D>. \ as Castlegar News June 1.1967 BUSINESS Labor unrest predicted By DAVE BLAIKIE Canadian Press OTTAWA — Canadians may be in for a long, hot summer of labor unrest. Railway and postal workers are on the verge of striking and port workers in Montreal are threatening to walk out. A, province-wide crisis has been brewing in British Columbia over harsh new legislation to crack down on labor unions. Considering the general image of labor-management relations in Canada, this isn't normal. The last national railway strike was in 1973. The last Montreal port strike was in 1975. Even the postal workers, synonymous in the public mind with strikes, haven't walked out nationally since 1981. Yet serious labor-management tensions exist almost everywhere as summer approaches. More than 1.5 million workers — two-thirds of those covered by major union contracts — are bargaining this year The majority are public sector workers, but the negotiating calendar also includes tough contract talks in the steel, auto and pulp and paper industries. Viewed against the backdrop of the B.C. crisis and sour memories of the violent Gainers meatpacking strike last year in Edmonton, it adds up to a volatile mix. How did it come about? The simplest answer is concession bargaining. It is usually the employers who are on the offensive at the negotiating table, a'trend that took root during the 1981-82 recession. It is not uncommon for nt to arrive at the bargaining table with as many demands for rollbacks as I fi TORONTO (CP) — The Toronto stock exchange was down slightly Friday after a unions make for imp: is getting its way. The last time wage settlements, as charted by Labor Canada, matched inflation was 1981. Every year @ince, despite the lowest inflation in a generation, wage increases have lagged behind price increases — 25.6 per cent for wages compared to 29.1 per cent for inflation from 1962 through 1986. That's among the big unions — those best equipped to fight for members. The figures do not take smaller unions or unorganized workers into account. Unions have grudgingly accepted small or static wage settlements as a reality of post-reeceasion economics. They are drawing the line at their jobs. Job security is the dominant labor issue of the 1980s and it lies at the root of most of the disputes threatening to flare into strikes this summer. The railways, for example, want to cut more than 10,000 workers from their payrolls. Canada Post wants to eliminate 8,7000 union jobs, and maritime employers are trying to reduce manpower requirements on the waterfront. week, while the New York exchange ended the week with a roar. Analysts said some posi tive trade news in the United States on Friday strengthen-_ ed the U.S. dollar and bond pear 4 Hist making investore Losers outnumbered win- ners 483 to 395 with 890 un- changed, on a volume of 27,564,988, worth $375,299,- 825. In. New York, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 17.60 to 2,377.73, stretching its gain for the week to 51.98 points. Advancing issues out- The gold subgroup in Tor- numbered decliners 1,076 to ent eee omen _vardeulariy with unchan; o1 volatile as ivesi remain- Sen ee ene ante One oi okikilah over, the; fate-ol hares. the U.S. dollar. Toronto failed to keep pace On Friday, the subgroup, as gold stocks fell because of made up of 31 issues, was off the strength of the U.S. cur- 2.43 per cent — or 209.22 rency and investors fretted points. For the week, it has over federal Finatice Min- lost 0.86 per cent. 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Checkers Pub posts 11th win By RON NORMAN Editor Checkers Pub racked up its 11th win in 18 games this week in Castlegar Men's Fastball League play. Checkers has a total of 23 points, nine more than second place Labatts, which has a record of seven wins and six losses. Hi Arrow Arms has 13 points on six wins, four losses and a tie. However, the hotel squad has two games in hand on Labatts. K and A Tire is in the cellar. with just one win in 18 games. Hi Arrow batters continue to domin- ate the hitting race, holding down six of the top 10 spots, including the top four positions. Terry Halisheff leads the league with a .438 average on 14 hits in 32 at bats. George Plotnikoff is second with nine hits in 22 plate appearances for a .409 average. Lee Belanger is third, sport- ing a .395 average with 17 hits in 43 at bats. Checkers’ Eli Soukeroff boasts the best pitching record with 11 wins, a tie and a loss. Hi Arrow'’s George Plot- nikoff is next with five wins in