Al 2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, April 26, 1979

An Atmosphere of Mutual Good Faith and Trust

Following wre excerpts
from CanCel President Don
Watson's speech at a joint
service club luncheon in Castle-
gar last week:

Consider the problems we
face in Canada:

e Too much government;

e Low productivity;

e Monetary instability;

@ Impossible levels of ex-
pectations;

¢ Important human energy
unnecessarily being applied to
the issue of national unity;

_ _ © All of which contribute
to high inflation and the result-
.ing high level of unemployment,

Iam not preaching gloom
and doom. On the contrary, I
am optimistic that each of those
problems I just mentioned are
really opportunities waiting for
solutions. They are soluble but
not without effort — and
sacrifice.

* We Canadians are all ex-
tremely knowledgeable about
our rights, but somehow fall
short on the knowledge of our
responsibilities.

Because I feel a respon-
sibility as a Canadian to work to
these goals and objectives, I
believe it is most important
that management and labor
work together to create what I
reall a “climate for commit-
ment”. When this happens, we
should see these results:

First, confidence of labor in
management. And vice-versa.
An atmosphere of mutual good
faith and trust.

Second, energy which was
previously used for fireproofing
will now be used to get the job
done.

And third, both sides will
have a broader view of a
corporation, or any organiza-
tion and see it as a whole — not
two separate segments,

To begin with, I think we
must accept the fact that
employees in general do not, by
definition, see the world just as
the “boss” does. What's urgent?
What's top priority? And just
what is the boss excited about?

T suggest the fault lies at
least in part with management,
which has failed to do some of
the things which are within its
power to do that would cause
their people to feel a sense of
urgency about the. business.

Let’s begin with leader-
ship. As we are promoted from
one-level of respansibility to
another, we tend to believe that
our merit is recognized as much

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FINAL PIECE of new ducting Is added to the
CanCel pulp mill's recovery boiler modo
scrubber during the plant's Easter shutdown
aso of nearly $2.3 million

project to reduce total ronuced sulphur
er.

In the first pl

emissions from the

challenge more than they will
to reward. In fact, provided the
employee perceives integrity
on the part of his manager and
not just whimsy, I believe
managers, or employers, ought
to ask their people to do some-
thing that is almost an im-

Internal

start-up is very confusing and
naturally, they are anxious and
nervous.

Now, ‘take the same em-
ployee and put him or her into a
three-day indoctrination course
fand it can be the same course
for all employees — including
Tell them how

possible Not im-
possible, but-almost, simply to
give them an opportunity to
respond to challenge.

We have all been too little
d about giving a per-

by our as it is by
our‘ superiors who just pro-
moted us.

3. We make the assumption
that our right to manage, which
has been overtly recognized by
the person making the appoint-
ment, is also recognized by the
people who report to us. I
suggest that this is an erro-
neous assumption.

We have just begun to
earn our spurs with our sub-
ordinates as of the day of our
appointment, and we have just
begun to establish the rapport
with those subordinates which
we are going to need,

The second point I want to
make about leadership is that it
doesn't necessarily mean “com-
mand”,"Of course, we expect
the boss to take command in
times of emergency and give
orders, but there are other
times when we expect him to
consult with us.

There can be no compari-
son between the morale of the
team that consults on the field
at the point of action and the
morale of a team which is told
what to do. And it need not
always be command; it can be
influence. The key to accep-
tance of a message is belief in
the sender.

* * 2
We will never have a
commitment from our people
unless we start from the pre-

mise that people will respond to :

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son an opportunity to reach, to
aspire, to pit his or her muscles
and brain and energy against a
really tough proposition.

It is not until we are fully
committed, fully engaged, that
we are fully living. 2

* . .

The attitudes of many
company leaders and managers
are reflected — either con-)
sciously or unconsciously in
their day-to-day actions. They
plan, then announce, major
decisions affecting their opera-"
tions without having commu-
nicated to the unions and all
employees at the pre-planning
stage. 3

They constantly, both ver-
bally and in written form, use
as excuses for shortfalls in
performance the words “labor
troubles’, 1 have never yet seen

to

the company started, what its
objectives were then, and what
they are now, and how it has
progressed or failed.

