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HE BITTER fruit cultivated by . the
NDP government’s promotion of Big
Labor over all else in B.C. is ready for

harvest.

MacMiilan Bloedel, the province’ s forest

. products giant, is the first major recipient of
that bitter harvest as the simmering dispute
over its move to open-shop job tendering, first
used at its Port Alberni specialty mill with the
hiring of TNL Construction, has reached full
labor boil.

The B.C. trade union movement has vowed
all-out war against the company. Much finan-
cial blood will be shed by MacBlo, Big Labor
has raged. But it will be the financial blood of
all British Columbians that will be shed in
this absurd war that now pits Fat Cat Labor
against a corporation faced with the unpieas-
ant fiscal realities of the international mar-
ketplace.

Doug Foct
Comptroier

985-2131 (133)

Publisher
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Chris Jehnson
Operations Manager
985-2137 (141)

In distant years past, the reverse was true:
a struggting labor movement battled for the
rights of. working people to earn a dignified
living from Fat Cat Business.

The NDP government is, of course, a paper
tiger in.the present Big Labor versus Big
Business confrontation.

It meved quickly to remove environmental —

protesters blocking MacMillan Bloedel access
to logging in Vancouver Island’s Clayoquot
Sound. And it has invested millions in coun-
tering the environmental movement’s
attempts to organize international boycotts of
MacBio’s products. But with violence break-
ing out on trade union picket lines in Port
Alberni and Big Labor threatening to orga-
nize a similar international boycott of
MacBlo products, the NDP wrings its hands
and looks the other way.

Bitter labor fruit? More like deadly poison.

Timothy Renshaw Linda Stewart

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Sales & Marketing Director
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WHAT TO do about the JN
peacekeeping troops —
including 55 Canadians —
being held hostage by rebel-
lious Bosnian Serbs as 2
shield against NATO air
attacks needed to enforce a
ceasefire?

Many Canadian voices today
are calling on Ottawa to pull our
own blue-helmeted boys out of the
Balkan killing fields and bring
them home as soon as it safely can,
though when that may be is uncer-
tain, Meanwhile, many voices
worldwide are urging the UN itself
— its peacekeeping mission now in
tatters — to do likewise, leaving
Serbs, Bosnians, Croats and
Muslims to slaughter one another
indefinitely.

Alas, it's not quite that simple.
The Bosnian Serbs seem unlikely
to release their UN hostages until
the air strike threat is lifted. Any
rescue bid by force could result in
unacceptable UN casualties.

At the same time, the UN will
suffer a crippling blow to its pres-
lige and authority as guardian of
the world’s conscience if it simply
abandons former Yugoslavia to its
bleod-drenched fate. The problem
UN nations must now face is how
far they are ready to commit them-
selves to peaceMAKING as dis-
tinct from peaceKEEPING.

Paradoxically, peacemaking has
assumed new significance since the
end of the Cold War.

For 40 years the two opposing
superpowers could be relied upon
to slap down, either diplomatically
or militarily, any satellite liable to
cause them trouble. Today the
world is in many ways a more dan-
gerous place, with vicious regional
conflicts like Bosnia now able to
develop and spread uncontrolled.

Peacekeeping, a monitoring
operation, can only work once a
peace has been established.

Peacemaking involves imposing
peace between two combatants
with naked military power if neces-
sary. Brute force by a lawbreaker
may finally demand brute force by
law enforcers.

In civilian policing many threats

to property, persons or public order

are resolved peacefully. But violent
resistance to the law is justifiably
handled by no-holds-barred emer-
gency response teams,

Peter Kvamstrom
Display Manager
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Ferny
Valerio Stophenson
Classified Manager

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HITHER AND YON

A parallel case was the Gulf
War — the UN's only big peace-
making operation to date — with a
massive multinational military
machine under UN command sid-
ing firmly with Kuwait and Saudi
Arabia against lraqi aggression. A
far tougher, costlier solution than
handing out rations to hungry civil-
ians, But what alternative did the
UN have?

Clearly that's now the only way
peace will ever come to tortured
former Yugoslavia and the victims
of similar local wars globewide.

Bosnia has shown there is no
halfway upproach to peace. If
sweet reason and humanitarian aid
fail, a short, sharp lesson by
massed tanks, missiles and
bombers becomes the sole means
of preserving the UN’s credibility.
Are its members ready to accept
that challenge — as they did by
drawing a tine in the sands of Iraq
in 1991? Or will Bosnia prove to
be the UN's graveyard? .
FREE ENTERPRISERS alert: the
five Reform Party of B.C. leader-
ship contenders — Ron Gamble
(present leader), Wilf Hanni
(Cranbrook), Joe Leong (Kam-
loops), Terry Milne (Victoria),
Jack Weisgerber, MLA (interim
House Leader) — will strut their
stuff tomorrow, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m.
in the Coach House, Lillooet Road.

WRIGHT OR WRONG — that
old Chinese proverb: A bit of fra-
grance always clings to the hand
that gives roses,

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