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to organize pulp workers

ATHABASCA, Alta. (CP). — The
Canadian Paperworkers Union wants
to unionize workers in the wave of
massive pulp mill projects proposed
for northern Alberta

The union is planning a major drive
to organize workers in four of the new
pulp mills, pitting the

national

72,000-member

union against Alberta's
restrictive labor laws
Union organizers say they're
bracing for along, hard fight
It is going to be a tedious, arduous
battle,” David Coles,

representative from Edmonton

said a union
“But
we aren't going to go.away

The union has targeted four mills
either under construction in the nor
thern half of the province or awaiting
approval, including the $1
Alberta-Pacific
Athabasca

The Alberta-Pacific

3-billion
mill to be built near
project is
ly embroiled in public hearings
to determine if
ite, A joint

assessment panel has been touring the

S t i
OTTAWA (CP) — The former co
owner of a strip club in Hull, Que.,

it’s environmentally
federal-provincial

that received $1 million in federal bank
loans is'defending the deals, saying the
money was for mortgages on the
property and not to finance the club’s
operations

‘It’s not a loan, it's a mortgage,"
said Frank Benti

his ini

who sold
rest in Hull's Le Lido strip club
earlier this year

‘Idon’t think anybody in their right
mind would give a loan to a strip club,
for God's sake, (But) what the hell's
wrong with getting
building

mortgage on a

Bentivoglio said the $1.05 million in
two loans from the Federal Business
Bank

busines

Development to him and his
parnter, Andre

were for mortgages on the

former
Frechette
downtown land and building. He said
they are valued at $1.8 million

In the Commons on Tuesday, In
dustry Minister Harvie Andre said the
federal loans were the result of a big
mistake. He blamed
bungling and said there is a policy that

bureaucratic

forbids federal loans to strip bars.
He said the lending agency is under

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The mills, among more than a dozen
forestry projects lured to northern
Alberta by the provincial government,
are expected to employ more than
1,000 workers.

The province hopes forestry
development will help wean the Alber
ta economy off oil and natural gas. But
both the union and Alberta-Pacific
said Tuesday that many of the
promised jobs from the projects will
Not goto Alberta residents

Gerry Fenner, vice-president of the
British Columbia-based company,
said his company will need a core
group of experienced people to operate
the company’s plant if it is approved,
and Alberta doesn’t have them

Fenner said he expects to recruit
more than 30 per cent of his mill's 440-
strong workforce
Province.

But Coles’ said the
skilled tradespeople could play into the
union's hands. He expects many of the
imported workers will be from mills

from outside the

shortage of

represented by his union.

‘It is already happening ‘at
Daishowa (mill, under constraction
Peace River, Alta.),"" he said
“They have already hired people from
union mills in Ontario, British Colum
bia and the Maritimes.”

Coles talked about the organizing
drive only hours after calling for a
moratorium on new pulp developmen
ts in Alberta because of the long-term
impact the mills will'nave on the
province's forests

But the bearded union veteran had
no problems switching gears from en
vironmental to labor activism

near

already have organizers talking
to people in the communities where
people are being hired and in the areas
that will supply labor for the mills, and
more organizers and money will come
into the province as hiring picks up
over the next year or two," he said.
Cole and his colleagues will have
their them. The
€anadian Paperworkers Union
currently represents only one mill in

work cut out for

Alberta, Weldwood of
operation in Hinton,

The union has failed to organize
workers at mills in the
province after years of trying.

Cole says the pulp companies have
spent a lot of money to keep their mills
non-union. The union also blames
high unemployment and Alberta’s
labor code for their previous failures.

“In most provinces-a mill can be
automatically certified if 55 to 60 per
cent of the employees sign up,” he
said. ‘‘In Alberta there has to bea vote,
and that gives the employer time to
Pressure people or even, fire a whole
crew,""

Canada’s

two other

No matter what the organizers do
they are in for an uphill fight. When
the Daishowa mill was first announ
ced, a, Japanese executive told repor
ters that Alberta's stable labor climate
was a key factor in its decision to build
here.

Both Daishowa, and the Japanese
controlled Albert
don’t want to deal with unions

Pacific, say they

-club loans draw fire

approved. The business development
bank's inspectors thought the club was
just a disco, he added

But bank spokesman Ken Cavanagh
said Tuesday that local bank officials
knew Lido wasa strip club

“There's no question that the per
son at the branch level knew that there
Was an erotic club in the building,” he
said. ‘But the initial loan was made to
purchase prime commercial land and

the building and wa mortgage
loan

Cavanagh said a later check by bank
officials, done routinely to ensure
money loaned is being used properly,
also found Lido was a strip club. He
could not explain why the information
was not passed on and why no action
was taken

The Liberals

planation

Andre's ex.
and

vowed to continue to press the gover

called
npnsense Tuesday
nment for answers.

**We caught the government with its
* said Liberal MP Don

raised the issue in the

pants dowr
Boudria. He
House on Tuesday morning after a
Quebec radio station broke the story
Monday
Cavanagh loan

said applications

is offering an incfedible

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HARVIE ANDRE
. loans a big mistake

from nightclubs and the like are nor
mally referred to the bank's regional
offices for consideration.

He said that was not done because
Frechette and Bentivoglio’s ap
plication was made by a numbe
that owned the land and
building. It was not made by another
numbered company, also owned by

company

the partners, that operates the strip
bar

The loans have raised the ire of the
National Action Committee on the
State of Women, an umbrella group of
more than 400 women’s groups.