eight isi while Labatts’ Pete Evdoki- minor 8 CasNews Photo by Ron Norman Park. Game was part of Castleg: one-day wind-up. Turgeon taken first By ALAN ADAMS DETROIT — Pierre Turgeon twitched, while Brendan Shanahan was lost for words. Wayne McBean felt flattered and Jimmy Waite’s dream came true. The annual National Hockey League draft of junior, college and European hockey players went off like clockwork Saturday, including a few surprise choices and one major trade. “mies 1 a ~ - The Quebec Nordiques sent their most-popular player, Dale Hunter, along with goaltender Clint Malarchuk to Washington. In return, the Capitals dealt away their first-round draft pick (15th overall), along with defenceman Gaetan Duchesne and centre Alan Haworth. “I'm shocked,” said Hunter, who drove to Detroit from nearby Petrolia, Ont., for the draft. “I came here to watch and look what happened.” The Nordiques-Capitals deal was the only major swap. Minnesota and Los Angeles exchanged first-round draft picks and there were several minor swaps in later rounds. Most of the 21 NHL general managers had defence on their mind as 11 defencemen were selected in the first round. Turgeon, a high-scoring centre from Granby of the Quebec Major Junior League, was taken first overall, as expected, by the Buffalo Sabres. New Jersey went second and the Devils ended days of speculation by giving the nod to Brendan Shanahan of the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League, another high-scoring centre who was rated No. 1 overall by the NHL. Boston, who last year traded for Vancouver's pick, was third, and the Bruins took defenceman Glen Wesley of the Portland Winter Hawks of the Western Hockey League. Other first-round » listed by t positi player were: Los Angeles, defenceman Wayne McBean; Pittsburgh, defenceman Chris Joseph; Minnesota, centre Dave Archibald; Toronto, Luke Ri Chicago, goaltender Jimmy Waite; Quebec, defenceman Brian Fogarty; New York Rangers, defenceman Jaysson Moore; Detroit, defenceman Yves Racine; St. Louis, right wing Keith Osborne; Boston, defenceman Stephane Quintal; Quebec, centre Joe Sakic; Winnipeg, defenceman Bryan Marchment; Montreal, centre Andrew Cassels; Hartford, right wing Jody Hull; Calgary, left wing Bryan Deasley: Philadelphia, defenceman Darren Rumble; and Edmonton Oilers, left wing Peter Soberlak. "s first choice, defe the 24th overall selection. Turgeon, the brother of Sylvain Turgeon of the Hartford Whalers, said his first priority is to get a better grasp of English. “T'll take a course this summer,” said Turgeon, who had 69 goals and 85 assists last season. Turgeon has been compared with another flashy French-Canadian, Gilbert Perreault, who was the Sabres’ franchise player until his retirement last season. Sabres coach Ted Sator said Buffalo had a lively debate over who was the best player available, and he’s confident they made the right choice. “I don't think anything was etched in stone, particularly when you are the 21st team in the NHL,” said Sator. “But I don’t think there was a whole lot of argument from our point of view that Pierre Turgeon was the best player available.” Shanahan said he was flabbergasted when he heard his name called. “T'm not usually lost for words but I am today,” he said. Rob Murphy, was moff has four wins and two losses. For 1 istics see Weekend He allowed one run in the second inning when Gafy Fleming singled, was sacrificed to second and went home on two wild pitches. Checkers took a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning when Phil Angrignon reached on an error and eventually scored. Labatts sent the game into extra innings when it staged a tremendous comeback, scoring two runs in the bottom of the seventh. Bob Essaunce singled, followed by Tom Moran's double. Essaunce then scored on a wild pitch and Moran came home on a single by Kuzyk. Checkers won the game in the top of the eighth when Soukeroff singled and eventually scored on a wild pitch. In Checkers’ other game this week, Clay Liber went three for three to spark a 13-hit Checkers attack and a 7-5 win over Hi Arrow. This game also went into extra innings — this time finishing in nine innings. The teams were deadlocked at three runs apiece after seven ingings and each team scored a single in the eighth inning. Checkers then scored three runs in the ninth while Hi Arrow could only respond with one. Wrap-up, page B2. In action this week Checkers edged Labatts 3-2 in eight innings. Soukeroff picked up the win on the mound, limiting the brew crew to