BCGEU OUT: TEACHERS NEXT? (P3)

VOLUME 1, NUMBER 3 NOVEMBER 2, 1983

B.C. TEETERS ON THE EDGEjCPAS.ES. 2, 3,8)

BCGEU MEMBERS WALKOUT OCTOBER 31 AT MIDNIGHT BEV OAVIES PHOTO

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DERA FIGHTS THE GOOD FIGHT (P5) Stcond-CI»i« Mill Bulk. 3rd Class Rejlstritton Ptrtfing Vincauvtr, B.C. No. 5138 e TIMES, NOV. 2, 1983 changes to a program that president Art Kube unveiled Public Employees to join the ranged from elimination of the an escalating program of job GEU at the bargaining table as province's Human Rights action unanimously adopted observers. It was an un• Commission to labor legisla• .over the weekend by the mistakable signal that the Trouble in tion allowing the government federation's 32-member ex• government had to settle with to override contracts and fire ecutive council. If the govern• the entire public sector, or not public sector workers without ment attempted to retaliate at all. cause. with back-to-work legislation, As the talks proceeded But when more than 50,000 Kramer warned that the through the week with few Solidarity marchers paraded 225,000-member federation signs of progress — and over• past the Socred annual con• would support affiliates defy• shadowed by a startling inter• vention on Oct. 15, two weeks ing such legislation. national event, the invasion of before the slated firing of "We've had a number of Grenada by U.S. troops — the 1,600 members of the B.C. communiques in the past week embattled B.C. workers pick• Government Employees from the private sector unions ed up bits of support here and Ticked Union, the premier had second telling us if the federation calls there. The Ontario Supreme thoughts. Bennett took to for an all-out action, they Court ruled that part of the television Oct. 20. Though would support it. That's as Ontario legislative program vowing that protestors would close to a general strike as preventing workers from not be permitted to "picket damn is to swearing," said bargaining on non-monetary off talks their way to prosperity," he Kramer. items — similar to the Ben- softened his stand once past Provincial Secretary Jim nentt government's proposed the rhetoric, offering Solidari• .'I''.'':.'' Bill 2 — violated the constitu• By Stan Persky • Chabot vowed the next day Even with an additional ty ministerial consultation on that the government would not tion's Charter of Rights pro• hour gained from the seasonal unpassed legislation and in• back down on Bill 3. "Bill 3 is tecting freedom of associa• setting-back of the clock, it viting the BCGEU back to the law and Bill 3 won't be chang• tion. B.C. Attorney General went down to the wire. bargaining table with hints ed .. . there is no intention Brian Smith as much as admit• As timepieces ticked toward that an "exemption" was BEV DAV1FS PHOTO on the part of the government ted that Bill 2 was dead in the a midnight, Oct. 31 deadline possible from Bill 3, the firing- At the same time, in an to repeal Bill 3," he insisted. water unless the ruling was for the launching of an un• without-cause law. unrelated labor dispute, pulp Chabot dismissed Kramer's overturned by a higher court. precedented general strike in On Monday, Oct. 24, workers locked out at nine warning, saying, "Our Also in Ontario, B.C. B.C., teams of government government and BCGEU mills indicated they would be negotiations are with the workers got a boost from the and union negotiators jawed negotiators began a last-ditch willing to go back to work in a BCGEU, not the B.C. Federa• annual convention of the their way into the seventh day week of talks behind closed bid to re-start stalled talks in tion of Labor. The talks are Canadian Union of Public of marathon talks designed to doors at the B.C. Labor Rela• the forestry industry. (The separate and distinct." Employees. A string of avert the confrontation. tions Board with the help of lockout was lifted later in the By mid-week, however, the speakers — from Canadian For four months, a board chairman Steven week.) BCGEU made sure the talks Labor Congress president burgeoning organization of Kelleher. For its part, Solidari• But not all signs were were not "separate and Dennis McDermott to B.C. trade unions and. community ty Coalition announced the hopeful. As bargainers met distinct." Making clear that NDP MLA Rosemary Brown groups — the Solidarity Coali• same day that it would take up under a news blackout, B.C. the 40,000-member civil ser• to newly-elected CUPE presi• tion — had marched, rallied, Bennett's offer to meet with Federation of Labor secretary- vant union was not about to dent Jeff Rose — criticised the petitioned and protested cabinet ministers to discuss treasurer Mike Kramer sketch• cut a deal on its own and leave Bennett regime. My first against a harsh right-wing yet-to-be passed legislation on ed out the high stakes in stark the other public sector workers priority, said Rose, head of package of so-called human rights, health, and the terms. He warned that any hanging out to dry, GEU chief Canada's largest union, is to "restraint" legislation in• rentalsman process. "We want move by the government to negotiator Cliff Andstein in• fight the B.C. government's troduced by Premier Bill Ben• to bend over backwards to be force public sector workers vited representatives from the program to fire civil servants. nett's Social Credit govern• as co-operative as possible," back on the job if talks failed B.C. Teachers Federation, the "That is where the spearhead ment last July. And for four said coalition co-chair Renate would precipitate a general Hospital Employees Union of government repression is months Bennett resisted Shearer. strike. Kramer and B.C. Fed and the Canadian Union of See page 14: TROUBLE

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• The provincial cabinet has decided to institute • When government examinations were last used, provincial government examinations for all Grade it was to screen that small percentage of students 12 students, starting in January 1983. who went on to a college career. Now, in a different society, the examinations will downgrade • 1937 was the last year that all students were "non-academic" studies and take us back to a required to write government examinations. pre-World War II pattern.

• The two-hour examinations will count for 50% of the • The examinations will discriminate against student's mark in each course; they are worth as students who are not going to university. much as an entire year's work. • Provincial examinations set last year by the • There is no academic evidence that government Ministry of Education were ill-conceived and examinations give any better prediction about a badly administered. We are proceeding hastily student's success in university than do teachers' toward a new set of examinations developed by marks. In fact, the evidence points the other way. the same ministry.

• Teachers do give examinations, all year: class • In a time of "restraint" provincial examinations will exams, school exams and district exams. cost $3,000,000 per year.

Education Minister Heinrich says that one of the purposes of the examinations is "to respond to strong public concerns for improved standards of education."

Parents, school boards, and students have been expressing their concerns about the examinations.

Add your voice to theirs and let the minister and your MLA know that the proposed examinations have more to do with privilege and discrimination than with education.

message from the British Columbia Teachers' Federation. TIMES, NOV. 2, 1983

and to limit what can be in• the timetable for future job ac• strike," according to Pat cluded in a public sector col• tion looks like this: Clarke, the B.C. Teachers lective agreement. • Nov. 8 — Teachers and Federation's vice president. education employees, in• Strike on; The labor movement has The teachers, whose strike cluding those in universities will be part of Operation also said that the next move is and colleges, walk off the job. up to the government, who are Solidarity's escalating protest • Nov. 10 — Workers at strategy against the legislation, now in the position of either Crown corporations such as talks too making a major concession voted 59 per cent in favor of B.C. Hydro, B.C. Rail and the strike action in a vote an• during bargaining, or using provincial ferry fleet join the By Keith Baldrey their power to order the nounced Oct. 29. The strike strike. will go ahead as planned Twelve hours after govern• workers back to work through • Nov. 14 — Transporta• unless the B.C. Government ment workers across the pro• the Essential Services Act or tion workers, including bus Employees Union reaches an vince went out on strike, their back-to-work legislation. drivers, and civic workers join agreement with the provincial union leaders and the provin• But Operation Solidarity the strike. government. cial government's negotiators and B.C. Federation of Labor • Nov. 18 — Leaving were back at the bargaining president Art Kube said Oct. enough people at work to care "The vote is an expression table. 31 that Federation affiliates for critical patients, the of frustration by teachers," But any hope for an agree• will be advised to disregard members of the Hospital says Clarke. "The (former ment that would end the strike any orders to return to work, Employees Union and the education minister Bill) by 35,000 government and any attempt by the Health Sciences Association Vander Zalm era did a lot to employees depends on one side government to punish unions walk out at the province's radicalize us." backing down from the firmly or individuals for that refusal hospitals. Clarke says while the strike entrenched position it has held will be met with an escalation Among the services affected vote was "not a terrific man• since the budget was brought of job action that could lead to by the strike are the liquor date," he thinks support for down. a general strike. stores, traffic courts, highway job action among teachers is And that will be hard for If no settlement is reached, maintenance, coroners' ser• higher than the 59 per cent either side to do: the labor vices, sheriff's services, because the question on the movement says it's fighting to human resources counselling, voting ballot did not mention keep basic workers' rights and probation officers and provin• the Solidarity movement. for its survival; the provincial cial prison guards. government has made a firm The union plans to keep "Many teachers don't want committment to its supporters almost 2,000 workers on the to go out on strike alone, but to lead the province into job to supply what they con• the support for Operation economic prosperity by sider to be essential services. Solidarity is quite high among drastically reducing the civil At press time, negotiations our membership," he said. service and curbing union were continuing at the Labor The teachers' contract does strength. Relations Board with newly not expire until Dec. 31 and so Down in the B.C. Govern• appointed mediator Vince a strike would not be legal, but ment Employees' strike head• Ready on hand to assist. Clarke says they are hoping quarters, staff people say their job action will be ruled a they're prepared for a long "political protest" by the strike. "We started planning courts, and therefore legal. for this strike on July 7. We're Teachers go "We have well established ready to go and only a miracle precedents and we're quite will stop us," said a worker confident any injunction can who refused to be identified. next week be overruled on the basis of The long planning for the our arguments," said Clarke. strike is evident in the "war By Keith Baldrey Earlier this year one-day room." Gone is the usual walkouts by Vancouver bus B.C.'s public schools are chaos of strike preparation: drivers and government slated for a Nov. 8 shutdown there is no frantic, last-minute employees in Victoria to at• when the province's 30,000 rushing around to plug holes tend anti-budget rallies were teachers walk off the job to on picket lines or anything like ruled political protests by the support the fight against the that. Labor Relations Board. government's public sector Instead, the atmosphere is restraint legislation. business like and low-key. The last strike by B.C. "We've known what we had And the teachers are also teachers was a one-day to do for quite a while. It's BCGEU takes Halloween hike prepared "to join a general walkout over pensions in 1971. almost anti-climatic now that the strike is actually happen• ing," said a person answering phones two hours before the Midnight strikers provide walkout fireworks first picket lines went up. By Debbie Wilson fice in the area which remains open when all the human The union has divided the "Welcome to the general strike." resources offices shut down for the night, on weekends province and large cities into It was greeted — although prematurely — with and holidays, or when child abuse calls or urgent calls for geographic zones, with dif• sparklers and fireworks a minute after midnight Oct. 31 aid come in. They had a street program for juvenile pro• ferent people responsible for at the emergency human resources office in downtown stitutes: it was cancelled. Eight of the office's 50 coordinating each zone's Vancouver. Off-duty staff and fired workers from other employees are sacked. pickets. In the Lower offices of the ministry assembled to join one of the first Mainland, for example, there Mariam Moses was one of the staff terminated Oct. 31. picket lines in the government employees' dispute with are 50 zone representatives She was telephoned last week and asked to come to work the province. and 500 picket captains. Nov. 1. She was told a letter was on its way. "I wouldn't miss this for the world," said Ken But the letter never arrived and many staff think the A daily strike bulletin will Holmes, a fired Port Moody human resources worker. promise of delayed layoffs was simply a ruse by the also be issued to each member, Despite the holiday atmosphere, every B.C. Govern• government. the union says. After the ment Employees' Union member interviewed was certain "I want my job," said Moses." And if I don't get my strike's first week, picketers many more picket lines will be established by other job back there there's really not much point in going will receive $75 a week in unions before this strike is over. Picketers were prepared back." strike pay, plus $15 for each for a long wait. "Resolute" was shop steward Joe Whit• Even the union leadership turned out on the line. Chief dependent. man's word. negotiator Cliff Andstein showed up as the embers in the How long will the strike "I don't think this strike could have been avoided," bonfire barrel at the back of the building began to cool. last? said Michael McAllister, a social worker at the office for And John Shields, first vice president of the BCGEU, The union and Operation five years. "I don't want to go out. But I think there are paced the picket line with the rest of the strikers. Solidarity have continually principles involved. He was fired from his human resources job in Victoria said they will not give in on "I'm not picketing about my contract. It's not about when staff cuts were made. The second vice president was their demand that layoffs in all my wages or benefits." fired too. public sector unions be carried "It's really hard to leave the office," said McAllister. "We were both singled out," said Shields. "In my of• out on a seniority basis applied "There's one manager to handle all those kids. They've fice I was the only one fired." through the entire bargaining been phoning all night. They want to know what they're While he spoke, witches, vikings, and other costumed unit. The government wants going to do." forms stamped the sidewalk and hooted support while the right to severely restrict The emergency office is the only human resources of• they passed. any seniority considerations, TIMES, NOV. 2, 1983

