram through’” its
budget and legislation, the Communist Par-
ty Saturday called on Operation Solidarity
and the labor movement to take immediate
action on ‘‘new initiatives . . . to stop the
Socred steamroller.””

The appeal was issued by the party’s pro-
vincial committee which met Sept. 24 amidst
a continuing government drive to force its
bitterly opposed legislation, particularly Bill
3, through the house.

In a procedure not used for over a quarter
of a century, the Socreds invoked closure
Sept. 23, forcing debate to end on Bill 9.
Following the closure motion, the bill,
known as the ‘‘Spetifore bill’’ because it
strips regional districts of planning powers
and will facilitate rezoning of the former
Spetifore lands in Delta, quickly passed se-
cond reading.

The closure motion followed three all-
night sittings during which time other bills,
including Bill 6 and Bill 3, were also put
through second reading. After sitting on its
respective legislation for several weeks, the

\government has now moved swiftly to

bulldoze it all through the legislature and has
indicated that closure may be used again and

again.

“Bennett has shifted tactics in the
legislature and is now determined to ram
through each of the 26 bills using continuous
sessions and closure, denying full parliamen-
tary debate and defying the broad, popular
opposition to this legislation,” the CP
stated.

It warned that Bill 3 ‘‘s at the top of the
Socreds’ program’’ which the government
hopes to use against government employees
in upcoming negotiations.

“The Solidarity Coalition and the labor
movement is faced with an emergency situa-
tion,’’ the CP warned.

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“The Socreds are apparently anxious to
drive through the 26 bills before bringing -
down its amendments to the Labor Code. In
that way, they hope to divide the opposition
and deal with the unions later when they will
stand alone.

“This plot must be defeated,’’ the state-
ment delcared.

“The private sector unions must realize,
that the fight to defend labor’s rights is being '
fought out now in the battle that’s going on:
in the legislature and in the public arena.

“Immediate action is needed to bring the
full weight of public opinion to bear in sup-
port of the Opposition in the legislature. The
government is forcing through this legisla-
tion,”’ it said.

Calling for ‘‘new initiatives that would br-
ing together all sections of the community,”’
the CP appealed to Operation Solidarity and
the Solidarity Coalition to consider a
‘‘province-wide day of protest which would
bring together all the regional coalitions and
public spirited organizations with economic
action by the trade union movement.”

It also urged that the coalition consider
convening in Victoria a ‘broad people’s
assembly of all who oppose the legislation.’
That assembly, the statement suggested,
would elect a representative delegation
which would demand an immediate meeting
with the government to press for the
withdrawal of legislation.

“The Communist Party has given its full
support to the fightback against the budget
and the 26 bills and to the Solidarity Coali-
tion,” the statement said. ‘‘We pledge to
support the necessary actions the coalition
must now take in this emergency.

“Everybody’s rights and democracy are
under attack and nobody should stand aside
from this crucial struggle. The time to act is
now,”’ it declared.

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 BCGEU z layoffs could spark walkout

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