The International Woodworkers Of America and the Canadian Paperworkers Union are set on a Ourse of eventual merger, IWA Jack Munro told the 42 regional convention Other sections of the labor move- Ment dominated much of the pro- €edings through the first three days Of the week long convention in Van- Couver, along with calls for a new Orest management policy for B.C. and major a campaign for safety in € wake of a record breaking 88 in- Gustry deaths since 1978. Reser * So May Demonstrator: the boycott week began. _A declaration by the Interna- “onal Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s union that ‘no Chilean goods will move or out Of the port of Vancouver” highlighted labor movement ac- Hons as the week-long boycott against Chile, initiated by the Canadian Labor Congress, began Sept. 9. | Sponsored by the CLC in Fesponse to the call by the Interna- “onal Confederation of Free | u ; a RUE oc | Chile show roth “St pee gech | = ia actions for Chilean € original production of | Ories and Songs of Chile’’, | Bizeriee On stage at the Queen | COtver Playhouse in Van- | Dees Sunday, Sept. 16, 8p.m. | Ckets, reservations, phone § i” Or 321-3529, s picketed the offices of N Trade Unions, the boycott marks €duled for Sept. 16, winds up | ° “Merger of the forest industry unions in Canada is demanded by the interests of the membership,”’ Munro said in his opening speech to the convention, ‘‘Merger will not be easy. We have different structures that reflect not only a different history but differences in the kinds of operations our respective members work in. “But those difficulties can be “overcome, and have to be over- come.”’ Munro disclosed to the conven- tion that a series of meetings bet- ween the IWA and CPU have already taken place, and further Be ILWU blocks Chilean cargo | as CLC boycott week opens | ‘the sixth anniversary of the fascist coup on Sept. 11. Throughout, the week demonstrators picketed various sites linked to the Chilean junta, including the consulate and Noranda Mines which has substantial investments in Chile, and distributed copies of a ‘‘hot”’ list of Chilean products. CLC spokesman in Ottawa, Brian Mallen, said Wednesday that information picket lines and consumer boycotts were “‘par- : Havana non-aligned meet tells -S. to get troops out By CINDY HAWES While Secretary of State Cyrus Vance attacks alleged Soviet troops in Cuba, delegates representing 95 countries and liberation movements at the non-aligned conference are denouncing U.S. military presence on the island. According to a detailed report distributed Monday at the summit meeting in Havana, nearly 3,000 U.S. soldiers are stationed at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo on the-eastern tip of Cuba. President Fidel Castro, in his oranda Tuesday, distributing consumer boycott lists, as } meetings are scheduled. A merger would join about 9,000 CPU members in B.C. with the 47,000 members of the IWA. In a message to the IWA conven- tion, CPU national president Henri Lorrain said he was ‘‘delighted’’ with the no raid agreement and pledge of co-operation and eventual merger worked out a year ago. “‘I feel that we should now be moving forward to start implementing the spirit of that accord in some prac- tical ways,”’ he said. Lorrain suggested that the two unions begin” an exchange of research data and undertake joint 4 be ey E Sean Griffin photo ticularly effective in Toronto and Vancouver.”’ : ; In this province, liquor board } workers, members of the B.C. } Government Employees Union, took Chilean wines and liquors off liquor store shelves Monday. ‘*All Chilean wines and liquors are off theshelves for the week of the boycott,’? BCGEU com- munications director Ken Robin- son said, adding, ‘‘no products from Chile will be handled by li- - see CHILE page 11_ of Cuba opening address to the conference, called for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from the military base, saying their presence infring- ed on the sovereignty of Cuba and was against the will of the Cuban people. Speaker after speaker joined in Castro’s denunciation. Jamaican Prime Minister Michael’ Manley not only supported Cuba’s right to claim the territory, but in addition condemned the U.S. criminal blockade of Cuba. - see CASTRO page 11 committee and legislative action to speed up the process. A resolution put to the IWA con- vention reitterated the union’s call for ‘‘one union in wood’’, but threw doubt on the merger process with the stipulation ‘‘that. the one union be the IWA.”’ The IWA’s relations with the other wood union in B.C., the Pulp and Paper Workers Union of Canada, struck a markedly dif- ferent note Tuesday with sharp at- tacks on the PPWC by Munro and officers of IWA Vancouver Local 1-217. see GUARANTEE page 12 - ) Fishermen |urge gov't: |Maintain: | sovereignty | Reports this week that Canadian negotiators were .pondering .a number of concessions to the U.S. on fishing rights gave added im- petus to the demand, voiced last week by the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, that there be “no compromise’’ on the sovereignty of Canada’s 200-mile economic zone. — . UFAWU president Jack Nichol outlined the stand last. week in response to reports that Canada was considering a compromise in- terim agreement rather than con- tinue to exclude U.S. tuna fishermen from Canadian waters in the face of mounting U.S. pressure. In recent weeks, 19 U.S. vessels have been seized and their skippers charged following violations of Canada’s 200-mile limit. The fishermen have continued their pur- suit of the migratory albacor tuna into Canadian waters with the full backing of the U.S. government which does not recognize Canadian sovereignty as it regards migratory fish species. The arrests, ordered by federal fisheries minister James McGrath, sparked retaliatory action by the U.S. which imposed an embargo on all Canadian tuna exports to the U.S. and threatened to expand the ban. UFAWU business agent Bill Pro- copation noted that all of the fishermen charged were let off with light bail and trial dates set some time in the future — some as late as February, 1980 — reflecting what he termed the: ‘federal government’s unwillingness to deal openly with U.S. acts of provoca- tion.”’ ; Further indication of the govern- ment’s apparent unwillingness to maintian it sovereign stand despite U.S. pressure came last week when fisheries officials indicated that Canada might seek concessions from the U.S. on herring in return for which Canada would allow U.S. fishermen to enter Canadian waters in pursuit of tuna. WA, CPU on merger course | © BALLERINA: mee ART ee EC RR + eter nena @ LABOR: IBEW Local 213’s " S Alf Dewherst looks back at the brinkmanship which stranded Soviet ballerina Ludmilia Vlasova in a New York airport for three days before leaving the U.S. with egg on its face, page 10. MEDICARE: Universal medicare in Canada is in danger ‘of being dismantied less than a decade after being won. Sean Griffin examines the political and ideological attack on the system, page 3. a = bitter internal conflicts have been extended into the courts with Supreme Court charges laid by Business Agent Cliff Rundgren against eight | union members. Jack Phillips comments, page 12: NICARAUGUA: The CLC campaign to assist Nicaragua is urgent, as a quarter million children under the age of four in that country’ face malnutrition. A report on the new Nicaragua, page 7, and an interview with Sandino’s daughter, page 10. an aa a i ; oe