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By ANGELIKA‘ C YOUNG.
When’ Principal Leo
Perra' didn't show’ up for
their open forum. Friday 30

students went to fetch him.

Faced with their’ insis-
tent demands, Perra con-
sented to walk downstairs to
the main lounge, give a 10-
minute talk and answer ques-
tions.

The Student Executive
Council called the meeting so
students would have an op-
portunity to learn what prog-
ress college administration
and representatives of the
145 non-teaching members of
the Canadian Union ‘of Publis
Employees: (CUPE) . Local
1841 have made in contract
negotiations. About 100 peo-
ple attended. '

Richard Bell, vice-presi-.’

dent of the council, said rep-

resentatives of administra-,

tion and the union had been
invited “to let us know if
there's going tobe'a school to
come to in January.”

The ' students want to”

prevent a recurrence ‘of the
1978". strike-lockout during
which some faculty and asso-

ciated institutions respected’

the picket lines resulting in a
loss of education. ‘The union’s
80-month contract, imposed
by binding arbitration after

the 1978 dispute, expires

Dec. 31.
Roger Cristofoli, presi-
dent of L Local. 1941,-and Mic-

+ of réfusal. In: his‘

jpenting
-address, Bell said, Perra had

written saying the adminis-.'
tration was applying to the.

provincial “government for
mediation services. ©

“I had, a meeting: with
Mr. Perra to get information.
He agreed with me that stu-
dents have a very real con-
cern in this area but that was
about all he was willing to
do.”

Bell said students have a
right to be involved as they
are the ones who will suffer
in a deadlock situation.

“Students don’t have
any official ties with the

support staff but the support’

staff are the people that keep
this institution open as much
as .the administration —
much more in fact. The ad-
ministration find they can’t
keep. this institution open
without support staff.”

Cristofoli said students
must act to protect their own
interests.

“Our position is much
the same. We're hoping to

take positive action to pro- |
tect our own interest.

“The issues “are. very
simple. You've all heard the
term ‘working poor’. That’s
us. That’s the basic issue —
money.”

The union is working to

- provide the legitimate econ-

omic needs of its members,
said Cristofoli.

: Canada level of ie 8 pov-

erty was $7 an hour. Most
of our members earn $6 to $8
an hour.”

: Most people in this area
make '$10 or $15 to $16 an
hour, he said.

“What we're asking for
is ‘some kind of rough com-
parability with those wages.

“The rate of pay of our
lead hand cafeteria cook (who
has 18 years’ experience and

-eooks, buys and plans meals

for 600 people daily) is $6.20
an hour as a cook plus 64
cents an hour asa lead hand.”

Related to the wages
issue is what the union iden-
tiffes as inequities among the
campuseg. A cook at DTUC
earns $10.05 an hour.

“We shave three main
campuses and on, all three
there ‘are. different rates of
pay and different -hours of
work, We maintain if. one
campus can afford a certain
rate, the college can afford to
pay. that on other campuses.”

: STRIKE POSSIBLE

Cristofoli ‘said ° union
members met. '\Wednesday’
evening -and “voted ‘to’ put:
thachinery: in “motion: fora
strike vote Jan..5. At that

‘time the union will be in a

legal position to strike after.
having given 72 hours’ notice.

Kinakin, ‘gave the his:
tory of labor relations be-
tween the union and admin-

istration. In the 1978 ‘strike’

cide which ‘union should rep-
resent the workers.
The union spent $8,500
in legal fees to prove. they
were the correct bargaining.
agents before negotiations
even got tothe table. Kinakin
called it “a simple attempt to
destroy the union. They are
continuing that approach.”
Finally, the government
stepped in, calling the college
an essential service and leg-
islating employees back to

> work,

“You are going to get
taken at the college one more
time in an attempt to smash a
union. Students are going to
be put through the wringer.

“The college has never

“talked about a single wage.

issue after five weeks of
meetings with erie union.”
TWO SDD!

Atthis point Bell said, “I
think you people have heard
one side of the story — why
the union ee that admin-

it them

“We, ‘have a brand new
administration ‘four
months old, This’ isa an ideal
chance to end 15: years of
bitter struggle between-man-
agement and the union here.”

At the suggestion «of
student :'Peter Hammond,
students crowded into Per-

ra’s office urging him to -

address them.  _

Perra. agreed. on , the
condition the union. repre-
sentatives would not be pre-
sent and cautioned them
“there are limits to, the kind
of information that I can Pro,

Although union. mem-
bers remained‘ on the side-
lines, ‘Perra addressed the
students saying, “The reason
I'm here is because the stu-
dents came to my. office. *

“I don't believe ‘thatthe
best way to sort out the ‘issue
on a labor. ute or nego-
tiations is dispute ‘atpublic
forum or public debate.”

Perra: said -he ‘had de-
clined the: original invitation
on the advice of the chairman
of the board and the. college
solicitor.

He’ said he -had been
asked what students should
do in this situation. i

“I believe people should
do what they are supposed to
do and do it: to'the best of
their. ability.\ You “have to
play ‘out your roles.”,

Asked.
the hi

Pera replied, “That
generally is, in fact, one of
the ‘outcomes of collective

“bargaining. I think’we'll work
it out in time. We're ‘not

“From my perspective

bringing in a mediator before |-

‘Perra left and the union

representatives were again
available for questioning..
They’ too were asked
why union and management
don't get together for round-

the-clock negotiations to set-’

tle this thing before it harms
students, y :
~UNION EAGER eee
Cristofoli said-the union
has been available but man-
agement has not in many
instances. On Dec. 10 the
union was:asked to cancel a
session ‘because of. an. in-
formal labor board’ hearing
scheduled for 4 p.m. The
union asked the meeting be

held and adjourned at 1 p.m..

‘They arrived» and were
greeted by a letter saying
administration would not be
present.

He said it has been a

‘constant problem that the

union wants to discuss wages
first and management wants
to‘discuss them last.

‘One student said he was
‘paying good money”. for his
education and“I'm me

SELKIRK STUDENTS line up in the hall at the C

2 Sections (A & B)

them of-the' status of

campus: preparatory to entering Principal ‘Leo Perra's
office to demand his presence at an open forum called

by the

Council:

Input:

negotiations between re college:.and non-teaching
employees. Representatives of CUPE Local 1341 Roger

wanted

and lekey Kinakin were at the forum.

Across the: world

i

10 minutes’ silence on radio
: foday signals Lennon tribute

“. By THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS: ©

Radio stations from Lux-

embourg' to San’ Francisco

will go off the air for 10

minutes today in mourning

for former Beatle John Len-

olulu, had sought help at a
mental helath clinic three
weeks before the shooting,
but had not showed up for a

In Boston,. bittersweet
nostalgia tinged a convention
of Beatles fans that began
Pridsy. . More~. than 1,500

Social workers ‘began looking

for him three days before the”
ie slaying, said Robert Omura, .

i‘: director of the clinic operated
; by the Catholic Social Service
fa

where Chapman sought help.

people the slaying
and picked over memorabilia;

including a 15-year-old pack,

of Beatle. bubble ‘.gum‘ that
went! for $5. and: other *aou-

He
that according to the Col-
leges Act any student who
doesn't pay: his tuition by
Jan. 30 will. no longer be
eligible to attend classes.

A student asked, “Why
can’t union and management
sit down and talk?”

He said one of the
reasons the 1978 ‘dispute
dragged on was that. faculty
and It

5 Central:
New. York. fora.

prayer session, and other ob-

servances are slated from
Lennon's birthplace — Liver-
pool, England — to Sydney,
Australis. .

and’ eons alert” and cae

when ‘he made the. appoint.
ment by. telephone, Omura
said, Soo as
Champman, ‘charged
with second-degrre murder

int he slaying Monday, was

they had refused to cross
picket lines, they would have

forced an earlier settlement.

said the man arrested in
Lennon's. shooting, Mark
David Chapman, 25, of Hon-

Creston-Alice Siding vote

f Friday from Bel-
levue Hospital in Manhattan
to Rikers Island city prison
for security reasons.

ond
requested 10 minutes’ of ‘si.

lence at 11 a.m: PST today ’in:

Lennon's memory,

Radio stations planning
to honor Ono's request for a
simultaneous’. period of si-
lence include Radio Luxem-
bourg, which will go off the
air at 7 p.m. local time, and
radio stations KMET and
KLOS in San _ Francisco,

RDCK takes exception to
Vander Zalm’s response

By ANGELIKA YOUNG
NELSON — Regional
District of Central Kootenay

tl
around, But, there are two
sides.”

He called for any admin-
istration member to. come
forward. g

“We're not asking you to
negotiate or put wage pac-
kages on'the table in front of
the’ student body. What
we're asking for is infor-
mation:

rejected

of Municipal’ Affairs Bill
Vander Zalm’s response to
their protest against the
Creston boundary restruc-
turing as “an evasive action.”

At their inaugural meet-
ing, directors rejected the
minister's letter and in-
structed their administrator
to ‘send it back for clari-
" fication.

An Oct. 4 referendum to
extend Creston's boundaries
to include Alice Siding was
rejected by the rural district
but an ‘over-all count was
used, allowing. Creston's
greater Population to make
the decision,

Directors protested the
minister's decision to use an
over-all count despite the fact
separate polling booths and
different colored ballots were
provided to the voters at
their Oct. 25 meeting. :

Vander Zelm said “I
signed the supplementary
letters patent providing for
the incorporation of the new
‘Town of Creston only after. I
had considered the various
issued that affected the
greater community of Cres-
ton and examined the strong
over-all yes vote. .

NO PROMISES

“I never promised any-
body that, if the vote in Alice
Siding went against the

proposal, that I would not
sign the letters patent.

“The individuals who
now object to my action are
well aware that they should
have protested at the June 18

|. public. meeting at which the

CASTLEGAR AND orea Regional [billet ot of Central Kootenay directors chat at the

region's

be picking up some pointers from old hands Mayor
* tee, and Area J Director Martin Vanderpol. -

for Area I, John Voykin, (left) may
fudtey Moore, Castlegar appoin-
—CaMewsFote

ey Angotia Young

Creston: area restructure
d repre-

Crestor area. restructure
committee. One of the com-
mittee’s recommendations
was that I direct ‘a ref-
erendum be held in the areas
that are now part of the new

- Town of.Creston. Both Mr,

Henker and Mr. Aasen sup-
ported this recommendation.
“It is. absolutely ridi-
eulous for them to turn
around and condemn me for
ignoring the voice of local
residents when I have ad-
hered to their wishes
through this whole affair.
“As the RDCK electoral
area directors for Alice Sid-
ing at that time, Mr. Henker
and Mr. Aasen were perhaps

show up in any of our rec-
ords,”

Aasen said he and Area
C director Henker first heard
there might not be a separate
ballot the day before the ref-
erendum. Henker tried with-
out success to contract Van-
-der Zalm. When different
colored ballots arrived they
were reassured.

A separate count was-

taken but the returning of-
ficer was instructed by the
minister not to reveal it.
Area A director Charlie
Wilson said, “It seems to me
it’s just a whole flock of
errors pues together and it
to be in that area.

of their
ents’ opinion and are now
trying to blame me for their
own sins of omission.”

‘ Area B director Ray

Aasen said the letter “doesn't

answer our question at all.
It's just an evasive action.

DIRECTORS BLAMED
“He's implied that it’s
our fault when we didn’t have
a damn thing to do with it in
the first place.”
The recommendation of

the restructuring committee
included the stipulation that

“ sentation on'the issue.

“I find it’ especially dis-
turbing that Marvin Henker
and Ray Aasen, who pre-
sented the resolution con-
demning me at the RDCK
meeting, were both on the

ballots be held and a
negative vote from either
group could defeat the ballot,
he

But, minutes taken at
the public hearing did not in-
clude that and “it doesn't

-“I think the two direc-
tors are a little remiss in not
following through and mak-
ing damn sure you get what
you want.”

SEPARATE BALLOT

Area D director Sean

“Hennessey said, “It' is not

really important to this board
who said what and when and
how it happened. This board
fells a separate ballot should
have been taken.

“We need to ask the
minister to respond on that
point.”

Directors acclaimed Ned
MacNeil, Salmo representa-
tive, as chairman and Area J
director Martin Vanderpol
acting chairman of RDCK
and chairman of the Central
Kootenay Regional Hospital
District Board for 1980-81.

Bath held these positions in

Newly-elected directors
Glen Suggitt (Area E), Dor-
othy Kinakin (Area G), John
N. Voykin (Area I), Frances
E. Sadd (Area K) and re-
elected Charles J. Wilson
(Area A) and Marvin Henker
(Area C) were sworn in,
along with municipal direc-
tors.

Crash kills

Robson man

A 4t-year-old Robson
man, Bill W. Zaitsoff, was one
of the two drivers who died
instantly in a head-on. col-
lision on i State

where it will be 11 a.m.

In Liverpool, ‘where the
Beatles got their start, im-
presario Sam. Leach sched-
uled a memorial concert with
a candlelight ‘vigil.

In Sydney, Australia, an
observance was planned at 6
a.m.'‘to coincide with: the
period ot at Ens: despite the

In' ‘New: York, “Martin
Duffy, chief of the. Midtown
‘North police precinct, said he
expects 600,000 Lennon fans
in Central Park today, about
the same number that at-
tended the Woodstock Music
and Arts Fair in 1969.

Angther vigil was
planned outside the Dakota,
the luxury apartment house
where Lennon, Miss Ono and
their son, Sean, lived. Len- -
non was shot as he was
entering the building.

Meanwhile in Los An-
geles, a man detained after
he allegedly threatened to
kill former Beatle Ringer
Starr and Ono, is undergoing
psychiatric tests at a Los
Angeles hospital, police said.

Police said the man,
tentatively identified as Dan-
iel Siminoski, 33, was ar-
rested at Los Angeles
after ‘police in New York
tipped them off that the al-
leged threat was made in a
telephone cali to a former
agent for Lennon in New
York.

The man did not have a
weapon or a plane ticket and
no charge has been filed, they
said.

RCMP service
‘a bargain,’
says Kaplan
OTTAWA (CP) — Soli-
citor-General Robert Kaplan
says RCMP contract services

“will continue to be a bar-
gain” Sespite the fact the

Highway 395 Thuraday after-
noon, a quarter mile south of
Addy, a small community be-
tween Colville and Chewelah.

The second driver has
been identified as Louis W.
Peters of Chewelah.

- A third person, a pass-
enger and brother of the
Robson man, John Zaitaoff,
was reported in stable con-
dition in Holy Family Hos-
pital, Spokane. .

A spokesman for the
U.S. Highway Patrol said the
Peters vebicle was south-
bound and‘the Zaitsoff ve-
hiele northbound when the
Zaitsoff vehicle crossed the
centre line into the south
lane.

who buy ms services are”
being asked to pay a great
deal more for them.

He was replying to Com-
mons questions by Svend
Robinson (NDP — Burnaby),
who said Ottawa is shifting a
$100-million tax burden to
the provinces and munici-
palities by proposing that
they pay more for contracted
RCMP policing services.

Kaplan proposed recent-
ly that the eight provinces —
all but Quebec and Ontario —
who use RCMP as provincial
police pay 75 per cent of the
cost under a new contract,
currently being negotiated,
rather than the 66 per cent
they are paying this year. -