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Creation of a national oil resource trust by the U.S. government to withhold both marine and Alaskan oil deposits from development until foolproof drilling technology can be devised is being advocated by Democratic Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin.
"The present lack of knowledge about oil in the sea and in the Arctic makes it a criminal environmental folly to go on drilling new ocean wells and to span the Arctic with an 800 mile pipeline that could break and spew oil over the fragile tundra environment," he told the U.S. National Wildlife Federation's recent annual meeting.
"Because of oil and other ocean pollution, scientists are now predicting the end of all productive life in the sea within 50 years or less," he declared.
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"Suitably qualified candidates for marine engineers' certificates of competency should contact their nearest Canada Manpower centre as they may be eligible for a training allowance of $103 a week," engineering instructor P. A. Dale told The Fisherman this week. Additional information on the courses can be obtained from the Institute at 681-8111.
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"In effect, we are slamming the door on the last chance for a liveable world."
Nelson noted that President Nixon's panel on oil spills had concluded there was as yet no technology capable of containing oil spilled as the result of a major ocean or Arctic disaster.
Despite this, he pointed out, by the end of this decade an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 ocean oil wells would be drilled each year —as he termed it, "a shocking invitation for trouble."
Drop NATO, Urges Meet
Canada should withdraw from both NATO and NORAD pacts and divert wasteful military expenditures into needed social programs on the domestic front, UFAWU convention delegates said last month.
Endorsing a resolution from Steveston Shoreworkers Local, the convention called for a "completely independent policy based on the needs of the Canadian people."
Crushing taxation of working people and soaring living costs are a direct result of this country's economy being "geared to support the U.S. and its war policies," it declared.
"Billions of dollars are being poured down the drain for armaments, planes and ships which often become obsolete before they are completed," the resolution noted.
At the same time, it said, hundreds of thousands of Canadians face unemployment and inadequate housing, medical care and educational facilities. The federal government, it added, must utilize tax dollars "now being used for destructive purposes to raise the standard of living for all Canadians."
Delegates also endorsed a resolution from Pender Harbor Local reiterating demands for an end to Canadian complicity in the U.S. war against Vietnam.
Contending that the war constitutes "one of the most atrocious and inhuman crimes ever committed," the resolution called on the Trudeau government to "end its involvement by immediately prohibiting any further shipment of arms or ammunition to the U.S."
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• Among Vancouver Shoreworkers Local delegates to last month's UFAWU convention were Lil Robson (left), who won election to the general executive board, and Lottie Therrien.
Probe Black Panther Slayings, UN Urged
Delegates to last month's UFAWU convention called on the United Nations' Human Rights Commission to investigate the slaying, imprisonment and mass arrest of leaders and members of the Black Panther Party in the United States.
Endorsing a resolution submitted by the union's general executive board, the convention called on the Nixon administration to halt what was described as a brutal campaign of physical extermination and persecution" against the Black Panthers.
Delegates also demanded to know why the federal customs and excise division has been given a standing order by top officials in Ottawa to seize copies of the Black Panther newspaper sent to this country.
Existence of this government policy, brought to the convention's notice by executive board member Harry Allison, was confirmed later in a telephone conversation with The Fisherman by a spokesman for the customs division in Vancouver.
ISSUES BANNED
According to the spokesman, normal procedure is for a customs officer to refer material which in hs judgement is "questionable on pornographic, subversive or seditous grounds" to a permits department for decision on whether or not it should be allowed through the mails.
Standing order in the case of the Black Panther newspaper.
however, is that all copies found entering this country must be forwarded to Ottawa, the spokesman said. Each of several issues seized in the past three months or so has been prohibited by Ottawa after examination.
Allison said government officials should explain precisely why the Panther newspaper, a militant politically oriented publication issued by the Black Community News Service in San Francisco, is seized as a matter of course while at the same time, "a flood of smut, sadism and pornography of various types from the United States and other countries is allowed to circulate freely."
PERSECUTION CITED
The convention resolution described the Black Panther Party at a "black militant organization . . . established originally as a self defence organization against police violence in the ghettos." More recently, it said, the party has begun promoting a program of political struggle based on unity of blacks and whites.
In the last two years, it noted, "no less than 28 leaders of the organization have been murdered and, in the last six months alone, 40 leaders and 125 members have been arrested and charged on 1he word of police informers." A special target has been Panther chairman Bobby Seale, recently sentenced to four years in jail for contempt of Judge Julius Hoffman in the infamous Chicago "conspiracy" trial.
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