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World Peace Council delegates at last Thursday's reception at Vancouver's Unitarian Church. (See story
pg. 1) Left to right, Jean Schaeffer of France, Amjad Alni from India, and Karen Talbot of the U.S.A. They
are attending the World Conference on Multi-National Corporations meeting in Toronto this weekend.

PARLEY DEMANDS ACTION

Ont. labor hits freeze

KITCHENER The labor
movement has once more declared
its unequivocal opposition to the
federal government’s wage-freeze
legislation — Bill C-73 — as the
1,300 delegates to the 19th annual
Ontario Federation of Labor
Convention voted in favor of an
emergency statement of the OFL
executive council, rejecting the
wage freeze.

The statement, voted on opening
day, Nov. 3, labelled the controls
an attack on the victims of inflation
rather than a sincere attempt to
attack inflation itself.

The government’s wage control
proposals, it says, are mortally
indefensible; they are blantly in
favor of the corporations and
against the wage earner.

The statement offers a
programmatic alternative based
on the Canadian Labor Congress’
10-point program, and demanding
involvement of the public sector in
a mass program of low-income
housing, a curb on_ land

speculators, government-
established land banks, lowering of
mortgage and interest rates, and a
rent review board. with the power
_to control and roll back excessive
increases.

It includes other points such as
government ‘inquiry into the

’ energy industry at all levels with a

price-freeze on all fuel products
until the industry proves a need for
an increase.

Improvements in the old age
pension, updating of the Labor
Relations and Employment
Standards Act, and government
’ commitment to a full employment
policy, are included in this
statement.

The resolution called on the OFL
to support the CLC’s Oct. 24 action
program for a massive public
education campaign and
mobilization at the local level to
fight the wage controls. The
resolution urges the affiliates to
continue bargaining as if the
controls were not there, and to step

Peace leaders speak

Cont'd from pg. 1
convention in the Vancouver Hotel
last Friday. Attended
prominent union leaders such as
John Fryer of the Government
Employees Union, Art Kube,
Western Regional Education
Director for the Canadian Labor
Congress, George Hewison of the
Fishermen’s Union and others, the
guests were welcomed to the
luncheon by Bert Ogden, Van-
couver Island organizer for the
UFAWU.

Stressing the importance of the
World Conference on Multi-
nationals, Jean Schaeffer from
France said that these cor-
porations, most of which are U‘S.,
dominate France as well as other
countries in Western Europe.
“Unless they are checked the
multinational corporations can
become the real. masters of the
world and in 20 years can become
so strong that even States will be
unable to oppose them.” Schaeffer
said the Toronto conference is
important to expose to the world
the growing power of the multi-
nationals and to decide what can be
done to stop or control them.

Karen Talbot stressed the im-
portance of the world-wide cam-
paign around the second
Stockholm Appeal to Halt the Arms
Race. Pointing out that the danger
of war in the world is still very
‘great, she recalled that the first

by,
-made a major contribution to

Stockholm Appeal to Ban Nuclear
Weapons 25 years ago had been
signed by 500 million people and

rousing public opinion to demand a
halt to nuclear tests.

She said that if detente is to be
strengthened and made permanent
there must be an end to the arms
race. ‘‘Never before has it been
more important for world public
opinion to make its pressure felt
than now,” she added, pointing out
that there was. a close inter-
relationship between peace and the
fight against inflation.

Amjad Alni, who in addition to
being an executive member of
India’s Congress Party was also a
member of Indian’s delegation to
the UN, defended the government’s
rect actions in cracking down on
right wing elements’ who
threatened to provoke violence in
their attempt to oust the Congress
Party. Charging that the western
media had. misrepresented the
situation in India, Alni said no
provision of India’s constitution
had been violated, and that ‘no
government would stand by while
opponents incited violence and
called on the armed forces to
disobey the government.

Before leaving for Toronto at-
tend the weekend conference, the
three delegates attended a
reception of peace workers in
Victoria and ‘made several ap-
pearances on radio programs.

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up the drive to organize the
unorganized. ‘

Earlier, OFL president, David
Archer, at a press conference Nov.
2 told the media that the controls
were aimed directly at working
people and that it was_ the
responsibility of leaders of the
union movement to go as far as
was necessary to protest this
legislation. He said: If you had to
go to jail then do it.

The delegates’ response to the
emergency statement was
positive, as evidenced by their
support. However, they were
critical of some of its features. The
statement narrowly missed.

- referral for strengthening of its

action proposals.

Many delegates felt that
although the statement very firmly
and adequately rejected the
proposed wage controls, there was
a lack of any program of action to
mobilize labor and popular sen-
timent against the government in
any demonstrative way.

A sharp debate ensued among
delegates over the question of
calling a one-day general strike to
oppose the legislation, with the
executive speaking in favor of
urging individual locals to initiate
action on their own to support the
Federation.

United Electrical Workers’
president, C.S. Jackson, remarked
that the time had come for the
labor movement to look at
economics from the standpoint of
the workers and not that of the
boss. He said inflation existed in all
private property economies in the
world and where it was_ being
fought off, it was being done on the
backs of the workers.

—Carey Robson photo.

1 Students fight
spending limit

Students at B.C.’s community:
colleges are demanding that
education minister Eileen Dailly
lift the 15% ceiling on increases to
college budgets for the next year.
Dailly announced two weeks ago
that such a ceiling would be im-
posed and that colleges ‘‘like other
sectors of the community would
have to learn to live with the

_amount of money they have.”’

