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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