Groups vow fight over free trade deal as federal campaign opens

Citation Strikers againface Court IRC

The B.C. Court of Appeals put Striking Citation Cabinet workers back on the legal firing line Tuesday.

In an unanimous decision, Justices

aton, Carrothers and Esson ruled that orders issued by the Industrial lations Council can be enforced the Courts and that such enforcement is Constitutional. But in his written reasons for his €cision, Justice Seaton also declined ‘orule that the union was in contempt of court for continuing to picket out- Side the strikebound plant. Accord- ‘Mgly, he instructed the employer to make another application to B.C. Upreme Court for enforcement of © Original IRC order. ~1€ Case originated with an historic mee by B.C. Supreme Court Justice liam Trainor that Section 30 of the ‘dustrial Relations Act — Bill 19 — ae requires IRC orders to be orced by B.C. Supreme Court once oe are filed, was contrary to the

Radian Constitution Act.

ustice Trainor was responding in

at July 26 decision to an application Strike | an IRC order declaring the tio © illegal and a further applica- on by the employer, Citation Indus-

t PS “es, for an injunction to ban further

Picketing.

a, the Supreme Court justice eck; €d the injunction application and Med to enforce the order, arguing ell Section 30 of the legislation com- €d the court to “rubber stamp “ decisions, 4 M satisfied that this is an _ Proper use of the Supreme Court sS Cause the Supreme Court to be by et @ rubber stamp to a decision € provincial tribunal (IRC),”

J % ‘ UStice Trainor said.

October 10, 1988 SOS

Vol. 51, No. 37

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Just as Canadians have defeated propos- als of free trade with the United States in historic federal elections, so they will be called upon to toss out the Free Trade Agreement this November, activist David Orchard told several hundred cheering sup- porters in Vancouver Wednesday.

Orchard, a Saskatchewan farmer and chair of the Concerned Citizens About Free Trade, spoke to some 900 people in the Maritime Labour Centre. The size of the rally, coupled with a record turnout for a Council of Canadians event the previous evening in Edmonton, put the lie to the prime minister’s election claim that Cana- dians back the agreement.

Jack Nichol, president of the United

CP campaign, page 3

Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, reported that 3,000 people heard Edmon- ton publisher Mel Hurtig, Canadian Auto Workers president Bob White and other prominent Canadians call for the cancella- tion of the pact.

“We’re now facing an election ...and I think there’s going to be a groundswell that is going to turn this whole thing around, rather dramatically,” Nichol, speaking on the loss of protection for the fish processing industry, declared to applause.

The free trade pact fulfills a 200-year dream of taking over Canada by U.S. lead-

see FREE TRADE page 3

Members of Vancouver's Chilean com- munity demonstrated in downtown Van- couver Wednesday night to give their support to the “‘No’ campaign against Chi- lean dictator Augusto Pinochet in the Oct. 5 plebiscite and to call for Canadian sup- port in the continuing struggle for demo- cracy and human rights in Chile. By morning, Chileans were celebrating as the Command for a No campaign had chalked up a 57 per cent vote — an overwhelming victory in the face of vote-rigging and intim- idation by the regime. Now, activists have emphasized, the task will be to ensure that the will of the opposition is carried out (ear- lier story, Chilean appeal, page 10).

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Korea: ending

the partition