Seo ee EC ge tan meas: eae See LEGISLATIVE & PARLIAMENT Liquor -vendors and pubs have. begun stocking. up on Cr beverages, butsome residents are putting up their own long-term supplies before vendora.run out. By DONNA VALLIERES Herald staff writer Al liquor stores in the province could close. down Saturday morning if the government does not react to a strike vote taken by members of the B.C, - Government Employees Union.. Union members throughout the province voted 91.5.percent in favour of a strike which would ‘affect’ 31,000 workers, in- But pubs Herald staff In the event of a strike by liquor store employees on Saturday morning, those who still need to quench will still be able to go down to local. beverage rooms for a cold one. The union affecting beverage workers and bartenders is not going to be asked to support the B.C. Government Employees Union if they do ga on strike, but.instead will continue business as usual. stay open Liquor outlets in the province are suspected of stockpiling beer.and alcohol for some weeks and~ will probably continue to.do so up-until the strike, if it ever occurs, Until the supply runs out that is. . The BCGEU has been in contact with various liquor transport and brewefles unions throughout Canada as well as the states who have agreed not to supply or transport liquor during the B.C. strike. ~ Liquor stores cluding 240. employees in Terrace, . Strike vote was taken earlier this month in Terrace, with 300 of the local employees voting, and the provincial count was tallied yesterday afternoon. Local union represen- tative Roger Davis said the union’s next move was .to serve 72 hour strike notice which would be in effect.for 90 days during which time the union and government will sit down at the bargaining table. “Hopefully we'll be able to negotiate a scttlement,” Davis said. He recieved. word shortly after the strike vote was counted that the govern- ment was ready to meczt on Thursday at 1.p.m., and he said he is optimistic that a settlement can be reached within a few days. (BQ4RY BLDBOS Vic req i BA vote However, Davis added that if the govenrmentis not ready to make what the union considers a fair offer, Saturday's strike could still go ahead. : Davis said the main worry he had was that Premier Bill Bennett had chosen to be. outside the province at this time, and’ stated that either the premier does not think the issue is important or that he has already given to close /) government negotiators a mandate. “Let's hope it's the lat- ‘ ter,” he said. If the government does not respond to the an- nouncement of a strike vote, or if negotiations break down at any time during the next 90 days, liquor store employees could go on strike. ( the™herald Serving Terrace, Kitimat, the Hazeltons, Stewart and the Nass ‘4 VOLUME 71 NO, 93; Price: 20 cents WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 197? | It won't happ given careful study, and, if © VICTORIA (CP(- Any future changes to the Labor Code of British Columbia will only be made after full government — consultation. with both labor and management, Labor Minister Allan Williams said Tuesday. | Williams told .the B.C. legislature that it was ob- vious from .the highly. political debate surrounding Bill 29, the Labor Code of British Columbia Amend- ment Act, 1977, that the present system was inadequate. . “it is my intention to establish a mechanism and we will use another technique, and these. will give. the fullest opportunity for consultation,” Williams said second reading debate of the bill “The minister said that at ' preseht, recommendations to. change the: code were’ recieved by his ministry, LABOR BILL GETS 2nd READING. - warranted, were acted upon. “Tt may be that that He said later in an in- terview . that because of “gensitivities. and in- stalling the meters, — pF did filtiire’ parking , Parking meters dropped by council Herald staff. . Downtown drivers will not be bothered with the nuisance of parking meters despite earlier threats that council was looking into the possibility of in- . Council accepted a recommendation from finance committee at Monday night’s meeting not to use parking meters in the downtown area at the present 2 -The question first reached committee level when a discussion took place concerning the inconvenience to merchants and other drivers because of cars parked along downtown streets for long: periods of time. - However; council agreed hey should Cloyeriawn Mall Id wait.until the _ Kets‘ underway. to deter: " needs of the town, trieacies’” in making changes to the code, a new, More open, process for introducing’ amendments was. needed. Williams said such a method could utilize a “task force approach,” in which . one or two labor relations experts. would be hired to deal with problems on a pprolect, or topic-criented’’ s He explained that the team would deal with a subject only upon recom- mendation from. the government, not on its own accord, Williams said that once such a team was given a subject to consider, it would contact labor, management, and even the .Labor . Relations Board so it could study the. problem .in as Clear a Hight as possible. orga . ;. 