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the right-wing legislative them, and went on to warn package introduced by Ben• school districts that shutting nett's Social Credit govern• down in the event of a ment last July. If the govern• 1 teachers' strike could result in ment workers' dispute wasn't board members being charged settled by Tuesday, Nov. 8, it with breaking the law. B.C. would trigger "phase two" of 3111:11 Teachers Federation president Solidarity's protest: BCGEU Larry Kuehn was not in• members would be joined by timidated. He called Count• teachers, crown corporation Heinrich's position workers, civic employees, bus iitll "ridiculous," accused the drivers and hospital workers in •ill! minister of "playing games" escalating waves. But it all and suggested the war of down to depended on the premier. As words would only anger Province political columnist teachers. Allen Garr put it: "What we Thursday, Nov. 3: Nor was Phase 2 are experiencing, of course, is Operation Solidarity, the trade the latest example of the union segment of the coali• By Stan Persky premier's crisis-management tion, terrified by Heinrich. With less than one shift to style. First he creates the crisis After an emergency session, go before the B.C. Govern• and then everyone else is left Solidarity's Kube said the ment Employees Union's to manage." education minister's threats Halloween-midnight strike Tuesday, Nov. 1: The talks had "inflamed the situation" deadline, Premier Bill Bennett and vowed that Solidarity popped up on the tube Oct. 31 continued. Despite the rejec• tion of the premier's bid, the would call an immediate with a generous trick or treat University of B.C. student examines striking general strike of public sector offer. 1,600 BCGEU members were not fired and special mediator clerical worker's literature workers if any teachers were If the BCGEU called off its fired for walking off the job. Vince Ready appeared at the don't go dumping people with am." Kube also reminded the strike, the premier would "If any education employees Labor Relations Board offices 28 years on the job," he said, government that if a settle• delay (for- two-and-a half are victimized by the Bennett in Vancouver, site of the referring to Bill 3, the already- ment wasn't reached by Nov. days) the slated firing-without- government then we shall call negotiations, where special passed piece of legislation giv• 8,teachers would be the next cause of 1,600 of the union's upon all public sector members, and rush in special Bennett aide Norman Spector ing the government the power ones out. (with provincial secretary Jim to fire workers at will. "You employees to take immediate mediator Vince Ready to con• Wednesday, Nov. 2: job action," he said. Chabot hovering in the wings) can only push people so far Teachers were on the govern- tinue the already week-long Heinrich appeared to have negotiating talkathon. The led the government side of the and they'll stand up and fight ment's mind. While bargaining. for what they believe in." BCGEU talks continued second thoughts. Speaking to union declined the offer of the B.C. school principals in grinning jack-o-lantern on Meanwhile, out in the rain, Solidarity co-chair Art Kube under a news blackout, Ben• 35,000 striking workers underscored the determination nett's cabinet met all day in Nanaimo that day, he careful• TV, and by midnight, amid ly played down his earlier war• the noise of the Halloween pounded the pavement, of the strikers. "If essential Victoria. At the end, educa• picketing 3,000 government services legislation is invoked, tion minister Jack Heinrich ning. At the same time, the firecrackers, the first BCGEU president of the B.C. School pickets appeared. offices and shops around the I have every feeling that the threatened teachers. A province and explaining to BCGEU and other unions in teachers' strike would be il• Trustees Association called for What followed was Week "sanity and reason and a cool• One in a strike that could reporters what it was all the public sector will not legal, Heinrich claimed at a about. "This is about prin• adhere to that legislation," press conference. He also ing of tempers by all parties." eventually pit all of the com• That afternoon, the Bennett munity groups and trade ciples," BCGEU picket cap• Kube said. Asked if he was ad• reminded school boards that tain Jack Sherwood told the vising unions to defy the law if they could lift teachers' cer• government cooled down unions that make up B.C.'s See page 14 Solidarity movement against press. "Not money. You just necessary, he replied, "Yes, I tificates, effectively firing

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tion of classes and academic penalties. One man accused Teachers the student society of "mess• ing with my education and my future" by recommending the campus close until the dispute walk on is resolved. "We're trying to make sure the government doesn't mess threats with our future," said SFSS officer Ken Russell. Despite newspaper The student society opened editorials denouncing them, an off-campus strike informa• and a host of injunctions aim• tion office and organized stu• ed at stopping their job action, dent pickets. most of B.C.'s 30,000 teachers Students at Emily Carr Col• stayed away from school on lege of Art in Vancouver were the first day of their strike told the college would be open against government restraint but attendance would not be legislation. recorded. Faculty voted 83 per A last-ditch attempt to ham• cent in favor of walking out. mer out an agreement to pro• Instructors at David tect teachers from Bill 3, the Thompson University Centre Public Sector Restraint Act, in Nelson, off the job since was apparently foiled by the PPWC struck Oct. 25, plann• government's scuttling of an ed a one day protest. agreement between North Vancouver teachers and their HEU unafraid school board. School boards in Van• of scare letter couver, Victoria and Cran- By Debbie Wilson brook were granted injunc• The Hospital Employees tions Nov. 7 aimed at keeping Union is filing unfair labor the schools running. But practice charges against B.C. parents, school support staff hospitals for letters sent to and other municipal workers hospital workers warning of combined forces to shut down discipline if they refuse to most schools in places teachers cross picket lines to go to their were prohibited from jobs, says a union spokesper• picketing. son.

BEV DAVIES PHOTO The letters violate charter Provincial tallies on school Burnaby South teachers talk it over. of rights and labor code closures were unavailable at junctions against teachers are guarantees of the right to press time, but a Vancouver being dealt with by the B.C. political protest, said union school board spokesperson Supreme Court, since teachers Colleges seek secretary-business manager said less than 25 per cent of are not under the jurisdiction Jack Gerow. Hospital teachers and students showed of the labor code. employees across the province up for class the first day of the The strike came as a surprise injunctions have voted to walk off the job strike. to several observers in the Support for striking educa• Nov. 18 in support of an The Vancouver school labor movement and the tion workers was still being co• Operation Solidarity public board applied to the Labor media — many of whom ordinated as midnight ap• sector general strike. Relations Board for a cease- predicted that a settlement proached Nov. 7. Lecia Stewart, another and-desist order to prevent the covering public sector workers HEU spokesperson, said Student leaders at B.C. Canadian Union of Public and teachers would be reached members are threatened with post-secondary campuses ap• Employees and the Vancouver by the B.C. Government "all kinds" of penalities for pealed to their constituents to Municipal and Regional Employees Union and govern• staying off the job. Employees Union from ment negotiators. aid Operation Solidarity's strike action and respect picket "It's my understanding that picketing the schools. The As the teacher's strike there's some form of result of that injunction was deadline drew closer, the ten• lines. Some faculty members joined picket lines despite disciplinary action being not known at press time. sion mounted at the Labor threatened at just about every Relations Board, where threats of reprisals from ad• A spokesperson for the Bur• ministration. hospital in the province," naby school board said that negotiations were taking Stewart said. "Just pick a while all schools were officially place. Several campuses applied hospital and phone them." open, none operated with But when the haggard and Nov. 7 to the Labor Relations At the Shaughnessy more than half the student glum faces of B.C. Teachers' Board for injunctions against Hospital in Vancouver, labor population present. Federation president Larry picketing and after marathon relations representative Dave Kuehn and Art Kube, the head 25 hour deliberations, the Harvey said letters included B.C. school principals are of Operation Solidarity, ap• LRB granted injunctions at with pay cheques told expected to join the strike peared before an impatient UVic and the College of New employees that any strike ac• Nov. 9. The BCTF is also ask• and excited throng of Caledonia in Prince George. tion would be illegal, and any ing for financial support from reporters, all speculation was At press time UBC's appeal staff refusing to cross a picket other teacher groups across put to rest: there would be no was still before the LRB; and line would face discipline up to the country. settlement to prevent the an injunction was denied at and including firing. About 14,000 Canadian teachers' walkout. Douglas College. "On a hospital-wide basis Union of Public Employees Negotiations between the The Canadian Union of we're not instructing members also walked off the two sides were continuing at Public Employees at UVic said employees about what to do, job as the second phase of press time. It is expected that they would continue picketing because basically we're not ex• Operation Solidarity's strike the teacher's demands, which despite the LRB ruling. The pecting a picket line," Harvey strategy went into effect. Sup• deal with education spending B.C. Government Employees said. port staff at Vancouver and and "social and human Union, Association of Univer• Tony Beliso, an employee Victoria schools are CUPE rights," will be put on the sity and College Employees at Mount St. Joseph Hospital members. bargaining table along with and Pulp, Paper and Wood• in Vancouver said staff at his The Labor Relations Board the BCGEU's demands. workers of Canada continued hospital received the same let• is being asked to rule on a Operation Solidarity's picketing campuses. ter. number of injunctions re• escalating job action continues A Nov. 7 strike information "It's a form letter, obvious• quested by college and univer• Nov. 10 when crown corpora• meeting at Simon Fraser ly, to all employees to make sity employers in a bid to keep tion employees walk off the university drew 600 students them think twice about going their campuses open. Any in- job. concerned about the disrup• out," he said. TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1983

