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over. The fight against the to handicapped recipients. legislation was no doubt still Restoration of educational on, but the threat of a general funding to 1983 levels remain• strike to oppose it had reced• ed totally murky. B.C. Teachers Federation president ed. 1 t Larry Kuehn claimed that the "I can say we have agreed $18 million "saved" from the on an avenue to resolve the teachers' protest would be ap• problems," said a cautious plied to next year's funding. Munro, who had agreed not to Bennett denied this would reveal details until Bennett had No deal happen, insisting the money met with his caucus. would only be used to pay For the rest of the week, the teachers making up days lost province puzzled over the during the protest. on school "avenue" of resolution. IliK Rumors, claims and angry When the provincial counterclaims, and more Solidarity Coalition steering rumors, clouded the picture. committee and the Lower Not until week's end, when Mainland Solidarity Coalition funding Munro offered the details of ; : assembly met at the beginning the deal and Bennett confirm• of the week, coalition By Stan Persky members made clear their The two men emerged onto ed them the next day in a television interview with dissatisfaction with both the a front porch shortly results of the talks and the before 10:30 p.m. broadcaster Jack Webster, did some basis for assessment absence of consultation with After a four-hour meeting the coalition in the course of become available. Even then, lift in the living room of B.C.'s coming to a settlement. Opera• premier, and- just an hour or one of the central issues — the question of educational fun• tion Solidarity leaders Art so before thousands of civic Kube and Mike Kramer heard employees and ferry workers ding for 1984 — remained in dispute. on the way to coffee with Webster. a barrage of criticism from the were due to join 85,000 strik• community-oriented coalition. ing public-sector workers who Here, apparently, is what that seniority rights would be sent human rights commis• Kramer conceded that labor had been on the picket line Bennett and Operation retained. sion. had erred on consultation. since Nov. 1, Bill Bennett and Solidarity agreed upon: • Before proposing changes Further consultation would "We made an error not con• B.C. Federation of Labor first to the labor code, the govern• • Bill 2, designed to remove be invited before passing sulting the coalition enough. vice president Jack Munro, ment will establish a con• collective bargaining rights, legislation eliminating the ren- We learned a lesson," he said. representing Operation sultative committee with labor was dead. At the same time, Operation Solidarity, announced an un• representation. talsman's office. Munro • Bill 3, which bypasses understood that a rent-review Solidarity authorized further written agreement Sunday, For labor, then, the move seniority rights and gives the funding for the coalition and Nov. 13 that would end the into the streets had substan• mechanism would be government the right to fire the Lower Mainland group most massive protest in the tially slowed the government established, but Bennett has public sector workers at ran• vowed to fight on to produce province's history. juggernaut. On social issues, yet to confirm it. dom, is law, but an exemption "mass political pressure" in For four months, an un• however, the results were far Recent cuts to social services clause will make it inoperative. support of more meetings with precedented Solidarity Coali• less clear. will not be rescinded, although A written collective agree• the government on social ques• tion of trade unions and com• human resources minister ment, concluded hours before A consultative committee tions. munity groups had fought an on human rights would be Grace McCarthy will review the Munro-Bennett pact, bet• The most favorable assess• extreme rightwing package of ween the B.C. Government established prior to the plans to wipe out a legislation introduced by Ben• government passing pending $50-a-month program that ment of the outcome came Employees Union and the pro• from Sun labor reporter Doug nett's Socred government last vincial government, ensured legislation wiping out the pre• supplements welfare payments July. Now, the worst of it was See page 12: WEEK A CONDEMNATION OF ACTIONS OF THE B.C. GOVERNMENT The International Labour Organization, an agency of the United Nations, has recently issued a report condemning actions the provincial government took against teachers last year.

It said: • Cutting teachers' salaries by chopping 6 to 11 days from "not consistent with the principles of free collective the school year constituted an interference in the collec• bargaining." tive bargaining process. • Submission of negotiated agreements to the Compensa• tion Stabilization Commission for approval "is not only • The adoption of legislation without consultation with liable to discourage the use of voluntary collective teachers was "not consistent with the principles of bargaining; it is also incompatible with the principle of freedom of association." non-interference in the collective bargaining process by the public authorities."

School board budget limits which made it impossible for • Prohibition against striking by public servants should be boards to comply with their collective agreements were confined to genuinely essential services.

The ILO is now examining complaints about the even more arbitrary actions taken by the government against teachers this year. Tell the government to be fair to students and teachers. LET JUSTICE BE DONE

A Message from the B.C Teachers' Federation TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1983

employees in equal numbers, Tenants' groups are also meet with government but would be cabinet worried the government wil ig• representatives "in a positive Socreds plot employees without job securi• nore their concerns and plunge way" and plan to submit a list ty. The Essential Services ahead with its planned Bill 5, of suggestions aimed at pro• Disputes Act could be applied which removes rent controls tecting tenants' rights. to the private sector, with and abolishes the Rentals- "We want to meet and pre• trade zones wider powers to declare strikes man's office. sent our ideas. We'll give it a illegal. chance," he said. The Social Credit govern• "Bennett hasn't said why Both Chouhan and Lane ment's budget legislation is Employer protection for the current mediation process, said their groups wil continue aimed at creating free trade "economic development pro• the Rentalsman, should be fighting the proposed legisla• zones in this province, similar jects" which could include shut down. We know it's not tion and will not fall apart. to those found in Third World rapid transit, and to save money," said David "The coalition is not finished. countries, says a Simon Fraser Northeast coal, would pro• Lane, a B.C. Tenants' Coali• If we want to see any changes University economist. hibit strikes, even for health tion spokesperson. 'We have made, we have to intensify our The provincial government and safety reasons. Breaches no indication from Bennett strength," said Chouhan. has twice drafted legislation — of the labor code would or his ministers that they will "We have to let people know although never passed — that become criminal offences and move on the most critical we're still around and we're would have severely restricted violators subject to stiff fines. issues to us—namely the evic• still together." Greater protection would be tion without cause clause in union powers and created con• Lane said the tenants groups given to employers' .rights, the new bill, and the abolition ditions permitting free trade will "continue to fight with zones. says Leibowitz. of the Rentalsman and rent controls." demonstrations and stepped "The basic Socred plan is The proposed labor code up organization of tenants on not to build a light rapid tran• changes — though later denied But Lane said his group will a grassroots level." sit system or develop Nor• by McClelland — resulted in BEV DAVIES PHOTO theast coal," says Michael Operation Solidarity's in• Leibowitz. "What they are at• sistence for its input into new tempting to do is to put B.C. labor code changes now ex• into the bidding process for in• pected next year. ternational floating capital. They are bidding with a cheap Building trades workers are docile labor force and tax con• already suffering from govern• cessions. The best parallel to ment policy on publicly this budget would be found in financed construction pro• the Third World." jects, says Clive Lytle of the Building and Construction In free trade zones, com• Trades Council. Public boards ponents and raw materials are are forced to accept the lowest shipped in, assembled and ex• bid, regardless of the contrac• ported, free from customs in• tor's ability to fulfill his spections and tarriffs. obligations, he says. Workers are forbidden to organize in unions. Computer chip production and computer assembly industries use free trade zones in the Phillipines and other Third World coun• Rights group tries to bypass the higher costs of organized labor in the coun• When Greyhound Bus Lines "left the driving to" scabs, trade unionists were there to protest. More tries where their products are than 50 demonstrators set up a picket line at the Vancouver depot Nov. 16 and prevented the non• consumed. blasts 'farce' union driven Seattle-Vancouver run from pulling in. Greyhound drivers in the U.S. have been on strike Federal trade regulations since the beginning of the month and the dispute turned ugly when the company decided to hire scab drivers to keep profits rolling in. Strikers have clashed with police in more than a score of American and taxes prohibit true free The provincial govern• cities. trade zones in Canada, but ment's poor track record of Leibowitz says similar condi• consultation with community tions could be created with the group leaves little hope that application of the Technology major changes will be made to Assistance Act, a bill drafted proposed social services Govt, starves Colony Farm by the Social Credit govern• legislation. ment in 1982 which died on the That's the view of tenants' The provincial government Specific enquiries to the order paper before it was in• and human rights' groups try• is in no hurry to reveal plans government about their plans troduced into the legislature. ing to stop the government for Colony Farm, the Co- for the farm have gone According to the Act, in• from scuttling the Ren- quitlam farm which feeds unanswered. The government dustries whose research and talsman's office, rent controls Riverview Hospital inmates will not say under what condi• development expenditures and Human Rights Branch. and employs many in tions it will sell, keep or lease equal five per cent of annual "The consultation is a rehabilitative work. the land, Fox said. sales would be exempt from farce," said Raj Chouhan, A representative from the "The only government minimum wage laws and spkesperson for the B.C. Save Colony Farm Committee response is that there have been union activities by its Human Rights Coalition. was barred from a meeting no applications to take it out employees would be banned. "There's no clear committ• about the farm between pro• of the land reserve," she said. Proposed labor code ment from the government. vincial government officials "They're not saying changes drafted by the Unless you get something in and Coquitlam and Port Co- anything." ministry of labor last summer writing from that man quitlam city councillors on The committee wants Col• — and then leaked to the (Premier Bill Bennett), you Nov. 21. ony Farm to remain media and later denied by can't trust him." The committee has no idea agricultural land, either leased labor minister Bob Mc• Chouhan said consultation why it was not allowed to join to farmers or used as an Clelland — would make union with the provincial govern• the meeting, said committee agricultural research facility. organizing more difficult. ment had "betrayed British member Cathy Fox. They But there is pressure to turn Decertification of unions Columbians" in the past, and don't know who kept them the farmland to industrial use, would be easier, closed shops pointed to farmworkers as an out, either. Fox said. in the construction industry example of consultation hav• "This makes a mockery of Auctions of the farm's could be ruled illegal and in ing little effect on government the government's and Premier sheep and machinery began some industries collective policy. Bennett's invitation for public last weekend, and that might bargaining rights and "In the case of the farm• consultation on the budget," be the first step in selling the minimum wage laws would be workers, the government has the committee wrote in a letter land, said Fox. waived, if the proposed promised us many things, but to Chabot. "As the auctions continue changes were implemented. they've always gone ahead and The committee invited they're reducing the options of Labor Relations Board of• done something completely Parks and several agriculture what can be done with Colony ficers would no longer be ap• different," said Chouhan, who department officials to a Farm," she said. pointed for fixed terms and is also president of the Cana• public meeting last month, but Chabot and Parks could not represent employers and dian Farmworkers Union. they didn't show, said Fox. be reached for comment. TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1983

