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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.

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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

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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.

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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-
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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