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Sands dies; boycott planned

(AP) — As thousands of
people mourned the death of
Bobby Sands in street dem-
onstrations and church mem-
orials, union dockworkers in
the United States pledged to
boycott British ships at U.S.

Urges

ports Thursday in support of .

the Irish Republican Army
hunger striker.

Queen Elizabeth, on a
four-day visit to Norway, was
greeted by thousands of
cheering welcomers and a

use of

Canadian labor

VICTORIA (CP( — There
is no need to import skilled
workers for the multi-billion-
dollar northeast B.C. coal
development when so many

_ unemployed British Colum-
bians can be retained, the
NDP industry critic ‘said
Tuesday.

“There should be a warn-

ing issued right now that, we .

don’t_need a single~foreign
worker for any of the north-
east project,” Stu Leggatt
said in an interview. “We can
skill-train anybody that’s
needed.”

Earlier, Labor Minister
Jack Heinrich said 1,500
foreign tradesmen . would
probably have to be imported
to develop. the coalfields.

ster said employ:
ers in five major B.C. in-
dustries estimate they will
need an additional 5,000
tradesmen by 1984.

He said the findings are
contained in a report pre-
pared by the ministry and
the occupational training
council. Mining, manufactur-
ing, forestry, pulp and paper,
and, government will be the
most seriously affected.

They do not include major
projects such as the north-
east B.C. coal

rest of Canada, but the idea
of bringing in imported work-
ers is disgraceful.” ‘
"The member for Coquit-
lam-Moody said the coal de-
velopment will not get under
way for 1: to two years so
there is time to play to train
people.

“We may be having to

. import. foreign tradesmen,

but what is worse if you look
at the whole northeast coal
development, you're going to
subsidize coal into Japan to
make cheap cars to bring
back to B.C. and Ontario and
put Canadian automakers out
of work,” he said. “That is

.one of the long-term effects

of the deal.”

Heinrich agreed there is a
shortage of skilled workers in
_B.C. but the government, in-
dustry and the unions are
working to overcome it.

He said the number of
apprenticeships is increas-
ing (to 16,720) but his pa-
tience with employers and
unions, who are hampering
his efforts to increase that
number, is wearing thin.

Because of that, he is
considering a training tax on
employers not hiring skilled
labor trained in B.C.

few angry protesters chant-
ing “Bobby Sands, Bobby
Sands.”

In Paris, hundreds of dem-
onstrators marched through
the streets with an Irish flag
and shouted “Save the Irish
prisoners. ” About 300 people
in Athens carried banners
proclaiming “British imperi-
alists out of Northern Ire-
land.”

The 110,000-member Inter-

- national Longshoremen’s As-
eee pei ie

it will

Phiiadelphia,
marched in New York City
behind a coffin draped with
Irish flags, 1,000 gathered for
a memorial service in Hart-
ford, Conn,, and thousands
more denounced the British
government in Paris, Athens.
and Morway.

Two bomb threats were
made on the British consulate
offices in New York, but no
explosions went off.

Sands, recently elected to

boycott British ships for 24
hours, beginning Thursday,
“to demonstrate against the
violatiosn of human rights by

died Monday
night after a 66-day hunger
strike aimed at winning poli-
tical status for jailed IRA
members,

2,000 people,

Wants cost-sharing

proposals on table

VICTORIA (CP( — Finan-
cial negotiations and difficult
program discussions between
the federal and provincial
governments are being de-
layed by Ottawa, finance
ministers of the four weatern
provinces said Tuesday.

“Genuine fed

The ministers, Brian Ran-
som of Manitoba, Ed Tchor-
zewski of Saskatchewan, Lou

Hyndman of Alberta and’

Hugh Curtis of B.C., also
discussed equilization pny-
ments, established programs
financing which covers med-
ical care,

cial discussions and nego-
tiations on financial and pro-

health care, universities and
technical schools, and tax

gram issues are

essential if we are to improve .

federal-provincial relations,”
the ministers said in a news
release following a day-long
meeting here.

Double
whammy

planned

CHARLOTTETOWN (CP)
— The Prince Edward Island.
government is apprehensive
that Ottawa has a double
whammy planned for the
provinces, Finance Minister
Lloyd MacPhail said Tues-

day.

MacPhail told a parliamen-
tary committee he is con-
cerned that the federal gov-
ernment plans to cut financtal
help to the provinces and
reduce control

Curtis said the provinces -

want Ottawa to put
cost-sharing proposals on the
table,

“The sooner we know pre-
cisely what the federal gov-
ernment has in mind, the
sooner we can respond," he
said in an interview.

The ministers said Ot-
tawa’s intention to reduce
financing for health and post-
secondary education is. un-
justified and unacceptable.

itting federal support
for these programs for people

‘to achieve ‘savings’ for the

federal treasury would ser-
fously damage the key pro-
grams,” they said in their
news release,
“Federal action should not
simply involve a shift in tax
burdens to provinces and
municipalities.”

The minister ifdicated

> they are unhappy with the

over health care and post,
secondary education.

The committee, which is
travelling across Canada to
get provincial views, is re-
viewing federal-provincial
programs expiring March 31,
1982, under which Ottawa
transfers $15 billion yearly to
the provinces,

‘The money, in cash and tax
collection authority, covers
$3.8 billion in equalization
payments to poorer provin-
ces and another $11 billion to
all 10 provinces for medicare,
hospitals and post-secondary
education.

the British g
Northern Ireland.”

WON'T UNLOAD SHIPS

The boycott will prevent
loading or unloading of Brit-
ish ships at ports in Puerto
Rico, the Gulf of Mexico,
along with Atlantic and in the
Great Lakes, where the

union has jurisdiction. The ”

union said it does not know
how many ships might be af-
fected,

An estimated 3,600 people
sang and marched Tuesday in

P who
in front of the British con-
sulate in New York buned a
Union Jack and chanted
“Bobby Sands lives on.”
Meanwhile, in Los An-
geles, the head of the Church

of England celebrated mass —

amid tight security.

“The Archbishop of Cant-
erbury, Robert Runcie,
wound up a two-day visit by
urging congregents to pray
for Sands and others “caught ~
up in the violence in Ireland.”

Newsprint price
to be increased

VANCOUVER (CP) .—
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. and
B.C. Forest Products Ltd.
will increase the price of
newsprint to Lower Main-
land and Vancouver Island
buyers to $500 a tonne from
$470 Aug. 1, the Companies
said Tuesday.

B.C, Interior and Alberta

he said.
AGREEMENT MADE

B.C. industry has a $2.5-
billion agreement with the
Japanese to sell 100 million
tonnes of metallurgical coal
and 15 million tonnes of ther-
mal-coal from the northeast
region during a 15-year per-
iod starting in 1983.

Leggatt said wage rates
will be depressed if the gov-

ernment allows foreigners to

work on the project.
“We may have to bring in
some skilled labor from the

Police
Briefs

A two-vehicle accident Sat-
urday on Tenth Avenue and
Fifth Street has resulted in a
Castlegar woman, Norma
McMillan, being charged
with failing to yield the
right-of-way.

Her vehicle was in collision
with another driven by Brian
Hunter, also of Castlegar.

Damage has been esti-
mated at $2,000.

Local RCMP have ternied
the weekend as “fairly quiet”
responding to 41 complaints
which are classified as rou-
tine.

These have resulted in four
liquor seizures and three

persons arrested for intoxi-

cation.

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