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Meanwhile, as the first pro• fire the first of 1,600 B.C. testers trickled into the side Government Employees street assembly points feeding Union members — were as into the march route, much in evidence as Solidarity Trouble in downtown Vancouver was banners. The sentiment for waking up. The newly- general strike grew during the renovated courthouse was week. about to transform itself into An all-day conference of the Vancouver Art Gallery, as Women Against the Budget p curators straightened the last the next day declared itself in crooked pictures and prepared favor of pulling the plug. The The march to welcome Governor General next night 400 delegates to the Ed Schreyer for the official Lower Mainland Solidarity ribbon cutting that morning. Coalition, meeting in Bur- that In the Hotel Vancouver, some naby, backed the general 1,200 self-satisfied delegates to strike call. They were followed the Social Credit annual con• on Tuesday by the Vancouver roared vention were getting over the and District Labour Council, By Stan Persky hangover of leader Bennett's which said it was prepared to The idiot box It was quiet up and down fiery "we will never back support BCGEU job action if the length of Robson Street down" speech of the night Bennett didn't back down. from Terry Fox Plaza to Bur- before. vants — flooded the By the time the march Even the heretofore cautious rard at 9 a.m. Saturday morn• "We have only just begun. sidestreets and grew to a crush poured into the Queen media joined the chorus of dis• ing, Oct. 15, the day the We will continue. We will at the stadium plaza. At 10:30, Elizabeth Theatre plaza to sent by mid-week. Solidarity Coalition had set fight on. We will never give led by the Firemen's Marching ratify a coalition-penned The previously resolute for its "Last Chance" march up," Bennett had told the Band playing "When The "Declaration of Rights," the premier and his advisers against Premier Bill Bennett's cheering throng in Chur- Saints Come Marching In," first estimates were coming in counted the numbers on their controversial right-wing chillian cadences of the largest political from the news choppers circl• fingers and their computers legislative package. resoluteness. "The critics demonstration in the ing overhead. The initial count and suddenly had second For weeks, the local media never stop to be part of the province's history rolled up was over 40,000; the official thoughts. On Thursday, Ben• had been writing premature solution but always wish to be Robson Street. police estimate put the crowd nett was pre-empting prime obituaries for the sprawling part of the problem. These At Robson Square the at 45,000; the CBC noon time television with ,a collection of trade unions and people think that they can strains of "Solidarity broadcast called it 50,000; 23-minute address to the pro• community groups that had picket their way to prosperity. Forever" wafted over the well- before it was over, the vince. Although his second fought the Socred budget since . . . I say to those people that heeled crowd invited for the demonstrators would claim thoughts didn't appear to be it was introduced last July. the eyes of B.C. are upon them opening of the $20.5 million 70,000. Whatever the any better thought through Only the day before the slated as never before. Pickets and art gallery. At Burrard, the numbers, the turnout "should than his first musings, mixed march, a Sun editorial pooh- protests are not part of our flow turned right, and mar• prove to anybody that the into a rambling defense of his poohed the protest future," thundered the ching 15 abreast, in the high rumors of the demise of the government's "restraint" pro• movement's latest brief to the premier. point of the demonstration, Solidarity Coalition are about gram were a few crumbs that government, branding it The future arrived the next took two hours, to pass the four years premature," the business media hailed as an unreasonable. Solidarity morning. By 10 a.m. the Hotel Vancouver. The con• Solidarity co-chair Art Kube "olive branch" by the next "does not seek concessions trickle had turned into a swell. frontation with the Socred told the gathering. morning. from the provincial govern• Surpassing even the most op• delegates was peaceful and As important as the size of Bennett announced the ad• ment, it seeks only capitula• timistic of organizers' strictly symbolic, but there the march was its mood. journment of the legislature tion," declared the afternoon estimates, Solidarity Coalition was no question that the Placards, badges and leaflets where he had already rammed daily that had urged voters to supporters — pensioners, march that roared was deliver• calling for an all-out general most of his legislature package re-elect the Socreds five mon• students, teachers, carpenters, ing its message to the double- strike Nov. 1 — the day the through to the point of assent ths earlier. fire fighters, women, civil ser- knit government of the day. government was planning to See page 14: TROUBLE

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munities committed by the loss of work will cost nett's Oct. 20 speech seemed themselves to "win back for the government far more in in• to indicate the government Talks the people the rights lost creased psychiatric care and could be willing to move on through legislation", and hospital costs than it might the most contentious issues. mobilize opposition to future otherwise save. But the union still says Oct. offered legislation which is not in the And the man in the test case 31 is the deadline for an agree• public interest. In what some critics are call• for the planned legal fight, ment, and says if any worker is ing a major conciliatory A steering committee of 27 Dennis Jensen, designed and fired after that date they will gesture, the government is representatives from interest worked with other CIP take massive job action which contacting Solidarity Coali• groups are organizing a con• volunteers in a now- could involve other public sec• tion spokespersons for con- ference to develop economic discontinued "door check" tor unions across the province. sulation on legislation still and social policy. project in a Vancouver East Bargaining began and broke before the house. "We'll work as long as-we End low income housing pro• off Oct. 4 after government have to to reach our goal," ject, credited with saving the negotiator Mike Davidson in• Spokespersons for opposi• Shearer promised. lives of 29 people in the past sisted that "the concept of tion to the Residential Tenan• five years. The project's end tenure in the public sector is cy Act, the Medical Services B.C. Teachers federation means many tenants, especial- ended." Act and the Human Rights president Larry Kuehnn said Act, which have not passed se• results of a teacher's strike cond reading in the house, vote will be announced Oct. were contacted Oct. 24 by the 29. government. Coalition * * * members were to decide how In what appears to be an ef• to deal with the government's fort to defuse an impending latest move at a Solidarity general strike, the provincial Mr Coalition steering committee government has reinstated m meeting scheduled the next human resources workers. day. On Oct. 21, regional managers told workers B.C. Teachers' Federation "everything is on hold and president Larry Kuehn said he you will continue in your was concerned that education regular duties until further 11 has been excluded from notice," according to family discussion. and child services co-ordinator A spokesperson for the B.C. Patsy George. Tenants' Rights Coalition said a meeting with consumer and Many human resources corporate affairs minister Jim workers were previously Hewitt is set for Nov. 3. classified redundant, ter• Wayne MacEachern said a minated and scheduled to be delegation from the Solidarity fired Oct. 31. On Oct. 20 many received notices inform• Coalition would meet with Solidarity marchers jam downtown Vancouver. Hewitt to discuss "individual ing them they were "super problems faced by tenants" numera" and would be put on ly the elderly, will die alone in and present proposals for a "make work" projects when apartments when their daily Biz rebels new Residential Tenancy Act. their regualr jobs were ter• movements go unnoticed, he Not all of the business com• minated. "They've been dangling the says. munity supports the provincial idea of retaining the Ren- The "door check" program budget. talsman's office in front of us Lives axed was adopted in 60 per cent of The Community Business for some time now," Vancouver's low income hous• and Professional Association MacEachern said Oct. 25. "In by grant cut ing projects. of Canada, which represents making these proposals, if "Since the project was about 450 small businesses in they agree to them we'll accept A legal battle is shaping up discontinued here I've seen B.C., has denounced the that, but it does not mean against the cuts to grants paid four people taken out of here restraint program and has we'll pull out of Solidarity's to welfare recipients for com• in ambulances," Jensen said. even joined the Solidarity fight for all the other rights. munity work in B.C. The application now being Coalition. "They're just living up to It's a small amount of prepared for legal proceedings Association secretary Barry the promise they made on money involved in the fight: against the government by Morley says Social Credit's T.V., and they have to do $50 monthly for approximate• lawyer David Mossop will at• economic policies will serious• that. And we have to answer ly 2,500 welfare recipients tempt to obtain an appeal for ly harm small businesses. "All that," MacEachern said. Jensen's cancelled CIP con• they will do is take money out tract. Said Jensen "If the of consumers' pockets," says judge decides these contracts Morley. Coalition must be honored, then con• "What Bennett is doing is tracts must be honored as long not restraint. It's a blatant at• as each and every worker tempt to destroy the social consults keeps up their end of the con• fabric of this province for the tract." good of the corporations that By Trish Webb put him in power." Solidarity Coalition Deadline near The association helps its delegates will "bend over members fight bankruptcy, backwards" to consult with Contract negotiations which and lobbies the provincial and the government on legislative could determine whether the federal governments on taxa• changes, but they won't back province is shut down by a tion issues affecting small down. general strike continued businesses. Rather than hold out for behind closed doors at press talks with Premier Bill Ben• time. Forest on brink nett, the coalition is pushing CIP worker Stan Saunders The B.C. Government for discussions with ministers Employees Union is trying to The forest industry this responsible for contentious classed as disabled or get the provincial government week moved closer to a pro• legislation after a Oct. 22-23 unemployable who work 20 to take most of the bite out of vince wide shutdown when the Solidarity Coalition Con• hours or more each month in Bill 2, which gives the govern• Pulp, Paper and Wood• ference. the Community Involvement ment power to dictate contract workers of Canada were lock• "It would be an exaggera• Program. But a lot of lives clauses previously negotiated ed out of nine mills. tion to say we're overly op• hang on the outcome, says by the BCGEU, and to agree The lockout was in retalia• timistic about the results of CIP Fightback Committee not to fire any workers under tion for a strike by the union meetings with ministers," spokesperson Barry Coull. the terms of Bill 3, which ig• at two other mills last week. coalition chair Renate Shearer There has already been one nores seniority clauses. The PPWC has threatened said in a Oct. 24 press con• suicide and another suicide at• A news blackout has been in to close one mill after another ference. tempt by people whose grants effect on the negotiations. with roving picket squads until Two hundred and forty have been cut, says Coull. The two sides agreed to talk company negotiators make a delegates from 50 B.C. com• Depression and stress caused again after Premier Bill Ben- reasonable contract offer. TIMES. OCT. 28.1983