Give them vital statistics:
The number of people employ-
ed, gross sales, the budgeted
profit, and future plans. I can
almost guarantee the turnover
of these employees will be less
than those injected into imme-
diate action,

Creating a climate for
commitment in the context of
labor and management working
together entails dealing with
each other in good faith. If
there isn't honesty, integrity
and mutual good faith as ingre-
diénts in this relationship,
you'll have a dismal failure. I
don't have to give examples.
We hear about them regularly
in our day- to-day living.

So far, we've been dis-
cussing how to establish a
favorable climate, now let's get
‘on to the process for creating
commitment.

As we need

an
in a report diagnosed as “man-
agement troubles".”

to define a vision for the
company. Not just where we

modifications will begin on the scrubber to
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system during the summer ‘and the mill's
Labor Day shutdown.

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are now, but where we intend
‘to be five years from now.
Going back to what.I said
earlier on leadership, we must
have input from our people on
the next steps in goal setting,

“both individually and corpor-
ately.

‘There must be a communi-
cations mechanism put in place
to gather employee input.
There are options presently
available and more to be
created. There have been at-
tempts at what is called “in-
dustrial democracy” in many
countries with varying degrees
of success and failure.

Simply put, I don’t believe
our North American lifestyle is
compatible with it as a total
package. It does, however,
point out some important

things. The need for employee:

input’ as a major motivator is
indisputable. But on the other
extreme, there is no evidence
that the employees or the com-
panies have been better served
by the “worker-board” concept.

Thave had experience with
a ‘group called an “advisory
committee to management”,
and I believe it was successful,
This concept gave employees
an opportunity, through elected
union representatives or super-
visors, to be completely in-
formed on a regular basis of
most.affairs of the company,

* including its financial position.

Most spend lit-

-tle or no money on training —

from induction courses through
to top management programs.

Many companies. have a
greater investment in human
resources than they do in
capital assets, Yet most new
recruits see the placement
officer, have a picture taken,
are given an ID card with their
employee number on it and are
shipped off to the supervisor to
‘start work immediately. Their

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- Company plans, to the
extent they could be released,
were explained.,The financial
future and strategy necessary.
to achieve certain goals was
discussed. An agenda for a
meeting reflected moatly em-
ployee ideas. The employees
gave the company the benefit of
their “on the spot” expertise.’
This involvement, through com-
munications, provided a sense
of belonging.

Training programs for
mixed groups of employees and
employer on “getting results
through people” are also very
effective,

Industries in Canada have ‘

been creating paradox about
profits. They often soft-pedal
profits‘so as not to whet the

‘appetite of labor. Then they are

caught in a dilemma. If they
don't announce their profits,
they can’t attract investment
capital,

Tho result is that they doa
poor job of announcing profits,
If industry announced not only
its profits, but also its plans for
reinvesting them in dividends
to shareholders so as to attract
more capital, in plant and facili-
ties to create more jobs — they
need not and would not be
embarrassed.

Terms like “huge profits"
“corporate rip-offs” and the like
are used: every day. How im-
portant is profit? To answer
that question I'll quote from
Roger M. Blough, chairman of
the board of U.S. Steel who
said:

“Why then, when profit is”

so important to everyone, do s0
many people criticize and down-
grade it? Why is there so much

misunderstanding about it?.

Why do we, as businessmen so
often apologize for it? Why do
we allow profit to be pinched,’
squeezed, siphoned away, even
slowly destroyed?” -
“A person paying a10-cent
profit on a $1 item wonders

aloud why the article can’t be-

sold for 90 cents. He needs to
know that’ profit is not some-
thing arbitrarily added to value,
but a necessary part. of the
article's price.”

“It pays the firm's owners
for the use of their’ tools,
without which the unit: could
not have been manufactured, It
goes into research fatilities,
which’ improve the. atticle’s
quality and brings down }the

cost of making it. Without "|

profit, or its expectation, the
article probably would not have
been made in the first place.”

