40 YEARS... . Eli and Mary Cheveldave of Castlegar celebrated 40 years of marriage recently with family and friends. An anniversary cake and refreshments aa ra ere™ were served at their home, following a dinner at the Fireside Place. Women’s group holds meeting The regular monthly meet- ing of the Robson Women's Institute was held in the church hall with 10 members and one guest present. Roll call was answered with members relating ex- periences on a farm. The Robson women will be canvassing the Robson area for the Cancer Society. There will be a clean-up party at the cemetery on Saturday with lunch served for the workers. Robson members will at- tend a pot-luck at Salmo and On May 6 the WI will have also will be attending the a bake table at the flea mar- spring conference in Fruit- ket. It will host the flea vale on may 2. market kitchen on May 27 A few members are work- with Russian food specialties. ing on a song for the WI to Hostess Ivy Saliken gave a the tune of You Are My convenor report on agricul- Sunshine. ture. labor dispute — a dispute thet aiw the unions locked Vat for more than two months and ordered back on the job provincial legislation. a MacKinnon was asked to address the chamber's monthly luncheon meeting after Westar Timber manage- ment explained its side of: the lockout at last month's meeting. MacKinnon, disappointed by the low turnout to hear the union's side of the dispute, told chamber members it was a “total mistake to ask us to speak. “Local 1 in the past has always looked after itself,” he told the chamber. “In the past we have had long strikes and never been called on to speak at the chamber,” he said. In giving the union's story, MacKinnon explained that Local 1 gave management nine months to record production. “They took us and said to the day and shift workers, you're going on a 36-hour work week,” which means giving up 16 hours per month to help bring down costs, he said. “We went along with it for quite some time, then they cut back on five maintenance helpers. We end up with two maintenance people doing the same job that you could have done with a cheaper employee,” he noted. We approached them for a 36-hour week for tour workers. They said, ‘No it's going to cost too much money.’ MacKinnon said he met with Westar Timber president John Montgomery and B.C. Resources president Bruce Howe and told them “if you want production in the plant use incentive.” After production in September, MacKinnon said members received a letter from mill management, thanking them for their production. The letter then went on to say that “everyone was being laid off for a week.” “Later on we have one month of good production making $6,000. Montgomery comes to town, takes the chamber and mayor and everybody out for dinner. “How does my membership feel about that?” he asked. “Not very damn good. People have worked out there for 25 years, management and labor. I hope you enjoyed your dinner.” In September grievances began to be filed when six employees were laid off, but not by seniority, according to MacKinnon. The same month the company cancelled the union's six-day life insurance. The plan affected 105 of the 300 workers — all senior employees. “They say, the junior guys don’t have it so why should you have it?” MacKinnon remarked. Then the five maintenance people were laid off, followed by 61 reprimands, this prompted a 10-hour notice of cancellation of agreement and 72-hour strike notice. “Local 1 had every intent to retain employment during VA —— DROFESSIONAL AL SECRETARIES WEEK SALUTE To Our: @ SECRETARIES © RECEPTIONISTS © SALES PEOPLE 365- CASTLEGAR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CINDY SILUCH for her work in our office and in assisting tourists. 1444 Columbia Ave., Castlegar, B.C. thanks 313 Chahko- Mika MALL GY Thanks WANDA HARAGA Our secretary is the story. With a lift in her voice, she’s our first choice. She's a pro...and it goes with the territory. Happy Secretaries Week, Wanda! Nelson 354-4496 John Salsnek Chahko-Mika Mall 1150 Lakeside Drive la 1265 Bay Ave., Trail, B.C. We, perhaps, don't say it often enough, CHARLOTTE ROBSON JANIS BEAUDRY KATY VANNUCCI Ask for Operator Zenith 289 Stationers & HALL PRINTING thank you to ‘commercial Printers BARTLE & GIBSON thanks KAREN TURNER Today's recognition is just one small way to say thank you for the fine work you do every day, all year. Happy Secretaries Week, Karen! From the management, Bartle & Gibson 2317 - 6th Ave., Castlegar 365-7702 “ Ernest, Livia, Rob, Igor, Ed Bob, Dave, Nerio and Greg HOMEGOODS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE extends “thanks” to BETTY DEFERRO for Her cheerful assistance to all of us. Mayor, Aldermen and Administrative Staff of the CITY OF CASTLEGAR extend their appreciation to the following secretaries for their conscientious service. LEA DREHER CHERYL NEW SHARON TASSONE FRANCES FARKAS LOUISE RYDER negotiati .” MacKinnon said, “but Local 4 (Prince Rupert) showed up and knocked Local 1 down.” “What's going