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CASTLEGAR NEWS, March 18, 1981

CLC and building trades

Situation arisen before

By JULIET O'NEILL
OTTAWA (CP) — There
are echoes of the past in the
decision by the Canadian
Labor Congress last week to

suspend 12 U.S.-based inter- °

national building trades
unions and set. up arival body
to claim the allegiance of
nearly 230,000 Canadian con-
struction thdustry workers,

The history of the Cana-
dian labor movement is mark-
ed by similar situations,
though they affected fewer
union. members and arose
from different circumstances

— most during anti-Commu-
nist purges in the ‘40s and
during anti-corruption drives
in tho ’60s.

The reason for the latest
suspensions {s the refusal by
the unions’ headquarters to
pay more than $675,000 in
affiliation dues to the CLC.
The unions had sought dis-
mantiing of a rival organi

as the largest central labor
body in the country. With 2.3
million members before the
suspensions, it represents
about 68 per cent of union-
ized workers,

About 21 per cent of the
country's union members are
not affiliated to any central
body, five per cent are in
Queber's Ci of

tion in Quebec and bigger
say at CLC policy-making
conventions,

The suspension of the
building trades, effective
April 80, still leaves the CLC

They know him
as Father Barney

TORONTO (CP) — “I'm
more Indian than white,”
says Father Bernard May-
hew, better known to Indians
in Toronto as Father Barney,
chaplain of Our People's Mis-
sion. “I'd rather be.”

When his telephone rings
— ‘and that’s often in the
middle of the night — a
troubled caller asks anxious-
ly, “Father Barney?”

‘That's how Indians in Can-
ada have known him for more
than 40 years. He's lived,
grieved and. rejoiced with
them. He's worshipped with
them — his way and theirs.

He's grown as a person in
all those years, he says. He's
no longer the young, naive-
Jesuit priest from Washing;
ton, D.C., who reluctantly
accepted the call into the
Northern Ontario Indian re-
serves in the 1930s. x

Then, he had never heard
of some of the Indian bands,
let alone seen them. Now,
even after seven years in
Toronto, his only friends are
fellow Jesuits and Indians.

“They're my people and I'd
like to be one of them,” he
says candidly. “They're trem-
endous people.”

‘With laughing eyes, he re-!

members his choice when be
decided to become a priest. “I

Many are chang

EDMONTON (CP) - Chan-
ging jobs in mid-career is
popular

could have gone to either

* English or French Canada,

New Orleans or California. I
was lucky.” .

Lucky?

“Well the cold doesn't
bother me, but the heat does.
If Td gone south, I would
have been in trouble.”

Father Barney, 66, spent
20 years on the Garden River
reserve neat Sault Ste.
Marie, Ont., and three years
each at reserves in West Bay

- and Manitoulin Island, before

coming to Toronto.

Adjusting his hearing aids,
he looks about small
apartment in a downtown
senior citizens’ building,
which has a chapel in which

801 metimes holds mass. He
attends to the Indians’ spir-
itual needs at funerals, wedd-
‘ings,and baptisms, He helps
them if they're in trouble
with the law.

Although he dislikes dis-
cussing the “drunken Indian
image,” Father Barney re-
luctantly admits it bothers
him. “I'm not pleased with
the drunkeness.”

But then he focuses on the
positive. Sure there's drunk-
eness, but the native people’s
centre has a program for
alcoholics “that's just mar-
velous.”

“You're starting at the

bottom again, And there was"

and many of those who have
made the move say it's a
positive experience.

. Engineers become carpen-
ters, sales clerks turn to real
estate, policeman become
accountants, teachers take
up social work, ministers

no of 3 job.”

Asa tecnician, she enjoyed
a supervisory position, good
pay and security. But when
she started flying, she soon

found herself spending every .

free minute at the Edmonton
Flying Club, Becoming an
instructor seemed a natural

become

No one is certain how
many Canadians have chosen
to change their career paths
but industrial psychologist
Lorne Seaman says’ the
change is often because! a
‘person didn’t choose his or
her initial job. '

“The job chooses them. So
there. comes a point when
people decide they really
want to choose a career
themselves.

