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Monday to serve a three-month prison sentence, an action that was followed Wednesday by a B.C. Appeals Court ruling upholding a Crown appeal of CUPW regional director Frank Walden’s acquittal on charges of defying Parliament during the 1978 CUPW strike. Walden will again have to face trial on the charges.

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With B.C.’s once rich herring roe fishery in crisis and only weeks remaining before the open-

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Fishermen: and Allied Workers Union has united around a pro- posed a quota system to save the

fishery and protect industry jobs.

The herring fishery dominated the opening sessions of the union’s 35th annual convention this week in Vancouver as

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union’s proposal to conserve the diminishing herring stocks through a per boat quota system, rejecting a plan backed by the federal fisheries department and vessel owners to force fishermen to pool licenses.

The federal plan, to be voted on by license holders in the near future, would see two or more

“They want to make the workers of this industry the meat in the sandwich to cover up their mismanagement,’’ UFAWU secretary treasurer George Hewison declared in debate on the issue Monday.

More than 8,000 workers de- pend on the herring roe fishery for a major portion of their an- nual income, Hewison said, but the fishery is ‘‘at a turning point”’ with its future uncertain.

Hewison attacked the proposal of the federal fisheries depart- ment to allow license holders to vote on the proposed pooling plan, charging that 60 percent of licenses are controlled by the ma- jor fishing corporations.

Vancouver fisherman Jim Rushton told the convention that the union’s plan for a per boat

boats holding a single license and quota would conserve the stocks sharing fishing opportunities, and “‘slow the fishery down”, and supposedly income. avoiding the hectic pace of

But the federal plan, the union warms, won’t bring order to the chaos on the fishing grounds which has marked the past three Seasons, and will allow large

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previous years. A slower fishery means more shoreworker’s jobs, he pointed out, charging that the companies want the quickest catch possible resulting in con- tracting out processing to non- union plants, and the export of jobs to processing plants in Japan. See NATIVES page 12

TORY SIDDON TAKES RAP AT ELECTION MEET

Prime minister Clark and the federal Tories took a verbal beating Monday as unionists and opposi- tion candidates took the microphone to blast Tom Siddon, Tory MP for Richmond South Delta, during the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union’s ‘‘bearpit’’ all-candidates meeting.

Several of the more than 25 peo- ple who lined up for questions focused on Tory plans, outlined in a document last year entitled “Unemployment Insurance in the ’80s,’’ which called for the exclu- sion of fishermen from the unemployment insurance pro- gram.

Communist Party candidate in Vancouver Centre, Jack Phillips, one of five candidates on the plat- form, also condemned prime minister Clark for ‘‘whipping up war hysteria” and ‘‘electioneering in Iran and Afghanistan.”’

Siddon had earlier incurred the wrath of the UFAWU by charging that the union had ‘‘mis- represented’’ the position of the government when it claimed that the Tories wanted to exclude fish- ermen from the UI program.

He again insisted at the meeting that there were “‘no plans to my knowledge’’ to exclude fishermen

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Protest follows court actions against CUPW

Free Parrot, labor demands

dent Jim Kinnaird called the court

actions a “‘travesty of the nation’s

justice system,’’ adding that it was “immoral to try people and jail them for defending their rights.

“Tf all the federal government’s efforts had been directed at clean- ing up post office management in- stead of persecuting CUPW leadership, the whole country would be better off,’’ Kinnaird said

in a statement issued on behalf of the Federation’s executive council. “*All the government has managed to do is cover up an inept manage- ment and entrenched the bitterness of CUPW members as they see their leaders tried and jailed for purely political reasons.

“‘The whole episode is a disgrace and should be looked upon as a

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_ ‘Clark ‘whipping

up war hysteria’

Communist Party leader William Kashtan denounced Clark and the Conservatives as the main architects of ‘‘U.S. cold war policies in Canada which are undermining Canadian in- dependence,’’ as he began the first leg of a three-day speaking tour through B.C.

Kashtan was to speak at Courtenay and Alberni on Van- couver Island and address a special election rally in Vancouver Wednesday.

Kashtan said that Clark was following Carter and the U.S. which “‘in pursuit of its imperialist aism, including oil, threatens world peace and rides roughshod over the interests of other nations.’’

He drew a parallel between Carter’s Persian Gulf declaration and his announcement of support for the Northern Tier pipeline pro- posal which will bring U.S. oil tankers to the West Coast in viola- tion of Canadian sovereignty.

At a meeting of over 60 people in Courtenay where he was speaking with Comox-Powell River Com- munist candidate Sy Pederson, Kashtan again hammered Clark’s attempt to ‘‘rally the troops’’ to vote for the Conservatives by pushing the cold war.

However, any candidate who advocates the heating up of the cold war, Kashtan noted, should be denied election on February 18, whatever party they represent.

This includes Trudeau and the Liberals who have ‘‘capitulated to U.S. cold war pressures,”’ he said.

He was also critical of NDP leader Ed Broadbent and his closest advisors for endorsing the cold war stance of Carter and Clark.

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He noted that imperialism was trying to “get out of its economic crisis‘by a war boom and a war economy.”’

Since 1973, he said, prices in Canada have risen by 400 per cent. “And the budget Clark promised

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“The only promises he carried out were those he made to the large corporations, especially the oil companies, who made 33 billion dollars profit.”

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Kashtan called for ‘‘an indepen- dent foreign policy for Canada, based on peace, detente and disar- mament, and a policy of peaceful relations between states with differ- ing social systems.”

wants to sell its land on False Creek to the Soc- reds, but it still owes the people of Vancouver for rezoning the land in 1974, page 3.

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@® QUEBEC: Quebec Feder- ation of Labor president Louis Laberge, in Van- couver this week, talks of labor’s role in the ref- erendum, page 12.

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@ AFGHANISTAN: Daily World correspondent Phillip Bonosky, in an eyewitness report from Kabul, gives a different perspective on events, page 6.