_Ithas been ten years since Rolan- do Calderon was first proudly as vice-president of the £00,000 strong Central Union of & cup of Chile. But more en of those years hav : oe toe years have been to clderon himself was only able _ © assume his duties in the last two ‘Yas after being dangerously wounded by a soldier’s bullet dur- Ing his flight from the fascist coup. But on this May Day in 1981, he “Opes to see the unity that was _ always the hallmark of CUT once : gain demonstrated by workers i trade unionists throughout the _ €ngth and breadth of Chile. Calderon, who was in Van- _ COuver last week for meetings with the representatives of several unions as well as the Canadian Labor Congress and the B.C. Federation of Labor, told the Tibune in an interview that Unionists in Chile would be presen- amass petition to the junta and fo the owners of factories and Mines on May Day demanding _ Tedress of the workers’ grievances. _Throughout Chile, the Signatures are being gathered and by the end of next week, Calderon anticipates that there will be more an 2,000 signatures from trade _ union leaders. _,_ Whatis significant is that gather- Ig a national.petition is an illegal act in Chile. More important, among those signing the petition will be leaders of trade union - Sroups that have previously given’ Some support to the junta but now, in the face of intensified repression ' against workers, have more and more opposed the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. - “This May we hope to have an action that will represent all of the groups in opposition to the junta,”’ Calderon said. ae ‘Because of that, the dictator- ship has stepped up the repression and has especially moved against ” the Coordinara Nacional — the Central Co-ordinating Council of Unions which represents CUT in- _ side Chile. (Cut also has an organization in exile — the CUT exterior — of which Calderon is vice-president.) 2 - “The junta is seeking to in- timidate the rest of the trade union leadership,” he said. ‘“‘And May Day will be a challenge to workers to demonstrate their unity.” Inthe eight years since the fascist coup, the junta has focussed its repressive policies at the trade union movement. The CUT, which, under the Allende govern- ment had united nearly all organiz- ed workers under its banner, was banned just days after the coup and its leaders rounded up. ; Then, in July, 1979, Pinochet in- stituted his draconian “‘labor plan’ which was an effort to contain the workers’ struggles that were being organized despite the repression. The legislation allowed a emasculated form of collective bargaining but banned national bargaining; it introduced strike legislation which limited strikes to 60 days after which workers were compelled to accept a contract or be fired; and it guaranteed the owners’ right to scabs and strikebreakers, — tivities, GREATER VANCOUVER SOUTH FRASER Belogiannis 950 _— Delta 1,100 = Bill Bennett 1,200 380.00 _Fort Langley 600 400.00 ~ | Building Trades 3,200 30.00 Surrey 4,500 1,142.00 Burnaby 4,500 602.00 White Rock 1,000 96.20 Coquitlam 2.400 312.00 Kingsway 5.700 281.00 EAST FRASER Nilo Makela 1,200 128.00 Fraser Valley 350 = North Vancouver 3,700 620.00 Maple Ridge 2,650 25.00 Nigel Morgan ae. Olgin — 75,00 OKANAGAN | Richmond 1,200 «25.00 Kamloops “1,000, — _ | Seamen 400 387.15 Notch Hill 400 = | Vancouver East 7,500 3,977.02 Penticton 500 — - Westminster 1,400. — Vernon 1,100 s est Sid : 2,500 $82.30 VANCOUVER ISLAND ; Campbell River 1,300 = — | N. COAST/INTERIOR ‘Comox Valley 1,300 28.00 | Correspondence 1,200 — Nanaimo 1,900 317.00 | Creston 300 ~~ Port Alberni 1,500 273.00 | Powell River 5000.00 Victoria 1800 — ‘Sointula 150 — Miscellaneous 626.00 | Trail 800 79.00 TOTAL 10,185.67 | Eg We need fo get the press drive rolling — now We need to get the 1981 financial drive rolling. hen The cold facts are, we are into the fourth week of the drive with - only $10,185.67 raised toward our target of $75,000 — signficantly less than the figure at this same time last year. ae One way for Tribune supporters to get into the campaign would be by promoting the special film showing of The Day After Trinity on May 17. For more details, see page 12. ae Other ways include selling contest tickets and new subscriptions, because the campaign is also built by these vital day-to-day ac- Below shows the first tally of where the clubs stand in the drive; the next tally will be in two weeks. There isn’t a moment to lose. Chilean national petition to symbolize labor unity ... Chilean unionist on cross- Canada tour. : “‘The objective was to disintegrate the national strength of the working class and to prevent national unity,” he said, adding that the right to strike has ‘‘effec- tively been wiped out.” But even though only three unions out of 100 have struck, — including that representing El Teniente copper miners—their ac- tions were extremely significant,”’ he said. In every case, the strikes have been co-ordinated by the Coor- dinara Nacional which, despite the ever-present threat of repression, represents the overwhelming ma- jority of workers. . But in the political climate in Chile, other union groups also ex- ist, some of them with links to the right wing Christian Democratic Party, others based on professional and managerial workers. Calderon cited the Group of 10 — a federation of ten unions formerly connected with the Chris- tian Democrats and which once supported the junta — and tw6 other groups, the Centre of Ad- ministrative Workers, representing state clerical and administrative workers, and the United Front of Workers (FUT), a ‘“‘very small anarchist movement.”’ Although all three have in the past been hostile to CUT or even -supportive of the junta, all now have a working relationship with Coordinara Nacional. And as the struggle against the dictatorship mounts, they have begun to work out a common program — with unity as the goal. “The working class movement -once had a united labor movement,’”’ Calderon emphasiz- ed, “‘and this is what we want to achieve again.’’ For Calderon, that goal has been something to which he has devoted much of his working life, although in 1973, the junta almost ended that life. A leader of the National Union of Farmworkers for many years, he was hounded by the ‘| military after the coup. Even when he took refuge inside the Swedish embassy, he was shot by a soldier who took aim from outside the em- bassy compound. Since the embassy was without medical facilities, he was taken out- side where he was seized and im- prisoned. Only international solidarity and hunger strikes in other embassies finally won his release. And even then, the bullet — which had entered just above his left eyebrow — incapacitated him for four years. ( CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING ) - COMING EVENTS APRIL 25 — Yugoslav Concert & Dance. Russian Hall, 600 Campbelt Ave., Van. Starts 7:30 'p.m. Adm. $3.50. Refreshments extra. APRIL 25 — Celebrate the 7th An- niversary of the Portuguese Revolu- tion at the Masonic Hall, 1795— 1st Ave., Vancouver. 7:30 p.m. Cultural program, food, refreshments, with Portuguese flair. Adm. $5. All welcome. APRIL 26 — Take your mum out to brunch. 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