BEV DAVIES PHOTO But Free Press editor George LeMasurier disagrees. Cruise a "These people are very ada• mant. I don't think they have very open minds. We're not snooze giving in to any pressure group." Last April's flood of protest The dispute, which has became a trickle at tempers running high in this Vancouver's Refuse the Cruise north Vancouver Island com• rally Saturday. munity, began when the Sept. The few thousand people 2 issue of the Free Press hit the who gathered in front of the newsstands. Jericho Park hostel fell far Although nearly 1,000 peo• short of the 65,000 who walk• ple demonstrated against the ed for peace on April 23. The government's restraint march drew about 5,000 peo• package, the story was ple, although End the Arms relegated to page three with no Race Committee organizers photo. The paper's front page gave their official tally as covered a meeting about the 12,000. erosion of some local bluffs The event's small size was and ran a photo of a man with only outdone by its lack of en• a flower. thusiasm. The protestors were for the most part quiet and restrained, even when they SCARED passed the Canadian Forces Base on Fourth Avenue. Arm• and fighting ed forces personnel watched from windows as the marchers Some Vancouver high passed, but the only sign of schoolers are SCARED — dissent was a spray painted Student Concerned About peace symbol. Restraints in Education — and The protest continued down are worried about the provin• Fourth to Macdonald, then cial government's education swung over to Cornwall and policies. on down to Vanier Park. The Compulsory Grade 12 ex• walk took 90 minutes to end. ams determining half their "Doesn't this remind you of final marks, the loss of teacher China in '48?" one protestor job security, and their own A few of the Oct. 22 5,000 anti-cruise protestors said ruefully. "The Long loss of representation on local March." Courtenay residents are upset school boards are their con• "They should have had it Comox press at the Comox District Free cerns. downtown," said another. Press' treatment of the local The month-old organization "Marching through Kitsilano play flayed Solidarity Coalition's protests is hammering out plans to is useless." and activities. fight the budget legislation, "We knew it wasn't going COURTENAY — Criticism Coalition chairperson Doug said Coral deShield, a Grade to be big like April's rally," of the commercial media's Hillian says the paper was 11 University Hill student. said Helen Spiegelman of End coverage of budget protests is ordered by publisher Phillip Only 35 high school the Arms Race. "It felt small, not confined to the Lower Bickle to downplay its students — mostly from but it was big enough to be Mainland. coverage of anti-budget ac• University Hill and Ideal, one significant." Some Comox and tivities. of Vancouver's alternative high schools — are official members. The group has con• Breaking down barriers in Courtenay tacted more than half of Van• couver's secondary schools. By Trish Webb lost some respect in the area through what he SCARED is circulating a COURTENAY — There's something going calls their inaction and compromise. "This budget never addressed the banks, petition opposing education on in this community that hasn't happened for policies. Some 300 students years: people and groups who usually keep their forest or energy companies. The banks are pull• ing in bigger profits than ever before and no have signed so far, said Sarah distance from each other are uniting to fight the Chase, also of UHill. government's restraint package. one, not even the NDP, has addressed the possibility of further taxation," he says. "We are opposed to the cur• "The legislation has brought together forces Bradley is also trying to be realistic with a rent legislation being passed in this town that wouldn't sit down at the same which will prevent our school table for any other reason," says Wayne dwindling school budget. As a school trustee he is responsible for paring down the school system from functioning ad- Bradley, a school trustee who has lived here the quately," said Chase. past 15 years. system's costs to manage a $500,000 cut in the local budget. Supplies and maintenance in the SCARED supports the Bradley helps staff the office the local schools have been cut to the bone and substitute Solidarity Coalition, but will Solidarity Coalition shares with the area's and temporary teachers are getting less work. probably not join because it wants to be a student group. teacher association, an unemployed action cen• By January we will have to cut full-time, per• tre and the carpenter's union. It's a busy place, manent teaching staff," says Bradley. and Bradley sits by the door to be near the con• Marginal students will be hurt most by the Pamper-ing pols stantly ringing phones. budget cuts, according to local teachers' presi• He says he has never seen commitment and dent Gwyn Reilley. The areas they usually do A Vancouver resident has co-operation reach the level it is now at in the well in (art, music, drama and French) are now sent her own special brand of Courtenay area. "Normally it takes all of considered frills. "If their interests are cut off restraint to Forestry Minister September just to organize something for Oc• at that age, the effects can last a lifetime," says Tom Waterland. tober. But this year we drew 1,500 people, the Reilly. Mary J. Prinz, impressed by biggest crowd ever — to a rally on Aug. 29." Cuts in child abuse and family support ser• the teddy bear Waterland keeps in his legislature office, Lately, most of the coalition's activity has vices will further affect these children, she says. '"Generally students having difficulty in has sent the stuffed animal been centred around two strike votes: the what she calls a "restraint government employees' and the teachers'. school have less money at home. Because of budget shortfalls we are going to have to ask diaper." Shop stewards and community group the children to buy more." "Enclosed for use at either representatives are busy organizing a steering Reilly expects at least 65 per cent of the end ... a diaper marked committee for picket line support. And a coffee teachers to approve job action. "We have a restraint . . . before the house house featuring local performers is trying to very reasonable board here, but there is not moves further afoul," wrote raise funds and increase moral support. much point in negotiation when there is no Prinz. Not surprisingly, says Bradley, the NDP has money in the budget for essentials." Waterland has yet to reply or acknowledge the gift. TIMES. OCT. 26, 1983

traditional role of providing • Government spending: lifts rent controls in B.C. The welfare to those in need, socie• Walker is said to have sug• government has said the Donors ty must return to a private and gested the government cut private market will provide the voluntary form of social staffing levels in order to kind of housing needed by welfare. reduce wage and salary expen• people who sought protection revealed The provincial government, ditures, and to "prevent the under rent controls. mortgaging of the future." • Public sector unions: By Keith Baldrey the report points out, is cur• rently cutting services to The Bennett government is Another institute book, For the first time, an ex• underprivileged people and trying to reduce the number of written by Sandra Christensen clusive report documents the defending the cuts by saying government employees by 25 of SFU, argues that public sec• corporate funding of the churches and the family can per cent before Sept. 1984, tor unions are privileged and Fraser Institute, a right-wing fill the gap. and speaks of the need to therefore should have special economic "think tank" based • Education: "avoid placing a burden on regulations placed on them to in Vancouver. Walker is said to have sug• future generations," says the control wage and salary costs. The report, written by two gested the government pick a report. The government has con• Vancouver researchers for the target year and reduce funding • Rent controls: tinually said public sector Solidarity Coalition, lists and staff levels to those pro• The report quotes an in• workers enjoy special rights; parallels between the vided in that year, as well as stitute publication claiming Bill 3 and the Compensation institute's economic policies increasing grants to private rent controls help worsen the Stabilization Amendment Act and the provincial govern• schools. problem they are set up to both seek to change all of that. ment's budget legislation. The government is trying to redress, and suggests they be Walker doesn't deny the Corporate funding for the reduce staff to 1976 levels abolished to allow the private Fraser Institute's policies institute is documented by a while at the same time increas• market to provide an adequate might have had some effect in secret membership list of cor• ing grants for private schools, supply of housing. the drafting of government porations. The list was obtain• according to the report. Current budget legislation economic policies. ed by the study's two authors — Cliff Stainsby, an energy analyst for the Society Pro• moting Environmental Con• servation and John Malcolmson, a researcher for the B.C. Teachers Federation. Malcolmson says the report's main conclusions — that the institute has a direct effect on Social Credit economic policy and that it is funded primarily by large cor• porations — have been "vaguely alluded to in the commercial media. We've pro• vided a more detailed and documented look." Stainsby says the study was done "to reveal whose interest the current legislative package serves." Four of the nation's five largest corporations are listed as members of the institute, as are Vancouver City Savings Credit Union, Thompson Newspapers, Southam News, and B.C. Television. The authors criticize the in• stitute's insistence that it is an "independent" research organization. "We try to Michael Walker, director of the Fraser Institute make it clear in the study that they have a large lobby and institute's right-wing available to the public. In• propaganda presence," said VanCity economic policies? stitute director Michael Stainsby. "Our membership in the Walker, when told the report Fraser Institute does not in contains the list, said: "So• But Fraser Institute director an investor any way imply that we support meone must have stolen it. Michael Walker denied his their policies," says Peter That's sad." organization was a lobby The secretary on the phone Cook, the credit union's The report also questions group, when told of the at Vancouver City Savings manager of corporate affairs. the Fraser Institute's "in• report. "We're certainly not Credit Union sounded Cook says VanCity pays an dependent" tag, saying it is lobbyists. We don't target a suspicious. "Are you from the annual $1,000 membership dependent on corporations piece of legislation and go out media?" she asked. fee, and for that receives the and therefore formulates and lobby for it," said "Yes, I am. I'd like to talk institute's literature and an in• policies beneficial to them. Walker. to someone about VanCity vitation to its annual meeting. Walker defends the in• "Our object is to encourage investments." "As people who deal in the stitute's source of funding. public discussion of economic "Oh, you must be talking economic markets we have to "How then should a research issues. We spend a lot of time about the Fraser Institute," be aware of all views. The institute be funded? We have a communicating our work to she said. Fraser Institute regularly com• cross-section of all funding the public," he added. The world's largest credit union has received about two ments on financial policies and sources," he says. "If people The report points to five dozen phone calls in the past trends and we should be aware say we're not independent, areas where institute recom• two weeks inquiring about of them," says Cook. how can you get it?" mendations and government their membership in the Fraser The report's authors — Although the report lists policies are almost identical. Institute. Cliff Stainsby and John almost 300 corporate spon• Social welfare; education; The credit union's member• Malcolmson — said the study sors, it does not include their government spending; rent ship is documented by the in• was done partly to document separate membership fees. controls; public sector unions. stitute's corporate member• "the long suspected corpora• Walker says fees are determin• • Social welfare: ship list, obtained by two Van• tion funding of the institute." ed on the size of the corpora• The authors quote Walter couver researchers who have They would not say where tion, but the institute "does Block, the institute's senior written a report on the they obtained the membership not rigidly enforce the fee economist, as contending that organization. list, which is an internal In• structure." since churches have lost their Does VanCity support the stitute document and not See page 14: FRASER o TIMES, OCT. 26.19B3 GENERAL STRIKE What it's all about

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that rare VICTORIA — Through summer By Bryan Palmer and the early fall opposition leader General strikes are not the freaks Dave Barrett and his NDP colleagues some would have us believe. They are a were at the centre at the legislative part of the history of every industrial storm. But with the adjournment of nation and their impact has been con• the legislature, speculation has turned siderable. toward the idea of a general strike. As early as 1832, William Benbow, NDP MLAs had mixed reviews of an English shoemaker, devised a plan the notion. for how a general strike would unfold. Said Comox MLA Karen Sanford: He called it a Grand National Holiday. "At this point I hope the government Ten years later some 500,000 British will back off, ensure proper discussion A meeting of workers during Winnipeg general strike, 1919 workers took just such a holiday. They will take place and the whole thing can stopped work in opposition to a 25 per be avoided." cent wage cut, but they also demanded The general strike erupts when no deliveries, printing its own newspaper, Emery Barnes (Vancouver Centre) the right to vote, which was denied alternatives seem available. It is a last and drawing thousands to its mass said he sympathized with the Solidarity them at the time. resort which workers and others are meetings. Unorganized workers, craft Coalition's dilemma. The general strike of 1842 showed pushed into when the assault on com• unionists, the ethnic community, "We're dealing with a government how workers and their allies in the mon people appears massive and un• unemployed ex-soldiers, and con• that won't listen to people," he said. many affected communities could precedented, when the forces marshall• sumers united behind the strike effort. "People are being pushed to the break• organize society. A strike committee ing such an assault tolerate no com• The police force was dismissed for ing point. If it cOmes to a general provided work permits to those in promise or retreat from their stated ob• refusing to sign pledges prohibiting strike, it's up to the government to take essential services, ensured that people jectives. union membership. responsibility for it. It would be based policed themselves, collected and Workers in the industrial city of Then a local "Citizen's Committee" on the government closing the door to distributed food, and held democratic Hamilton waged the first Canadian hired "special" police who, in con• serious dialogue, on the government meetings — in an England still without general strike in 1872, demanding the junction with the Royal North West provoking deliberate confrontation." democratic elections — where the nine-hour day. They failed, but they Mounted Police, arrested strikers and Every NDP MLA interviewed course of the strike was discussed, did secure legislation legalizing trade attacked parades with baseball bats agreed: a general strike is a dangerous debated, and determined. unions, elected the first worker to the and small arms. One man was killed, tactic; the government must be beat at Almost a century later Britain was House of Commons, and organized a another 30 injured. Aided by federal the ballot box instead of on the street. rocked by another when coal miners forerunner of the Canadian Labour and provincial politicians, employers Said Dennis Cocke (New were locked out of the pits, and the Congress. As the possibility of war beat back the strike effort, but not Westminster): "A general strike is not Trades Union Congress organized a threatened workers in the years 1911 to before labor across Canada, from somebody going out to tea or going out general strike. Almost four million Victoria to Amherst, Nova Scotia, to the Ritz. It's a pretty serious pro• workers endorsed this action, which waged similar general strikes in sup• blem." quickly escalated into a strike against A GENERAL STRIKE port of the Winnipeg action. Lome Nicholson (Nelson/Creston): not only the coal bosses but the govern• "The history of general strikes has ment as well. More recently, Quebec workers been they have set back the labor In other countries, too, general ERUPTS WHEN NO formed a Common Front in late movement. I've always felt strongly x strikes were fought. Belgium, Sweden, March, 1972. More than 200,000 political action is the route to take. Finland, the U.S. and Russia all ex• teachers, clerks, hospital workers, and That's why I'm in politics." ALTERNATIVES other public sector unionists opposed perienced general strikes between 1886 Whatever their apprehensions, attempts to restrict them to a 4.8 per and 1919. Usually they were limited in MLAs admitted that the decision to cent wage increase. They organized a both their duration and their capacity SEEM AVAILABLE carry out a general strike was not up to one-day general strike and then later to involve the entire country's them and that they were speaking as in• seized workplaces and ran them on workforce. They were impressive IT IS A LAST RESORT dividuals. shows of solidarity nonetheless. And principles of workers' self- because such strikes inevitably con• management. Eventually they were Said Chris Darcy (Rossland/Trail): legislated back to work and three of "I'm concerned about the affects. But fronted both the power of employers 1914, the Trades and Labor Congress their leaders jailed. More geographical• the decision is not in my hands. It's in and the authority of the state, they of Canada regularly passed resolutions ly wide-ranging, but limited to a "Day the hands of the working people in were subject to great opposition and urging a general strike against war. In endless repression. of Protest'', was the Canadian Labour B.C. No one can predict what will hap• 1918, after labour organizer and Congress general strike against pen." On more than one occasion these socialist Albert "Ginger" Goodwin Trudeau's wage controls in October, If a general strike developed, the forces defeated the immediate objec• was shot by a special constable while 1976. tives of the strike. Yet general strikes avoiding induction into the army, Van• MLAs say they would not take action against NDP employees who honored persist in the modern world, notably in couver workers proclaimed a one-day Since early July, British Columbians picket lines. John Mclnnis, NDP France (1968), Poland (1980), Belgium holiday, a general strike of protest. have built a broad and unified move• legislative research director, said there (1983), Quebec (1972), and here in Most dramatic of Canada's general ment that embraces those inside and is no question that research workers Canada (1976). strikes was the massive work stoppage outside the trade unions, organized would respect picket lines. Out of short-term defeat has come in Winnipeg during May and June of massive demonstrations of opposition, long-term victory. The Russian 1919. It began as a simple struggle by employed creative tactics, and "The Socreds believe it's necessary General Strike of 1905 signalled the ar• workers in the metal and building established a newspaper. This is what to smash the B.C. Government rival of working-class power that trades for collective bargaining rights. most general strikes have had to ac• Employees Union. They're gambling would help defeat czarism in 1917. Out It soon became a test of where political complish after they started. they can do it without triggering of the British general strike of 1926 authority in Canada lay. By mid-May a anyone else. Buf if they do try to smash came decisive steps in the Labour Par• strike committee of 300 literally ran the Bryan Palmer teaches working class the BCGEU, there'll be tremendous ty's march to power. city of Winnipeg, authorizing milk history at Simon Fraser University. disruption," Mclnnis said.

