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.

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