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Indochina women call for war's end

The three peoples of Vietnam, Cambodia and ¥
are united in their fight against their common ene!’
U.S. imperialism, said six women guests from
china in Vancouver this week.

WOMEN FROM INDOCHINA were welcomed to Vancouver Tuesday and are shown above at a press
conference Wednesday. They speak at a giant rally in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Sunday night and will

attend a series of conferences aimed at helping to end the Indochina war.

Labor maps anti-Bill 33 drive

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campaign to preserve free
collective bargaining is stepped
up, said the report, further anti-
labor legislation is likely,
including legislation to take
away the union shop as indicated
by Bill 47 which takes this right
away from B.C. teachers.

FIGHT BACK

Three policy resolutions, in-
troduced by the Executive
Council were adopted by the
delegates. The first called for
job action of every description to
support any union under attack
from Bill 33. It proposed the
following action:

“Therefore Be It Resolved
that this Special Convention
declare and pledge full support
to the following three-point
program: :

1. Launch an immediate and
intensive campaign to publicize
the present grave threat to free
collective bargaining, and
whenever any matter affecting
an affiliate is referred to the
Mediation Commission, the
Federation Officers shall
publicly demonstrate labor’s
protest.

2. When an affiliate is denied
the right to strike, or is ordered
to abandon a strike and return to
work, the Executive Council
shall be empowered to institute
any or all of the following
program:

- Declare a policy that all
affiliates boycott the services of
the Mediation Officers appointed
by the Mediation Commission;

. Advise the union affected to
refuse to obey the anti-
democratic order and invoke a
flexible program of industrial
action by certain unions or by all
affiliates in support of the
affected union.

3. In the event that any further
anti-labor legislation is
introduced by the Social Credit
government, the Executive
Council shall also be empowered
to implement the above
program.

While the Convention was
closed to the press, it was clear
from opinions freely expressed

‘PAGIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 2,

after the meeting adjourned
that there was universal
condemnation of Bill 33 and the
Social Credit government by the
dozens of delegates who spoke to
the resolution. It was generally
agreed that this law is so bad
that it cannot be accepted or
obeyed by the labor movement.
As the President stated in his
report, and this position was
generally reflected in
subsequent debate: ‘“‘ ... if
working men and women had
always heeded the cry to obey
the law, there would be no unions
today. For years the very
existence of unions was illegal.
. . . but thousands of men and
women in Britain, the United
States, Canada and other
countries refused to obey unjust
laws, even though they had been
passed by elected governments.
They recognized that there are
certain inalienable rights, rights
which no legislature or
parliament or congress could
legitimately deny. Rights which
were superior to bad laws passed
by bad governments. So they
broke the law, they defied the
courts, they sacrificed personal
property. They went to jail. And
because they defied the law, we
have free trade unions today.”

POLITICAL ACTION

The second resolution
presented by the Executive:
Council, called for increased
priority to mobilizing the labor
movement politically including,
where possible, increasing
affiliations of unions to the New
Democratic Party. It also called
upon Federation affiliates to
support the proposed candidacy
of the Secretary Treasurer and
other Federation officers,
Executive Council members
and other trade union leaders in
the next provincial election.

A third resolution instructed
Federation officers to devise
means of raising financial
support for such a _ political
campaign.

The general tone of the Conven-

tion was a call to action to defy
the Socred anti-labor legislation
— and to back up that defiance by

1971—PAGE 12

militant industrial action of all
kinds ranging from demonstra-
tions to picket lines, from
selected strike action to a
general shut down of one hour,
one day or such duration as the

situation and the response from’

affiliated unions warranted.

To the call for industrial action
was added a call for political
action to replace the anti-labor
Social Credit government with a
government which would rid the
province of Bill 33, Bill 47 and all
other anti-union, anti-working
class legislation.

Labor unity, education of the
job stewards and the rank and
file to the dangers of Bill 33 and
co-ordination of labor’s struggles
by the B.C. Federation of Labor
were cited by delegates as the
main components of a fight for
the rights of the trade union
movement, other democratic
institutions and the working
people generally in this
province.

WHY PT LATE

In order to bring our readers a
special report from the 24th
Congress of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union, we
had to delay publication date. So
if you are wondering why the
paper is late this week, that’s the
reason.

At a press conference in the
student union building at UBC,
they stressed that together with
vast numbers of American and
Canadian people who are against
the imperialist war, peace can
be brought to their countries.

The guests are here for a
conference with North American
women who represent the Voice
of Women, Women Strike for
Peace, Women’s Liberation,
Third World Women, and other
peace groups.

The delegation from Indochina
includes Mesdames Vo Thi The,
professor of literature, Hanoi;
Nguyen Thi Xiem, medical
doctor, Hanoi; Phan Minh Hien,
teacher from the Women’s.Union
for the Liberation of South
Vietnam; Dinh Thi Huong, house-

wife, South Vietnam;
Khampheng Boupha and
Khemphet Pholsena, from Laos.
The interpreters include Mr.
Nguyen Tri, Trinh Van Anh, and
Soubanh Srithirath, from Laos.

In answer to many questions
from the press and TV, the
delegation gave hard facts as to
the ravages to their country by
the invaders. The My Lai

incident, said a representative -

from South Vietnam, is but one
of the atrocities perpetrated
every day. Calley and his
soldiers killed 502 civilians and is
now being prosecuted, but in
reality it is the Nixon adminis-
tration which should be on trial,
she said.

More than 300,000 tons of
bombs have been dropped on

Laos in one month, 8 ;
Laotian delegate. She
contrary to most press a
that it was not North Viel
troops resisting the pupp® i
Vietnamese and Ames
forces in Laos, but the *
people fighting as one. | F
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‘SCRAP FOUR SEASONS)

Following the presentation of
27 briefs from organizations
ranging from trade unions to the
Community Arts Council,
Vancouver city fathers tabled a
motion from alderman Harry
Rankin to hold a plebiscite on the
Four Seasons complex at the
entrance to Stanley Park.

The motion was tabled by the
NPA majority in council
because, as alderman Ernie
Broome put it, ‘‘It’s our responsi-
bility to make decisions and it is
the voters responsibility to kick
us out if we’re not any good”’!

The Four Seasons project is
not wanted at the entrance to
Stanley Park. That was made
clear in the briefs which in total
would represent the views of
many thousands of Vancouver
citizens.

The Vancouver Labor Council
opposed it. The Parks Board

Tenants fight rent boost

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aimed at forcing landlords to
justify rent increases.

Rankin’s motion would
require that the city’s Rental
Acommodation Grievance
Board determine what if any
increase in rent is justified on
request from a tenant or tenants
representative. - <

The Wall & Redekop tenants
have also decided to lobby all
aldermen to demand they
support Rankin’s motion and are
giving warning that those who
don’t will be opposed for re-
election in the next election.

Also on the tenant’s front, 620

men, women and children face
eviction from their homes at
Woodfibre. The giant U-S. forest
Rayonier Corporation, which
owns Woodfibre, has served
eviction notice.

The people are fighting back
and refsue to let their town die.
They are determined not to let a
U.S. company destroy their
homes and community.

Tuesday night the angry
people of Woodfibre packed the
Squamish council meeting to
protest the eviction and
demanded action to save their

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