Friday, May 5, 1978 orm 48 <> No. 18 ae * ocument target of Combines p Provincial Court Vancouver Districts The seven members of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union on trial this week posed outside the co we . es SSG urthouse Monday. Left to right, Past president Homer Stevens, Dave Mclntosh, president Jack Nichol, secretary George Hewison, vice-presidents Ken Robinson and Walter 'ckson, welfare director Bert Ogden. —Sean Griffin photo Miners want backing to save jobs Let us run Granduc, workers call 5 Miners at Granduc Mines in tewart, BC. would like to take °ver operations at Granduc and Prevent the loss of 325 jobs and the tual demise of Stewart when € mine shuts down June 30. yoranduc Operating Company, a - Consortium of multinational ®ompanies that operates the mine, “Mnounced in February: that it would close down its operations at Stewart by the end of June. But last Thursday a joint meet- ing of the Tunnel and Rock Workers’ Union, Operating Engin- eers and Teamsters decided to investigate the possibility of getting the federal or provincial government to take the mine over_ and allow the workers to operate it — or failing that, to give the workers the funds to buy it out and operate it themselves. “The idea is only in its initial stages,’”’ Tunnel and Rock northern representative Bob McKay told the Tribune this week, ‘“‘but there are precedents in other industries. “The consensus here is that it would be a fine idea and a practical Labor condemns RCMP Roc: attorney-general Garde dom should fire deputy at- They-general Richard Vogel for Public statements endorsing yeeal RCMP break-ins in B.C., the “Ncouver and District Labor Uncil resolved Tuesday evening. Delegates to the VLC’s regular tp ns gave unanimous approval f 4n executive resolution calling ae the firing of Vogel and con- 4 uning the illegal RCMP ac- Wities, l Of 419 illegal break-ins between 972 and 1976, by the RCMP, over Were in B.C., it was learned last Week. But when questioned about the break-ins, deputy attorney- 8eneral Vogel said they were WUstified, and even if illegal, the = Should be changed to make the Teak-ins legal. _ neue secretary-treasurer Paddy Sale told delegates that he has 1 °rmation revealing that in both 972 and 1974, federal candidates in B.C. were kept under surveillance by the RCMP. “I was a federal candidate and I’m sure that I was investigated,”’ he said. Neale noted that the pretext for the RCMP’s illegal actions was that they didn’t have enough evidence to get a warrant. ‘“‘We’ve got to protest this,’ he declared, “and for Vogel to condone it, it’s disgusting.” break-ins Since investigation of the RCMP began about six months ago it has been learned that the police force has spied on and interfered in the affairs of democratic organizations such as the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the New Democratic Party, the Communist Party, native and students’ groups and the National Farmers’ Union. : Cavalcade marks session A car cavalcade through the streets of Vancouver on May 27 will mark the opening of the United Nations special assembly on dis- armament which begins May 24. Demonstrations all across North America that day will draw public attention to the disarmament assembly. _ Sponsored by the Ad Hoc Coalition for Disarmament, the cavalcade will begin at 11 a.m. in the Little Mountain parking lot and will wind up at the PNE parking lot at Hastings and Renfrew. Following the cavalcade, participants will disperse to shopping centres and handout information leaflets. one, if only the government will back us,’’ McKay said. ‘“‘And they should — millions of dollars are being loaned to other countries to open mines while ours are being shut down. “The ore is there, the expertise is there; the only thing we haven’t got is government support and money.” The unions are quickly preparing their case with the assistance of the Terrace-based Labor Advisory Committee and will try to get the backing of federal and provincial politicians before June 30. In the meantime Stewart residents are hanging on a May 15 decision of Granduc’s executives in New York over whether they will reconsider their decision and maintain limited operations. ‘“How is that for a comment about where Canada’s -decisions are made?” McKay said. There is no reason for the mine to close down, the miners say, with 16 million tons of proven ore reserves of copper and other deposits of iron and silver’still there. A new ore lode recently discovered would take about a year’s work and about a $15 million investment, but it would provide seven years of full production. A few miles north of Stewart there are other huge deposits of copper that would more than See GRANDUC pg. 12 reveals UFAWU > robe By SEAN GRIFFIN A document introduced as evidence in the trial this week of the seven members of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union has revealed clearly that the investigation begun by the Com- bines branch in 1975 was initiated by “six citizens” under the pro- visions of Section 7 of the Act and aimed its attack solely at the UFAWU. The document was one of the first to be introduced into the trial which opened Monday before pro- vincial court judge David Hume. The trial was expected to resume May 8, following adjournment Wednesday. UFAWU president Jack Nichol, secretary George Hewison, past president Homer Stevens, - vice- presidents Ken Robinson and Walter Tickson, welfare director Bert Ogden and fisherman Dave McIntosh are charged with “un- lawfully impeding an inquiry under the Combines Investigation Act.”’ All seven pleaded not guilty. The charges arise from alleged events in December, 1976 when the Combines branch and its related commission, the Restrictive Trades Practices Commission, scheduled a series of hearings into the union but postponed them in- definitely in the face of the union’s demand that they be open to the public. The document indicating the basis for the investigation into the union was introduced by Crown prosecutor Art MacLennan, ostensibly to establish legal authority for the December, 1976 hearings, and for the man who was to chair them, Restrictive Trade Practices Commission member, Frank Roseman. But although the document did little to affirm Roseman’s authority as chairman of the hearings — the photostat was not certified as a true copy of the See SEIZED pg. 3 INSIDE © It's enjoying a e FASCISM: comeback in western countries, including Can- ada. Tom Morris examines the problem, pgs. 6-7. e FORESTS: Communist Party leader Maurice Rush talks about the crisis in B.C. forests as National Forest Week is about to commence, pg. 3. e LABOR: Jack Phillips com- ments on the continuing struggle for democracy in Laborers’ Local 602.