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By CasNews Staff
Union employees of Celgar
Pulp Co, voted 69.3 per cent in
2 favor of strike action Wednes-
= day night to back their contract
= demands.
= Michael Espenhain, presi-
> dent of Local 1 of the Pulp,
Paper and Woodworkers of
Canada, said Friday the out-
: come was “what I personally
= expected,”
4 Out of about 300 members,
176 voted = 122 in favor of
- Striking and 54 against.

Meanwhile, a number of

= :other PPWC locals around the

{province are conducting strike
; votes based on local issues,
: Espenhain said.

The only results available at

> press time were from Skookum-

chuk where members voted

:about 80 per cent in favor of
: strike action.

Espenhain said he can’t
;*account for the difference
* between locals.

“There Could be so many fac-
tors involved ... there are defi-
nitely different issues.”

He would not comment on
what the issues are here. The
current three-year contract
expires June 30.

If negotiations for a new con-
tract fail, 72-hour strike’ notice
must be served to both the

¢ employer and the Industrial
:—Relations Council; he said:

Legal
action
delayed

By CasNews Staff

The Pulp, Paper and
Woodworkers of Canada, Local
1, have a little extra time before
facing Celgar Pulp Co. in legal
Proceedings brought on by an
outstanding arbitration award
that now totals more than
$651,000.

Local 1 president Michael
Espenhain said Friday the pro-
ceeding, scheduled for Thursday
at the Castlegar courthouse,
was postponed until “sometime”
next week.

“The company’s legal Papers
served to me were not in order,”
Espenhain said, explaining the
delay.

The proceeding will take
place in Rossland, he said.

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Parents from the Shoreacres area renewed their
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CasNews photo by Donna Zuber

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and Nelson school districts to
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Cominco issues layoff
notices to 260 in Trail

By CasNews Staff
Cominco Ltd. issued layoff
notices Thursday to 260 produc-
tion and maintenance workers
and six office and technical
workers at its Trail operations.
The layoff notices will take

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effect in three stages this fall
with the first 100 people laid off
Sept. 13, the company said in a
news release,

Cominco will lay off the
remaining workers Sept. 27 and
Oct. 11.

The layoffs are generally
coming from all areas of the
operations at Trail but some
represent changes in Cominco’s
Plants such as the phasing out

of “tramming” in lead opera-
tions, the company says.

“A second factor influencing
the layoffs is the wind-down of
construction activity as the new
plants are completed and com-
missioned,” Cominco says.

The company says the num-
ber of actual layoffs that take
place may be reduced by normal
attrition such as workers quit-
ting or retiring.

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continued from front page
fundraising goes towards operat-
ing capital. It shouldn’t be that
way.” -
Talarico said much of the
funding has been delayed
because of changes to the gov-
ernment’s computer programs.

“This takes a period of time
and therefore delays equipment
grants (but) it’s difficult when
you've pi equipment and
you have to pay for it,” he said.
“Normally we don’t buy this vol-
ume of equipment throughout
the year and it doesn’t create a
problem.”

However, funding for some
equipment was held up while
the government ruled on its
classification.

Under normal circumstances,
the province funds 60 pér cent of
hospital equipment-costs and
regional districts pick up the

remaining 40 per cent. Called a
global funding system, the’ hos-
pital gets its money up front.

However, for a construction
project, equipment purchases

~dfe classified as either fixed or
moveable. Costs for fixed equip-
ment are shared on the 60-40
basis, The government pays one-
third and the regional district
two-thirds on moveable equip-
ment:

“It’s taken Victoria a long
time to classify what is fixed and
what is moveable and until that
was sorted out, we were unable
to apply for any grants for it,”
Talarico said: :

He said he was last told to
expect funding by the third
week in June.