cant effect," said Peter Cook, abiding by the advice in this the credit union's corporate letter," says Wayne affairs manager. Landlords MacEachern. "They're Kids lose But VanCity will sooner or already taking advantage of later "have to decide if they people. There has been a want big business banking ignore rules drastic increase in the number with cuts there, or working people," of complaints." says Ed Lavalle, one of the An attempt by a landlord's If proposed cuts to Van• boycott's organizors. group to bridle its members' Linda Mead of the Tenant couver's budget go ahead, 734 Although at press time a excesses is being ignored, say Rights Coalition is also unim• teachers will find themselves formal campaign and strategy tenants' rights advocates. pressed by the council's letter. out of work next year. An for the boycott had not been The Rental Housing Coun• "Once again tenants have to education ministry directive to developed, the Lower cil of B.C. wrote almost 6,000 rely On the magnamity and cut $17 million from the 1984 Mainland Solidarity Coalition landlords on Sept. 15 warning benevolence of landlords," budget has school trustees met Nov. 1 to decide the final them not to abuse the "no- she said. "It doesn't work. searching for alternatives. details, said Lavalle. cause" eviction clause in Bill The reason we had rent con• Final plans for implemen• The Coalition has so far 5, the new Residential Tenan• trols in the first place was ting the cut must be made by asked members to withdrew cy Act, or to make large rent because they can't regulate Feb. 15 next year and submit• their funds from the credit increases. themselves." ted to the ministry. The proposal currently before trustees, prepared by school board officials, closes seven schools, dismisses 734 teachers and reduces or eliminates special programs. • The provincial government promises to protect special education programs like • English as a Second Language mmmm courses, alternate schools and programs for refugee children and the mentally handicapped. But the proposed cuts are so broad even these programs will be jeopardized, claims trustee Wes Knapp, of the Committee of Progressive Electors. "COPE trustees thought the Non-Partisan Association would embrace the cuts, but they backed off and want to spend more time with the pro• posal," Knapp said. "Regardless of our final decision, the bottom line is go• ing to be pretty damaging for Tall shadows in Vancouver's Pigeon Park BEV DAVIES PHOTO kids." A public meeting with in• union, but to leave their shares Abuses could cause a return terested groups on the budget intact. to rent controls, the letter plans is scheduled for Nov. 14. The boycott was prompted states. Toronto cops by the recent revelation that "We don't want the no- VanCity pays an annual cause taken too literally," $1,000 fee to the Fraser In• said council executive director VanCity keeps stitute in return for its publica• Jack Hayes. "You can lose slam scabs tions, research data, and an in• everything if you do. vitation to its annual meeting. "Coming out of rent con• Toronto Police Association trols should not cause large president Paul Walter called rightist link But the credit union rejected for legislation banning scabs rent increases all at once. The Vancouver City Savings the Coalition's request at its There should be two or three last week. Credit Union doesn't think a Oct. 27 board meeting, claim• steps to bring the rents up to ing that VanCity is a "non- The head of the planned boycott of its banking market levels. There shouldn't 6,800-member police union services by the Lower political" body that subscribes be radical rent increases just to a number of services to ob• made his bid in the wake of an Mainland Solidarity Coalition because rent controls are injury to a police officer dur• will cause it to drop its tain "broad viewpoints" con• gone." cerning economic ing the recent Toronto Star membership in the right-wing The B.C. Tenant Rights developments and theory. strike when a truck driven by a Fraser Institute. Coalition says the letter has scab hit the officer. "It's hard to tell, but I "VanCity basically relies on had little effect on landlords. wouldn't think that the the banking needs of working "The indications the coalition Walter claimed that boycott would have a signifi• people," counters Lavalle. have is that landlords are not strikebreaking is the prime cause of physical violence on picket lines. "It is unfortunate that police officers have to in• Hoops food bank grows faster than Safeway tervene while management peers out the window watching By Trish Webb Salvation Army — was raised last year, but the foodbank pickets and police defend KAMLOOPS — Even though almost one in three peo• alone costs $4,000 a month to operate. Today only themselves," complained the ple here are on federal assistance, Hank Woodlands is families with children are being helped. police-union president. trying to work himself out of a job. An increase in shoplifting brought the foodbank into That's understandable, since "business" just keeps existence. That problem still plagues local businesses. Like their B.C. counter• growing at the food bank he set up in Oct. 1981, in a "Shoplifting iiasn't decreased. We've got young guys parts, the Toronto Police United Church basement. going through our garbage at the back of the church. I've Association has aligned itself Last year 877 people a month used the food bank. An never seen that before. A guy came in the other day who with a coalition of Ontario equal number ate at the Salvation Army across town. had cut his hand going through the bin at Safeway. If it trade unionists in a campaign "The basic support comes from people who are close gets dirty cold, things could get really ugly," Woodland against public-sector wage to needing the service themselves," says Woodlands, says. controls. The association took "let's face it, the basic ongoing support is from the little ' 'There is no level of government anywhere that is go• out full-page ads in Toronto old ladies who are on a pension and come in at the end of ing to get us out of this mess we're into. They got us into newspapers last weekend con• the month and drop off the $25 they never used." Adds it — so did the people — and the people working together demning the controls as "a Woodlands: "Service clubs have been the worst." in their own neighborhoods is the way we're going to cynical attempt by the govern• About $45,000 divided between the food bank and the come out of it." ment to avoid its respon• sibilities." TIMES, NOV. 2, 1983

By John Mackie community organizer, Jim Green. pockets. "It's a straight payoff to the Vancouver's Downtown Eastside NPA Aldermen Warnett Kennedy and hotel owners." looks like any other skid road in any George Puil and TEAM Alderman For your 10 by 10 room, more often one of hundreds of cities. Rubbies May Brown took exception to DERA than not you get cockroaches, free of panhandle and stumble about, knife- for obtaining $13,000 in federal money charge. "It's sickening," he says. eyed young men lurk on street-corners, to hold a "picnic", which was their "There's cockroaches everywhere in little old ladies search through street- way of describing a 10th birthday this neighbourhood. People think corner garbage containers, people celebration in Oppenheimer Park cockroaches are nothing, but they shuffle slowly, aimlessly along littered August 28. The event was organized by carry disease. Besides, they're CO sidewalks. The welfare office looks like 4 students on a federal make-work hideous." When hotels do use a World War II bunker. And there's grant, and met all the prerequisites for pesticides, problems often arise: Green bars, bars, bars. the grant, which were that the project recalls that a Downtown Eastside resi• Four out of five Vancouver pubs are would be finite and would be recrea• dent was sick for months, and no one in this tiny corner of the city. Nine out tional and/or educational in nature could figure out why. He later found of ten Downtown Eastside residents and wouldn't create a dependency on out that hotel workers had come into live in tiny, roach-infested rooms the community. his room when he was out and had sprayed indiscriminately without tell• c/5 above these bars, where they pay three It met the fed's standards, but not times as much per foot of living space ing him, including all over his food, the locals, who battle with DERA which he had continued to eat.s GO as people a mile away in the West End. tooth and nail for every penny. Ten thousand people live in the "If they strictly enforced the S and Downtown Eastside. The average What rubs NPA aldermen the wrong M bylaws there would be about 3 Downtown Eastsider has lived here for way is DERA's thorn-in-the-side hotels open," says Green. "At least 70 13 years, making this, next to Dunbar, stance with council in regards to enfor• per cent are not in compliance with the the most stable neighborhood in Van• cing things like standard and standard of maintenance laws. It took couver, more stable than wealthy maintenance laws. "The Non Partisan us over a year to get the Hotel Europe Shaughnessy, more stable than respec• Association is a stumbling block in closed down, and it was in violation of table Kerrisdale, more stable than anything we have to do with hotels," hundreds of S and M laws." family oriented Mount Pleasant. This says Green. "Their basic position is One area where DERA's is no transient community. that 'it's a man's right to run his own perseverance has paid off is in fire DERA, the Downtown Eastside business any way he wants to." regulations. They initiated a proposal Residents' Association, was formed The way some hotel owners do run to have sprinklers installed in hotels, ten years ago to organize this their businesses borders on the and it results in the saving of 25 to 50 neighborhood and fight for the rights obscene. The DERA office is full of lives a year, according to Green. In of its citizens. It must be doing its job thick files documenting abuses of the 1973, before sprinklers, there were 107 well, because it constantly finds itself city's standard of maintenance bylaws fires in the Downtown Eastside. 56 in trouble with the powers that be. (Green calls them the "S and M were repeats, and 21 hotels had 3 fires, Rather than act as a passive relief bylaws"), hotel by hotel. The average one had 4, one had 7, and 13 people organization, doling staples to the cost of a 10 by 10 room in the died in the fires. This year, only one poor, it takes an active interest in ex• Downtown Eastside is $200, and that's person has died, and that was in one of posing the actual causes of poverty, with "no toilet, nothin," according to the hotels exempted from putting plus attempting to alleviate some of the Green. Moreover, the $200 is tied to sprinklers in because they were so small harsher aspects of life that the poor welfare cheques. "It's a form of rent (under 3 stories and 20 rooms). have to contend with. It makes no control," says Green: the maximum While we were talking, a man came bones about being objective — it just housing allowance on the cheque is in on an advocacy case. Two years ago, raises hell until action is taken. $200, so that's what most hotels somebody stole his income tax refund Just how nit-picky DERA's op• charge. When the housing allowance and cashed it. He went to DERA and ponents can be was well illustrated by goes up, so does the rent. "Anytime they proved it was somebody else who last week's front page headline in the there's an increase in welfare cheques, cashed it, but he still hasn't seen any Province that screamed out "$13,000 90 per cent of the time that increase money. "We went through it ten Picnic?" DERA has to come before city comes on the shelter side of the times," says Green. "Last time we council quarterly to get approval for cheque," so welfare recipients never phoned up, they'd never heard of the next installment of the grant for its actually see the increase in their him." DERA handles up to 1,000 advocacy cases a year. The average case takes about ten hours to deal with, and can range from welfare and old age pen• sion problems to a man who lost his dentures and can't eat, so he's losing weight fast. The biggest battle DERA is facing for the future is saving the neighborhood itself as B.C. Place and Expo 86 loom closer and closer. Green estimates that close to 9,000 out of the area's 10,000 residents may be displac• ed by a three-pronged assault on the Downtown Eastside. Already, places that haven't washed their facades for years are sandblasting their bricks in expectation of big tourist dollars. Green says that the Socreds have created a Crown Corporation, Renaissance Townsite Corp., "to turn East Hastings into boutiques." Luxury condos have sprung up in buildings on Beatty and Alexander: more will come as the area becomes in• creasingly "gentrified," a catchword for a phenomenon in the States where rich people move back downtown from their suburban base as it becomes tren• dy to live in older buildings. The Port of Vancouver also has plans to run a four-lane freeway from the Second Narrows Bridge to the Bayshore Inn; Green fears that this will cause even more condos to spring up along the Jim Green BEV DAVIES PHOTO waterfront, a la Toronto. "It's totally ironic that this area was consciously set up for the poor," says Green. In the meantime, DERA will con• tinue to come before council every other week to try and get them to en• force their own laws, which will erupt in more slanging matches between councillors, which will result in more banner headlines, which will result in more controversy. And it won't bother them one bit — it's when people stop paying attention that they'll begin to worry. TIMES, NOV. 2, 1983

