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MINORITY GROUPS PROTEST

City Council urged to repudiate —
racist stand of Mayor Phillips ”

Vancouver city council was
é upon this week
Misassociate itself from the racist
Stand of Mayor Art Phillips made
in arecent speech at the University
of Manitoba.

‘The demand came in a letter to
City council from the United

Jewish People’s Order, and en-
 dorsed by the Association of United
_ Ukrainian Canadians, Federation

of Russian Canadians, Finnish

to

Organization of Canada, and the
Committee of Progressive Elec*
tors (COPE).

Signed by Dr. Pauline Weinstein,
chairman of the Vancouver branch
of UJPO, the text of the letter said:

“It is with deep concern and
consternation that we address
ourselves to a statement made by
Mayor Art Phillips to a University
of Winnipeg audience on Wed-

nesday, March 5, 1975. Mayor °

bomber defence it is outmoded

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| Quit Norad urges wire
The B.C. Peace Council has sent a wire to Maurice Dupras,
chairman of the external affairs and defence committee in Ottawa,
Calling for cancellation of the NORAD agreement.
The wire, signed by John Beeching, chairman, said:
“Strongly urge your committee recommend non-renewal of
NORAD upon expiry date in May on grounds that as an anti-

tegrated U.S.-Canada command isa threat to our sovereignty.”” =

There are serious indications from Ottawa that the committee is
Preparing to endorse Canada’s continued participation in NORAD
and to recommend renewal of the agreement without any closing
date. The B.C. Peace Council chairman has urged the public to
Send wires to Dupras in Ottawa immediately demanding Canada’s
- | Withdrawal from NORAD.

and that the concept of an in-

gpm 200 delegates are expected
attend the IWA regional wage
&nd contract conference slated for

: a end of this week, March 21 to

_ The conference, to be held in the

rgia Hotel.in Vancouver will
€t province-wide contract
f Mands for presentation to the
Orest industry when negotiations

Pen. Collective agreements for

hi contracts expire in May
ile northern woodworkers come
Up in August.

For the first time all three
Negotiating areas in the province
pee coast, southern and northern
Anterior — will be represented at

© conference and demands wili

Set for all IWA operations.

Because of a common ter-
{hnation date with the contracts in

€ pulp section of the industry, the

IWA wage parley
meets on weekend

opportunity for the IWA and the
two pulp unions to coordinate their
efforts and work out a’ unified
strategy and common bargaining
goals.

The Wood Committee of the
Communist Party urged such a
course of action in a statement
issued last month and declared:
“We must take full advantage of
this new situation, instead of
allowing the multinational cor-
porations with their integrated

operations to play one section of ©

the industry off against the other.”

The statement also urged con-
sideration of several key demands
including a 32-hour work week, a
substantial wage increase and a
COLA clause, improved pensions
with the option of retirement at 60,
a moratorium on further plant
closures and layoffs and a one-year

_agreement.

| XG talks also provide a unique

Phone hike protested

Cont'd from pg. 1

Gr ugh affiliated companies in the
JtE empire, the Ottawa

t8ulatory body, CTC, in February -

fj
anally agreed to conduct an
Uiry into this question.

“Ste a letter at that time to
‘ac

han, Pelletier agreed that
ingot irity will be given to an
. duiry by his department into the
€t-corporate relationships and
Thenasing practices of B.C. Tel.
Pel, NDP government in a letter to
“tier at that time said it will
@ppeal the February increase
‘thous per cent because of the
Withhey but it asked that ‘‘B.C. Tel
With Id any action in proceeding
‘ten

‘Tate tion of seeking yet another

iNcrease.’’
Bove Pite this stand by the NDP
Ree: and the fact that no
ingui of the federal government’s
ay promised in February into
poly practices, B.C. Tel has
appli Proceeded with its latest
a: The NDP government
Cre Y justified in demanding that
on aaa proceed with the hearing
inguj latest application until the
a has been completed.
Mover Many years, the labor
€ment, the NDP, the Com-

their recently announced

munist Party and this paper have
condemned the monopoly prac-
tices of B.C. Tel through which it
has pushed up costs to phone users
in B.C. through purchasing its
equipment and services from
companies which are part of the
General Telephone and Elec-
tronics Corporation of New York;
and the refusal of the federal
government to go into these
practises before passing on one
rate increase after another to B.C,
Tel.

The extent of the inter-monopoly
arrangements was exposed in a
special feature in the. Pacific
Tribune of January 24, 1974, en-
titled “How B.C. Tel Rooks the
Public.’’ In -that article the
following facts were brought out
showing the extent of such pur-
chases from sister companies
without any open bidding for

contracts:

In 1971 on total capital and
operating expenditures of
$143,646,000, B.C. Tel paid

$59,485,000 to GTE affiliates. In
1972, of $162,476,000, B.C. Tel paid

its affiliated companies
$71,454,000; and in 1978, of
$199,807 ,000, B.C. Tel paid
$88,730,000.