Past Present TIMES. OCT. 28.1963

And nowfor th e lowdown on tomorrow's showdown By Keith Baldrey A general strike has not occurred in escalating public sector strike if the become a political dispute, thus widen• Just a week ago the words "general B.C. in 64 years. How would it hap• B.C. Government Employees Union's ing the perimeters." strike" were part of everyday conver• pen? Who would it involve? How long contract talks breakdown. If that happened, he adds, the B.C. sation. Media reports, some bordering would it last? "If the BCGEU goes out, everything Federation of Labour would order "all on hysteria — told of feverish plans for "A general strike is never planned," will be done legally at first," says out support" for an escalation of the a province-wide shutdown. says Art Kube, B.C. Federation of Kube. "If the government takes action strike. Then Premier Bill Bennett's televised Labour president and co-chair of the such as special legislation or the essen• talk on Oct. 20 defused, or at least Solidarity Coalition. "In a general tial services act or a back-to-work Harsh government action would be postponed, a general strike. But the strike you react to something. Anyone order — then I presume the leadership prompted by a sympathy strike by government's non-response to criticism who tells you that you can plan a will defy the order. If their order is other public sector unions, such as the of the planned elimination of the ren- general strike is wrong. All you can do defied, people might go to jail." province's teachers and municipal and talsman's office and the human rights is work out a number of options." Kube says that if the government hospital workers. Those employees will branch has kept a general strike on the The Federation has already adopted "used the power of the state, the in• strike soon after the BCGEU's opposition's agenda. a "program of action" that outlines an dustrial relations dispute would walkout, according to B.C. Teachers Federation Pat Clarke. "They won't be by themselves very long. The call for teachers to join them would come very shortly," he says. When the Federation orders the escalation, the private sector unions would be asked to join the massive ac• tion. How will they respond? "I think we'll wait and watch at first to see how strong and determined the BCGEU membership is about this before we get into it," says Telecom• munications Workers' Union president Hired goons march down Portage Ave. on June 10, 1919. Bill Clark. He thinks private sector employees will not hesitate to join a province-wide strike. Capilano College instructor and On one hand, then again on the other, then again... labor historian Ed Lavalle says the suc• By John Mackie a good possibility that she would get means in a reasonable, adult fashion." cess of the strike could hinge on private What do people think about a laid off before the end of the year. It's "I don't like the idea," said Brent sector employees' support. "It has to general strike? affecting me personally." Nickerson, a carpenter from Victoria. include the private sector to be suc• Solidarity Times took to the streets Henry Berg was laid off from the "It'll screw up everything and won't cessful. That's the unknown factor in last week to get a sampling of opinions. history department at the University of make things any easier. It just won't this whole thing: the role of the private "I think it stinks, if you want the Calgary in August and moved to Van• help. I just don't believe that labor is sector." truth," said an ad sales person who couver because his employment doing the right thing. I think the only Another key factor will be the refused to give his name. "What's it all possibilities are better here. He way (for the economy to rebound) is to amount of support and loyalty the for, anyway? They're working, they're wonders if the strike will achieve its go through what the government is do• labor movement receives from the making money. If they don't want to goals. "Frankly, I'm not sure I would ing." general public. "The (Solidarity) coali• work, why don't they just quit and give support it, largely because I don't Out on the picket line at the Open tion is a fragile thing," says Clark. the jobs to somebody who does?" think it would put enough pressure on Learning Institute in Richmond, "But everyone realizes that the pro• "I think it's the only way out," said the government. I think it could pro• employees have been on strike since blems we face are more important right Danny Kostischun, a ceramicist. "It's bably be better handled with negotia• Oct. 16. The government has offered now than the differences we have with the only way to make this fascist tions between labor and government them no pay increase over the next each other. government take notice of what's go• ministries." year: the union is now asking for a five What happens if the BCGEU signs ing on. They've made a choice to turn a "If the outcome is achieved, I sup• per cent increase: three per cent in an agreement? Besides averting a blind eye . . . it's symptomatic of a port it," said courier Cam Patterson. salaries and two per cent in benefits. massive public sector strike, it would government that doesn't give a damn "The government's running amok They've been without a contract for also effectively cancel any plans for a about people within a certain wage right now." seven months. general strike. Instead, different tactics bracket . . . people who aren't car Jordan Brooks, an unemployed could be used by coalition supporters salesmen or businessmen." "Nobody wants to be on strike," secretary, doesn't sympathize with the in their battle with government. "I'm afraid that a general strike is strike. "I think they're insane, because said Maurice Verkaar, a mark-up coming," said student Doug Bengle. with the unemployment problem right technician. "I hope it works itself out Already, the coalition is planning a "I'm not too impressed with the now they should be glad they're work• . . . that Bennett backs off on some consumer boycott. TWU president government but I don't want it to hap• ing." things. On a lot of things." Clark thinks some sort of consumer ac• pen. I don't support the government "I would support it, but I don't Bus driver Jim McGill put his views tion or legal battle might be the only ef• but I don't support organized labor know of the chances of it actually hap• most succinctly. "I think we're pro• fective weapon against the govern• either. I think they're both being a little pening," said a store clerk who didn't bably going to be going out. I don't ment's plan to eliminate the ren- extreme." want to give his name because "my think Bennett is going to go anywhere. talsman's office and the human rights Office worker Sarah Raymond boss might get pissed off with me" for With a general strike we're either going branch. would walk out if there's a general supporting the strike. "It's the best to win big or lose badly. I don't think "There should be other long-term strike. "My mom's a counsellor for the way to deal with Bennett, after giving there's going to be any middle things planned. Consumer actions take West Vancouver school board. There's him a chance to deal with it by other ground." longer to get results," says Clark.

Future up their street action with a series of it must be remembered that three- unambiguous pledges. Women quarters of Bennett's speech was Against the Budget, the Lower devoted to a hard-line defense of his Mainland Solidarity Coalition, and government's program. "Our goals the Vancouver and District Labour are firm and unshakable," said Short end Council, among others, promised to Bennett, and for a change, perhaps back Operation Solidarity "job we ought to take his remarks at face of stick action" (that's the polite phrase for value. Although forced to back off a general strike) until the government's millimetre here and a couple of Editor The business media were quick to legislative package was withdrawn centimetres there, thanks to the Stan Persky hail Premier Bill Bennett's televised and social services restored. actions of the Solidarity Coalition Staff performance last week as an "olive Second, what exactly did Bennett (and it's important to recognize the Keith Batdrey, Bev Davies, Tom branch" held out to his opponents. say in his televised address? That's coalition's victories), Bennett gave no Hawthorn, Rob Joyce, Don Pardon us for not immediately harder to answer, and not just signs whatsoever of changing his Larventz, John Mackie, Esther reaching out to grasp the leafless because Premier Bill is not the government's course. Seen in that Shannon, Trish Webb, Debbie Wilson short end of the stick. world's clearest communicator. The light, the Bennett speech appears to First, why did Bennett take to the business media were prompt to point be little more than a cynical Contributors tube? The answer to that one is easy. to the premier's "conciliatory" maneouver to divide Solidarity. Sheila Adams, Muriel Draaisma, While Premier Bill and the Socred gestures: adjournment of the The offer to consult with individual David Gordon, Dale Jack, Terry Johnson, Brian Jones, Ken Mann, convention delegates were huddling legislature, reiteration of a previous ministers over yet-to-be passed vague offer of consultation with Erin Mullan, Bryan Palmer, George inside the Hotel Vancouver on legislation (concerning the Stanley Oct. 15, more than 50,000 Solidarity individual ministers on the few bills Rentalsman and Human Rights Coalition protesters were marching in yet to be passed, and an invitation to Commission) solves nothing, though Our Woman on the Road reached the streets outside. the B.C. Government Employees of course Solidarity will again offer the Comox-Courtenay district this week and returned with a tale of It's as simple as that. Union to return to the bargaining to meet the government as it has table. throughout the crisis. But the fact is how a mid-island Solidarity Coali• What's more, member groups of tion is holding off 1984, Socred- the largest political demonstration in Before examining the murky that Bennett did not offer substantial style. the history of the province followed content of these so-called concessions, changes to the legislative package nor Our Staff learned that General restoration of chopped social services. Strike is not the commander of Bennett did make an unclear Canadian forces on Cyprus when gesture toward the BCGEU, currently Simon Fraser University labor faced with the firing-without-cause of historian Bryan Palmer gave us a 1,600 of its members on Oct. 31. The fireside chat on the history of premier seemed to be saying that the massive work stoppages. Potential GEU was invited to negotiate a general strikers looked into the crystal ball for us and people in normal contract without the threat of the street practiced not going to Bills 2 or 3 as pre-conditions. We say work while giving us their views. "seemed to be saying" because Cliff Stainsby of the Solidarity Bennett did not say, he merely Coalition gave us the first scoop- hinted. ful of dirt on the free enterprise The GEU has been eminently clear lunatic fringe at the Fraser In• about its bottom line. The stitute. We promised to follow up government will not be permitted to until every chilling detail is exhum• fire-without-cause a single member of ed. its 40,000-strong union. If Bennett In general, a very entertaining does so, the GEU will strike, and week was had by all, from smoke-filled pubs with throaty Solidarity will back it "up to and singers to the sanitized at• including general strike." mosphere of The Right Stuff. The job of the GEU is to protect Our Trusty Agents, armed only its membership. As a component of with neckties and baggy pants, the Solidarity Coalition, it knows it rubbed elbows with unrepentent has to succeed or every other worker Socreds, but failed to take out in the public sector will be at risk. membership cards. The job of the Solidarity Coalition, Meanwhile, Robert Bonner of B.C. Hydro decided whether or including the BCGEU, is to carry out not to stuff our sub cards in B.C. the program passed at its first formal Hydro envelopes along with the provincial conference last weekend: to free advertising provided for his continue the fight to repeal the pal Jim PattJson, and the Victoria Socred legislative package and to Press Gallery fretted over Solidari• achieve full restoration of social ty Times credentials. Our ebullient services. Whether or not the GEU business staff meantime fretted negotiations lead to settlement or over subscriptions, ads, and trigger a general strike, Solidarity's distribution. program remains the same. It gives All in all, it looked like a real no sign of splitting, diffusing, caving newspaper acquiring a real newspaper look. Press the green in, going away, or rolling over and eyeshade Charlie, we're entering playing dead. It is, for the foreseeable the Socred twilight zone. future, a fact of political life in B.C. The form of its actions may change; its goals have not.