“The whole thing is outrageous,"’
said spokesman Huguette Leger. She
complained that while federal funding
to women's groups was cut by 15 per
cent this year, a strip bar that exploits
women was benefiting from federal
dollars

Old reports used
to refute claim

VANCOUVER (CP)
for the

A lawyer
federal government quoted
from century-old reports from an In
dian agent Tuesday in arguing against
an Indian band’s claim.to more than
50,000 square kilometres in
western British Columbia

north:

read in B.C
excerpts
Richard
agent in the region between 1889 and
1920.

James Macaulay

Supreme Court from the

writings of Loring,’ Indian

He was opening the government's
case on the 299th day of the land claim
trial

He told Chief
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Workshop scheduled

The second of two workshops
designed to enhance the performance
of home-based businesses will be of
fered in Castlegar, Regional Develop
ment Minister Stan Hagen said.

The workshop series, developed by
the Regional Development Ministry in
cooperation with B.C. chambers of
commerce, is designed to promote the
home asa viable place for carrying ona
business and to increase the number of
successful home businesses, a news
release from the Castlegar Chamber of
Commerce says.

‘In conducting these workshops,
my ministry is anticipating the growing
role of home-based businesses in a
changing economy,” Hagen says in the
release.

The \second workshop picks up
where the first workshop left off and
targets the entrepreneur who has
already established a business. The
eight-hour seminar covers effective
marketing plans, marketing from the
home, advertising, promotion and
publicity, selling, developing the right
image, examples of home-based
business marketing and managing
more efficiently and profitably

“These are standard business prac
tices. as important to home-based
businesses as they are to B.C
corporations,"” Hagen said
businesses started at home later ex

al district offices
create employment
significantly to the

and contribut

local and provincial economy,"*
Hagen said there are now 130,000

self-employed people operating

businesses out of their homes in B.C

“But of the 15,000 new home-based
businesses started annually, only 20
per cent survive the first five years
These workshops will incfease the
chances of success,’’ he said.

The workshop will be held at Selkirk
College, room B15 on Dec, | from 6
P.m 10 p.m. and Dec, 2 from 8:30
aim. - 12:30 p.m. Fee for the entire
eight-hour workshop is $48, For more
information contact the Castlegar
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Deal will speed free trade

OTTAWA (CP) — Free trade will
arrive a lot faster than scheduled for
hundreds of products under a deal ex-
pected to be signed next week by Trade
Minister John Crosbie and his U.S
counterpart, Carla Hills

Canadian and American negotiators
have been haggling in Washington this

week over the final list covering 600 to
1,000 categories of goods and about $1
billiona year in trade.

Officials on both sides of the border
say details should be ready in time for
the second, formal free-trade meeiing
of Hills, the U.S, trade representative,
and Crosbie next week in Ottawa.

Stone completes

MONTREAL (CP) — Pulp and
paper producer Stone-Consolidated
has announced it has obtained enough
shares of CB Pak Inc. to complete its
buyout of the former glass and
packaging giant and now-will liquidate
the company

Minority shareholders accepted an
offer of $11.25 a share for their stake,
said Stone-Consolidated Inc. which
already owned 80 per cent of CB Pak

The minority shareholders rejected
the bid initially hut changed their min-
ds when analysts said the offer, which
expired Friday, was better than
anything they might receive after
liquidation.

Stone-Consolidated, a subsidiary of
Stone Container Corp., co-owners of
Celgar Pulp Co. in Castlegar, said
about 3.9 million common shares were
tendered to it — or 95 per cent of the

VICTORIA (CP) — Hotels in
British Columbia should lobby
their guests to help fight the goods
and services tax, says the president
of the B.C. and Yukon Hotels’
Association.

“We are encouraging them to
speak out to these federal
politicians,"’ Mary Anne Milobar,
told the 500-member association's
annual meeting. ‘‘The GST, if it
comes in, could wipe out a whole
layer of the industry.""

Milobar suggested placing
petitions in hotel lobbies for guests
tosign

The proposed nine-per-cent
4€deral tax on most services and
goods would be devastating to

Hotel group
opposes tax

rural B.C. hotels if implemented as
planned in 1991, she said

Finance Minister Mel Couvelier
also attacked the tax when
speaking to delegates

“We've told them (the federal
government) that the tourism in-
dustry will suffer more than any
other," said Couvelier

But Couvelier was attacked for
his government's taxation policies.
In the 1988 budget, room taxes
were raised to eight per cent from:
seven and draft beer was taxed 10
per cent for the first time.
Couvelier promised the hoteliers
that the government would redress
their concerns in the next budget

The two ministers form the joint
commission that runs the free-trade
agreement, a sweeping deal launched
Jan, 1 and governing about $200
billion in two-way trade

“It is hoped they will wrap up their
work for the Nov. 30 international

buyout

4.1 million shares it did not already
own

Under the law, it needed at least 90
per cent of the shares to force the rest
of the shareholders to sell out and
complete the $46.5-million buyout

The buyout signals the beginning of
the final breakup of CB Pak

trade commission meeting,” Andre
LeBlanc, an External Affairs Depar-
tment spokesman, said Tuesday

Under the free-trade deal, some
tariffs were wiped out immediately,
but most are only being eliminated in
‘tages during five or 10 years.

However, the agreement provided
for further negotiations to speed up
some of the cuts.

AU.S. trade official, who asked not
to be named, said that’s because the
package still requires approval by the
U.S. Congress. The Canadian side of
the deal needs approval by
cabinet

Tariffs, a kind of import tax, range
as high as 25 per cent on some goods,
but average about 10 per cent in
Canada and five per cent in the United
States

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Securities and Exchange Commission
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Net proceeds of the transaction will
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curred for the company’s acquisition
and construction program and for
general corporate purposes, UtiliCorp
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The shares are expected to be of
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