on up there? They've got two mills with 250 out’of work=and there's no seniority clanse. ~ “ A# $oon'ss Local 1 and 4 were back at work other locals got involved and they (management) decided to lock everybody out. “We asked for a mediation period. Allan Hope, our last hope, went running to the IWA (International Woodworkers OOTISCHENIA IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT ANNUAL MEETING Sat., April 28, 1984 lp.m. Ootischenia Community Hall ALL MEMBERS URGED TO ATTEND. EXCLUSIVE FEATURES OVER 15 USEFUL WORK-SAVING ATTACHMENTS! IT’S ALL ONE MACHINE! THE CONVERTIBLE ONE HANDLES OVER ENGINE (Power Take Off) TILLS & CULTIVATES GARDEN TILLER HANOLES SWING TO EITHER POSITION [ QUESTION: | WHY? Should you buy and then ear Mount Rotary Tiller | 1 | maintain a separate power source for ! ! i TRANSPORTS & each piece of power equipment you need? 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During question period, the most aggressive statement came from Quinto Maida, who said it was disturbing for the union to take a stand such as it has. “You are saying five people got laid off, but 1,000 people lost their jobs at Cominco. I have to lay off people,” said the former pulp mill employee. “To me that’s not mismanagement. Management was trying to make money and pass it on. It’s not like those times (of 1977-78). “I have friends at both ends,” Maida went on to say. “To me, they are only doing their jobs. I am not taking any sides,” he noted. “They don't own BC Timber,” he said of management. “They manage it the best way they can, the same way you manage the union the best way you see fit.” However, MacKinnon noted that he is only doing what the membership requests. “You voice your opinion at union meetings,” Maida said. The conversation then erupted into a shouting match and the question period moved on. Union executive member Mel McMullen noted that Castlegar has been fortunate not to have had its mill closed down as in Prince Rupert. “Mr. Sweeney (Wilf) doesn’t have control of all these things . . . They're done in Vancouver,” McMullen said. “Next time it may be Castlegar,” he warned. McMullen went on to talk about disposable incomes. He noted that at its highest point, Westar Timber employed 350 hourly paid employees plus full-time salaried staff. The last count taken was 290. “Those are 60 incomes not coming into the community,” he said. “On top of those 60 incomes there have been at least 15 staff layoffs for a total of 75. McMullen estimated the sawmill operations lost about 100 jobs. “If we are making record production, where is the money going?” he asked. “It's going to Vancouver,” he added. “There is a certain substantial amount charged at head office for this division,” he said. “It's a problem all over B.C. as to where the transfer of wealth is going. It certainly isn't staying in Castlegar. We'll be lucky if they don’t close the mill down.” However, Sweeney, who was at the meeting with other Westar Timber management, noted that the pulp division had record production, but there wasn't any money to go anywhere. “We lost money,” he said, Chamber member Doug Drinkwater ‘explained that the chamber wanted to hear both viewpoints because it wants to know how it can help. MacKinnon told them the chamber is obviously not interested in the union point of view by its poor attendance. Most elderly don’t live in homes OTTAWA (CP) — The popular notion that most elderly people live in old-age homes is not true, Statistics Canada says. Mac. Even most of the very old, those aged 85 years of age and over, live in private households, said the agency's report The Elderly in Can- ada, released Tuesday. “In the first place, the vast majority of the aged live in private households. This ap- plies to 93 per cent of the el- derly men and to 90 per cent of the elderly women. “Even in the age group 85 and over the majority live in private households, the fig- rues being 71 per cent for men and 59 per cent for women,” said the report based on the 1981 census. The study, which looked at where the elderly live, their education, income, ethnic composition and place of birth, confirmed that Canada, as with all developed coun- tries, has an aging popula- tion. 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R.R. 1, Site 25, C-1 tHlega: .. VIN 3H7 . By EDISON STEWART mane odio Progressive Conservative Leader has promised or hinted at new spending WORMEERi at nitiees ol cotasconae pesencs down, the massive $30-billion-a-year federal deficit at the same time. In particular, he has endorsed a proposal to boost the $8.8-billion defence budget by almost $100 million — over and above the current increases of three per cent in real terms @ year — and promised new incentives to increase federal, provincial and private sector spending on research and development by more than $5 billion a year by the end of the Tories’ first term. Moreover, Mulroney lamented Feb. 9 that “under this prime minister. defence spending as a percentage of GNP (Gross National