frightening extreme right-wing organization tested a Nazi rally. Beattie was later ar• Canada had seen in years. I knew that Mc• rested and convicted of public mischief for H >.e walks quietly into the restaurant Quirter's boasts were not empty: between attempting to paint swastikas on selected where he had suggested we meet on this 1980 and 1982 there had been a flurry of homes and sites in the Toronto area. day, early in 1982. It's a small, modern bar Klan activity across the country. In Halifax, Beattie was "constantly getting material WHITE in midtown Toronto, crowded with Moncton, Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, from the American Klan," according to fashionably-dressed people from the offices Vancouver, Victoria and in many smaller Max Chikofsky, a private investigator. A and university nearby. Rock music pounds cities and towns, the Klan's message had lot of Beattie's money came from European over the sound system. Not the kind of been heard. It was broadcast in interviews Nazis and fascists now living in Canada and place you expect the leader of the Canadian on dozens of radio and television shows, from right-wing emigre Hungarians, Lat• Ku Klux Klan to frequent. featured in newspaper stories, scrawled on vians, Serbians and others. But then, James Alexander McQuirter is billboards, and printed on thousands of "Some of these people have been fascists not the kind of person you would expect to pamphlets and newsletters. for 25 to 30 years; why should they stop HOODS lead the Klan. He is 24, tall and slender, The KKK also had less subtle ways of now?" says Chikofsky. with neatly combed black hair and a clean• spreading its creed. Cross burnings lit up After Beattie's jailing, a German im• shaven, almost boyish face. He does not the night skies in souther Ontario and B.C. migrant named Martin Weiche took over bother with a hat or gloves despite the bliz• Racial violence took its toll; beatings in the party in 1967 and renamed it the Cana• zard outside. He could be the boy next subways and bars, firebombings of houses, dian National Socialist Party. But the door. (In March, 1980, only a few months harassment and intimidation of Klan op• organization soon lost what influence it had Who's who before he became known as the Canadian ponents. Before this wave of Klan fever was and continued to exist in name only. chief of the Klan, McQuirter's smile earned over, six Klan members would be charged Leadership of the fascist movement fell him a pin-up spot as the Toronto Sun's with public mischief and one Klan organizer to the Edmund Burke Society, created in under the Sunshine Boy. "He'd like to find himself a and his wife would die in a suspicious fire. the fall of 1968 by two young Toronto- seat on Parliament Hill," read the caption Two Klan members would find themselves nians, Donald Andrews and Paul Fromm. under his photograph.) He could be the boy in American jails and another in a Carib• Fromm, a teacher, became a treasurer of next door, but he is not. The moment Alex• bean prison for an attempt to topple a the federal Progressive Conservative party's white ander opens his mouth, he becomes the Caribbean state. McQuirter himself would Metro Toronto organization in 1981. Other Grand Wizard McQuirter, national director be convicted of conspiracy to overthrow a active members of the Edmund Burke of the Canadian Ku Klux Klan. foreign government. He, along with two Society included Martin Weiche, the Na• sheets "We are racists and we're proud of it," other Klan members, would also be con• tional Socialist Party leader, and two he boasts. "We're a racist organization. We victed of conspiracy to commit fraud and Torontonians sympathetic to Nazism, want to see Canada as an all-white country. murder. Jacob Prins and Armand Siksna. We dismiss the notion that all humanity, A number of extreme right-wing groups The Edmund Burke Society, named in that all the races are equal." popped up from the late 1960s to the honor of the British conservative thinker, "Is it true you're a fan of Adolf Hitler?" mid-1970s. They bore different names but was ostensibly a more cerebral right-wing I ask. shared a virulent racism, an appetite for group than its overly Nazi predecessors. McQuirter smiles and leans back in his violence and, often, the same leaders. A But it did not take long for it to prove itself chair. "Well, if I say that, you're going to direct line could be traced from the Cana• true to fascist form. In 1971, the group write: 'He's inspired by Mr. X who killed 6 dian Nazi Party to the Canadian National violently disrupted a meeting at the Univer• million people.' As far as I'm concerned, Socialist Party to the Edmund Burke Socie• sity of Toronto where Quebec labor leader I'd like to see a neutral history written on ty, the Western Guard, the Nationalist Par• Michel Chartrand and lawyer Robert the Second World War, of what really hap• ty, and finally to the Ku Klux Klan. Lemieux were speaking in the aftermath of pened. The Holocaust was the biggest hoax In the mid-sixties, William John Beattie the 1970 imposition of the War Measures of the twentieth century." But McQuirter made headlines as the noisy leader of the Act. Society members(beat, clubbed and concedes his admiration for Hitler. He says Canadian Nazi Party. A six-foot-tall man kicked several members of the audience, he has read and enjoyed Mein Kampf: who wore his dark, straight hair across his spraying some people with a Mace-like irri• "There are a great many things in that book forehead in imitation of Hitler, Beattie tant. Three attackers were arrested. In that I like and things that I have applied." literally maintained that the Nazi dictator November, 1971, Edmund Burke society And so our conversation continued. I was the best thing to come along since Jesus members attacked an anti-Vietnam war listened, sometimes increduously, as the Christ. march; two more were arrested. Klan leader described calmly and confident• His party caused a riot in 1965 at Toron• In 1972, Andrews replaced the Edmund ly how he had built up the most visible and to's Allan Gardens when 5,000 people pro- Burke Society with a more openly racialist—and more violent—group called the Western Guard. For most of the rest of the decade, the Guard gained notoriety for vandalizing synagogues, the homes of pro• minent blacks and progressive bookstores by painting swastikas or smashing win• dows. Sometimes the Guard's violence was directed at people. In April, 1974, for ex• ample, a Western Guard member attacked two people at a film showing sponsored by an African liberation group. The Guard member was sentenced to 28 days in jail for common assault. In June, 1975, 30 Guard members started a fight in a Toronto television studio where a black musical group was performing. The band leader was struck by a metal pipe and other musicians were severely beaten, while Guard members flashed the Nazi salute for the television cameras. Ideologically, the creation of the Western Guard was significant because, while previous extreme right-wing organizations had been primarily anti-semitic and anti- communist, the Guard combined these standard Nazi fares with a strong dose of PACIFIC TRIBUNE PHOTO Klansmen demonstrate in front of Vancouver bookstore in 1982. TIMES, NOV. 2, 1983

