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By HALL LEIREN

(From a column in the
Vancouver Sun.)

IN THEIR POLITICS AL-
lan Williams and Bill King are
probably as mismatched as any
(wo members of the B.C,
legislature. Yet, when it comes
to holding back the tide of
unreason at their respective

parly it is to Mr.
Williams, the present labor
minister, and to Mr, King, labor
minister under the former New
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Help Them Do Their Jobs

It may have been unnoticed, but It was
significant.

A story In fast week’s Castlegar News
fold of a 20-year-aid clty man fined $250,
given 10 months to make $1,122.27 In

and placed on year pi
after pleading gullty In provincial court to a
charge of mischlof arising from an incident
in which several street signs were knocked
down.

The story Is significant because amid
growling concern over ]

of private’and public property by vandals, It
indicates the courts are prepared to Impose
severe penalties on such offenders and
demonstrate that future violations will be
dealt with Just as severely,

Yet the effectivenoss of stiff sentencing
as a deterrent depends mainly on the
avaltability of someone to try and sentence.
A RCMP spokesman recently told the
Castlegar News the proportion of vandalism
cases which reach a satisfactory end in the

Encouraged

While acknowledging the hardship
faced by workers who are still Jobless as a
result of the June 17 flre which caused more
than $5 milllon damage to the CanCol
sawmill, we find it difflcult not to be
encouraged by the product of five months’
reconstruction at the mill site.

icheduled to return to full operation
and manpower by early January, the rebuilt
sawmill will include modifications which
shoutd, as manager Chuck Dinning sald last
weok, ‘make It a more efficient and better
place to work."*

It Is not something which could have
been carried out without close consultation
and b CanCel ig
ment and members of International Wood-
workers of America Local 1-405. And we are

that will asa
means of preventing the occurrence of
future disasters of the same magnitude as
the June 17 fire.

Their co-operation will be Important not
only to CanCel but to the community in
which It Is the leading corporate citizen.

courts—charg ry con-
viction or other decisions—is an appallingly
low 32 per cent.

There seems a vast discrepancy be-
tween the acts of vandalism committed
locally and the amount of Information
available to the local police detachment. Do
residents stand by passively while vandals
deliberately and malictously destroy private
and public property? Is it possible that some
taxpayers watch but fall to report those
individuals who are virtually taking money
out of thelr pockets?

It Is obvious that the machinery for
dealing with offenders Is already in place.
There are laws prohibiting vandalism, police
to apprehend and charge suspected vandals
and courts to establish gullt or Innocence
and assess appropriate penalties. Regard-
less of the long-term measures the commu-

nity can take to eliminate the suspected,

social causes of vandalism, It ls important
that vandals and potentla! vandals be shown
such destructive behavior Is not tolerated In
thls soclaty.

(It Is up to each of us to do what we can

to enable the police and the courts to do
their jobs.

But Who Foots the Bill?

(From an editorial in the Creston Valley Advance.)

The 8.C, Teachers Federation has
Proposed ‘Propositlon Fairtax,’ a scheme
which would reduce the school tax burden
on local property owners. The brochure
which introduces, the idea says that the
provincial government could make up the
difference in localschool board financing out
of ‘Increased revenue.’

But, regardless of how you slice the ple,
whether local taxpayers foot the bill, .or
provincial tax revenue foots the bill, school
costs will still have to be borne by the
taxpayers.

The BCTF suggests that $110 million
now paid by the local taxpayers should be
paid by the provincial government. Hard as
it Is for local boards to raise this kind of
money, the provincial government would
also have to find it.

The alternatives are few: either services
in some area of education are reduced to cut
costs; services in another government area
are cut back, or provincial taxes are raised.
None of these alternatives Is very appealing
—but the idea of local property tax being
reduced appeals to almost everyone.

A Nanaimo construction firm is expected to break ground on the future site of an $810,000,
42-unit apartment building at 509 Seventh Ave. S. within a week.

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A prediction that the city will remain within budget for the rest of the year and a stern warning
about high inflation, highlighted Ald. Gerald Rust's year-end report on city finances.

Council has instructed city staff to submit to the highways department the necessary agreements
for reclassification of the section of Columbia Avenue from the overpass at Seventh Avenue South to

the Robson Ferry.

Party government,
that the job usually falls,

In the case of the Social
Credit party the issue is the
so-called right to work. In the
case of the NDP it is the
banning of the right of com-
panies whose employees are on
strike to hire outside workers.
The issues represent two sides
of the same coin — the currency
of chaos and confrontation that
a minority in both parties, for
whatever reasons, seeks year
afler year to impose on the
province,

THE -SOCREDS HAVE
shown themselves to have
better control over their ex-
tremists on the issue than the
NDP. At last weekend’s con-
vention Mr. Williams, for the
third year in a row, beat back
the arguments of a strong and
militant minority seeking party
endorsement of right-to-work
legislation, The resolution was
defeated by a vote of approxi-
mately two to one, a consider-
ably larger majority against
than in former years, But the
issue is far from dead and will
likely continue to bedevil the
party.

