B8 CASTLEGAR NEWS, June 19, 1983 Inflation, a damper on good news TORONTO (CP) — Many Canadian manufacturing companies are rejoicing about signs that they're finally returning to economic growth, but a survey of bus- iness conditions in May puts a damper on the matter, re- vealing that renewed infla- tion is accompanying the good news. The survey by the Pur. chasing Management Associ- ation of Canada shows that for the first time in months, basic commodity costs are beginning to rise again. That less-than-impressive trend is coming at a time when the recovery is getting stronger. Industrial produc- tion jumped in the early months of the year and, al- though the rate of advance has slowed since, output has not slipped backward. The survey found that production, new orders and employment in manufactur- ing and processing industries continued to improve in May, . with 45 per cent of respon- dents reporting a climb in new orders at their compan- ies. 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Chance of precipl- tation for Friday Is 80 per cent, CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1983 ” 3 Sections (A, B&C) ve they haven't had such'a major impact” the points to the:c one-year. wage freeze Cominco hha iteelworkers of America, ‘that the union gave up no @ realistic settlement that is‘no’ money, for ‘wage -increases, Bill : Pra raegy B.C: Employees Council president, said Tuesday. for B.C.'s tases corpor- ations, said. the Cominco settlement, was not a victory for either side, pat “both sides got what they sonaidered impor- tant.” “The union did not believe there should: be conces- sions and the: ‘company got no increased costs inthe first year.": ° : Under the contract, Cominco agreed to extend the previous cost-of-living clause but it won't have to pay three first-year adjustments until next May, at the beginning of the , “I -think ‘it’s the most ‘significant. ‘yet which has not included a cost: increase‘ in the first year,” Hamilton said the pact will have an Impertant effect on vecchas tentative contract. enay: Power and: Light Co. ° -reached ‘a. tentative agree- ment Tuesday with the Inter-’: ational Brotherhood of Elec: _ week, said company cae “man Jack Fisher... laces C ‘Comins : settlement 2 with ‘the: steelworkers-’ in-- : elause and a clause designed to give employees a wage in- -erease if Cominco gains enor- mous prices because of-high . ; metal prices.‘ The utility still must sign an agreement with the Office been without a contract since “Dee. 31. No talks are sched- uled but the two sides likely will meet soon, said Fisher. Tan ‘Schierbeck, business “ agent ‘for Local 878 of the * Office and Technical Employ- --ees Union, said they had been closely watching the Cominco negotiations with the steel- >, workers. ie : “ Youngsters shu ‘way Sunday at. nual Doukhober ‘Spo ay. Waterme! lon eating ‘second year.’ :* \The three cost-of-living adjustments in the second year will kick in normally in August and November, ee and February, 1985... ‘ ‘Asauming Bi aix-per-cent inflation rate, that will have the: eff f giving Ro inéredes ia: the first year and a through waterm lon tost was-one of several " “ful photo feature on the day in Sunday's C * seven -per-cent raise in the second. Cominco argued it could ‘not afford a first-year wage increase because of-$50-million losses over the past 15 months. _A similar’ argument is being made by the forest industry, which is negotiating new contracts this summer with the International Woodworkers of Americs,. the Canadian Paperworkers Union and the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada. Jack Munro, western region president of the IWA, said the forest industry should earn from the Cominco settlement that unions are not going to buckle under and make major concessions, ‘ “Cominco had demanded an increase in. working hours for, some of its employees and wanted. to end special vacations. Every five years, Cominco employees get an extra. hree weeks vacation. sacta ‘endniark’ . Forest companies are asking for concessions to give. management greater leeway in shift scheduling and to allow contracting-out of work to other firms. Munro and Canadian Paperworkers spokesman Art Gruntman said the forest industry is different from mining. Munro said forestry and housing sectors have always Jed the way out of any depression or recession, while mining follows. ‘While there has been little improvement in the price Cominco gets for lead and zine, they said, the prices of some forest products, principally lumber, already have gone up. “They (Cominco) are: in mining and