CASTLEGAR NEWS, March 17, 1982' .

- LABOR HEARING: -

‘continued trom poge Al

were going to do, that’s what

they proposed,” Geller says.
One statement in the Ex-

ertia report says that if the

college encounters any dif-

ficulties in employment prop-

osals, the college should im--

mediately contract out the
work, .
But Perra said last week
no recommendations would
ji

“They are putting various

shapes and sizes to our.

heads.”

Goller ‘says the college
asked the union some time
ago whether it wished to
make a to the

to sit In on the closed session |
it would have to be prepared
to: answer questions, i
Geller says no one repre-
senting the union would have _
been able to consult with the

board at its meeting last
night.

The college received a let-
ter from the union ‘in .res-
ponse to ‘re-organization

be made
ing out work now ae Ha
PPWC members."

Says Geller, “An outside
agency is deciding what is
going to become of the work
force.” If there's any static,
the work should be con-
tracted out.

“They are trying to appear
as though we are being con-
sulted,” he says.

Is and from

on its arbitration proposition.

The’ college ° apparently
“cooled off” on the idea’ of
having the union attend the
meeting, Geller says. The
unions in turn asked if it
could listen in on the meet-
ing. 4
+Perra told PPWC the issue
wouldn't be discussed in the

. open session and if it wanted

and at
large if that was done.

The union took the  col-
lege’s response to mean that
the college didn’t really want
someone at the meeting.

Perra told board members

. that’ the college intends’ 'to

contest the union's ‘argu-
ments.

He says the college's ‘col-
lective. agreement doesn't
specify a. technological
change, though the labor ‘i

‘code does:

“Almost anything you do
to change: the meaning of
work can be considered a:

- technological

change,” he

Valhalla’s fate

‘VICTORIA (CP) — A 10-year battle by environ-
mentalists to protect the pristine Valhalla Mountain
Range from logging likely will be resolved by com-
promise, says Forest Minister Tom Waterland.

Provincial and regional district officials are approach-

Slocan Valley in southeastern B.C.

Waterland favors multiple use of the lands, Colleen
McCrory, chairman of the Valhalla Wilderness Society,
says that means logging.

“It would seem that no: amount of public clamor,

CONSTITUTION

ing the end of a year,long study of land-use options for the -

continued from pogeAl

sion, predicted second-read-
ing debate will be’ wrapped
up as planned in a day. Some
lords‘on the list will probably
decide not. to speak as the
debate drags on, he said.

But Canadian officials also .
said committee study in the .

Cc would likely only

: in view of the timber’ values
to, be in the Valhallas, can cause Waterland to be

responsive to the province-wide demand for preservation
of this unique area,” she says.

* Waterland says he has always believed that “we can be
sensitive in managing timber values.”

“Some areas will be used primarily for recreation and
some will be used commercially in a sensitive manner,”
- Waterland said.

The province ‘and the Central Kootenay Regional
District joined with area residents last April to establish
a planning study for the valley..

EXPECTS CONCLUSION

Deputy Environment Minister Ben Marr expects -the

study to be. concluded. in a ‘couple of months.

will go to. the gi Environ-

ment and Land use Technical Committee, of which Marr.

is chairman. From there recommendations will go to
cabinet.

Bruce Heayn, municipal affairs planning co-ordinator,

says the planning process will Teach its critical stage by.

the end of March.

d about the

Meanwhile,. pro-logging and i coches factions,
[continue ‘to’ Hurl accusations ‘at:one another, “\ +..

Much of the controversy focuses "on Slocan Forest

‘Products which wants to log about 10 per cent of the
50,000 hectares that environmentalists want declared
wilderness park.

Company forester Terry Dodds said there has been “an
unjustified pre-occupation with the creation of another
park when one of our more under-utilized parks, Kokanee
Glacier Park, is in the immédiate area.”

From “a pure forestry point of view,” much of the
timber the company wants it already dying and will soon
end up as snags and falldown, Dodds says.

McCrory, a life-long resident of the valley who owns a
trading post in New Denver, said the society has
documented proof of logging waste by the company.

She says the frontal slopes of the Valhallas could be
‘logged out in about 13 months and that only eight jobs

(would be created. wry

take one.day. Then as Chre-
tien looked on, expecting
MPs to sit late to wrap up the
debate, government ‘spokes-

men surprised them by .cut-.

ting off speeches and an-
nouncing a second day later.

on.

The Lords have scheduled
March’ 23 for committee
study with final approval
tentatively slated to come
two days later.