white supremacist, anti-black ideology. It true" to the Third Reich, Droege recalls. I like being called a Nazi," he says. "You described as a "liberal, middle class" home was upon this marriage of ideas that the Droege's grandfather, with whom he spent get used to things." in the Toronto suburb of North York. new Klan would be built. much of his childhood, was a close friend After he came to Canada in 1951, Weiche At "about 14 or 15" years of age Mc• Organizationally, the Western Guard was of Julius Streicher, a Nazi and confidant of made a small fortune in real estate and com• Quirter, through his own readings, became important to the Klan as a breeding ground Hitler who was hanged for war crimes in fortably installed himself on a large estate convinced of the inferiority of blacks and for fascists, a training school for many peo• 1946 after the Nuremburg trials. on the outskirts of London, Ontario. He Jews and started to try and win his friends ple who would go on to have connections took over the Canadian Nazi party from at York Mills Collegiate over to his beliefs: with, or top leaderships posts in, the Cana• Beattie in the late 1960s, but confessed that "I was always a conservationist. When I dian Ku Klux Klan. Klan officials would there were "just some remnants left, a loose was going to high school, I was interested in later boast that 25 per cent of its members : connection of people". the whales and seals. Then I started reading came from the Western Guard. •:• • In 1974, Weiche, though not a lawyer, about some of the population statistics of Among the key players on the 1970s conducted the court defence for a Western the white race. We're a dying species. I used Toronto fascist scene: Guard member named Thomas Reade who to talk to other conversationists about this, • Don Andrews, through the Edmund was charged with a violent assault. Weiche but they weren't interested — it was all Burke Society and the Western Guard, had befriended Reade, a 240-pound ex- racist stuff to them. But at the time, I dominated the extreme right-wing stage in motorcycle gang member, when the latter wasn't a racist. I just thought, well, gee, Toronto for most of the decade and became was released from prison in 1970 and made everything should be protected. So I was a sort of godfather to many of the present- him his personal bodyguard. He provided forced to look at different groups, so-called day organizers of the Klan. "Many of them Reade and his wife with an apartment and right-wing fanatical groups. I was interested were my lieutenants in the Guard," he helped them get back to what Weiche called in what they had to offer, what their solu• boasted. Of Serbian descent, Andrews "normal society" by getting Reade involv• tions were." McQuirter's parents apparent• came to Canada as a child with his mother ed in the Guard. Weiche would go on to ly did not take too kindly to their son's new after the Second World War. become a friend of the Klan and it was on ideological bent, and he was told by his parents not to talk about the race question Andrews, by his own admission, received Toronto Klansmen offer his lawn in 1980 that the first modern-day money from right-wing sympathizers in the cross burnings would take place. at home. "Today, I don't see any of (my salute to 1981 demonstration Serbian and other Eastern European im• • Armand Siksna was another Western parents) very much," he said in one migrant communities. "I'm not upset if Droege came to Canada when he was 13, Guard member who would move on to the newspaper interview. "Let's say they don't you call me a fascist," he once told a though he once returned briefly to Ger• Klan. Born in 1944 in Riga, Latvia, Siksna agree with me." reporter. many and tried unsuccessfully to join the was raised by parents he described as "anti- Andrews was instrumental in fleshing out In his six years as Guard leader, his pen• army there. While in Germany in 1967, he communistconservatives". His father own• the style and substance of the young Mc• chant for violence seemed to be matched attended meetings of the neo-Nazi National ed two turpentine refineries and supplied Quirter's right-wing politics. "I remember only by his political and organizational cun• Party, led by Adolf van Thadden. Back in the Germans during the war; Siksna's uncle McQuirter coming to my house in the early ning. As a candidate in Toronto's mayoral• Canada, Droege drifted from job to job as had a stake in two banks and belonged "to days when he was about 18," recalls An• ty race in 1972, he polled 1,916 votes. Run• a copper smelter operator and printing ap• a right-wing fascist-inclined organization," drews. "He used to come into my back yard ning again in 1974 on a white power ticket, prentice. In 1974, he met Don Andrews and according to Siksna. and we would discuss organizational and he came in second in a field of eleven, with joined the Western Guard. Siksna moved to Canada in 1957 and political things. McQuirter didn't really close to 6,000 votes. Andrews' political "I decided to take my part in reshaping worked in numerous jobs. A confirmed know how to speak to the press all that career did not come to an end when he was and saving my racial destiny. Like a anti-communist, he joined the Conservative much because he didn't have much sentenced in 1978 to a brief jail term and misplaced warrior, seeking to find a place in party but soon found it "was not really background knowledge on political, inter• forbidden to associate with the Guard. He a . . . decadent environment, I felt I had right-wing enough for me." He eventually national and other racial matters. So we went on to found the Nationalist Party of finally found my true calling." joined the Edmund Burke Society and then would chit-chat and I would give him some Canada and, in 1980, would attempt a In May, 1975, he painted white power the Guard when he "started to realize the pointers on how to answer some merger with the newly-formed Canadian Ku slogans along the route of an African importance of racism — the preservation of questions." Klux Klan. Liberation Day march in Toronto. He was our race." • John Ross Taylor, a veteran Nazi from subsequently convicted of mischief and Siksna recalls: "I had come to the con• the 1930s, was a Guard leader with official damage to private property, for which he clusion that I am a true Nazi — and that is responsibility for propaganda. (Taylor was was sentenced to 14 days in jail, and assault the most beautiful and the most noble involved in other political formations against a Toronto newspaper reporter, for philosophy of all the political philosophies before signing up with the Western Guard. which he was fined $100. that have ever existed on this earth." He had earlier set up the National Order • Jacob Prins, like Droege, was a long• Siksna was on the executive of the Party, but in 1965 the government ter• standing fascist sympathizer from Europe. Western Guard and he ran in several minated his use of the mail for distribution He originally fought against Hitler's army municipal and provincial elections. His of American neo-Nazi and other anti- when it invaded his native Holland, but main contribution seemed to be constant Semetic literature.) Taylor ran for the soon became a collaborator. He regrets his run-ins with the law. As a Guard member, Western Guard in the 1972 Toronto elec• brief anti-Nazi activity: "I betrayed myself he faced charges for the defacement of pro• tions. and my country. I had killed Germans. I perty by affixing hate posters. He was ac• When Don Andrews was forced to regretted it ever since and maybe that's why cused of the theft of a typewriter when he dissociate himself from the Guard in 1978, subconsciously I try to make up for it." worked as a security guard at a warehouse, Taylor assumed complete control of what Prins, a former professional wrestler who and when police raided his apartment for was left of the organization. Despite stands over six feet tall, was a bodyguard evidence he was charged with violating the repeated legal proceedings against him, for Canadian Nazi leader William Beattie. propaganda law because Nazi and Klan Taylor and his Western Guard group refus• Though over 50 years of age, Prins went on material was found there. ed to disconnect a white power telephone to be an active (and arrested) member of the (Some of Siksna's confrontations with "hotline" which played tape-recorded Edmund Burke Society and the Western the law were more comical. In 1980, he was messages of anti-semitic and anti-black Guard. A fanatical anti-Semite, Prins once convicted of fraudulent misuse of a credit hate propaganda. In 1980,Taylor was final• wrote a letter to a newspaper columnist in• card and received a suspended sentence of Alexander McQuirter ly sentenced to one year in jail and the sisting that the Nazi extermination of 6 eighteen months. This card, which he had The Edmund Burke Society, the Westrn Western Guard was fined $5,000 for million Jews during the war was a hoax. found on the floor of a store and attempted Guard, the Canadian Nazi Party, the Na• preaching race hatred over the telephone. Prins was one of those fined in 1969 for the to use, was a demonstration card made out tionalist Party of Canada; Taylor, An• He spent two months in hiding before turn• telephone "hotline" transmitting anti- to "Mrs. Happy Shopper"). drews, Droege, Prins, Siksna, Weiche and ing himself in. Semtetic messages. Over the years he also • James Alexander McQuirter was at• McQuirter: the foundations had been sunk, • Wolfgang Droege, another Western accumulated charges of violence, theft and tracted to Don Andrews' organization the builders assembled, for the latest rein• Guard activist, played a much more crucial break and entry. while still in his teens. His background was carnation of Canada's Klan. role in the reborn Klan. Born in 1949 in • Martin Weiche, another man in his fif• different from that of his fellow Guard Forchheim, Bavaria, Droege became a ties during the Western Guard's heydays, members, many of whom seemed to have Julian Sher is a Montreal journalist now committed Nazi while still a boy. His father shared Droege's and Prins' enthusiasm for inherited their fascist leanings from their working for CBC Radio. White Hoods, his was in the German air force during the Se• the Third Reich but in addition was able to European families or experiences. The first book, will be published later this cond World War and even after Hitler's make a direct contribution to Hitler's rule, eldest of five children, McQuirter was born month by New Star Books of Vancouver. defeat "his sympathies always remained as a pilot in the German air force. "Today, . in May, 1958, and grew up in what he This is the first of two parts.

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privilege? Not at all. Were they unreasonably insisting on power? Who pushed it There is no evidence. Instead, we heard a community's teachers say they were worried about the fate of education, civil servants declaring to the brink? that the elimination of social services posed a danger, trade unionists Editor Whether or not British Columbians of a general strike was not a matter protesting the abrogation of rights Stan Persky find themselves in the midst of an approached lightly. that are constitutional, and citizens of Staff unprecedented general strike this Certainly, the reluctance of all political hues raising an alarm at Keith Baldrey, Bev Davies, week or are the beneficiaries of a last Tom Hawthorn, Rob Joyce, Solidarity to bring the conflict to the the extremity of a government's Don Larventz, John Mackie, minute reprieve, the question level it has reached was obvious to program. We're not talking about a Esther Shannon, remains: Who wanted this anyone who took the trouble to "rag-tag army" or a dismissable Trish Webb, Debbie Wilson confrontation? notice. The coalition used every legal horde of partisans as did those in Contributors The answer, at least from the point channel available to people deeply government and much of the media Dale Jack, Brian Jones, Kris Klaasen, Ken Mann, of view of the trade unions and disturbed by the direction of Premier during these last four months. We're Julian Sher, and several community groups who make up the Bill Bennett's legislation: talking about — in a literal sense — Sidney Australias. Solidarity Coalition: Almost no one. demonstrations, discussions, petitions the people of this province. Not all of No doubt there are a few hotheads — and it did so peacefully and with them perhaps, but a number sizable on either side of the fence who think dignity. enough not to be waved aside by that a general strike is an adventure. mere political rhetoric on television, Like the rest of B.C., the What would drive ordinary citizens staff at Solidarity Times spent But for the thousands and thousands (for ordinary citizens they are, or premature obituaries published in the week on the edge of our of trade union members who voted patronizing claims to the contrary the daily press. seats as the province teetered for job action and for the additional notwithstanding) to such a fateful Yet, again and again, the issues toward general strike. We were thousands of people in community undertaking, especially in already also on our toes, shoulders to were trivialized, reduced to the wheel, nose to the groups who pledged their support, it difficult economic times? Were they patronizing complaints about grindstone, etc. It was a is a certainty that even the prospect greedily demanding money or protesters' intransigance, or buried in dizzying experience. the back pages of the big city rags. It In one of our more level• was as though the concerns might go headed moments, our Roving Reporter revved up the news away if the authorities insisted often chopper and landed in enough that they were unimportant. Kamloops. As well, loyal At issue, finally, is the insistence of correspondents in Kelcwna and Terrace came through with tall a political party that gained a slim and short tales from their majority in last May's election in the respective centres of the name of "restraint" to impose a universe. In the Big Smoke, program that would substantially our Fearless Scribe scuttled change the fabric of life in this down to Downtown East to find out if there was any truth to province, and produce few perceptible those terrible things they're economic benefits in the process. always saying about DERA and Although some have talked smugly of its undaunted organizer. There the self-interest of the protesters, it is wasn't. not self-interest at stake, but rather In more leisurely moments, the erosion of rights that people have Debbie Wilson ducked Under The Gun to discover the theatre come to take for granted only group behind the Headlines. ^ because they fought for them for We also thumbed a few books decades. and listened to the lyrics of a hit that's gone bonkers. It is not self-interest to say that the On the more serious side, measure of a community is how well we secured rights to publish it cares for those not fully able to excerpts from Julian Sher's protect themselves. This is the great forthcoming book, White divide that has brought us all closer Hoods, a factual account of the KKK in Canada. to the brink than any of us wanted to Meanwhile, an ebullient be. . corps of volunteers — Maryanne, Tami, George, Pete, Michael, Steve, Linda, Brian, Seal, Willis, Joe, Mary, Candy Sweaters nice touch in general strike — bundled off thousands of copies of the last edition to By Stan Persky "B.C. general strikes during the problem, Landers claims. "With the points far and near (furthest If you've never been in a general rainy season create a temptation to newspapers, it's a guilt trip, but TV is was the CUPE convention in strike, don't feel shy; almost no one Toronto) and the staff pondered rush out and buy an umbrella as you visual excitement. That means efforts its fate at meaningful meetings else has either. dash between the emergency childcare to stampede you into panic. You can ("They're a drain," declared Flooded with questions from our centre set up by the woodworkers and be sure they'll find someone claiming entertainment editor John readers about proper etiquette during a your picket post. Personally, I think that their 96-year-old grandmother is Mackie, who was not general strike, Solidarity Times turned entertained). We decided not to umbrellas are rather tacky and not not being properly attended to all become another Jim Pattison to advice columnist Ann Landers' visually effective on television. You're because of you, the nasty strikers. Company. radical brother, Stan Landers. probably better off to borrow some Next issue will be on the Landers, a 42-year-old, balding, bright yellow raingear from an "Just keep your head during these streets Nov. 9 The deadline for pudgy, unemployed psychologist living unemployed fisherman. If you're being heart-wrenching scenes and pass the advertising, letters and Get in Vancouver's East End, is the author Happy! notices is, as always, televised and the rain is running down Kleenex. In fact, nothing of the sort the Friday before publication. of General Strike Etiquette: The Com• your neck, it makes viewers imagine has ever happened during a general plete Guide. what Bill Bennett would look like if he strike. The strike committee will ensure "Of course, people are worried had to stand outside in a downpour all emergency services, food will be about what to wear during a general wearing only his blue suit." delivered, and no one will pull the plug Solidarity Times is a strike," said the soothing Landers. "I on your TV. You might want to pick politically independent weekly recommend casual sportswear. Blue- The major danger, however, accor• up a few extra Duracell batteries to newspaper that supports the collar bowling gear is acceptable. If ding to the well-mannered Landers, is make sure your ghetto blaster doesn't aspirations of Solidarity mental health. "Watch out for panic fade during the final days of negotia• Coalition, trade unions, you have 10 years' seniority, sweaters workers, women, ethnic are a nice touch. Office-efficient slacks and guilt. The main thing that happens tion. During a general strike life goes minorities, native people, the and blouses are fine for women. No during a general strike is that on quite normally, only it's slightly handicapped, pensioners, designer jeans, please. It gives the newspaper editorialists try to make you more real." social service recipients, gays public the impression that you're feel guilty by daily thundering that you and lesbians, tenants, But what if the general strike is defenders of human rights, bargaining over wages and not simply are irresponsible and wrecking the trying to save your jobs. If you're a recovery. If you must read newspapers, averted at the last minute? Landers has environmental and peace encountered the problem numerous activists, consumers, students, male negotiator and required to wear a it's best to do it in groups so that you artists, and religious people necktie, make sure you loosen the knot can recite aloud the most hysterical times. "Yes," he sighed, "it's known seeking a socially relevant and undo the top two buttons of your editorial phrases blaming you for the as almost-general strike depression. church. It is published by a shirt before appearing on camera at 3 confrontation and laugh at them with The best thing to do is to buy a T-shirt non-profit society and is not that says, 'I Was Almost In The the spokesperson or official a.m. to announce no progress." your friends. As for wrecking the General Strike of 1983' and go to organ of any organization. Landers warned that health can be a recovery, don't lose sleep over it, the Solidarity Times is published at whole thing is a myth. Toronto for a week or two where 545 West Tenth Avenue, big problem during general strikes. friends will fawn with envy over you." Vancouver, B.C., V5Z 1K9. "There's an enormous amount of run• "In fact, I'd advise you not to read A related problem is post-general Telephones ning around and loss of sleep during business press newspapers at all. Urge strike blues. "Win or lose," admitted (Business) 879-4826 all-out labor confrontations," he said. your strike committee to shut down the (News) 879-5465, 879-4691, Landers, "it's a problem. If you win, "I advise people to stock up on vitamin daily press. Their absence will give you 879-4692 C — yes, most drug stores will remain then post-partum counsellors will be Printed at College Printers. a few days of truth. If you have to read glad to comfort you. If you lose, just open, so don't hoard — and Visine to something, read Solidarity Times (and keep dreaming of a better world," con• combat overdoses of TV watching as don't forget to subscribe)." you're waiting for the latest no news cluded Landers as he popped a handful bulletin. Television poses a slightly different of Smarties into his mouth. TIMES, NOV. 2, 1983