legislature; tenants' represen• have been granted intervenor tatives, at a nearby hotel. Break from status in the appeal, which Now tenants' groups are gives them the right to present Coalition reconsidering their offers of arguments at hearings and to consultation with the govern• bus drivers receive submissions from all ment on Bill 5, which parties in the dispute. eliminates the Rentalsman and The often-stormy labor rela• "It is our understanding opens strike rent controls and allows tions between bus drivers and that the public employers' landlords to evict tenants the Metro Transit Operating council urged Metro to without cause. Company are taking a turn for appeal," Colin Kelly, local 1 "We feel pretty much that it the better, says the head of the president of the Independent centre bus drivers' union. was just a continuing part of Canadian Transit Union said. Escalating public sector the sham," said B.C. Tenants' But better relations will not strikes have bumped the Rights Coalition spokesperson halt a possible walkout by Solidarity Coalition from the Wayne MacEachern. "It's not transit employees slated for headlines, and left some Less at work meeting in good faith. It's just Nov. 15 as part of Operation members of the Coalition another method used by the Solidarity's escalating public Unemployment in B.C. edg• wondering what role their Socreds to fool us again. sector strike strategy. Office ed up to 13.5 per cent last group will play in future strike "We took the time to and Technical Employees month (it was 13.4 per cent in strategy. prepare a brief. But they're Union members will also September), while in the rest So far, the Coalition has not prepared to see what the picket Metro work sites Nov. of the country the rate drop• urged its members to support alternatives are," he said. 15. ped from 11.3 to 11.1 per cent strikers either by joining them in October, Statistics Canada on the picket line or supplying They have not spoken with Meanwhile, Metro is ap• announced last week. them with coffee and food. Hewitt since then, but meetings pealing the Labor Relations The reality, however, was But the Lower Mainland between other ministers and Board ruling that political pro• worse than the figures. While Solidarity Coalition has taken other groups opposed to the test strikes do not violate the the number of unemployed that support one step further provincial government's collective agreement. B.C. people decreased across and set up an "action centre" legislation are planned later Hydro and the B.C. Council Canada and in B.C., so did the to coordinate joint picketing this month, MacEachern said. of Public Sector Employers number of those with work. and to supply some services to BEV DAVIES PHO community groups. Shane Simpson, the Coalition's coor• dinator and lone staff person at the 805 E. Pender office says unions and community groups will be asked to fund the centre for three months. "Hopefully, the centre will improve communication bet• ween individuals and groups," said Simpson. He said day care and other facilities may be set up by the centre. Out of work organize in Ont. The Ontario Federation of Labor began to organize the first province-wide union of unemployed workers in Canada last week. OFL president Cliff Pilkey said the federation would help the 45 district labor councils to recruit and organize Ontario's 400,000 jobless. Pilkey predicted that as many as 50,000 unemployed workers would likely join the organiza• tion. The fledgling union intends to become an active lobby group to press governments for full employment policies and better programs of sup• port for the jobless. Pilkey said that the new organization will push for greater social assistance benefits, since many unemployed workers have used up their unemployment in• surance. Tenants jilted at Hewitt meet A planned Nov. 2 meeting with tenants' representatives, relocated outside legislative picket lines, was a no-show for consumer and corporate af• fairs minister Jim Hewitt. Hewitt remained in the Joan Baez crooned for peace in midst of B.C. strife. TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1983

sultative committee urged trustees to support teachers. She was responding to SFU, UBC Parents slam remarks made by school board chairman Kim Campbell to reporters. Campbell said she school board hoped striking teachers "got their asses kicked" in court, protest and likened their planned budget cuts withdrawal of services to ter• rorism. By Trish Webb Trustee Pauline Weinstein "I hope the school board moved that Campbell resign surprise has a heart, because the pro• her position because of her vincial government does not," It was not a strike, or an of• remarks. parent Sophie Dikeakos told a "If this board had led the ficial resolution, or even a Nov. 7 Vancouver school majority decision by the facul• fight for proper funding, board meeting considering teachers would not be hitting ty at Burnaby's Simon Fraser drastic cuts to the school University. the bricks tomorrow," Wein• system. More than 200 parents stein said. But it sure surprised the and students turned out to "You made no comment faculty association president protest the cutbacks. that the cabinet should have when faculty members atten• Plans to reduce learning their asses kicked when they ding a Nov. 7 meeting voted to assistance, English as a Second closed schools for six days and walk off the job in protest for Language training and alter• took away six days pay last a week. nate school programs were year." contained in a budget proposal Her motion failed six to A formal faculty vote can leaked to the press last week. only be taken by mail. Nor can three. The plan, which could close BEV DAVIES PHOTOS faculty legally strike because seven schools and dismiss 734 they're an association and not teachers . and support staff, a union. Though only about was drafted in response to a 30 per cent of the university's ministry of education demand 450-odd faculty were even at Like mother for a $17 million reduction in the meeting, seventy four of 1984 operating costs. them favored withdrawing their services in protest against A public meeting of trustees the provincial government's and parent consultative com• legislation until Nov. 14. mittees was slated for Nov. 14 Student aid to debate the cuts, but the "Nevertheless it is a much possibility of pickets at school stronger statement than College and university stu• board offices prompted wor• anything that has come out of dent organizations have open• ried parents to crash the Nov. the University of B.C. or ed a crisis and information of• 7 board meeting. Chris Taulu, University of Victoria. These fice in East Vancouver. Vancouver district parent people are going to be losing The Students Helping representatives chair, said their pay purely as a political Students office, located at parents feared "the Non• protest," said faculty associa• 1011 Commercial Drive, is ad• partisan Association trustees tion president Ehor vising students about child would try to use the strike to Boyanowsky. care, financial aid and other pass the budget in secret." educational concerns. The of• "This is a directive from Many parents' group fice can be reached at representatives defended the their fellows; not a decree 251-5195. from the executive. It is a teachers' strike action. At least It was opened by the Can-' much more sincere thing six parents' groups promised adian Federation of Students, because of that," he said. to walk the picket line with Simon Fraser University, Boyanowski said some teachers. Douglas, Kwantlen and Inge Williams, chair of the faculty members who opposed Capilano student associations. the walkout offered to Southlands School con• like son. organize some other way to use part of their salaries to tackle the legislation. He guessed that roughly a Wet, confusing and successful on first picket shift quarter of SFU's faculty sight of Ed. And about 35 others. would stay off the job. By Stan Persky "So, what about the schools? What's happening?" At UBC Nov. 8, dressed in Naturally, I was late for my first shift on the picket "North Van's closed down. Only 10 crossed in West full academic regalia, 150 pro• line. Van, out of 300. I just heard it on the radio." fessors and 100 supporters And wet, since it was drizzling. And confused, since I "Yeah, but what about the injunctions?" picketed at the UBC's main had read the morning Province filled with news about in• "Didn't you get a call at 3:45 this morning?" gates Nov. 8. The recently- junctions against protesting teachers. formed Committee of Con• But in the middle of all the other thoughts I have driv• "No. Why?" cerned Academics said they ing over the Second Narrows bridge to Capilano College "Well, VMREU was organizing pickets for the have the support of 10 to 20 in North Van, there's always a moment that contains schools." per cent of UBC faculty. something other than my usual mental sludge. The morn• "And the teachers are allowed not to cross?" Close to half of all ing of my first picket shift, I looked up beyond the traf• "Yeah, it's a matter of conscience." chemistry and history pro• fic, past the low grey cloud underbelly, and out there, as "So, it's mostly closed?" fessors refused to perform if I'd never seen them before, was the heap of mountains, "Yeah, as long as most of it is shut down. Picketing their normal academic duties. each one distinct, half-wrapped in fog shrouds, isn't an exact science ... Do you want half a sandwich?" Not one social work faculty spotlighted with sun shafts breaking through the cloud And there I am, armed only with my picket sign member crossed the picket cover. The romance of it lasted about half a microsecond around my neck, a handful of goldenrod-colored leaflets lines erected by campus unions and then I was turning off Lillooet Road, hunting for a ("We, your instructors, are making a political protest at university gates. parking space, experiencing picketer anxiety. . . .") and my umbrella. I'm on the line no more than The committee pledged to Even though I've been protesting for a million years, five minutes before my character completely changes. "give aid and support to any I've never arrived at a demo, picket line, or political I'm homicidal every time a car drives through the line. student who is being penalized meeting without feeling, for an instant, the absolute cer• "Hey you, don't cross," I say to a student who's cross• for refusing to cross the picket tainty that I'm going to be the only one there. Fortunate• ing. lines during the present situa• ly, wrong again. We shuffle around, gossip, and agree that the protest is tion, and will intercede with There was Matthew, Noga, Sayer checking off the pretty much a success. administration and the faculty names on a clipboard, Carl in yellow slicker rain gear and Three or four hours later, I'm cold, and my bad leg is association to have them do ear to a crackling walkie talkie, the reassuringly familiar stiff. the same." o TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1983 from a $50-a-month Community In• tional and health systems on behalf true that defence of the principle of volvement Program payment for han• of everyone. seniority is part of the fight and that (RIAL dicapped welfare recipients, to Further Socred legislation destroys a BCGEU settlement represents an various services for women and regional planning, ends the ren- important victory. But that's only a children, to motor vehicle safety in• talsman process for solving disputes part of it. spection. Solidarity is opposed not between landlords and tenants, and When you add it all up, it's clear Backto only to the cutbacks, but also to the wipes out human rights protection in Solidarity's got a lot to fight for. way they were made — arbitrarily B.C. That's why, settled or not, Solidarity and without public hearings to find There have been efforts by the will continue. Never before in provin• out if they were the right cutbacks or government and its backers to make cial history have workers and com• basics even necessary. it appear that the current debate can munity groups come together for a Then there was the legislation be reduced to a narrow trade union struggle of this magnitude. That's Several union shop stewards in the itself. Bills 2 and 3 were a direct at• question of "bumping" rights. It's why the nation is watching B.C. past week have told us, surprisingly tack on public sector workers' rights. enough, that there are still many peo• If left unchallenged they would strip ple in the province who don't under• workers of normal bargaining rights BUTT OUT... PILSKIM J. stand what the fight is all about. and give the government the power to WORLD PEACE IS MV "Why don't you," suggested one "downsize" the public sector by fir• BUSINESS....""" veteran of the picket line, "use your ing workers without cause. Those are editorial to go through the basics one the bills the BCGEU has been more time?" Maybe it's not such a fighting, on behalf not only of its bad idea. own 40,000 members, but also for Here's what the Solidarity Coali• teachers, hospital workers and all tion and its trade union members, other public employees. such as the