CAIMAW raid on Steel's

Local 480

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| Wood pact heads for yes vote

The proposed collective agreement to end the six week Strike in B.C.’s forest industry seemed headed for ratification this week although some sec- tions of lumber and pulp work- €rs recommended rejection of the pact.

At Tribune press time the 5,500 member Pulp and Paper Workers of Canada union had voted by 54 percent to reject the Proposed settlement, and three Major locals of the Interna- tional Woodworkers of

erica were recommending that their membership vote no. executives in the 6,000 member Port Alberni Local 1-85, the union’s second largest local, the 3,000 member Cran- brook Local 1-405, and the 2,700 member Maple Ridge “al 1-367 have come out against the agreement.

The proposed agreement has been criticized for its lack of a Substantially improved wage of- fer from that offered by the Companies before the strike. Strike action resulted in the in- dustry’s “final offer” of a 13 Percent wage increase in each of tWo years, and a 40 cent per

Our revision in tradesmen’s Tates, being increased by just two percent in the first year, with nothing additional for tradesmen.

IWA Locals are also critical Of the failure to win any conces- Slons from the industry on the key demand for reduced work- Mg hours to be achieved through an accumulated time Off formula.

Offered instead are improved Vacation benefits with two to Seven year employees receiving

€e weeks and seven to 15 year €mployees receiving four weeks. At 15 years of’service the vaca- Yon period increases to five

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Demonstrators send Reagan protest over neutron bomb

REAGAN: NO! TO THE NEUTRON

BOMB

TRIBUNE PHOTO—SEAN GRIFFIN

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TRIBUNE PHOTO—SEAN GRIFFIN

hit bc - 27 t or Anatoly Malykhin displays the plaque commemorating Odessa-Vancouver friend- hie jut | Beiors presentation to Vancouver mayor Michael Harcourt (centre). With them at the

ceremony is interpreter and Canada-Soviet Friendship Association secretary George Legebokoff.

U.S. sabotage against Grenada

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Some 75 people marched out- side the U.S. consulate in downtown Vancouver, Wednesday joining thousands of demonstrators around the world in condemning the deci- sion of the Reagan administra- tion to order manufacture of the neutron bomb.

Bert Ogden, vice-president of the B.C. Peace Council, which organized the demonstration, read a letter which the council presented to Robert Moore, U.S. consul-general which declared: ‘“We are particularly concerned about the decision of president Reagan to proceed with the production of the neutron bomb. This weapon only adds to the deadly spiral and accelerates the danger of a nuclear holocaust.

“We ask that you convey these thoughts to Reagan and urgently press him to negotiate now for a reduction of nuclear weapons and an agreement to freeze all future production.”

The B.C. Federation of Labor issued a statement of sup- port for the demonstration noting the Federation’s stand in condemning the development and use of nuclear weapons and urging those countries involved inthe continued development of weapons to ‘‘set out on a course of action that will see the world free of nuclear weapons and the potential of nuclear holocaust.’’

On Tuesday, delegates to the Vancouver and District Labor Council unanimously backed a resolution calling on the Trudeau government to dissociate itself from the Rea- gan administration to manu- facture the N-bomb and de- manding that Canada withdraw immediately from NATO and Norad.