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medical programs in Europe; welcome J.P. unions in Scandanavia; com• First we had the giveaway parative information on Rus• privatization of Beautiful sian and American ar• British Columbia magazine rangements; giveaway pro• which was shocking enough. grams to multinational cor• Then we discover that B.C. porations in Canada. Hydro is doing a free mailing I am glad you are only a of subscription forms for the weekly. I wish the Sun and now privately-owned com• Province were only monthlies. pany. What's more, Bill Bell subscribers are asked to send Grace Bell renewal cheques to the govern• Vancouver ment. More under the table dealing? What can be next? Great Times How about new signs at all border crossings: Welcome to Solidarity Times looks Beautiful British Columbia, a great. It's such a pleasure to read a publication full of ar• Jim Pattison Company. ticles that conform to many of Geoff Peters my ideals and politics. Vancouver I am enclosing a cheque for my subscription. I will also be recommending to our local News Plan union executive that we Enclosed please find our subscribe to the paper. cheque for a subscription. We need an alternate press Congratulations for doing in this province and I wish you something that needed to be success with this venture. done. Because we have believed Christine Micklewright for a long time that political, Brotherhood of Railway and social and economic condi• Airline Clerks tions will not improve until we Vancouver have an alternative media we are overjoyed to see someone make a start. Permit us to tell O Grenada you what we, as readers, How much or how little would like to read: socialism would it take to br• • Important events of the ing the U.S. Marines into previous week as news reports English Bay? rather than as individual opi• nions; Arlington Farnsworth Vancouver • News of what happened in the legislature during the past week not as witty essays but as straight-forward repor• Bad friends ting; I hope that you can succeed • Reports on those people in interesting at least 15,000 tion is debatable. tion rescinded and the rest reference to Bill Bennett as and groups not covered in the readers to subscribe. As a member of the ex• halted. "you know who" an im• Sun and Province; However, it is my opinion ecutive board of the Indepen• I do not think that Opera• mature response to challeng• • World news which you that the question of continuing dent Canadian Transit Union tion Solidarity or Solidarity ing social problems of a pro• don't get in the dailies; the Times beyond the period and a member of the NDP, all Coalition should undermine vincial and world-wide nature. • General informative ar• required to defeat the current my energies are concentrated the official opposition, the Solidarity Coalition could ticles on: social welfare and back-fo-the-dark-ages legisla• on having the passed legisla• NDP, by putting out a paper represent a cross-section of beyond the period that a British Columbians, but only general strike ends this legisla• if the organization does not tion and the present govern• alienate those of a different Quashed in Quebec ment is defeated. political persuasion than the Your newspaper is a welcome addition to coverage of women in the Times. There were I am sure that many NDPers editorial staff. The coalition our mail from B.C. We recently moved to no reports about Women Against the Budget are greatly involved with the has the opportunity to give Montreal from Vancouver and have tried in and a general lack of info concerning women coalition, and I would not creative leadership only if it vain to follow the events in B.C. and how the budget is hitting them. It would want to see them reduce their encourages us all to lay aside We would like to address three issues: also be good to see more articles written by input to the NDP by concen• our partisan policies and focus news coverage in general, women's content women. This in no way should be taken as a trating on extending the Times on the issues which unite us. in the Times, and the unsolidarity-like criticism against the men who are working to a weekly paper. Leanne Smith remarks of Jack Munro. hard on the Times now. In this particular instance, I Nanaimo The English media in Quebec appears to The third issue concerns the remarks of hate to be negative about what be boycotting any and all news of Operation Jack Munro which were carried on CBC-TV. is probably a very good idea. Solidarity. When the media talks about the Women's groups and others have always If you have many friends write In government layoffs, they never mention the been afraid that trade union support will last like me, you will not need any We want to hear from you. methods being used by the Socreds, they on• only so long as trade unions are being attack• enemies. Solidarity Times is looking ly talk about economic restraint. The rally ed. Within the trade union movement people Terrence Hanna forward to your letters, com• on Oct. 15 rated a photo and a small article have been concerned about the unity bet• Vancouver ments, criticisms and opi• mentioning a marcher yelling obscenities at ween the B.C. Fed and the Confederation of nions. the Socreds. Canadian Unions. Are we now seeing that Here's how to Put It In The French media has been even more these fears and concerns are coming true? If Writing: write to Letters, abysmal. In talking with Quebecoise ac• Women Against the Budget organizes some immature Solidarity Times, 545 W. 10th quaintances we have learned that they action around a "local issue" will Jack I appreciated many of the Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V5Z assume the restraint program in B.C. is Munro condemn them as he has the Pulp, articles in your newpaper, but 1K9. similar to the one here in Quebec. They are Paper and Woodworkers of Canada in I call attention to the promo• not aware of the firings without cause, Prince George and on the Island? When do tional copy on the back page Letters must be signed and elimination of the Human Rights Branch, local issues become everyone's issue, only of your first issue. I take ex• bear the address of the writer cutting of services, etc. Your newspaper will when everyone is directly involved? When ception to the implication that (name and address of the help the problem in B.C., but what about will this provincial tunnel-vision stop? only those who did not vote writer (name and address will outside the province? We need to build sup• Susan Mullan Social Credit "...believe in be withheld upon request). port outside of B.C. as well. Lori Nelson workers' rights, women's Solidarity Times may edit let• Montreal rights, the rights of the ters from brevity, clarity and The second issue concerns the limited elderly," etc. I find the legality. TIMES, NOV. 2, 1983

NOVEMBER 2 VANCOUVER "The Murder of Auguste Dupin" by playwright J. Ben Tarver, at the Queen Elizabeth Playhouse, 649 Cambie, until November 26. For info call 683-2311. Pacific Cinemateque presents "L'Awentura", in its post-war Italian series, 7:30 p.m., 1155 West Georgia. For more info call 732-6119.,

NOVEMBER 3 VANCOUVER Pacific Cinemateque is showing "Zero de Conduite" and "L'Atalante" in its history of French cinema series, 9:30 p.m., 1155 West Georgia. For more info call 732-6119.

LANGLEY "Barefoot in the Park", a comedy by Neil Simon, begins tonight at 8:30 p.m., and runs until Nov. 6, and then from Nov. 10-13 and Nov. 17-19, at the Brookswood Hall, 4307-200th Street. Students and pensioners $3, other adults $5. All tickets $5 on Fridays and Satur• days. For reservations call 534-2967.

NOVEMBER 4 VANCOUVER Benefit concert for the B.C. Civil Liberties Association featuring the Purcell String Quartet, 7:30 p.m. at Christ Church Cathedral, 690 Bur• rard. Tickets $6, available at Sikoras Records, Duthie Books, Octopus Books and the associa• tion office. For more info call 872-5823. Vancouver Folk Festival presents Queen Ida NOVEMBER 6 Cinema, 6th and Commercial, for two nights. and the Bon Temps Zydeco Band, 8 p.m., Com• VICTORIA "Rocco and His Brothers" of the post-war modore Ballroom. Tickets available at Black Benefit for Aid to Nicaragua includes the film Italian cinema series, 7:30 p.m., Pacific Swan Records, Octopus East, Vancouver Folk "From the Ashes," 7:30 p.m. at the Pern wood Cinemateque, 1155 W. Georgia. For more info Festival office and all VTC/CBU outlets. Community Centre, 1240 Gladstone. The admis• call 732-6119. Toronto singer/songwriter Arlene Mantle per• sion is one tool, piece of equipment or other forms Women's, iabour and protest songs at La goods in good condition for shipment to Quena, 1111 Commercial Drive. Tickets $3. For Nicaragua. For more info call 386-5695 or more info call 251-6626. 385-2720. BLATHER Swing Jazz, June Katz and her favourite Jazz Don't start the revolution without us. Quartet perform from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., VANCOUVER This is the place to publicize your Classical Joint, 231 Carrall St., today and Jazzoids perform with Bill Clark, Hugh meeting, demonstrations, club, semi- tomorrow. For more info call 689-0667. Fraser, Mike Lent, Glena Powrie, Don Powrie secret cabal, party, poetry reading, con• "Terrace Tanzi — The Venus Flytrap", a and Dan King, 10 p.m. at the Classical Joint, 231 Carrall St. cert, wake, petition, art show, or cam• play by Clare Luckham, at the Vancouver East paign to save B.C. or other places from Cultural Centre (Venables and Victoria), until The" Festival Concert Society presents "Quintet West," a woodwind ensemble, 11 the excesses of those who have money Nov. 26. and power to spare. "Bye-Bye Brazil" at 7:30 p.m., and "Black a.m., Queen Elizabeth Playhouse, 649 Cambie We're interested in short an• Orpheus" at 9:20 p.m., Vancouver East St. Tickets $1.50. For more info call 736-766. nouncements carrying the basics: who, Cinema, 7th and Commercial, for two evenings. what, where, when and why. If you think For more info call 253-5455. NOVEMBER 7 VANCOUVER your group or conspiracy is worth more Pacific Cinemateque shows "The Milky than an annoucement, send us a short Way" (La voie lactee) at 7:30 p.m., and "That Abel Gance's epic 4-hour film "Napoleon" runs for two nights at 7:30 p.m., Vancouver article of 100 words or less. Make it to Obscure Object of Desire" (Cet obscur objet du the point/lively and informative. desir) at 9:30 p.m. in its Luis Bunuel Tribute, at East Cinema, 7th and Commercial. For more info Get Happy and Get Serious are bulletin 1155 W. Georgia. For more info call 732-6119. call 253-5455. boards for people and groups who, shut NOVEMBER 8 out of existing media, have had to use NOVEMBER 5 VANCOUVER clandestine and extra-legal means to VANCOUVER Donny Clark, performs at 10 p.m., Classica! spread the word about their gatherings Irish Pub Nite, music and dancing with Joint, 231 Carrall. For more info call 689-0667. and campaigns. But keep on gluing up Mickey Madden and Johnny McCafferty, 8 Pacific Cinemateque and the cultural section those posters. We all need something to p.m., at the Irish Centre, 771 Prior St. Spon• of the French consulate general present a assault our senses as we trudge to our sored by the Irish Prisoner of War Committee. special film premier of "Maria Chapdelaine" workplaces, be they real or imagined. For more info call 873-0788. (1983), 8 p.m., Robson Square Cinema. Send your messages, preferably typed Lowry Olafson and Russel Shumsky perform (so if there is a screw-up, you can blame original songs on the marimba, bass and per• NOVEMBER 9 us), to Get Happy, Solidarity Times, 545 cussion, 8 p.m., La Quena, 1111 Commercial, VANCOUVER West 10th Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V5Z $2. "Flamenco" with Carmelita, gypsy flamenco 1K9. Deadline is noon the Friday before A two-day open house to meet the crew of the dancer, 10 p.m., Classical Joint, 231 Carrall St. the issue you want to see your announce• anti-nuclear ship Pacific Peacemaker. Slide For more info call 689-0667. ment in. We reserve the right to edit for show and entertainment. The ship is docked at "Three Brothers", a film by Italian great space. the Granville Island Marina. Francesco Rosi, 7:30 p.m., Vancouver East