SCHOOL TAXES”

continued from poge Al
ating © budget into three

parts:

© 60.per cent of the budget
which will be. completely
‘funded’ by the province; -
| _@85 per centof the budget, *
which ‘the “province “and”
school -board will share,
based on_ calculations -invol-
ving per pupil costs, the av--
erage ares assessment, the
average ‘provincial ‘assess-
ment and student enrolment.

@ five per cent of - the
budget, which will be com-

. pletely funded by echool
boards.

‘Thus, for some. school dis-

BLASTING AWAY .... Work crews Were » out this ‘week and part of
last blasting down overhanging Fock along bluff on Celgar Road. A

spokesman said rock was weathered and ie danger of falling onto ~
passing atic, 1 —CosNewsPhoto,

VANCOUVER (cP) — a contract awarded to a Jap-
British Columbia tradesmen anese company for the supply ®
are thretening to halt con- of two stacker-reciaimers.
struction of .a $280-million ~The 240,000 man-hours is
coal-loading terminal at the amount of’ shop fabri-
"Prince Rupert. % cation “and site assembly.

Frank: Nolan, secretary- _work the fron’ workers vaay) S

treasurer of Local 712 of the “can be handled in B.C. ‘The:
Iron Workers Union, said his. Japanese would then be. left ~
union will try to halt con- with designing the stacker-
struction if -it doesn’t get. reclaimers and superyising
240,000 hours of work under © B.C. sub-contractors.” *
Ridley. : Terminals ‘Ine.: of
Vancouver announced: last’
month that it had‘ awarded
the $19 million, contract: for,
y.. thestacker-rsclaimers to Ish-
ikawajima-Harima Heavy: In-
dustries ‘Co. Ltd. | (THI) of
Japan. ?

“However, B;C. as
Trustees ‘Association presi-
dent Gary Begin blasted the
new formula as a’ “political

‘Terminal threatened _

Ridley Inland ‘hear’ Prince
Rupert. The : components
would. instead be : fabricated
in Lower’ Mainland’ plints
and shipped to Prince Rupert
for. mnbly. *

lan estimated 20 to. he

Will go to THI to cover en.

‘gineering work, supervision

and profit. He said the rest
could be recaptured by Can-
adian ‘companies and em-
ployees. 3
‘Nolan said if his union is

“not satisfied it will withdraw
“from‘any work’ ‘connected
‘with the Ridley project and

invite'other members of the

~ B.C. and:‘Yukon Building and

charade ‘which .will greatly.
“increase the financial burdens

one Fesldentta} B coal and then retrieve it for
shiploading.

Ridley, 90: per cent’‘owned
by the’ National Harbors

Touma can expect
to pay on average 44 per cent,
more in school taxes in 1982 .

eee to do’ the same,

Cor Trades Council

“Our terms of affliation
make it almost certain that
other unions wil support us,”
he said.’

The build’ 38 council

Board, is under ‘pi to-
complete the coal terminal | by
late 1983.

‘Acceptance: of the fron;
workers. demands: will: pre- *
~"vent IH from assembling the,
stacker-reclaimers. in: Japan'.

and taking them’ ty barge, to

than in:1981 and yet: some-
how the government is try-
ing to sell the idea that this
finance‘ plan will mean a sa-.
vings,” Begin said.

He charged*the govern-
ment with trying to.use stat-
istical distortion in a bid to

rit

tricts, the- p could
fund up to ‘$5 per ‘nt of

that itis.
shouldering ma a a larger share of .

with
«school boards responsible for

a@ maximum 25 per ‘cent of
operating budgets,

1st Anniversary.
PRE-INVENTORY SALE

Mer. 18819 |

ONLY

He said tee government i is: |
‘taking over 100 percent of
property " taxes from the
commercial and industrial
sector.

Shamrock

“By calling business-prop- . ST. PATRICK, Mo. (AP)
erty /tax its own and by — Every March 17, letters
adding these ‘funds: to its sent for a unique postmark
general revenue | contribu- oe tee party-goers in
tions the government can in- this town
deed raise 75 per cent of the aches for Ireland's patron’
education operating: budget. saint.

But the lion's share will still _ But officials for the Shrine
be made up of taxes fram the _ of St. Patrick's Parish, which.
business'sector and the gov- is celebrating its 25th anni-
ernment's contribution from versary, expect a. bigger
general revenue will actually crowd than usual’ for to-
decrease in 1982 over 1981,” night's celebrations. In fact,
he explained. 4 -. there may be as many as 400

Begin said the government people.

shell. game" is calculated to “It gets pretty wild. at
‘make’ residential ‘property times,” says set Logedon,
owners think they are get-
ting a- break.

