Doug Collins ® get this straight @ WHAT WILL have happened about the union cali for the boycotting of South African wines by the time you read this I don’t know. But I do know what shou/d have hap- pened. Premier Bill Vander Zalm should have made it clear that he’s running this province, not ihe bloody B.C. Government Employees. And he should have announced that as of now, private stores can sell booze. To hell with being dictated to by the unions. You can hardly turn round these days without some I'il-be- your--conscience-for-you —nitwit of a socialist or liberal telling you what company you should keep and what you should eat or drink. Or what they will prevent you from eating or drinking. I like a glass of Paarl and |! don’t like some liquor store clerk telling me he can’t serve me the stuff because he's all for human September 4th at 7:15pm Preview all day Thursday English oak sideboard cirea 1900, early Ameri- cana radio phonograph set in roll top desk, Vic- tights in South Africa. 4s long as human rights don’t count in the rest of Africa, I don't care about them in South Africa. The BCGEU whines that what is happening in South Africa has “*become so ‘ntolerable’’ that it must do something about it. So BCGEU president John Shields has ‘‘urged"’ his members not to handle wines that are wicked. If the union members are fired, suspended, or hung by their heels from hooks for this breach of discipline, the anion will support them. The hypocrisy of this ‘‘call"' is well up to standard, for if one reads Shields correctly, he is not proclaiming an official union boycott, which would make the BCGEU legally liable for not observing its contract. No, he is pushing the individual liquor store clerk into the front line and saying “You first, Joe."’ {u'll be interesting to see what happens. Again, what shou/d hap- pen is that the union members should tell Shields to put /ris fat position on the line first. It's an officer's job to lead, not push. But in most unions the members would make good sheep, so it’s SALE Savings from 0%-70% on all items Ali stock must go! re 9 ~ Wednesday, Sentember 3, 1986 - North Shore News not likely that the members will tell Shields to go and get stuffed. The BCGEU hypocrisy is not confined to herding the members this way and that. For as Shields has made clear, this is the first time the union has taken’ in- dustrial action on the grounds of “human rights’. In other words, the workers of Poland can be crushed by their commic bosses, the people of Afghanistan slaughtered, the Rus- sian colonies of the Baltic sates, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, ete. suppressed, without a whimper being heard from the BCGEU, the union of conscience. Some people have funny cons- ciences. And, true to form, the B.C. Federation of Labor is also furrowing its brow over what to do about South Africa. Let them furrow, It is not true, as Shields has stated, that the workers of South Africa are call- ing for a boycott. Some com- imunists may be doing that, but the ordinary black is as anxious to keep his job as Shields is. Where ideology and fashionable trends are concerned, however, truth and untruth take a back seat. Shields and his cronies don’t give a damn about public opinion in this province, either. Public opinion is against taking South African wines off the shelves. If that were not so, sales of those wines would plummet, not rise. During the year ending in June, according to the B.C. Liquor’ Distribution Board, 155,758 litres of red and white South African wines were sold, Which was a 33 per cent increase over sales for the previous year. But since when did official conscience-bearers care about things like that?) They know what's best for us. And best for the world. The daily press keeps yelling that B.C. is the only province in Canada that continues to sell for- bidden fruit. B.C. can be proud of that. {t shows that B.C. is the only pro- vince in the country with the brains not to let itself be stamped- ed into doing dumb things. The only province, too, that permits the people to decide for themselves what's good for them. To repeat: do what you were elected to do, Mr. Vander Slam. Govern. And settle the BCGEU hash for good by opening sales of liquor for private enterprise. It’s the only way to shield us from Shields. 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