ignoring pickets outside the gates at the Gulf distribution centre on _ the Barnet Highway in Burnaby, supervisory personnel take a truck loaded with gasoline out to Lower Mainland service stations Sun- day. The oil companies, following a-pattern set in an earlier strike in 1969, have scabbed delivery cererous: Three i acholane: Gulf, Labor scene Fish, pulp settle; IBEW takes strike poll The negotiating committee for the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union has recommended acceptance of a tentative shoreworkers agreement reached only hours before:a strike deadline set for noon Sunday. Shoreworkers were voting on the areement — which provides for- a wage increase of 83 cents in a one- year contract — this week and the results were expected to be known Friday. Fishermen and tendermen had earlier voted to accept their respec- tive agreements but the Fisheries Association, negotiators for the companies, had held tough on shore talks, increasing the offer only after a vote of shoreworkers Friday had rejected a second offer of 80 cents. In addition to the wage increase, totalling about 11 percent, shore plant workers. will get increases in northern differential premiums as well as improvements in vacation benefits. The base rate, now $7.42 will rise to $8.25. UFAWU president Jack Nichol noted that the union ‘‘achieved a great deal in terms of a one year agreement.’’ He added that the UFAWU has already served notice “that issues like technological change, and contracting out . . . are issues we are determined to tackle.” UFAWU tendermen won in- creases equalling a little more than 10 percent raising rates for deckhands on vessels under 15 tons to $101.72, up from $92.27. In- creased premiums will also be paid to certified captains and mates. Tendermen also won a key de- mand for company provision of survival suits. The provision will become effective by the time of the 1980 herring roe fishery. UFAWU and Native Brotherhood fishermen won_ in- creases in minimum prices averag- ing approximately. 20 percent. The new schedule ranges from $1.05 a pound for sockeye to 43 cents a pound for pinks. * * * Members of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada voted 61 percent to accept an agreement on local issues with Canadian Cellulose at Prince Rupert, the last of five mills which had been struck by the a The PPWC had earlier voted 52 percent to reject the industry-wide contract but after the two other unions voted to accept, said it PACIFIC TRIBUNE— AUGUST 10; 1979— would recommend acceptance if local issues were resolved. The agreement at CanCel paves the way for the settlement. The Canadian Paperworkers Union voted 82 percent to accept the two year agreement with the in- dustry while the . International Woodworkers of America, the largest union, voted 66 percent in favor. _. The agreement. provides for wage increases of 90 cents an hour in the first year of a two-year contract and 90 cents or 9.5 percent, whichever is greater, in the second. In signing the agreement last month, the CPU warned that it could not guarantee the validity of the contract should MacMillan Bloedel attempt to use B.C. super- visory personnel as scabs in the struck mill in Saint John, New Brunswick. * * cd B.C. Hydro linemen, members of Local 258 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are completing strike balloting this week in the wake of negotiating ses- sions with the crown corporation which the union said ‘‘accomplish- ed little or nothing’’. The vote is to be counted August 20. The IBEW said that the wage of- fer so far amounts to an increase of only 3% percent without any provi- sion for retroactive pay. In addition Hydro has demanded removal of several key items related to union jurisdiction including the hours of work, job security and benefits. _ All the union’s proposals for changes in contract language were similarly rejected. * * * Talks in the long and bitter strike at Adams Laboratories in Surrey _ were resumed again last week with the assistance of the Labor Rela- tions Board which had earlier held tentative talks with lawyers for both the company and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. RWDSU representative Al Peter- son said Tuesday that the talks had reached ‘‘a crossroads’’ but said that he could not give any further details until after a meeting with the membership and further discussions with the LRB, expected some time Wednesday. Major issues are in contention in the strike, which began -February Page 8 GULF CANADA UMITED 3 ec Chevron and Imperial have been struck by the Teamsters, Local 213. Some tentative talks were scheduled in the negotiations with Chev- ron although the other two companies appeared to be making no moves to return to the bargaining table. 