you had to be one of 2,000 newspapers, accused of lessen• Liberals forking out $150 at a ing competition in the party fund-raiser. Critics newspaper business, announc• wondered whether the prime ed that he would deliver a ver• minister was promoting peace dict Dec. 9. or playing politics. In nationally-important Although Trudeau claimed provincial affairs, apart from that he returned from Europe the uneasy settlement of "with clear expressions of sup• B.C.'s near-general strike port" for his plan, doubts Nov. 13, attention focussed on were raised later in the week premier Rene Leves- when the scheme was criticised que's bid to rebuild his by American defense officials political fortunes in the face of who accused Canada of mak• a strong challenge from ing inadequate contributions Liberal opponent, and former PM peace to NATO. Said one: "It's a premier, Robert Bourassa. cop-out. Even the Europeans, On Nov. 13, the chain• who aren't as crass as we are, smoking Levesque appeared think Canada should put its on television to present an am• tour hits money where its mouth is." bitious plan to cut Quebec's Pentagon officials in PM out of country, but protesters remain 13.5 per cent unemployment Washington uttered similar rate and boost economic Far East sentiments. cracks posed no safety of Cruise and Pershing recovery. The scheme included hazards. missiles began in Europe. incentives for industry to settle By Stan Persky Trudeau, by then in Tokyo In mid-week, Blais flew to In the midst of the noisy in Quebec (the carrot offered Prime Minister Pierre for talks with Japanese prime Washington for meetings with peace debate last week, there was cheap energy), a Elliott Trudeau condescended minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, his U.S. counterpart, Caspar was a moment of silence as revamped welfare system to pause long enough between bristled at the sniping. "Pen• Weinberger. Afterwards, he Tory MP Walter Baker was allowing people to get benefits airports on his globe-trotting tagon people aren't notewor• announced that testing of the laid to rest. Baker, 53, who while working, and retraining peace mission last week to let thy for their concern with U.S. Cruise missile in Canada had been House leader during programs for workers. Canadians in on the details of disarmament," he said, before would take place in March, Joe Clark's brief reign, died of his trip. flying on to Bangladesh at "Our object is to launch a and reported that the cancer Nov. 13. After a whirlwind, six- week's end. momentum so our economy not Americans had agreed to nation European tour to If the cracks in Trudeau's Less decorous behavior at• only reaches, but maintains, a detour the test-flight path to garner support for his in• plan were debatable, those in tended the funeral ceremony growth level superior to the Cana• avoid most populated areas. itiative, Trudeau unveiled the Canada's recently-purchased for mobster Paul Volpe, dian average," said Levesque. main features of the peace CF-18 fighter aircraft were Canadian opponents of the whose bullet-riddled body was Two days later, at the opening plan Nov. 13. literal. controversial Cruise tests were found stuffed in the trunk of a of the fall session of the Quebec The plan calls for: a con• While Trudeau preached not mollified, however. In car Nov. 14. At the funeral, National Assembly, finance ference of the world's five peace, investigators grounded Toronto, more than 80 of Volpe's brother decided to minister Jacques Parizeau, in a nuclear powers; extension of three of the planes, part of a them were arrested after scal• take revenge on a CBC supplementary budget, chopped the 1970 Nuclear Non- $5-billion order for 138 ing a fence and lying on the cameraman, felling him with a gasoline surtaxes by four cents a Profileration Treaty; beefed U.S.-made fighters, after fin• grounds of Litton Systems kick to the groin. He was litre, and committed $30 million up "conventional" forces for ding tiny cracks in their ; Canada, a maker of guidance charged with assault. to stimulate economic programs. the West and a ban on testing aluminum engine mounts. systems for the missile. In other crime news, the Two days after that, the Parti- "Star Wars" type weapons. Defence minister Jean-Jacques Elsewhere in the world, there presiding judge hearing the Quebecois government unveiled The only problem with the Blais brushed aside criticisms were arrests in England and 'combines case against changes to the Charter of the presentation was that to hear it in the Commons, saying the West Germany as installation Southam and Thomson See page 12: CANADA

