of $34,000 is on our board June 4. Only $6,000 more is needed, and nine days yet to raise it. Thanks to the selfless work ° -of hundreds of people our drive is nearly a success. Tribune readers understood Well what this financial drive is for. Our. supporters have worked harder, raised more Money, given more money than ever before. But it is not quite over! Between now and June 14 every single dollar is im- portant. We can expect an exciting $6,000 TO GO finish to the drive. Many clubs are not yet over the top and the traditional frenzied scramble of the last week is no doubt already on. At this point there is no clear cut winner of the drive shields — either in the city or province. Vancouver East, Niilo Makela, Maple Ridge and North Van are some of the front runners. Please see that all contest tickets are returned by Friday June 13. It will be noon, June 13 that the winners of drive awards will be picked. B.C. Tel layoff threat ploy to win rate boost Information pickets surrounded ‘C. Telephone company in- Slallations throughout B.C. last aturday as telephone workers Protested the company’s refusal to Sign their agreed upon contract amid threats of impending mass ay Offs. B.C. Federation of. Telephone Workers business agent Tom Stanley told the Tribune this week Jat the pickets were spontaneous. «© didn’t plan it,” Stanley said, the membership - just took the Matter into their own hands.” eee FARMLAND Cont'd from pg. 2 ‘'Whold to be consistent with their °wn livability studies. The labor council brief stresses that the role of the GVRD should Not be to regulate the disposal of Pur agricultural land, but to ensure at the process is stopped and juming integrated with the Vability program of the region. The brief also challenges those h 0 have argued before the faring that rezoning of agricultural land was necessary to Solve the acute shortage of rental ®¢commodation. : «,, Wé maintain,” says the brief, : at there is no necessity to use Sricultural land for residential and industrial development. This Position is borne out by the findings the Infill study prepared by the Teater Vancouver Regional trict in 1973. In fact, this study ‘ows that with proper planning Pein the ‘urban perimiter there 57,000. acres suitable for . Idential infill.’ This would ac- Mmodate the projected urban °wth for the next 18 years — une oximately 183,000 dwelling Pointing out that the Central Taser Valley Regional District tie rezoned farm land for .-Yelopment nine times, and that One evening in 1956, the Rich- Mond council rezoned 12,000 acres muustrial use — one-half of Rich- ns nd’s farm land — the brief Neludes by saying: Ee are opposed to taking any ‘cultural land out of any ®tve with particular reference Second i ich- Mong >" ary reserves in Rich Rohe Greater Vancouver ena District is expected to te unce its decision on the Sning issue in the near future. The matter of concern to telephone workers is B.C. Tel’s refusal to sign a contract already agreed to, which would be retroactive to January 1, 1975. The contract calls for a 18-1/2% pay increase which, retroactive to the beginning of the year, should provide a sizeable cheque in back pay for telephone workers. The money continues to sit in B.C. Tel’s bank account, however, until the collective agreement is signed. The company has insisted that an arbitration case involving about 50 workers be. settled before they sign the contract. The case has to do with wage categories for business account representatives. Stanley says that the result of the arbitration will not require any changes in the agreement so there is no reason why the contract can not be signed immediately. The arbitration proceedings began last Tuesday in Vancouver and the union fears that it could be a month or more before a decision-will be handed down. : Another source of resentment with the telephone monopoly is B.C. Tel’s attempt to use telephone workers as pawns in their fight with the Canadian Transport Commission for another rate in- crease. Earlier in the month the company issued a statement threatening 800 immediate layoffs with another 1,700 layoffs to follow Tesidential, commercial and. Seema if they did not get the 10% rate increase they are demanding. Stanley said that there was no “formal notice’ of layoffs as yet but.the company threat could not be taken idly. ‘We already had 162 men laid off on May 12,” he said, ‘‘and the company is under- staffed.”’ No further picketing actions are planned, the union representative said, but he cautioned that last Saturday’s demonstrations were not planned either. CCW PARLEY Women to lobby Ottawa on rights Canadian Congress of Women national executive member Hazel Wigdor of Toronto told the 75 delegates to the annual meeting of the B.C. chapter of the CCW last Sunday that 1975, International Women’s Year, is the year in which Canadian women must begin concerted action to realize the ideals of I.W.Y.; equality, peace and development. Speaking to the delegates, repre- sentatives of various trade union, peace, consumer, women’s and ethnic organizations, Mrs. Wigdor outlined some of the activities taking place this year, which will be highlighted by a world con- ference of women to be held in Berlin next October. She said that Canada definitely will be represented at that con- ference with a delegation of bet- ween 10 to 15 women drawn from across the country. Mrs. Wigdor also outlined the plans for a national lobby to the Trudeau government to press further the demands of women for equal pay and adequate child-care facilities. The lobby, though national in character, will petition all levels of government — federal, provincial, and municipal — to take action in guaranteeing these basic rights of women. Delegates heard earlier from Helen’ O’Shaughnessy, shoreworker’s organizer for the United. Fishermen and Allied Forest industry probe — was pressed for by CP Cont'd from pg. 1 outlined its proposals for the terms of reference of such a probe. It urged that all forms of forest tenure be open for examination and determination whether public forest land should not be taken over by the province, managed on a sustained yield basis by the B.C. Forest Service, with the mature timber sold at auction. The letter also urged that such a probe investigate the extent to which foreign multinational cor- porations have been able to seize control of public forest lands and the result of foreign ownership on B.C.’s economy. It pointed out that since the present licences were adopted these corporations have seized control of large tracts of Crown timber. It asks for a full airing of the effect of monopolies in the industry and what measures are needed to curb them and bring them under public control. The CP has also asked that the probe explore fully into the problems of processing and manufacturing in the forest industry, and. to market problems with a view to ending B.C.’s almost total reliance on the U.S. market. An announcement on who will head the Royal Commission . is expected in the near future. Workers Union, and newly elected president of the B.C. Chapter of the CCW, who spoke on the struggle for equality within the work force: Citing the fact that the average female worker’s slary is only “slightly better than one-half of the average male worker’s salary” she pointed out, that until the principle of economic equality can be reached, full equality of the woman worker is not possible. O’Shaughnessy also emphasized the need for full child-care facilities to be located near in- dustry on a 24-hour a day basis, a call that Was reiterated by Larisa Tarwick, who spoke to the meeting on deyelopments in child-care in B.C Tarwick charged that the provincial government has taken a backward stand in regards to the funding. of subsidized child-care facilities within the province. She explained that the subsidies to these centres were awarded on the basis of a sliding scale related to ‘the income of the parents of the child, but new government regulations ~are going to curtail severely the availability of these grants. “The result,’’ she said, “‘is that most of the 500 day-care facilities within the province of British Columbia are going to be in financial difficulty. We must make it one of our priorities to see that the government returns, at the very least, to the former method of allocating the subsidies.”’ Betty Beeching, speaking of the on-going struggles to guarantee a peaceful world, paid special tribute to the contributions of the women of Vietnam to that coun- try’s recent liberation and warned of the ever-present danger of imperialist aggression provoking other armed clashes throughout the world. : Stressing that peace is a -prerequisite for social progress, she pointed out that one of the root causes of the inflated prices that consumers face today is the en- diess millions of dollars squan- ‘dered on the arms race. The delegates approved several resolutions, covering a wide range of issues, including calls for rollbacks in prices, and a demand for the release of women and ‘children who are being held by the Chilean prisoners. junta as_ political aS PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 6, 1975—Page 11