nine hits. Wayne Kuzyk touched Soukeroff for a pair of hits in four trips to the plate. Joe Tarasoff suffered the loss, but allowed only four hits. Tarasoff lost the game on several wild pitches. Tomelin heading to Games By CasNews Staff Shelley Tomelin of Castlegar is off to the B.C. Summer Games in July after sweeping three events at the Kootenay zone track and field championships June 6 in Cranbrook. Tomelin, a Grade 9 student at Stan- ley Humphries secondary school, cap- tured the 100-metre, 400-metre and 800-metre track titles. She will compete in all three events at the summer games. keroff again picked up the win, giving up 11 hits. Lee Belanger, Terry Halisheff and Ken Kereiff each had a pair of hits, while John Obetkoff went three-for-three. Al Potapoff took the loss, surrend- ering 13 ‘hits, including a first inning home run to catcher Jim Nazaroff. Nazaroff, Bruce Miller and Soukeroff each had a pair of hits while Grant Saliken and Liber had three hits each. Hi Arrow salvaged the week by winning its other game 11-5 over K and A Tire. George Plotnikoff grabbed the victory, pitehing an eight-hitter. G. Tomlin went three for five, while Larry Chernenkoff had two hits in four at bats. John Obetkoff and Ron Bartsoff led the 12-hit Hi Arrow offence. Both went three for four. Terry Halisheff and Lee Belanger also smacked out a pair of hits against losing pitcher Wayne Abiet- koff. K and A dropped its other game this week by a 6-3 margin to Labatts. Pete Evdokimoff was on the mound for the win, scattering nine hits. Darryl Bojechko went three for three, while Ken Kereiff and D. Markin each had a pair of hits. Abietkoff again took the loss, though he held Labatts to just six hits. One of those was a solo home run by Joe Tarasoff in the seventh inning. Bill Tarasoff went two for three. Nords deal Hunter, Malarchuk to Caps DETROIT (CP) — Don't look for Dale Hunter to attend the NHL entry draft next year. Hunter, wearing a Quebec Nord- iques T-shirt, was in a jovial mood -when he arrived to witness the 1987 draft Saturday, but a smile turned into a stunned look when he found out he had been traded to the Washington Capitals. Hunter and goaltender Clint Malar- chuk were dealt to the Capitals for defenceman Gastan Duchesne and centre Alan Haworth. Quebec also obtained the Capitals first-round choice (15th overall) and used it to select Joe Sakic, a centre who had 60 goals and 73 assists in 72 games with Swift Current Broncos of the. Western Hockey League. The deal was the shocker of the six swaps, which saw Detroit's Mark Laforest, Montreal's Dave Maley, Buffalo's Tom Kurvers and Ric Nat- tress of the St. Louis Blues and Boston's John Blum find new teams for the 1987 - 88 season. Hunter, a gutsy forward who enjoys playing # physical game, dreve to the Joe Louis Arena from his home in nearby Petrolis, Ont. for the event. Hunter was in the building for less than 10 minutes before the deal was announced. “This is the last thing I expected,” the seven-year-veteran said. “Next year, I'm staying home.” * Ironically, the last time the draft was not held in Montreal was two years ago when it was in Toronto. Hunter's brother, Mark, was a spectator and the team he played for, the Montreal Canadiens, traded him to St. Louis. Hunter had a tear in his eye as Nordiques president Marcel Aubut, wandered by . SPECIAL OLYMPICS WILL Staff Writer ‘TOUGH' By SURJ RATTAN GRETZKY PLAY? Edmonton Oilers’ coach Glen Sather is denying he ever made comments to the effect that he does not want to take part in the 1987 Canada Cup series. It was reported last week that Sather was not interested in acting as Team Canada's general manager ahd that he was even suggesting to players on the Oilers squad not to take part in the hockey tournament set for August. No better time to play hockey than in August, I always say. But now Sather is denying he made those comments and will in fact act as Team Canada’s GM, along with the likes of Phil Esposito of the New York Rangers, Bobby Clarke of the Philadelphia Flyers and Serge Savard of the Montreal Canadiens. “I have never talked to my play ers about that. There was an article written in Toronto which has caused me a lot of grief. I don't know where it came from,” said Sather. Well Sather and the rest of those general managers may not have ing better to do with their in August then take part in hockey, but some notable players in the National Hockey League are Surj Rattan thinking of doing anything in August .. . anything that is but play hockey. One of them is