Until the Bennett regime changes Solidarity Times is a politically course, all the olive branches in the independent weekly newspaper m great rain forest are just so much that supports the aspirations of firewood for the long winter ahead. Solidarity Coalition, trade unions, ^^^^^^ workers, women, ethnic minorities, native people, the han• dicapped, pensioners, social ser• Dispatches from the front lines vice recipients, gays and lesbians, tenants, defenders of human By NORA D. RANDALL inspectors. On the appointed day he ar• We found out when the landlord rights, environmental and peace Let me tell you, it's been an in• rived with seven men: two inspectors bought the building, how much he paid activists, consumers, students, ar• teresting couple of months in my apart• and five contractors. They walked for it, that the mortgage was paid off tists, and religious people seeking ment building. In August our previous• through my apartment and talked to and what the property taxes are. a socially relevant church. It is ly absentee landlord drove in from each other about what they would do This little exercise did wonders to published by a non-profit society Calgary to announce: "I'm raising the and where they would paint. dispell the Fraser Institute image of the and is not the spokesperson or official organ of any organization. rent. There's no law to stop me." He Every speck of paint in that apart• beleaguered landlord going broke. It followed this salvo with some ment had been bought and applied by turns out that our landlord could make enigmatic statements about being me. I had done every repair. It was the our homes fire safe without raising our "tired of being the good guy." It was same for everyone in the building rents and still laugh all the way to the his most inspired performance since because it was impossible to get bank. Of course, he may have over• the roof fell in. anything out of the landlord. Now he extended himself when he bought the We organized a little tenant get- comes swooping in like a vulture to race horse, but that's not our fault. Solidarity Times is published at together and an organizer from the decide what colour he's going to paint So now it's October and life pro• 545 West Tenth Avenue, Van• renters' coalition gave us a detailed the walls that I painted. gresses. He evicted the two tenants in couver, B.C., V5Z 1K9. report on what to expect from our The thought of having this building the illegal basement suites so he could Telephones landlord. Fortunately his yahoo renovated so it conforms to fire regula• begin renovations. Those suites were so (Business) 8794826 response to the Socred legislation was tions is very attractive. None of us are bad they chose to move rather than (News) 879-5465, 8794691, premature. romantically attached to living in a fire fight. The rest of us are just hanging 8794692 September started with the landlord trap. We just can't afford to pay for tight. Printed at College Printers. putting up a sign saying he would be the renovations by having our rents in• Nora D. Randall is currently travell• coming through our suites with the city creased fifty per cent. ing through the Cariboo. TIMES. OCT. 28,1983 o

another for anti-cruise missile Get heavy bumper stickers and an en• dorsement by the lesbian and I am concerned about the gay caucus. To one degree or emphasis on Bill Bennett .in another, I disagree with the your first issue. This reached aims of all of these. When I an extreme in the B.C. see these various interest Government Employees' groups making public rela• Union advertisement which tions headway under the states simply, "It's Bennett's auspices of the Solidarity title, fault". This is gut reaction, I feel my own support for not intelligent political Solidarity has been com• analysis. The situation in B.C. promised. is not an isolated aberration; it is consistent with the I support it because I am op• Wmsmi stranglehold that right-wing posed to the manner in which government restraint is being movements are obtaining mm- British Columbia support this Dave Danylyshyn Toby Smith The Workers' Compensation Board discrimination. We believe that the contempt Zeballos North Vancouver responded quickly, and it appeared as if Jar- this government has shown for our lives is nail would not have died in vain. The board repulsive to British Columbians. We also Teacher unity a plus set up a consultative committee of farmers, believe that farmworkers are Only the first to Steer straight farmworkers and Board staff to negotiate be attacked. If the Socreds get away with this Congratulations on your regulations on the use of pesticides on B.C. they will try attacking the health and safety I received your first issue (our) first issue. It's wonderful farms. After three months of this consulta• of other workers, too. We urge concerned and read it with some interest having a paper representing tion, realistic regulations were agreed upon citizens to speak out. Call your MLAs. Write and some more misgivings. the people of B.C. and not the that could have saved Jarnail's life. This to the minister of labour and make it clear You had an advertisement for corporations. Thanks also for consultative committee, with representation that human life is not worthless in B.C. a disarmament production, an your positive article on the from the largest trade unions and industries article supporting the Unemployed Teachers' Action We can only win equality when this in the province, unanimously recommended Nicaraguan revolution, an Centre (UTAC). government gets that message loud and that these regulations go to public hearing. advertisement for the NDP, You focused on our services clear. In the memory of a 19 year old farm• At last we could see action to stop the daily worker, let us all work together to put an end to unemployed teachers. I'd poisoning of ourselves and our children. like to mention that UTAC, in to this bitter harvest. However, the Board said no, no public hear• Raj Chouhan, president Women missed addition to being a much need• ings, no regulations, no safety, no reasons. ed and well used support Canadian Farmworkers Union system, also has been very ac• Reason and justice do not prevail in the Burnaby on front tive politically. Our latest ac• I was sorry to see that the tion was taken during health, only images on the cover of education and social services CFRO opens airwaves to progressive broadcasts the first issue of Solidarity week. We set up a mock over• Times were those of males. crowded classroom on Robson Vancouver Co-operative raised by the legislative unions, to letting union strike In three photographs, males Street and did street theatre to Radio is a non-commercial, package on our public affairs committees use a regular time were portrayed from illustrate how devastating the community-oriented and own• shows. on the air every day to keep childhood to manhood. continuing cutbacks to educa• ed, listener-supported radio This will be one of the main their members informed in the This is 1983 and it is not tion are. We are very involved station that has been on the air emphases of a new daily Mon• event of a strike. okay that the covr of the in both Operation Solidarity for eight and a half years. We day to Friday public affairs We would like you to first issue of Solidarity and the Solidarity Coalition are carried on cable to many show called The Rational that discuss within your union or Times is all male. Why are for we see the unemployment locations throughput B.C. and we will be launching Monday, organization how it might be females invisible on the affecting our members as be• can be heard on air Nov. 7. useful to you to take advan• front page? ing part of a larger social pro• throughout the Lower But we think we may be able tage of this offer. We are open blem. As such it can only be Mainland and the southeast to do some more, and we to your suggestions. To those people who say solved socially, that is, in coast of Vancouver Island. would like to make an offer to We believe it is important "We are fighting a united action. the groups represented in for the Solidarity movement to repressive government; who Among our over 50 weekly Operation Solidarity and the be able to speak in its own cares whose picture is on We'd like to invite all programs are many which are unemployed teachers and of special interest to labor and Solidarity Coalition. words to its members and the the front page!" — let me general public without the tell you, I care. Just because education students to come community groups, such as We would like to make down to UTAC. We'll do our Union Made, Womanvision, more airtime available to mediation of the commercial we, men and women are media, who have not been fighting repressive legisla• best to assist your personal Ecowatch and of course our organizations in the Solidarity situation in any way we can. flagship program Redeye on movement to tell their consti• especially favorable to the tion, is no reason for aims of the Solidarity move• women to take a back seat Also, let's get together and use Saturday mornings. tuencies and the population of our collective power to help As a community radio sta• B.C. about the implications of ment. to men. If we have time and If you wish to discuss this energy to put men in front, get rid of this destructive tion, we believe we have a •the Socred legislation and the legislation and this destructive responsibility and a role to need to fight it, and about how further, please call me at we have time and energy to 684-8494 between 11 a.m. to make women visible. government. That way all of play in the fight against the the fight is being carried on. us will be back to work again provincial budget and This could take a number of 6:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. forms ranging from a weekly Dorrie Brannock soon. associated legislation. One of Vinny Mohr, speak out on the air by a series CFRO station co-ordinator, Vancouver Mel Lehan the ways we try to do this is to Vancouver cover the events and issues of different organizations and Vancouver. TIMES. OCT. 28, 1883

OCTOBER 26 VANCOUVER Touchstone Theatre presents Children of the Night, comedy thriller by Paul Ledoux, at the Firehall Theatre, 280 East Cordova. Until Nov. EXCUSESWEEK 5, Tuesdays through Sundays. Tickets are $6 and $7. For further info call 687-8737. "Planning Your Will," People's Law School's second day on preparing a will, with lawyer Gary Wilson. At the Fireside Public Library, 1950 Argyle St. (Victoria and 54th) from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Free. For more info call 734-1126. "With These Hands," exhibit of visual arts by women at Sister's Restaurant at Davie and Seymour. Continues until Nov. 13. Sponsored by Battered Women's Support Services. Women in Focus presents "The Parisian Laundry — An Extravaganza of Women's Work from Toronto," a show by 44 artists. Daily until Nov. 5 and includes some performances. Ad• mission $3, $2 for the unemployed. For more in• fo call 872-2250. Labor lecture on "Ontario Workers of the 20th Century," at 7:30, 2859 Commercial Drive. Paula Ross Dance Company performs at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Oct. 26-29. Show starts at 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thurs• day, $7.50; Friday, $9; and on Saturday a shorter performance followed by an auction-, $20.

