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Unity and autonomy for building trades

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Pn.

The CLC's not so
happy birthday

— page 10 —

Thousands join march
against nuclear arms

— pictures, story page 3 —

' Their line: of eS and placards stretching back for several The International Association of Machinists was among a num-
blocks, 2,500 anti-nuclear demonstrators march across Vancou-._ ber of unions taking part in the march, joining scores of organiza-
Ver’s Burrard St. Bridge from Kitsilano Beach to Sunset Beach: tions in marking International Day of Anti-Nuclear Protest.

TRIBUNE PHOTO—SEAN GRIFFIN

The 5,300 members of the

“United Steelworkers at Comin-

cooperations in Trail and Kim-
berly stood poised for strike ac-
tion Wednesday after voting
94.1 percent in favor of strike.
Steelworkers representative
Monty Alton said that 72-hour
strike notice was issued immedi-
ately after the vote was com-
pleted Tuesday, adding that un-
less considerable progress was
made in talks with provincial:
mediator Vince Ready, ‘‘we’ll
be on strike at 7 a.m. Saturday.
The Steelworkers’ bargaining
committee was to meet with the
mediator Wednesday.
Members of the five Steel-
workers locals in Trail and Kim-
berly completed the strike vote
Monday and Tuesday, at the
same time turning back the
company’s scant offer.’ Only
tabled after 22 months-of ne-
gotiations, it called for only a
50-cent increase in the first year
and nothing beyond COLA ad-
justments in the second.
Miles Dean, secretary of Lo-

cal 480 which represents 3,500

workers in the Trail smelter,
told the Tribune Wednesday
that ‘‘feelings ran pretty high’’
at two mass meetings held on
the weekend in Trail and in
Kimberly, site of Cominco’s
lead-zinc mine.

Dean said that the policy of
“no-contract, no-work’”’ was
put before the meetings and was
‘“unanimously endorsed by the

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