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either a child under seven or two under 12. These people, said Coull, have been unemployed a long time, have little confidence Gay worker and few job skills. "Their's is just a less serious definition of 'handicapped'." McCarthy has said CIP challenges benefits are unfair because they go to only 2,500 of B.C.'s welfare recipients. Responds sex registry Coull: "So expand the pro• gram." Cutting it is like taking By Trish Webb away everyone's rights Rob Joyce is finally going to because some have more than court. others, he added. For the first time in almost A test case, now awaiting a two years, he will be allowed date for a hearing in B.C. to defend himself against Supreme Court, will be based allegations of sexual abuse of Rob Joyce wants his name off sex abuse registry; goes to court on Vancouver CIP volunteer a minor. Joyce filed a petition David Jensen's right to appeal with the Supreme Court of the cutoff of his CIP contract B.C. Nov. 18 asking the court Joyce told the story to two the "story that was eventually earlier this year. to order the removal of his other staff members and, ex• publicized was based on Lawyer David Mossop said name from a provincial child cept for a few chance en• rumors." The retraction if the case succeeds, people abuse registry. counters on the street, never sparked a review, but it was who apply for CIP and are re• Joyce was a job counsellor saw the boy again. limited to a consideration of jected can go to an appeal at Senator house, a hostel and Three days after Horie filed the credibility of that retrac• tribunal. tion. rehabilitation program for the complaint against Joyce, Government regulations young prostitutes run by the the boy retracted his charge The review was completed establishing the program re• Alternate Shelter Society for before a social worker. The Dec. 17, 1982 and the designa• main on the books, says MHR and child welfare. His case was investigated by a tion of the child abuse report Mossop. "The position we're work was lauded by human social worker who refused was changed from "un• taking in this case is it has resources minister Grace Mc• Joyce's requests to present in• substantiated" to "uncor• never been done away with. roborated." Carthy and featured in the formation or to be informed All CIP volunteers were to Dec. 1981 edition of B.C. Cor• of the content of allegations. Joyce had hoped Schad• lose their grant on August 30, rections Newsletter. He offered to submit to a lie dalee would take the witness but Mossop warned the On Jan. 12, 1982 an article detector test and make a state• stand in court and repeat his ministry that legal action in Vancouver's morning daily ment to police but was refus• retraction, but the boy died of would be taken if contracts outlined the concerns of some ed. He was fired Feb. 3, 1982 a heroin overdose in May. He were not honored. The Senator House staff members and his name entered in the was 16 years old. ministry backed down, and about management policies Child Abuse Registry. volunteers can now complete which condoned sexual rela• Joyce says he was hired at their contracts. Most are six tions between residents and the Senator because he was a Save $50, months long. Some, left un• staff, drug abuse and traffick• gay activist and his employers dated, last until March. ing by residents and staff, felt that an openly gay man To Roy Hubbard, the mon• violent acts of residents, in• would have a positive effect on says CIP group thly $50 "means an awful lot. cluding the use of weapons, the attitudes of young male Extra food and stuff like and staff members safeguar• prostitutes, most of whom are By Debbie Wilson that." His contract ends in ding money residents obtained gay, but who have confused Volunteers in the Communi• March. "I don't know what through prostitution and feelings about their sexuality. ty Involvement Program are will happen. I haven't thought theft. Staff members said Allegations of child abuse ef• taking the provincial govern• that far ahead. I hope we're all residents who were not pro• fectively lock Joyce out of ment to trial. Proceedings back on CIP by then." stitutes when they moved into social work; to continue his started last week in B.C. What does the death of CIP Senator often turned to that career his name must be Supreme Court are another mean to Andy Lunden? "I trade because of the influence removed from the Child step in the battle by welfare won't be able to go down and of other residents and manage• Abuse Registry. recipients and community get a good meal like everybody ment's failure to control their Child abusers registered workers to budge the govern• else can." activities. with the ministry are usually ment from its decision to kill the program. Emma Walkus says her $50 According to affidavits filed parents or guardians of the "comes in handy. I can get a in court by Joyce, a special victim. According to the ra• The government's position little bit of clothes or meeting of Senator staff was tionale offered by ministry of• remains unchanged. The pro• something." ficials, since the child it usual• held later that day where Joyce gram, which pays $50 to han• The program costs the pro• ly too young to understand the announced that he had arrang• dicapped or unemployable vincial government $750,000 a proceedings, and the accused ed a meeting with Jack Gillis, welfare recipients who do at year; the feds kick in another simply denies the charge, regional director for the least 20 hours of community $750,000. "It doesn't even neither are consulted for the ministry of the attorney- work each month, dies in make any sense in terms of investigation. By listing the of• general. Shelter society ac• March. restraint," said Wendy fender's name in the Registry, countant George Horie told Human Resources Minister See page 12: CIP him, "if you are not with us, even if claims are unsubstan• Grace McCarthy said the pro• get off the bus." tiated, it is possible to detect gram might later be reinstated, Two days later Horie filed a patterns of abuse and to deter• but only for the handicapped. report with the superintendent mine if a child is in a One spokesman for the CIP of child welfare alleging that dangerous situation, the advocacy group says Joyce had paid a teenager for ministry says. separating the handicapped oral sex. On Oct. 1, 1982, Schaddalee from the unemployable on The boy, Robert Barry saw Joyce on Davie Street and welfare is "hair splitting." Schaddelee, met Joyce on Oct. told him that he wanted to "This is not a reinstate• 22, 1981 and was referred to "make matters right", accor• ment," said Barry Coull, of Senator House when he said ding to the transcript of an in• the CIP Fightback Commit• he wanted to get away from terview between Joyce, Brent tee. "It's a reduction. It means the street life and go back to Parfitt of the ombudsman's chopping 1,500 people out of school. Joyce says in his af• office and Wayne Nickel from the program." fidavit that he was concerned human resources. Joyce flagg• Officially "unemployable" the boy was making sexual ad• ed down a police car and welfare recipients include: the vances and told him that he Schaddalee wrote and signed a physically or mentally infirm, was not interested in having statement saying that "Rob those over 65, single parents sex with him or any other Joyce did not sexually repre• with a handicapped child at minor. At work the next day sent himself in any way" and home, or single parents with CIP's Barry Coull o TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1983 have been doing their best to avoid. When teachers joined the picket Instead, they have been concentrating lines in the name of restoring 1984 on reprisals against protesting educational funding to 1983 levels teachers, transparent ploys to divide (among other demands), little did trade unionists, and wrong-headed they realize that the money to do so schemes to make next year's was simply going to come out of their The teachers' case classrooms even more crowded than pockets. this year's. The argument over who said what The real issue, the one that led For Bennett to deny them even that about education in Bill Bennett's 45,000 educational employees to hit Despite talking about "a time for is to add insult to injury. Kelowna living room 10 days ago the bricks, is what will happen to healing," Bennett spent most of last The ultimate injury, of course, will misses the point. B.C.'s education system next year week insisting that teachers make up be visited upon school children. The The issue is not who said what, but It's a subject Premier Bennett iuid days lost during the protest. Even issue that remains unaddressed by the what should be said. his education minister, , though the Bennett government government is whether the original casually chopped several days from plans to reduce educational spending the teaching term last year in order to in 1984 and subsequent years were "save" money, suddenly every mo• justified in the first place. The ment of teaching time is sacred. measure of the premier's pettiness in Hopefully, that hare-brained scheme all this becomes glaringly obvious was laid to rest by Vancouver school when one reflects that the amount be• superintendent Dante Lupini, who ing argued over, some $20 million, is pronounced the plan unworkable. less than the sum pumped into rescu• Nor was Bennett any more suc• ing the government's pet Whistler ski cessful in his bid to drive a wedge resort project. SO FAR (50 FAR between trade unionists on the educa• Once more the issue isn't restraint, O tion question by bickering over the but priorities. And the priorities are SO GOOD. 50 G00V. details of the Kelowna deal. When infuriating. the premier attacked B.C. Teachers Federation president Larry Kuehn, B.C. Federation of Labor president Bloodhounds Art Kube wasted no time in letting When Greyhound advertises, Bennett know that the teachers had "Leave the driving to us," the "us" the rest of labor's backing. they're referring to is a seasoned That leaves the $18 million workforce of professional drivers. "saved" by the protest. The teachers When these drivers move out from want it applied to the 1984 budget in behind the wheel and onto a picket order to forestall hundreds of layoffs, line, and are replaced by scabbing sehool closures and program cutbacks bloodhounds, forget it. scheduled by the government. Bennett What traveller in his or her right refused. The resulting fury of mind would want to discover the icy teachers' leader Kuehn is easy to roads of America under those cir• understand, and the suspicion that cumstances? Bring back the Bennett is playing despicable politics greyhounds, please, and return the has been heightened. bloodhounds to their kennels.

How democratic is the parliamentary "zoo'? By John W. Warnock There was no debate. Only the NDP remembered that time limits on debate five years. Here in Victoria the provincial spoke on the bills. and regular use of closure are a normal The NDP basically agrees with the legislature is referred to as "The ZoO." Comfortable with their majority, the part of the British system of parliamen• system. It objects to the grossest acts of It takes only one visit to learn why it Socred members just sat back tary government. the Socreds, but doesn't deny their has acquired that repuration. Personal laughing, joking and shouting out in• The Socreds won the May 5 election. right to rule. Electoral victory has invective is the norm and there is sults. Over the summer and into That was all that was necessary. They given them this right for five years. precious-little enlightened debate on September the legislature sat an have a majority in the legislature. They In his television speech of Oct. 20, legislation. average of only 24 hours per week. No won the right to rule for up to five the only alternative that A recent public-opinion poll reveal• legislation was passed. years. They can call the next election at offered us was greater use of the ed that 65 per cent of Canadians have Suddenly, on Sept. 19, the Socreds their convenience. parliamentary-committee system. He little or no interest in the federal shifted tactics. There were all-night sit• As Bill Bennett regularly points out: invited the Socreds to open the com• parliament. We are lucky that no one tings. For the first time in 112 years, "We won the last election. Those who mittees up to presentations by in• has done a similar poll on the B.C. the government used closure to cut off lost it, like they lost it before, will terested parties. Yet he stressed that the legislature. debate. It invoked closure 10 times to always be looking for some way to get Socreds, with a majority in the As irrelevant as the provincial get Bill 3 passed in time for the Social another chance." legislature and on the committees, legislature is to the great majority of Credit Party convention in mid- Industry minister Don Phillips is would still be ruling. people, one has to admit that the ses• October. blunter. "When you are out in the real Is this all we can expect from govern• sion this fall will probably go down in The NDP used all the tricks in the world, away from this never-never land ment? Is democracy only casting a history as one of the most bizarre in the book in its filibuster. The Socreds used over here, you know what goes on over ballot every three-to-five years? history of the parliamentary system. their majority to control the Speaker here is so insignificant, the people A great many people do not accept Normally only two or three bills are and interpret the rules to their benefit. don't give a damn. They elect us to run this as democracy and want significant on the floor of parliament at any one NDP leader Dave Barrett was ejected the government and it's time we got changes made. time. But on July 7, the Scoreds in• twice, the second time for the rest of doing it." troduced 26. Over the summer they the session. In the end, the Socreds us• Under the British system of brought any one of them up for ed their majority to suspend the sitting parliamentary government and the John Warnock is the author of Pro• "debate" at any time, regularly in• of the legislature indefinitely. single-member constituency, majority fit Hungry and a member of the Vic• troducing them and then withdrawing Some people were astonished at the governments are almost always the toria Solidarity Coalition. Next week, them. The NDP opposition had to way the Socreds used the legislature to case. In many cases, the winning party he will examine reforms designed to come prepared to speak on any of them pass controversial legislation. They gets less than 40 per cent of the popular combat cabinet "dictatorship" and at any time. were a bit crude. But it should be vote. But it can rule as it pleases for make the system more democratic.