Sather’s pride and joy Wayne Gretzky. He's making no bones about the fact that he’s not really keen on chasing around a rubber puck on a hot day in August He has already said that he doesn’t know if he will take part in the Canada Cup series. “I think Wayne is saying he's tired,” says Sather. How very astute of you, Slats. Of course the man is saying he's tired. He's just come off of a good 80-game regular season schedule plus a playoff series which ended on the last day of May. Now you want to graciously give him two months off before putting him back onto the ice in August for the Canada Cup series and right after that in September have him report to training camp for the regular season? What are these guys, robots? But Gretzky's not the only one having second thoughts about play ing in the Canada Cup series. Pittsburgh Penguins’ star Mario Lemieux has already said to heck with the Canada Cup; he’s just going to kick back and rest during the summer. Now l:e’s being criticized for not being a patriotic Canadian by re. fusing to play in the hockey tour- nament. It would seem to me that all coaches in the league would not want their top players to take part in the Canada Cup series after coming off such a grueling regular season schedule, and possibly a long playoff series. It would seem to me that most coaches would want their players to rest during the summer so they'd be ready to tackle another regular season beginning in September. Do guys like Sather really want to take the chance of putting a tired Gretzky into the Canada Cup line-up and having him risk an injury? “I think you're find that he'll (Gretzky) be there (Canada Cup), he'll be willing to play,” said Sather. And what if he’s not willing to play, Glen? Then what happens? Beat him onto the ice with a ball and chain perhaps? He went to Toronto, let in a few goals, made a lot of friends and had a lot of fun. And now he’s glad to be back in Castlegar. Castlegar resident Tim Pretty, 25, recently returned from a five-day trip to Toronto where he was a member of the B.C. team in an international Special Olympics floor hockey tournament held at the University of Toronto. A total of 22 teams took part in the tournament and Pretty stood guard between the pipes for the B.C. squad, called the Vancouver Canucks. ¢ When asked how many goals he let in, Pretty smiles and replies: “I let in some.” Speaking to the Castlegar News from the kitchen of his apartment, Pretty said his team, coached by Nelson's Ray Brock, faced some pretty stiff competition “It was tough. The St. Louis Blues were the top team. The coach put us in the B (side); this is why we lost. St. Louis beat us, Minnesota beat us and Boston beat us,” said Pretty. In fact, the Canucks lost 3-2 to Minnesota and 4-2 to St. Louis in the preliminary seeding And the B.C. team was winless in five games in B division action, losing 10-0 to Hartford, 8-4 to St. Louis, 8-4 to Philadelphia, 9-4 to Boston and 11-6 to Minnesota. Pretty says one of the most enjoyable parts of his trip was meeting National Hockey League veteran Lanny McDonald, spokesman for the Canadian Special Olympics. “Lanny McDonald is nice. He said he'd like to thank all the players from the B.C. Special Olympics.” And Pretty has some advice for those who don't like a guy named Wayne Gretzky. “My favorite team is the Edmonton Oilers. Everyone says Wayne Gretzky is a big, big wimp, but he's the best a A TIM PRETTY . .. played goal hockey player,” Pretty says with a laugh, knowing the comment is bound to raise the ire of anti-Gretzky folk. But hockey was not the only thing that occupied |} Pretty's time when he and the rest of the Canucks were © in Hog Town. P “I made a lot of friends. We went on a ride on the subway and we saw the Toronto Blue Jays game, but I forgot who they played against,” said Pretty. “We went to a batbecue and then the Toronto police sang for us.” “We went to Queens Park and I saw a nice fat squirrel. I've never seen a squirrel that fat before.” So what were Pretty's impressions of Toronto? “Thank God I'm back in Castlegar. I can't stand Toronto. Toronto is too big. A lot of people say Vancouver is big, but Toronto is bigger,” remarked Pretty Hockey is not the only thing Pretty is interested in. He's an Elvis Presley fan as well. That's pretty evident when sitting at his kitehen table and looking at a huge poster of Elvis tacked on the wall right next to the table. “Do you know what that is?” asks Pretty pointing to the poster. “He's the rock ‘n’ roll king. I'm a big Elvis fan.”