Wood talks resume

With the giant lumber and pulp companies expected to adda little
more to their ‘‘final offer’’, industry negotiators and striking wood
unions will resume bargaining Monday.

The IWA will meet Forest Industrial Relations and the CPU will
meet the Pulp and Paper Industrial Relations Bureau in separate
sessions Monday. The PPWC will meet pulp negotiators Tuesday.

Wood unions need
united strategy — Page 8

As negotations between striking
postal workers and a belligerent
federal government intensified this
week in Ottawa, the Canadian
Union of Postal Workers pledged

relations during the dispute.

the analysis.

However rather than presenting united demands, IWA president
Jack Munro and CPU president Art Gruntman exchanged barba in
the daily media over eath other’s return to the bargaining table, ad-
ding fuel to the competitive spirit which has characterized union

Although the exchange between the two union leaders occurred
after Jack Phillips Labor Comment (page 12) was written, it bears at

to strengthen its strike by taking ac-
tion against the mushrooming scab
mail business.

It is believed that the federal
treasury board put a new offer to
the union on the table last Friday.

that the new offer had brought a
settlement closer.

If only all missiles

were made ofsand...

Among the castles of sand
and sculptures of the im-
agination which rose from
the White Rock beach last
weekend was one on a more
sober theme, world peace.
The sculpture (top) made by
Vicki Bennett (centre) and six
friends of the B.C. Peace
Council depicted an MX
missile pointed at the earth.

At the side a sand panel car-
ried the words, “proliferation
Or peace?”

Although it won no awards, it _
had favorable comment from
many of the 100,000 at the
Sand castie festival.

Bottom: Peace activist John
Tanche greeted the crowds to
White Rock with this panel on a
local construction fence painted
by himself and fellow peace
worker Bill Knowison.

It cost the artists $5 to rent
the panel — a small cost to
bring a large message to
many people

LE ow
| FPRASER VALLEY
| PEACE committee

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TRIBUNE PHOTOS — FRED WILSON

\ WE NUST.
STOP THEM
WE CAN NOT LET
THIS HAPPEN!

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Mediator Judge Alan Gold implied *

Vancouver CUPW president
Evert Hoodgers told the Tribune
this week that the union will be tak-
ing further action to stop scab mail.
Last week CUPW pickets ap-
peared at the Vancouver Interna-
tional Airport to shut down Pacific
Western Airline operations for a
day for its open collusion with scab
mail operators, flying mail all over
Western Canada from Manitoba
to B.C.

CUPW received written pledges
from Air Canada, CP Air and
other carriers that they would not
carry mail during the strike, but
PWA refused. The airline, owned
by the Alberta Tory government,
has been “‘blatent’’ in its scabbing
operations, said Hoodgers.

PWA moved to have an injunc-
tion served against CUP W barring
picketing actions, but an injunction
was refused at a hearing Friday
because CUPW had already
withdrawn the pickets. Hoodgers
said the union is happy with the
outcome because, “‘it may be
necessary to hit them again.”

The union is also facing a
mushrooming scab mail service
established in most large cities
specifically to move mail during the
strike. In Vancouver the “‘VIA
Vancouver’’ courier service was set
up to serve large volume mail
customers like B.C. Telephone
Co., the department stores, Cable
West (cablevision) and other large
companies which bill customers
monthly.

In Edmonton and Calgary over
200 students have been recruited by
a weekly magazine Alberta Rep
to sort and deliver mail. The sc
service has a headquarters in both
cities and offers delivery within 20
hours. Only normal business size
envelopes are accepted and all
envelopes must bear the correct
postal code. The cost is $1 or $2and
special seals resembling stamps are
affixed, although the seal states
provocatively, ‘‘this is not a
postage stamp.”’

CUPW considers the scab mail
services illegal because Section
eight of the Postal Service Act
grants the exclusive privilege to
deliver mail to the Postmaster
General.

Last week B.C. attorney general
Alan Williams refused a request by
the union to launch action against
VIA Vancouver, but the Act pro-
vides for individuals to initiate an
action as well. Members of the
Vancouver CUPW Local are
presently attempting to lay charges,
said Hoodgers.

Comox demo

Hundreds of demonstrators.
from Vancouver Island and the
Lower Mainland are expected to
converge on the Comox Armed
Forces Base Saturday.

The rally at the base begins at
2 p.m. Last minute reservations
for buses leaving Vancouver can
be made at 685-9958; 733-176
or 253-4766.

Scab mail delivery
illegal, CUPW alleges

— page 8 —

Socialism
at issue

in Poland

— pages 3,4 —

_ — page 7 —

How U.S.
miners
beat
big coal

— pages 4,5 —