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CULTUS LAKE Theatre on the Lake presents Tribute by Ber• nard Slade, Oct. 27-29. Tickets available at the Arts Place, 9339 Main St., in Chilliwack, or at appearing at the Vancouver East Cultural Cen• p.m. at the Oddfellows Hall, 1720 Gravely, at the door. Curtain at 8:30 p.m. For more infor tre, Venables and Victoria. Shows Oct. 27 and Commercial. call 792-2069. 28 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., $3; and Oct. 29 and Kosta Tsoukleris performs electric Greek VANCOUVER 30 at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., $5, and $4 for children bouzouki music at La Quena, 1111 Commercial "Imagination and the Rise of the Popular under 12. Drive, 8 p.m., $2. Front," a French film documentary, at the OCTOBER 28 OCTOBER 29 Pacific Cinematheque, 1155 West Georgia, 7:30 NEW WESTMINSTER VANCOUVER and 9:30. For more info call 732-6119. Fotofest '83, an evening of slide-show enter• Banquet and dance to celebrate the 46th an• tainment at Douglas College auditorium, 700 niversary of the MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion, "Unrestrained" writers reading with Judith Royal Ave., New Westminster, 8 p.m., $3. at 600 Campbell Ave. Dinner is at 6:30 and Fitzgerald and Carole Itter at Octopus Books, VANCOUVER costs $10, $8 for the unemployed. Tickets 1146 Commercial Drive, at 8:30 p.m. Kent Native Brotherhood is holding a Benefit available at the Pacific Tribune office and Co-op Fred Penner, a children's performer with the Dance with music by the Industrial Waste Band, Books on Commercial Drive. Vancouver International Children's Festival, is Shanghai Dog and Enigmas. Dance starts at 9 Elijah Raid, a progressive folk singer, per• forms at La Quena, 1111 Commercial Drive, 8 p.m., $2. OCTOBER 30 VANCOUVER Songs of Peace and Solidarity with George Hewison and Bob Wishinski, Queen Elizabeth Playhouse, 649 Cambie, 8 p.m. Tickets cost $6 and are available at Co-op Books, 1391 Com• mercial and through the Vancouver and District 111111 Labor Council. Solidarity Sing-Along, with songs, poetry and an update on the present state of affairs in B.C., La Quena, 1111 Commercial Drive, 8 p.m. Leading mountaineer and photographer Arlene Blum speaks on the history of women's mountaineering, 7:30 p.m., UBC, Instructional Resources Centre, lecture hall #6. Tickets are $3.50 for students and advance sales, and $4.50 at the door. Available at Ariel Books, Oc• topus East and the Alma Mater Society box of• fice in the student union building at UBC. Utah Phillips, Wobblie and protest singer, performs at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 1895 Venables at 8 p.m. Halloween Benefit Dinner and Party from 4 to 8 p.m., with dinner at 5, Oddfellow's Hall, 1720 Gravely Street (at Commercial). Tickets are $6, and $3 for children. OCTOBER 31 VANCOUVER Point of Order, a documentary film on McCar- thyism, 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. at SUB in UBC. AIDS Benefit Halloween Party at Neighbours, 1337 Robson, 7 p.m. Halloween costume ball and benefit dance for Co-op Radio at the Inner Circle, 828 East Hastings. Tickets $5. NOVEMBER 1 VANCOUVER "Shutdown" and "No Life for a Woman", 2 films about workers, women and the system at the Little Mountain Neighbourhood House, 3981 Main St., 7:30 p.m.

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I Tickets are now on sale for a I | Press Gang and SORWUC Hallo- | | ween Benefit Dance in Vancouver | GET SERIOUS | on Oct. 29. Communique and § I Juba will get the hepcats hopping, | OCTOBER 26 OCTOBER 28 Women Against Nuclear Technology and the Tri• | while Acting Up does just that | VANCOUVER VANCOUVER dent Action Group. For more information call | with East Side Story, and Arlene | Lecture and group discussion on The Alvaro Fernandez, a student leader from 255-0524 or 988-3649. I Mantle belts out labor and feminist | Recovery — Fact or Fiction, with Marty Smith Chile, will speak on the situation in that country, TAG DAY from the carpenter's union, 1 p.m., Fishermen's Hall, 138 East Cordova, at 7:30 I songs. 1 The following Solidarity Coalitions have an• Fishermen's Hall, 138 East Cordova. Call p.m. I A fin and a bit ($6) gets the | nounced Tag Days as a major fund-raising 688-9001 for more info. Free. | salaried in, while $4 is enuff for j Rev. Michael Hapsley, from ANC, and Susan drive: Burn's Lake, Powell River, Gibson's, 1 everybody else. The fun starts at 8 § The second evening in the Feminist Discus• Nghidinwa, of the Soutwest Africa People's Campbell River, Nanaimo, Kelowna, Grand | p.m. at Astonnos, 1739 Venables | sion Series. Tonite's topic is sexual harass• Organization, will speak on the situation in Forks, Richmond, Smithers, Dawson Creek, | at Commercial. Tickets must be | ment. At the Vancouver Status of Women, 400A South Africa, at the Science of Mind Hall, 2915 McKenzie, Nelson, Merritt, Hope, Surrey, | bought in advance and are § West 5th (at Yukon) from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Child Commercial Drive, at 8 p.m. Sponsored by Prince Rupert, and Vancouver. Other coalition | available at the usual bevy of alter- care is available. For more detail call Patty SAAC. members may also be holding tag days. Contact | native bookstores. | Moore, 873-1427. Gay and Lesbian solidarity caucus meets at 7 your local coalition for more details. | So much for the dance info. | p.m. at 686 West Broadway. For info call OCTOBER 30 OCTOBER 27 | Now for details on who benefits. 874-4582. VANCOUVER VANCOUVER• | Press Gang is a 10-year-old Ending the Arms Race, a series of five lec• Leo McGrady and Peter Beaudin of the Peo• Alvaro Fernadez, a student leader from Chile, | feminist and anti-capitalist print | tures on Fridays, starts at noon at Robson ple's Law School give a free lecture on will speak on the situation in that country, 7:30 | shop and publisher Always in a | Square. "Domestic Workers and the Law," Vancouver p.m. at La Quena, 1111 Commercial Drive, | precarious financial situation, the OCTOBER 29 Public Library, 750 Burrard, from 2 to 4 p.m. 251-6626. 1 recession and rapid technological § VANCOUVER For more info call 734-1126. | change make the squeeze that 1 Laski, an atomic bomb survivor, shares ex• Disarmament and Beyond, a 2-day con• Community budget meeting sponsored by the | much tighter. j periences of the Hiroshima A-Bomb attack. ference of workshops and lectures making con• Riley Park community association, 50 East 30th | Last years benefit covered | Evening incudes a .film and discussion. At nections between militarism, labor, women's Ave., from 2 to 5 p.m. Child care provided. Ac• | one-fifth of the cost of an instant | Carnegie Centre, Main and Hastings, 7 p.m. and solidarity movements, will be held at cessible to wheelchairs. | print platemaker, which (ahem!) | Solidarity update, at UBC Law School, with Langara campus of Vancouver Community Col• Disarmament and Beyond, second day of con• j revolutionized their instant pnn- speakers Hanna Jensen, Bill Black, Jean lege, 100 W. 49th, $3.50 unemployed, $6 ference. See October 29th for details. | ting. This year they have their eye | Swansen, and Stuart Rush, 12:30 noon. emoloved. Childcare available. Sponsored by OCTOBER 31 | on a new small press. | VANCOUVER | The Service, Office and Retail j Refuse the Cruise action planning meeting for | Workers Union of Canada is an in- | the anti-nuke solidarity days on Dec. 2 and 3. | dependent, democratic union for | Ken Nightingale and Paul Desfor from California I working women. SORWUC pro- | will be available for discussion. For more info | motes the idea that women's work | call 875-1098. Held at the First United Church, | is essential whether it's unpaid | Hastings and Gore, at 7:30 p.m. | labor in the home, or low paid | NOVEMBER 1 | labor in a female job ghetto. A | VANCOUVER | guide to writing contract pro- | The third evening in the Feminist Discussion posals and for negotiating new | Series. Tonite's topic is pornography and contracts — a must for inex• violence, Vancouver Status of Women offices, perienced new members — is in | 400A West 5th (at Yukon) from 7:30 to 10 p.m. the final stages. Their share of the | Child care is available. For more info call Patty proceeds will be usd to have the 1 Moor at 873-1427. guide printed at (where else?) 1 NOVEMBER 2 1 Press Gang. | NELSON | Phone 684-2834 for information | Nelson Solidarity Coalition will be holding a | or child car and wheelchair ac- 1 general workshop with guest speaker Alicia Lawrence. Call your local coalition office fo mm more information. Lend us VICTORIA OCT. 26 your beers The South Pacific People's Foundation presents a slide show titled, "The Marshall Don't start the revolution without us. Islands —The U.S.'s Radioactive Trust,"7:30 This is the place to publicize your p.m., James Bay Community Centre, 140 meeting, demonstrations, club, semi- Oswego St. secret cabal, party, poetry reading, con• The Catholic Social Justice Commission and cert, wake, petition, art show, or cam• the Victoria Solidarity Coalition are co- paign to save B.C. or other places from sponsoring a workshop with GATT-fly, a project the excesses of those who have money of Canadian churches for global economic and power to spare. justice. The workshop will teach groups to We're interested in short an• analyse the economic crisis, identify alternative nouncements carrying the basics: who, programs, and develop strategies for political what, where, when and why. If you think action. From 7 to 10 p.m. Pre-registration is your group or conspiracy is worth more essential; call Anne Fletcher (592-5979) or than an annoucement, send us a short Doran Doyle (658-5605). There's a $10 fee. article of 100 words or less. Make it to OCT. 27 the point, lively and informative. Public forum with the Physicians for Social Get Happy and Get Serious are bulletin Responsibility as part of disarmament week, 8 boards for people and groups who, shut p.m., Eric Martin Auditorium on Fort St. out of existing media, have had to use Second night of the Catholic Social Justice clandestine and extra-legal means to Commission, Victoria Solidarity Coalition and spread the word about their gatherings GATT-fly workshop. See Oct. 26 for details. and campaigns. But keep on gluing up OCT. 28 those posters. We all need something to "Women and the Changing Family" is the assault our senses as we trudge to our subject of this year's Status of Women action workplaces, be they real or imagined. group conference, today and tomorrow at the Send your messages, preferably typed University of Victoria. For info call 381-1012. (so if there is a screw-up, you can blame OCT. 29 us), to Get Happy, Solidarity Times, 545 Greater Victoria Disarmament Group presents West 10th Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V5Z Kinuko Laskey, a Hiroshima survivor, as well as 1K9. Deadline is noon the Friday before the films Prophecy and The Lost Generation, the issue you want to see your announce• 7:30 p.m., Eric Martin Auditorium on Fort St. ment in. We reserve the right to edit for OCT. 31 space. Regular weekly meeting of the Women Against the Budget, 8 p.m., Room A204, Clear- time Building, University of Victoria. NOV. 3 angle Victoria Solidarity Coalition meeting, 7:30 A new monthly newspaper for gays and p.m., Victoria Union Centre, 275] Quadra St. lesbians will begin publication in Van• NOV. 14 couver in late November. One-hour panel discussion with Joy lllington, The paper, named Angles, is published Judy Liefshultz, Sara David and Dina Stanley of by the Vancouver Gay Community Centre Women Against the Budget, 7 p.m., on Victoria Society, a Solidarity Coalition member. Cable 10. Angles will be available in many West End gay establishments including Little Sister's Books, 1221 Thurlow Street PENTICTON Subscriptions at $15 per yeer are available OCT. 27 from Angles, P.O. Box 2259, Main Post Of• Regular meeting of Solidarity Coalition, 7:30 fice, Vancouver, VBB 3W2. p.m., Carpenter's Hail, 695 Wade Ave. West. emember Harold Gorney, that whiney, sniv• nouncing to no one in particular: "These are just elling guy in high school who, no matter communists. That's how they operate. You know, R how serious or insignificant the problem, they should ban them here just like they have in the always managed to blame someone else? Harold States . . . Sure a lot of kids in strollers out there. Gorneys are smug, arrogant, cruel, petty and plain The kids, they sure use those kids. It's the teachers. mean-spirited. When they are successful they call They get these ideas in them. And it's just not right. themselves self-confident and self-motivated, but Most of them can't even get jobs. They don't know mostly they're just selfish. why they're here." The other word on the convention There were several Harold Gorneys, accompanied floor was that none of the protestors earned less than by Mrs. H. Gorneys, in attendance at a caucus $30,000. Anyways, it was just rent-a-crowd making breakfast during the Social Credit convention on the usual noises, they said. ' Oct. 15. On the street they had begun singing that mocking It was a bawdy and boistrous session. Several hockey taunt: "Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, Bill Ben• MLA's wore tall white chef's hats while they took nett, goodbye:" Upstairs, delegates plodded through turns playing Shecky Greene at the Sands. Here's their business, oblivious that they had become the MLA Bruce Strachan on a fellow MLA: "Rita N.Y. Islanders of B.C. politics. Johnson was the second person in our party to use Later, at a Meet the Cabinet session, an elderly closure. Isn't that something for a new member? . . . fellow rose: "I don't know whether to address this According to the rules of the House, closure is called question to you Mr. Premier, or to the minister of standing order 46." With that he flung his arms labor ... If there is a general strike, would you defensively across his chest as the room screamed return to us that basic human right, the right to with laughter. One woman twirled her red cloth work?' He got the afternoon's loudest ovation for napkin in the air. posing this darling demand of arch-conservatives. Someone else had a story about North Okanagan After the applause died down, Bennett jokingly MLA Don Campbell, who had recently insulted les• waved his arm: "The minister of labor." Everyone bians. "Campbell's aides got word of a protest. So laughed as Bennett sidestepped the touchy question. his aides approached him: 'Don! Don! The lesbians Bob McClelland took his time getting to the lectern are going to picket your store!' Now that didn't and when he did said, "My friend the premier." That bother a businessman like Don. He said, 'That's broke them up again. great. How else would you get so much publicity for Another elderly fellow got up to say he was scared having fruits in the Okanagan'." Again the room of his rent increase now that the Rentalsman's office shook. had been eliminated. "The landlords should be more Grace McCarthy rose to make a short speech about compassionate and practice a little restraint," he said the "Slow opposition," before handing fellow to thundering silence. cabinet minister Stephen Rogers a pair of red "It was rent controls that brought in a confronta• underwear. "I suppose this makes them half-fast," tional attitude between landlord and tenant," Ben• she cracked. nett replied. "It is presumptive of us to presume that Somebody made yet another closure joke to end landlords are mean and vicious." For that Bennett the breakfast. As they poured out of the Hotel Van• got applause. couver's opulent Pacific Ballroom, one woman gush• The joking mood was returned when former ed: "That's the best part of the convention." cabinet minister Len Bawtree got to a floor mike. "If The Mrs. H. Gormleys often don't fare too well. I had a herd of reindeer," he appealed loudly, Two fellows were chatting at the vacated campaign "would I (now) have the right to advertise for a male table of Meldy Harris. Said one to the other: "It's a Lapplander shepherd, with a Christian background shame they couldn't find a man for the job, but they and certain political beliefs?" That one really wowed looked and looked and no one would take it!" the Harold Gorneys. Or there was this exchange between media baby sit• The rest of the session was much the same: a ter Dick Collins and his wife. She let come reporters mousy guy complained that the demonstrators had take coffee cups from the media room to watch a "infringed on my human rights at not being able to- video presentation. Dick put a quick halt to that. get out of this hotel;" a woman wanted to know "There'd be nowhere for them to put the cups in that when the one remaining union-staffed transition room," Dick snarled. house would be privatized; a professor wanted to "But I thought they could just stand at the back of know if someone could get the three university the room with their cups in their hand." presidents together so that they could all raise their "Excuse me," he said curtly, correcting his wife tuition fees without worrying about being undercut for talking back. on the open market; and there was a call for raised She tried to reply. speed limits on the province's highways. "What!" he snapped. It wasn't a question. The election news was slipped in during a long rep• "Nothing," she said resignedly, folding her hands ly about the government's openness on the Public in her lap. Sector Restraint Act. Said Bennett: "Consultation Let's go to an upstairs window during the big will give us a stronger program and it will help . . . afternoon demo. Below is a scene out of a Franken• ah . . . give everyone an opportunity to be part of stein flick: the angry citizenry storming the mad doc• the fight we must fight together. That legislation's tor's castle. still not passed. Uh. That opportunity still ex• Tourism minister Claude Richmond sidles up. He ists. It will exist next week, it will exist next year, it surveys the Seig Heil-ing throng below and says, will exist the next year, and the next year, and after "Look at that — not a suit and a tie in the the election of 1987, it will continue to exist with a lot." One delegate from Vancouver Centre took a government that has a larger majority than we have hard look at this march through his riding, before an• now."