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At this moment in our courage people to educate Crafty bit history, we are trying to themselves. Quit trying to organize the most widespread spoon-feed analysis on these of writing fightback since the Second good folk. Sooner or later, everyone A token World War. Give us news must fire their last piece of about the constituent groups If the Times is to be useful it ammunition. To me that piece of desire in this fightback, give us news must serve to inform people of ammunition was the mighty about what is happening, As a former teamster (Pony about the key players on both letter to the editor. In 19 years where it is happening, and Express, shop steward for 20 sides of the fight, give us news of active involvement in the how to get involved in what is years), I am entirely in sym• about the organizing attempts labor/political movement, in• happening. Get to the point of pathy with the aims of the of Solidarity, give us news cluding the best part of a year the protest. Anger, not reflec• public servants, the teachers, about the various strategy op• on picket lines, and so many tion, is the guiding emotion at and all others in Solidarity. tions facing our organizations. elections, marches, rallies and Keep your analytical pieces this stage of the protest. Get What makes me angry is the with it and quit printing crap. demonstration I can't ell few in number, concise in for• remember the count, I have apparent opposition and hostility of so many citizens mat. Let people know about Bill Goodacre never before written a letter to sources of information, en• Terrace the editor. directed toward striking union '"HP* members when their diatribes Oh, I had fantasies that should be aimed at the causes when I wrote that letter, it of the withdrawal of services would be an important and — the repressive legislation of cerebral contribution to a vital the present government of issue of the day. I was con• B.C. vinced that my epistle would Please accept the enclosed ill; give cause to a special edition, as a token of my desire to put front page editorial, calling my pocketbook where my for a fundamental redistribu• mouth is. tion of wealth and power. I was sure that it would lead to Ralph Spicer workers on the bench of the Ralph Spicer Vancouver Supreme Court as opposed to the dark and dirty benches of do unto these the least of my the unemployed. brethern, so you do also unto Check out Then I read "In the Valley me." And then again, if we of Restraint" (Times, Oct. 15) are really into it, we could labor tabs and decided I just couldn't write about how it wasn't I'm quite sad that you are wait any longer. It's a crafty Marx who first proposed the not putting together a little article that is right on the quaint little notion, "To each newspaper that deals with the money in pointing out how we according to need, from each problems facing B.C. at this have all gone around genuflec• according to ability to give." time. Don't get me wrong. I ting at the alter of restraint. By the way, I lied about fir• think the KKK is horrible. I How else could author Lanny ing my last piece of ammuni• think they are a threat, but I Beckman have criticized us all tion. When I rooted through fail to see how a two-page without seeming to be my ammo sack I found one spread in the Times will do divisive? bullet and one bouquet. The much more than make people Maybe in future articles we bouquet goes to Solidarity wonder why you were unable can also be less apologetic Times, the other piece I'm sav• to find news to fill those about the name Solidarity and ing to pass on to my children pages. You should look at how the slogan, "An injury to one just in case they forget how some of the labor newspapers, is an injury to all" by fleshing fragile freedom is. such as Pacific Tribune and out the relevance and origins Dave MacKinnon On The Level, have dealt with of an earlier slogan: "As you Terrace the issues. / Another British Columbian speaks her piece BEV DAVIES PHOTO to ask you to keep up the good work. Richard Clements SQAPBOK Some ideas Vancouver I can appreciate the Times' efforts to present a clean, easi• ly readable, and aesthetically Testy News from one end of horse pleasing product. However, I The young people in high don't think the allocation of school who are concerned Special to the Times coming through to the basic Central Credit Union said last so much "dead space" fur• about the Grade 12 final ex• "This economy is booming, guy who has a job," he added. week that at least 2,500 jobs a thers those desirable objec• ams should be supported — but we're not seeing it because month will have to be created tives. for their concerns are valid the usual indicators aren't Personal consumption ac• next year just to keep the B.C. Also, I would like to see and well thought-out. showing it". That's the word counts for 64 per cent of the unemployment rate from clim• more emphasis on background It is important that we all straight from the horse's gross provincial product. Yet, bing higher. The report notes pieces analyzing the present realize that the students are mouth. The horse in this case B.C.'s retail sales are showing that government and primary political impasse in B.C. For not questioning whether or not is Michael Manford, chief a decline in real terms from industries are not expected to example, Stan Persky's there should be final exams. economist of Merrill Lynch last year. Further labor strife be major job creators. At 13.5 "Media Patrol" article That is not their issue. The Securities, speaking at the can do real damage (especially per cent, B.C.'s unemploy• (Times, Nov. 9) was excellent concern the students have rais• "Economic Outlook Con• at Christmas). Prospects for ment rate is running well in style and substance, and ed is that it is unfair to them ference" of the Association of future wage growth are poor. above the national average. provided pertinent informa• that for the first time they are Professional Economists of Considerations such as these tion. expected to write finals in all led George Pedersson, keynote B.C. during the first week of So what do we do? Listen to Some suggested topics: 1) Is their academic subjects. the "cease-fire" between Bill speaker at the Conference and Michael Walker of the Fraser advisor to some of the pro• the Solidarity Coalition about It is also unfair for the Bennett's government and Institute, of course. "We told to become a full-fledged students to have the exams Solidarity. vince's top corporations, to them (the B.C. Government) predict that "the recovery" political party? 2) An ex• count for 50 per cent of their Manford excitedly pointed what they should do in very amination of the role of final mark. That is far too will not bring economic specific terms," bragged out how manufacturers' in• growth back to previous politically active clergy in much emphasis put on one day ventories were being reduced, Walker at last week's Solidarity. 3) The broader and one exam. Even when pro• levels. Stunted recoveries are Economic Society of Alberta which means a recovery is tak• typical of the last few world relations between Bennett's vincial exams used to be writ• ing place at the retail level. He meeting. Two weeks of a "restraint" program and the ten in the "good old days" recessions. What's worse, the government employees' strike admitted, however, this recessions have been occurring Western world political this was never the case. Fur• recovery was caused entirely in order to trim the civil ser^ phenomenon of "neo- thermore, there is no appeal more frequently and with vice by 25 per cent is not a big by consumers dipping into sharper consequences. conservatism. 4) In-depth in• process. their diminishing savings. price to pay, he said. The con• terviews with some of the It would have been fairer to frontation with the employees leading "personalities" of the our students if these exams There is no reason for buy• A Statistics Canada study will also set the tone for ing to slow down as long as in• also released last week con• Solidarity Coalition. 5) An ex• had been phased in over a legislated reductions of union amination of the NDP's posi• period of years. I hope adults comes continue to grow, he curs: the pace of economic power. said. There is one uncertain growth appears to be slowing tion and view on the present in this province will support spot in the recovery, however, in the face of weakening con• How this is supposed to lead "crisis" in terms of its future our young people — their and that is: average wages are sumer spending and continu• to recovery is never spelled "philosophical" approach to future is our future. not growing. "We are not get• ing high unemployment rates. out. Perhaps we should ask: politics. Barle Laird ting a lot of income growth And a report from the B.C. recovery for whom? All in all, however, I want Vancouver o TIMES WEDNESDAY NOV. 23 1983 PutiPk Writing of something other than two- for reducing the number of its Never again year contracts and wage in• employees, and no special Stan Persky in "Media creases. legislation was necessary for it Patrol" (Times, Nov. 9) Now, with the flood of to do so. The public sector claims Marjorie Nichols memories, comes the bit• restraint act is superfluous to "displayed a finely honed terness of a "sell-out" that "down-sizing" the public sec• sense of indignation" when sees big labor and big govern• tor. criticizing the B.C. govern• ment smiling gleefully over ment. But when she decides to What then is its aim? To set their truce. These Goliaths of the standard and to establish criticise the B.C. Government the right and left stand in their Employees Union, suddenly the conditions under which all respective corners, content workers will be hired and fired "Nichols goes wonky," Per• with a split decision. And in sky says. in this province. The aim is to the center of the ring sit the set the precedents to be follow- So much for my first in• bruised and disillusioned ed by private sector troduction to your paper. "bleading hearts." employers. The wages and Tom Walker Most of us knew the gamble working conditions of public North Vancouver we took when we ventured in• sector employees have only a to the corner of big unions. marginal effect on the state of We could not afford to ignore the economy. Public sector Excellent the cries of pain uttered from US® employees do not produce Your coverage and discus• even a wincing giant. We goods and services which have sion of the issues has been ex• could not afford to ignore the to be sold in the marketplace, cellent so far, especially the hand offered in friendship. It only private sector employees piece (Times, provided needed skills and do that. Therefore, in order to Nov. 2). I really hope the equipment for a good defense JIIIIIIIIII make those goods and services Times is still around in a year, against attack. We did not ex• more "competitive," especial• pect the fight to end in the first and that it continues even after ly in the export market, it is round. we've got a decent government Government negotiator Vince Ready mugs for the cameras. the wages and the working in B.C. So, here we sit in the middle conditions of private sector - Robert Tyhurst of this awful ring, and as the jorie Nichols and the Les both past and present would employees which will have to Vancouver fighters divide up the spoils, "Spewleys" of the "other" be welcome. On the whole, I be "restrained." Mr. Bennett we quietly take stock of the re• paper. think it's a good paper and I knows this very well, and the maining equipment: love, M. Elaine Bellamore hope you manage to stick aim of his government is to Slingshot justice, compassion and pa• Vancouver around for a long time. establish guidelines for private I remember being moved to tience. Pretty good materials Dennis Brown sector employers to follow. He tears at the first Solidarity ral• from which to fashion a sl• Overdue Vancouver is showing the "leadership" in ingshot. dealing with his employees in ly, as I heard representatives Please accept my subscrip• the manner in which private speak on behalf of the rights Patricia Jennings tion. A non-doctrinaire forum sector employers hope to deal of the disabled, the poor, Vancouver to reflect the dynamic political Aimed at all with theirs. women and children. I movements within B.C. has I am amazed that no one in remember the stirring calls to Sign me up been long overdue. The fact the labor movement has Name Withheld form a united front of opposi• Even though I went through the paper is both serious in its pointed out something which Victoria tion to the injustices about to two weeks of what was an un• responsibility to good jour• was clear when the Bennett be done in the name of precedented strike on $75 a nalism, yet enjoyable to read is government first introduced restraint. I remember seeing week strike pay, please find of particular credit. the public sector restraint act Whoops tough, burly labor men wear• enclosed my cheque for $33 In future, I hope you will in July. This legislation is not We would like to apologize ing their power with con• for a one-year subscription. consider some in-depth aimed at public sector to Holly Devor for inadver• fidence and rattling their I've thoroughly enjoyed the features on the political employees, but at all workers tantly omitting her photo sabres with indignation. And I first issues and I'm so glad economy of B.C. and Canada. in this province, and especially credit from a photograph remember feeling slightly aw• you're presenting a view of In addition, a look into the at those who work in our ex• published on page 10 of last ed and profoundly moved that things that I can truly identify various chapters of B.C. labor port industries. week's issue. We are sorry for finally the unions would begin with. It's such a wonderful history, including interviews The government has and any inconvenience this may to wield their power in defence counter-balance to the Mar- with rank and file activists always did have the machinery have caused her.