B.C. Government The package of Socred educational Employees Union, are fighting for: legislation and budgetary policy will restoration of social services, the cripple the school system, from future of education and health care, kindergarten right through university. workers' rights, democratic decision• That's why 30,000 teachers passed an making, dispute-solving procedures, unprecedented vote in favor of a and the preservation of human rights. political protest walkout. Socred Let's take them one at a time. health policy will have similar damag• Last summer, Premier Bill ing effects on the public's ability to Bennett's Social Credit government obtain adequate care. That's why introduced an extremist legislative 25,000 hospital employees are voting package in the name of fiscal on a political protest proposal. "restraint." Remember, none of these workers is Before any of the legislation was asking for money or any of the tradi• even debated, the government hacked tional demands of trade unionists. away at a range of social programs: They are trying to save our educa- COMMONHENSE how many Cubans can fit on head of a pin? By l.anny Beckman know how many Cubans are in the one, was a noble endeavor, but costly Specifically, they insist on repeatedly After it was all over, someone woke Solidarity Coalition (which happens to and inefficient. Enslaving entire coun• unlearning the lessons of modern Ronald Reagan up. The first words out have an active membership about the tries in a fell swoop was a more exalted history, which is mainly the lesson of of his mouth, after he'd been brought same size as the Grenadian and profitable expression of the na• Vietnam. Like the slow-witted bullies his cocoa and a children's atlas, were: population). tional will. they are, they try to avenge the "How many of them were there?" What's behind the Cuban-counting The scheme was manifestly brutal shitkicking they took from that little slave-country in someone else's It wasn't only the presidential compulsion? History. and hence was quickly adopted. For a backyard by brutalizing even smaller tongue which this question sat on the U.S. president James Monroe has century and a half it worked like a ones in their own. tip of. Harvey Kirck, Dan Rather, been dead for 150 years but his legacy charm. Then, in 1959, one small slave, Hugh Downs—the best minds in all lingers on. Monroe, who majored in Cuba, broke completely free. Counting and killing Cubans in television—relentlessly spat the same Marketing Techniques at college, was America's uninterrupted efforts to Grenada and Carriacou is a diversion query at anyone they could nail to the fond of the institution of slavery and recapture and lynch it have proven and moral booster but Ronald Reagan studio floor: "How many Cubans are had some modest ideas about exten• futile. (Chile was much less fortunate.) will never rest (not more than 16 hours in Grenada?" This simple question, ding it throughout the hemisphere. Now another slave, Nicaragua, has a day) until the U.S. has achieved its upon which the entire fate of the earth Enslaving negroes at home, one by taken a few steps off the plantation ultimate hemispheric goal, the recap• might still turn, is of course a variation and America and its dogs are in hot ture of Cuba. on an older question, "How many pursuit. Other slaves, too, are straying In the real world, this seems the im• Cubans are in Nicaragua ... El suspiciously close to the fence. possible ambition of a madman. In Salvador . . . Angola . . .?" Cuantos Cubanos? though, a scenario Clinging to Monroe's tattered vi• suggests itself. You'd think that only a few sion, the current hemispheric Once in every few million games, the geographers and travel agents would slaveowners betray a mean and foul cards will come up in this order: show any interest in the comings and temper that brings tennis brat John "How many Cubans are in goings of a handful of Cubans. But McEnroe to mind. Theirs, though, is Grenada?" this promises to mushroom into a ma• more understandable: they haven't "Three million." jor fad. Parker Bros, plans to blow won a major tournament for 40 years. "How many Cubans are in Trivial Pursuit out of the water with its For this they blame the umpire, the Nicaragua?" "boardgame of the eighties," Cuantos lineswomen, the ballgirls, the fans—in "Five million." Cubanos? And ABC intends to lift a word, Cuba. Cuba has set a bad ex• "How many Cubans are in Cuba?" Dezi Arnaz out of his alcohol bath to ample not only by showing the others a host the TV game show. path to freedom from the U.S., but "None." The last card says: "Take it, Mr. One nice thing about the Cuban- also by lending a direct hand now and Weinberger, it's yours." counting mania is that it can be then. adapted to innumerable para-miliatary The Reaganites' problem, though, is Lanny Beckman is publisher of situations. Bill Bennett will want to that they have a learning disorder. New Star Books in Vancouver.

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The "Cruise a Snooze" arti• the Solidarity movement. This tions) was that many EAR cle (Times, Oct. 26) had the is only understandable. What organizers helped out in the tone and distance of a review: is not justified is the planning of the previous "The event's small size was negativism and cheap shots week's hugely successful only outdone by its lack of en• taken at the peace movement Solidarity demonstration. An thusiasm." You might have in this article. unintended result of the analyzed why this important Solidarity movement is that event had little energy, given Miguel Figueroa some of the energy of the its context. The Solidarity rally Vancouver peace movement has been of the previous week attracted • drawn away for the intensely tremendous participation and "Thousands of lower worthwhile struggle against left many of us drained. Mainland people added their Bennett's legislative package. Everyone is doing what he or voices to anti-nuclear protests I'm not complaining about she can. That the demo occur• across the country this; it is a fact of life. In the red, no matter what the tur• Saturday . . ." This is how long run, both the Solidarity nout, should be lauded and The Sun began its coverage of and the peace movements are further actions concerning this the Refuse the Cruise march intimately related because vital issue should be reported on Oct. 22. Bennett's economic program intelligently. You're part of Now, how did the alter• is a clear attempt to align B.C. the alternate media, native newspaper cover the with the permanent war remember? event? Well, Solidarity Times economy of the Reagan ad• began its short article: "Last ministration. Renee Rodin April's flood of protest Vancouver became a trickle . . ."I would The Vancouver peace move• • have expected better from the ment is hardly about to roll You did not do justice to the Times. over and play dead as your ar• demonstrate in Canada, the Oct. 22 walk for peace. This Vancouver was deluged with ticle implied. U.S.A., and Western Europe A march of 5,000 people is international day of protest record downpours all day Fri• against the deployment of not a "snooze" when it is part Richard Clements celebrated the beginning of day and Saturday morning, Cruise and Pershing II of a world-wide protest that Vancouver United Nations disarmament abetting only five minutes weapons, and in favor of a drew over 2 million week. It was celebrated in 40 before the start of the march. nuclear freeze and balanced demonstrators in a single day. towns and cities across Second, the Refuse the Cruise disarmament. write in Canada, which included at march received only scant Christopher Allnutt least five places in B.C. The Regrettably, Solidarity publicity from the big bizz Vancouver We want to hear from you. article, which contained less Times' coverage of this impor• media (or for that matter from • Solidarity Times is looking than 200 words, did not con• tant event did not inform the Times) in the days leading I don't believe any of the forward to your letters, com• tain any of the above informa• readers about its significance, up to Oct. 22, in contrast to End the Arms Race organizers ments, criticisms and opi• tion. It certainly did not nor did the report cover the the advance coverage afforded who planned the Oct. 22 rally nions. speculate as to why the tur• remarks made to the rally by the April Walk for Peace. expected anything like the tur• war veteran "Giff" Gifford, Finally, the growing nout in April. The April event Here's how to Put It In nout was so low by com• Writing: write to Letters, parison with the one in April. Aid. Libby Davies, or MP fightback against Socred has come to be regarded by Pauline Jewett. Instead, the ar• legislation has removed many many Vancouverites as Solidarity Times, 545 W. 10th Alan Kingsley ticle, cynically headlined forces and organizations something special and unique. Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V5Z Vancouver "Cruise a Snooze," com• which otherwise would have Admittedly, it would have 1K9. • mented on the rally's "small played an active mobilizing been more satisfactory if, say, Letters must be signed and Thousands of Vancouver size" and "lack of en• role for the peace march. The 20,000 people came out Oct 22 bear the address of the writer residents rallied Oct. 22 to op• thusiasm," in general presen• trade union movement played instead of the approximately (name and address will be pose Cruise missile testing in ting a singularly negative im• a large role in organizing for 8,000 who showed up. withheld upon request). Canada. This action was part age of the event. the April walk, but has now Another reason for the Solidarity Times may edit let• of an international day of pro• Concerning the reasons for been forced to put the bulk of small turnout (besides the very ters for brevity, clarity and test which saw millions the relatively small turnout: its resources and energies into threatening weather condi• legality. MEDIAPATROL Day-by-day, Sun strike coverage goes bonkers Stan Persky ing used by the media to subtly attack sense of indignation about the scan• threw in an additional editorial blam• B.C.'s daily press has once again the strikers. dals, sleaze and extremism of the ing the opposition NDP, apparently discovered "the poor". But perhaps these media "pangs of Socred government. Along comes an for failing to denounce the strikers. For 351 days a year — the other 14 conscience" are merely typical of the actual protest against all of this, and Nowhere in any of this was there being devoted to a surge of Christmas• style of strike coverage in the business Nichols goes wonky. The BCGEU criticism for Bennett. "The govern• time charity and "empty stocking" press. When it comes to specifics, it members were "self-destructive lemm• ment has shown its awareness of what tales — the Sun and the Province leave Was the Sun that was hands-down win• ings" who had "taken temporary leave is at stake through its recent conces• the impoverished and the handicapped ners of the sweepstakes for editorial of their senses," she declared on Day sions," purred the Sun. Nowhere in the alone. But no sooner than a public sec• hysterics during Week One of B.C.'s One. The next day she was raging nitpicking could a reader get a sense of tor worker picks up a picket sign than burgeoning strike against Bill Bennett's against picket lines and fellow the breadth of the protestors' con• the business media suddenly realize legislative program. reporters who wouldn't cross them. cerns. (Yet CBC-TV's Toronto-based After that, it was the teachers' turn: The National and The Journal pro• that the "disadvantaged" are among The Sun had a field day. Day-by- us. Nichols compared them to kidnappers grams had little trouble understanding day, the Sun lead editorial and the sending death threat ransom notes. that the dispute as a wide-ranging af• The B.C. Government Employees regular column by its chief political fair involving fundamental questions analyst, Marjorie Nichols, was devoted Union had barely hit the bricks last Last Friday — Day Four — the Sun about the nature of society.) week before the dailies were running to proving why the strikers were wrong. went into a