Page 2, The Herald, Wednesday, August & 1979 Refugees called cheap labor | ABBOTSFORD, B.C. (CP) — Vietnamese refugees may be a pawn in a move to ex- ploit additional cheap labor at Fraser Valley farms, says a committee trylng to farm workers. Area farmers Want to sponsor families of Viet- namese refugees who could work In their berry fields. “This proposal uses & tarian mask fo cover a most contemptible ex- loitative intention,” Raj (oatan, presi en of the orkers anizing Connmaitten told about 200 potential union members at a weekend meeting in this _ Fraser Valley community. “Given the present atrocious conditions of work for farm labor and the fact that there are no lawg to protect them, this proposal amounts to an attempt to import bonded Labor, to reap profit from the misery a people cast away from their own homeland,” he said. Last week, a group of farmers here ‘planned to set up a meeting of farmers interested in sponsoring refugee families to guarantee them housing and work in the fields. No date has been set for the meeting. Sher Braich of J. K. Berry Farms says there are not enough pickers to keep up with increased production and that the refugees could help prevent fruit from rotting in the flelds. ~ CROP LOST "Two to three weeks ago, a lt of people lost their fruit because they couldn't get the Pickers,” said Braich. He said he could use seven to 10 families for six to eight months a year and would provide housing on his farm. Chouhan said the organizing committee welcomes: the refugees to British Columbia and feels the government should ac- cept as many as possible. But their rights ag workers must be protected. Chouhan also said Labor Minister Allan Williams reneged on an election promise to bring in legislation during the first session of the legislature which would protect farm workers from exploltation, Williams has said he plans to meet with a government official in California to discuss labor contractors. “We would like to te]l Mr. (ee CANYON CITY, Lazelle Medical Centre TO RESIDENTS OF NEW AIYANSH, AND KITWANGA To accommodate out-of-town patients the Lazelle Medical Centre will continue to provide medical services on Saturdays from 11 A.M. to3 PLM, this day please phone Friday. GREENVILLE For appointments on . 635-6263 Manday to 4546 Lazelle Avenue Terrace, B.C. Willlams that the contractor system in California was. abolished by the United: Farm Workers Union and it::; soon‘will be abolished by the > farm workers’ union in. British Columbia," Chouhan said, workers, and in two recent incidents workers obtained back wages owed them by farmers after threatening to picket. Committee member Charan Gill has said the committee signed about 850 members of the 6,000 to 8,000 people who. work at peak harvest times in the yalley. Gill said the solution to the labor shortage is higher wages rather than a large labor pool. Pickers paid on a He said the commiltee haa“: brought confidence to farm . sige basis average an hour, he said, ’ but organization + after, iminium eta “en hour in B “Tf. there ws a minimum ‘wage, twe woul] guarantee ere! would. be pl of he said. Plenty Canada [ramigration “Spokesman Douglas Cook § said the department does not: allow immigration that “would cause labor unrest or | interfere with the proper organization of a labor : unlon,” a.rule that could stand in the way of a con- ditional sponsorship bid by farmers Hesaid he has not been ap. proached yet by the farmers who want to bring the Tefugees into _ the Fraser Valley. The District of Terrace announced “recently the Van- couver Board of Trade thwestern B.C. in September. A letter from the board states the tour is part of an intinary for “Exploration North 1979” and says the members of the board are interested in visiting Terrace, Kitimat, Prince Rupert, Prince George, Fort St. John, Dawson Creek, Fort BOARD PLANS VISIT - _ arrive in Terrace Sept, will he visiting nor-. P Nelson, -and Whitehorse. The board will 10, and after a tour. of Kitimat will tour in- dustrial and - com- mercial development in Terrace. It is expected that members of council, local businessmen, representatives - of industry, and MP Jim Fulton and MLA Frank Howard will accompany the Board of Trade visitors on the a 4 1. 6) Keep Canada Beautiful WEDNESDAY 5 p.m. fo midnight Kine CFTK BCTV KCTS’ 2 {NBC} 3 (CB) 4 (cTV) (PBS) yo ‘| Make Me Mod ‘| Thai's | Minter vode --f- 15) [ Laugh! Squad ‘ Hollywood Rogers... . a 130 | News Hourglass Winsday Electric - 145 Cont'd. Cont'd Cont'd. 