So says Mr. Blough: And I
agree -with him. Companies
with the best profit . picture
grow fastest, hire more people,
pay better wages. It’s better
for everyone, and most of all
the customer.

We are going to have to

provide jobs for more than a
million new workers in the next
10 years in Canada. Think

about it for a ‘second, A millon
jobs: Only profits can doit. A
ben of profits will even stymie
Hurealteratis growth, +
« ° "In closing, I want to say
that over the years, Canadians
have demonstrated « capacity
to step up to the challenge
under difficult clreumstances, I °
would suggest to you that is the
position-we are in right now,
But if we can get government,
labor and industry communi-

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Ootischenia Improvement District

Annual Meeting -
Monday, April 30, 1979
Ootischenia
Community Hall

at 7:00:p.m.
Ali Members Are Urged To Attend

ene — Wwe will do it again.

NOTICE

The Board of Management

of the Hos; eplace

completing thelr terms of office. Jaina | roel Society tony

Membership | In the Society Is to all persons In.the Hospital District:
. Castlegar, Robson, Brillant, Gotischenla, Blueberry, Thrums,

DIRECTORS ON BOARD OF MANAGEMENT

4 appointed

6 elected ug

Two new directors must be elected at the Annual Meeting on June 14, 1978. -
Candidates must Join the Soclety before May 11, 1979.

rou may Join the Society by paying $1.00 at the Hospital between the hours of 8

Present members may renew thelr ihemberahtp any time
before the Annual Meeting In June

CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT HOSPITAL SOCIETY

GRADE

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SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 9 (CASTLEGAR)

ONE AND KINDERGARTEN

REGISTRATION FOR THE 1979 - 1980 SCHOOL YEAR

Parents of children who should enroll in either Kindergartens or Grade One in
September are asked to register their child at the nearest slementery school at

If the child is pi y ten there

is no necessity to register h

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MONDAY, MAY7 : 8,
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‘ Kinnaird Elementary) bs
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Castlegar Primary
, Blueberry Creek
TUESDAY, MAY &
Castlegar Primary
Woodland Park
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9
Pass Creek Elementary
Tarrys Elementary (Shoreacres at Tarrys)
Ootischenia Elementary

Please note that a Birth or Baptismal Certificate must be shown before a
child can be registered. Kindergarten pupils must be five years old on or before
1979. Grade One Pupils must be six years old on or before

Thank you for your co-operation.

- Board of School Trustees
School District No. 9 (Castlegar)

4, DASCHER,
Secretary-Treasurer

I’m
Phil Brooks

As

candidate
Trail,

on

In return for you

your Social Credit
in Rossland-.
| seek your support

election day.

ir vote | promise only-what

you are entitled to — responsible and
responsive representation in Victoria.

On May 10, please: mark your

Brooks.

“ballot ‘for

CASTLE

Today Is * Thursday, April 26, 16th:
day of 1979. There are 249 days leftin |.

} K je year,

On this’ date ‘in'1785, °°

merican ornithologist and painter.
Sone James Audubon wos’ rborrt

name,
ii: That's “what two office-
- seekers view asa high priority
‘in their bids for representation
of the riding.
+’ Both Phil Brooks, Ross-
. tind! ‘Trail Social Credit candi-
Gate for the May'10 provincial
2 n, and Dale Drown,
seeking. nomination as a Pro.
gressive Conservative cendi-

‘date, sald in recent inter-:

‘Views with the Castlegar News
the riding should be renamed to
‘ineflect the entire constituency
se particularly the Castlegar
‘area. "

2°, According to Brooks, the
Present aame is “a terrible
tmisnomer.”: He sald he had
Teceived strong indications
from constituents both in Trail
and in Castlegar that “some-
thing has to be done.” He said

the name should Tecognize the «

tpresence of such communities
as Fruitvale, Robson, Rasp-
berry and Blueberry,

“If Tam successful in

resenting the people of this’

gommunity I'am going to work
oh‘that,” he said. “I think it
should be something like Trail-
Caitlegar- Rossland, or Selkirk,

-Or-something like that. The-

name Rossland-Trail is to me
just out of the question.”

