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Tenants plan campaign

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figures indicated and, moreover, that the average rent was steadily rising, contrary to the claim of the provincial government.

Vancouver Centre NDP MLA Emery Barnes added his voice to those of Yorke and DeWees in calling on tenants to organize.

Barnes noted the ‘“‘slow erosion of the West End’”’ as families and low-income people were forced out by rising rents and new develop- ments. The government is now “playing with the idea” of a con- vention centre in the West End, he said, but citizens groups have not been consulted in the matter.

Other speakers included pen- sioners’ leader Tom Alsbury and a

West End tenant and former COPE candidate, Paul Murphy.

The new West End Tenants Association is the latest develop- ment in an organizational drive by the Vancouver Tenants Council that will restructure the tenants movement in Vancouver.

The West End_ Tenant Association joins with the Grand- view Tenant Association as community-based local associations affiliated to the Vancouver Tenant Council. The VTC is now turning its attention to Vancouver’s Kitsilano district to build another; local association, that can advocate tenants rights at the community level.

Ban on spraying urged

The United Fishermen’s and Allied Workers Union has ex- pressed fears that the provincial government’s much-disputed spraying program in the Fraser Canyon will harm salmon and other aquatic life in the waters of the area.

The provincial government has announced plans to move on a program to use two chemicals in a program tocombat western spruce budworm infestations despite concern voiced by environmental groups as well as residents of the area that the chemicals may not be safe.

In a telegram to provincial en- vironment minister Jim Neilson, union president Jack Nichol in- sisted that plans for the use of the two chemicals ‘‘be suspended pending absolute proof that there is no threat to the Fraser system aquatic life or until a safe alter- native is found.”

Both chemicals — orthene and sevin-14 oil — have been the sub-

ject of some controversy and the

latter has been banned in the.

Soviet Union for some time and was recently banned in Nova Scotia. Its use is also prohibited in some U.S. states.

Delegates to the Vancouver and District Labor Council Tuesday night endorsed the call for a ban on the spraying in response to a request from the UFAWU.

May Day issue

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 22, 1977—Page 12

Woodworkers press wage demands as talks open

Negotiations in B.C.’s major forest industry got under way Monday as representatives of the International Woodworkers of America held their first meeting with coast forest employers and placed their list of contract demands before the industry.

Included among the union’s list of 40 items placed before the employers, top spot is given to the demand for a master agreement for the entire forest industry in B.C. and a wage demand of $1 per hour increase to all employees covered by the agreement.

Defending the union’s wage demand IWA regional president Jack Munro said the government alone has taken $1 an hour out of woodworkers’ pockets, and added that the cost of living will likely go up another 11 per cent this year. In view of this, he concluded wood- workers can hardly be expected to settle for a six cent increase in line with guidelines set by the Anti- Inflation Board.

The demands of B.C.’s largest union, representing 28,000 coast woodworkers, which were drawn up at a contract conference, calls for changes in many of the present provisions of the agreement with

the employers. Included among these is the demand for upgrading of the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) clause which would make adjustments quarterly starting October 1, 1977, and be based on a calculation of one cent for each 0.18 points change in the Consumer Price Index.

Another section of the union’s demands calls for strengthening of the hours of work provisions and overtime. For some years the forest companies have been at- tempting to pressure the union into accepting revisions in hours of work which would enable the in- dustry to operate on continuous production. This has been rejected in previous years.,

Following conclusion of Mon- day’s session between the IWA and Forest Industrial Relations (FIR), the employers’ spokesman, Don Saunders, indicated the industry has again raised the demand for continuous production in the first session of the talks. Munro told the press Monday that the union is unhappy with the demand for seven-day operation and would strongly resist the move. ‘‘The industry doesn’t have the ability to maintain full employment on a

five-day operation so why should

-they be asking for a seven-day) -

operation?’’ he asked. :

The union also includes in its list of contract demands proposals fol revision of the pension plan. It calls for increased contributions from employers to fully liquidate the initial unfunded liability incurret by the plan prior to Oct. 14, 1975; al increase in employer payments 1 raise the level of pensions; alll inclusion of all IWA members if B.C. in one pension plan.

There are also a number demands to upgrade health ant welfare benefits, including 100 pe! cent coverage for all basic del tistry, for dental premiums to fully paid by the employer; and tht

_ raising of sick benefit payments

With large-scale technological change taking place in the i dustry, a number of demands alt included by the TWA which would) protect members because of loss 0 jobs due to mechanizatiom automation and _ technologicé change.

The coast woodworkers’ contrat! expires June 15 while contrac expire June 30 in: the southel? Interior and Aug. 31 in the North

Bill 33 held ‘d

Cont'd from pg. 1 “citadel” of the private school — was discontinuing its grants to private schools.

“‘The Socreds would change more than 100 years of history if they passed this insidious bill,’’ he emphasized.

The council resolution called for withdrawal of Bill 33 and asked further that the B.C. Federation of Labor pursue the matter.

The Communist Party declared strong opposition to the legislation, stating that it was ‘‘contrary to the democratic traditions on which this province’s educational system is based.”’

In a statement Monday, the CP emphasized that it has consistently opposed the use of public funds to finance separate and religious schools since such financial aid “abridges the fundamental principle of separation of church and state.”

It warned that Bill 33, given first reading in the legislature March 30,. was ‘fraught with dangers,”’ both because of the general principle it embodies — public funding for separate schools — and because of the specific features of the legislation itself.

The statement cited particularly the constitutional difficulties which would result because of Section 93 of the British North America Act relating to the establishment of separate schools.

Although advocates of public funding for private schools, notably the Federation of- In- dependent Schools Associations, have pooh-poohed the problem, the constitutional issue is of major concern in the controversy surrounding the legislation.

Section 93 of the BNA Act provides that, once a separate school system is established, subsequent attempts to withdraw or reduce public funding can be

challenged constitutionally, thus

making financial aid irrevocable.

The Communist Party also charged that education minister Pat McGeer “misrepresented”’ the

legislation by saying that British .

Columbia is joining with other provinces” in moving to give financial aid.

“This legislation is unlike any other anywhere in the country,” the CP statement emphasized. “There isno other province which gives aid directly to separate schools.’’

Should the legislation be passed, it added, separate schools would receive public funds without any public financial accountability.

The statement suggested that the Bennett government was more concerned with ‘‘paying a political debt — in this case to the powerful independent schools lobby — than with maintaining an adequately financed __ public education system,”’ emphasizing that Bill 33 has been introduced at a time when public spending in education is being sharply cut back.

“This legislation should be with- drawn immediately,’ the statement said.

“The Social Credit government cannot be allowed to undermine a

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system of education in ¢ province which, from its V beginnings, has been non-sectarl@ and freely accessible to all.” Earlier, the Home and Sch

- Federation, in convention April

and 16, reaffirmed a 1971 resoluu® which strongly opposed the fun! of separate schools and maintail@ ~ that public funds should be us® only for the financing of secw@ public education.

Delegates to the Federati® convention resolved to press campaign against the bill wi pressure on the minister education, other cabinet ministe™ MLAs and local school boards:

A copy of the resolution was to” sent to the upcoming convention © the B.C. School Trusteé Association which will also debating resolutions from at le two school boards — Burnaby # Coquitlam — calling for oppositi” to Bill 33. |

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