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WEDNESDAY FRIDAY Gel happy! as San Francisco comedians Fran VANCOUVER VANCOUVER and Charlie leave 1th their hilarious look at the holocaust, on Friday, Nov. 18,8 p.m., at People's Law School is sponsoring a "Taxes Dr. Norman Alcock, physicist and founder of the Kitsllano secondary school auditorium, 2550 for Peace" class, including an update on the the Canadian Peace Research Institute, speaks West Tenth Ave, In Vancouver Ducats are $7 for test case for diverting your military taxes to the on "What Price Peace: Why we need peace the working, and a mere fin for the rest of us. peace tax fund, 7:30 p.m., Carnarvon School, education," 7:30 p.m., John Oliver Secondary There's free on-site child care. For Information call School, 530 E. 41st. For more info call 3400 Balaclava (at 16th). For info and registra• Get Serious the next day at a Living in the tion call 734-1126. 733-0141. Nuclear Age: Despair and Empowerment "Voyage of the Pacific Peacemaker," a workshop, from 9 a.m. to t p.m., at 2150 Maple St., documentary anti-nuclear film, 7:30 p.m., BURNABY Vancouver. Pre-register by calling 734-5393 or 253-0412, or simply arrive early. Both events spon• Marineview Chapel, 41st and Crown. Spon• B.C. Human Rights Coalition administration sored by Women Against Nuclear Technology. sored by the Marineview peace and justice committee meeting, Canadian Farmworkers group. Union office, 4730 Imperial.

THURSDAY SATURDAY VANCOUVER VANCOUVER Film: "Voyage of the Pacific Peacemaker," An Evening in Solidarity with Peru with panel a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Robson Square Media Cen• 12:30 p.m., Langara Community College discussions, songs, poetry, food and a dance tre. Free. Call in advance for child care at auditorium, 100 West 49th. afterwards with "Communique", 6 p.m. to 224-9102 (evenings). Sponsored by Vancouver Slide show on a nuclear-free Pacific and midnite, 870 Denman. Sponsored by the Com• Association of Women and the Law. history of the Pacific Peacemaker, 3:30 p.m., mittee for the defense of human rights in Peru. Slide show on nuclear-free Pacific and the Langara Community College, 100 West 49th. For more info call 291-0019 or 879-3246. history of the Pacific Peacemaker, 1 p.m. Provincial Solidarity Coalition meeting, 7 Unitarian Church (W. 49th at Oak). p.m., IWA Hall, Commercial and 12th. SUNDAY VANCOUVER MONDAY A mock political prisoner from Conference on Women, Work and Cutbacks VANCOUVER Prisoner of Conscience week focuses on human rights and employment, 9:30 Lower Mainland Solidarity Coalition meeting, 7:30 p.m., BCGEU Hall, 4911 Canada Way. "Can I Be Sued and What Happens if I Am?", a People's Law School class with Brian BEV DAVIES PHOTO McCloughlin, 7:30 p.m., Canadian Memorial Community Centre, 1811 W. 16th, at Burrard. Training session for canvassers in the door- to-door fundraising drive to raise medical aid for El Salvador, 7 to 9 p.m. La Quena, 1111 Com• mercial Dr. For more info call 255-0523 or 255-4868.

NEW WESTMINSTER Film: "Voyage of the Pacific Peacemaker," 7:30 p.m. NeWest Library, sponsored by Public Education for a Peaceful Society.

TUESDAY VANCOUVER Gary Wilson gives a free class on estate ad• ministration, including the forms and pro• cedures entailed in administering an estate, and tax implications, 7:30 p.m. tonite and tomor• row, Fraserview Library, 1950 Argyle (near 54th and Victoria). To register call 734-1126.

NEW WESTMINSTER Fr. Jim Roberts, Renate Shearer and Dennis Cocke speak on the implications of the Socreds' legislation, 7 p.m. Spencer School, corner of 2nd St. and 6th Ave. WEDNESDAY BURNABY Burnaby Solidarity Coalition meeting, 7:30 p.m., Burnaby Central High School, 4939 Canada Way. If your organization has members living in Burnaby and you haven't been represented at past meetings, please send a delegate.

VANCOUVER Slide show on a nuclear-free Pacific and the history of the Pacific Peacemaker, 7:30 p.m., Bayview Community School (6th and Coll- ingwood). Labor history lecture on "Workers on the Prairies in the 20th Century," 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., AQ 3150 at Simon Fraser Universi• ty. Allen Seager lectures. 0 TIMES, NOV. 2, 1983

Planned reductions in provincial troversy are the teachers, who last year cost-sharing formulas with B.C. received a three per cent wage increase Facing the municipalities will mean millions of after first having a five per cent ar• dollars in additional costs to bitrated settlement rejected by Com• developers and taxpayers in Kelowna pensation Stabilization Commissioner freeze on the and the Central Okanagan Regional Ed Peck. District. When taken from an already During the 1982-83 school year, the weakened tax base — which forced the 800-member Central Okanagan fruit farm city to bring in its own restraint pro• Teachers' Association gave up three- Special to The Times gram months before the province got and-a-half paid non-instructional days, KELOWNA — The chilly winds roll• into the act — future revenue for the allowing the school district to meet a ing off Okanagan Lake do more than city will be even more scarce. previous budget cut and avoid layoffs. serve as a remindei that the cob• But education and health-care ser• That action came even before the blestone sidewalks of this jewel city of vices have been the areas hardest hit by ministry decided to legislate the the Interior will soon be covered in restraint. Both the Central Okanagan elimination of those paid days all snow. They are also a forwarning of yet school district and Okanagan College together throughout the province this another winter of economic inactivity have seen their operating budgets year. and high unemployment. slashed repeatedly since that fateful In a part of B.C. with one of the For a local economy based on fruit February day in 1982 when the govern• largest elderly populations and a grow• and sea monsters, the recession has not ment first began to chop funding. The ing role as a regional referral area, been kind. result has been program and service health services have also been spread Never mind that the economic reductions, as well as frustrated thin by government restraint. downturn has put the brakes on one of teachers and administrators. Kelowna General Hospital is busting B.C.'s fastest growing regions and The school district has taken most of at its seams with acute and extended- taken an unhealthy bite out of its com• the heat from Victoria. Despite care patients, usually running above mercial and industrial tax base. recognition from the education 100 per cent occupancy. The waiting Now Premier Bill Bennett, the area's ministry for its good fiscal manage• list for elective surgery has averaged MLA, is~ putting the restraint boots to ment and low per-pupil costs, the about 1,600 since 30 beds were closed government services in the Okanagan. district has been in a perpetual money and 45 full-time equivalent staff laid Economic development in the region mode after being instructed to reduce off in June, 1982. has been virtually non-existent for the its budget three times in the past 18 past two years. Empty storefronts months. Another $2.5 million will have reflect the signs of the times as to be cut within the next two years — Bennett blasters bankruptcies continue to climb. beginning in January — to meet the Construction projects are as rare as ministry's newly-imposed budget sightings of Ogopogo. hit 20 per cent earlier this year and has guidelines. building steam The Okanagan fruit industry — the been flitting just below that level ever As a result, the district is looking at Special to The Times backbone of the economy — has not since. eliminating up to 70 teaching positions KELOWNA — Something's stirring only suffered from high production Adding to the winter gloom is the by 1986. Balancing the books will be in Bill Bennett's backyard. costs and low market values, but also financially-troubled ski industry, made even more difficult if the district Almost four months after the first from unseasonable weather which has which ordinarily has been relied on to is to increase its pupil-teacher ratio to mourners infiltrated the garden party destroyed cherry crops two years in a fill the employment gap between sum• 19 by the same year, as also requested at the old Bennett homestead, and ten row and forced many orchardists to mer tourist seasons. As with most by the ministry. Currently, the weeks since the city's biggest sell the farm. other B.C. resorts, Big White Ski district's ratio is set at 17. demonstration ever paraded the Tourism, the region's other stalwart, Village — the largest of the three major The government's actions have left downtown streets, Kelowna's anti- has declined by about 30 per cent since Okanagan facilities — has been forced the district grasping at straws in an ef• legislation forces continue to grow. its banner year of 1981. to cut back on seasonal workers to stay fort to keep its head above water. Last In the past two months varying fac• While local forest companies have at arms-length from its creditors. month, the Central Okanagan was suc• tions in the community have drawn managed to avoid the massive layoffs Although few doubt the Okanagan cessful in becoming the first district in together under the Central Okanagan experienced elsewhere in the province, will once again prosper, the govern• the province to obtain charitable status Solidarity Coalition. the manufacturing industry is only ment's restraint program has clouded from Revenue Canada. The district The group has just taken part in the hanging on by its teeth — operating the timing of that recovery. hopes public donations will help save province-wide petition campaign, sporadically, with layoffs and recalls The premier's Okanagan South some threatened programs and ser• which coalition Chair Terri Davis dictated by the uncertain market. riding has been hit severely by his belt- vices. estimates received about a 70 per cent Unemployment in the Kelowna area tightening measures. In the middle of the funding con- positive response rate from local residents. The coalition began its petition blitz earlier in October with a march through downtown Kelowna by more than 100 members, ending with a ceremony at the base of the W.A.C. Bennett Memorial Clock. Future plans might include "some consumer action," Davis says. Although Bennett won a landslide victory in his home riding in the May 5 election, Davis maintains that residents in the Okanagan South riding are "very concerned" with the way in which the government is bringing about restraint. However, she adds there are "many people who are still afraid to speak up — and in this day and age, that's very distressing." TIMES, NOV. 2,1983 0