“3°. Constituents should have
shad’ a chance to change the
name during boundary redis-
‘tribution studies last year
“because it could have been set

down’ there without any prob-.

‘lem,”: he said.

taevensnetWe've -got a. problem - in --

that we already have a Koote-
nay. riding,” Brooks: explained,
“We should perhaps eliminate
that and maybe think about
West. Kootenay and East Koote-
nay ridings. I think a contest or
something shouldbe set up
with the kids of the community
asa whole to come up with
some names.”

«Drown told the Castlegar
News that if he wins both the
Tory nomination and the Ross-
land-Trail legislature seat he

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Thursday, April 26, 1979 ,

CHRIS D'ARCY
++. "must be genuine
‘treason for name change”

will propose a new name in a
, private member's bill which he’
" expects “will have the complete
backing”. of Premier Bill Ben-
nett. '

“At. the Socred . mini-
convention I covered in mid-
February during his ‘dinner
speech. to. the 300 to 400 in
attendance on three separate
occasions he made reference to
‘Castlegar-Trail’,” Drown, alo
cal radio

‘But. Chris D'Arey, the

incumbent) New Democrat
MLA, ‘said he would prefer to

‘retain the present name “until

there's some genuine geogra-

+ phical change in the: ri

boundaries,” He said B.C. tends
to ‘retain traditional
ames after boundaries change
until the names.“no longer hold.
true."
D'Arcy said he and Burt
Campbell, Social Credit ‘candi-
‘date in ‘the 1075

: set) sald he was

ger eT Greasbnatec dr edererrmrannien GND We ate

eres tet

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, April 26, 1979

Bip eciemren and local union peop! ir to get a job done.”
Economic Development Minister’ Don” ‘Phillips. er Tat te inset) pralsed
Menagement's and labor's “soirit of

together in such ashort period of tim

sr BOARDS ro roll off the Conel sinallwood ml 's chip-and-saw se¢tion last

ond officials marked the official
reopening of the sawmill Ghoratlon, which took about six months to rebuild .
jafter being gutted by fire June 17. CariCel president Don Watson {right, in in-
“tremendously ‘encouraged by’ the way our. local

se NewerMcctrete | ty Burt Campbell

election, agreed during a

vious redistribution study that
the’ “riding ‘should keep its
original name.

“Perhaps we should change
the name to Southwest Koote-
nay or Southern Columbia or
something of that nature which
wouldn't single out ahy one
particular municipality,” he
said. "You can't call the riding
Fruitvale-Montrose-Trail-War-.
field-Rosstand-Castlegar. Ihave
the-feeling that whatever you
do there's going to be someone
who feels affronted.”

He said consideration, in
both the 1978) redistribution
Peport and a previous study, of

Rossland and
Felts with Grand Forks
and Contlegar with Nelson,

“It's Rossland-Trail : and he
‘should know well it's Rossland-
Trail, but that just goes to show
you how much the gt

to regional dis-
trict boundaries, “would | have.
meant a definite change. :

‘Asked about the affect fat

worries about the Kootenays.”
“Rossland is almost part of
Trail, so close now that I thik
when people talk
they almost . autor entered in-
clude Rossland,” he continued,
“Castlegar's a 20 to.26 minute
drive from Trail:and there's a
-fair‘amount of distance there.”
-. Drown said that if success-
ful in winning the nomination
and the election he will seek
feedback from constituents: be-
> fore deciding whether a change
is necessary, “but if there's a
wish to have it named Castle-
gar-Trail then it's ridiculous to
sit back and keep calling it
Rossland-Trail.”

year's hae

Rossland-Trail, he said it added

2,600. former: Nelson-Creston ”

constituents who. were © “ad-.
th

liant. Dam, “and they tended
them to Tarrys: ‘and the height

. of land between Pass Creek and

Crescent Valley,” D'Arcy ‘said,
“The other boundaries —.be-
tween Fruitvale and Salmo, and
between Rossland and Chris-

, tina Lake and of course the U.S.

border — are unchanged. And

it still includes all of (the west
side of} Lower Arrow Lake up
to Edgewood.”

