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Canadian Radio Tele-
Communications Com-
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Secretary-
Telecommunications
Berger Building —

100 Metcalf Street
Ottawa, Ontario —

Dear Secretary:

Tam writing this letter
of complaint to yoiu as a
Jast resort in hope
that you will be able to

help me.

-T-am an officer in the
Terrace Local of the
Telecommunications
Workers Union which, as
you know, is involved ina
contract dispute with the
British Columbia
Telephone Company.

My problem is.that my
telephone service to my

home has been cut off by

the company. They did
this on December 25, 1977
and, even after numerous
reports from myself,
family and friends have
failed to restore the
service,

My wife phoned the
District Customer Ser-
vice Manager, Jo Dunn,
on December 25, 1977 to
réquest some action
towards restoral of
service and was told b
Dunn that we were cut off
-in retaliation of some

hone call which they

ve failed to describe,
and which they claim was
made from our phone in
the early hours of
December 2, 1977:
several hours after we
noticed our phone to be
dead!

We had some previous
trouble in late November,
1977 when, after several
unsuccessful attempts to
make a long distance
call, my line became
hung on what I
assumed at the time to be
a faulty peice of equip-
ment. The problem was
cleared after a call to
Repair Sercice. This
oblem was treated by
th myself and the

ny cut me off
then as well! What for, I
do not yet Know.

At no time did the
Cumpany contact me by
mail, in person, or by
phone to inform me that
anything of an irregular
nature had taken place.

At the moment my
mother is visiting us and
has a very difficult time
getting around. She needs
a phone for medical
reasons as well as for
peace of mind. My wife
also works and depends a
lot on the phone. For
these reasons I hope for
your swift action.

Yours sincerely,
Craft Randle
. 4734Straume Ave.,
Terrace B.C.
December 27, 1977.
c.c. Iona Campagnolo

Jeanne Sauve Mp
(Communications)
Stu Legget MP
Cyril Shelford (MLA
Skeena) ,

‘December 1th, 1977
To Whom It may Con-
cern:

Recently, a national
outrage. occurred after
the multi-national giant
“INCO” layed off several
hundred of its workers in
Subdury, Ontario. The
resultinbg public outcry
reverberated across
Canada

At approximately the
same fime, a more
monstrous outrage was to
unfold in B.C, The huge
B.C. Telephone Co. and
its subsidiary CT & S,

ich are both members

of the ultra huge multi-
national New York based
B.T. & E. complex, were
finally able to engineer
the ination of close to
10,000 workers from their
i a long time, ‘They
a lon e, They
succeeded — their plot
and so far not a whimper
from government or the
public. The key to their
success, “and take heed
INCO”, is that the em-
playees were not laid off:
ut instead their: jobs
have been eliminated by

the instigation of a labour -

dispute, How
instigate a labour:
By simply

dispute?
making the workers an
offer they had to refuse.

In short, demanding the
guts out of their polleative
agreement. ey
refuse, lock them out but
make it look like a strike,
couple this with well-
staged dress rehearsals
and you finally arrive at
the present. potentially
very lucrative moment
that the B.C. Tel Brass
have long awaited: That
is the lock out of ap-
proximately 10,000
workers. It took them a
long time and a lot of
persistance, but it finally
paid off.

Now that you have the
game plan, let us now
point out a possible
motive for this adv-
denture. B.C. Telephone
Co. is in a very unique
position of having their

do you

other companies would
find. Simply put — B.C.
Telephone Co. will
continue to receive their
revenue while saving
millions in payroll. The
C.R.T.C. is the regulatory
body which sets B.C,
Tel;'s rates; of course, it

s these rates at a
sulficient level to enable
B.C. Tel to cover all their
expenses and allow for
profit. B.C, Tel's greatest
expense, payroll, is well
over 1 million dollars
every 2 days, for the
members now locked out,
This payroll, which the
have. now eliminated,
would approach 16

‘ million a month or close
to 100 million dollars if ©
_ the present lockout coi-

tinues the six months that
B.C. Tel resident
Gordon icFarlane
suggests.
paradox! B.C. Telephone
pretends to suffer, B.C.
Tel president Fordon
McFarlane continues to
whimper,. while
company waxes fat in a

Holiday death

By THE CANADIAN

PRESS

‘An unidentified 54-
year-old Vancouver man
who choked to death on a
bite of Christmas turkey
was one of at least eight
people who died ac-
Cidentally in British
Columbia during the
holiday. weekend, a4
Canadian Press survey
shows.

Another Vancouver
man, Klaus Lundine, 44,
died Sunday when he
broke his neck after the
bicycle he was riding fell
one metre off a loading
ramp in the city’s in-
dustrial area. -

A baby girl less than
two. weeks old was one of
three people killed
Christmas Eve in a house
fire in Thasis, on Van-
couver Island’s nor:
thwest coast.
identified the others as
Sarapson Glendale, 24,
and his’ __ neighbor
Josephine Hadden, 23, the
baby’s mother. ‘|

Steven, Kuklis, 34, of

Surrey was. killed

Police in

-known

Saturday when his car
collided with a_ police
cruiser. Police said the

‘cruiser’s ights and siren

were on when the
collision occurred in
Vancouver's east end.

Cheryl Lynn Lieuwen, {

31, of Delta died Monday
night when the van in
which she was ridin
collided head-on wit
another car in Richmond.
Five other people were in
hospital, two of them in
serious condition.
Three-year-old Lee
Ame Cathy Schultz of
Vernon died Christmas

_ Eve when she was thrown

from a snowmobile
driven by her father.
Police said

when Schultz attempted:
to drive it up an em-
bankment. He was not
jured,

The survey, from 6
.m. Friday to midnight
uesday night, local
oes not include
accidents,
and

times,
industrial
suicides.
homicides. |

What ao

the §
snowmobile overturned’

labour dispute of their

own making.

It Is true the B.C. Tel
will not be able to pocket
the entire 100 million if
the dispute shculd last
-that long. The company
will reluctantly rebate
the odd ctistomer for
shoddy services ren-
dered. Overtime rates in
excess of $20 per hour will
be required to bolster the
sagging morale of the
supervisory work force.
Bosses inept in their new

workers roles will also:

reduce company profit.
One expense I can assure
you that these merchants
of misery will play up to
the hilt will be that oc-
casioned by acts of
violence against com-
pany platn. This violence

5 usually been minor
on nature and is very
adeptly overplayed to the
news media and gullible

blic. All of this is in-

nded to ,Serve ,
eompany’s interest by
fanning flames of
outrage against the
unionist. Thge real issues
are thus avoided and the
spotlight taken away
from perpertrator of
this heinous economic
crime, While this

tactic is in
a the police
down

diversionary

ogress, W)
re busy track

culprits responsible for a

few thousand in damage,
the real villians continue

‘tobilk the public out of

millions in one of the
greatest con-game
swindles of our time. How
many millions will be
siphoned out of - the
country into the hands of
Big Daddy- G.T. & E. in
New York, we may never
know. A Public norse
whipping is too g or
these tyrants who hold an
already shakey 6.C.
economy hostage to this
type of extortion. How
much longer must we be
subjected to their ban-
ditry and every evil
whim? Hucksterism on
such a grand scale must
not be allowed to succeed,
cannot be allowed to
succeed. Perhaps B.C.
Tel’s rates should be
rolled back to com-
pensate the public for any
inconvenience? A
rollback may even
convince them to give up
their present charade and
return to responsible

rgaining — not such a
bad idea,

Donald McRobb

Terrorist
sentenced

STUTTGART, West
Germany (AP) — A
federal court today
sentenced terror:
Verena Becker to -life
imprisonment for at-
tempted murder and
armed robbery.

The 25-year-old woman
was among 11 jailed West
German terrorists whose
release was demanded
last October by plane
hijackers and the kid-
nappers of industrialist
Hanns-Martin Schleyer.
He was slain by his
kidnappers after West

expenses drastically German. commandos
-yeduced and thelrPIeGts . storm fh Mheramtane
porrendously ‘eee Somalia and freed more
labour dispute.”"This”is than 90 hostages,
exactly the opposite
position of what most white Chief Judge

Wolfgang Fischer was
reading the verdict,
Becker struggled with
her four guards and had
to be subdued.

Lawyers for Becker, a
former telephone
operator, had asked the
court for a limited sen-

tence.

Becker, said by West
German authorities to be
a hard-core member of
the Baader-Meinh
terrorist underground,
was arrested last sum-
mer in southern West

Germany after a shootout
with police in which a
male companion,
Guenter Sonnenberg, was
seriously wounded.

She was sentenced
after being convicted for
attempted murder of the
six policemen who ar-
rested her and Son-
nenberg and for robbery
of a bank in West Berlin.

In 1974, she was sen-
tenced to six years im-
prisonment for bank
robbery and for the
bombing two years
earlier of the British
forces yacht club in West

Betlin. .She, Was. _ freed’ -

along with several other
terrorists in March, 1975,
in oat Week 2 for kid-
na est Berlin poli-
ficlan Peter Lorenz and
flown to South Yemen.

West German __in-
vestigators claim Becker
was a member of the
same terrorist cell
believed responsible for
the killings of Chief

Fede

Siegfried Buback, banker
Juergen Ponto and
Schleyer.

But she has not been
charged with any of the
killings and was in prison
when two of them took
place,

Disney phones

TORONTO (CP) —
Micke Mouse mer-
chandise, already a $16-
million business in
Canada, is moving into
the telephone field,

A Bell Canada
spokesman said today the
comp is arranging

mdi
with distributors of.
the Micke

“ Mouse mer-
chandise to market the
phone next spring.

Phones designed after
the Wi

Disney
character are selling in
the United States for
_ about $100 each, but the
Bell spokesman said the
. Canadian price has not
been set.

lf you wish your Busi

Li N

l ness
Phone listed for your customers

Mickey Mouse will be
50 years old in 1978 and,
marking: the, occasion,
merchandise bearing its
label sold’ briskly this
Christmas, retailers said.

Clem  Saila, vice-
president of Disney

wie of Canada Lid.,
said retail sales . of
licensed merchandise
under the Mickey Mouse
label in Canada are worth
more than $16 million a

year.

In addition, television
programs in French and

ngiish in Canada bring
in about $2 million a year
and Disney movies about
at Piaaaba a year, Saila
said.

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December 29, 1977, PAGE 7

Soviets warn U.S. of bombs

MOSCOW (AP) — The
Soviet Union warned t
United States today that
development an
ployment of the Cruise
missile or neutron bomb
at U.S. forward bases in
Europe or with European
allies might reduce the
possibility of reaching fu-
ture arms agreements.

A commentary in the
Communist party = =
newspaper Pravda by
Maj.-Gen. Rair Simonyan
sai the Soviet Union
opposes the opening of a
new channel in the arms
race but its position
should not be interpreted
as a sign of weakness.

“Neither Cruise

missiles nor neutron.

bombs nor new types of
weapons can intimidate
the Soviet Union,” the
Pravda commentary
said.

The article followed
Soviet President Leonid

B. a teu Pere hn €

Friday: ‘that: the: ‘Soviet
Union would be forced to
develop a neutron bomb
of its own if the United
States goes ahead with its
plans.
The Soviets have a
Cruise missile capability
but Western experts say
they are five years
behind jie United States
evelo it.
The Provda com-
mentary was devoted

largely to U.S. forward &

bases in Europe—the
nuclear submarines,
bombs and _ aircraft
carriers based in Britain,

Spain and other areas of &

the Continent.

SAYS U.S. STRONG
Simonyan, an

a uthoritativs

mentator who is a
professor at an arm
staff college, said U.S.
forward-base tactical nu-
clear strength in Europe
is 7,000 units—‘'more
than enough to raze the
whole of Western Eu-
rope.”

“The United States’
decision to Jaunch the
mass production of
Cruise missiles in itself
could have very
dangerous con-
sequences,” his article
said. “But tha matter
also is being ‘avated
by Washington’s _ in-

tention to shfp these §

missiles across fhe ocean

to build up its forward-

base nuclear potential |

and to hand them over to

he NATO countries.”

The article said that the

de- neutron bomb, which

eople but

destroys
gs intact,

leaves buildi

also might be deployed at
these bases.

Earlier this month,
U.S. Defence Secretary

Harold Brown sought to
assure West European
allies that a possible new
U.S.-Soviet agreement on
limiting strategic bombs
would not bargain away
Euro rights
develop and deploy the
Cruise missile.

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