BENNETT PROMISES ELECTIONS FOR '87 BY TOM HAWTHORN • ILLUSTRATION BY STU MORRIS TIMES, OCT. 28, 1983

Parting with post partun

counselling will plunk social

services into the past, say staff.

A wall full of letters concurs. PARTUM SHOTS

By Debbie Wilson Nola Holden couldn't understand what was wrong with her. She had no energy. She had irrational fears about someone breaking into her home. She had trouble-moving around. "If I was sitting down after breakfast, it would be hard for me to get up. I just felt bad. I felt like I had lost everything I ever had." A recent move from Ottawa left her completely isolated with her baby. The local Family Places and public health centres she tried didn't help but so• meone in Ottawa had given her the number for the post partum counsell• ing office in Vancouver before she left. "She must have known something I didn't know." Handford and Knight think doctors won't fill void. Holden learned through the post partum counselling group she joined She knows of one woman in the pro• couver office, walls are papered with that her depression was common, that gram who will have to wait two or other letters from Coquitlam, Rich• about 20 per cent of women experience three months before she can see mond, Burnaby, Cranbrook, Victoria. post partum depression. She became a another professional about her depres• They are from the medical health direc• counsellor under the system developed sion. And she is one of the minority, tor in Richmond, doctors, the Battered there where a woman who has been says Holden, who can afford to pay for Women's Support Services, and many, through it helps another in the thick of help. many women. post partum depressions. "You can go to someone who There are over 70 letters taped on the "Quite a few women come there understands depression and anxiety, wall. Penny Handford, one of the five with their second child, and with their but they are not usually someone who remaining staff members at the post first child they never got over it. The understands what it's like to be at partum counselling office, waves one depression backed off so they could home with kids." hand at the display in a futile gesture. function, but when they had their se• Holden is only one of the authors of The day before they met with Sam cond child they got it all back. letters to the provincial government Travers, executive director of services "Now, without post partum and newspapers which protest the Oct. for the human resources ministry, she counselling, for two or three years they 31 closure of B.C.'s eleven year old says. are going to be pretty dysfunctional," post partum counselling centre. In the "He just dismissed all these. The on• Holden says. darkened and sparsely furnished Van- ly letters he cares about are from doc• tors; forget all the women who have written to him." She apologizes: "We're in a very low Trying to keep the product fresh place today." Travers told the women their pro• By Trish Webb put on the shelf for awhile," she said. interested in retraining and picking up gram would not be saved. Mental COURTENAY — Sylvia Lindstrom To keep the product fresh, she new skills." Going to school in another health workers and public health is grieving. She lost her job, her sav• enrolled in the local college's only com• town or city is a possibility, but not a nurses would treat post partum depres• ings, her friend, and unless she starts puter course. A proposed expansion of welcome one. sion. He had treated it himself, he said. working soon, she will lose her home. the Campbell River community college "It's okay to move — in fact, Icould Handford's co-worker Sandra We took photos of her new three- includes a computer program — with a get excited about being in a new place, Knight thinks it over. "We should have tiered patio, Sylvia acting the proud maximum enrollment of twenty-five. meeting new people — but when it's asked him to define post partum homeowner. Her heart wasn't really in Competition will be stiff. dictated by a job it is hard to accept. It depression." it though: she hardly smiled. "It's ironic that proper training isn't could happen again and again and that Most people think it is the "baby We talked about unemployed life, available now. Obviously people are is depressing. blues" women experience 48 hours the theatre group she works with, and Like many others, Sylvia is trying to after birth, she says. Or psychosis, Simon Fraser University, where she keep her head above water. A close which is very rare. The counsellors see learned to typeset. Four years ago she friend of hers gave up. women with children up to three years moved to Courtenay, got a job with the "Not being sure of your future and old. Not that it ends then. Many local printshop and bought a house. not being in control leaves you with the women never get over it. Then came last year's lay off; the feeling you have failed. This spring a printer finally declared bankruptcy in friend — she was the only person I "They had absolutely no understan• August and her unemployment in• knew on the Island before moving here ding of the seriousness of post partum surance claim ran out. — separated from her husband. When depression and that these women are "I'm concerned about the federal I last saw her she was working at a tem• suicidal," says Knight. government's plan to raise UI porary job and really optimistic about When their office closes, health premiums for working people. I think supporting her son, and excited about nurses' and social workers' work loads it could be very divisive. People find her independence. Well, her temporary will increase, says Knight. The it easy to blame someone they don't job ended and just a few weeks ago she "medical model" will be used for know. The unemployed are faceless." killed herself. She had said she was treating post partum depression. Sylvia has been looking for jobs on concerned about her ability to support "That will reinforce to women that the Island. The new printer in Court• her son. this is an abnormal experience, that enay is staffed by the owners; they told "She took it on herself; she felt she they are inadequate. Which reinforces her to come back in five years. was a failure. I walked around stunned everything they've already been think• Sylvia is concerned that a shop for about a week. I thought people on• ing about themselves." with the latest technology might not ly killed themselves for really personal Tacked above the electric kettle in provide the training time she'll need if reasons. the office's coffee nook is a poster in she remains unemployed much longer. ""Having no future is like that, peo• which two doctors peer over a woman "You're selling yourself, like ple take it really hard and blame trapped in a medicine bottle. It says: potatoes or onions, except you can't be Lindstrom: "You're selling yourself." themselves." "Take a pill, Mrs. Brown." © TIMES. OCT. 28.1983 vague televised offer. The coalition authorized its steer• OCTOPUS Trouble ing committee to develop a From page 2 plan "to escalate the fightback" against the by Lieutenant Governor Bill legislative package and to Rogers. The premier also restore social service cutbacks, threw out an invitation to and, as well, to invite Opera• community groups to consult tion Solidarity, the trade with his ministers on as-yet union coalition partner, to upassed bits of legislation. support the plan "up to and Most of his alleged conces• including a general strike." sions, however, appeared directed to the strike- Even as the BCGEU return• threatening BCGEU. Bennett ed to the bargaining table early urged the government in the week to prevent the fir• BOOKS employees back to the ing of 1,600 of its members, INEXPENSIVE QUALITY BOOKS bargaining table. the ominous watchword of the HARD TO GET ART, SOCIAL & coalition remained: the clock LITERARY MAGAZINES Although some commen• is still ticking. & JOURNALS tators called the Bennett

speech an olive branch, 2250 W. 4TH 732-8721 Solidarity was considerably 1146 COMMERCIAL 253-0913 less impressed. Woman Fraser Against the Budget responded From page 5 with an impromptu march in Corporate sponsors can pay downtown Vancouver. Coali• as little as $300 or as much as tion co-chair Kube saw only a $15,000 each year, Walker bid by Bennett to "defuse a says. general strike." As before, In 1982, corporations Solidarity was willing to talk, donated $477,000 while foun• especially if the government dations donated $225,000, ac• was prepared to answer some cording to Walker. Individual questions. "What's he going members, of which there are to do about people who re• about 200, gave $17,000. quire public assistance?" The corporations listed in• Kube asked. "And what about clude many of Canada's Bill 3?" largest, including Canadian FEED When Solidarity co-chair Pacific Limited, Noranda Renate Shearer called the Mines, MacMillan Bloedel and premier's office the next mor• the major banks. THE ning to set up a meeting with Also listed are B.C. Televi• Bennett, the olive branch was sion, Thompson Newspapers, FOOD quickly withdrawn. Maybe Southam Inc., Premier later, said Bennett spokesman Cablevision and Maclean- Norman Spector. Hunter. The report says "it is BANK interesting, and somewhat Nor were the 200 delegates 11 East 4th at Solidarity's first formal disturbing to note" that the media outlets all contribute Vancouver, B.C. V5T 1E9 provincial conference last 873-3711 Sign of times at Vancouver rally weekend enticed by Bennett's funds to the institute.

