CAIMAW
raid on
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Local 480

—page 8—

| Wood pact
heads for
yes vote

The proposed collective
agreement to end the six week
Strike in B.C.’s forest industry
seemed headed for ratification
this week although some sec-
tions of lumber and pulp work-
€rs recommended rejection of
the pact.

At Tribune press time the
5,500 member Pulp and Paper
Workers of Canada union had
voted by 54 percent to reject the
Proposed settlement, and three
Major locals of the Interna-
tional Woodworkers of

erica were recommending
that their membership vote no.
executives in the 6,000
member Port Alberni Local
1-85, the union’s second largest
local, the 3,000 member Cran-
brook Local 1-405, and the
2,700 member Maple Ridge
“al 1-367 have come out
against the agreement.

The proposed agreement has
been criticized for its lack of a
Substantially improved wage of-
fer from that offered by the
Companies before the strike.
Strike action resulted in the in-
dustry’s “final offer” of a 13
Percent wage increase in each of
tWo years, and a 40 cent per

Our revision in tradesmen’s
Tates, being increased by just
two percent in the first year,
with nothing additional for
tradesmen.

IWA Locals are also critical
Of the failure to win any conces-
Slons from the industry on the
key demand for reduced work-
Mg hours to be achieved
through an accumulated time
Off formula.

Offered instead are improved
Vacation benefits with two to
Seven year employees receiving

€e weeks and seven to 15 year
€mployees receiving four weeks.
At 15 years of’service the vaca-
Yon period increases to five

See WOOD page 8

Demonstrators send Reagan
protest over neutron bomb

REAGAN:
NO!
TO THE
NEUTRON

BOMB

TRIBUNE PHOTO—SEAN GRIFFIN

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TRIBUNE PHOTO—SEAN GRIFFIN

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or Anatoly Malykhin displays the plaque commemorating Odessa-Vancouver friend-
hie jut | Beiors presentation to Vancouver mayor Michael Harcourt (centre). With them at the

ceremony is interpreter and Canada-Soviet Friendship Association secretary George Legebokoff.

U.S. sabotage against Grenada

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Some 75 people marched out-
side the U.S. consulate in
downtown Vancouver,
Wednesday joining thousands
of demonstrators around the
world in condemning the deci-
sion of the Reagan administra-
tion to order manufacture of the
neutron bomb.

Bert Ogden, vice-president of
the B.C. Peace Council, which
organized the demonstration,
read a letter which the council
presented to Robert Moore,
U.S. consul-general which
declared: ‘“We are particularly
concerned about the decision of
president Reagan to proceed
with the production of the
neutron bomb. This weapon
only adds to the deadly spiral
and accelerates the danger of a
nuclear holocaust.

“We ask that you convey
these thoughts to Reagan and
urgently press him to negotiate
now for a reduction of nuclear
weapons and an agreement to
freeze all future production.”

The B.C. Federation of
Labor issued a statement of sup-
port for the demonstration
noting the Federation’s stand in
condemning the development
and use of nuclear weapons and
urging those countries involved
inthe continued development of
weapons to ‘‘set out on a course
of action that will see the world
free of nuclear weapons and the
potential of nuclear holocaust.’’

On Tuesday, delegates to the
Vancouver and District Labor
Council unanimously backed a
resolution calling on the
Trudeau government to
dissociate itself from the Rea-
gan administration to manu-
facture the N-bomb and de-
manding that Canada withdraw
immediately from NATO and
Norad.