The strike by 4,000 Chilean copper miners at El Teniente — called to demand higher wages and to protest the fascist labor code — has given dramatic em: phasis tothe condemnation of the held in Toronto Jan.-19. The Chilean miners struck Jan. after rejecting the latest wage of- fer by a resounding 1,050-50 vote. It was the first strike of major significance since the fascist coup and paralyzed production of cop- per, Chile’s main export. _ Amajor factor in the strike was the Chilean junta’s repressive labor code which bans strikes at such enterprises as El Teniente and, where they are permitted, restricts them to 60 days. After 30 days the employer can declare a lockout and begin hiring focus of the Canadian Con- ference for Justice In Chile in Toronto at which Hortensia Allende spoke along with two women whose husbands and The one-day conference, at- tended by some 70 delegates from various Chile solidarity organiza- tions, was chaired by Vancouver Jawyer and president of Cana- dians for Democracy in Chile, Elspeth Munro Gardner. She had earlier presided over the Toronto Inquiry into Human Rights in Chile, held in 1977. The document drafted by the conference declared that the new legislation introduced by the Pinochet regime was intended to ‘“nstitutionalize the reign of ter- ror imposed on the people of Ghile2?s4.— The junta’s Constitutional Plan was framed as an attempt to give the appearance of continuity with Chile’s original democratic ~. 21 in defiance of the junta’s ban HORTENSIA ALLENDE . addresses Toronto conference constitution, first written in 1828 and last amended in 1925. “But the new plan has nothing to do with the Chilean constitu- tion,’ which the junta suspended family . . Or a concept of society that has a totalitarian character or is based on the class struggle”’; ; institutes sweeping his own actions. Similarly, the new Labor Plan, drafted by the junta in an effort to improve its image abroad by ap- pearing to “‘liberalize’’ labor laws, is a document which, in fact deprives the workers of all basic labor rights,’ the conference declared. It noted that the Labor Plan “severely curtails’’ any effective union organization, limits the scope of collective bargaining to wages alone and so restricts the right to strike ‘‘that it is useless as a tool for the workers to promote their interes The se as statement, call- ed the Document of Toronto, is to be sent to the UN Commission on Human Rights and Canadian representatives to that commis- PToronto meet blasts Chile labor law as miners strike “TRIBUNE PHOTO— SEAN GRIFFIN” ‘long poem outlining the suffering sion, as well as other international bodies. With it will go the testimony of two women who came from Chile to tell the conference to tell of their experiences in trying to Rosa Soto Soto told the con- ference that her husband was ar- rested Sept. 13, 1973. She was able to visit him for three days but then, suddenly, he disappeared. Six years later, on Oct. 3, 1979, her search ended at a secret ceme- tery in Yumbel where the junta had buried its victims. Rosario Rojas Alvarez, who also brought greetings from the Association of the Families of the Disappeared which has con- ducted the legal battle to obtain information from the junta, told delegates, ‘‘I will never forget Oct. 7, 1973..It was the day when found in the abandoned mine of Lonquen.”’ The struggle to have the bodies of those found murdered at the mine site return- added, ‘‘I am not going to leave Chile. “T have to stay in Chile and fight, whatever happens,’’ she said. ‘Nice clothes and nice food couldn’t take away the pain I carry inside me. That is something we can only share together, we women of Chile. And we must go on struggling, together.” Hortensia Allende also ad- dressed the conference, reading a of the Chilean people and their struggle to overcome. She. called on the Canadian government to cut off all trade with the fascist junta and to halt investment in Chile by such cor- porations as Noranda and Fal- conbridge. y, ) Chinese hit CTV show TORONTO — The CTV pro- gram WS has aroused the anger of Chinese community across the country over a show broadcast last Sept. 30 called Campus Giveaway. An ad hoc committee for the Council of Chinese Canadians of versities were being “‘taken over”’ by foreign students. Camera shots particularly zeroed in on students of Chinese origin depicting them all as foreign regardless of their citi- zenship status. Over 180 different organizations joined with the CCCO in protest- ing the CTV program which they charge could only create resent- ment towards the Chinese com- munity. On Jan. 26 demonstra- tions were held in most major Ca- nadian cities. The meetings de- manded: @ a public apology from CTV and equal opportunity to present a fair and accurate report to repair group in the future. The committee also aims to in- _ form the public of the contribution made to this country by Chinese Canadians. pus in a rally before marching to the CTV offices. Speakers included Toronto mayor John Sewell, poli- ticians representing the ridings where the two cities two campuses are situated and leaders of civil liberties and ethnic organizations. University of Toronto president James Ham in a statement to the meeting said he was ‘“‘appalled to learn of the serious distortion of facts about foreign students at- tending Canadian universities and in particular the U of T. . . [have not seen a nastier misrepresenta- tion of the truth,’’ he said. Several speakers congratulated the CCCO for their initiative in fighting against the network for its irresponsible journalism and warn- ed of a pattern of attacking immi- grants, particularly visible minor- ities by fostering racism in times of economic and political crisis. 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