4: Williams*scmade?:-the-> plaee-and it: becomes-double- (Continued page 3) réniarks in closing debate in principle on the con- _ End industrial apartheid, — new IWA trouble-shooter says _ VANCOUVER (CP)- The new ly-appointed minority ights trouble-shooster for the International Wood- ‘workers of America says he hopes he will help to end ““ndustrial. apartheid” in. the forest industry. Lyle Kristiansen, a 38 ‘year old union member employed at the Kootenay Forest Products plant in Nelson, B.C., said he hopes his work. will encourage other unions to appoint _ members ot monitor and improve the position of ethnic members. He was appointed after ‘the federal government gave the IWA Region 1, covering 52,000 wood- workers in the four Western provinces, $30,000 to hire a - OTTAWA (CP) — Critics demanded instant action Tuesday after Statistics Canada released figures showing the seasonally adjusted. unemployment rate rose to 8.2 per cent of the work force in August. Ed Broadbent, national leader of the New Democratic Party, urged Commons Speaker James Jerome torecall Parliament immediately .so the House “ean turn its energy to finding solutions to this economic malaise.” Sinclair Stevens, Progressive. Conservative finance critic, said the government should move quickly to appoint a minister of finance. Donald Macdonald announced last 4 week that he was resigning f from the post, & Joe Morris,. predisent of fy the Canadian Labor (3) Congress, (CLC), said the @ government must admit it member to. combat racial discrimination in the union -for a. one-year trial period. Kristiansen said he has ‘three main projects. in mind, They includes establishing a good education program for IWA members in an oeffort to end. overt. discrimination against minority groups in the work force. This. project will include investigation of the practice - adopted by some companies of segregating workers so . that.all members of an ethnic group work together in & certain shift or in one | brach of an operation, Kristiansen said, He noted some companies : have found they run into less problems with this system, made a drastic mistake in its economic .policies and ‘start to stimulate the economy, Although summer is traditionally a time of. high employment, Statistics Canada reported there. were 838,000 Canadians without jobs in August. That com- pares to 878,000 jobless persons in July. Boradbent said at a news conference tuesday. the Statistics Canada figures are misleading because they do not reflect the numbers of Canadians who have given up their. job search. The NDP calculates the actual number of unemployed is in excess of 1.3 million. For .the last year, unemployment rates. have been running significantly higher than a year earlier, August's rate compares with a 7.2 per cent seasonally adjusted rate in August, 1976, but it is stil] doesn’t — widespread the segregation but said he considers such an arrangement unac- ceptable. ‘Industrial apartheid” it may he a peaceful solution he said, butitis not a successful one. Kristiansen said he know, how system is, but that he suspects it is more common ‘than the few cases he is aware of now. Less dramatic’ but “probably more efiective in the long run, Kristiansen said,.is his idea of getting ethnic workers back into the classroom to help them ‘improve their English so they can go farther in. their jobs and. participate in the community, He said he would like. to see basic English upgrading classes set up at the job Site, so workers who are nor- mally excluded from such opportunities because of shift work will be able to take advantage of them. Another major project will be investigating ways of getting native Indians ad- justed .te working. in the forest industry, Kristiansen said, As well, he said be will establish a. liason with ethnic ‘organizations to get their assessment of problem areas, and doa survey of the IWA membership to see what. the. breakdown is ethnically in relation to the communities, en again-Williams [im " process is wrong,” he said, troversial amendments introduced last week. . The bill recieved second reading with a fo 17 margin, Both. Liberal leader Gordon Gibson and Progressive Conservative leader Scott Wallace joined ithe New. Democratic Party in opposing .the bill. The legislation would make it more difficult for unions to organize, op- position mmebers said. The - - amendments allow em- ployers to withhold staff lists from union organizers and allow employers to express anti-union sen- timents during