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’ to target
' privatizing

The Socred sell-off of public enterprises
and services will be the target at a special
One-day conference, The Perils of Privatiza-
tion, in Vancouver Dec. 12.

‘Sponsored by the Vancouver and Dis-
trict Labour Council, the Council for Public
Services, End Legislated Poverty and other
Community organizations and trade unions,
its at the Robson Square Media Centre,
8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The registration fee is $25, which includes
lunch, or on a “pay what you can” basis.

Day care will be provided.

Included in the conference are work-

_ Shops on the impact of privatizing health
Care, education, municipal services, public
Utilities, transportation, welfare and social
Programs and housing, and environmental
Protection. Representatives involved with
€ac of those areas will lead the discussions.

nti. For further information, contact the
Vancouver and District Labour Council at
206-33 East 8th Ave., Vancouver, phone
a 879-2421.

_ Missile pact
celebration

: Dec. 8 is the date for the historic signing
. Of the treaty on Euromissiles by U.S. Presi-
dent Ronald Reagan and leader of the
Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. It will be
marked by celebrations in Washington,
Moscow and around the world, including
Vancouver.

On that date End the Arms Race, the

oup member peace coalition, kicks

Offits celebration to toast the treaty that will
eliminate some 2,000 Soviet and American
Medium- and short-range missiles from
Europe and Asia.

The affair begins at 7:30 p.m., at Heritage
House, 3102 Main St. at 16th Avenue.

Representatives of peace organizations
and Mayor Gordon Campbell will bring
brief greetings to the mainly festive occa-
sion.

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‘Conference.

In a unanimous standing vote, dele-
gates to the B.C. Federation of Labour
convention Tuesday demanded that the
federal government call an election on
the free trade deal and withdraw imme-
diately from any further negotiations on
the bilateral pact.

The resolution adopted by the con-
vention, a composite drawn from 10
resolutions on free trade submitted by
local unions, pledged the federation and
the Canadian Labour Congress to “use
every means of educational, political and
economic action to demonstrate the
opposition of working people to the
reduced standard of living, loss of sover-
eignty, employment and cultural herit-
age that will result from this sellout.” It

\ stopped short, however, of reiterating the
call for a national day of protest against
the deal urged by several of the resolu-
tions submitted to the convention.

“The Tories are probably going to be
a one-term government — but there’s a
danger that they’ll ram free trade down
our throats for their big business friends
before they’re voted out of office,” Uni-
ted Fishermen’s president Jack Nichol
warned delegates.

“The labour movement has to raise
the debate in every forum and force Mul-
roney to go to the people,” he said.

In other peace news, Bob Penner, head of
the Canadian Peace Alliance, will be in
town for talks Dec. 9-10.

Correction

World Peace Council activist Rob Prince
told us last week that U.S. Secretary of State
George Shultz said those who oppose the
signing of the treaty eliminating ground-
based missiles in Europe and Asia, ‘“‘can’t
count.”

Unfortunately, it appears we can’t, either.

We mixed up the figures in last week’s
story, Peace movement moved Reagan to
arms talks, when we listed the numbers of
medium-and short-range missiles each side
would be surrendering.

In fact, it is the Soviet Union that is giving
up the lion’s share — 1,500 missiles in
Eastern Europe and Asia — while the Uni-
ted States will be cutting 400 missiles from
Western Europe.

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The resolution followed a stinging
attack on the trade deal from federal
NDP leader Ed Broadbent who charged
that Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and
International Trade Minister Pat Carney
had deliberately misled Canadians on
the effects of the deal on regional devel-
opment programs and on resolution of
Canada-U.S. trade disputes.

“Within one week of Mulroney saying
that regional development programs

*t affected, a deputy minister of
finance appeared before a parliamentary
committee to say that the government
would have to change those develop-
ment programs because, if they didn’t,
they would risk countervail action by the
US.,” he said.

Similarly, he noted, briefing papers
prepared for U.S. Trade Representative
Clayton Yeutter stated that the U.S. “has
the same trading powers they had before
the deal” — refuting Carney’s claims
that the deal shielded Canada from U.S.
protectionism.

Broadbent charged “‘the government
has sold out our energy resources and for
that reason alone, they should be thrown
out of office.

“Canadians need, deserve and ought
to have a general election on this
issue — and they ought to have to it

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Canadians.

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