This year's resolution, a
masterpiece of vagueness, did
not even mention the phrase
“right: to work.” An outsider
would have been led to believe
it had all the explosive potential
of a resolution in favor of
motherhood. Yet, it became
clear during the debate that the
delegates knew exactly what
was being talked about.

“...A WORKER IS EN-
litled to a fair reward for his
labor, to safe and healthy
working conditions, to reason-
able hours of work, the freedom
to work without interference or
belong to the union of his choice
+ +» (be it resolvéd that) to

the government enact the ne-
eessary legislation to protect
these rights..."

And Mr. Williams knew
what was being talked about.
While the debate was less im-
passioned than last year, when
Mr. Williams warned that pas-
sage of the resolution would
ereate confrontation with labor

But it Was
Only a Plain

_ Rolls Royce

The very wealthy Ronald
Reagan was in Columbus the
other day talking about how the
Republican Party is for the
plain folk, He rode to the
airport in a Rolls Royce.

First there were limousine
conservatives, then limousine
liberals. Now, apparently, li-
mousine hypocrites,

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Extremist Labor Positions Avoided

-—Holding Back the Tide of Unreason—

d d that. their moral
position in opposing right-to-
work would be seriously under-
mined if they were to go along
with the banning of employers’
rights to hire outsiders,

The interesting point that
has emerged out of the right-to-
work and ban-on-hiring debate
of the last few years, is that it
has allowed both of the major
parties to clarify their thinking
on these two important issues
and come to an understanding
that implementation of them
would be unworkable.

The extremist advocates of
these two positions in both the
major parties have become in-
creasingly isolated. That is, of
course, easier to perceive in
Social Credit than it,is in the
NDP, where the resolution was
entrenched in party policy. But
the significant thing is that the
NDP leadership today largely
eschews such an approach to
labor legislation. The main
voice for the ban on employers’
rights to hire during a strike
was former B.C. Federation of
Labor secretary-treasurer Len
Guy, whose inft in party

and litue but grief to the party,
he warned again that right-to-
work is anti-labor and would
play into the hands of the NDP,

MR. KING USED AL-
most identical but obverse ar-
guments at the 1977 NDP
convention in calling for the

party to reject their resolution .

calling for an NDP government
to ban employers’ rights, dur-
ing a strike or lockout, to hire
outside workers. He told the
NDP that il was not the role of
government to write collective
agreements “or to guarantee
trade unions they will ‘win
every fight.”

The NDP resolution stated
that a worker has “a moral and
social right to the job he or she
holds” and resolved that em-
ployers should have no right to
hire new employees during a
strike or lockout.

WHILE BOTH THE SO-
cred and the NDP propositions
might contain simplistic surface
appeal to hardline rightwingers
on one hand and dogmatic left-
ists on the other, the practicali-

ties would prevent any respon-
sible government from con-
templating making either prop-
osition law.

The present government
knows that implementation of
right-to-work, which labor gen-
erally regards as union busting,
would create labor-manage-
ment confrontations on a scale
they shudder to contemplate.
The NDP proposition that
employers should be banned
from hiring outside workers
during a strike would be

(A Vancouver Sun editorial.)
IF THERE'S ONE THING
that’s more annoying than junk
mail, it’s junk telephone calls.
Now the operator ofa telephone
soliciting firm threatens to
bring 300 sequential dialling
machines into the country to
annoy us with their recorded
messages at all hours.

equally counterproductive. Cer-
tainly the business community
would be totally incensed.

AND THOSE LABOR
leaders who look beyond the
short-term political points that
might be scored among labor
militants by such a move know
that the corollary of such a ban
would be to outlaw striking
workers from seeking other
employment during a labor
dispute.

Mr. King and his support-

“ers are also astute enough to

B.C. Tel cuts off telephone
service to anyone using auto-
matic diallers, but one prop-
rietor claims to have hidden his
machine where no one can track
it, not even the telephone
company.

Junk mail can be thrown
out before it’s opened. Junk
telephone calls can be hung up

affairs has in the last two years
been almost entirely eclipsed,
WHETHER THE NDP
will have the courage next year
to meet the issue head-on again

, and defeat its extremists in the

same decisive fashion the So-
ereds did this year is for the
future. But there is little doubt
that such a move would go far
in persuading the average
voter that the NDP really is the
new and moderate voice in
provincial politics it aspires to

convince people.

Automatic Dialers Invade Privacy

Junk Junk Calls

on—but the soliciting machine
ties up a telephone line for the
length of the recorded message.
It's most annoying, and can be
dangerous if one must make an
emergency call.

THE WHOLE BUSINESS
is a totally unwarranted inva-
sion of privacy. These machines
should be outlawed.

ensure these personal freedoms ..

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