“Generally, their reasons
centre around lack of ful-
filment in their present jobs,
or not being successful. It's a
matter of not wanting to
spend the rest of their lives
in jobs they're not enjoying.”

For Catherine Fletcher,
change was neither easy nor
rapid. After four years as
laboratory technician at the
University of Alberta hos-
pital, she gave it up at age 25

‘to gamble on becoming a
flying instructor.

“It was a hard decision to
make,” she said,

prog:

Her husband, an engineer,
supported her decision * al-
ithough the financial commit-
‘mont was heavy.

“But you have to make a
decisfon — what’s more im-
portant, you or the dollar?”

Bob Wrigley, 45, is now an
electrician and he says he
found changing careers an

easy decision. “I just listened —

to my ulcers.”

For more than five years
he was. successfulUnitarian
minister but found himself in
the ironic position of coun-
selling other to slow down
but being unable to ‘do so
himself,

“Part of the cost of being a
professional person is that
you don't have any time to
yourself,” he said.

“You work morning, noon
and night.

“Your job can be your
whole life... in general that
idea is sick.”

For Ed Stahko, a career
change was a “positive ex-
perience” that brought with

Annual
General Meeting

of the

CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION

willbe held at the
Castlegar & District
Community Complex
2106 - 6th Avenue, Castlegar, B.C.
Wednesday, March 25

at 7:30 p.m.

© Door Prizes.

® Refreshments will be served after the Meeting.

J)

National Trade Unions and
the few remaining are under
much smaller umbrellas,

WILL BE ISOLATED

The suspended: unions, if
they decide not to join the
‘CLC’s new rival building
trades body, will be isolated
from the mainstream labor
movement as was the 79,000-
member International ie
therhood

ave ne MTEL EMT SIAL

VICTORIA {CP)-— The
elderly gentleman asked
the front desk for direc
tions to Room 112. athe
ataff obliged him. '
ments later, he returned,
thoroughly confused, held
up his key and said:
“Something’s wrong, It
doesn't fit in 112.”

The man at the desk
looked at the key and re-
plied: “This is the legisla-
ture, sir, The Empress
Hotel is across the street.”

The legislative building,
a beautiful old fortress of
stone, marble, stained
glass, wood and copper, is
many things to the many
people who visit Victoria
each year,

To some, like the lost

agentenidns it would make
anice hotel, and more than
once a visitor has plunked
his luggage down at the
reception desk ‘and asked
for s room with a view.
Tour co-ordinator Lynn
McCaughey.and her staff
are in the front lines whon
it comes to fielding strange
and

"Tegistatats employees who
try to make sense of it all

‘for the thousands of visi-
. tors they greet each month,

KNOW HOW WORKS

‘The many Europeans
and Japanese who visit
seem to have an apprecia-

. ton of what makes'B.C,’s

system of government tick.

wierd impressions.

From the lady from
California who thought this
was the place where she
could buy HP Sauce (H for
house, P for parliament), to
the man who thought he
was in a museum (“You
don't use this building
anymore, do you?") —
there is never a dull mo-
ment for this smal! band’of

however, re-
quire a measure of enlight-
enment,

E Some tourista don’teven |

realize where they are,
McCaughey says. _

- "They think Victoria is
the capital of Canada. They

expect the Queen to pop.

out of a room at any
moment. They want to
know. what’ she wear,
what her crown looks like,

was Ese from the aL in t

1960.

The teamsters’ union is
joined to the 12 suspended
unions under the Building
and Construction Trades De-
partment, AFL-CIQ, the body
that has been refusing to pay
affiliation dues,

The teamsters union, rep-
resenting truckers and ware-
housemen, was expelled for
raiding the Canadian Bro-
therhood of Rail, Transport
and General Workers union
-at a time when evidence of
racketeering, corruption and
strong-arm tactics in the
teamsters was mounting in
the U.S.

The CLC the same year
expelled the Seafarers Inter-
national Union, then run by
Hal Banks, after a Canadian
inquiry found evidence of
violence, corruption, lawless-
ness and ‘misuse of union
funds. However, the SIU was
readmitted to the CLC eight
years later.

