_. Behind the U.S. contra war d: teachers Maainst Bill20 As the mood of militancy has heightened among BCTF members and trade unionists, so has the Popularity of the paper of Struggle — the Tribune — increased. We've been printing extra copies each week ever since the bills came down. That’s because the paper has been under a renewed demand, and has been snapped up by participants and demonstra- . tions and rallies. In the heat of the Struggle, the Tribune reaffirms its place as the defender of labor’s rights. A paper that popular, we figure, Should be considered a top priority by all its supporters. Particularly Since many Of them are involved in that struggle. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work out that way. A glance at the figures in the current financial drive show just how short of that ideal we are. An idea of how desperate the Situation is — and we’re serious When we call it “desperate” — can be gleaned by comparing this year see WE NEED page 3 May 27, 1987 40° Vol. 50, No. 20 B.C. Fed sets June 1 kout, set for June 1. for 24-hour stoppage The 250,000-member B.C. Federa- tion of Labor has called a 24-hour province-wide work stoppage for Mon- day, June 1 to demonstrate its “extreme opposition” to the Social Credit government’s anti-labor Bills 19 and 20. More than 300 union staff represen- tatives packed into the Operating Engi- neers Hall Wednesday unanimously endorsed the action in a standing vote. The staff conference followed an earlier meeting of the federation’s executive council which recommended the prov- “This will demonstrate our adamance and our unity in opposing Bills 19 and 20,” B.C. Fed president Ken Georgetti told reporters at a press conference Tuesday called to announce the plans for the one-day work stoppage. “This is the first job action. Our further responses will be governed by what government and employers do in the immediate future,” he declared. The federation has called on affiliates and other unions supporting the federation’s program to book off work with the first shift Monday — graveyard shift in some cases, day shift in others — and to stay off the job until the first shift Tuesday. That will close lumber and pulp mills as well as government offices, liquor stores, union construction sites, municipal works yards and scores of other operations. It will also shut down the city transit see ANTI-LABOR page 12 Council ignores mass plea fo scrap cutbacks Vancouver fire chief Donald Pam- plin makes plea to city council to scrap plans for layoffs and attrition at fire department during packed council meeting Tuesday. But council's right-wing majority voted cutbacks to fire department, social services, parks and community centres. Story page 2.