About 250 Vancouverites gave

_ the three member delegation from

Vancouver’s sister city of Odessa

4 warm send off Sunday at a ban-

quet marking the end of the Odes-

Sans’ highly successful one week
Visit.

The send off banquet was or-
8anized by the Canada-USSR
Friendship Association and fea-
tured several representatives of
Vancouver city council, school

ard and parks board, other civic

_ Personalities and representatives of
the labor movement.

COPE alderman Bruce Yorke
Who together with alderman Don
Bellamy hosted the Odessans dur-

~ Ing the visit, brought official greet-
Ings from the city and described the
busy itinerary the delegation had as
€normously successful’? and
highlighted by many “spontaneous
expressions of friendship.”’
_ . ‘Together we will see that our
» Joint struggle for peace is crowned
with success. Peace must be fought
for and we pledge to continue fight-
ing until we win,’’ he said.
response from the Odessans
Was moving as each spoke glowing-
ly about their reception in Vancou-
ver and linked the sister city rela-
tionship between Odessa and Van-
Couver to its roots in the second
. World war and today’s struggle for
World peace.

“We will be your friends for-
€ver,”” exclaimed Odessa mayor
Anatoly Malykhin. He said the
Many friendships forged by his

¢legation with individuals and or-
8anizations in Vancouver in only
One week ‘“‘is evidence’of the need
for more exchanges.”
_ Malykhin recalled the devasta-
tion which the war against fascism
| Wrought on Odessa and he assured
othe banquet ‘‘Soviet people do not
want another war.’’ It was a theme
_ Picked up by Ivan Duz, a professor
at the University of Odessa, who
Pointed out that like most Soviet
citizens, each in the delegation were
Personally touched by the second
World war. Malykhin’s father died
Young as a result of war wounds, he
Said, while Tamara Dudnik, the
third member of the delegation,
_ heard the news of her father’s
death at the front when she was on-
ly four years old. Duz himself lost
both sisters and brothers. “Who
Can substitute for those who were
lost?” he asked. Dudnik, a factory
Worker and a member of the Su-
Preme Soviet of the USSR, added

at Duz’s references to the war —

Vancouver alderman Bruce Yorke poses

had aroused emotion-filled mem-
ories. ‘‘We can not wish these hor-
rors on any other nation,”’ she said.

Former Vancouver mayor Jack
Volrich, who led a Vancouver city
council delegation to Odessa in
1979, spoke of the “‘tremendous”
reception afforded his delegation in
Odessa, and he took issue with a
“‘cynic press’? which had question-
ed the value of both the 1979 dele-
gation and the return visit by the
Odessans to Vancouver.

‘‘What are the consequences of
not having these exchanges,’’ he
said. ‘‘What would be the conse-
quences for world peace?”’

It is important for national lead-
ers to meet, Volrich said, but it is
also important for people ‘“‘at the
grass roots’ to meet and “‘to senda
clear message to our national lead-
ers: we demand you achieve peace.

B.C. Federation of Labor execu-
tive secretary Jim Kinnaird said
that ‘‘the labor movement is proud
of what the Canada-USSR Friend-
ship Association is doing.’’ He
cited a B.C. Federation of Labor

. delegation to Odessa several years

ago and a return visit by Odessan
trade unionists to Vancouver last
year, and said that the Federation
will be sending another delegation
next year to Odessa, led by himself.
It was originally scheduled for this
year but has been postponed until
1982.

In meetings with about a dozen
civic organizations and hundreds
of people which the delegation
came into contact with through the
six day visit in Vancouver, the Sov-

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iets were extended extremely warm
receptions without exception. The
visit was also marked by an appar-
ent inability of right wing anti-Sov-
iet groups to create disturbances or
to sour a hospitable atmosphere
which prevailed. In contrast to
that, however, was the asmosphere
created by a generally hostile media
which had begun a propaganda
campaign against the exchange

- even before the Odessans arrived,

and continued it throughout their
itinerary, carrying almost no cover-
age in the newspapers or on radio
or television.

One local committee headed by
UBC professor Jonathan Wisen-
thal, which did not meet the Odes-
sans, claimed in the media that over
12,000 Odessan Jews were prohib-
ited from emigrating and that
Odessa is without Jewish institu-
tions in spite of a significant Jewish
population. Ivan Duz told the
Tribune in an interview that the fig-
ures used by Wisenthal are ‘‘com-

Odessa delegation hailed a success

=

with Odessa delegation and interpreters during a reception for
the group at his home. They are, from left, Canada-USSR Association interpreter Beatrice Yakimchuk;
Odessa professor Ivan Duz; Yorke; factory worker and member of the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet Ta-
mara Dudnik; Odessa mayor Anatoly Malykhin; and Canada-USSR Association secretary George Leke-
bokoff.

pletely wrong”’ and that there are
no restrictions on Jewish emigra-
tion from Odessa. He also said that
Jews are the fourth national group
in Odessa, after Ukrainians, Rus-

sians and Greeks, but there are two-

practising synagogues in the city.

TRIBUNE PHOTO—SEAN GRIFFIN

Several proposals for future ex-

changes between Vancouver and
Odessa were developed during the
delegation’s visit. The Odessans
proposed an exchange of five uni-
versity students with the University
of British Columbia, and have of-
fered to receive a delegation of
Vancouver school children to a
“pioneer (children’s) camp”? in
Odessa. Exchanges of city officials
and a possible visit to Odessa by the
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
were also discussed. A collection of
about 100 paintings by Odessa
school children, brought in re-
sponse to a collection of children’s
art sent to Odessa in 1946, will be
put on display in the city by the
Vancouver school board.

Teachers bargaining

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conditions, claiming that it would
have a ‘‘negative impact’’ on edu-
cation. |

Under the provisions of the
School Act, teachers’ bargaining is
limited to salaries and bonuses al-
though boards can, if they elect to,
broaden the scope of bargaining to
include other issues. For the most
part, however, boards decide uni-
laterally the conditions under
which teachers work.

Increasingly in recent years,
working conditions issues have
been thrust into the forefront,
prompting repeated demands from
teachers that bargaining include
their conditions of work.

The issue of broadened bargain-
ing was named as a top priority for
the BCTF at its annual meeting in
April at which teachers mapped
plans to achieve a wider scope of
bargaining.

Kuehn’s announcement came
following a conference in Victoria
of 500 presidents and other repre-
sentatives of the BCTF’s 79 local
assoaitions, called to discuss the
bargaining issue.

He emphasized that the decision
to launch the bargaining offensive
was not just the decision of the
leadership. ‘“Teachers everywhere
are angry, frustrated and disap-
pointed in their work,” he noted.

Among the issues teachers want
to negotiate at the bargaining table
are class sizes, supervision duties

for teachers, personnel practices -

and the important issue of prepara-

tion time, which would give teach-

ers time to prepare new material.
Kuehn noted that new curricula

are being introduced into the
schools all the time but teachers are
given no additional time to study
the material and prepare classes
based on it.

“And when we get better condi-
tions, something better happens
for the kids,’’ he emphasized.

Some of the more farsighted
boards have recognized that and
may be prepared to sit down and
negotiate working conditions with
teachers, Kuehn suggested. At the
same time, he added, there will be
other boards which will reject any
bargaining on non-salary issues
and still others which will not even
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Pressure will also be put on
boards at the joint BCSTA-min-
istry seminar which, Kuehn said,

“4s intended to condition boards
. into refusing to bargain on condi-

tions.”

Ultimately, much will depend on
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and the demands tabled by the local
teachers’ association with which it
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