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Friday, August 13, 1976.

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Vol. 38, No. 32

SiBbUNE

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Their 550-foot “Trident monster” stretching back to the Peace Arch and beyond, members and supporters of

€ Pacific Life Community march towards the
ainst the construction of the Trident submarine

Douglas border crossing Sunday ina Hiroshima Day protest
base in Bangor, Washington. A later demonstration at the

angor base was not so quiet, however, as several were arrested after they cut through the fence around the

base site. (Story, page 7)

— Sean Griffin photo

Date to be announced

at meeting

The 2,300,000-member Canadian
Labor Congress has issued a call
for a national day of protest —
comprising a work stoppage as
well as actions by other groups —
to demand withdrawal of the
Trudeau. government’s wage
control program.

All of the Congress 120 affiliates
have been called to a meeting in
Ottawa this week at which time the
date for the action is expected to be
announced. October 13 — the an-
niversary of the imposition of
controls — has been cited as a
probable date.

CLC president Joe Morris an-
nounced the day of protest in Ot-
tawa last Friday following a
meeting between Congress leaders
and members of the federal
cabinet during which prime
minister Trudeau reiterated the
government’s refusal to alter the
three-year duration of the controls
program.

Although the term ‘‘national day
of protest’? was interpreted by
most of the media as a signal that

the Congress had backed off its

original intention to hold a one-day
general strike, Morris made it
clear that affiliates would be

[Employers wielding AIB club

this week

staging the planned work stoppage
on the day designated, and added
that he hoped other groups would
join labor’s protest including
unorganized workers, students and
pensioners.

The meeting in Ottawa this week
was expected to mobilize all
Congress affiliates for the one-day

walkout as originally mandated by

see UNIONS pg. 8

Guy condemns
Wolfe report

B.C. Federation of Labor
secretary Len Guy has accused the
Social Credit -government of
‘“‘mismanaging the economy” and
condemned finance minister Evan
Wolfe’s. call for a rollback in
negotiated settlements among
hospital and school board em-
ployees.

Guy’s statement was in response
to the government’s quarterly
financial report which showed that
the province can expect a deficit of
“about $125 million.”

In the report, Wolfe attempted to
place part of the blame for the
deficit on wage increases won by
hospital. and school board em-
ployees and warned: “If these
increases are not held to the level
of the federal guidelines, the deficit
will be even greater. He also
blamed BCR work stoppages for

; the railway’s $27.7 million loss in
y the first three months of 1976.
G : ; ae aoe Guy said ne Sica ac-
ner a: indi heunions 1400 members of the Joint Counci “We also have an action before cusations were “further evidence
Mflation nes a eee Be ane the ful of Newspaper Unions rather than the LRB asking that the board rule — of the anti-worker attitude of this
n| °Yoid meeting the terms of payment of the wage increases pay a negotiated increase of 16 that a collective agreement exists government” and pointed out that
Negotiated wage settlements is prior to AIB approval. percent. between us and the employer, and _ those he had sought to blame “are
_| *eing met witha new resistance by ‘In one case at least the em- Dick Ainsworth, spokesman for that the employer is bound to the _ those who are forced to pay, along

© labor movement.
This became evident this week
“ employers, having negotiated
nd signed agreements calling for
ae increases in excess of the
allowable increase of- eight

ployer’s refusal to live up to the
terms of the new contract has
resulted in a work. stoppage.
Pacific Press, publishers of
Vancouver’s two daily
newspapers, this week locked out

the Vancouver Typographical
Union, ‘one of the seven unions
locked out, told the Tribune that as
far as his union was concerned, an
agreement had been reached
between Pacific Press and the
unions and both sides were bound

terms of the contract, which would
mean that we receive our full wage
see FULFILMENT pg. 8

with the rest of us, the huge in-
creases in ICBC premiums, ferry
fares, medical and hospital costs.”’

J Pp fe Id ls to that agreement until. told
otherwise by the AIB. ‘‘We’ve
: rotest S ou em race signed an agreement, and the
. position of the Joint Council is that
‘ entire labor movement that agreement is now in effect.”
F He said that the terms of the
4 ‘ EDITORIAL contract provide for a 16 percent
| The Canadian Labor Congress has issued a call for a national day of wage increase within three weeks
/ Protest against the iniquitous Bill C73 and has invited the chief of- of the signing of the agreement,
f ficers of its 120 affiliates to a meeting to set the date for the day of and for full payment of retroactive
»| Protest. pay within seven weeks of the date
The CLC call embodies the concept of all-in unity of the trade unions, of signing.
f Pensioners, students and the anti-poverty movement. This is excellent On the other side, Pacific Press
” | 8 far as it goes but the call would carry more muscle if it embraced general manager Dave Stinson has
: all sections of the labor movement, particularly the political parties claimed that the company would
f Tepresentative of the two main trends within the labor movement, be breaking the law if it were to
\ Namely the New Democratic Party and the Communist Party. pay the full‘’amount negotiated.
The working people have experienced nearly a year of the govern- Ainsworth said that Stinson had

The Capilano hatchery became a fishing ground last week as Norpac :
Fisheries took some 15,000 pounds of surplus coho from the hatchery '
pools as part of a special arrangement between the company and the

apparently gone to Ottawa to
discuss the question with the AIB
but so far there has been no in-

Ment’s so-called anti-inflation program. With the unfolding of the
Fi Program, more than enough evidence has accrued to substantiate the
"| Position first put forward by the Communist Party that Bill C-73 is a

: Most obvious expression of the partnership of big business and the dication as to what the outcome of marine branch of the federal environment department. Paying only 83
4 State in running this country in the interests of the big corporations. that meeting was. ‘“‘As well, the cents a pound, Norpac is expected to take 50,000 pounds in the
i One has only to study the trends in wage settlements since the bill company has an action before the’ arrangement which allows them to bypass coast fishermen. The

question being asked, however, is: Why wasn’t the fish sold direct to

the public thus ensuring a greater return to the federal department and i
— Richard Morgan photo i

Labor Relations Board in Victoria
asking it to rule the current work
stoppage at Pacific Press illegal. giving consumers reasonably-priced fish?

Came into force. The average increase for settlements in the first two
quarters of 1976 is running 5.4 percent lower than the average for 1975.
see UNITE pg. 8