21, including union security aed wages. Most of the workers were earning about $3.75 an hour at the plant which manufactures vitamins under its own name and others in- cluding the London Drugs label. The dispute aroused the anger of the trade union movement earlier this year when several strikers were given what were described as ‘tharsh’’ sentences for picket- line violations and alleged harassment of scabs. The B.C. Federation of Labor, labor councils and several unions protested the sentences handed down and the treatment given the strikers by sheriffs. A provincial government report on the incidents is apparently one of the ‘‘secret’ reports.which the Socreds refused to release to the Legislature despite opposition demands. * * * The. RC. Government Employees Union has won the right to negotiate a wage increase under the terms of its old contract and the demand will be placed on the table for inclusion in current contract talks. The BCGEU applied earlier this year to re-open wage talks under a cost-of-living re-opener clause in the agreement but the Government Employees Relations Bureau closed the talks on the issue almost as soon as they opened. Incredibly, GERB argued that.a one percent reduction in the provin- cial sales tax, coupled with the in- crease in the homeowners’ grant, made any cost of living adjustment unnecessary. But a Public Service Adjudica- tion Board ruled that the re-opener clause was effective and the cost of living adjustment was subject to ar- bitration. BCGEU assistant director Bob Moore said Tuesday that the cost of living adjustment under the terms of the old contract would be placed on the table in the talks now in pro- gress for a new contract. “In fact, a cost of living increase under the old contract will probably be a condition of settlement for any new contract,’’ he said. He added that the contract talks currently under way in Victoria were ‘“‘into the issue of money’’, although no further details were available. The master contract covering —Sean Griffin photo some 38,000 members of the BCGEU expired July 31. * * * The jury in the inquest into the death of geoduck clam diver Ivan Simon recommended August 2 that the Workers’ Compensation Board inspect all diving operations, giving . added impetus to the WCB action July 20, in ‘‘seizing’’ jurisdiction over diving safety in the shellfish i in- dustry. The United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union had earlier called on the WCB to take over the jurisdiction following the deaths of two geoduck divers who probably could have been ‘saved had WCB regulations, which call for inspec- tion of equipment and a standby diver, been in force. The Board had previously claim- ed that because the divers were fishermen, they were outside the WCB jurisdiction, but moved in following the protest and after federal transport and fisheries authorities stated that there would be no objection. Although harvesting of geoducks,. abalone and horse clams has been carried out on a minor scale for some time, with the in- crease in shellfish prices, the numbers of small commercial operators has proliferated. But there has been little regard for ade- quate safety measures or regular in- spection of equipment. Some vessel owners have also raised the inevitable complaints about WCB regulations making shellfish diving ‘‘uneconomic’’. Divers use compressed air hoses underwater to blow away sand and bottom material surrounding the shellfish. SinuNeE of consul _“L” designation on the passport .ta has no credibility anywhere in thé ‘plicated in the bombing murder of _vocacy of Madrid’s case was a lett? _ government Statement. debunked | Continued from page 1 the Chilean government.’ Accol dingly, they are subject to penalty: The overwhelming evident stands in direct challenge to claim made this weeks by the Chilean com sul in Vancouver, Joaquill Grubner, that Madrid could retufl to Chile with ‘‘safe condutl guaranteed.’’ Grubner also claimed in an inter view with right wing columns Doug Collins that the Chil refugee could have a new passpof! if he wanted it — without the “L” on it. o But the claims made by the coll sul, a staunch defender of thi fascist junta, have been given 1? credibility. The question has 1 mained as to why the new passpolt without the ‘‘L’’ designation is sud’ denly available when the previov! passport — with the ‘‘L’? — wa issued only a matter of weeks agi! or why neither Grubner nor the] Chilean embassy said anyth about a safe conduct guarantee til Collins, who also wrote a colur dismissing Madrid’s story 4 spurious, inquired about it. The claims of ‘the Chilean em” bassy as to the significance of i also at variance with the offi¢k statement issued by the junta. “‘The fact is that the Chilean jul world,’’ Darryl Adams, spokesma!l for the Galindo Madrid Defencé Committee declared in response t0} Grubner’s claim. ~ - “If the Chilean government is t0| have credibility, it will first have t0 account to the world as to the whereabouts of hundreds of “disap” peared’ prisoners,’ he said. ‘‘It have to account for the bodies found in a limestone cave in Chil€: — and it will have to explain to thé world why it refuses to allow the €*" tradition to the U.S. of the c0 conspirators in the murder of Orlando Letelier.’’ : Former Chilean sécret policé chief Manuel Contreras and tw? other agents were directly 1” Letelier in evidence given by C! agent Michael Townley. Chile ha refused extradition of the threé however. © Svend Robinson also dismissed the claims of the Chilean embassy stating, ‘‘We’re. dealing with # government of murderers, ® government which does not hesital to murder, or to lie.’’ A. sidelight in -Robinson’s ad- from Atkey expressing ‘‘resenl ment’’ at the fact that Robinsol had contrasted the government's treatment of Madrid with that give? the boat people. Robinson has accused the Tort of ‘‘shamefu hypocrisy’’ for its stand in offerin’ sanctuary for 50,000 Indochinesé refugees while denying it to Madi and other Chilean refugees face deportation. Published weekly at Suite 101 — 1416 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, B.C. V5L 3X9. Phone 251-1186 g ry) : Read the paper that fi ghts for labor f Y Name Y g Address City or town Postal Code 1 year $10 (1) Donation | am enclosing: 2 years $18 () 6 months $6 () Old () New) Foreign 1 year $12 0)» SATE enh AAAS