smelting,” sald Gruntman. “There has not been anywhere near the turnaround in mining that there is in forestry. - “People are going to look at the (Cominco) agreement and Hink about it, but they ‘are two different Andustries. sia ~ Contract {pleases both sides By CasNews Staif Solidarity of the United Steelworkers of America membership was a key factor in the contract settlement reached this week for about @ 4,450 Cominco workers in "events at the sports doy. Watch for a Trail and Kimberley, Local 480 president Ken Georgetti said today, ~ The union ‘said office and technical workers. voted 88 per cent’ in favor of. the -stwo-year.contraet, while: pro-- “Our membership was sol- | idly behind us in both the strike vote and acceptance of the contract, which shows quite ‘good solidarity amongst the -members,” Georgetti. said. He noted ‘By DIANE STRANDBERG ~..- Stall Writer - <) Decreasing enrolment has forced the Castlegar’ school ‘board to rediice the teaching staff.and reassess the future a: 08 ‘Pass Creek school. joyees"; Union, ‘whose 84 West Koot- _ enay Power members have The board’ ‘plans.to monitor _the enrolment situation over the next year to determine if it’ is feasible to keep the school open. Meanwhile, ‘the staff of three will be reduced by one teacher for the fall semester as the number of. students drop from 86 to.about 27 in the next school year. © The staff reduction will not result in any layoffs because the third teacher will “be = Sc hool's 's foture i in doubt transferred to another posi- Hon in the district, the board decided’ Monday. But the staff changes will mean principal Nick Verigin - will become head teacher and Woodland Park’ ' principal John Plotnikeff will add Pass Creek school to his principal- ship. Plotnikoff will take over as principal because his school has been absorbing Pass Creek. students when there were not enough to make up a class at the rural school. " ‘Trustee Lovette ‘Ni “to explain the atatfing chan- ges. :- ‘They were met by about 50 parents and interested area undevstanitiag “They. can.see the writing on the wall,” Jones said. “They know the school will 3 . who their. concerns | about. the future of Pass Creek school, and potential busing prob- lems owing to the poor con-.” ditions of Pass Creek road.” * “They are looking at road. conditions and busing; they would prefer them (the chil- dren) to, stay in the com- munity school... and I sym- pathize with them,” Nichvol- odoff said in an interview. doff and two other board members travelled. to Pass Creek schoo} last Wednesday. Trustees and Anne Jones, who’ were on hand to explain the board's position, ‘said parents were e ly have to be closed.” The. parents were prom- ised that they will: be con- sulted in any. plans to close the school.’ Nichvolodoff noted that because of the un- certain future of the school “communication lines would remain open,” and the board would likely meet with par- ents in December or early 1984, Meanwhile, parents have been asked to form a com-’ munity group to reach some ‘consensus about the future of the school building in the event of closure. Currently, Pass Creek school is used for various community “activities and there‘are possibilities that a community organization could take over that’ bers voted 94 per cent in favor of strike action “ast month. Georgetti said the work- ers’ support of the seven-day strike forced the company to take a more realistic ap- proach in contract negotia- tions resulting in the with- drawal of and re- rent economic situation. I don't think they expected a large increase,” he said. The COLA clause in the contract will see three pay- ments scheduled to be ap-- plied to the base rate on May 1, 1988, delayed by one year. one year. — ‘Three - more. installations will be made during the sec- ond year of the agreement. -The._union. says. those . pay- ‘ments should amount to a total of 47 cents during the first year and 49 cents in the second; based ona six-per- cent inflation rate. Georgetti said the union achieved its prime objective of avoiding contract conces- sions and at the same time made advances in contract language and job protection through an early retirement plan. The contract also provides for a “metals trigger” — a 20 cent hourly wage increase should the prices of lead, zinc and silver rise. tention of the-cost of living allowance. “Cominco finally realized that we were going to strike because of those issues,” Ge- orgetti said, adding that Cominco didn't think there would be a strike until the for ‘the’ building. Other staffing changes will see the reduction of half