_ RDCK to Appoint DTUC
; Degree Programs Committee

> After discussing its’ pre-
decessor’s “rivalry and jealou-
‘stes” of Selkirk College, Central
Kootenay directors have voted.
to promote Nelson's David
Thompson University Centre
as a four-year degree-granting
institution.

The regional district board
at its April 11 meeting ap-
proved a motion by Area E
director W. A. Forsyth — who
ata previous meeting objected

to relying on “the initiative of -

Selkirk College", which man-
ages.the former Notre Dame
University, for development of
a degree curriculum — to form
a committee instructed to work
with other groups supporting
“fulfilment of the DTUC Act as
its was and is now in existence.”
z +Forsyth, a® former. NDU
professor who represents the
‘Balfour area on the RDCK
board, noted that in a recent
-Nisit to the region Education
Minister Pat McGeer said mon-
e¥ ‘was available for degree
programs at DTUC if the com-
munity demonstrated sufficient
interest and commitment.
++. The Area E director told
the board NDU — bought,
renamed and placed under the
jurisdiction of Selkirk College
by the ministry in June 1977 —
served “at least all the area
covered by the RDCK", attract-
ed students “from all over the
world” and provided university
graduates who stayed and

" worked in the region.

+} . He pointed out that mem-
bers of Nelson city council's
committee on DTUC “felt there

was encouragement” in a meet- ‘>

ing, .with education ministry
‘Fapresentatives about a year
ago, and he added that the

_ board's formation of a similar

committee to promote a degree-
granting role for the institution
“it. would increase the con-
viction of the minister that
there was commitment on the
part of the people of the area
toward a four-year university.”

Forsyth also noted reports
earlier lest week that McGeer
had set up a steering committee
to guide future activities at
DTUC. He said the steering
committee, if dominated by

~ Selkirk College, would hinder -

development of DTUC pro-
grams past ‘a two-year level,
Area F director Dave
Pearce, a member of the Sel-.
kirk College board, said he was
in favor of Forsyth's goal but

~ questioned the wisdom of form-

ing another committee on
DTUC, and suggested the

RDCK pool ‘its efforts with the

Nelson committee.
“We've' got the regional

NDU committee, we've got the .

Selkirk council, we have the
one appointed by the govern--
ment and we have this one from
the City of Nelson,” Pearce
said, “And you want a fifthone.”

Area H director Norman
Brewster also said he favored
the development of degree pro-
grams “but I question. the
means Director Forsyth is sug-
gesting at this time.”

“The rivalry and jealousies

* that have existed between Sel-

kirk and NDU right at the
beginning of Selkirk College
have considerable to do with
it,”, Brewster, who represents
the rural Slocan Valley, told the
board :

“I don't think it’s the fault
of Selkirk and I would certainly
hate the RDCK to give the
squeeze to Selkirk in the inter-
ests of DTUC," he said. -

“The objective is fine and I
think the ‘board. ought to

* support it,” Brewster said. “But

I think we should be very
cautious about the means.”

Pearce denied any “par-
tisanship” by .the Selkirk Col-
lege board on the development
.of degree programs. Although ‘
he agreed with Area J director
Martin Vanderpol’s statement
that other B.C. community col-
leges would demand the same
status if DTUC immediately
introduced degree programs,
Pearce pointed out that under
the DTUC Act the institution
already had university status
and the education minister had
promised that after solving
internal problems his ministry
would reinstate DTUC as a
university.

Responding to statements
on rivalry between the two
institutions Forsyth told the
board that when NDU develop-
ed-into a four-year university
“about the same time as Selkirk -
was started” there was no
reason for rivalry because they *
theoretically complemented
each other.

But he added ‘that wise
the four-year programs wi
discontinued in 1977 the pk
plementary arrangement was
changed.

“*L:would like to hear -

‘ somebody ‘rive ‘a: good reason’-

why we should have a two-year
ini Nelson‘ and - & two:

He said the Area E direc. ‘college

tor had demonstrated “the

feeling on the NDU side that

any kind of direct governance
from Selkirk is intolerable.”

‘two:
year college 28 miles away,” he
told the board.: might :

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