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Astrid Davidson Megan Ellis BEV DAVIES PHOTOS No place for complaints By Debbie Wilson acknowledged as an injustice. Fired human rights worker Alicia It is a late October night at the status "So our role was one of counselling Lawrence said women should still file of women office in an industrial sec• and quick validation of those feelings complaints with the human rights tion of Vancouver. Inside is a small cir• and then a quick referral to the human branch, despite the shortage of staff to cle of women and three speakers ar• rights branch. That is, until July 7. handle claims. She said Labor Minister ranged in soft chairs around a subject "About three days after the budget Bob McClelland still has a responsibili• badly skewed by planned legislative came out I got a call from a woman ty to answer human rights complaints changes: sexual harassment. who worked with another woman in a — and to answer them within a Public sector workers now fear that small retail outlet. The boss had install• reasonable period of time. because of the expanded powers to ed a two-way mirror in the bathroom. Under the new Human Rights Act dismiss workers in Bill 3, women could They pieced the facts together because (not yet passed by the legislature) a be fired for simply complaining about he went into a locked room every time group or trade union can no longer file harassment on the job. they went to the bathroom." a sexual harassment complaint, Rape victim counselling centres and She had filed a complaint with the Lawrence said. The woman harassed other women's organizations now have human rights branch in March. Since must file alone. That means her no effective place to refer women who then she has received one letter. So testimony will not be verified by other call about sexual harassment. Ellis tried to help her find some other women in the workplace, a practice The human rights branch, with only way to settle the matter. which has aided many harassment two employees left in its Burnaby of• They tried the public health depart• claims, she said. fice, is backed up with complaints. ment. They were too busy. When Astrid Davidson, director of There is sadness and the counting of They considered criminal charges. women's programs for the B.C. losses at this evening meeting, but it is Assault charges did not apply to her Federation of Labor, first started not a wake. And that alone is case, while the fine and jail sentence of working on women's issues in the late remarkable. a summary conviction, her other op• 1970's she said, there weren't many Megan Ellis, a worker at the local tion, seemed an inappropriate remedy. women involved in the labor move• Rape Crisis Centre, said organizations At the crown counsel office she was ment. There certainly wasn't very like hers are less and less able to meet told they were reluctant to take on much organization. But now there are the expectations of women calling "minor" cases like sexual assault. In more working women and they won't about sexual harassment since human any case, she had to speak to police to easily part with the rights they have rights workers were fired across the lay charges, she was told. won, she said. province in July. "Which is true," said Ellis. "You "I'm quite certain they're not going "Women call and ask, 'Well, what have to go to the police station and lay to win," Davidson said of the govern• can I do about it?' Sometimes they just a charge with some guy who is about ment's plans. "Basically we're in fine want someone to give an external con• six feet two and who won't come up to fighting form and that's something firmation that they are going through the counter so you have to shout across that has never happened before in this — to have an injustice the room . . ." history."

Ministry urged to slow the pace By Trish Webb money is needed to expand community potential is a lengthy one and requires KAMLOOPS — The Tranquille In• facilities, answered the minister. support from schools, industry and stitute for the Mentally Handicapped Even consumer advocate Ralph residential neighborhoods. They fear, suits its name in appearance only. Nader jumped on McCarthy during an given the government's attitude toward Nestled between foothills and the shore address to the annual BCAMH con• employees at Tranquille — severance, of Kamloops Lake it presents a facade ference in Vancouver. She later ad• early retirement and job redeployment of calm against the animosity created monished him for "talking through his options included in the BCGEU con• by its high command. halo." tract have been ignored — that the pa• tients will fare little better. Institute employees are still waiting But everything was turned around by The risk of inadequate care and for resolutions to issues which sparked the July 7 budget announcement that facilities now has local and provincial a 21 day occupation July 20. government property would be sold associations calling for a slow-down of off, including the land owned by the Minister of human resources Grace the integration process until com• Tranquille Institute. Suddenly com• McCarthy has drawn fire from Tran• munities can handle the responsibilities munity integration of Tranquille quille workers and associations for the of an onslaught of special-needs in• residents was accelerated. The ten year mentally handicapped. dividuals. program announced in 1977 became a In June, the B.C. Association for the two year race to create enough space Tranquille Manager Terry Prysianz- Mentally Handicapped demanded that for almost 800 patients in facilities niuk claims that the new schedule for the government follow their own policy already filled to capacity. moving patiehts out of the institute was promoting the integration of institu• not motivated by budget-cutting con• tionalized mentally handicapped peo• Many residents of the government siderations. ple into the community. McCarthy in• institutions are severely or profoundly "We estimate that it is going to cost sisted the four year old policy was pro• retarded, meaning they lack basic life at least as much to provide services in ducing results: resident patient popula• skills like the ability to feed, clothe or the community as in Tranquille. It will tions have dropped at all three B.C. in• go to the toilet by themselves. be hard to get a sense of the economic stitutions since 1977. Psychiatric workers at Tranquille impact of decentralization, but we at They have dropped, but not fast say the process of helping severely the ministry are not approaching it as a enough, said BCAMH. More time and mentally retarded people reach their method to cut costs," he said. © TIMES, NOV. 2, 1983 pushed to the wall on some of these Trouble issues and they are now prepared to take action that they've never taken From page 2 5»\ before," said BCTF president Larry WEN-DO now. CUPE members are going to de• Kuehn. "Nov. 8 is the date selected by The New Year's fend their jobs and, in the present Operation Solidarity for the education situation, withdrawal of services is the sector. It will include not only teachers Eve Bash to Women's only way," said the successor to CUPE but non-teaching employees in schools Usher in the Age leader Grace Hartman, who retired last and also in colleges and universities." Self Defense of Surveillance week. Over the weekend, newscasters Rape Relief As the talks dragged on toward the counted down the hours as negotiators 872-8212 end of the week, BCGEU director Jack continued talking late into the night Adams reiterated his union's pledge against the Halloween deadline. The that it wouldn't sign a settlement rest of B.C. waited to learn whether it guaranteeing seniority in layoffs and would be trick or treat. recalls unless the same policy applied to all other public sector unions. "It's got to be an agreement that's ap• plicable to the majority of the public sector unions." said Adams. tABCR HISTORY 1 Christopher On Friday, Oct. 28, the news i peace blackout was lifted briefly, only to M. Trower reveal that a settlement was not yet in (CAMAQMWA ) Barrister & Solicitor The basic class combines sight, despite the presence of Premier ChupW 'S BOOKS ) Bennett's chief adviser, Norman Spec- physical techniques with prac• PppTICAl ECOKOMV )J General Law Practice tical group discussions on topics tor, at the bargaining table. That was 1 with Emphasis on such as Women and the Law, the day BCGEU announced the results Books 4- PkRJOlMCAt* FROM THE U.SS.R- Fx Persona/ Injuries Rape, Battering and Verbal Self of its month-long strike vote: 87 per Defense. cent in favor. Union president Norm Wrongful Dismissals Richards served 72-hour strike notice Labour Law (for Unions Bookings are now being taken immediately after the vote, clearing the People's Co-op for the winter season. We will only) gladly arrange classes for groups way for a strike at midnight Monday, of ten or more women. Rates are Oct. 31. Bookstore #905-207 West reasonable and negotiable and Meanwhile, the B.C. 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By Debbie Wilson in, of course, the White Velvet moving their operations to the South In a dimly-lit room, a woman sings Lounge. Pacific where they can use dirt-cheap an odd tune in a fine frail voice. It rises Their methods are unorthodox. In• labor. They keep the labor cheap and falls in slightly Oriental tones. stead of producers and directors because of the arms race. She makes sensual motions, drawing wandering godlike around the set, cast "The biggest task with this play was both hands to her hip pocket; rubbing members prepare the different parts of to make links. And it was also the her thumbs and forefingers together in the plays. Then together, they read hardest because nobody else was doing that "big money" gesture as she sways through and criticize, play through and it." on stage. And the words: "You can do remark again, play through again and many things here that you can't do at change first the script — that sacred They focused on the Philipines in home/Or-din-air-ee restrictions they scroll of traditional productions — and "Under the Gun" because of Canada's just don't apply." only then the pacing, the inflection. growing involvement in Pacific Rim It's no treat to anyone's ego to have countries. But when the show original• It is incongruous language for what a script thrashed over and over again. ly opened in March, says Diamond, is a plainly seductive act. But she is in The writing isn't even finished when "people were coming up and saying: the White Velvet Lounge of the Manila the show hits the road. (he half-shuts his eyes in mocking con• Hotel. And this is the vocabulary of Headlines Theatre comes by its name descension, 'But where are the desire for the men there; foreign the hard way. If Phillipines president Phillipines?' " businessmen drawn by the promise of Ferdinand Marcos is assassinated while The assassination of one opposition cheap labor and vast markets in the they are touring, or if cruise missile politician changed all that. Still, Phillipines' free trade zones. testing is prohibited by Canadian Canada doesn't share the high profile "This place is a paradise for your in• courts, they will have more to worry for its role in the little country where about than getting to the local hall in vestment," she croons. foreign industry produces goods with Spuzzum for the night's show. $1.50 a day labor kept quiet by big Or so goes the story. Actually she — Says Wild: "We consider it a luxury guns. "Canada wears her white gloves actor Karen Darcy — is in a Vancouver to be able to not have to change our very well in the Phillipines," says church basement, in overalls and a script for a week so we can really learn Wild. "Because her involvement is in T-shirt; unlikely togs to be serenading our lines." 'foreign aid' and 'development' fun• corporate big shots anywhere. This is a After its successful run with "Buy, ding." rehearsal for "Under the Gun," Buy Vancouver," several groups ap• Headlines Theatre's latest marriage of proached Headlines with new project Diamond interjects: "And nobody play and politix. ideas. Project Ploughshares suggested in the world is going to say something It's unusual meat for theatre-goers. a show about disarmament, and last against 'development.' Unless you But the troupe estimates that most of March, after 14 months and countless look at what it is." the audience it attracted for its first hours of research, travel, writing and They developed a story line about production — "Buy, Buy Vancouver," consultation with groups like Toronto's Sylvia, a Canadian woman who works about the city's housing crisis — had Cruise Missile Conversion Project and in a factory, loosely based on Litton never seen live theatre before. the local Filipino community, they Industries of Toronto, which produces By now the show is on the road for opened quite a different show. guidance systems for the cruise missile. nearly 60 exhausing one-night stands in Wild found the whole disarmament In a second, parallel story line, Peter church basements and community cen• issue "too amorphous." But when Goodman, vice president of the same tres and union halls across the pro• they looked at how the arms race in• company, markets surveillance systems vince. They aim for accessible enter• fluences third world economies, says in the Phillipines. She meets, and even• tainment, and shows have always been actor producer David Diamond, "sud• tually aids, cruise missile protesters at done on a pay-what-you-can basis. denly we could deal with the issue as the factory gates. He finds Manila's But two weeks ago they huddled part of our own economy instead of streets churning with demonstrators around a long plywood table, reading because we're going to blow ourselves enraged by the opposition leader's through the second rewrite of the fif• up." assassination and he finds the military teenth rewrite of actor/producer Nettie "You can say to people: So you everywhere, even in the factories. Wild's dialogue between a Canadian don't have a job. Well, why not? It's Both of them come to realize their businessman and an American agent not because MacBlo doesn't have place in the arms race; she quits her debating investment prospects. 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By George Stanley out of control /Followed by the portant, and eighteen hundred people But in B.C. he's becoming known as TERRACE — He was singing a Socreds /who stuck us in a hole. in a hall in Victoria, and I thought, the 'Bonkers' man, and it seems to country ballad in a Whitehorse pub, The objector finally gets into an 'somebody loves me.' Maybe I ought both please and puzzle him. Please when suddenly his voice disappeared. altercation with two huge telephone to start loving people too, instead of him, because his motive in writing the The sandy-haired, light-voiced workers, a beer is thrown, and the just putting up a front." song was not really political, but country-Western singer, who had been TWU hoists him to shoulder level and B. Jay surprises the crowd by singing human. He's been there, and he playing Variety Club benefits for carries him upstairs to the street. 'Help Me Make It Through the Night' knows. He sincerely cares about the cancer victims for years, had become At a benefit performance for Ter• in English, and then in his own French people who will be hurt by the cut• one of the victims himself. Cancer had race's Soup Kitchen the following Sun• translation. He trails his extra-long backs. hit B. Jay Roberts where he lived — in day, two small girls, obviously microphone cord up the aisle as he ad• But his new found fame also puzzles the vocal cords. delighted, chant the final couplet of the dresses the resonant French phrases in• him. "What kind of a town is Burns Today, five years later, B. Jay is chorus: timately to women and children in the Lake?" he asks. "What about Cran- back on the road. Sitting at a table in Everyone who's bonkers should be audience, then returns to the stage to brook? Can I sing the Bonkers song the Terrace Hotel pub sipping a beer put in a zoo /Or else they'll make a do his new song, 'Selena,' a moving there?" (In Cloverdale — "Bob Mc• between sets, he confides, "Getting monkey, a monkey out of you. contemporary spiritual. Both Waylon Clelland country," he calls it — he had "Terry Fox," B. Jay tells the benefit Jennings and Canadian Dick Damron to stop singing it.) His new Terrace audience, "has to be the greatest Cana• have shown interest in 'Selena' for friends tell him not to worry; a man SHAKE & dian. He taught us all what guts really future albums. (Twin Country Music who really loves people like B. Jay does means." Of his own change of heart he will release B. Jay's own version in will get his message across, and make says, "What really turned me around January.) the people learn to care. was when they did a benefit for me. B. Jay Roberts' career as a country Lyrics Sue Pacific/Konnekta POP That knocked me out. Twelve bands singer seems definitely on the upswing. Publishing. cancer was the best thing that ever hap• pened to me." The new voice is deep, and rasps slightly. The new vocal cords are made of plastic. "I was an arrogant son-of-a-bitch Is Albanian Fiction Interesting? back then," he says. "I thought because I was doing all those charitable By Ralph Maurer charged and marred by Knight's Who Make Things Happen (and can things, that I was God. Now I know furious and uncompromising anger. afford to commission the biographies Traces of Magma: an annotated I'm just his friend." When I heard that Knight was work• that prove it). It's also valuable bibliography of left literature, by Rolf B. Jay Roberts is a country singer ing on a book about fiction, I was because it turns our attention to fic• Knight. Draegerman, 360 pages, $12. whose repertoire consists of Hank curious and puzzled. It turns out, tion, a subject generally ignored by Williams, Buck Owens and Willie This book has no business being any though, that Traces of Magma isn't as "serious" leftists. Nelson standards, with a few gospel good, but it is. If I told you I had alist far removed from his previous books Finally, Traces of Magma is valuable songs thrown in. But he is rapidly of 3,000 proletarian novels by 1,500 (all serious works of history) as you because it's interesting reading, far becoming known in B.C. for a little authors from 90 countries ranging might suppose. The dark corner of our more interesting, than the first item of his own composition, a two from Albania to Mozambique to past he illuminates with Magma is not paragraph's description makes it minute and eighteen second political that of working class fiction but of sound. What makes it so interesting is novelty song, released on his own Twin working class life. Knight's broad view. Traces of Magma Country Music label, called 'Bonkers.' "If the realm of literature should not shows that Albanian, Mozambiquean Everyone can get a little crazy /But be taken for actual history, neither and Yugoslavian fiction is actually something's really wrong with poor old should most schoolbook histories or pretty interesting. The section on the Grade /And it can't go any longer / public affairs documentaries," Knight U.S.S.R. is larger than that for Britain, Cause Billy and the Socreds have gone PAPER writes in his introduction. "Often the and Soviet fiction is shown to be a lot bonkers. fictional works are the only ones which more sophisticated than boy - meets - 'Bonkers' is selling at the rate of Yugoslavia, would you give me twelve deal with the everyday lives of ordinary girl, boy - loses - girl, boy - attains - 5,000 copies per week; ten per cent of bucks for a copy? people caught up in and acting to production - quotas - and - gets girl - sales go to the Variety Club. (The title But Traces of Magma turns out to be transform the particular conditions and - new -tractor. I should have comes from Human Resources fascinating, mostly because it's a pro• around them." known that, of course, but given the Minister Grace McCarthy's remark duct of one of B.C.'s most interesting He describes left novels as those complete unavailablity of recent Soviet that Ministry employees who objected minds. Twenty years ago author Rolf "which provide a progressive social fiction here, it's surprising to read how to mass firings were all 'bonkers.') Knight, who's been driving a cab late• critique of whichever society they hap• rebellious and individualistic a lot of it On a rare warm October night, the ly, was emerging with his Ph.D. from pen to emerge from. In addition, there is (a lot of that rebellion gets expressed Terrace pub is packed. B. Jay and his the anthropology department of Col• is a special effort to include titles by as hatred for the bureaucracy). band, 'Surefire,' strike up the peppy umbia or some such highbrow universi• authors who stemmed from or were There's more, much more, in intro to 'Bonkers,' and as B. Jay sw• ty. But he wanted to change the world, part of the working class and peasant Knight's book of literary lists. Since ings into the chorus, an enraged local so he threw away an academic teaching worlds about which they wrote." Coles won't touch this one, to get a NEED program organizer stands at the career to write. His work since — A This book is valuable because it says copy you might have to send $12 plus a edge of the dance floor waving his Very Ordinary Life, A Man of Our something that isn't said often enough: huck for postage to Draegerman arms and making obvious but inaudi• Times, Stump Ranch Chronicles, In• that the lives of "ordinary" working Publishing, 139 South Glynde, Bur- ble sounds of outrage. dians at Work and Along the No. 20 men and women are as interesting and naby V5B 3J3. I'll be surprised to hear There goes Kaiser Billy /he's way Line — has been provocative and im- important as those of the Great Men any complaints. © TIMES, NOV. 2, 1983