Vancouver! Folk Wk Music M Festival! presents The Return of a Book Browser's Haven UTAH PHILLIPS The music and history of working people comes to life with Utah Phillips.

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Two months ago, a fire destroyed Macleod's Books. We are now open at the corner of Pender and Richards with a fresh selection of quality used and antiquarian books. Queen Literature, history, art and Canadiana are our specialities. Opening attractions include: / — books from the FBI's library on radicalism; — 1950's nostalgia paperbacks; — a fine selection of modern fiction. MACLEOD'S BOOKS 455 WEST PENDER STREET FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Phone 681-7654 — We Buy Books COMMODORE BALLROOM Hours: Mon.-Thurs.; Sat. 10:00-5:30 ONE NIGHT ONLY 870 Granville 8 P.M. ONE SHOW ONLY Friday 10:00-9:00 Sunday 12:00-5:00 Tickets: Black Swan Records - 2936 West 4th (734-2828), Octopus Books East - 1146 Commercial Drive (253-0913), the Vancouver Folk Music Festival - 3271 Four parking lots within half a block. Main St. (879-2931) and all VTC/CBO ticket outlets. TIMES, OCT. 26,1983

Gallery with its mammoth Art and Ar• ment of torture. Neither cool nor sub• tists; Vancouver 1931-1983. The ex• tle, but nevertheless redeemed by ex• hibition fills three floors of an old tremism, are Joe Average's savage warehouse in Yaletown and seems to homages to the S & M of everyday life. represent, on a local level, the current Freddy Douglas's The Van is evidence universal longing for the overview — a of love of another order. The mood one might call the Long Good• customized van and all the implements bye. of self-sufficiency it contains — hun• dreds of dishes, tools, utilitarian ob• The October Show, if not exactly a jects are laid out on the floor — com• salon des refusees, is certainly a salon, bines the myths of the nomad with that the likes of which Vancouver hasn't of technological mastery. seen since the big B.C. Annuals ended Perhaps it was the messiness of the in the late sixties. The general impres• paintings which made the photographs sion is jarring — making one realize at seem so clear in their intention. Share once that painting is a matter of im- Corsaut, Ken Straiton and Marion Penner Bancroft certainly stand out as artists who are in complete command of their means. BUT IS IT All in all this is an exciting exhibition and one which asks a few serious ques• tions. ART? The curatorial statement, as qualified as a communique from itation in more ways than one. What a Geneva, celebrates "diversity". I saw whore painting seems in this exhibition fragmentation, in works themselves — it's a grim masquerade in which all (Oraf, Lemieux) and in the way the have shown up wearing the same show was arranged. A claim is made costume, that of the victim. One must that the October Show will "draw at• except from the general horror the tention to the conditions informing warmth of Jeannie Kamins' portraits local art". Yet little is to be seen about which assert humanist values on an in• what this place is and what it is going timate scale, bill bisset's dazzling pain• through. Lots of work about nuclear tings of real angels and Phillippe apocalypse, media manipulation, dif• Raphanel's smokey nocturnal ficulty with symbols and words, the universe. I am not saying that the rest norms of western culture. As it is the is dreck, I'm saying that in this exhibi• same culture which has eroded a sense tion the painting is placed to disadvan• of place (one has to know where one is tage. before one can act), most of the work illustrates the general crisis of the times It was in the installations and the and does so as if crisis were distant, not photography where I saw work that I our pressing problems here. felt was authentic, moving and com• There is one piece outside the plete. building that houses the rest of the work. Gerry Gilbert filled a city trash Georgianna Chappell's installation bin with burned books. The books By Scott Watson is probably the finest in the exhibition. were from a recent fire-bombing of Coloured lights at the back of the low McLeod's Books. Right wing terrorists An Exhibition of Vancouver Contem• timbered basement illuminate a pile of are suspected. I might note that this porary Art. 1078 Hamilton Street, Oct. white marble dust and what I guess crime has gone practically unnoticed in 16 - 29. must have been the old building's sump the press which tried by media the as well as the walls and the space. It is a Forget Dancing, This is a mammoth exhibition in• Squamish Five only months ago. The case of economy of means used to pro• cluding the work of over 100 Van• bin is covered with old news stories duce a complex work that is also very couver artists. It was organized by a from Chile about the fall of Allende. emotional. Alan Storey's revolving committee of six "non-aligned" artists Allende's last interview is played on a timber column goes through all three and critic/curators as a response to the tape recorder in the bin. It might not be floors and is an awesome engineering opening of the new Vancouver Art great art. But it unsettles. Pinochet's Let's Art! marvel. It is a cool, laid-back instru• men seem closer now than before.

Special to The Times emerge as real people with troubled falls into caricature as the actors em• toughest and most self-assured Remember getting up early in the private lives who have to gain respec• phasize the quirks of the characters character of The Right Stuff. tability among their fellow test pilots. morning back in the '60s to watch they play. Since the events shown are of recent those early space shots? An hour of Yeager stood head and shoulders While some will unfortunately see above his fellow pilots, and so does the memory, and most of the characters watching a rocket sitting on its pad, the astronauts and Yeager as the new still very much alive, writer-director followed by three minutes of performance of Sam Shepard, who epitome of macho, the cost of their plays Yeager, the dominant character Philip Kaufman faced a major fireworks, followed by numbing hours behavior is a major theme of the challenge. Particularly difficult was the of watching a simulated astronaut sit• of half the movie. The depiction of the movie. Barbara Hershey, as Yeager's . seven Mercury astronauts occasionally characterization of John Glenn, the ting lifeless in a boring simulated cap• wife Glennis, turns out to be the hero who received critical treatment in sule. It would finally end with fuzzy Wolfe's book, who's now the conser• pictures of a capsule floating to sea vative Democrat standard-bearer for under its parachute, and a banal speech the 1984 U.S. presidential sweepstakes. from a handsome God-fearing Glenn, played by Ed Harris, astronaut whom we had read about in comes across as an ambitious ham who Life magazine. No Fluff In Right Stuff ultimately gains appeal when he over• Eventually, the public turned off rules the space agency, the vice- their TVs and by the time Tom Wolfe president and his ambition, in favor of wrote his book The Right Stuff in the needs of his wife. 1979, the politicians had turned off the Parts of the movie are eerily close to U.S. manned space program, at least what actually happened, from Alan temporarily. Shepard's pre-launch gaze at his rocket Wolfe's book, perhaps the best that to Gordon Cooper's lopsided grin. will ever be written about the pioneer But in an effort to dramatize events, spacemen, turned the simon pure liberties are sometimes taken with the men of the first U.S. manned space facts. Werhher Von Braun and his Ger• project, Mercury, into real live pilots, man rocket team played a much foibles and weaknesses revealed to one smaller role in Mercury than the movie and all. Wolfe also defined the world suggests, John Glenn did not hum on from which they came, the fraternity his flight, and the idea that the U.S. (or of test pilots, epitomized by Chuck the Russians for that matter) knew who Yeager, the man who first broke the the first two cosmonauts would be the sound barrier in 1947. morning after the 1957 launch of Sput• Now The Right Stuff has come to nik is preposterous; the screen, and it is an exhilarating Despite this, The Right Stuff is likely three-hour journey into the realm of to be the best movie ever to be made on the test pilot. The $25 million ex• the early days of space flight. Its lapses travaganza replaces the boring simula• can be forgiven when one sees the real tions and two-dimensional astronauts people on the screen and the breathtak• with thrilling flight sequences that em• ing flight sequences that put real life on phasize the violence of jet and rocket a higher level than the exploits of the against air. Life magazine cutouts sci-fi space jockeys of Star Wars. TIMES. OCT. 28,1983 0 •••••••••••••• Between them, their daughters Carmen and Manon sit at the kitchen * HEADLINES THEATRE PRESENTS table ten years after their parents Family death. They discuss life with their *UNDER THE GUN parents and how it affected what they are presently doing. Carmen has + A DISARMING REVUE become a sleazy sensualist while the hit political comedy Manon is a compulsively guilty Chaos takes aim as Canada's role religious fanatic. They occasionally By David Gordon flash back to two frightened teenagers in the arms race eavesdropping on their bickering LANGARA CAMPUS Oct. 29 CLEARWATER Nov. 22 Forever Yours, Marie-Lou parents. BOWEN IS. Oct. 30 KAML0OPS Nov. 23 By Michael Tremblay GAUANO IS. Nov. 1 SALMON ARM Nov. 24 Directed by Maro Diamond This is not as chaotic as it may- SALTSPRING IS. Nov. 2 VERNON Nov. 25 At Simon Fraser University Theatre sound. The two conversations almost VICTORIA Nov. 3 PENTICTON Nov. 26 Until October 29 NANAIMO Nov. 4 KEREMEOS Nov. 29 Q. CHARLOTTE CITY Nov. 9 GRAND FORKS Nov. 30 Forever Yours, Marie-Lou is a play PORT CLEMENTS Nov. 10 CASTLEGAR Dec. 1 about love that is lost: between a PRINCE RUPERT Nov. 12 TRAIL Dec 2 married couple; between them and FROM THE TERRACE Nov. 13 WINLAW Dec. 3 KIT1 MAT Nov. 15 CRESTON Dec 4 their two daughters; and, saddest of HAZELTON Nov. 16 KASLO Dec 5 Info all, by the daughters altogether. SMITH ERS Nov. 17 NELSON Dec 6 738-2283 FOOTLIGHTS QUESNEL Nov. 19 CRANBROOK Dec 7 The theme, colorfuly played out in two simultaneous conversations, is never overlap. But several times, •jf^f jtjfik coming soon to your community achieved by four characters who rarely though ten years apart, they comment move from their chairs. Marie-Louise, on each other appropriately. the mother, sits in an easy chair at one There is a sensitively-paced momen• end of the stage, knitting (her chief joy tum that seems to sweep the cast and Building Trade Unions in life) while at the other end her hus• audience together. Gradually, the band Leopold sits meditatively over a characters are revealed and gradually table of draft beer. They more or less the subject matter moves from crunchy Support Solidarity Campaign have a conversation, since their peanut butter to sexual frustration and remarks to each other are addressed death. And we finally see that these In Defense Of straight ahead towards the audience. people are terribly lonely because Occasionally they drift into they've lost the love that could have • Trade Union Rights monologue. bound them together. • Tenants Rights • Rights of Minority Groups • Health, Education and Social Services • Women's Rights Church Directory • Fair and Equitable Treatment for ail British Columbians B.C. & Yukon First United St. Paul's Roman Catholic Territory Building Church Church and 320 East Hastings St. 381 E. Hastings St. Construction Trades Sunday Services: Sunday Masses: 10:30 a.m. & 7:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. Council

