_ 80vernment’s Considering its consistent anti- Delegates to the B.C. Federation — a Labor convention made it clear the federal government last week that they would not coun- tenance any attempts to make public employees “the whipping 0y of a badly-mismanaged €conomy’’, and would resist any _ Program which sought to impose Permanent controls on workers in the public sector. The motion of “total opposition” the controls was contained in an. peereency resolution pe nously adopted by the - Gelegates as the Federation wound Up its week-long convention iday. Although the meeting had earlier reiterated its denunciation of ederal _wage controls, Friday’s Tesolution was introduced in Tesponse to an announcement the tee before by finance minister ‘ nald MacDonald that public Mployees would probably be Subject to some form of permanent ape restraints following the end of the controls program outlined in Bill C-73. “Now we have it as fact,” CUPE delegate Len Stair declared to the _ Convention, “there is a conspiracy among governments against public employees.” His comments were echoed by A Government Employees legate Norm Richards who noted ‘ at the federal government has triven to create the myth that “‘if © wages of public employees are “ontrolled, inflation can be licked. is Public employees are not going 80 back to the situation they had Bore in which they worked for Salaries that were little more than . Welfare,’ he stated. pe vother CUPE delegate, Harry Téene, told the convention that he Was “‘little surprised” at the announcement, r bias. “But now we have a fight on our hands,” he said, ‘‘a fight of such magnitude that it wilPrequire the entire trade union movemett: “