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PMuig Up With Mister Smith By John Mackie (Jimbo and the Lizard Kings) and even magazine and terminated with Public out on The Phil Smith Album: the solo some 1979 post-punk punk-pop Enemy, the Georgia Straight's short• in I'm Nothin' is worth the price of the (Wasted Lives). lived new wave offshoot. He entered album alone. Even when he's just play• Phil Smith is notorious for changing "I don't understand how you can the performing arena with Wasted ing a simple rhythm, as on I'm Not For his mind, arguing black is white and categorize music like hockey teams, Lives, who were no great shakes as a Sale, I'm Sold, off the first Bud Lux- sitting still for the approximate time a with one at the top and one at the bot• live act but who left behind one of the ford LP (in another Phil band, the hummingbird takes to flutter its wings. tom," Phil says, defending his funniest songs of all time, Wirehead, Snow Geese), he has a feel for the If times differed he might still be yakk- somewhat eclectic taste buds. on the Vancouver Complication album guitar which is really quite beautiful. ing it up in university, debating the "Everything has its own validity. You of local punk/new wave bands. "No We can expect to see Corsage play• obscure merits of illustrious tomes like can like comedies and you can like more pain, there's a wire in my brain," Lloyd Bridges' Mask and Flippers: The ing around Vancouver a little more (in• soap operas. Each of them are good or sang Phil, and then future-Buddy. cluding a spot on the Vancouver History Of Skin Diving with, say, bad within themselves." Selfish guitarist Colin Griffith's whip• Aristotle's Politics. As things stand, he show), and Phil says a new Blanche This explains a man who turns ped into a spine-wrenching blur of has turned his considerable energies to Whitman project is in the works. Final• everything upside down in his own per• notes. what he dubs "the Phil Smith ly seeing his efforts on vinyl has given sonal quest for nirvana. Growing up as Thankfully, Wirehead has been concept." new impetus to somebody who already a budding poet in North Vancouver, resurrected, in better fidelity, on Phil's had ants in his pants. Don't be too sur• "I love the big riff," explains Phil, Phil was the guy who had tons of Bob new record. It's so ridiculous, it's prised by.anything Phil attempts; he's donning the budding rock star garb of Dylan and Led Zeppelin bootlegs. A divine. got a new scam every ten minutes. smart guy who thought Blue Oyster Wasted Lives didn't last too long, Among these was a project that didn't Cult really were the eighth wonder of and Phil shifted his glasses towards pull off two springs back; recording the world. A rock and roll learning the recording process, a facet the Rick Springfield hit Jessie's Girl as schizophrenic. of the music biz most of his contem• a novely tune, Gretzky's Girl. SHAKE & Then along came punk and Phil poraries ignored in their quest to pro• "That was one of the great tragedies plunged in, face first. He ran the duce art. Phil's bands may not be as of my life," says Phil, watching dollar Simon Fraser University radio station contrived as Prism or Lover Boy, but bills fly out the window. "We had the and wrote a wild series of articles for neither are they spur-of-the-moment song all ready to go, drunk out of our POP the student newspaper, the Peak, trendsetters. Everything is thought out. minds at the top of the Daon building, where he insulted everyone and anyone "Performance is performance, you meeting with millionaire lawyers who the Phil Smith concept. "The big riff is and praised punk to the skies. And know," says Phil. "Some people con• were gonna back us — everything look• one of the reasons for living. When I every issue there would be at least two fuse onstage and off. I don't. The dif• ed like it was gonna go until the Oilers hear a great Led Zeppelin or Blue or three letters to the editor calling for ference between Corsage and Lover got dumped in the first round of the Oyster Cult riff, real bone crunchers, Phil's head on a platter. The Buzz- Boy? Well, Lover Boy does what they playoffs." well, what can I say, it just sends a cocks' Pete Shelley and Magazine's do really well and I think Corsage does primal shiver down my spine!" Brushing aside such a colossal bum• Howard DeVoto became Phil's new too — there's probably a lot of mer, Phil plugs on, searching for that messiahs and legend has it that, after similarities. I'd rather have one Lover elusive footpath to glory. "I don't do Hmmmm. Phil, it seems, has listening to the latest Bob Dylan Bov than a million bands of avant- this so I can sit in a closet and listen to dedicated himself to reconciling two album, Desire, he yelled "Boring!" garde garbage like Bauhaus." my records — I want people to hear polar opposites — brains and heavy and flung it out the window, frisbee- To help realise the potential of each them. We've got labels interested in metal music — through Corsage, a style. Always a bit of an excitable song, Phil has stocked each band with Corsage, but we're never gonna change band that's making a wee bit of a fellow, I can recall going over to the local luminaries. Blanche Whitman our basic style of music. How can you, reputation for itself around the city for house he shared with local music en• features ex-Dishrag Scout Fairlane, ex- you're not gonna fool anyone. I'll its live gigs and its songs on Phil's trepreneur Bud Luxford and watching Buddy Selfish bassist Bob Petterson never do the club circuit — I've never debut LP, The Phil Smith Album. in disbelief as Phil played us a load of and former U-J3RK5ers Rodney played over 65 minutes on stage in my singles on his stereo — only he would Graham and Kitty Byrne. Corsage life. I couldn't do it. . . I'd be bored, But Corsage is only one arm of a never let a song play for more than 15 features current Payola drummer Chris tired . . . you know that I put out four-pronged assault evidence on the seconds before he'd bap another one Taylor, former-Subhuman Ron Allan onstage. I never have to force myself album. The Phil Smith concept also in• on. on bass, and, most importantly, ex- — it just happens. I guess you could cludes dreamy keyboard pop (via Blan• His writing career continued in Pointed Stick Bill Napier-Hemy on call me the Ernest Ainsley of rock and che Whitman) a rebirth of the Doors Snotrag, the local mimeographed punk guitar. It's his work that really stands roll!" TIMES, NOV. 2, 1983

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