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Cont'd from pg. 1
settlement. In the current
Situation, any proposal by the
government to hold a second vote
on the rejected offer would not be
acceptable toa large percentage of
the membership and would solve
nothing.

In such a dilemma, there is only
one road to follow. The delegated
conference should be a broad and
representative body and should
give a clear mandate to the
negotiators. With at least half the
membership on strike and with the
imminent approach of a shortage

Resources Minister - Bob
Williams announced last week that
the B.C. government has lodged a
formal request with the In-
ternational Joint Commission to
scrap the Skagit River
agreements.

The request, which places the
province of B.C. as an “‘aggrieved
party”? under the IJC’s rules of
procedure, attacks the agreements
largely on technical grounds. The
province hopes to prove that the
1942 agreement between B.C. and
the city of Seattle, as well as the
1954 and 1967 agreements were
technically illegal and therefore
should be considered nulled.

The main thrust of the B.C.
government’s position is that
neither the B.C. government nor
the city of Seattle had the authority
to make such an agreement. Under
the terms of the Boundary Waters
Treaty between the United States
and Canada all matters affecting
the flow of water across the border
is the exclusive jurisdiction of the
International Joint Commission.

The IJC apparently did review
the initial agreement in 1942, but
the B.C. government says that the
IJC hearing was conducted by less
than a majority of its members,
and that when the vote to approve
the agreement was taken some of
the voting commissioners were

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of logs because of the loggers’
strike, serious consideration
Should be given to a_ general
shutdown on the coast.

Either there will be a general
shutdown or a general return to
work. Sooner or later, these
alternatives must be faced.
Whatever is done should be done
with a view to promoting unity and
giving the negotiators a strong
mandate. In light of the current
Situation, a decision for extending
the strike would win the widest
support, in our opinion.

Unless the -I:W.A. can achieve

latecomers who had not been
present while evidence was being
given.

A final point being raised by the
B.C. request is that the 1942
agreement was signed under the
terms of a “‘national emergency”
— WW II — and hence has lost its
validity.

It is not expected that the legal
approach of the B.C. government
will produce any direct results.
Already at the May hearings on the
Skagit in Seattle, conservation
lawyers were guled out of order by
the judge for attempting to involve
studies of the International Joint
Commission. Questions of
jurisdiction are almost inherently
filled with red tape and can be
prolonged indefinitely in the
shuffle between government of-
fices.

Even if the B.C. government is
successful in placing the respon-
sibility for the Skagit agreements
with the IJC, the number of
commissioners present at a
meeting in 1942 will not be the
decisive factor in the IJC decision.
Rather the final outcome of the
Skagit Valley will be determined
by the ability of the B.C. govern-
ment to place the issue of Canadian
sovereignty and the welfare of
British Columbia, around which
public opinion could be mobilized,
squarely on the bargaining table.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1974—PAGE 8

The overthrow of the fascist
dictatorship in Portugal must be
followed not by preservation of the
Portuguese colonial empire in
some new “‘acceptable”’ form but
by abolition of this empire, without
which the democratic system
cannot be strengthened in Portugal
itself.

This was the view expressed last
week by Izvestia’s political ob-
server Vladimir Kudryavtsev, who
points out that Portugal is one of
the poorest countries in Europe
and has the world’s last colonial
empire.

The article by Kudryavtsev
made the following points:

The Portuguese colonies were
turned by Lisbon into the
stronghold of not only the Caetano
empire but also of the racist
regimes in Rhodesia and the
Republic of South Africa. The
“unholy alliance” of the racist-
fascist regimes in Portugal,
Rhodesia and the RSA became a
threat to independent Africa.

The overthrow of the fascist
dictatorship in Portugal should
make elimination of the last seats
of colonialism and racism in Africa

unity in this difficult situation and
send its negotiators back to the
bargaining table with a_ strong
mandate, there is no hope of bet-
tering the settlement. Spokesmen
for the employers have made it
clear they have no. intention of
improving the last offer, that is,
unless they are compelled to by the
unity and determination of the
woodworkers.

A Coast strike at this time could
be won provided there was unity,
and provided the trade union
movement closed ranks behind the
I.W.A. The public squabbling by
leaders of the pulp unions and the
I.W.A. over the issue of which
tradesmen should be paid more
than other tradesmen doing
basically the same work, is not
helpful in this complex situation.
The bosses are laughing all the
way to the bank. This problem, too,
should be approached on the basis
of unity and one common demand,
not on the basis of elitism, craft
egotism and a desire to practice
oneupmanship on the other union.

The vast majority of the
.woodworkers want more money
because of what inflation has done
to their pay cheques and because
they want to improve their stan-
dard of living. They know the in-
dustry can afford more and they
are prepared to fight, given the
correct leadership and support.

Thus, the main problem before
the delegated conference should be
how best to fight in this com-
plicated situation in order to make
the most gains, and heal the
serious splits which have come to
light. The top leadership of the
I.W.A. cannot escape respon-
sibility for the current difficulties,
but this is not the time to settle that
score. Now is the time to unite all
ranks, to pull the union together in
order to fight the boss.

World unions

meet on Chile

GENEVA — World trade union
representatives will meet in
Lisbon, Portugal on September 11-
15, in a trade union solidarity
conference with the oppressed
Chilean people, it was announced
this week by a meeting of trade
union organizations here.

much easier. And in Portugal
proper the renunciation of the
colonies will strengthen those
democratic principles for which
the new regime — supported by an
overwhelming majority of the
population — is fighting.

Along with Lisbon’s_ colonial
empire, the ‘‘Lusitropical’’ theory
(from the word Lusitania, the
ancient name of Portugal) of the
special adaptability of the- Por-

tuguese to the conditions of the.

tropical zone has also turned into a
fiasco. This theory presupposes the
‘‘Lusitanization”’ of other peoples,
that is, turning them into Black,
Brown or Yellow Portuguese.
Similar attempts were made in
Angola and in Mozambique, where
laws were elaborated on how an
African could become a ‘“‘Por-
tuguese’’. :

This reactionary theory must be
taken into consideration when
analyzing the present attempts to
preserve the colonial empire —
only in new form, a neo-colonialist
version. This is what the idea of
forming a federation consisting of
Portugal and _ its’ colonial
possessions boils down to.

The Federation will change
nothing, particularly since the
colonies are considered overseas
provinces in an administrative
respect. The presence of a white
stratum running the political scene
and the economy would only
guarantee the preservation of the
Portuguese colonies.

Since the idea of a federation has
been completely rejected by the
national liberation movements in
Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-
Bissau, Lisbon has_ proposed
conducting a referendum on the
colonies’ future. At the same time
it has suggested that the hostilities
be discontinued, the national
liberation armies disarmed and
the organizations of the national
liberation movements (MPLA,
FRELIMO and PAIGC) be turned
into civil. political organizations.
Thereby the results of their many
years of struggle are reduced to
nothing and they are put on the
same footing as other national
organizations, many of which are
notable for their reactionary
character and pro-colonial trend.

The national liberation
movements have agreed to hold
political talks with the new Por-

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