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By Jeannine Mitchell "You know how I feel? Like I've been hit by a tidal wave or something." Joan Rykyta is speaking. A single mother in her early forties, she lives with her handicapped sister and eight- year-old son in East Vancouver. "Look, I'm not a passive type of person. I believe in taking charge where you can. But this budget, (here PLAYING THE she stops to tap her finger against an invisible wall in the air) this budget is changing our lives." For Rykyta, "this budget" and its accompanying raft of legislation means three things on a purely personal level: an almost certain loss of her job; a threatened loss of services for her sister; and a definite loss in the quality WAITING of her son's education. She worked against the election of 'We deal with the Social Credit party in B.C.'s May election. Her months since then have child abuse, been hectic ones in which her worst fears have been realized and the sexual assault, marginal quality of her family's life neglect and has been assaulted. Rykyta works as a "mothers' things like babies helper" — a family support worker — with the Ministry of Human being fed cough Resources. Her salary is $1,380 a month before deductions. She has no medicine and car, her apartment is sparsely furnish• alcohol to keep ed, and her major possession is a televi• sion set. them quiet.' She lives, one might say, close to the line. idea what we're dealing with. We're On Nov. 13, with fellow B.C. dealing, in most cases, with people who Government Employees Union never learned the basic parenting and members, she put down her picket sign coping skills that society considers at the request of Operation Solidarity natural. In some cases, the parent is leadership. She also set aside her sup• simply someone like you or me who port work around the issue of educa• has hit a crisis point and needs help get• tion funding. ting back to normal. Joan Rykyta (right) and her sister. BEV DAVIES PHOTO Yet the picket signs remain with her. "But generally, we're talking about They lean against the wall in the middle people whose problems go back in a plastic lounger. That women was been active in the school consultative of her living room — ready, as she is, through generations of abuse and on valium, booze, sleeping pills; committee ever since he started grade to return to the fray. neglect. We're trying to break the circle whatever she could get her hands on. I one. We were concerned about educa• Nothing in Rykyta's life appears through programs like ours and Pro• worked with her for two years. tion cutbacks before this budget. For resolved by the recent settlement. Her ject Parent (a therapy-parenting skills "She's got a job now. She's earning example, we lost our enrichment pro• voice, when she mentions this, reveals program due to be terminated next spr• a better wage than me, in fact. She's gram and it was the only one in this bitterness. ing)." really happy, and her kids are doing part of town. Rykyta was supposed to be ter• In some respects, Rykyta's job can great." "Chris has needed learning minated along with 90 per cent of the be a dangerous one. Since the BCGEU settlement, assistance in the past. It helped him to other family support workers in her "I've had my share of scary Rykyta's case load has completely the point where he's doing okay now. section of the department. She now ex• moments," she says. "We all have. changed. She explains that her old He doesn't need it anymore. But I pects that termination will be delayed, We're dealing with a fair bit of clients had been closed off by social wonder how he's going to cope with so but not cancelled. domestic violence. One of my clients workers anticipating the Oct. 31 ter• many teachers about to get fired and so "We (family support workers) are was slashed with a knife by her hus• minations that would end the program. many programs about to get cut year among the people the government band. I still remember cleaning up all "It's incredible," she says, "how after year. wants to get rid of the most. It's up in the blood, I'll tell you. You feel many people there are out there who "I'm going to work as hard as I can the air right now, but I figure I'll be threatened at times. need our program. Within four days of all this school year to try to make out of a job within the next few mon• "Another time I was trying to stop a my being back at work, I had a full parents aware of the damage these cut• ths. And programs like ours will be fight between a woman and her case load of new people. And Project backs are going to do to our schools. gone. That I'm sure of. landlord by stepping in between them. Parent has a huge waiting list, even And believe me, in the East End, where "I guess what upsets me the most is It didn't work. About the time I realiz• though it's about to end." we have so many language and other knowing that there are kids out there ed I was likely to get hit with a frying What lies ahead? She slumps back in problems, we're talking about real who are going to die. Some govern• pan, I managed to get out and call for her chair. damage. ment people and media people like to help." "This week, I got a letter from a day "So I'm giving things the rest of this laugh off statements like that. Well, What compensates for the risk and program that my sister Janet goes to. It year to sort out. But if the government they're not the ones who deal with this the low pay, she says, is a sense of real asked that I be at a meeting to discuss sticks with the cutbacks, I'm damned if stuff. We are. accomplishment. That is what she says the future of the program and whether I'm going to let my kid suffer a lousy "I've got my share of horror stories she will miss. or not Janet will still be in it." education. to tell, just like all the other workers in "We really have made a change in Janet, at 47, has premature senility. "We'll go without in other ways if my department. And I know of a people's lives," she explains. "I Her brain is literally shrinking, accor• we have to. I'll put him in a Catholic number of times when we've saved a remember one little boy who some peo• ding to doctors. As a result, she is men• school until he's older. Then, maybe I child's life. It's happened to me, too. ple thought might be retarded. He was tally retarded, has trouble speaking can send him to school in another part "We deal with child abuse, sexual four years old, and he didn't know any and walking and she faces further of town." assault, malnutrition, neglect and colors, or about the kind of differences deterioration in the near future. Cutting herself off, Rykyta gets up things like babies being fed cough most kids know, like hot and cold. Rykyta is the only person between her and heads for the kitchen. There is a medicine and alcohol to keep them "I brought him books. I do that with and the prospect of life in an institu• brief, energetic clatter of pots and quiet. You know, alcohol-fed babies a lot of the kids. I teach them songs tion. dishes, followed by the sound of a can die of dehydration before a doctor and take them for walks and point out "Again, things are up in the air as stove clicking on. even realizes there's a problem. Many things to them, like colors. And I tell far as Janet is concerned," explains "I can't stand much more of this of the people we deal with go out of the parents how to do these things Rykyta. "They haven't started the without some coffee," she says, re- their way to avoid people like doctors, themselves. health department cuts yet, so I don't emerging. at least until the damage is done." "So everything I did with this little know what we're up against. But she "It feels like everyone I know — my As a mother's helper, Rykyta per• boy became a learning experience. And really likes her handicapped programs. family, the people I work with, the forms a complex task under the direc• it turned out he was craving for a If she has doctor's appointments and people I work for, my friends — we're tion of health professionals and social chance to learn. He just went nuts over can't go for a few days, she starts get• all stuck playing this waiting game. workers. She does housework, usually the books I brought him. There was ting depressed. Besides, I can't leave And it seems to take a lot of energy." working side by side with her clients as nothing wrong with his mind — he just her alone every day when I'm out So much energy she hasn't had time she teaches them basic skills such as needed the chance other kids get. working." to throw out her picket signs? budgeting, nutrition, sanitation, child "And I remember one woman I In one area, Rykyta has mapped out For the first time in our interview, safety and parenting. worked with (who) was alone with two a plan for life-after-the-budget. She is Rykyta laughs. "People who think we're wasting tax babies when I started with her. Her preparing to pull her son out of the "They may be around a lot longer money by pampering lazy parents, youngest baby had its head flattened public school system. than our Christmas tree will be," she well, all I can say is they can't have any on one side from being left constantly "Look," she says. "I've always says. TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1983