He’ said homeowners are
now going to have to bear 25
percent of the operating
costs, of: education plus non-

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VANCOUVER, WASH.
(AP) — Scientists took ad-
ee weather
Continues, Thessay to make cortain i

: ; H struments on Mount St.’Hel-

to decline sir tre ready to send back

LONDON. (AP) — -Gold. information on the volcanic
bullion .,slumped badly’ in | eruption they. predict - will
early dealings today, .con- come in the next few days.
tinuing ‘its decline towards ‘A. condensation’ plume,
the $800 U.S, level. The U.S. formed when hot air around
dollar hit a 1982 high in’ the dome-shaped lava for-
‘Tokyo but then faded every-, mation in the centre of the

Gold ‘bullion

where in.Europe except in crater hits surrounding cold- :

relation to the'weak French er air, rose about 152 metres
franc. 2 above the crater floor. -
Dealers in. Tokyo said the Field crews worked in the
U.S. dollars’ strength came : crater during the day but the
mainly from heavy buying by results of their tests were not
Singapore, Hong Kong and expected to be available until
Japanese banks. today, said Thom Corcoran,
Gold bullion appeared tobe U.S. Forest Service spokes-
hit by strong interest rates man.
which made currencies and | He said. the crews were
“making sure the: instru-
ments are all working.”

-year,”

“will: meet’ with: “represen-
tative of IHI and Swan Woo-
ster Engineering Co. -Ltd., of
» Vancouver, - to discuss ’ the
‘iron workers’ demands, Swan
« Wooster is Ridley’s consult-
Pies engineer.

“St. Patrick

paetmark

20. “A lot of people come with
their. beards painted green
and their hair painted green.

And some people wear wild.
hats.”

Originally called Maryville,
the town's
changed the name to St. :Pat-
tick almost 100 years ago be-
cause there were two Mary-
villes in Missouri.

The town of 83 people,
located in the northeastern

“corner of the state near the’

Towa . and Illinois borders,
boasts it is the only com-
munity in the U.S. named for
8t. Patrick. There is no other
‘in the U.S. Postal Directory.
‘And‘ although there are
bigger festivities around the
country on March 17 — more
than a million’ people ‘gath-
ered last year for. New York
City’s St. Patrick's Day Par-
ade — the scores of people
who gather from surroundin,
areas for the. annual ‘church

supper and dance ‘say there's

none better.’

“It's the high point of the
“says Larry Logsdon,
Jeff's father and operator of
the’ town’s only tavern.
“nothing else’ Foal comes
close.”

The town puts a -special
shamrock postmark on its
mail every March 17, -and

thousands , of’ people . send ;

pre-addressed, stamped en.

velopes or postcards to get ,

approved by the regional
postmaster in 1936, Mrs.
Logsdon said. This year the.

letters, about 15,000 from all '

over the country, began ar-
riving in mid-February.

Trish settlers in

Kalesnikoff to
‘review sawmill

By CasNews Staff
Kalesnikoff sawmill work-
ers will know by the end of
this month if they too will be
jotning the ranks of the un-
employed. -

Sawmill owner Peter Kal-
esnikoff said this week he has
-no plans to close the mill but

‘will be reviewing the oper- -

ation at the end of March.

The sawmill employs 65
workers.

Kalesnikoff said he | will

“have to sit down and. see
what we'll do” at the end of
the month.

. He said it is “getting har-_
der and harder” to operate
and added that he's hoping.
the lumber market will im-
prove in the near future “but
I don’t see it.”

Backlog slows
up benefits

* TORONTO (CP), — Some
laid-off workers are | having to
wait up to eight weeks for
unemployment insurance
benefits because of a
backlog, and provinces are
having to step in and provide
emergency assistance to
those in need.

‘The period,’ usually about
five weeks, has been stret-
-ched to between six and eight
weeks'in areas where there
have been huge layoffs and
unexpected levels of unem-
ployment. There is always a
two-week period ‘ during
which benefits are not paid.

Yvon Charlebois, execu-
tive director of benefit pro-
gtams with the federal De-
partment of Employment and
Immigration, says the wait-
ing period between the filing
of the claim and the receipt a
‘benefits is “a little longer
than norma!” but is improv-

Be

As of Feb. 26, 141,000 in-

surance claims were pending *

and more than 60,000 were

+ being received each week, he

said. The insurance system
“ean: process about ’ 85,000
claims'a week.

“That means we are work-
ing through the backlog and
the situation is definitely im-

ig.” - Charlebois says,
“But it’s not as rosy es the
Canadian public would like.”

‘UNDER CONTROL’ ©

However, Charlebois says,
“the problem is now under
control.”

