March, rally set to fight Bill 65

A giant march and rally through
downtown Vancouver has been
Called for Sunday, July 24 to
Protest Bill 65 — the legislation
that would abolish the Vancouver

Sources Board, strip workers of
Union rights and bring about
_ Cutbacks in social services in
Vancouver.

The march will assemble at 12
hoon, July 24, at the south end of
the Granville bridge, and will
Proceed over the bridge to the
Orpheum Theatre where the rally
Will be held. Marchers will carry
_ Signs and banners identifying their
Supporting organizations.

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The march and rally has been
called by ‘“‘The Save the VRB Joint
Committee,’’ made up of 60
community organizations and
community resources advisory
boards that came together last
Monday at the Ironworkers’ Hall.

The Rev. Peter Davison,
chairman of the Shaughnessy-
Arbutus Community Resources
Advisory Board, and Libby Davies,
president of DERA, the joint
spokesmen for the Save the VRB
Committee, called Tuesday for
“all residents of Vancouver to join
the rally and express their support

Outlining his stand in a press conference this week, VRB chairman Ron
Fenwick charged that the VRB is being “engulfed by red tape and

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a sign of things to come” if Bill 65 is passed. (See

for the Vancouver Resources
Board.”

The founding meeting of the
committee was attended by a
diverse range of organizations
including each of the CRABS,
various VRB funded groups,
tenants organizations, churches,
COPE, the NDP, Communist
Party, and even a uniformed of-
ficer representing the Vancouver
Police Union.

Alderman Harry Rankin gave
his support to the march and told
Monday’s meeting that a giant
turnout was the ‘‘key to forcing the
government to back down.” He

called for a march such as the May
Day marches of the 1940’s, “a
march no government can ignore.”

Tuesday, Rankin asked Van-
couver city council to show their
support for the rally by granting
theuse of the Orpheum Theatre for
the rally, free of charge. The
request was supported by half of
council but failed to win the
required two-thirds majority to
pass. Rankin said after the
meeting that he will keep working
for city council’s support.

The breadth of the movement
against Bill 65 has, in effect, pitted
the city of Vancouver against the

provincial government over Bill 65.
The refusal of the government to
withdraw the bill in spite of the
opposition of city council, the
unions, the VRB, and all of Van-
couver’s community organizations
has done irreparable damage to
the credibility of the government,
and in particular to that of human
resources minister Vander Zalm.

The credibility of the govern-
ment was further weakened this
week with the charge of Resources
Board chairman Ron Fenwick that
Vander Zalm was “implementing
Bill 65 through the back door”

See VRB pg. 8

B.C. Fed maps strike plan
against union-busting bills

A six-point fightback program,
including a call for a mandate for
work stoppages, was the labor
movement’s .response to the
provincial government’s union-
busting legislation as the B.C.
Federation of Labor wound up an
emergency conference in Van-
couver last week.

Delegates to the one-day con-
ference declared that Bill 65, which
would abolish the Vancouver
Resources Board, and Bill 68,
which would dissolve the union and
the contract at Notre Dame
University, “‘cannot be allowed to
pass” and pledged to rally support
to defeat the ‘‘insidious’’
legislation.

At the outset, the Federation’s
executive council will be pressing
for a meeting with members of the
provincial cabinet ‘‘or appropriate
ministers” to demand the with-
drawal of the two bills.

The action will be coupled with a
massive letter-writing campaign
to be initiated by all affiliated
unions, mass distribution of the
leaflet prepared by the joint
council of Vancouver Resource
Board unions. and a_ publicity

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Brezhnev meets with world ambassadors

By TOM FOLEY
Daily World

evte Soviet Union will do
Seno thing “within our power to
© peace come true” president
pectin Brezhnev told the
Ssembled Moscow diplomatic
“oOrps Friday. The Soviet
resident, using unmistakably
ar language, held an unusual
Rene with all ambassadors to
© USSR.
ee asked them ‘‘to convey the
ce message to your heads of
E € and leaders of your countries.
There is no country or people in
© world, in fact, with which the
viet Union would not like to have
Bod relations; ;
ti There is no current interna-
°nal problem to the solution of
Which the Soviet Union would not
Milling to contribute;
d There is no seat of military
anger, in the removal of which, by
4ceful means, the Soviet Union
Ould not be interested;

“There is no type of armament
and, above all, no weapon of mass
destruction which the Soviet Union
would not be ready to limit,
prohibit, on the basis of reciprocity
with other nations, and then
remove from the arsenals,
Brezhnev declared.