To date, protests have been held
at Capilano College in North
Vancouver, Vancouver Com-
munity College, Douglas College
and the Vancouver Vocational
Institute. Students staged a one-—
day boycott of classes at all of
these locations last week in an
attempt to bring pressure to bear
upon Dailly.

Barbara Smith, vice-president of
the Capilano College Student Union
told the Tribune that Dailly’s
ceiling would mean even more
severe cutbacks than the college
faces right now. ‘‘We were granted
a 23 per cent increase last year, but
with inflation running at the 20 to 25

POSTAL

Cont’d from pg. 1

national office of CUPW is working
on a $3 million loan to serve as a
strike relief fund. <

While news reports have at-
tempted to paint a picture of
weakness in Canada’s largest
CUP W local in Toronto that image
was firmly rebuffed on Monday
with a mass demonstration of 500
postal workers outside the Toronto
post office. The demonstration was
called in response to an editorial in
the Toronto Sun newspaper that
openly called for postal workers to
cross picket lines and return to
work. Despite police protection
only eight workers crossed the line.

‘Ignore gov't’

WINNIPEG — Wes Norheim,
Canadian Labor Congress regional
director for the prairies, ad-
dressing the Winnipeg Labor
Council recently told workers that
they should carry on negotiations
for collective bargaining
agreements ignoring the
guidelines set by the federal
government. Asked by a delegate
what the congress planned to do
about NDP governments that went
along with controls on wages and
prices despite CLC’s claim that
wages will be controlled but not
prices, Mr. Norheim said, ‘‘We
know we'll have some sharp dif-
ferences with NDP _  govern-
ments...but sometimes
governments are bosses. If they
get on Trudeau’s hobby horse,

. we'll have to do something about

per cent range, that covers ab:|
solutely nothing. A 15 per cent}
‘increase for next year would meal
even more cutbacks in teachers,
courses and services,” she said.
Smith said that this year ap
proximately 85 classes were)
dropped from the _ college)
curriculum because of the lack of}
funds available. She said that this}
happened even though there were}
more people than ever wanting (|
attend Capilano College. a.
“What is really irksome though,
is the fact that the provincial]
government has been pressurifé | —
the college to expand its facilities,
and then they refuse to give us
money to adequately operate
them,” she said. ;
Smith said. that students al]
Capilano College had collected
over 5,000 names on a petition 0
Dailly demanding that the ceilin8:
be lifted. ‘‘Most of these names aré
from people in the community wh?
really were not aware of what was
happening until we spoke to them,
she said. “ae
She said that any further actio? |
that the students will take will be
through the B.C. Student
Federation (BCSF) which i8|_
launcing a coordinated campaig!
against the cutbacks. a
“Representatives of the BCSF |
met with Dailly in Victoria last]
week and were given an. outright]
“no” to their request for more}
funds. Janice Nielson of the BCSE
characterized the meeting as bei |
“not very fruitful at all.
“Dailly went so far_as to suggest |
that she was considering extending | ”
the 15 per cent ceiling to univel
sities as well. What is not to b@
cutback though, is her plan of
extending post secondary]
education throughout the entire)
province, but she intends to do! |
iwith only a 15 per cent increase |
spending.” eX
Nielson acknowledged that it
was “‘ironic’’ that one of the majo! |
reasons for the NDP’s electio®)
three years ago was opposition to?
similar ceiling on educatioly
spending imposed by the Socreds: |
but said that the BCSF has not yél |
decided what it will do about’ the}
upcoming provincial election.
“One thing that was made clea!
to us when we were in Victoria ®
that the other parties are in fu
support of the 15 per cent ceiliné:
“We definitely support ND*
party policy on education 100 pst ie
cent, but we differ considerably
the application of that policy. we :
certainly cannot support the |
government’s actions on thls |
matter.” i
She said that the BCSF would P® |
meeting in Kamloops on Novemb@ |
21, and that they would be plannile |
further action at that time. :

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Election

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The giant monopolies continue to
control B.C.’s economy and at-
tempt to shift the burden of the
crisis onto the back of the people.

“The election campaign presents
an opportunity to bring these
issues into debate and to begin to
change this critical situation. Only
the Communist candidates will
bring these issues forward in this
election and propose concrete
policies to meet them,’’ said
Morgan.

Meanwhile, Communist ~Party
nominations are proceeding. Two
more candidates were named at
the weekend: Fred Bianco in
Surrey and Mike Gidora in Van-
couver Centre, bringing the total
nominated to date to seven. Ad-
ditional nominations will be

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FRED BIANCO

issues outlined |

for radio and television publici

_paign.

completed within the next fee
days. : é '
Preparations for printing of 8”
attractive, popularly write?
platform is under way. Contra’ ty

are being signed and special
leaflets and budget arrangemey x
are being completed. An elect |
fund of $20,000 was agreed ® |
Contriributions should be sent !' |
Provincial Election Fund, C0” |
munist Party of B.C., Rm. 408 ~~
193 E. Hastings St. F

The © provincial ne
meeting also announced that Bs
Biennial provincial conventl0”
previously set for Nov. 28-30 at ® sa
Sheraton Plaza 500, has :
postponed until March 26-28 in V
of the provincial election ©”

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