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.

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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.

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“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

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‘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

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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.

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|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.

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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.

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bitter internal conflicts
have been extended into
the courts with Supreme
Court charges laid by
Business Agent Cliff

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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.

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