<> Fighting free trade A special Tribune supplement | Union vows to oppose Versatile shipyard shutdown — page 8 — Women’s jobs will be among the chief victims of the Canada-United States free trade deal, long-time trade union activist Madeleine Parent warned March 10. Parent, a member of the National Action Caucus on the Status of Women, urged an all-out fight against the free trade agreement at a talk sponsored by the Coalition Against “Free” Trade on March 10. She told an audience that included several delegates to the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers convention in Vancouver that social services such as health and education are key targets _ of the free trade pact. The pact threatens women’s jobs — since 82 per cent of working women — _ work in social services. Only about 12 . per cent are in manufacturing, but they form the bulk of the workforce in textiles and electrical appliances, _ industries also targeted by free trade, Parent said. - She noted that Dominion Textile, — the largest clothes manufacturer anda Canadian-owned firm, is already pre- paring for free trade: “They are invest- ing the capital they made in Canada, ~ out of the labour of Canadian workers, in the southern United States. ..where wages are low, where labour laws are atrocious, where very few workers are organized and where they are highly exploited. . .. “Tf Dominion Textile, a Canadian- based firm, is planning to take advan- tage of free trade, you can imagine _ what U.S. branch plants like Dupont _ are planning,” Parent said. see FREE page 2 Campaign against mining escalates as 26 arrested March 16, 1988 50° Vol. 51, No. 10 ey ..¥ Ba kt The STRATHCONA PARK... Protesters link arms while they await arrest after marching into Cream Silver Mines Ltd. drilling site March 12. Twenty-six people were arrested in the latest round Saturday, bringing to 64 the number who have been charged with mischief for disrupting the mining company’s exploratory drilling in the park. Among those arrested was Dr. Bruce Wood, a Campbell River physician and the president of Friends of Strathcona. The campaign against mining in Van- couver Island Strathcona Park is going to continue to escalate following 26 more arrests at Cream Silver Mines Ltd. drilling site Saturday, a spokesperson for the Friends of Strathcona said Tuesday. Anne Cubitt told the Tribune that the environmental organization was currently discussing further actions against mining in the park, including demonstrations at the jail where Friends members were still being held and protests at the drill site. And the executive of the Friends of Strathcona is unanimous that the public review of the Strathcona Park boundaries being set up by Environment Minister Bruce Strachan is “totally inadequate,” she said. “The review won’t deal with most of the issues that are at stake in the park,” she emphasized. “Moreover, the government can choose to listen or not — and there’s no indication from Strachan that they’ll do anything.” More than 200 people took part in a demonstration Saturday at Cream Silver’s drill rig in the south central part of the park, inside the so-called “recreational area” created by the provincial cabinet last year to allow resource development in the 77-year-old provincial park. Following the demonstration, 26 pro- testers surrounded the wooden shack housing the drill and refused to leave, halt- ing the drilling. They were arrested six hours later when RCMP came from Campbell River. Nineteen were released on their own recognizance after agreeing to bail condi- tions that they not go within five kilo- metres of the drill site. But seven others are being held in jail after they declined to accept the restric- tion. One of the seven, Dauod Jabbour, a member of the Western Canada Wilder- ness Committee, also refused to accept the condition that he not attempt to halt dril- ling. They are being held in the Nanaimo Regional Correctional Centre at Brannan Lake pending a bail hearing in County Court March 21 at which a decision is to be made on the bail restrictions. see DEMAND page 3 PHOTO — JOHN GORDON aansiaia