8, SMITH OLLERTON, England (AP) — The colliery gate is just a few metres from Ollerton and Ruffield Joint Cemetery, and the mineshaft elevators with their hoist towers loom over the gravestones. The symbolism is not lost on the men, who work in the Ollerton pit. “Coal in this country is dying, and if the government has stones,” said one. In Britain's coalfields, scene of a battle over plans to close unprofitable mines, despair runs as deep as the veins in the ground The state-owned National Coal Board, losing more than $1.82 billion a year, wants to close 20 to 25 mines in the next year. The work force is to be cut by 20,000 from its current 182,000. That compares with 232,500 in 1979. It's simply a matter of money, says Ian MacGregor, head of the coal board: “We're producing too much coal, too expensively.” The Scottish-born MacGregor, who was brought in to revitalize the state-owned British Steel Corp. in 1980, took over the coal board last September with a mandate to make the industry pay its way. MacGregor, 71, blames past governments for “a soft-headed use of the industry as a social security bureau,” meaning that the public purse subsidized uneconomic mines for years. When the board announced plans to close Cortonwood colliery in the north England county of Yorkshire next month, the Yorkshire miners went on strike. Using “flying pickets” — busing in men to picket other fields — they set about shutting down the rest of Britain's 174 mines. The tactic led to bitter clashes between the Yorkshiremen and miners who tired to go to work. In one clash outside the Ollerton gates, a Yorkshire miner died in picket-line violence. Henry Richardson, president of the North Nottingham- shire branch of the National Union of Mineworkers backs national president Arthur Scargill’s call to “stand and fight” mine closures. “| don’t think we can stop everything closing,” Richardson said in an interview. “But I believe the time has GROUP HELPS IMMIGRANTS TO ADJUST VANCOUVER (CP) — Kevin Lee’s welcome to Van- couver was unusual, to say the least. When he stepped off the plane from Hong Kong last August, he was whisked off to jail. Lee had fled from China to Hong Kong 18 months ear- lier. Working there at labor- ing jobs, he saved enough money for plane fare to Van- couver. But then Lee, dream- ing of a new life in Canada, side-stepped immigration rules and regulations. Trav- elling on a forged passport, the 31-year-old welder was in big trouble. But the lawyer assigned to Lee’s case was aware of MOSAIC, an organization formed to provide translation and orientation services for non-English speakers. When Lee was released after two months in prison, MOSAIC worker Dominic Fung was there to help Lee apply for landed immigrant status, shepherd him through a medical examination, find him accommodation and help him register for English classes. “When I got out of jail, I came into a new society,” he said through a translator. “I didn’t know anything about Vancouver or the way of life here. So through MOSAIC I solved a lot of the difficulties I was facing.” MOSAIC — Multilingual Orientation Services Associa- tion for Immigrant Com- munities — offers interpre- tation in 70 languages and di- alects to recent immigrants, visitors and others who do not speak English. Formed in 1972, the or. ganization last year had 37,000 contracts with non- English speakers. MOSAIC operates from a storefront office in Vancouver with 10 full-time and 10 part-time staff and 300 volunteers. The organization's annual budget, gleaned from grants from all three levels of gov- ernment and the United Way, is about $400,00. But MOSAIC is not only a translation service. Cultural orientation is an important part of the organization's work, exemplified by com- munity centre outreach pro- grams and training work Today, Lee is in Canada on shops for social workers, tea. a temporary permit, waiting chers and others who come for landed immigrant status, into contact with new Can- and studying English. adians. Answer to Sunday Crossword Puzzle No. 100 ASK! VLE A N I ane’ Ni LT ly) rR Al 7 NI BAL Hi C ASIETI | (a) AM AIRIA| AINA ERIE! (DIE! : Be i AIL ol im { ZIER| be Answer to Sunday, Apr. 15 Cryptoquip: PLACID PILOT’S TRAINING COURSE IS HIGHER EDUCATION ‘ll be as dead as some of the miners under those OOTISCHENIA IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ANNUAL MEETING Sat., April 28, 1984 T p.m. Qotischenia Hall ALL MEMBERS URGED TO ATTEND. ‘Btanley Baldwin, Conservative prime sbilaai during the 10008 anit 19008, enee tad’ teats wane lame loin on prime minister oe afford to anger: “The Vatican, the Treasury and the miners.” In 1974, a miners’ strike helped topple Edward Heath's Conservative government. But things are different under Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Twice since 1981, miners have turned down strike calls from Scargill. miners equivalent of $215 a week basic pay and exeir ofS see ee cadeendeedn ot included. and stockpiles have grown. The coal board estimates it could weather a full shutdown, for six months. likely to close soon, strongly opposed the strike. ‘The recession brought « slump in the demand for coal, That helps explain why miners at Ollerton, which is not who, fearing would identify himself “It’s easy for them to strike. They have nothing to But in Yorkshire the miners say they have everything to lose, including a way of life that many families have lived for generations, ‘At Yorksbire’s Cortouwood mine, the entire work force of 850 is due to become unemployed. “We are fighting for our very existence,” Williams, 37, a father of four. “Lhaye ty fed snd eu ator fo thes aly trem wp north th but dwn” said one miner, So said Rod Wola Easter Weekend Specials! 5%’’ Potted Easter Lily Choice Of 6”’ Potted Tropicals Colourtul 6”’ Potted Mums Wa ENT STORES A OIVISION OF Fw WOOCWORTH CO LID $5 off Pende $9-14.50 Designed to give you detailed precision & accuracy any time you want! 