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Greenwood

Merchants on ‘the tain atrect aro ot ie tell anyone

that Greenwood and its 1,100

of another mining boom,

are on the

ase nye) neni
« It was saved’ from extinction in ‘012, ‘when 1,200

But the For Sale signs in their windows tell anihee

story,

“, LOST DIRECTION
, They. tall the story of a town that has been woe and

is a town

busting for so es ‘it has lost all sense of direction.

The Red and White grocery store, Greenwood's largest,
is owned by Roets. He put it on the market about eight
months .ago because it was tying him down,

area.‘

BLOOMED AGAIN

br

Canaidians wore interred here from the Vancouver | ¥

Greenwood bloomed away in the late ‘60s and again in ie

* the early 70s. ce

But, since a mine: ‘east of ‘here shuy-down about, five :
years ago, tho city has quietly decayed.

Jean MacDonald, a realtor from nearby Grand Forks, 7
aays despite the fact that Greenwood has a large number of i

* retired people: and has

Is. from sawmill :

up for sale

.GREENWOOD (cP) ~—Itis hard to inspire confidence-
in the future when the mayor of .“the smallest city in
Canada” puts his grocery store up for sale and talks about.
moving away.

Mayor Emmanuel Roets says his ballout attempt has
stirred up just a little. controversy.’

It is even tougher to inspire confidence when many of
the other merchants are following suit. :
‘Greenwood, once a booming copper and gold mining
centre, is a town for sale.

Many of the aging ‘structures in this ghostly town are
for sale, for rent or are vacant.

* The liquor store, the band and the Greenwood Inn} seem
to be the only rely, healthy enterprises.

“The townsfolk were a ‘little alarmed,” the mayor says,
“Some of the people said: ‘What are you trying to pull?’ "

Roets says he is not pushing a sale. Serious offers could
be a long time down the road.

In fact, ‘the shortage of serious purchase offers for.

anything seems to be about the only thing that keeps -this
_ tiny city stable. «
Stability has ‘never been Greenwood’s elvic hallmark.

Its population has fluctuated wildly — from more than 6,000 -

at the height of mining, activity, to 950 at rock bottom.

At the turn of the century, the future looked promisirig,

In 1898, a. group of mining investors in New York
established the B.C. Copper Co. and opened the Motherlode
Copper Mine here in 1901. When copper prices collapsed just
before the First World War, Greenwood collapsed too.

good payrol
employment nearby, just about everything is up for grabs.

Heather iN d's business

who runs

4
i

information office, blames lack of confidence in the business’

community on “eity fathers” wot are not eager to sec'the, A

centre boom again.

“They are afraid developient here will mein the town. mS

will be taken over by tourists,” she says.
One of those city fathers: Gonneville says, is Sear
city. clerk Ken Hamanishi.

Hamanishl agrees; the town, is very nice just the way. it’:

“If development here is toc big,: -then it won't be really
_ good,” he says. “I

don't think Greenwood could ever be -”

* ghost-town. There are a lot of retired people here... that’s _

our industry.”

‘Salmo workers COMINCO AND UNION

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“We sort of anticipated
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said in a telephone interview
from Salmo, .

" “We can't afford to see it
closed permanently.
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its local economy.”

Plant manager ‘Frank
Steenvoorden said in a state-
ment that, “given our view of

economic conditions, the'

plant is no longer viable as an

L-P. operation.”” .
He'said 63 hourly paid em-

ployees will get severance

§ pay amounting to one. week's

wages for each year of ser-
vice,

But Lang said the workers
and local business people are
concerned about the long-
term health of Salmo.

DEPENDS ON STUDY

The workers’ plan to buy
and reopen the mill depends

| study commissioned by the

Salmo Workers’ Society, he
said.

The first phase of. the.
study, due for completion ad

_March 1, isa resource as-

VANCOUVER (CP) —
sessment of the volume, Just-days after Cominco Ltd.
types and species of timber reported a loss of nearly $50
on the 21,000 acres that L-P million for 1982, workers at
bought’ for $5.4 million in’ Cominco's huge lead-zine op-
1978. ° eration in southeastern B.C.
If that looks positive, the voted to demand_a six-per-
marketing and business cent wage increase, better
phase ofthe feasibility study protection against inflation
will begin, said Lang, adding and improved fringe benefits.
he hopes the society can Depending on the cost of
make an offer on the mill by living, ‘the inflation protec-
the end of May. tion demand could bring the
In the meantime,
would-be workers-owners 14 or 15 per cent by the end
are trying to line up gov- of a one-year contract.
ernment backing for their Bargaining ‘between ‘the
project. province's biggest mining
“In order the make it vi- company and the United
able, it’s critical that we get Steelworkers of America,
low interest rates to be com- ‘representing about 6,500
petitive,” Lang said. “If we workers at various Cominco
‘don't get government sup- mines and processing plants

the workers a wage increase of.

port and funding for it, I
don’t think ‘we can make it
viable.”

The federal Department of
Industry, Trade and Com-

in Western Canada, starts
next week to renew two-year
contracts expiring’ April 30.
About 4,500 of those steel-
workers work at Cominco’s,

Trail sia Kimberley.
Steelworkers’ . representa-
tive Ron Schmidt said‘ the
union voted Wednesday to
seek a one-year contract with
a wage increase of 82 cents
an hour, or about 7.5 per
cent, on the current base rate

-of $10.82 an hour. That's a

six-per-cent increase on the
average wage rate of $18.59,
he said in‘a telephone inter-
view from Trail.

WANTS ALLOWANCE |

On top of that, the union
wants to boost the cost-of-
living allowance, so an. in-
flation rate of eight to.nine
per cent: would generate an
additional 80 cents by theend
of the year.