Phillips’ claim that the influx of
colored immigrants to Canada will
lead to racial conflict, can only be
considered as a form of racism no
matter how strongly the mayor
denounces racial violence.

“This country was developed by

‘immigrant minority groups who.

built the railways; worked the
farms, the mines and the mills;

slaved in the sweatshops and labor"

camps in the 1930’s. It is to these
immigrants that we owe much of
the -prosperity that Canadians
enjoy today. :

“The growing number of racist
statements and overtones against
the new migrations of Chinese,
East and West Indians, have been
evidence in numerous articles in

the press during this past year. We

agree with Cathline Ruff, Director,
B.C. Human Rights, when she
stated, “‘Our leaders have just sat
on their hands,” and with Bishop
de Roo who stated in an article in
the Vancouver in the Vancouver
Sun: of March 8, 1975, that ‘“‘The
answer is to eliminate the

discrimination practiced by a-

minority of white Canadians, .not

incorporate such prejudices into .

the immigration laws.”’

“We urge the members of City
Council to disassociate themselves
from the position taken by Mayor
Phillips. Canadians can and should
benefit from the entry of these new
Canadians. But this will be
facilitated only if a concerted ef-
fort is made by municipal,
provincial and federal authorities
to fight racial discrimination each
time it conflicts with the basic
democratic rights of Canadian
society. Rs : ;

“The members of our organiza-~
tions, as well as numerous other
Canadians, have not forgotten the
expressions of racism in Europe of
the 1930’s that led to the holocaust
of the 1940’s — all in the name of
fascism.” :

PUBLIC FORUMS
IN NORTH VAN:

B.C. Communist leader Nigel
Morgan and provincial organizer
Jack Phillips will address two
forums being organized in North
Vancouver’s Capilano College.

Morgan speaks this Sunday,
March 23 at 7:30 p.m. on the
subject, ‘“The Political Situation in
B.C.” He will be followed on
Sunday, April 6 with a lecture by
Phillips on, ‘The Role of the Soviet
Union in World Affairs.” It will
also commence at 7:30 p.m.

Capilano College is at 2055
Purcell Way, which is reached by
going up Lillooet Way, past the
Coach House, about half a mile.
The public is invited to attend.
Both lectures will be held in Room
A-112.

MILK A LUXURY

Milk is increasingly becoming a
luxury food item. Last week the
price went up by a cent a quart on
the Lower Mainland. Almost a
month ago it went up three cents.
Three quarts of two percent milk
now costs $1.53.

Considering the vast amounts of
money involved, it is nothing short
of incredible that the federal
government and its agency, the

‘Canadian Transport Commission,

has refused to consider these
monopoly _ practices before
granting B.C. Tel its rate in-
creases. —

The public should demand of
Ottawa that it take no action on the
B.C. Tel application until the
inquiry into monopoly practises’
has been completed and made
public.

—Sean Griffin photo

CPC backs UFAWU

on fish treaty stand

TORONTO — The Communist
Party of Canada has taken a stand
solidly on the side of Canada’s
salmon fishermen, and has ex-
pressed to the federal government
its ‘‘deep concern’’ over in-

dications that Ottawa is bowing to ©

U.S. pressure in failing to protect
Canadian fishing rights.

In response to an appeal to all
concerned Canadians, issued by
George Hewison, spokesman for
the United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union, the CPC urged ina
letter to Prime Minister Trudeau,
that the government cease its

retreat under U.S. pressure.

The UFAWU, which had acted as
advisor to the Canadian govern-
ment during negotiations with the
U.S., charged that “‘fish produced
at great sacrifice and expenditure
by Canadians are being negotiated
toward American nets and hooks.”

Deploring the loss of Canadian
sovereignty, the union asserted
that “time after time,’’ the U.S.
has ‘‘raised one impossible
demand after another.” The union
has issued a folder fully explaining
its stand, and has produced post

cards addressed to the prime
minister urging withdrawal of
Canada’s proposal of February,
1974, which perpetuates im-
balances of salmon intercepted by
the U.S.

The Communist Party, in its
letter signed by its general
secretary, William Kashtan, joined
with the Fishermen’s Union in
urging the Canadian government
‘to withdraw Canada’s latest
proposals as advanced over a year
ago, in February 1974, and to
revert to the basic principles
agreed upon in June 1971.”

The ‘‘retreat’’ from these
principles, the CPC said, “is
perpetuation of an unacceptable
imbalance of salmon interception
in favor of the U.S., the placing of
unnecessary. catch limits on
Canadian fishermen, the scuttling
of any concept of ‘equity’ and gross
infringement on Canadian
sovereignty.”

The union is counting on “an
aroused Canadian public,’’ to
demand a strong negotiating
policy,’’ to protect Canadian
salmon fishing interests.

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