The Castlegar Hospital’s new
extended-care wing had its offi-
cial opening Friday.

t . 7 4 ° hb
Siemens sums u

In speech to Chamber

By DONNA ZUBER
Staff Writer

Despite a run of bad luck,
Rossland-Trail Social Credit
party candidate Walter Siemens
was the guest speaker at a

‘ PE

returned broken the night

he had to scramble to
get another one at the last
minute, and he'd just lost a but-
wy ed his coat,

'roceeding with a prepared
Social Credit report with accom-
panying slides, Siemens pre-
sented @ summary of his party's

Castlegar Chamber of Com-

over
the past five years.

Celgar

continued from front page

“But then someone was able
to do some really neat schedul-
ing and neat routing by train so
that really helped,” Browne
said.

The construction camp, which
will house almost 1,400 workers,
also “seems to be coming quite
well,” he said. “Our target is
Aug. 6 for occupancy and our
permits are in place.”

The-camp —which-will-serve
as home to construction workers
who live outside a set radius
around the Castlegar area — is
intended for efficiency, such as
reducing congestion at peak
hours.

“The difference is whether
fellows get bed and fed or
they’re getting a living out
allowance ... the impact of the
camp really has very little to do
with the number of people.”

The status of other work at
the site:

* most foundation work, with
the exception of the fibre line
which was started last, has been
completed;

* steel has been erected “well
above” ground for the recovery
boiler;

* concrete work is continuing
in the machine room;

* interior work, such as elec-
trical and piping, has begun on
the new administration build-
ing;

* most fill has been hauled.

As of May 31, 286 additional
people were working out at the
site. The number of workers, as
well as the number and types of
equipment being used at the
site, should stay fairly consis-
tent until around the end of the
year.

“There won’t be too much
change from what we’re seeing
now for six or seven months,”
Browne said. __

COURT
NEWS

David Edwin Coxford was
sentenced to 90 days in jail, to
be served intermittently, and
one year probation for impaired
driving.

eee
Alexander Fasthuber was
fined $1,000 plus a $100 victim
surcharge for assault.
Fasthuber will also be on proba-
tion for one year.
eee
David Loran Taylor was
fined $400 plus a $50 victim
surcharge for impaired driving.
eee
Charles Douglas Adshead
was fined $750 for impaired
driving. Adshead is prohibited
from driving for 18 months.

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pening for the new facility Friday afternoon.

Castlegar Shriners (from left) Ernie Kruetzky, Les Allen and Cari Henne get started Planting
flowerbeds Tuesday outside the new extended-care facility at the
Sh fh the front area facing 10th Stre:

Castlegar Hospital. The local

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well does British Columbia
stack up versus the rest of
Canada in terms of the govern-
ment’s ability to manage tax-
payers’ dollars?”, labo-
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He said British Columbia has
the lowest per capita public debt
in Canada, saying that frees up
more money for government
to spend on services such as
health, education and social ser-
vices.

“Over the past few years, our
Social Credit government has
been able to increase its annual
expenditures by some $1,330 for
every person living in B.C.
today,” he said,

A chart showed 69.5 per cent
of all government
in B.C, went towards social pro-
grams, over seven per cent more
than what is spent in Manitoba,
which spends the next highest

t. The chart refl d
spending at the end of March
1990.

He said health care expendi-
tures have increased 30.9 per
cent since 1986-87 and educa-
tion expenditures have
increased 52 per cent.

The Socreds also have an
ive tax record, Si

said.

Siemens said the government
eliminated the income surtax in
1987, the eight per cent health
care maintenance tax, the sales
tax on restaurant meals and
hospital user fees.

Furthermore, the government
reduced the provincial sales tax
rate to six per cent from seven
per cent, saving each household
$292 a year, and increased
homeowner grants and intro-
duced a new supplementary
home owner grant.

“And big businesses are pay-
ing their fair share of taxes,”
Siemens said, citing the
increase in corporation income
tax revenues since 1987 to twice
the rate of personal income
taxes.

“The total corporation income
tax revenues have increased
from $281 million in 1986-87 to
$705 million (estimated) today,”
he said.

“Bfitish Colithbia has-effee-
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ment, jobs, health, education
and human resources. All in the
context of good, solid fiscal man-
agement,” he said. “British
Columbia is in good shape.”

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