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Cont'd, “45 1 Cont'd, Squad Cont'd, Cont'd. Fi David Culver, president of Alcan, unveils memorial at first. ‘hospital Alcan chief attends festivities More than 100 Alcan employees with 25 years ’ service under their belts attended a banquet in their honour Friday at Kitimat’s Riverlodge Recreation Centre. David Culver, president of Alcan Aluminium Ltd., and Roger Phillips, president of Alcan Smelters and Chemicals Ltd., Presented a5-year plaques to 134 current employees. The aluminum plaques featured a bas-relief reproduction of a carving of a killer whale by Sammy Robinson of Kitamaat Village. Culver said. there -is. a:; tendency . - today.: tox criticize nyuiti-national- d companies. Culver; howeler,’ wad” he is “proud’’.to be: part / of. a multi- national | organization “because it means people from all aver the world planning and working. together.” “That is . why I’m s0 proud. of ‘Kitimat, ” ‘He said he wanted to thank all the long-term employdes *fénv behalf ' of Alean People all. all over the. world”: "Phillips said he noticed a different spirit. in _ Culver said, : ip mses Kitimat - compared to when he first; visited the ares in 1952. ;. - He said that.along with its physical. growth Kitimat: bas developed a real spirit as a com- munity. a “The major thanks for the type of community we . have today goes to the people here tonight who have lived in Kitimat for. 5 years,” Phillips said. Canada helps a guerrilla LUSAKA (CP) — Edgar Tekere, :. the. of. ZANU.-~ the Zimbabwe: African National Union _ guerrilla movement — came: to Lusaka from exile headquarters in Mozam- Dique to be close to the Commonwealth summit _ conference with the help of Canadian money. A conference official said Tuesday that Tekere’s Lusaka hotel bill was paid by CUSO, Canadian University Students Overseas, has been active in southern African projects assisting. the Zimbabwe Rhodesia liberation movement. with _ education, research and refugee programs. ‘CUSO’s main efforts are concentrated among the 60,000 to 75,40 Rhodesian refugees in Zambia who are connected with ZAPU, the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union. ZAPU and ZANU together form the Zimbabwe Patriotic Front, the political “base of the two guerrilla armies operating from bases in Zambia and Mozambique. Recently, CUSO expanded ald to educational projects for ZANU refugees. in ‘Mozambique. : . Tekere appeared at a sometime brittle conference Tuesday and delivered the first Patriotic Front reaction to the Zim- babwe settlement principles agreed at. the Com- monwealth meeting. In the crowded news rye si room in the National Assembly building, while Commonwealth leaders sweated over their final communiqu conference centre, Tekere “restated” the settlement goals of the Patriotic Front and said “our position is not contradicted” by the outline . Bternly-. handsome. steretary: general: . which news, ¢ in the nearby. of peace principles agreed by the Commonwealth: + sci minutes, « dodging dinect an. swers to queries on delicate issues, such as whether the © Patriotic arent would sit-- same. down the negotiating table as Bish Abel Muzorewa, the bla - leader whom the front as- sails aga treacherous traitor because he joined a white- controlled Rhodesian government as,,,,prime minister last spring. After Tekere took ex- ception to some questions and responded to some « others with return questions, an American reporter Buggested he was hostile ta the press. ‘Maybe you're hostile to me,’ Tekere re- sponded, smiling. Like the natty Tekere, the major players at the Com- monwealth conference have been noteworthy as much for the striking elegance of their attire as for the general sir of enthusiasm and optimlam they exuded at the close of. the gathering, Julius NyereZe, the short, lean president of Tanzania and the dean of leaders at the conference ~ he’s been attending such meetings’ since 1961 — was neat in a collarless, slate-grey tunic sult similar to the style favored in China, nowhere near as baggy. Margaret Thatcher, the British prime minister elected in May, appeared on the final day in an expensive- looking dress of chiffon-like material in black, flowered in subdued tones of mauve and blue, She wore a double strand of pears linked at the throat with a jewelled clasp, . a neckplece worthy af the Qiee Joe Clark, like ‘Thatcher a conference rookie, has Herald the price for not 49c Ib, as stated. | GORRECTION in the Tuesday, August 7, 1979 Edition of the Dally should read 59° Ib. 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