Ee oy Don’t renew tree ! importance of Tribune | | | I A ER TC GE a TE AG TT TT TE I A I | Tribune T-Shirts Now Available White print on dark green,in sizes S-M-L-XL. $5 Order through Pacific Tribune Vancouver, B.C. V5L 3X9 Ph. 251-1186 101-1416 Commercial Elections bring home We're pleased to report that with our May Day issue our financial drive to raise $60,000 to keep our paper going another year is in good shape. With some $13,600: sited thus far, it is.just alittle better than 7$900 more than wé reported on-this page in last year’s May Day edi- — conn course we need to raise more this year, but the fact that we are keeping pace while at the same time our readers and supporters are fighting two election campaigns 1s good news. It s bearing out what we hoped for from the beginning, that the elections would only bring home, more stronger to our readers how important it is for the Tribune to be healthy and fighting. You might notice that the weak end our scoreboard below is the provincial points to the north and east. Hopefully we will see some larger numbers listed there in the coming weeks, To help out, the Tribune staff will be taking to the air and bringing our message to readers around the province. This weekend Sean Griffin is in Vernon for a Tribune banquet and on May 5 Pat O’Con- nor will be in Courtenay for their May Day celebration. Then on May 12, Fred Wilson will be in Kamloops for a dinner and social Pe would like someone from the Tribune to come and help you make the drive a success in your area, let us know soon while there ~ are still a few open dates. Nae Thanks to the Burnaby club for the inspiration and the effort in producing the Tribune T-shirts as advertised above. But any club can share in the profits by ordering on consignment. Check it out with Pat O’Connor in the Tribune office. Here is where we stand in week 4 GREATER VANCOUVER SOUTH FRASER Aris 550 10 Delta 900 80 Bill Bennett 1,000 148 ° Fort Langley 600 150 Building Trades 2,500 320 Surrey 3,200 850 Burnaby 3,200 528 — White Rock 850 . 40 Coquitlam 14008 Fraser Ind. 500 = 145 ea 2500 437 EAST FRASER chee Niilo Makeia 900 397-~=—«“Fraser Valley North Van 7700 767 ~=—- Maple Ridge = 1450395 Olgin 500 215 ‘Mission sca pi Richmond 900 =. 225 Seamen 300.215 OKANAGAN South Van 1800 144 — Kamloops 600 150 Van. East 5,000 2,980 Notch Hill 150 : West Side 2,000 395 = Yernon 850 160 N COASTIINTERIOR moog VAN ISLAND, esa 200 Campbell River 950 477 - Powell River am. 38 Comox Valley 800 10 Prince Rupert 350 Nanaimo 1200 308 Sointula 200 1 Port Alberni 1,200 17 Trail 650 85 Victoria 1,200 270 ~ \. MISCELLANEOUS 2,846 TOTALIN: 13,659 licenses says CP Continued from page 1 and Mark Mosher, Nanaimo-Al- berni. Rush also used the rally to outline CP forestry policy and to call for a review of the new Forest Act by the next legislative session after the election. Twenty of 34 tree farm licenses will come due for renewal shortly after the May 10 election date, he said and ‘‘if the Socreds are re- turned they will likely be renewed under the new forest legislation.” The Forest Act needs review, he said, and a six month’s delay is needed before any tree farm licenses or any other form of forest tenure to private companies be extended or renewed. The six months ‘‘will give time for a thorough review of the legislation by the new MLAs,”’ he said. Charging that the new forest leg- islation was pushed through the previous session of the legislature * without much public discussion, Rush said forestry policy is one of the major issues in the election. “‘The new Forest Act represents one of the biggest sellouts of B.C. re- sources to the multinational corpor- ations,’’ he declared, ‘‘MacMillan Bloedel and the U.S.-owned forest giants will be granted millions of acres of our best forest lands for about a cent an acre per year for the next 25 or 35 years.”’ : The CP will campaign for a new forest policy in the election, Rush said, which would see all tree farm licenses terminated by 1988 and all crown forest lands returned to public control. The CP policy also would see a $100 million reforesta- tion program paid for by the com- panies who cut the trees, and an end to the export of raw logs and wood chips. Rush said that a major turn to- wards the processing of forest prod- ucts is needed to ensure employ- ment in the industry, and that it can only-be done by nationalizing the major forest companies. MacMillan Bloedel, in particular, . should be nationalized, said Rush. “This giant monopoly has become too big for the good of B.C.’’ He charged that MacMillan Bloedel was exporting millions of dollars of capital which should be used in B.C. to develop new processing in- dustries. — About 350 workers are threaten- ed. with layoffs at MacMillan Bloe- del’s Alberni operations as a result of technological change, Rush said. He demanded a halt to any layoffs in the forest industry due to ration- alization or technological change and urged that workers be given a say in determining the conditions that affect their employment. “To prevent massive layoffs in the forest industry, large scale re- forestation must be undertaken and new processing industries must be established, and a large-scale hous- ing and public building program undertaken,’’ he said. Rush said the CP fully supports woodworkers’ demands in current negotiations with the forest indus- try. Profits have been highest in the history of the industry, he said, and the companies can afford to pay what is being demanded. Continued from pg. 1 cent higher than the national rate,”’ Bjarnason stated and_ therefore claimants were, in fact, entitled to the extended benefits. Ian MacRedie, a Statistics Can- ada staff member who appeared for the Commission, also admitted under questioning from union counsel that the weighted average method was more accurate and said that he personally would use it. Lawyers for the claimants had also challenged the repayment order under other sections of the Act and had sought to have the amounts written off because of the undue hardship they would cause claimants, but the arguments were rejected by the three-member board made up of chairman R. C. Perkins, and members W. W. McNeill and W. Symington. Ogden and Colin Snell, chairman Shevchenko Concert zee FP £ ui Song and Dance presented by | Association of United Ukrainian Canadians Sunday, April 29 - 2:00 p.m. John Oliver School, East 41st and Fraser Special Program Celebrating: “INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE CHILD” Admission: $3.00 Tickets: Ukrainian Cultural Centre, 805 East Pender Street Global Export-Import, 2677 East Hastings Street ~StatsCan challenged of the Vancouver Labor Council’s unemployed committee who had also been working on the appeals said a further appeal would be taken to the Umpire. Ogden was also critical of Sym- ington, the labor representative on the board, for not bringing down a minority report as other labor representatives had done in earlier overpayment appeals. Later this week, unionists were successful in winning the adjourn- ment of six overpayment appeals by non-u ni on claimants who would have appeared before a referees’ board without representation. Eight other appeals were rejected, however, without appellants having ‘recourse to reprsentation. aN AUCE striker . . . removes pick- ets after six weeks in. bitter dispute. Inquiry ends AUCE strike The strike-lockout of the clerical and technical workers at Simon Fraser University ended this week when the administration and AUCE Local 2 agreed to accept as binding the decisions of an industrial in- quiry commission. The commission will bring down its ruling on wages and vacation scheduling after an investigation. The union had earlier pressed for binding third-party arbitration and then for a binding industrial inquiry commission, but the administration had balked, instead demanding that the arbitration be based on the com- parability of AUCE’s wage scale to eight firms, each of which had lower wage scales. The inquiry will have no precon- ditions, however, and will consist of a‘ three-person tribunal with repre- sentation from union and manage- ment and a chairman. AUCE has appointed Diane Baigent as_ its representative to the tribunal. AUCE spokesman Joan Wood said that she hoped that the com- mission would look into more than wages and vacations and include “*the labor climate’’ as well, but was optimistic that the commission would rule favorably on the unions demands. “‘We are bound to get more than — the administration is offering,” Wood ‘said. AUCE wants six per cent in the first year and three per cent in the second year of a new contract. CONTRACT CARPET LAYING Commercial or residential Free estimates 879-1654 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING COMING EVENTS MAY 1.— Toast May Day after the Labor Council meeting, 10:00 p.m. 2016 Kitchener St., Van- couver. All welcome, proceeds to Tribune drive. MAY 4 — Meet the Communist Party candidates in Delta. Hom- er Stevens, federal candidate, Richmond-South Delta; John Stevens, provincial candidate for Delta. Ladner Fishermen’s Co-op Hall. Doors open 8 p.m., refreshments, admission by do- nation. MAY 6 — FRC chicken dinner, dance and bingo, 2 p.m., 600 Campbell Ave., all welcome. MAY 13 — Enjoy a pleasant Sun- day at Bruce and Helen’s, 2066 Parker St., Vancouver. From 3 p.m. Hungarian goulash supper, 4-6 p.m. Films and slides of Mexico and South America, PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 27, 1979—Page 15 7:30 p.m. Supper $4, children under 12. :half = price. Refreshments. Proceeds to Tribune Drive. KAMLOOPS MAY 12 — Spaghetti dinner at Ba- - buik’s, 2305 Bossert, Brockie- hurst, Kamloops. Hear Fred Wil- son, associate e d itor, Pacific Tribune. Film. Dinaer from 5-7 p.m. $3.50. Proceeds to fund drive. See EMPLOYMENT WANTED BCIT students for grass cutting, gardening, house painting. Ph. Bob 325-8634, 4-6 p.m. BUSINESS PERSONALS ROOF REPAIRS — Reasonable. 254-5836 or 27'7-3352. MOVING? CLEAN-UP? — Wanted, articles for resale. All proceeds to P.T. Phone 526-5226. ‘‘The Goodie Bin.”