Product) has been cut by 38 per cent.” He did not say so, but if that 38 per cent were restored it would mean about $5 billion more a year. Mulroney has not said how much it would cost to double research and development spending as a percentage of GNP by the end of their first term, possibly around 1988, but total “R and D” spending by governments and the private sector now is in the $6-billion range. Doubling it as a percentage of GNP would mean another $5 billion in 1983 dollars and even more in 1988 currency, when the GNP will likely be significantly higher. Just where all the money will come from seems unclear. Some bdbservers had speculated the deficit might actually rise slightly in the early years of a Conservative government, but party spokesmen deny it. “In the first full year that we are in power there will be a clear reduction in the deficit,” says industry critic Michael Wilson, a Toronto MP and former leadership candidate Policy adviser Charles McMillan says be “of a significance that will have an Mulroney has said the deficit will” to fall under a © as its reduction will no specific promises have been made in this area, although a party task foree has supposedly recommended that some shares of Petro-Canada be sold to the public, Other promises include: — A Conservative government would contribute money or land to help construction of a domed stadium in Toronto. — Women working in the home would be for the Canada Pension Plan, although Mulroney has the extra how. more open attitude to foreign investment leads to a stronger dollar and lower interest rates, reducing ‘the interest charges on the $160-billion accumulated national debt. Meanwhile, he has already closed off of potential source of funds by promising that universality in social programs — which means that the family allowance, for example, goes to all families regardless of income — “shall not be touched.” , There will be savings as the Tories challenge “the of on-going prog ” and make thé public service more efficient, he has said, but he hasn't said which programs or how large the savings will be. ‘And he has pledged that civil servants would be “well paid and well looked after.” He has also questioned the subsidies and grants going to business, though it is not clear whether he wants to eliminate them or just redirect them. “The government currently collects $8 billion in taxes from the corporate sector and hands $8 billion back,” he says. “We have to see who is winning and who is losing; whether robbing Peter to pay Paul helps or hinders job creation and economic growth.” The government might save some money by selling off or curtailing the operations of some Crown corporations but Turner: equal pay for all TORONTO (CP) — Com- panies that refuse to pay women employees equal pay for work of equal value shouldn't be allowed to have government contracts, Lib- eral leadership candidate John Turner said Tuesday. Turner said that if he be- comes Liberal leader and prime minister he will ensure this policy is applied and he predicted it will have a ripple effect through the entire economy. Turner made the promise to a group of about 200 Lib- eral party women at a lun- cheon. The same policy would ap ply to firms doing business with federal Crown corpor ations, Turner said. “I do not want you as sym bols,” he said. “I want you as equal partners in dealing with all the problems that face our nation.” Turner's remarks appear- ed to be in contrast to those he made in Vancouver on April 1 at a Liberal party gathering, when he said he preferred that affirmative action programs for women be negotiated on the basis of good will. Turner appeared popular with the audience, made up mostly of young business and professional women invited by his or Not all An accountant with the firm, Charles Quinlan, said later that six of the firm's 42 partners kre women. afterward to re- the women were his sup- porters. Turner used his own Tor. onto law firm, McMillan Binch, as an example of an equal-opportunity employer. “The firm of which I'm a parter yields to no profes- sional enterprise in Canada in the proportion, and quality, and participation of women at the levels of our partner- ship,” he said. Imperial Oil fined $75,000 TORONTO (CP) — Imper- ial Oil Ltd., described as “almost impossible to hurt” with a financial penalty, was fined $75,000 Tuesday by a county court judge for trying to squeeze an independent dealer who was discounting gasoline. Judge James Trotter lev- ied the fine under the Com- bines Investigation Act, say- ing “no one can be allowed to roam unchecked in our econ- omy; otherwise, the free market .will be harmed. “Thig)was a serious, blat- ant where the ac- cused inflicted its will on the community,” said Trotter, who found Imperial guilty two weeks ago. The company made a profit of $290 million in 1983 and $465 million in 1981, the year of the offence. Trotter described some defence arguments by the company — which said Tues- day it will appeal the con- viction — as “bureaucratic