By John Mackie "Basically, we raise issues and deal One of the things that slipped by un• with things that are common ground noticed with all the foofaraw over the with all of us. It's a forum. Very non- budget and possible general strike is sexist, very non-racist. We're always the fact that, for the first time, gay and questioning ourselves to be very lesbian representatives are working understanding towards each other's side by side with trade unionists and specific heeds." community groups in the Solidarity Chief among the specific needs of Coalition. the gay and lesbian communities is the "It's sad that we have to rally axing of the Human Rights Commis• around such a repressive budget to sion. Both Harris and Grunsky see this have changes for human rights and les• leading to fear and problems among For the first time, gays and bian and gay rights, but I think it's their constituents. perfect timing," says Sue Harris, co- Grunsky tells of a public speak-out chair of the lesbian caucus in the forum gays had a couple of months lesbians are working side by Lower Mainland Solidarity Coalition. back. "We were very disappointed, "I know that in a lot of the literature because we thought people would be side with trade unionists that's coming out, lesbian and gay coming to the meeting angry and rights (are dealt with), it's in their outspoken, but the crowd was very minds now, it's in their consciousness, subdued," he says. "People were in a and community groups in and that's the beginning stage. The state of extreme paranoia about media. connections that have been made are What we really found was that people very important for our credibility, and were not willing to speak out in public the Solidarity Coalition. and voice their concerns, and as acti• vists sometimes we forget that. People in our community felt that a dark shadow was over B.C., and they really did not feel free and comfortable to speak out." THE BEGINNING STAGE Adds Harris: "I'm really worried that, even if Bennett gives us back something, he's certainly not going to include the progressive changes that were recommended by the Human Rights Commission on sexual orienta• tion. And we need that. We want those changes, we need them, or else we're really going to be massacred. "People are going to have to remain in the closet, being afraid," she says. "They'll be afraid even more 'cause they won't have protection on the medical bill, because patient confiden• tiality is able to be broken, and if there's no change to Bill 5, the Residential Tenancy Act, they will be able to be evicted without cause. Which is true for everybody, except we've never really been protected ex• cept through the Human Rights code under their 'reasonable cause' clause." At the same time, Grunsky feels peo• ple have to be realistic about the effect they have. "Many groups, like myself, realised (while) coming into the Coali• tion that we would never come to the point where we would see all our basic aims and objectives fulfilled," he says. "We're not so stupid as to think that Bill Bennett is going to all of a sudden make a U-turn and do what we want. Sue Harris of the lesbian caucus. BEV DAVIES PHOTO We realize this. We see the Solidarity it's just a new experience sort of being Coalition as an educational body, it's there. Not that I didn't know we were there to continually put pressure on the okay before, but we are now con• government through action, to get sidered a valid constituency and are in• broader support in the community, to cluded in this massive movement and put pressure on the government and are able to educate ourselves as its allies to change. delegates and members of Solidarity "I think that's an on-going thing, and the public. It's a perfect time. It's that education will never stop," he exciting." says. "Pressure on the government Gay rep Harry Grunsky says the cannot stop, irregardless of what Coalition has worked because all government is in power. We're all left groups withheld from pushing their with umpteen unsatisfied things, and special concerns all the time. we're only going to grow from here on "Politically speaking, I've really in." been unhappy for the last few years The future? Both see the Solidarity with the lack of unity and the lack of Coalition staying active, and their people wanting to work around groups active within the Coalition. issues," he says. "Quite often, people "We are trying to keep going and representing groups have been coming trying to set up our constituency again, in and finding their niche and working get more involvement from the out of it. But quite frankly, the steering grassroots," says Harris. "Build up committee of the Lower Mainland from the bottom. You can't have a Solidarity Coalition has been quite in• movement go forward from the top. It's credible. There's been a real lack of impossible. If you have a change with nit-picking and back-stabbing, there Bennett and so on, you need a lot more seems to be real solidarity. There's a people still." real legitimate concern that all people's "I think the deadline is over," says issues are brought forward. Grunsky. "I think we're going to be "In a coalition, you work on things able to go back to our communities that you agree on, and you tend to now, hold public meetings. Discuss leave things that you disagree on in the what we want, discuss with other background, because those things groups, speak with other groups, might be divisive," he explains. educate each other." Gay representative Harry Grunsky. INSIDE THE IDIOT BOX By Bob Bossin Waiting for the missiles to hit in The Day After was like waiting for the other shoe to drop. Admit it: you were actually hoping for the missiles. For the first hour, the normalcy part, The Day After was practically Warholes- que. Pop watched Bud at football practice. Sis took Dad to the art gallery where they talked about, what was it, moving to Boston? Yet we watched on, knowing relief was on the way. By contrast, the opening scenes of Testament, the movie on the same sub• ject at the Vancouver Centre, are rich with complexity and implication. The family is really normal, not TV nor• mal. And so both movies continue. Testament is not to be missed, a mov• ing film on a distressing subject that is not so much depressing as touching. The Day After was not to be missed either, bad as it was, for it was not an artistic event but a political one. The point was not what it showed, but that it was shown. No need to belabor the script, or to ask how come the horses stayed so healthy. The real message was the medium. So was it anti-nuke propaganda? You bet. Let ABC claim the program was neutral, that everybody is against the arms race. Sheer rhetoric, a trick to manoeuvre Ronald Reagan into bed with Bertrand Russell. But watching even this half-strength depiction of what nuclear weapons do, when they do what they are designed to do, you knew the truth: The Day After was about as neutral as a speech by Helen Caldicott. But how much effect will it have? Will it lead viewers from the arm• chairs into the streets, or will it just deepen a numbing nuclear depression? Knowledge of the effects of nuclear war is just one prerequisite of anti- nuclear activity. One also needs a sense of imminence, of just how possible, even likely the use of nuclear weapons is getting. On this, The Day After was virtually silent, and where it wasn't, it was misleading. The nuclear strike that wiped out Kansas followed a Russian invasion of West Germany, a scenario about as likely as a U.S. invasion of Poland. The prelude to a real war would in• volve a combination of frighteningly Jason Robarts contemplating The Day After's ratings. more recognizable factors, like the in• creasing choice of military over diplomatic solutions — what we've been seeing in the Falklands, in Several Days After Lebanon, in Grenada, or in the night sky over Vladivostock. It would follow deteriorating relations between the super-powers; the new technological After one of the biggest buildups ever, The innovations like the Cruise, the hand• gun of the nuclear arsenal, or the in• credibly speedy Pershing which forces Day After came through . . . to an extent. the Warsaw Pact to launch their firmness — the kind of stuff that imminence, is the sense so many have tin Luther King, and Lech Walesa, a missiles on warning. leaders, media and the public all slip• of political helplessness. history of small, seemingly insignifi• ped into so easily this September when That is what keeps people quietly in cant individual acts that crescendo to And the real prelude to war would the Korean airliner was shot down. line in the march to war. In reality we great cumulative effect. And while it feature a tenor of public discussion far The Day After painted a picture — are far from helpless, which is the never raised this — there weren't even from the quiet concern of the citizens and, for television, not a bad one — of lesson of the history of civil disobe• protesters in the simulated newscasts of Lawrence, Kansas. What we will the consequences of nuclear war. But dience, a history not taught in the — The Day After itself was part of this hear will be mass sabre-rattling and more important than such knowledge, schools or indicated at all in The Day skein, yet another limited, but righteous declarations of national more important than the recognition of After. It is the history of Gandhi, Mar- nonetheless hopeful act of protest. TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1983

