NORTH VIETNAM BOMBED AGAIN. An estimated 250 US bomb
Saturday, causing extensive death and destruction. The large scale bombing was the first in two years since
d, and has stirred world-wide indignation. This latest U.S. action,

coupled with a helicopter landing near Hanoi, ostensibly to release prisoners, has added new urgency to the
demand for the U.S. to get out of Southeast Asia NOW.

U.S. bombing of the North was halte

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1970

PROTESTS CAN BLOCK UTAH MINE PERMIT

STOP THE POLLUTERS

ers struck at centres in North Vietnam last

JOBS not

“The Canadian Union of Public
Employees is opposed to the
concept of compelling people to
work in exchange for welfare
benefits,’ stated-Jack Phillips,
National representative, on
behalf of other Vancouver
Officers of CUPE.

‘However, we are in favor of
Providing work for welfare
recipients in good health
Providing they will be employed
at trade union wages and under
trade union conditions.”’

CUPE spokesmen were
expressing the position of
Organized labor as a whole, as
demonstrated by a resolution

_ approved at least week’s session
of the Vancouver Labor Council.
The VLC stated, ‘‘If in fact there
are jobs available, the unem-
Ployed should be hired at union
Wages only.”

This week the Honorable Phil
Gaglardi, stumbling backward
into the depression years of the
°30’s, told newsmen he was going
to extend his ‘‘work-for-wel-
fare’ program “‘all over the
province of B.C.”

Gaglardi said Vancouver — he
did not say what body in Van-
couver — had asked for an exten-
sion of his work-for-welfare
program. Neither did the
minister make clear what type
of work he had in mind.

Phillips said Gaglardi’s plan to
solve the unemployment crisis
in B.C. doesn’t even begin to
scratch the surface.

‘He is proposing, as we under-
stand it, to take a few hundred
welfare recipients and put them

to work on municipal payrolls. |

The Vancouver Parks Board
employed 20 such welfare reci-
pients last year in a program

‘work for welfare’

which combined laboring work

_ with classroom instruction.

“However, the budgets of the
municipalities in B.C. are so
restricted they could not employ
any sizeable number of unem-
ployed workers without laying
off their regular employees who
have years of seniority.”

CUPE spokesmen emphasized
the point that the unemploy-
ment crisis will never be solved
by such means as Gaglardi
proposes.

‘This job crisis cannot be
solved unless the provincial and
federal governments are going
to end the austerity program
and institute new bold national
and provincial policies that will
create jobs for hundreds of thou-
sands of workers.

“Mr. Gaglardi’s ‘“‘effort”’ is
like a tear in an ocean of
misery.” s

‘Vol. 31,.No. 48 ol

Trudeau pushes ‘iron heel’ law... see page 5

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By MAURICE RUSH
The giant U.S.-owned Utah Mining Company is going
to try once again— with the help of the Socred govern-
ment and the Pollution Control Board — to get a permit
to dump 9.3 million gallons of dangerous was‘2 into

Rupert Inlet at Port Hardy.

This will be the third time the
Pollution Control Board and its
chairman W. N. Venables will
attempt to override strong
public opposition to approve a
permit which will open the way
for other giant corporations to
dump effluent into Rupert Inlet,
turning it into a giant sewer
loaded with quantities of
cyanide, zinc and chemical
reagents used in mining and
milling.

Already the Pollution Control
Board has approved of permits
without public hearings which
have granted large corporate
polluters (mostly U.S. and
Japanese) the right to dump over
42 million gallons of effluent
daily into B.C.’s rivers and
coastal waters.

The fight to block the Utah
application has become a test
case to determine whether the
people will have their way in

halting pollution of our coastal :

waters— or whether big business

with the backing of the reac-

tionary Socred government —
will be allowed to proceed
unhindered in destroying our
environment for profit.

With only a few days notice,
pollution control director
Venables announced last week

“GET OUT AND VOTE DEC. 9.”
This was the urgent appeal of
Ald. Harry Rankin in his weekly co-
lumn this week on page 2. The
civic election campaign in Van-
couver and other B.C. centres is
reaching its peak with only a few
days left before voting day. For
stories on the civic election
contests see pages 2, 3 and 12.

that a hearing into the Utah
permit will be held next
Wednesday, December 2, in Port
Hardy which will be closed to the
public and only four objectors,
three of them individuals, will
be allowed to appear. All other
groups including SPEC, will be
denied a hearing before the
Board.

SPEC has had a committee of
experts working on the Utah
application. and has collected
the scientific data to oppose the
permit. To all intents and pur-
poses, the Dec. 2 hearing will be
closed to the public.

Two previous attempts by the
Pollution Control Board to clear
the way for the giant U.S. mining
monopoly failed because of a
public outcry. The first hearing
was set for, Victoria in
November 1969. A giant protest
demonstration was held at the
Legislature by SPEC with
contingents from all parts of
Vancouver Island taking part.
One hundred protests and peti-
tions were received by the
Board.

SPEC demanded the hearing
be open to the public and that
they be allowed to present a
brief opposing the permit.
Shortly after the hearing was
called off without coming to any
decision.

A second attempt to hold a
hearing came on September 16
of this year when the Board
thought a hearing held far from
any populated centre at Port
Hardy, would clear the way for
approval. Once again strong
protests, and a threat by SPEC,
with the support of other anti-
pollution groups, to take court
action to stop the Board from
holding a secret or semi-secret
hearing from which the public is
barred, brought a _ post
ponement.

An earlier court suit against
pollution control director
Venables in Supreme Court —
involving Hooker Chemicals at
Nanaimo — brought public
criticism from Mr. Justice
R.A.B. Wooton for failing to
consider the evidence of objec- »-
tors or to hold a public hearing.

At the time of the second post-
ponement the excuse given was

See UTAH PERMIT, pg. 12