This program — General Ledger — Data Filing through practical examp' of microcomputers. nonsense” and said the firm never made a sincere effort to deliver to the competitor. The competitor — Com- munity Chest Gas Bar in Waverley, Ont., about 140 kilometres north of Toronto — opened in the spring of 1981, using discounted Im- perial gas bought through a bulk agent. It consistently undercut nearby competitors, includ- ing an Imperial-owned Esso station. Imperial responded by raising the wholesal munity Chest opened in Waverley in1981, local sta- tions had been “setting their prices like Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum. “There simply was no price porters, Turner said his “contract compliance” policy would not apply to provincial governments, several of which do not have equal pay for equal work provisions. Turner received the most applause when he pointed out that in the United States the survival rate for small bus. nesses started by women is higher than that of those started by men — 47 per cent to 25 per cent. All Items eg farting Thurs., While Quantities ey pensions “will be self-fi ” without bin; “A Progressive Conservative government will significantly expand wage-subsidy programs, such as the Career Access Program. We will also institute a program of refundable employer tax credits.” — In especially poor regions, “we plan to institute programs of community-based entrepreneurial develop- ment.” The Tories would provide “greater support and better financing” for ies exporting I de- velopment to other countri and “ensure our tax system encourages greater export trade.” Conservatives would scrap “the confiscatory and punitive provisions” of the national energy program and end “excessive taxation” of the oil industry. In addition, a party task force has recommended what one spokesman described as “a quantum leap” forward in education and manpower training, including tax shelters such as home ownership savings plans to help Canadians put aside tax-free money for their education. Another recommendation, also still under study, would see new incentives that would cover 125 per cent or more of the employer's cost in helping employees get additional training. COMPUTER SALES Continues until Monday. May 14 ADCO FLOORS LTD. 1002 Columbia Ave. LOAN-OUT CAMERA The Castlegar News has two simple-to- operate loan-out cameras (complete with film) which it is pleased to allow groups to use for taking pictures for use by the Castlegar News. Arrangements for the use of these cameras should be made through our News Department at 365-3517. ESB Po, Castlégar News News Department 365-3517 Turner ate lunch at a table that included Diana Weather- all, president of the Toronto Women's Liberal Association and a staunch supporter of leadership contender Donald Johnston, minister for econ- omic development. Weatherall said she at- tended the luncheon “to ask John Turner if he's figured. out what women’s issues Castlegar, Robson, Bri Two new directors mu: Candidates must join t YOU may join the Soci of 8a.m.-9 p.m. NOTICE The Board of Management of the Hospital requires directors to replace members completing their terms of office. Join the Hospital Society today. Membership in the Society is open to all persons in the Hospital District lliant, Ootischenia, Blueberry, Thrums, etc DIRECTORS ON BOARD OF MANAGEMENT 4appointed 6 elected st be elected at the Annual Meeting on June 14, 1984. he Society before May 14, 1984 ety by paying $1.00 at the Hospital between the hours are.” Present members may renew their membership any time Afterward she said, “I still think Donald Johnston has a much more instinctive feel for women’s issues, but John Turner has learned a hell of a lot in the last three weeks.” before the Annual Meeting in June. CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT HOSPITAL SOCIETY BEST BUYS! .all 1st Quality a Chest came on the scene,” he said, adding that “it is very clear that (Imperial) is a company which is really al- most impossible to hurt” with a fine. Trotter said Imperial’s ac- tions were not a momentary lapse, but “a cal price for Community Chest. In his sentencing submis- sion, defence lawyer Glenn Leslie suggested a $50,000 fine, which he said would be the largest fine ever assessed for a single offence under the section of the 104-year-old combines act. The publicity generated by the trial and conviction of the huge oil company was pen- alty in itself, he said. But Crown counsel James Leising said that until Com- AN INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS APPLICATIONS Hands-on Experience in Computer Applications on the IBM-PC ive you an opportunity to learn es, the many business applications will — Word Processing — Budget Analysis and Projections APRIL 30, MAY 2,7&9 "eras 00 For further information or to regist Sellirk College US 845 Victoria St., Trail, B.C. VIR 3T3 — 368-5236 Previous computer or programming experience is not necessary. 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