By mid-week all attention money would go back into the province, municipalities with economic growth in Canada shifted to the pounding system to provide services in majority English-speaking will moderate during the early rainstorms that washed out 1984." populations would be allowed part of 1984," the bank portions of the "killer" Bennett's remarks, said highway, 99 North, which to do business in English and predicted. Week Kuehn, "will just keep the tur• retain English-language names runs from Vancouver to moil going on." From page 2 and more room would be pro• Pemberton and carries skiers Indeed, the turmoil con• Ward who argued that vided for traditionally to the government bail-out tinued into the weekend. Ben• "Operation Solidarity can Whistler ski resort. Several English-speaking institutions nett had insisted that teachers to communicate with each CIP proudly point out that its ex• people were killed in last make up the days lost during From page 5 traordinary program of other in that language. year's flooding. the protest. But Vancouver Solloway, of the fightback escalating strikes forced Instead of pictures of picket school superintendent Dante Committee. "Plus, when you Canada's most rightwing pro• The president of Alliance lines on front pages and televi• Lupini said Nov. 19 that such think about all the turmoil it's vincial government to make Quebec, the leading sion screens, there were now a scheme was "impossible." going to cause. ..." significant concessions. At a anglophone-rights group in shots of back-to-work BCTF president Kuehn said The CIP grant still doesn't time when labor militancy in Quebec, faintly praised the highway employees patching teachers would consider fur• make welfare a living wage, North America was said to be gesture, but damned the up bridges on the uncertain ther protest action if Bennett said committee head Ellen at a post-war low because of changes for falling "far short road while the rain continued reneged on restored educa• Frank. the protracted recession, Op• of the social contract and ge• to sluice down swollen creeks. tional funding. "The $50 doesn't make it eration Solidarity ... brought nuine solutions." Later in the week, labor livable. It makes a big dif• the battle to the streets with A meeting between Kuehn leader Munro, faced with in• Whether the Levesque ference, but it's nothing. It's marches and job action. The and education minister Jack cessant questions and moun• speech, the budget initiative not a matter of them giving us coalition's momentum was im• Heinrich was slated for early ting confusion about his settle• and the appeasement of back our $50 and we'll be fine. pressive ..." the following week. On its ment with Bennett, gave results hung several hundred Quebec anglophones would "We weren't fine to begin Nonetheless, the question details on the verbal agree• teaching jobs, slated school revive the Parti Quebecois' with. And on top of not being remained whether the coali• ment with the premier. For his closures and further program flagging fortunes in the polls fine, they rip off $50." tion could have gone further. part, Bennett took to televi• cutbacks. The truce between appear doubtful, according to More than providing the ex• A little-noticed Gallup poll sion Nov. 18, appearing on government and Solidarity, most political observers. tra $50, said Frank, the pro• released last week indicated Jack Webster's talkshow to barely a week old, continued gram provided people greater national criticism of confirm practically all that to be shaky. Despite Quebec's efforts to classified as "unemployable" the Bennett government than Munro had said. The premier, boost its economy, the alleged or "disabled" in human might be expected. The poll however, couldn't refrain recovery in the rest of the resources ministry files with found 52 per cent of Cana• from attacking teachers' country remained stalled. Ac• some recognition that they dians (53 per cent of British leader Larry Kuehn, and cording to a Canadian Im• make a useful contribution to Columbians) believed the throwing a wrench into the perial Bank of Commerce society. Socred cuts were too severe, deal, despite appealing for "a report released last week, its "CIP members looked at while only 41 per cent felt they time for healing." Money sav• Canada leading economic indicators that as a job. This is a society were appropriate. Fifty-four ed from the teachers' walkout, From page 4 dropped for the second that values workers; you don't per cent of Canadians outside said Bennett, would not be ap• French Language, (Bill 101), straight month last August, have a job and nobody wants B.C. said they were against plied to 1984 educational fun• which has been at the centre of adding fuel to the notion that you. The job was more impor• their governments adopting a ding. language controversy in Quebec economic activity, whether it's tant than the $50 " similar restraint program. ; Kuehn was predictably since it was introduced six years called a recovery or not, is When CIP volunteers and While B.C. went back to furious. In a press conference ago. slowing down. The decline of community workers sit down work and the media scurried that afternoon he accused Under the proposed amend• .09 per cent was caused mainly in the Carnegie Centre on to discover the details of the Bennett of "welching" on the ments, English-language by a sharp drop in residential Nov. 30, they plan to piece pact, the forces of politics agreement. "It was very clear education would be permitted building starts. "The recent together a proposal for a new were temporarily overwhelm• to us that the commitment we for any child with a parent declines in the Commerce CIP program to put before the ed by the forces of nature. understood was that the educated in English in another Leading Indicator suggest that provincial government.

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look at fear By Don Larventz father (William Hutt) is cool and The Wars has been hailed as the first detached. This is a world before Freud Australian-Canadian film and the and everyone subscribes to the beginning of a revitalized Canadian unspoken belief that the only way for film industry. It has also been dismiss• civilization to continue is to repress ed by many critics as strangling on its messy impulses of lust, love or hate. So precious intensity. With such disagree• the lust is forever denied, the love ment over a Canadian cultural product unexpressed and the hate surfaces you know that some Canadian sacred shortly in the endless mud, blood, cow, and not just a film, is being urine and rot of the trenches. weighed by reviewers. That sacred cow There are some extraordinary scenes is none other than the belief Canadians in the first half of the film that show us can't make entertaining movies that ex• the undercurrents of life within this plore Canadian subjects without trying family. The most moving is Mrs. Ross' to make them look like they're set in visit with her son in the family's huge the U.S. The Wars is an intense look at green bathroom. "A mother's fear, which is not an American movie perogative, to visit the wounded," she subject at all. says, looking at her son's naked body Singer/comedienne Nancy White wowed them at the Ridge Theatre last week, eliciting Based on Timothy Findlay's novel, with more interest than she could ever more than a few giggles with some astute satirical lyrics. At a benefit concert in Victoria, allow herself to acknowledge. Rowen• the film recounts the short and sad life she raised $2,100 for 0XFAM. of Robert Ross, son of a wealthy na has just died in an accident and Toronto businessman (although we Mrs. Ross is enraged with her son. never learn what business) and his Martha Henry is superb in the scene as of rebellion. Carver is a small man after freeing the animals. Cornered by aristocratic wife. Pre-First World War she recounts moments of Robert's playing a bigger man, frightened, and military police who set fire to the barn Toronto society is laid out for us in all childhood, but when tenderness he succeeds without making him he has brought the horses to, he and its colonial splendor and with all its threatens to surface she cuts it off with pitiable. the horses crash through the flames. social and sexual constraints and pro• a chilled "we're all cut off with a knife Director Robin Phillips gets fine per• Horribly burned, he accepts the offer hibitions. Robert (Brent Carver) lives at birth and left to the mercy of formances from all his actors, but his of a nurse for a quicker death. the moral code of upper class Cana• strangers." set designer's trenches have the look of dians of the period with confused in• Roberf is an uninformed young man an over-careful stage set. The realistic This is not a cheerful movie, or flat• tensity. never able to put together two or three illusion is inadvertantly lost and the tering of national sensibilities like so Without direction or interest, young sentences in a row that could explain corpses of men and horses pressed into many of the Australian movies of the Ross performs the social chores ex• his predicament to himself. Gradually the mud look insufficiently real for last decade. Fear and emotional repres• pected of a 19 year old and has the pull of his peers and his wintery those of us numbed by Hollywood's sion, at least up to now, have not been moments of dreamy relaxation only relationship with his parents sends him superiority in fake gore. This is unfor• thought of as subjects that sell pop• with his sister, Rowenna (Ann-Marie off to war. Brent Carver is unerring as tunate because it is just this gore that corn. But for all its flaws it is a power• MacDonald), who is physically and a young man nearly lost to himself with gradually undermines Robert's passivi• ful and wounding film without peer in mentally impaired. His mother (Mar• only a tremendous compassion for ty in his role of the good, dutiful Cana• recent Canadian film history. We can tha Henry) is an alcoholic in despair animals breaking his chilly environ• dian. Rebuffed by an insufferable of• only hope that Phillips' and Findlay's over the meaningless hypocrisy of a life ment. It is his very love for horses that ficer in an attempt to rescue pack expressed desire to make more films she has no desire to change and his will provide him with his only avenue horses, Robert shoots him and escapes can be realized. \ DAIMC E CRAZY /