a teaching position at Stanley Humphries Secondary School, the increase of a full-time teaching position at Kinnaird Junior Secondary by internal transfer, and the reduction of one teacher at Robson elementary through a pteition: _ Students By RON NORMAN. unlock island secrets that project workers Elizabeth Duckworth and George were Interior Salish Indians, who inhabited ‘the island as strike Was .ac- tually in place. Although the contract pro- | vides no wage increases, and the cost of living payments expected to provide in- creases of 3.4 per cent an- nually are delayed until the end of the first year, Geor- getti says the workers are happy with the agreement. The union leader said workers are satisfied that the COLA clause remains intact W and they feel they “gave up nothing” in the form of con- cessions, “They und: the cur- the lead-zine smelter is in a start-up phase and many workers are al- ready back on the job. However, operations manag: er Guy Downie said today it will be Friday before the plant is in full operation. Downie said the company is “quite relieved” at having reached such a reasonable contract agreement in light of the current economic sit- uation. “We got a settlement we can live with and the union got one too,” Downie said. Both union and company officials agree that mediator Richard Longpre played a significant roll in btinging the two sides together. Long- pre continued to press for an agreement on an informal basis after booking out of the inside MENT, Elaine Sallis, Editor Zuckerberg Island — already the scene of a Rotary-sponsored park project — now is also the focus of Apel have so far uncovered. And there may be more to come. A History and English major in the’ University of a summer student works p that will recommend how 'to restore, the island to its former :“grandeur. Sponsored by the City: of i the Victoria at Nelson's David Thompson Uni- versity Centre, Apel explains: “A Jot of what we're doing is trying to get the history of the island .». Our role is restoration program will also’ provide a dp eaeh onda history of the island stretching from around 1400 B.C. to the present. And though the project has only’ been ‘underway for a ; little: more than‘ three weeks;‘it: has alread * its several interesting facts about the ‘tiny, at the confl of the Kootenay and‘Columbia Rivers... For instance, who knew that the island has two . registered.Indian historical sites?: How many. also knew / that the. island was ‘once used by explorer David Thompson to take his bearings during his survey of the » Columbia River? : Those are just two of the island’s historical secrets more of g.the past.” The project will run for three months — June 1 to Aug.'31 — and involves six different phases. The two students began by compiling an archeologi- cal/anthropological suryey of. the island before area pioneer Alexander, Zuckerberg arrived on it. The survey incudes' geological formations on the island, native studies, the location of the island's significant heol sites, and into David Thompson's survey notes, CPR records and the logs of Columbia River paddlewheelers. Duckworth, a classical’ studies major at the University of Toronto, says the island's first occupants early as 1200-1400 B.C. “They were sort of semi-nomadic,” she explains. She says the Indians wintered on the island and in the Castleger area after their seasonal fishing expedition ere, “She says the remains of two Indian pit houses in which the Indians lived are on the island. “They are’ registered sites,"- Duckworth adds quickly, “arid as such, it is illegal to do any digging in a registered site.” However, she said even if someone did dig in the two depressions, it is unlikely they would find anything. ‘As'far as finding anything on the island — they wouldn't,” says Apel. “Maybe some salmon bones.” He sald the Indians in this area didn't have many posses- sions. Adds, Duck “If they iyth were sure to take it with la impoverished.” ® continued on page A2 ing ... they .. they were very © Beth Krug was named Stanley Humphries Sec- ondary School's top senior female athlete at a recent awards ban- quet. For full details on the awards and a plete of three of the top ‘our school athletes, turn to page BI A B.C. Rail cook working in a camp along remote Tumbler Ridge line kicked an attack- ing bear in the e-stomoch and lived to tell about it, story page A2 This weekend is graduation time for Stanley Humphries’ Grade 12 class. Last Sunday CasNews columnist John Charters gove a special address to the J. L. Crowe class of ‘83 in Trail. See whot he had to tell them on page