Brezhnev’s statement was ap-
parently the spearhead of a
renewed Soviet drive for detente,
intended to counteract the efforts
of the U.S. to conceal a major arms
buildup behind a “human rights

e.
oS ak issue of Izvestia, the
main Soviet daily, also. focused on
the U.S. position, contrasting the
advances being made toward
detente throughout Europe with
the negative attitude of the US.

The paper said: “The opinion of
many high-placed West European
officials shows that Washington 1s
not sufficiently responsible in its
approach to. the most important

questions of

relations with the
« «cs eee y Peace, stable as never before.” |

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Recently the governments of
France and the Federal Republic
of Germany have both indicated
deepening disagreements with the
way that the Carter administration
in the U.S. has handled relations
with the Soviet Union.

During Brezhnev’s meeting with
world ambassadors, Robert Ford,
Canada’s ambassador to the USSR’
and the senior member of the
Moscow diplomatic corps, took the
occasion to congratulate Brezhnev
on being elected president. He said
that Brezhnev’s name is identified
all over the world with the policy of
detente which, ‘‘for the majority of
the world’s peoples means a new
era of more positive striving for
peace.”

Brezhnev stated: ‘‘It is our firm
belief that realism in politics and
the will to detente and progress
will ultimately triumph and
humanity will be able to step into
the 2ist century in conditions of

campaign aimed at making
unionists aware of the serious
implications of Bill 65 and 68.

Amass lobby to Victoria to press
the demand for the withdrawal of
the legislation will also be
organized should the meeting
with the cabinet fail to bring
results.

At the same time, the Federation
has asked affiliated unions to poll
their members to give the officers
a mandate to call a work stoppage

or work stoppages ‘‘should the
Social Credit government. bring
down further  union-busting
legislation.”

The call was so worded in order
to give a mandate to the
Federation even in the event of
swift passage of the legislation but
secretary Len Guy pledged “If we
can get into a position of calling a
work stoppage with these two bills

See B.C. FED pg. 8 : a

Impending pipeline deal
spurs anti-Alcan drive

The campaign to stop the im-
pending federal approval of the
Alcan pipeline project through the
Yukon and Northern British
Columbia is under way. with the
calling of a public meeting this
week in Vancouver and plans for a
possible national delegation and
lobby to Ottawa.

The B.C. Working Group for
Moratorium has called the anti-
Alcan meeting for Wednesday,
July 20, 7:30 p.m., at the First
United Church, Gore and Hastings
Sts., Vancouver.

Entitled ‘The Un-Inquired Pipe-
line” the meeting will hear Karmel
and Hugh McCullum, participants
in the Berger and Lysyk com-
missions, report on the opposition
of Yukon natives and of the
National Coalition Against Nor-
thern Pipelines (No Pipeline Now)
to the Alcan proposal.

The McCullums have recently

Jean Pare

Quebec labor lost one of its
most able and militant fighters _
with the passing of Jean Pare,
who died Tuesday in Montreal.
He had been ill with cancer for
some time.

Pare, a long-time leader of
the United Electrical Workers
and of the Communist Party,
was well-known to audiences
here for his stirring May Day
addresses and for his advocacy
of French-English Canadian
labor unity.

Next week’s issue of the
Tribune will carry a full tribute
to Pare.

1915-1977

returned from the Lysyk com-
mission at Whitehorse where they
gave evidence on behalf of Project
North, an inter-church native
support group that has figured
prominantly in the hearings. They
are also joint authors of This Land

is Not For Sale and the recently

published Moratorium.

The B.C. Working Group also
announced this week that plans are
being made for a_ possible
delegation and lobby to travel
across Canada to Ottawa. Church,
labor and environmental
spokesmen would travel through
each provincial capital on the way
to Ottawa, picking up additional
numbers of people along the way.

Anti-pipeline groups have added
a note of urgency to their cam-
paigns following the National

-Energy Boards controversial

decision to recommend the Alcan
See ALCAN pg. 2