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VOL. 37, No, 33 ARETE TES Overseas vacations. Page B4 The six winning numbers in Saturday's Lotto 6-49 draw were 8, 13, 16, 18, 19 and 49. The bonus number was 11. The $500,000 winning number in Friday's Provincial Lottery draw is 3087328. CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 1984 “wr Castl 2 Sections (A & B) NEXT FOUR YEARS College must cut $2 million By CHERYL CALDERBANK Selkirk College must cut costs by $2 million in order to meet the provincial government's new requirements for funding colleges. EASTER by local y gs HUGS . . . Easter bunny was greeted warmly hunt kicked off at "Kinnear Park. Event was sponsored g as Easter egg —~ Costews Photo by Chery! Celderbank Pulp workers reject offer VANCOUVER (CP) — U pulp workers in at least four British Columbia communities have voted anger over workers wee ordered back to work. He also said there are a number of A strong rejection is anticipated by negotiators for the Canadian Pulp workers Union and the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada, who rec- ommend the 12,700 members of the two unions turn down the contract proposal, put to a vote following pro- vineial government legislation earlier this month. About 2,000 members of two Cana- dian Paperworkers Union locals at MacMillan Bloedel!’s Powell River mill voted 90 per cent to reject the in- dustry’s offer. About 250 of 500 members of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Can- ada at the Weyerhauser mill voted 86.5 per cent to reject the contract offer while the union's 375-member ‘local at Western Pulp'’s Woodfibre mill near veloping at that mill,” Shewaga said in an interview Friday. “They're acting like they're old Simon Legrees (a slave-overseer in the American novel Unele Tom's Cabin) in the mid-Vic-. torian era, trying to bring conditions back to 1930. “That’s not acceptable to us and things are going to reach a boiling point pretty damn soon out there.” Voting by the two unions began last Wednesday and is completed next Wednesday. Fred Acheson, president. of the ‘Weyerhauser local, said Friday that the vote there reflects dissatisfaction with both the three-year term prop- osed and the way in which negotiations America earlier this year. That con- tract provides wage increases of zero, four and 4.5 per cent on a base rate of $12.96 an hour. The pulp companies accused the pulp unions of stalling talks to wait for union contracts in Eastern Canada to expire and locked out employees at 20 mills that followed a toughly worded tele- addregs by Premier Bill Bennett. two angry unions, without a contract since last June, responded by trading Locked Out placards for ones complied with a B.C. Labor Relations Board.order to end the strike April 9. has said And that could mean axing between 49 and 50 positions, according to col- lege principal Leo Perra. Perra told board members this week in a prepared report that “although the past planning activities of the college have prevented a major crisis for 1984/85, the college must take the steps necessary to meet the require- ments of the formula funding mechan- iem.” The college received a 1" per cent increase this year from the Ministry of Edueation — a total of $10,118,000 — but at the same time the college was forced to reduce costs by $400,000. Perra said the college must reduce costs in the next four years, by $2 million and still deliver the same or equivalent programs. The college can accomplish this by either reducing staff or increasing en- rolment by 20 per cent (400 or more students). To meet staff reductions the college % would have to cut 21,2 per cent in in- services (faculty), 17.7 per cent in instructional support (secre taries, administrative support and operating expenses of departments), and 22.8 per cent in general support (library, information, services, student services, facility support). If the college's enrolment does not increase, between 40 and 50 staff positions, would have to be axed. “We anticipate there will be in- creased enrolment and the figure (40-60) will not be necessary,” Perra added. Richard Hallett, dean of program services, said the college faces its biggest cut in the 1985/86 budget when it will have to chop nine per cent or $900,000 off its budget. This includes a five per cent produc- tivity increase set out by the provincial government. Last year, the college came up with enough growth to compensate for the cut, thus only having to chop $400,000 from the budget. “The productivity (increase) is the Ministry's justification for making that particular cut,” Hallett said. “The col- lege can respond by increasing its productivity. “We have to be prepared (for the cut),” Hallett added. ‘OPPOSED TO CURRICULUM In the 1986/87 budget the college will have to chop another $400,000, followed by $350,000 in 1987/88, and $400,000 in 1988/89 for a total of $2 million (including $900,000 for 1985/86). “We believe it is not realistic to expect to increase activity enough to avoid cuts entirely,” Hallett said, “but we are looking at how we can do more and get by with less.” Perra noted in his report that one way to increase productivity would be to increase enrolment by 400 students. The students would probably have to come from throughout the province, which he said would be a “formidable challenge.” However, Perra said that at present more than 50 per cent of technology students come from outside the area. “We have to continue that ap proach,” he said, noting that in the col- lege’s five-year plan, some new pro- gram proposals are considered. They include Forestry Computer Applications T: C : tions and a Videotex program. Perra said the Forestry Applications and the Videotex (two-way television) are not offered elsewhere in the prov- ince. Principal to respond By ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN ‘Staff Writer The principal of Stanley Humphries Secondary School will send a response to the B.C. government's discussion paper on high-school graduation re- quirements criticizing its stand on compulsory language studies and in- creased compulsory Grade 12 courses. Under the governments’ proposed curriculum, the study of a foreign language — whether it's French, Spanish, — or Mandarin Chinese artsand oclonee students in grades 8 to 11, said principal Lach Farrell. “Why must all students study a lan- guage?” asked Farrell. “I don't under- stand that... not all students have the facility for language.” Farrell also said that while univer- sities such as the University of B.C. and the University of Victoria have a foreign language entrance require- ment, it’s possible for students to take two years -at* Selkirk College (which doesn’t have this requirement), and then transfer to UBC or UVic. “If that’s the case, why can they do this?” he said. Farrell added, that he will recom- mend that Russian be included as a language that can be studied for the language requirement. He said that UBC has already indi- cated that Russian would be an ac- ceptable choice to fulfill their foreign sion paper at a recent school board education committee meeting, and at a meeting with Glen Wall, assistant dep- uty minister of education, who was in Catia recently for the Making The pr ie aileecere cores cn the pastas if necessary. DISPUTE COSTLY The contract dispute is estimated to have cost the industry $8 million a day fn revenue — offset somewhat by re- duced operating costs and an increase in pulp pri¢es prompted by reduced supply — and union members about $2 million a day in wages and benefits. Despite the fact that the average union member has lost about $6,000 in wages, members of the pulp and paper workers union at Kamloops also rejec- ted a Weyerhauser offer to pay the union $60,000 if members worked Easter Monday. Farrell was also critical of the prop- osed increase of Grade 12-level re- quired courses from three to four — to be selected from courses with Grade 11 prerequisites. This leaves “little opportunity” for students to take other courses in fine arts, business, and industrial arts, he said. phries, only 11 aren't taking mathe matics courses, But a required Grade 12 consumer education course that doesn't count as one of the four required Grade 12 courses for the academic arts and sci- ences program is unfair, according to Farrell. And the proposed dropping of physi- cal education as a required high school course “is a great shame,” he said. Farrell was also critical of the gov- ernment's proposal that will compel high school students to choose from three study programs: arts and sci- ences, applied arts and sciences, or career preparation. “There's not enough flexibility,” said Farrell, adding that some students making an unsuitable choice will either drop out of school, or will have to repeat a year. Farrell said he will send the written response directly to the Ministry of Education. The deadline for response to the discussion paper is May 31. Parents of high school children and others who are interested can attend a hearing to be held on the government's proposed curriculum changes on May 17 in Trail — one of a series of province-wide hearings to be held. The Ministry of Education plans to send senior staff to the hearings to receive briefs and hear public reaction to the discussion paper, according to a recent letter to the Castlegar school board from Education Minister Jack Heinrich. The school board will send its own written response to the government, said board chairman Doreen Smecher. College developing security system By CasNews Staff Selkirk College will be beefing up its building security — including the addition of an electronic security sys- — following the theft last weekend of two word processors worth $7,500. “We're developing a new security system for the campus, i i an “We've been constantly reviewing our security levels.” Cromwell said to make the college's buildings “fully secure” a “great num- ber of staff” would be required. He said when the two Dec-Mate II word Processors were stolen from ee electronic security system,” said Jim Cromwell, director of the Castlegar campus. Cromwell said he couldn't say speci fically what immediate increased sec- urity precautions the college will take because revealing them might under- mine their efficiency. Asked if the buildings were left open ation office last security officer was patrolling the building. During the week no security patrols are made of the college. According to Cromwell, more sec- urity officers will be brought in during “special events.” Terry Baugh, ancillary services , said the college's insurance during k-day merely said measures would be taken to exercise “more control in terms of access to the buildings” by locking them when no college functions are taking place. Cromwell said ensuring that the col- lege has enough security is a question of “balancing the budget” between spending enough to protect the college, and making sure the college doesn't overspend. “Tm never satisfied with the levels of security that we have,” said Cromwell. But he added that the college had break-in problems 10 years ago when it had a “security crew” patrolling “seven days a week, 24-hours a day.” doesn't cover the theft. Cromwell said he thinks the college has a $5,000 deductible insurance policy that doesn't cover computer thefts. He said such a policy is standard for government buildings — including col- leges. The computer thefts took place amid a significant “increase in the theft of personal property” at Selkirk College over the last semester, added Crom- well. But in general, the college doesn't have the problem with thefts that other colleges and universities on the Lower Mainland have, be said.