Several provinces are hav-
ing to foot the bill for the
delay as they provide needy.
families. with’ social . assis-

. tance,

Georgio Gaudet, New.
Brunswick's deputy. minister
of social services, cstimates
the province is aiding approx.
imately 700 families:‘a month

while they wait for federal
benefits, at. a cost to the
permet about $4 million a

7 ohn MacKenzie, deputy
minister of social services for
Nova Sectia, said about 600
families eligible for unem-
ployment insurance: benefits
were receiving interim aid,

Other provinces were un-
able to give exact figures, but °
said they faced similar prob-
lems.

Although the provinces are
entitled. to, recover:.emer-

gency payments: from the -

unemployment insurance
fund, Charlebois says few do.

The provinces’ have ar- . +

rapgements under which rec-
ipients of interim assistance
agree to repay the money
from their federal unemploy-
ment benefits.

’ Maintenance
shutdown to
be prolonged

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Canadian Forest Products
Ltd. said Tuesday it will shut
down its Port Nelson pulp

mill from April 10.to May 2 | *

for maintenance. aes
The mill, located on Howe
Sound, has 500 employees:
There will be work for about’
200 during the shutdown, a
company spokesman said.
The: time allocated « for
maintenance is twice as long
as planned’ because of poor.
market conditions, he said.
No early recovery is anti-
Spated and: further shot-
lowns of the mill are
sible. ne
The mill was built in 1908

-and is the oldest working

pulp mill in B.C.

VA. Police Briefs

‘Donuts were the only

items reported missing Sun-
day after the front door of
Central. Food Mart was

smashed in'a break-in. The:

incident is still under inves-
tigation.

Also under investigation is
a single-vehicle accident
which Gccurred Monday on
Broadwater Road when a

1969 model car :driven by

Patrick Roycroft of Robson .

received $1,500 damage,‘

Local RCMP investigated
53 complaints over the week-
‘end resulting in two drivers
receiving ‘24-hour licence sus-
pensions; three liquor sei-
zures and one person’ ar-
rested for being drunk in a
public place.

Le

work is there, it’s only just
for them to say go ahead
and start working.

QUESTION: What do you think Is the
swig

Open up more jobs. The

[—ON THE STREET

4

Michellé Dorn
‘- Let more people in B.C.
work: instead of ‘bringing
them (from) all over the
country. jf ‘

*: Open up the north a little

Sam Kinakin ‘
A lot of people have got

to smarten up at the top.

Owen Fleming

Lower interest’ rates
would help but that would
enter other problems.
Higher productivity.

Centres should get toge-

more pipelines happening.

Guy Burdett,
Get people like me a job,

bit more and try and get

Dor Morton
I think: the Manpower

ther and’ find out what's
going around so a person
isn't driving all over and
wasting money.

Productivity a ‘concern’

MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet
labor leaders, distressed by
slumping productivity at
home and worker unrest in
neighboring Poland, are ex-
pected to push for tightened
discipline on the shop floor
when the national trade
union congress opens this
week,

turnover and absenteeism
have been cited by Soviet
planners as major drains on
the system. So too have
drunkeness on the job, pil-
fering and shortages of raw
materials caused by bungled
distribution and hoarding.
The government has de-
manded a 17- to 20-per-cent

ges, job

China
concerned

over relations

PEKING (AP).— China’s
newspaper says the United
States is straining friendly
relations: with Canada by
shutting its eyes to Canadian
needs. :

“Those who harm their
friends eventually will lose
them, and those who do not
respect cthers will not re-
ceive others’ respect,” The
People’s Daily said in a com-
mentary.

The-newpaper, the official
publication of the Chinese
Communist party, safd that
historically U.S. capital
helped Canada’s economic
development and Canadian
foreign policy’ had followed
Washington's.

In recent years, however,

“Canada has sought complete

sovereignty and economic in-
dependence, and has taken
steps. to reduce foreign con-
trol of Canadian industries.
But the newspaper said the
Reagan administration has
failed to face these changes
squarely, or take steps on
other Canadian concerns
such as the acid rain problem
and high interest rates.
China has recently criti-
cized.-many areas of U.S.

‘foreign policy, saying Wash-

ington'’s bungling ‘has alien-
ated allies and poetential al-
lies at a time when unity is
needed to check Soviet ex-
pansion. China's own rela-
tions with Washington are
strained over U.S. arms sales
to Taiwan.

in labor pro-
ductivity by the end of 1985,

and concrete steps to reach
that target may be set down
at the. congress, which
opened yesterday.

“Above all, we have to in-
troduce the most modern
machine tools and equipment
to increase output,” Georgi
Kanayev, a trade union offi-
cial, told The
Press. “Labor has to be sci-
entifically organized, and the

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