NORTH VIETNAM BOMBED AGAIN. An estimated 250 US bomb Saturday, causing extensive death and destruction. The large scale bombing was the first in two years since d, and has stirred world-wide indignation. This latest U.S. action,

coupled with a helicopter landing near Hanoi, ostensibly to release prisoners, has added new urgency to the demand for the U.S. to get out of Southeast Asia NOW.

U.S. bombing of the North was halte

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1970

PROTESTS CAN BLOCK UTAH MINE PERMIT

STOP THE POLLUTERS

ers struck at centres in North Vietnam last

JOBS not

“The Canadian Union of Public Employees is opposed to the concept of compelling people to work in exchange for welfare benefits,’ stated-Jack Phillips, National representative, on behalf of other Vancouver Officers of CUPE.

‘However, we are in favor of Providing work for welfare recipients in good health Providing they will be employed at trade union wages and under trade union conditions.”’

CUPE spokesmen were expressing the position of Organized labor as a whole, as demonstrated by a resolution

_ approved at least week’s session of the Vancouver Labor Council. The VLC stated, ‘‘If in fact there are jobs available, the unem- Ployed should be hired at union Wages only.”

This week the Honorable Phil Gaglardi, stumbling backward into the depression years of the °30’s, told newsmen he was going to extend his ‘‘work-for-wel- fare’ program “‘all over the province of B.C.”

Gaglardi said Vancouver — he did not say what body in Van- couver — had asked for an exten- sion of his work-for-welfare program. Neither did the minister make clear what type of work he had in mind.

Phillips said Gaglardi’s plan to solve the unemployment crisis in B.C. doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface.

‘He is proposing, as we under- stand it, to take a few hundred welfare recipients and put them

to work on municipal payrolls. |

The Vancouver Parks Board employed 20 such welfare reci- pients last year in a program

‘work for welfare’

which combined laboring work

_ with classroom instruction.

“However, the budgets of the municipalities in B.C. are so restricted they could not employ any sizeable number of unem- ployed workers without laying off their regular employees who have years of seniority.”

CUPE spokesmen emphasized the point that the unemploy- ment crisis will never be solved by such means as Gaglardi proposes.

‘This job crisis cannot be solved unless the provincial and federal governments are going to end the austerity program and institute new bold national and provincial policies that will create jobs for hundreds of thou- sands of workers.

“Mr. Gaglardi’s ‘“‘effort”’ is like a tear in an ocean of misery.” s

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By MAURICE RUSH The giant U.S.-owned Utah Mining Company is going to try once again— with the help of the Socred govern- ment and the Pollution Control Board — to get a permit to dump 9.3 million gallons of dangerous was‘2 into

Rupert Inlet at Port Hardy.

This will be the third time the Pollution Control Board and its chairman W. N. Venables will attempt to override strong public opposition to approve a permit which will open the way for other giant corporations to dump effluent into Rupert Inlet, turning it into a giant sewer loaded with quantities of cyanide, zinc and chemical reagents used in mining and milling.

Already the Pollution Control Board has approved of permits without public hearings which have granted large corporate polluters (mostly U.S. and Japanese) the right to dump over 42 million gallons of effluent daily into B.C.’s rivers and coastal waters.

The fight to block the Utah application has become a test case to determine whether the people will have their way in

halting pollution of our coastal :

waters— or whether big business

with the backing of the reac-

tionary Socred government — will be allowed to proceed unhindered in destroying our environment for profit.

With only a few days notice, pollution control director Venables announced last week

“GET OUT AND VOTE DEC. 9.” This was the urgent appeal of Ald. Harry Rankin in his weekly co- lumn this week on page 2. The civic election campaign in Van- couver and other B.C. centres is reaching its peak with only a few days left before voting day. For stories on the civic election contests see pages 2, 3 and 12.

that a hearing into the Utah permit will be held next Wednesday, December 2, in Port Hardy which will be closed to the public and only four objectors, three of them individuals, will be allowed to appear. All other groups including SPEC, will be denied a hearing before the Board.

SPEC has had a committee of experts working on the Utah application. and has collected the scientific data to oppose the permit. To all intents and pur- poses, the Dec. 2 hearing will be closed to the public.

Two previous attempts by the Pollution Control Board to clear the way for the giant U.S. mining monopoly failed because of a public outcry. The first hearing was set for, Victoria in November 1969. A giant protest demonstration was held at the Legislature by SPEC with contingents from all parts of Vancouver Island taking part. One hundred protests and peti- tions were received by the Board.

SPEC demanded the hearing be open to the public and that they be allowed to present a brief opposing the permit. Shortly after the hearing was called off without coming to any decision.

A second attempt to hold a hearing came on September 16 of this year when the Board thought a hearing held far from any populated centre at Port Hardy, would clear the way for approval. Once again strong protests, and a threat by SPEC, with the support of other anti- pollution groups, to take court action to stop the Board from holding a secret or semi-secret hearing from which the public is barred, brought a _ post ponement.

An earlier court suit against pollution control director Venables in Supreme Court — involving Hooker Chemicals at Nanaimo — brought public criticism from Mr. Justice R.A.B. Wooton for failing to consider the evidence of objec- »- tors or to hold a public hearing.

At the time of the second post- ponement the excuse given was

See UTAH PERMIT, pg. 12