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Love, Deadlines UNDER HUE and Revolution By Dale Jack Most of the statements in Under Fire To take it a step further: maybe they capital city of Managua around them. A new American film has brought to are subtle; the film is carried by the ac• should have made a movie about it. A TV reporter waits until a bomb the state of the movie art a new and tion of the plot, colorful characters, After a guerilla's face is blown off in cloud appears behind him before he clearer view of the machinery behind and the love triangle between the three an aborted kidnapping, Alex Grazier, begins his coverage. Spottiswode uses modern war. principals, played by Nick Nolte, Joan• Gene Hackman's character, is on the this irony as his indictment of the Focusing on American journalists na Cassidy, and Gene Hackman. Hav• phone trying to convince his U.S. news reporters in war who scramble after covering the 1979 Nicaraguan revolu• ing superlative actors and a (for the service the story is more important "the story" while ignoring the realities tion, Roger Spottiswode's Under Fire most part) well-paced plot, Spot- than the Pope's visit to Egypt. In one of the situation, and the moral respon• is not an outright condemnation of tiswode does not rely on strident con• scene reporters on the hotel balcony sibilities of their profession, in the in• U.S. involvement, as in Missing, or on demnations, preferring to inject his calmly sip drinks and send copy as terests of keeping their jobs, their love and revolution a la Reds, or The theme through imagery and irony. President Somosa's army bombs the beats, and their lives. Year of Living Dangerously, although Spottiswode twists reality and illu• shades of both themes are present. sion to expose the dark underside of war. Like Nolte's character, photo- What makes this film truly revolu• journalist Russell Price, we are duped tionary is its backdrop of war in the by Jean-Louis Trinitgnant's portrayal third world as a business for the super• of Jazy, a French spy who plays a char• powers in a North vs. South — rather ming and foppish Scarlet Pimpernel: Alfred Equals Suspense than an East vs. West — scheme. "I cannot keep my mouth shut. I love From the first footage a guerilla skir• to have my picture taken. Am I not a By Keith Baldrey The films, playing at the Ridge mish in Chad to a mercenary's farewell terrible spy?" Suspense. There's no other feeling Theatre, are Vertigo (1958), Oct. of "see you in Thailand" in the film's Like the camera with which Price quite like it: that sometimes delicious 21-27; Rope (1948), Oct. 28-Nov. 3; final moments, we are thrown into the makes his living, Jazy never lies, yet he terror when you know — you just The Trouble With Harry (1956), Nov. lives of journalists, mercenaries, spies, is the embodiment of all the deceptive know — something terrible is going to 4-10; The Man Who Knew Too Much and businessmen who profit from war. elements in the film. happen and there isn't anything you (1956), Nov. 11-17; Rear Window Under Fire undermines faith in the can do about it. (1954), Nov. 18-24. camera as a news tool, showing us its Suspense ranges from mere ap• The films were removed from cir• AT THE potential for deception and evil. But in prehension to outright stomach- culation by Hitchcock to ensure this case it is hard for Price to decide to churning horror. In whatever package healthy royalties for his family after his use his camera to lie to help the guerilla it comes, suspense latches onto the death. cause. But even this decision does not emotions and refuses to let go. The movies have the trademark FLICKS prepare him for seeing his photographs It's hard to create, and maybe that's Hitchcock elements: slow-moving used by Jazy to a more evil end. why most efforts at cinematic suspense beginnings and fast-paced endings, It is a world where peace means a time "Under Fire" is a testament to the end up as unintentional comedies. sometimes with a twist; unique and (at to move on to redder pastures, where faith we place in the visual media. There is one film maker who never that time) experimental camera angles; bullets are an occupational hazard (if When the shooting of ABC reporter had any problem translating suspense and scenes that drift along aimlessly, you care to get that close to the truth), Bill Stewart by a Nicaraguan soldier into entertaining, gripping cinema. The with no apparent meaning, until and the only real danger comes from played on the North American televi• name Alfred Hitchchock and the something startling or out-of-the- challenging the status quo which main• sion, U.S. aid to the country was cut familiar hand-drawn silhouette of his ordinary occurs. tains and feeds off war. back. Yet it is only when the act is rotund frame is synonymous with Hitchcock rarely wasted film This is itself ambitious, but Spot- recorded as it was in "Under Fire" or suspense. footage; each scene was usually in• tiswode has put this theme in the "Missing" that its reality is driven No other director has portrayed ter• tegral to the story and contained vital perspective of non-partisan journalists home. At one point in the film a ror — especially psychological terror clues to the mystery on the screen. merely trying to do their jobs. In striv• Nicaraguan woman tells Claire: — so well. He made 42 feature films In Vertigo, for example, the ing for objectivity and "getting the "50,000 Nicaraguans have died, and and a score of TV dramas. suspense builds slowly, and what at story," they find that simply telling the now a Yanqui. Maybe they should Now some three years after his first appears to be the climax is really truth becomes an act of war, subject to have killed an American reporter fifty death, five of his best films have been only start of a surprise ending. The all the reprisals of war. years ago." re-released after a 20-year absence. See page 18: ALFRED © TIMES. OCT. 26. 1963

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What I learned is that out of the ordinary about him is that he certain people worship money, and it can croon a tune. He never swears, he really scares me the number of people never says a bad word about anyone, that I've met who seem to worship and when he does mention someone's money over everything else." name, it's never glib or After he got his psychology degree, namedropping: he usually goes out of he decided to have another go with the his way to compliment them. school system and was on the brink of All of which is not quite what you'd getting a job as a school psychologist expect for someone with his kind of when Randy Bachman, who had luck. Chad Allan is one of the great asterisks m rock history books: he was the lead singer on the Guess Who's first big hit, Shakin' All Over, but left before their chart-topping years. He Allan in 1964 also sang with Brave Belt, who chang• ed their name to Backman-Turner with guess who? Overdrive after he quit and went on to rack up millions of record sales. Chad Allan and Nowadays, instead of frying burgers in his villa by the sea, living off the in• the Expressions terest on all the money he might have made, Chad Allan does a solo act in lounges around the Lower Mainland. Yet bitterness is not in his vocabulary. recently quit the Guess Who, phoned "It didn't surprise me that they suc• him up. Brave Belt was born and he ceeded, but don't forget that success was back in the limelight. The first can mean different things to different album was spotty, and Chad quit people," he says. "And success to me before the second oae came out. not only means money situations but a (Ironically, Dunrobin's Gone was a hit certain piece of mind, tranquility, after he'd left.) Fred Turner took over which I wasn't getting as a result of lead vocals; the band got raunchier, touring. It was interesting, and as a BEV OAVIES PHOTO relocated in Vancouver and became human being, you do get tinges of Bachman Turner Overdrive. 'hey, what if I had stayed?' but never Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, Shakin' English teacher in Winnipeg when the He released one solo album, at any time did I get a desperate urge to All Over. The band recorded it, and as Manitoba school board rang him up 'Sequel', in the mid-seventies, from rejoin the band." a gimmick "Guess Who" was printed and informed him that if he was to which 'Spending My Time' sprang. on the label as a contest — the DJ teach anywhere, it would be where they If things had gone his way, Chad Allan did jingles for a while and also would play the song, say "Guess Who wanted him, which happened to be out Allan might have wound up as the sang on some of those House Of Ran• that was?" and people would phone in of town. He had the CBC thing hap• Canadian Billy Joel or maybe a dom albums where hit songs are sung "Chad Allan and The Expressions" to pening, so that was it for his teaching western, poppier Gordon Lightfoot; by other artists. He moved to B.C. win a free copy. career. Positions which, ironically, Allan's seven years ago and has been doing the Shakin' All Over turned into a He went back to school and even• replacement in the Guess Who, Burton lounge circuit ever since. Most people monster hit internationally and the tually got a bachelor of arts in Cummings, seems to have filled. His who see him never guess at his past — name Guess Who stuck, though "Chad psychology from the University of sound definitely leans towards the mid• to them, he's just another lounge Allan and the Expressions" still ap• Winnipeg. In the meantime, he became dle of the road: pop ballads are his ma• singer. jor strength. He has scored with a cou• pears under the Guess Who name on host of another CBC show, Let's Go ple of ballad-type tunes (Dunrobin's their first two albums. and started playing around town in a "If I phone up an agency and say, Gone, when he was in Brave Belt and When you talk to Allan about those trio. Meantime, another Winnipegger 'can you get me jobs?' they'll get me a Spending My Time on his own). days he steers clear of onstage hit the big time. job at a pub or a club or whatever, but Born Allan Kowbel ("it was too memories and talks about things like Neil Young "was just one of the they'll want to audition me. It gets much like a cow. In school, it was a bit seeing his first Shakey's Pizza Parlor in guys," says Allan, who'd met him kind of embarrassing after a while. As of a problem"), he changed his name the States, or about how grueling it is many times in jam sessions in people's a matter of fact, I heard Randy to tour. Just a regular guy from Win• basements and the like. Young used to Bachman was in a situation like that nipeg, on the back of the first album come out and try to pick up pointers recently, trying play here or there. he's described as "a third year science from Bachman, but never attained 'Well, who are they? What do they SHAKE & student at United College." celebrity status locally. The thing sound like?' "I had this thing in my head, when I about him that stands out in Allan's 'I've gotten into a deal where I don't looked at the back of an album, where mind was when Allan was standing in announce my original tunes," he says. POP I would see the bass player performing line, waiting to register for university. "If I say 'here's a tune that I wrote with such and such a band, 'also atten• "Neil Young was walking around with a friend,' many times the audience to Chad Allan after Chad Mitchell (of ding MIT' or something. I used to trying to decide whether he should has a stereotypical response: 'Oh, local the Chad Mitchell Trio) when he think it was really neat. I used to register or not. He was in the process tune, couldn't be any good,' that sort started singing professionally in Win• figure, 'well, they're kind of building of making the decision as to whether he of really dumb kind of response. I nipeg in the late fifties. Like any up insurance for themselves for the should go into university, get into that mainly announce it afterwards, but for number of fifties kids, he learned to future.' " line, or pursue a musical situation. all they know (when he's playing the play accordion, eventually teaching the As it turned out, he needed that in• Kind of a crossroads situation. It's song) it's somebody else's obscure instrument at Kent's Accordion Col• surance himself. After years of wailing almost like, there I was inside in the album cut, so there seems to be a little lege. He was in a number of high away without the benefit of adequate lineup, and he was outside pressing his more tolerance." school bands and started to garner a monitors with which to hear himself nose against the window, in symbolic A funny thing to have to do for so• reputation with the Reflections, who above the band, and also singing im• terms." meone with Allan's track record, but sold 1,200 copies of a 45 called properly, his throat was shot. Young went on to fame, Allan went he accepts it as a part of life. Current• "Tribute to Buddy HoHy." "I couldn't hear myself," he ex• on to get another degree. Then the ly, he's recording a new solo disc that Across the Red River in North plains. "If the band's too loud you Guess Who got huge and suddenly might lift him out of the lounges, and Kildonan a guy named Randy tend to compensate and sing louder Allan wasn't the ex-singer in a band, he he's teaching a songwriting course at Bachman was freelancing around with and louder and you just blow your was the ex-sihger in the Guess Who. Kwantlen College in Surrey. As well, a number of bands. The Reflections throat. It got to the point where I got "I had formed a trio in Winnipeg, Beowulf, a triple album musical epic he auditioned and took him. Bassist Jim these little bumps on the voice cords, and we were playing on a crazy hotel sang lead on in 1973, has been rereleas- Kale was already in the band, and nodules or whatever you call them and circuit. It was steady work, but it was a ed. It had been out of print for years, when Bachman brought along a drum• the doctors literally told me I'd have to little on the seedy side. This guy ever since the original label, Daffodil, mer from the Winnipeg Junior Sym• lay off for a year or two." wanted to beat me up. He learned who went bingo. phony, Gary Peterson, the future He quit the band, which had hired I was, and the fact that I had left the Sequel has been out of print for Guess Who was born. Burton Cummings a month earlier Guess Who, and he was saying 'why years, too; he found a copy in Memory Changing their name to the Expres• anyway, and finished off his bachelor did I leave' and 'c'mon eh, you've got• Lane records, where this photo was sions, the band played around, cut a of science. His throat improved, and ta be out of your mind,' stuff like that. taken. He had lent his only copy out to few records and gained a local follow• he got a gig singing backup on a CBC The guy was getting very, very violent. a radio station, so he needed one. He ing. Allan had a friend, Wayne show, Music Hop. It kind of struck me, why? I don't took it all philosophically — after all, Russell, who bought lots of obscure Those were the days when teachers know this guy from Adam, I've never he got an "artist's discount". records. One of the obscurities he turn• were still in demand, so he took a free seen the guy. Why should a complete Chad Allan paid $3 for his own ed him on to was a British hit by teaching course and was all set to be an stranger be mad at me for leaving the record. TIMES. OCT. 28.1983

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