union organizing drives, Williams sald, however, that the amendments are designed.to help the unions. “We know that trauma ~ dees .take place when activities take Fatal accident Herald staff. A Terrace man is dead following a single vehicle accident on Park Avenue Monday morning. John Bastin, former principal of Caledonia senior secondary school, was driving his. camper » down a gravel hill jn the 4400 block of. Park. when the vehicle was observed by a passerby to go out of con- trol, according te police reports The camper then went into a ditch and rolled over. Bastin was taken to Mills Memorial hospital by ambulance where he was pronounced dead on arrival. _Anautopsy has been order after which it will decided whether an inquiry will be held. Swarn Mann pra his overhand shot at Thornhill Secondary School last night while he waited for a badminton partner. The Terrace Badminton Club has resumed its 7 p.m. sesslens on Tuesdays aud Thursdays at the school. Members aiso work out every Sunday at Skeena Junior Secondary School gymnasium from Tp.m. to 11 p.m. Those wishing further information can contact Fran Power at 635-5214. : _ DRASTIC MISTAKES IN ECONOMIC POLICIES _ | | High unemployment figures spark calls for action oelow. the post-Depression peak in April of 8.3 per cent. The July rate was 6.1 per cent, Stevens .said in a telephone interview from .Toronto that. the- unem- ployment. rate likely will climb higher during the winter. months, when jobs traditionally are more scarce, The latest Consumer Price Index figures, showing the rate of inflation, are due out today. “That will be.the double- whammy,” said Stevens, ‘adding the government must. re-arrange its priorities. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of. 10.2 per cent Jast month in Quebec spells bad news for national unity. Stevens said, ‘‘the fovernment misfired”? with ts March budget, . which provided tax incentives to business in the hope com- panies would expand and provide more jobs. He also said Trudeau “doesn’t have a very good list to choose from” .in selecting his new finance minister. “But would be better to at least get somebody in there to clarify the situation and stop the drift.” ‘John Fraser, Progressive Conservative labor critic, urged the government to recall Parllament im- mediately to introduce a new budget. The CLC repeated its call for a one-month moratorium on the collection of income taxes from persons earning less than $15,000 a year, The one-month moratorium would be followed by a permanent five per cent tax reduction for persons in that OUD. Othe CLC also called for a -$5-a-month increase in old age pensions; a federal- provincial conference. ‘‘to is. certain to develop this that would include housing energy coats and investment develop short-term policy to winter;” and an immediate construction, subsidization in improved storage and get us over the crunch that public investment program of insulation to reduce transportation of food products. Businessmen losing hope— survey OTTAWA CP-Businessmen are nessimistic over any hope for a strong improvement in the country’s “economic performance inthe next .ix months, the Conference Board in ‘anada said today. A quartelry survey of business -ttitudes show that business leaders appear to be somewhat less op- "mistic than they were at the time of ne previous survey three months iD, the board It reports that 58 per cent of ‘usinessmen feel over-all] economic “onditions will be the same in six ‘months as now. The more pessimistic outlook reflects a shift. in attitudes of decision-makers in the forestry and ‘orest products, oil, gas, chemical, yonths. said. “ould go up. mining, metal and machinery and “lectrical equipment industries, which historically haye accounted ‘or amajor share of total investment ‘nending, the report said. if the businessmen said they expect “9 change in the unemp “tte, 6.1 per cent nationally if helast report, during the nest six The report said the businessmen -re a little more optimistic over an mprovement in the inflation rate, ith only 19 per cent expecting an werease in the coming six months. in the previous survey, 27 per cent ¥ those surveyed thought the rate Hopes by company leaders for an increase in sales also dropped, with ent most of them citing weal market demand as the main reason. A significant number, 46 per cent, as another impediment to in- vestment per cent of the businessmen felt it ‘would be. bad time to expand plant and equipment, 20 per cent con- sidered ti a good me and 33 per cent spending. didn’t know. The survey showed that 84 per cent reprtedthelr companies are ulready operating at less than full capacity; The conference board is and in- dependant research ported hy more than700 tnembers, group sup- including government departments, labor unions associations. ‘and == industry