Other _ historical expul-
sions include those of the
Mine-Mill Workers, the Uni-
ted Electrical Workers and
the United Fishermen by the
CLC's predecessors during
the successful struggle for
Canadian union domination
by social democrats against

Communists in the '40s and ©

early ‘50s.

ing jobs

it new freedom. Last year he

resigned from the Alberta _

Forest Service after seven
years as chief meteorologist.
He left behind a $30,000-a-

year job to enter real estate -

and its world of variable
income.

“It's like a breath of fresh
air to be into the Private
sector," he said.

“I feel self-respect because
Learn everything I work for.
It's not handed out auto-
matically by paycheque.”,

This is not the Empress .

how tall she is. They warit

to see the changing of the
guard and they ask for red-
coated Mounties.”

The most profound im-

pressions are taken away”

by the hundreds of school-
age children who walk in
awe through the corridors.
Many write McCaughey to
say thanks for the tour,
and on occasion their let-
tera contain rare insights
about the political process,

A Surrey student wrote:
“It was. very interesting
when you told us about the
history. When the two
parties would -disagree
about something they
would draw their swords
and have a fight.”

From Westbank, whore

Premier Bill Bennett lives,
camo this student's note of
regret: “I wish Bill Bennett
was there, All year long I
have been waiting to, see
him, but maybe'l will see
him another time.”
. One student offered the
government a piece of
_ legislation. “I think a good
law would be that kids
should not be allowed to go
away from home unless
they ask their mom.”

Puzzled by the experi-
ence, 2 Sidney ‘student

asked: “Do you like to

work there? There's an
awful lot of stairs. My legs
got soro and they hurt 2
lot.”

Victorla, uy
VEY 1X4

“Vou 34, NO. 24

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boil over between sects city @ mp

“Binee then, the seven Froe- -

* NELSON (CP) — Siminer:

ing differences between two ©... ‘Th

: Doukhobor sects have boiled
into the open as a sroap.of of.
rapontantbombors and
sonists | try to peal patel

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STORE HOURS:

Monday to Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Thursday and Friday 730 a.m. to 9:00 Dpeme

The government council af

at Gilpin, hear Grand Forks.:;
ey. want to evict seven.
Freedomites from their com:
munity, known as the New

: Settemcnty located adjacent;

;.to Krestova, a former Free-,
aie stronghold,
The Q1-hectare area was

bought: in 1971 by four Re-"’

formed _ members, including
jorokin,
group's spiritual leader Ste
Sorokin,”

ah 1975, everyone over 16
years of age living in the New

Brotherhood * oe Reformed %

Doukhobors wants’ to. evict
‘.-geven members of the radical «

they, would be expelled from .:

domites have been: convicted
of arson or attempted arson.

One of the seven sald that

if they were expelled,'“we'll ;,

_ take everything with us,” the
suit ‘says, and the’ Reformed
group believes. this‘ means

the Freedomites would torch’ ’ ad

the New Settlement,

* The: 800 ‘Reformed :mein-"~ Ci

bers live-in wooden houses
built about 20 to 30 metres

apart inthe heavily-wooded ‘

area, The suit says that if the
Freed r

lomites. were to. burn -

the homes théy now occupy,

the -New. Settlement. would

be destroyed.

tho settlement if they did.:

\ an official oft he *caetien
Forestry, Service seid Tues-

‘ Faltertoi
B2n annval meeting of ths
woodlarids’ section ‘of : the

of. keeping the country’s for
eats ‘prod

lucing. :
‘He -gave™ ho indication of
how much ‘money might’ be

Canadians favor the death
penalty for: persons con-
victed of killing innocent
people; eays's Gallup poll
published ye

The poll shows’ little
change in attitudes of of Can-
adians toward capital pun-
ishment inthe last two

said they favored the death
penalty for murderers of
any. innocent person.”
, The latest poll ‘also
showed. that 74 per cent
think capital punishment
should be applied in the
case of murders committed
by terrorists, and 73 per
cent in ‘the killing of a
Prison guard or enduty
‘policeman.

Che results are based on
in-home «interviews with
1,058 adults conducted in
February. Asample of this
size is accurate to within
four percentage pdints;'19
‘times ‘out of 20.