full court press against On Saturday, Day Five, there was front-page photos of people needing those who disagree with the premier. more of the same. On Sunday readers food, money, care and other social ser• On Day One, it was "a no-win Not satisfied with an editorial chastis• got a break: The Sun doesn't publish. vices. There were homeless victims strike." Soon the familiar catchphrases ing labor leaders "bent on confronta• But never fear. Southam Press' other sleeping in cars and fathers of babies were popping up: "period of chaos," tion," or another blast from Nichols, B.C. daily, the Province, was on the admitting to stealing baby food. "nightmarish chain reaction," the Sun called up the reserves. Denny doorstep with Fraser Institute While it's true that more and more "regrettable and unnecessary." By Boyd, a columnist normally devoted to economist Michael Walker cheering on British Columbians are in dire straits Day Two, Solidarity leader Art Kube chronicling the doings of the rich in the free enterprise lunatic fringe with a during the Great Recession of the was accused of being "irresponsible," syrupy prose, was now warning timely suggestion that the government ''80's, it's hard to escape the sneaking that catch-all term reserved for pro• teachers that they "risked the mark of ought to simply fire all public sector suspicion that the media's sudden con• testers. (Imagine an editorial that read: Brutus" if they struck; and temporary workers who won't knuckle under. cern with their plight is less than com• "We oppose this very responsible, civic columnist Pete McMartin (who All in all, it was classic fish-wrapper pletely sincere. Their desire to combat dignified, serious strike.") On Day only two weeks before was positively journalism; only in this case, the rotten various social evils would be more per• Three, the Sun editorial pontificated drooling over a black-tie Art Gallery prose out-stunk the harmless creature suasive if the media addressed such against "freedom denied." opening attended by the glitterati) lent from the sea. problems during strike-free spring• Then there is the curious case of a hand with a few paragraphs of union This is an occasional column of times. And one would be less Marjorie Nichols. For months colum• bashing. Finally, unable to find media criticism, Stan Persky is editor suspicious that the poor are simply be• nist Nichols displayed a finely honed anybody else to lash out at, the Sun of this paper. TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1983

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assume that this ultra-right all the way to the bank. companied by a loss of respect Deceit think tank, with its robber I still have to find Polaroids for the NDP locally. Whether When I learned, three mon• baron sweatshop mentality, somewhere to bank, but since Bennett's offer of "concilia• Mr. Bradley was reported ac• ths ago, that one of the only played its part in encouraging I am unemployed and with my tion" is like a man who sets curately or not, I wish to make two unionized branches of this group of workers to dump unemployment insurance fire to a building and then of• it clear he does not speak for VanCity had decertified, I the union. about to expire, the problem fers to help stamp out the the Comox Valley Solidarity complained to the direc• I was tempted to immediate• may soon be solved for me. blaze. It's the least he can do. Coalition and his alleged im• tors—both as a user of the ser• ly withdraw my funds from We may be starting late in However, it doesn't mean pressions are not shared by the vices and as a trade unionist. VanCity, but held back since I the day, but one thing that I there will be no more fires. majority of our members. That this decertification had received no reply to my think Solidarity can do is en• While the NDP is not a for• Bennett still defines should have occurred became complaint and felt also that to courage organized labor to mal coalition member due to democracy as his right to cen• understandable to me when make withdrawals between in• assist credit union and bank our non-partisan approach, tralize all power because he VanCity's membership in the terest dates would, in effect, workers to organize. the strong backing by NDP won the last (and he may mean Fraser Institute was revealed. reward them—and I had no Phil Hebbard members and supporters at last) election. He dismisses as It is not unreasonable to wish to provoke their laughter Vancouver every level has been a vital part poor losers those who believe of our success in building a democracy is also the right of coalition in this area. Our pro• local authority through spects for continued success Fifty bills municipal governments, depend on a growing mutual Picked up your paper while in the unions, school boards, health respect among all sectors op• city yesterday. Very much impress• collectives, etc. posing the offensive legisla• ed. I am one pensioner who does not tion. We must take care not to vote Social Credit and never would. Absolute power corrupts (be be divisive. It seems many of them do, and it Socred or Socialist). Therefore, it is reasonable to don't give a damn for anyone suf• Douglas Hillian, chair want power in as many hands II fering under the Socreds. I especial• Comox Valley Solidarity ly feel for the handicapped and their as possible. It may not be the Coalition loss of the $50. I hope my subscrip• tidiest form of government, tion helps to keep you in business. but it is better than Bennett's pathological world of "them A. Mae Young vs. us." We now face a situa• Civilized Vancouver tion where the most responsi• I am generally pleased with ble thing one can do is choose the articles and content of the a side and fight for it • paper. A small, but important, CIP needed wholeheartedly (blemishes, point: in the Oct. 26 issue, and all). The luxury of ex• You listed a number of general Stan Persky refers to govern• amining each problem on its strikes in your issue of Oct. 26. I'd ment workers as "civil ser• particular merits is kicked out a like to add one: Iceland, Oct. 24, vants." I previously couldn't in the cold as B.C. polarizes. 1975. The.women of Iceland held a have cared less. However, due one-day protest that shut the entire Karen Mill to Czar Bennett's contemp• country down. They held a massive Vancouver tuous, bullying attitude demonstration of 25,000 people in towards those of us in his the capital. They closed the schools, employ, I request you use the banks, transportation and telephone Next time phrase "public employee," or services, daycare centres, media and "government worker," but I am glad to see that Mr. industry. The economy ground to a not "civil servant." Trudeau is taking time off halt as unpaid women workers in from his busy schedule to save the home, and women in the paid I am not now, nor will I ever the world from total destruc• work force, stopped work. be a servant of this anti• tion. democratic government, nor Understanding the power of I would have gone myself, of the contemptible rabble women's work will be the key to but what with taxes, rent, that caused its election. winning these fights against the at• groceries and all this marching tack on all of us by the provincial in the streets, it's hard to find Lori Mitchell government. When we make our time for serious things. Victoria demands—for a rentalsman's of• Sorry, Pierre. Maybe next fice, human rights officers, social time. services, return of C.I.P., and inex• pensive medical care, to name a John Ayerbe Perishable few—we make them to move all Vancouver Following the ongoing people's struggles to a new level. political crisis in our province These demands are women's is somewhat like watching an demands. But if we lose any of those You, I on ui afternoon TV soap opera. We demands we have lost the very Please note that the enclos• are always left with a new set ground all workers stand on. ed cheque is post-dated. Had I of questions in our mind. been employed, I'd have been Ellen Woodsworth CIP worker Alvin Hoganson among the very first to Rather than try to answer Vancouver subscribe and buy gift hypothetical questions, we subscriptions, but on partial' should strive to understand the Light rapid spending on line Unemployment Insurance, basic aims of the Socreds and one has to budget and plan also to act collectively to en• A glaring example of lack of to approximately 13 times the system is being converted to ahead. sure that their aims do not suc• restraint in Victoria is getting cost of conventional systems the glorious old red, white and ceed. minimal attention in the now under construction in blue, even if repainting, or As a participant in Solidari• media. Portland and Sacramento. recovering of bus seats isn't ty, I've been among those who Basically, their aim is to It is Advanced Light Rapid That's restraint? due on the normal chafed for a media outlet in salvage a failed capitalist Transit, which is promising to The start-up capacity of maintenance cycle? friendly hands (in addition to system by enriching their Co-op Radio and the Pacific become the gold-plated Edsel ALRT is about one-half of Must have the good old business elite at the expense of Tribune) from the very begin• of the transit industry. Here is what B.C. Transit claims. Its Socred colors there. It will be working people and the under• ning, and will do everything I a system which has never car• pride and joy, the linear induc• good for the morale of the tax• privileged. This aim is to be can to help the paper succeed ried a passenger in revenue ser• tion motor, will be abandoned payer, when the ALRT tax fulfilled by destroying or and survive. vice, imposed by the provin• in future rail systems in its bite has so flattened his wallet weakening unions, by granting cial government without going home province of Ontario. that he can't afford the transit Ed McDonough tax concessions to the cor• to public tender. fare. The English transit expert, Vancouver porate elite, by increasing The latest estimate of Norman Thompson, put it so A.D. Turner, chair taxes on working people and capital cost is pushing $1 delicately when he said, "Van• Citizens for Rapid Transit removing their social services, billion. Essentially all that couver is taking a non• Say again Burnaby etc. money is to be borrowed. commercial approach." I write to correct an er• When all the capital and in• Three billion dollars. Ah, roneous impression that may To ensure the failure of the terest charges are paid after shucks, that's only about twice have been left by part of your Socreds' aims, we must act as about 30 years, the taxpayers the provincial deficit that's write in article "Breaking down bar• one or we are all likely to will have sunk about $3 billion worrying the fiscal brains in riers in Courtenay" (Times, perish. Let's give it our best into a line that doesn't even Victoria. Here's how to Put it in Oct. 26). The report attributed try. It's a long time until the cross the Fraser River, where You've gotta give credit Writing: write to Letters, comments to Wayne Bradley, next election. the real transit bottleneck con• though, to those tidy minds Solidarity Times, 545 W. 10th our coalition's employee, sug• Don Nordin tinues. In terms of cost per over there. Have you noticed Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V5Z gesting that the coalition's Gabriola kilometre, that will work out how everything in the transit 1K9. development has been ac• TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1983

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9 VANCOUVER • "Flamenco" with Carmelita, gypsy WHAT MflK£5 Vou TwirtK flamenco dancer, 10 p.m. Classical Joint, 231 1>\ not your RERL r>0O Carrall St. For more info call 689-0667. • "Three Brothers", a film by Italian great is it Because we Francesco Rosi, 7:30 p.m. Vancouver East HOhS-r LOOK TH£ SfviE ? Cinema, 7th and Commercial, for two nights. • "The Murder of Auguste Dupin" by playwright J. Ben Tarver, at Queen Elizabth Playhouse, 649 Cambie, until Nov. 26. For more info call 683-2311. • "Terrace Tanzi — The Venus Flytrap", a play by Clare Luckham, at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Victoria and Venables, until Nov. 26.

THURSDAY, NOV. 10 VANCOUVER • "Voyage of the Pacific Peacemaker" film showing at 12:30 p.m., at SUB-UBC, spon• sored by UBC students for Peace and Mutual Disarmament. • Benefit dinner for Nicaragua with MP Pauline Jewett speaking on her recent trip to Nicaragua and the recent invasion of Grenada, 7 p.m., at International House, UBC, sponsored by the Coalition for Aid to Nicaragua. For more info call 733-1021. • Training session for canvassers wanting to work on the fundraising drive for Medical Aid to • Toronto singer/songwriter Arlene Mantle El Salvador, 7 to 9 p.m., at CRS (corner of performs women's, labor and protest songs, 8 Odium and Charles). For more info call p.m., at La Quena, 1111 Commercial Drive. For 255-0523 or 255-4868. more info call 251-6626. • Film: "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" • "A Hot Fall Night, IWW Benefit Dance," 8 GET from the Slavonic cinema series, 7:30 p.m., at p.m., Ukrainian Hall, 805 East Pender, with Pacific Cinematheque, 1155 West Georgia. For music-by Communique. Tickets $5 for the more info call 732-6119. employed and $2 otherwise. Available at • Concert: "Ethnica" roots of common MacLeod's Books, and Octopus East. musicality, 11 a.m., at the Queen Elizabeth • Pub Night, a benefit dance for Rape Relief SERIOUS Playhouse, 630 Hamilton Street. Tickets — and the Women's Shelter 8 p.m., Hastings $1.50. Community Centre, 3096 East Hastings. Music WEDNESDAY, NOV.9 by Vancouver's Irish Comhaltas Band and VANCOUVER • Slide show on a nuclear-free Pacific and FRIDAY, NOV. 11 others. Tickets $4, $3 for the unemployed. For VANCOUVER more info call 872-8213. the history of the Pacific Peacemaker, 7:30 p.m., Bayview Community School(Collingwood • Singers Lynn McGown and Michael per• • Co-op Radio's Redeye news show, 9 a.m. and 6th). form contemporary and traditional political to noon, at 102.7 FM. For complete calendar of • Labor history lecture on Workers on the songs on the fiddle, concertina and melodium, 8 shows call 684-8494. Prairies in the 20th Century, 11:30 a.m. to p.m., at La Quena, 1111 Commercial Drive. 12:30 p.m., AQ 3150 at Simon Fraser Universi• Cover $2. For more info call 251-6626. MONDAY, NOV. 14 ty. Allen Seager lectures. • Jazz with Stuart Loseby, Glana Powrie, VANCOUVER BURNABY Steve Johnston, Harvey Korsbud and Sheila • Medical Aid to El Salvador, door-to-door • Burnaby Solidarity Coalition meeting, 7:30 Davies, 10 p.m. at the Classical Joint, 231 Car• canvass from 5:30 to 9 p.m. For more info call p.m. Burnaby Central High School, 4939 rall St. For 2 nights. For more info call 255-0523 or 255-4868. Canada Way. If your organization has members 689-0667. living in Burnaby and you haven't been • Film: "Choice of Arms" by Alain Corneau, TUESDAY, NOV. 15 represented at past meetings, please send a 10 p.m., at the Vancouver East Cinema, 7th and VANCOUVER delegate. Commercial. From the 11th until the 13th. For • Jazz with John Sereda quintet, 10 p.m., THURSDAY, NOV. 10 more info call 253-5455. the Classical Joint, 231 Carrall St. For.more info VANCOUVER • Film: "Un Chien Andalou and L'age d'or" call 689-0667. • Women Against the Budget's regualr from the Luis Bunuel tribute series, at 7:30 and meeting, 7:30 p.m., First United Church at 9:30 p.m., at Pacific Cinematheque, 1155 West WEDNESDAY, NOV. 16 Hastings and Gore. Georgia. For more info call 732-6119. VANCOUVER • Film: "The Clockmaker" by Bertrand FRIDAY, NOV. 11 SATURDAY, NOV. 12 Tauernier, 7:30 p.m., runs for two days at the VANCOUVER VANCOUVER Vancouver East Cinema, 7th and Commercial. • Woman's ceremony to remember women's • Training sessions for canvassers wanting For more info call 253-5455. experiences in war, 10:30 a.m. at Victory to work on the fund-raising drive for Medical Aid • Vittorio De Sica's Italian film "II Generale Square. Meet beforehand at Pender and to El Salvador, 1 to 3 p.m. at CRS (corner of Delia Rovere," 7:30 p.m. Pacific Cinemathe• Hamilton. Odium and Charles). For more info call que, 1155 West Georgia. For more info call TUESDAY, NOV. 15 255-1523 or 255-4868. 732-6119. VANCOUVER • Lawyer Michael Bolton gives a two evening class (Nov. 15 and 16) on civil disobedience, in• cluding an explanation of fundamental freedoms, civil rights, and Bill C-157, which was to create a civilain security intelligence agency. The class is at 7:30 p.m. at Britannia Secondary School, 1001 Cotton Drive. WEDNESDAY, NOV.16 VANCOUVER • Committee of Progressive Electors — South's regular monthly meeting, 7:30 p.m., Fraserview Library, 1950 Argyle. BURNABY • Labor lecture on the emergence of public sector unionism by Peter Warrian, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., BCGEU Hall, 4911 Canada Way. For more info call 291-3521. glllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHH E Volunteers are ^needed for the E E second annual Medical Aid for El E E Salvador canvass on Monday, E E Nov. 14, from 6 to 9 p.m. Only E E one short training session is need- E E ed. These will be held on Monday, E E Nov. 7 from 7 to 9 p.m. at La | E Quena coffee house, 1111 Com- E mercial Drive; Thursday, Nov. 10, s S from 7 to 9 p.m. at CRS (at the E E corner of Charles and Odium in E E East Van); and again at CRS on E E Saturday, Nov. 12 from 1 to 3 E E p.m. For information call E Theatre Space | 254-2230 or 255-0523. | Last year some $4,500 for =_ presents E medical supplies was raised in s Brecht's "Mother", E just three hours. E Nov. 1 7-Dec. 4 aiHiiiimiimimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimtiiiiiimmiiiiiiiNirc © TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1983 hat kind of people did the Klan penses (according to the Handbook, there touch" with like-minded organizations in attract? The Klan Handbook, was a $15 initiation fee, annual dues of $30 Canada. W needless to say, insists that only and lifetime memberships available for side from its actual size and its the cream of the white race joined the Klan: $300). secret financiers, there was "Our decision to become a citizen of the In• There also had to be outside sources of A another disturbing aspect of the visible Empire is the beginning of a whole money. McQuirter claimed that well-placed invisible empire: a number of Klan new attitude toward life. We are the new people in business and government secretly members appeared to be connected with elite, men and women of Race and gave money to his Klan. Wolfgang Droege law-' enforcement agencies. It was widely honour." made a similar boast about "more promi• suspected by anti-racism activists that the The active Canadian Klan members ap• nent members of the nation" clandestinely Klan was heavily infiltrated by the police. peared to fall into one of three general backing the KKK: "Such parties preferred The American experience certainly sup• categories. The first type of Klansmen to stay in the background . . . Their ported such suspicions. In the mid-sixties, could be described as frustrated young motives (for secrecy) were well-founded for example, it was estimated that the FBI white losers. Toronto Star reporter Neil and proved obvious: they couldn't com• had informers in the top levels of seven of Louttit, who infiltrated the Klan for several promise their positions of standing, but the 14 different Klans then in existence; of months in 1981, observed that many KKK their deepest convictions were that of a the estimated 10,000 active Klansmen, members were simply "down-and-out Canada overrun with race mixing, 2,000 were reportedly relaying information WASP losers, trying to blame their own mongrels,breakdown of morals." to the government. The morality, let alone failures on anybody but themselves." That Needless to say, such Klan claims were legality, of the actions of FBI informers assessment was echoed by an Ontario police difficult to confirm. Martin Weiche, a Nazi within the Klan was highly questionable. officer who followed the Klan: "They're a who lent his London, Ont., estate to the Was the same pattern occuring in bunch of losers. The Klan is just a vehicle Klan for cross burnings, said he was sym• Canada? Certainly, authorities here have for these guys, it's highly visible for young pathetic to the KKK: "I'm not a member. shown little reluctance to hire and pay in• people who have nothing. It's a place for They're just friends. There's a potential for formers who commit racial crimes while on them to go, to be somebody." Even Klan them. They have a number of young people the police payroll. leader Alexander McQuirter conceded he who all want to go out and have some ac• The best documented case of this was had attracted plenty of "misfits." Don An• tion." Weiche, who made his money in real revealed during the 1977 trial of Western drews, who dominated the extreme right- wing stage through the 1970s, dismissed most Klan members as "knee-jerk reac• tionaries" with little education who "are just looking around to kick some niggers." The average age of six Klansmen arrested iff Toronto on different occasions for various charges of mischief was 20 years; most were either unemployed or had no steady job. Typical among them was Derek Edward Saunders. Raised by his grand• parents in a poor, run-down section of east WHITEToronto , Saunders was 17 when he was drawn to the KKK. He had frequent run-ins with the police. According to one neighbor whose teenage son was brought to Klan meetings by Saunders, a major attraction for youths was the heavy consumption of alcohol at the Klan's Dundas Street head• quarters. HOODS Included in this category of Klan Julian Sher "losers" were some small-time criminals. In B.C., for example, the Klan began to takes us flirt with biker organizations; some members of a Surrey motorcycle gang were inside the reported to have joined the KKK. B.C. Klansman Al Hooper conceded "a lot of Invisible bikers" came to Klan meetings. These younger members were the Klan?s Empire arms and legs, carrying out some of the Alexander Mr. Ann Farmer organization's dirty work, but remaining essentially the foot soldiers. Less numerous but more influential in the Klan were the estate, admitted he gave cash to the Klan Guard leader Don Andrews. One of the older fascists, like Wolfgang Droege and but wouldn't say how much. "Sometimes, chief witnesses at the trial was Robert Armand Siksna — "the throwback to World when I attended their meetings, I'll put Toope, who in May, 1975, had been ap• War II types," as Louttit called them. some money in the collection box." When proached by a Corporal George Duggan of These were men born in Europe who were asked by Star reporter Louttit how much the RCMP to join the Western Guard. Over sympathetic or active in the Nazi movement Weiche contributed to the Klan, McQuirter the next year, Toope went out "a couple of there long before they encountered the said, "Put it this way, he was a hundred times" on Western Guard raids, Klan. They exerted an ideological influence millionaire." which included postering, spray painting over the Canadian Klan and helped give it Another wealthy Klan backer was Ian V. swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans on its decidely anti-Semitic bent. Macdonald, a senior civil servant in the homes and buildings, and throwing bricks The third, smallest category of Klan construction and consulting services branch through the windows of black and Jewish members consisted of those who came to of the federal department of Industry, religious establishments and homes. Toope the KKK not as frustrated losers or Trade and Commerce. McQuirter, who testified that at times he "would go to any longtime Nazis, but as middle class Cana• made frequent trips to Ottawa, boasted of extent to help the [Western Guard] Party" dians intellectually attracted to the Klan's his acquaintance with Macdonald, who ad• in order "to gain their confidence." He racism. McQuirter fits into this category, as mits his Klan sympathies but says he is not a became a "group leader" and sat in on did Ann Farmer, a student at the University member. their executive meetings. of B.C. who became a provincial KKK leader. Proud of, her Christian upbringing, "I provided only hospitality to Mc• Toope said he usually met with his she said she was "concerned about the in• Quirter," he said in an interview. "Some of RCMP supervisor a few times a month: creasing number of non-whites in Canadian his points of view have merit. The Klan "On every incident that I did go out, on society" and decided to join the Klan tends to clear the air; it puts things right out most incidents, I did phone my — the boss "because I am impressed by the Klan's in public. that I was working for then, Mr. George Dug• gan." Toope was paid "between $300 and spectacular history of fighting for white "Sympathetic? In a way," he said. "I $500 a month." He was never prosecuted rights." These young, articulate leaders was with the Klan in the sense that they for his participation in the Guard's illegal provided the public image for the Klan, the were a minority and they are discriminated actions. His RCMP handlers were also let sanitized facade behind which the confused against. They are harassed to a certain ex• off the hook. The trial judge at the time "losers" and the committed Nazis could tent and I think they should be allowed to concluded that the RCMP learned of the il• hide. have freedom of expression." legal acts only after the fact. But the n addition to these Klan members The Canadian Klan apparently also relied McDonald Royal Commission into RCMP were also the secret supporters of the heavily on financing from an international activities, which studied the Toope case, I KKK, the sympathetic financiers. web of fascist organizations and concluded otherwise: "We find it hard to "The Supporter provides the monies need• movements. "We get money coming in reconcile the findings of the trial judge with ed and is a mainstay of the organization," from different parts of the world — the testimony" since the RCMP officer and the Klan Handbook states. Running a England, Germany, France, Spain, Mexico his superiors were aware that Toope "was country-wide operation such as the Klan and other parts of South America," claim• being paid by tne RCMP at the time he was was not cheap. Never formally registered as ed Jacob Prins, one of the founding committing the offences" over a 14-month a legal entity or political party, the Klan was members of the Canadian KKK. Prins, who period. The commission concluded une- not required to provide a public budget or made several trips abroad, frequently quivocably: "Many of the acts of van• list of contributors. Its annual spending boasted about his connections with the Na• dalism carried out by the informer were per• must have run into the thousands of tional Front in England and neo-Nazi formed with the full knowledge of the dollars. groups in Germany. His boasts were pro• handler and his supervisors." McQuirter made a cross-Canada media bably not without foundation. During a How many Toopes were there in the Klan tour in 1980; the following year he made murder trial involving members of the pro- working for the police? One likely can• frequent trips between Toronto and Van• Nazi German Action Group in Stuttgart, didate was a KKK official named William couver to check on Klan activities. The West Germany, it was reported that "new Lau Richardson. Police informants usually KKK printed business cards, leaflets and a evidence of the existence of a world-wide "are chosen because of an existing personal newsletter and it would eventually publish a neo-Nazi organization has been history which allows them to approach a tabloid newspaper. Membership dues uncovered," and German Action Group target without arousing suspicion," accord• presumably paid for a part of these ex• leaders testified they were "in constant ing to the McDonald inquiry. For example, TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1983 the source might 'espouse' a philosophy continued his work for the police. "There is headquarters in Toronto, but frequently burning in B.C. The "elite troops" of the similar to that of the target." nothing that he knows that I would be wor• made trips to the Maritimes, southern On• Klan, as the Handbook described them, Toope became known to the RCMP ried about his passing on." The RCMP of• tario, the prairies and especially B.C. to were selected for the White Security Force. because of his anti-union and anti- ficer who supervised Richardson's work promote the organization's media image "Preference will be given to those having communist work during a stormy strike at (his "handler" as the position is known in and keep the troops in line. McQuirter's military or police background." The force Artistic Woodworkers. Richardson came the trade) told one Toronto journalist that right-hand man was Wolfgang Droege, ostensibly was divided into three sections: a with similar credentials. In the latter half of Richardson had been put in a "cool-off" chief Klan organizer. Droege, who had Defensive Security Branch trained in the 1970s, he worked for Centurion In• period after the bad publicity around the helped to build the Klan on the West Coast defence, crowd and riot control, the handl• vestigations Ltd. under Daniel McGarry, a Centurion trials. and in Ontario, was probably the only per• ing of attack dogs and military conduct; former Toronto policeman. Centurion Still, old informers never die, they just son in the Canadian Klan whom McQuirter Richardson's KIA, specializing in the in• specialized in union busting. In 1976, one hang around until they are needed again. respected as his equal. Certainly he was the filtration and disruption of opposition of Richardson's assignments was to work in The partial RACAR membership list which only other person who, as a Klan national groups; and the Klokan, or secret police. It a clothing company's warehouse to help set Richardson had obtained would have been organizer, made as'many official statements is doubtful that the White Security Force up the firing of two union organizers. of interest to the RCMP, traditionally to the press as McQuirter did. Directly actually operated effectively; the Hand• Three years later, Richardson built a much more cautious about left-wing beneath McQuirter was Gary MacFarlane, book's description of it appears for the bomb which was planted in the car of union organizations than about the extreme right. a former U.S. Marine and security guard most part to be Klan bravado and fiction. activists at McDonnell Douglas of Canada Police officials refuse to divulge the who headed the Klan's White Security It was undeniable, however, that Klan of• Ltd. He was put on probation after names of their informers inside the Klan, of Force. The security force included the Klan ficials took the question of violence serious• pleading guilty to public mischief. course, though they indirectly concede they Intelligence Agency led by William Lau ly. MacFarlane, head of the security force, Testimony at trials focusing on Centurion's have them. "We know what McQuirter is Richardson. was1 reported by the Toronto Star to wear a activities revealed that Richardson had going to do before he does," boasted one Below this national level were the Klan pistol and carry a blackjack in his hip previously worked for the Central In• Ontario Provincial Police official who wat• structures in individual provinces, called pocket. "You never argue with a man with telligence Agency and U.S. Army In• ched the Klan. The inch-thick file he had on "realms". Provincial leaders were called a gun," he was quoted as saying. Mac• telligence before coming to Canada in 1970. the KKK included many color photographs Grand Dragons. Jacob Prims held that post Farlane should know: he shot and killed a Richardson was quoted as saying he had a of Klan members taken at their meetings. in Ontario for several. In the Maritimes, a man in an argument; in April, 1973, he was "professional relationship" with the For the authorities, the employment of man named Tom Zink was named in a Klan found not guilty by reason of insanity. He RCMP. Star reporter Louttit said Richard- informers within groups like the KKK was newsletter as a regional director. In B.C., was committed to the maximum security

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son's experience included spying on left- the Klan chief initially was Dave Cook, a mental health centre in Penentanguishene, wing groups, Chilean exiles and American fisherman from Vancouver, until he was where he stayed until June, 1979. draft dodgers. kicked out of the KKK for publicly criticis• Jacob Prins, the Ontario Klan leader and Once he joined the Klan, it did not take ing Klan policy. He was replaced by Al former professional wrestler, said the .22 long for Richardson to rise quickly. A tall Hooper, a burly former truck driver and calibre magnum handgun was his favorite man in his forties, usually sporting dark construction worker who ran the Klan's ac• gun because "it packs a good wallop." To sunglasses, a brown leather jacket, jeans; tivities in the Vancovuer area, along with ensure other Klan members developed an and black boots, Richardson exuded the Klan media spokesperson Ann Farmer and appreciation for guns and military training, kind of confidence and toughness that must another Klan official named Dan Wray. the Klan organized "survival" camps which have appealed to the Klansmen. He was ("I've always been right-wing politically," included • arms instruction. McQuirter named to head the Klan Intelligence Agency explained Hooper, "and so when the Klan claimed there were four such camps in (KIA), which was supposed to spy on left- emerged here I jumped on the southern Ontario, but there is no direct wing and anti-racist groups for the Klan bandwagon." Hooper made his living run• evidence of their existence. (and, through Richardson, perhaps for the ning Patriot Press, a distribution outlet for In B.C., on the other hand, Klan leader police as well). The KIA's effectiveness — Klan and Nazi T-shirts, badges and related Cook announced the KKK was preparing in fact its very existence apart from paraphernalia.) for "unavoidable race war" by arming its Richardson himself — was difficult to Ordinarily Klan members were part of members with rifles, handguns, and sur• gauge, shrouded as the KIA was in secrecy. small groups or cells called dens, containing vival equipment." We recommend that our B.C. Klan chief Al Hooper, who told six to 30 members each. In a region where members buy guns and learn how to use reporters that the RCMP had approached there were several dens, a local chapter was them," he said. Klan member Dave Harris, his members to become paid informers, formed, led by a Giant. The Giant for nor• who claimed five years experience in the ar• claimed the KIA had "infiltrated several thwestern Metro Toronto, for example, was my, conducted arms training for his fellow left-wing organizations in Canada." John Gilroy, a truck driver in his thirties. Klansmen. Al Hooper admitted he and "Richardson did succeed briefly in join• Each den was supposed to be led by a Den other KKK members took a "lot of ing the Riverdale Action Committee Commander. In Rexdale, Ontario, for in• weapons training," usually in the form of Against Racism. Offering to help with the justified by the fact that it allowed them to stance, a young Klansman named Kenneth exercises lasting one or two days or, occa• security for a major anti-Klan rally set for keep tabs on the organization and to catch Whalen had that responsibility. Each den, sionally, longer. "A lot of people use their the spring of 1981, he even managed to criminal elements it attracted. according to the Handbook, was to hold own hunting rifles, semi-automatic rifles, M14s, AR15s," he said. secure a partial list of RACAR members Such reasoning might have been accep• three official functions per month. A and supporters before he was shut out of table had the police forces' inside informa• regular business meeting was supposed to New Westminster Columbian reporter the group when his background was tion on the Klan led to prosections, but the be scheduled in the first week of every Terry Glavin was able to confirm that at discovered. law enforcement bodies proved to be ex• month; there was supposed to be "at least least one day-long training course was given Was Richardson still on the RCMP tremely slow in moving against the Klan in one Klan social activity" such as a party or to 30 to 40 people by an arms expert who payroll, sent in to join the Klan with the any way. The nagging question remained: picnic per month, and every den was "re• charged $100 an hour. "They're arming promise of immunity from prosecution, how many Klansmen were getting paid by quired to conduct some sort of activity each themselves and they're quite serious," he much like Robert Toope's infiltration of the police while they were carrying out month that will spread the Klan message reported. the Western Guard? Or did Richardson sign various activities of racial harassment and and build membership" such as distributing The "invisible empire" of the Ku Klux up with the Klan on his own initiative, hop• violence? literature, holding a demonstration or call• Klan in Canada was deadly serious about its ing to later offer his information to his he Ku Klux Klan was secretive ing a public meeting. The Klan also claimed race war. With a small but devoted band of police contacts? The answers will probably about its internal structures as it to operate a Youth Corps "composed of members, access to outside funds and a never be known for certain. Richardson T was about its membership and boys and girls aged 14 through 17 who paramilitary structure, it was prepared. himself naturally, declines to confirm or financing. Nevertheless, from public and believe in the principles of the Ku Klux Warned Charan Gill of the B.C. Organiza• deny his association with the police. "Why private Klan documents, a picture could be Klan." tion to Fight Racism: "I think it's only a should I? Print what you want," he said painted of a highly-centralized organiza• What was particularly worrisome about matter of time before someone gets killed." from his Toronto home. tion. "Our Movement," said the Klan's in• the Klan's structure was its paramilitary Klan boss McQuirter was less tight-lipped ternal Handbook, "must be strong, viable overtones. The Klan, after all, had a mis• Julian Sher is a Montreal journalist now about his intelligence advisor's role. "Lau and capable of instant mobilization." As sion to accomplish, a war to win. "We see working for CBC radio. His book White was up front that he had been reporting to national director, or Grand Wizard, Alex• this as a race war, a struggle between whites Hoods, from which this is excerpted, was the RCMP in the past," McQuirter said, ander McQuirter ran a tight ship. He and non-whites," McQuirter allowed in one published this week by New Star Books of adding he was not concerned if Richardson generally worked out of the Klan's national of his less guarded moments during a cross Vancouver. TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1983

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Jim Stamos R. Bonar Trustee Financial Secretary THE HOUSES THE LIL'WAT BUILT By John Mackie them. A House of Commons commit• drews, who feels that the result is a lack areas where they don't have the exper• The first thing you notice are the tee report leaked to the Canadian Press of long-range planning and that bands tise to go it alone, such as road- kids. Kids walking on the side of the last week wants to get rid of the wind up with "peanuts" to appease building, they let DIA handle it under a road, kids sitting on the steps of Department of Indian Affairs within them; instead of getting money for 20 Vote 10. In other areas, such as dilapidated houses, kids playing with five years and let Indians rule houses, they get money for one. "The building houses, they took responsibili• dogs, kids hanging out here, there, and themselves. band has always been here ... we ty under a Vote 15 and hired a con• everywhere. There are 1,200 people The report recommends that a third know what our needs are," he says. struction management firm who live on the Mt. Currie Indian level of government (alongside the The problem is "that there's a lot of themselves. Reserve, five miles north of Pember- federal and provincial governments) be turnover in Indian Affairs. You just It took the band years to wade ton, and over half are under 20. set up on the reserves which would give get used to working with someone for through the red tape and actually get Indians the power to write their own four to six months and he's gone." There are only 170 houses to shelter the project underway. Because they're laws for the reserves, plus decide how these 1,200 people. That averages out There are many things bands have to on a flood plain, they had to relocate money is spent. Funds would be hand• to over seven per house. Mt. Currie has contend with when they want to see a 20 miles from the present village site in ed over in block payments like the a reputation as one of the most over• project through. First there's the Vote order to get Central Mortgage and federal government does with the pro• crowded reserves, but it is by no means 10/Vote 15 system. Vote 10 means that Housing Commission money (DIA put vincial governments. The new native unique. "There's a lot of Mt. Curries everything is managed by DIA and the up 40 per cent). Because they can't use governments would have complete up and down the coast, inland and Indian band has no say in how a pro• reserve land as equity with the banks, control over native lands and across the country," says Jean Rivard, ject is run, to the extent that, says An• for the portion of the money requiring resources, education, social develop• executive director of the Native Friend• drews, "contractors come in and the private sector loans they had to con• ment and taxation within their jurisdic• ship Centre in Vancouver. "That's in• band can't even ask for a job — they vince the minister of Indian Affairs to tion. dicative of how we treat Indian don't have to hire Indians from within come in and say "we'll guarantee the people." Native spokesmen are happy with the band." band will pay you back," says An• the recommendations, but are guarded Vote 15s are usually handed out to drews. Who's to blame? Chief Len An• in their remarks about whether or not the bigger bands who DIA feel can "Due to all the delays, that gave us drews of the Mt. Currie band, the the report will actually ever go through handle projects better and are run by an opportunity to teach some of our Lil'wat, finds it hard to pinpoint a as is. "It sounds alright, but time will the Indians themselves. The Mt. Currie people skills," he says, to the point single villain. The real problem, he tell," says Len Andrews. "It's hard to band is currently building 100 houses where 40 of the 60 people employed in says, lies in the faceless bureaucracy of get excited about it if all the commis• employing both systems. For those the project are band members. This the Department of Indian Affairs. sion does is make recommendations. helped alleviate some of the chronic People on the reserve knew long ago Whether they'll accept the recommen• • unemployment that has plagued the that housing was needed, that there dations is another thing. They can just band, and Indian reserves in general, was an explosion of children, and that turn around and table it." for the last few years. there was a need for job retraining Says Jean Rivard: "It'd be great if While the band was still "isolated" because logging, once the mainstay of we can pull it off." He says that, at — outside the realms of mainstftcZi the area, was on the decline. But they present, an educated guess is that only society — it was relatively self- have no control over the money need• about 35 per cent of the money spent sufficient, with farming and logging ed to implement programs. To do by Indian Affairs ($1.2 billion this providing the main employment. As things they knew were necessary, they year) ever gets to the bands themselves. the federal government's tentacles had to apply to Indian Affairs. At best, Rivard says that DIA often spends "a reached out, logging dropped and that means waddling through moun• lot of money finding ways not to do more whites moved into the valley. tains of red tape and years of delay. At it." Band X applies for money; DIA Social assistance beckoned and has worst, that means having somebody commissions a report on whether they been a major part of reserve life ever along the line, be they local, regional, should be given the money or not. The since. or federal, nix the proposal because report spends a good portion of the Nowadays the band is caught in a they deem it unreasonable. original amount asked for doing the ...... sis : • ' . . .. : . • ' • • . trap where they need it but don't really The way out of this mess, according report, which in turn recommends want it. Having a strong back no s.J:'.:" . • ' to native leaders, is to give people who against the original proposal. DIA then longer guarantees employment like it live on the reserve control over money commissions another report to find out did in the big logging days: today you spent on the reserve. It finally seems what they should do instead. need an education or work skills. Man• somebody in government agrees with "It basically comes from a position power and Capilano College have set Chief Len Andrews of distrust from both sides," says up training courses for reserve Rivard. "It (the bureaucracy) is against members, and it's through these you, not for you. The red tape is courses that people were trained for the basically a way not to do it. When I go housing project. to Ottawa and I see all these people in The real answer lies in reasserting their nice desks with their nice salaries, their independence, says Andrews. I think 'you guys are really out to Self-government will help rebuild In• lunch.' Seventy-five per cent of Ottawa dian dignity which has suffered bureaucrats (in Indian Affairs) have through the bad relations with Indian never worked in small communities. Of Affairs and the dependence on welfare. that 75 per cent, 80 per cent have never The band already runs its own school, worked out of Ottawa. That just blows albeit in a condemned building, you away." another legacy of Indian problems. A Len Andrews compares working new school will be built on the new site. with DIA to climbing a ladder. In Andrews' youth, he had to go to a "You're at the bottom of the ladder white school in Pemberton, and would and have to climb a bunch of steps. be strapped or sent to a corner if he You have to prove it to step one to get spoke his native tongue. As a result the to step two, and to step two to get to band's language, Lil'wat, fell into step three. You always have to impress disuse. Now they're trying to revitalize them to get to the top. If you falter, it by teaching it at the band school. then you're right back at the bottom "Language is ideology," he says. again. And you have had a hard time if "It's where you learn all your ideas. A you didn't do it right. If they're at kid today is really lost if he doesn't fault, what can you do?" know his language; he can't go to his DIA is understaffed and has a con• grandmother or grandfather and ask tinuous turnover, according to An• what life was like before." © TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1983 Heinrich's earlier hint of mass firings. Trouble In the one actual emergency situa• tion that occurred, government From page 2 Church Directory employees at Pearson long-term care enough to suspend its latest deadline hospital agreed to supply more staff for firing the 1,600 BCGEU members after being told of an outbreak of skin St. Paul's on the grounds that the ongoing disorders among bedridden patients. First United negotiations were making some pro• Saturday, Nov. 5: Both sides in the Roman Catholic gress. marathon negotiations withdrew to Church Church That night, however, Kube told a their respective corners to consider new 320 East Hastings St. 381 E. Cordova St. provincial Solidarity Coalition that if proposals. At the BCGEU head• Sunday Services: Sunday Masses: the teachers were forced onto the quarters in Burnaby, representatives 10:30 a.m. & 7:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. picket lines, Solidarity would demand from provincial government employee changes in legislation on education unions across the country convened in spending and human rights before an unprecedented meeting and an• agreeing to return to work. nounced their support for B.C. Friday, Nov. 4: While the BCGEU workers by pledging $3 million in con• The Members and the government exchanged new tributions and loans. of proposals to ensure seniority rights for Sunday, Nov. 6: The rains con• public sector workers, federal govern• tinued, and the talks resumed. For the ment employees in B.C. announced second weekend in a row, British Col• Canadian Paperworkers Union they would hold a vote on whether to umbians waited while the clock ticked join the strike if it escalated. At the down to the next deadline. Across the paperwork same time, despite Heinrich's apparent province, teachers at schools and col• softening of the government line the leges took out the last piece of chalk day before, 30,000 teachers received a and prepared to draw the line if a threatening letter from deputy educa• public sector settelment wasn't reach• tion minister Jim Carter repeating ed.

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By Bob Bossin Surely they had front row seats on the methodical pace and sombre mood. In Heroes are grand fodder for the manipulation of a research program in• fact, The Flight of the Eagle is A he right stuff that Dorothy movies. Whether they are debunked or to a propaganda one with them carry• downright grim, though it rewards the Stratten had was something else e** ' canonized, their exploits provide lots ing the can. How did they feel about effort it demands. It is one of those She had a body, face and innocence of of thrust for the plot and great vistas that? How did they reconcile their rare movies that continues to develop in expression that enraptured Hugh for the camera. So it is this week in family responsibilities with the the mind weeks after one leaves the Hefner, who made her his Miss Vancouver movie theatres. At the Van• likelihood of sudden death ? What did theatre. August. It was also the right stuff for couver Centre, the Mercury astronauts they really think they were doing it for? In 1897, amateur explorer S.A. An- Playboy readers, if readers is the pro• re-ascend into orbit in The Right Stuff. What, for them, was courage or fear? dree (Max Von Sydow) and two per noun, who voted her Playmate of This weekend at the Vancouver East, Such questions don't arise to slow The assistants undertook, amid much the Year, and for Peter Bogdanovitch, turn-of-the-century explorers set out Right Stuff in its breakneck rush of toasting by Swedish society, to reach the film director who took her into his for the North Pole in The Flight of the ballyhoo, easy laughs and whooshing the North Pole by balloon. The expedi• movie, his heart and his bed. She was Eagle. At the Downtown, that favorite rockets. Perhaps that's why it failed to tion quickly becomes a shambles, and murdered by her cuckolded husband. hero of the '70s, the committed jour• ring applause from the audience: it is it becomes apparent that it could never Star 80 depicts the last few years of nalist risks life and love Under Fire. just too cynical in its aspiration to have been anything else. Alone in the Stratten's short life and director Bob And, though not exactly a hero, uplift. Arctic wastes (beautifully filmed by Fosse keeps things moving along with Dorothy Stratten does become Troell whose previous credits include almost enough verve to cover up the Playmate-of the Year before being The Emigrants and The New Land) the movie's obvious failings. Above all, murdered in Star 80 at the Capital. J an Troell's brilliant The Flight of explorers themselves cannot avoid such credit must go Mariel Hemingway who the Eagle has all that The Right Stuff realizations, and must face the implica• once again plays an ingenue, as she did leaves out. Though nominated as Best tions for their own notions of T hat The Right Stuff failed to win in Manhattan and Personal Best. God, Foreign Film in last year's Oscars (it manhood. To Tom Wolfe, the right an ovation from the Vancouver Centre she does that well. Soon other such lost to the treacley To Begin Again), it stuff is "the uncritical ability to face audience is remarkable, not because performances will be compared to hers has not done well in North America, danger." The Flight of the Eagle the picture deserved an ovation, but in the way that actors doing rebels are perhaps because of its slow, defines it very differently. because it wanted one so desperately. It judged against Brando. tried everything: the soaring music of Star Wars, the ear-bursting sound ef• fects of Rocky, the mystical skyscapes of 2001, comic relief from Abbot and Costello, and more sunsets than any movie since Gone With the Wind. The Never Cry Wolf evokes grandeur Right Stuff is as insistent on being lov• ed as a puppy, and as subtle in its tac• By David Gordon Tyler eventually discovers a wolf he tics. - even kill Tyler's wolf pack but for the From the first frame to the last, calls George. George accepts Tyler's fact Tyler "would be angry and has a This is not to say that the film is Never Cry Wolf is a gorgeous, trespasses in a hilarious scene, as they bigger gun." without merits. It has some fine ensem• graceful, almost stately evocation of stake out their respective territories by George and his mate are eventually ble acting among the astronauts. Ed the grandeur of the Far North. Shot urinating. Tyler finds George's lair, killed by hunters, desecrators from the Harris does a great John Glenn, after shot of spectacular beauty is where he is raising cubs with his mate, "civilized" south. This enrages Tyler, squeaky clean, human and just a little blended to create a breath-taking mon• and discovers that wolves subsist most• who grabs his rifle to shoot at the nuts. Scott Glenn, last seen as the tage. ly on mice. He too begins cooking and hunters leaving by plane. In a sloppily- coach in Personal Best, pares Alan eating mice,because his food supply is Charles Martin Smith plays Tyler, edited sequence, we hear two shots but Shepard down to skin, bone and an academic who travels north to see if running low. nerves, and Dennis Quaid reads Gor• never actually see Tyler firing. Disney wolves are responsible for a dramatic Pictures may not have wanted to show don Cooper as the ultimate hot-rodder. Tyler goes "native" — even helping decline in caribou herds. He arrives at the hero performing a deliberately The actors have sorhe taut, gritty the wolves hunt. His two Inuit his solitary watching post with a bas• malicious act, even though we sym• writing to work with, helping them get teachers, Ootek and a younger, soon, 24 cases of beer, and a pathize completely. at the earthier side of America's sup• preconception of wolves as terrible, English-speaking native, are much posedly finest young men. vicious beasts. All are useless. more practical. Although wolves kill Never Cry Wolf is a finely This layer of candor obscures the Tyler is not prepared for the only weak and sick caribou, upgrading understated defense of the north and fact that the film is, at heart, puffery, a wilderness and would probably die the gene pool, the Inuit do not hesitate of wolves. It is a far cry from the vision promo package for the American space before he ever saw a wolf, but for• to kill them, since a single wolf pelt fet• of wolves Disney gave us in cartoons. program. If the astronauts ever wrestl• tunately Ootek, an old Inuit, befriends ches $350. The younger Inuit explains Farley Mowat has found the best ed with their angels, we never see it. him and provides shelter. it is a matter of survival. He would studio for the adaption of his book. TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1983

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