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tation and it has been decades since Canadians have been presented with FROM THE social problem plays advocating specific political solutions. FOOTUGHTS Director Joanna Maratta has in• serted a few mild references to the con• temporary situation in B.C., but they By Don Larventz are asides as if to say, see, this is rele• Agit-prop theatre was created to vant to our times. In a distant sort of educate working people about their way it is. A mother of a revolutionary lives and to point out the exact direc• son is drawn into his political work to tion for organizing for social change. protect him, but is gradually If you leave the theatre after seeing an transformed into a dedicated revolu• agit-prop work to write a review — in• tionary herself even after her son's stead of joining the Party — then the death at the hands of a firing squad. work has failed. Around her, other political workers come to their senses and join the Party. Bertolt Brecht's The Mother was Brutal times make for revolutionary first performed in Berlin a couple of solutions, at least at some times, and in years before Hitler and the Nazis took some situations. power. The intention of the play was clear: to show how to engage in revolu• Maratta says that she staged the play tionary activities against a corrupt and because she "wanted to explore the brutal state. The setting was Russia phenomenon of grouping" and to before the abortive 1905 workers' show how a "clearly defined cause in• revolt, but the intended theatre of ac• tensifies group dynamics." I take it tivities off the stage was a that no one was intended to join the disintegrating Weimar Republic. The Party after seeing the performance. work was intended to be performed Brecht used events nearly 30 years old at political meetings and other non- to frame his lesson for the audience, theatre settings. The Mother is power• but the example of a Communist Party ful didactic theatre, not just a dull rant in Germany was clear to anyone then. about Czarist bad guys and Bolshevik The events are now nearly 80 years old, good guys. It was often performed in and have lost their immediacy, at least Germany before 1933. their political immediacy. So the prop in agit-prop is gone too. We are left Judith Rane as The Mother. Performing the play in Vancouver in with theatre. 1983 in a loft theatre is a different mat• The actors were earnest and the meant to reveal character but inspire audience. The songs were unmusical. ter entirely. The agit in the agit-prop is groupings had a studied look but the action. Judith Rane as the mother has The audience applauded the preview gone. We no longer look to the Soviet (performers were uncertain about a fine face and presence but sounded performance, but one doubts if any Union as a model of social experimen• what to do with lines that were not shrill in the set-piece addresses to the joined the Party, any party. AN INJURY TO ONE IS STILL To All AN INJURY TO ALL Volunteers:

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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30 NEW WESTMINSTER VANCOUVER VANCOUVER Labour lecture on ' 'Workers in British Colum• People's Law School class on welfare rights Women in transition workshop on Unwanted bia in the 20th Century" at 7:30 p.m. at the instructed by Marjorie Martin, 7:30 p.m. Kit- Patterns from 7 to 9 p.m. at 577 East 8th. To Carpenter's Hall, 726 12th St., New silano Neighbourhood House, 2305 West 7th (at register call SJiirley Buchan at 669-5288. Westminster. For more info call 291-3521. Vine). Free. For more info call 734-1126. Women in Transition workshop on skills in improving your self image, from 7 to 9 p.m. at 544 E. 8th Ave. To register call Shirley Buchan at 669-5288.

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VICTORIA Film "Women Under Apartheid' For time and place call 383-1691.

PORT ALBERNI The 53rd Annual Convention of the Native Brotherhood of B.C. will be hostd by the Nu- Cha-Nulth Tribal Council at the Maht Mans Hall SlSii in Port Alberni. For 3 days. Psycho band, qu'est que ce? Talking Heads Chris Franz, Tina Weymouth, David Bryne and THURSDAY, NOV. 24 Jerry Harrison hit the rain forest December 3rd in Vancouver's Coliseum Concert Bowl. Will VANCOUVER their hit single 'Burning Down the House' spell the end for the Big Apple's favourite artistes? Women Against the Budget meeting at 7:30 Will David Byrne's head detach from his neck whilst he warbles? Will Jerry Harrison wear p.m. at First Church, 320 E. Hastings. runners? Are Tina and Chris stuck in their chairs? Be there and find out the answers to these and other exciting questions. Tickets are fairly expensive ($14.50) but it promises to be the SUNDAY, NOV. 27 last great concert in 1983. VANCOUVER Slide show on Nicaragua at 8 p.m. at La Quena, 1111 Commerical Drive. For more info call 251-6626.

MONDAY, NOV. 28 VANCOUVER 7 Benefit dinner and slide show for the Salvadorean Women's Association AMES at 7 p.m. at La Quena, 1111 Commercial Dr. Tickets are $8 employed and $6 unemployed and are available at IDERA, 2524 Cypress St. and at La Quena. GET happk WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23 "Die Mutter" (The Mother) by Bertolt Brecht VANCOUVER is performed at Theatre Space, 310 Water St. TUESDAY, NOV. 29 "Xica" a Brazilian film by Carlos Diegues, Play runs from Thursday to Sunday at 8:30 p.m. VANCOUVER 7:30 p.m. and "Montenegro" by Yugoslavian Tickets are $5 for non-members and $3 for People's Law school is holding a class on director Dusan Makavejev at 9:30 p.m. Both members. For reservations call 875-6884 or "U.I. Appeals" with instructor Allan MacLean films are at Vancouver East Cinema, 7th and 681-0818. Play runs until December 4. at 7:30 p.m. at the Kitsilano Neighbourhood Commercial and run for two nights. For more in• House, 2305 West 7th (at Vine). Runs for 2 fo call 253-5455. FRIDAY, NOV. 25 evenings. Free. For more info call 734-1126. Film "Nights of Cabiria" by Federico Fellini, VANCOUVER 7:30 p.m. at Pacific Cinematheque, 1155 West Wimmin's Fire Brigade Anniversary Dance VICTORIA Georgia. For more info call 732-6119. with the Moral Lepers, Sassafras and Industrial Film showing of 'The Spiral', a documentary Premiere party for "Angles", Vancouver's Waste Banned, 8:30 p.m. at the Legion Hall, on the coup in Chile narrated by Donald new monthly gay newspaper, at Buddy's, 1018 2205 Commercial Drive. Women only. Sutherland, at 7 p.m., at Cinecenta. Tickets are Burnaby St. This is a fundraiser for the Van• Hitchcock film series begins tonight with $2.50. Sponsored by the Committee for the couver Gay Community Centre. For more info "Rear Window" 7:15 at the Ridge (16th and Defense of Human Rights in Chile. call Neil Whaley at 681-6437. Arbutus). For more info call 738-6311. Film "Death Watch" by French director Ber- China Travelogue slide show on areas of THURSDAY, NOV. 24 trand Tavernier is shown at 7:30 and 9:45 at the China not normally visited by tourists, 7:30 VANCOUVER Vancouver East Cinema (7th and Commercial) p.m. at the Meeting Hall, 535 Fisgard Street. Exhibition of Dance Photography by artists D. and runs for three nights. For more info call For more info call 384-3852. Sponsored by the Jones, I. Migicovsky, C. Randle, D. Cooper, J. 253-5455. Canada-China Friendship Association. Davidson, G. E. Erikson, R. Green and A. Morley Loon performs at 8 p.m. at La Quena, Presentation by Gilles Labour on the role of Hirabayashi shown daily at Vancouver East 1111 Commercial Drive, for two nights. For the Unitarian Service Committee in developing Cultural Centre, 1895 Venables (at Victoria). more info call 251-6626. countries, 8 p.m. at Little Lecture Theatre, Continues until November 27. For more info call Pearson College. 254-9578. SATURDAY, NOV.26 VANCOUVER Benefit dance for Chile with Communique, 7:30 p.m. at the Ukranian Hall, 805 E. Pender. 1HEY TELL ME YOISVE STOPPED $4 employed and $3 unemployed. Sponsored by RUNNING ABOUT WITH the Vancouver Chilean Association. THAT ACTRESS, Nina Simone appears tonight in a 'Salute to Bob Marley' at 7:30 p.m. at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets at all VTC, CB0 outlets and the AMS (at UBC). International Women's Day benefit social, 8 p.m. at 545 West 10th Ave. For more info call 872-2307.

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