Peter Warrian, the steel-
workers’ national research
director, said bargaining be-
tween Cominco and the steel-
workers at Trail and Kim-
berley will be pivotal for in-

dustrial relations in Canada’s -

id the . provincial _lead-; -zine mine and ad smpelfeg in -mining. indystry,, hit hard by

interest in sup)
project he oa
lock positive.”

Steenvoorden said Louisi-
ana-Pacific will. continue to
actively seek a buyer for the
operation.

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However, Paula Knopt
substituted a two-month sus-
pension for firing in the-case
of an employee cf McDonnelF”
Douglas‘ of Canada Ltd. who
urinated on the floor al-

though. a washroom was "

within a minute's walk.
The more lenient’ penalty
was imposed only because

Foresty ype lave. eatin .

ie "70, 000 mineworkers off |,

poor markets and mass lay-
offs.

Negotiations covering
Cominco production workers
start next Wednesday and
talks for the office and tech-
nical workers begin Feb. 11.

Schmidt said the union is

“certainly ,concerned they”

(Comipco) .could come with
proposals for concessions,”
citing the wage freeze, vac-.
ation cutbacks and longer
hours imposed on 900 ‘non-
union supervisors by the
company last year.

The company later gave
them a small wage increase
and restored.some of their
vacation time, he said. “What
they did was take away a lot
of things and then give back a

* few.”

Last fall, the steelworkers
refused -mid-contract conces-
sions proposed by Cominco.

items the union is looking to
gain in negotiations are-den-
tal plan improvements, a 25-
cents increase in the week-
end premium to $1.50 an
hour, more time for: mater-

nity and bereavement leaves, .

an increase in sick pay to
$856.a week from $276, an
increase in long-term disabil-

ity benefits to $1,000 a month -

from $725,
stantial increase in ‘pension
bonefits,” an improved sen-
jority clause and other lan-
guage changes. ©

Last week, Cominco re-
ported a loss for the year
ended Dee. 31, 1982, of $49.3
million, or $3.16 a share,
compared with a profit of
$64.7 million in the previous
year.

“a fairly sub--.

Revenue fell to $1.28 bil

lion from $1.42 billion in 1981,
the company said.

DENTAL CONCESSIONS

_ Among other contract |

the job across country

TORONTO (CP) — Unem-
ployment in the recession-

. battered mining industry has

surpassed 60 per. cent of
normal working levels and
although industry officials
say ‘most affected workers
will be recalled; many have

“Yost their jobs permanently.
Al

bout 70,000 of about
135,000 workers normally
-employed in mines and amel-
ters are jobless and industry
officials say many jobs will be
lost. because of changes in
world demand and the emer-
gence of new producers in
Third ‘World countries,

Peter -Warrian, _ research
director for the United Steel-
workers of America, said any
substantial increase in jobs

the employee had a long rec-' will lag six months behind a

oe without misconduct, she

an another case, Knopf up-
(held the dismissal of a labor-
er who, while acting as a paid
1982,
hummed and sang. ‘

general Fecovery in the in-
dustry.

John Bonus; managing dir-
ector of the Mining Associ-
ation of Canada, added that
the level of activity in the
steel, auto. and

industries in North America
is a key factor in the mining
slump.

Hardest hit have been
mines which produce nickel,
copper, lead, zinc and iron
ore. Many of the unemployed
mine and smelter workers
have been without a job more
than six months.

At Inco Ltd. in Sudbury,
more than 1,000 workers
have been laid

since the summer and Falcon-
bridge first said it would not
start operations without an
agreement. But the company
reopened in January without
a new contract and negoti-
ations are continuing.

In British Columbia, Gib-
raltar Mines Ltd. and New-
mount Mines signed con-
tracts with ‘the Canadian

of

off and 9,500 are awaiting a
recall in April after being off
‘the job since last May.
CAUSES FAMILY. -
PROBLEMS
Homer Seguin, Northeast-

-ern Ontario representative

for the Steelworkers, , said
financial problems and bore-.
dom, particularly in the win-
ter months, has resulted in
family problems.

Problems in the mines
have led to proposals’ by
some companies for renego-
tiation'of contracts to lower
costs by freezing wages or

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The eroding effect of the
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Pepin or {then indu: stry. ‘minister Herb) Gray,” says a Liberal
MP. “If you want to get something done you Bo to Lalonde.

va He's the doer, And he's got Trudeau's gar.”

FAITH ANINFLUENCE se.
-Aviman who goes.to’ Roman, Catholic mass in his
‘const ney. virtually Sunday, Lalonde is said to-be
deeply influenced by the morals and ethics of the Catholic

"faith, Lately he has been reading biographies’ of historical

2 sof pl | careers. He's got tt y
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le:
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rovincial Felations; justice, and energy. At the eye

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sand, can ‘communicate, any:

dict ion on the experience of
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the’ first’ ‘full-scale cellular
system was begun 16 months:
‘ago and now there are more.

Catholic’ figures, ‘including one of 'Talleyrand, a French
statesman and diplomat of the 19th century Napoleonic era
who has been branded in history as both a savior and traitor.

nde is generally aloof, although he~

of the boys when the Liberals were in.

“We were all the same then, but back in government he” |

has the burden of power on his shoulders and it's constantly
on his. mind,”

Christopher’ Lax, assoc!
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ask a guard why the Senate area was so dark ahd empty.
The guard explained, to Pitfield’s’ embarrassment,

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evening.

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just: outside ‘Ottawa this. week.

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: The atation, ‘set up by-a group, of Tory: MPs protest:
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