TORONTO “(CP) =f
Sixty-seven per cent off:

years, In 1979, 68 per cent |.

- GETS NEW LIFE
Fullerton said the service,
which fell‘on hard times from
1968 ‘to 1978 when its staff
to 1, fro

2,400, has been giv
to encourage the . develop-"
ment and use of forests.

Tt is continuing research”
into development of forests,
but. ei is responsible’ for

with

ich
“ating t to forests and working
relationships with other. fed.
eral departments and the
provinces,”

Pte said the Vatiles is;
undertaking a broad program
- involving: key areas such ‘as

 elty,:

a remeee period te the end of

the. council meeting -to .ask
that something be done about:
improving two railway cross-

ings.in the south’ end ‘of the
modifying .th ty’s
traffic nares teste include: a
10-second - ai

anc Steprove salute on the”
corner of 28th 8t,-and Col-.
umbia ‘Ave. by: moving s a St

research, forest renewal, ed- °- “*

ucation, fire suppression and
id rain. :

va

‘Increased ‘research au
needed, _¢s;

chemistry and leaf phyatol
oer to assess Potential dan-
a Many ‘officials inthe for-
estry..industry. have com-
plained for several years that
-. Ottawa should. be taking a
tronger hand in co-ordinat-
ing efforts to get

VANCOUVER: (CP), —

British Columbia Education”
Minister Brian Smith

horri-
fied most science. teachers

last week by opening that,”
biology students would'ben-
efit from’ studying not “just :
the ‘secientific . version “of
- evolution but also the biblical

concept of creation +
In B.C., science. teachers

are aware of parent Pressure f

But Embree sounded pes: fo How

simistic about the. first, He.

ceived © shel
‘about th

great
templat etl whe! ; fineal

rising at an annual rate. of
12.2 per. cent — the highest’
level since then... 2.

” The document. says the

pregram resulted in greater’

reductions in wages “than
prices. — a. position long
Taken by organized. labor.

but, they

jignal,: are. PR's Fesponsibility, and
the rail:

.the city. has written
road before and -will..do
again. ©

Sather: says the in:

and’
jul ‘more ‘general.

novere stack i the essnpeny:

“told: the:

>the ::.con-
Is program which was run

by the Anti-Inflation ‘Board
was, in our’ view, well-de-

point out the weak points in”

the, evolution theory, but
cteationism is not taught: be-

suse rit is: not. scientific:
NT itton is not part of the

course curriculum at’ Kin-

naird. Junior Secondary ©

hool, ;
“Anne Jones, Head’ of. the
School Board

benefits out of the forests.
D:R. Reimer of MacMillan
Bloedel -. Ltd. at | Naxaimo,

~ BAC.; safd the company’ bas.
just completed the first year:;

of 8 program it calls the de-
signed forest system. : °°”

t It fs intended to ensure an
unending “supply of trees
over the years through plant-

ee a

boet ane Afew teach
biblical aetna an al
ternative theory.

In Castlegar, there
peara to be no parent pres-
sure, | Cre
“Nothing at all,” said Norm:
Sather the head. of the sci-
ence department at Stanley
Humphires Secondary:
School. etre

there: hasbeen no. parent

Eee tobring creationism

eation, for teachers to tesch -

evolution. If they want to

present an alternative view-:

point, it is their decision.,

, saya:

ove
taught ‘alongside ‘evolution.

fea so-called ‘aclentific pls ;
itionists who belive'the bib- :

5 ‘Theories ean take a variety
of forms, says scientific ex-

 perta, but one rule they must

meet -is that they be
ceptible to disproof.

sus-

‘Anolther thing” theories -

ave in common is that a

theory cannot be proved, al-

‘though! the evidence “may

mount until it seems folly to
truat any other.

Creationtsm's flaw is that -
“itexplains too much — there
to. be‘ ta"no biti

‘At first glance, the request
the tioniats “seems

“But there is a problem.
Creationism Liss

‘wrong.
explanations are.
handled: with, “Well, that’

-deciaion . eee all
levelop'

nigl :
and decide about | Tocal on
initiative and subdivi sion a1

it ican be: .: