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THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1976

building.

: TWU picketters marching down Lazelle St. en route.to B.C. Tel office

No end in sight yet
to B.C.Tel strike

~_ “VANCOUVER (CP) 5

T tuo ke o
dispute at British
Columbia Telephone Co.
showed no signs of
abating today as 200
the Tele-
communications Workers
Union picketed the
company’s longdistance
office nearby New
Westminster.

At Abbotsford in the
Fraser Valley, about 50
union pickets appeared at
another long-distance

ice.
Labor Minister John
Munro appointed Mr.

the B,C... Supreme

A 2 aa * : <i ae im.
dubttiat “fencley “con.

missioner in the dispute

. and asked: both sides to

resume normal
operations during the two
weeks Justice Hutcheon
was given to produce a
settlement.

The company,
however, has laid down
conditions for a return-to-
work by the strikers, and
union president Bob Don-
nelly sald no decision will:
be made: on returning
batgaining  commitice

commitiee
mesis—likel
sday—to
situation.

B.C. Tel will not allow
any striker to return to
work without giving “a

iscuss the

c .
commitment’ to
supervisors that there

ill be no further job or |

strike action, ;
In addition, company
chairman Gordon
MacFarlane said the
workers must make a
commitment that they
will work productively
and that there will be no
damage to company
property.
WANTS. COMMITMENT
MacFarlane made it
cleat that the company

“disappointment

Justice Henry. Hutcheon |

on Thur-.

wanted a stronger
commitment from the
workers than contained
in Munro’s return-to-
work plea, However, he
did not make it clear
whether ‘the company
would insist that the com-
mitment sought fram the
workers extend beyond
the two weeks given
hutcheon toa produce
settlement terms.

Both sides expressed
over
Munro’s announcement
but both promised their
complete co-operation
with Justice Hutcheon
who. has a long.record as

a. labor lawyer....and -
“mediator. wecaE, eee SE Large tern at

“The 10,000. TWU
members have been on
the picket line since Nov.

~~ ePelephone "service “tags
been maintained ‘during.
the strikelockout | by-
about 2,000 company —

Donnelly said the
union’s picketing
program would continue
or the time being and
demonstrations planned
for Saturday would go
ahead. | co

Munro announced
Justice Hutcheon would
take up where Van-
couver-based federal
mediator Mike Collins
left off. Munro had ap-
pointed Collins Dec. 6 but

e was unable to bring
about a compromise on
the dispute over con-
tracting out work.

. The previous contract

Deg. 31-1976.

supervisors.

Nishgas - Feds
mum on meeting

OTTAWA (CP) —
There was little comment
Tuesday -after Ottawa
and British Columbia
presented their responses

toa proposal for settlin,
the Nishga Indian land.
claim

The three sides com-
pleted a one-day private
meeting Tuesday af.-
ternoon, then issued a
‘brief joint statement that
said the Nishga will
present the government
positions to their com-
munities. Another
mesting might be held
after the communities

had discussed the respon-
8eB. ;
“The Nishga are

claiming the 5,000 square
miles of the Nass River
Valley in northwestern
B.C., their traditional
homeland. The area, in
which between 2,500 ‘and
3,000 WNishga reside,

UVic breakthrough’
‘on Asian Milfoil

VICTORIA (CP) —The
provincial environment

ministry says research at.

the University of Victoria
has ‘made a _ major
technological =.

breakthrough in_the fight
against the Eurasian
water milfoil that has
infested the Okanagan
lakes system,

The ministry said in a
news release ° that
Oldriska Ceska, oa
researcher at ‘the
university, has devised a

rentiate amon
the. six types of milfa
found . British
Columbia.

The ministry said the
discovery is,.of major
importance because until
now, the ‘fight to
eradicate the weed from
the province's lakes has
been hampered by the

" ‘ating’ method |
ton aiterentiat me

‘to control the s

inability to distinguish
tke ispre adi ng
Eurasian variety from
the relatively harmless
native species.

Plant pigments may
now be separated using
two-dimensional thin-
layer chromatography.
similar technique has

been used in Ceska's Ca

atudy of corn genetics,

‘The ministry explained
that the six species of
milfoilin B.C, are similar
in appearance, and
identification also is com-
plicated berause plants
ake on different ap-
pearances depending on

eir. growth conditions,

The controversial

‘herbicide 2,4-D was used

last summer in trying to
read of
the weed in the Okanagan
Lake system. —

never has been ceded by
treaty, ;

The B.C. government
has said it is not prepared
to recognize the concept
of aboriginal title to the
lands claimed by the
Nishga. However, . a
mem of the B.C.

delegation said after the:

meeting that there may
be room for negotiation:

Indian Affairs Minister
Hugh Faulkner = said
Tuesday he plans to
discuss the issue Jan. 19
with B,C. Labor Minister
Allan Williams, the man

responsible for provincial.
India

an affairs. That is the
day the two governments

are expected to announce

a plan for settling claims
to the B.C. cut-off lands,
lands’ set aside for. the
Indians then taken away.

| Engl

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Most unemployed
rofessionals here suffer
from English Bay. dis-
ease, says the general
manager of the Technical
Services Council. * ..’

_ The affliction, a sort of
listlessness, restricts a
person’s chances ‘of
getting another job. Lack

of mobility and a refusal |

to look for a job outside

the area are the tell-tale.

Signs, says Neil A.
Macdougal.
Hesays that nowhere in
nada is it more
epidemic than in Van-
coliver, where the moun-
tains, sea and weather
near English Bay
probably are mostly to
lame,

Other factors may
include a working wife,
democraticfamily —_.

decision-making, pay in-...

centives which are
diluted by high taxes,
lack of portability of
pensions, changes in the
work ethic. and high
housing prices,

After surveying 9,000

Ken Blanes and fellow

TWU member try to

= gor

a

enter B.C. Tel. buiiding, where they are met -
by B.C. Tel representative Ron Drane, whom
they accuse of being a “scab”. :

Native land claims
must have priority

EDMONTON (CP) —

erg

the British Columbia
Supreme Court. .

‘At the heart of my

recommendation is the

need to. settle native

elaims,’’ the commis-—
sioner of the Mackenzie

Vall ipeline inquiry
said in thesecond volume
of his ‘report scheduled
for release today.

He sald he based his
recommendations on the
assumption that, ‘‘in due
course: ‘the industrial
system will require the

as and oil of the western

ee.” . .

Mr. Justice Berger,
who in his first volume
released last spring
called for a 10-year mor-
atorium. on Mackenzie

Val pipeline
development, said the
issue of native claims
“impinges: again and
again on virtually every
aspect of northern life.’
. Justice Berger
reiterated in his new
‘volume that the need to

accountants,

engineers,
executives,

scientists,

personnel specialists and .
no,

ogists registered
with the, council, it
concluded that Canadians
are less inclined today to
make sacrifices for a job.
WANT TO sTAY

“They want to work
where they're living,”
Macdougal said in a
recent interview.

The council,
established in 1927 to
combat the brain-drain to
the United States, is an
industry-sponsored
cleari house for
q@alifie de
professional and

hni¢cal staff, More than
580 employers belong and.
‘the council offers per-
sonnel, consulting and

‘placement services to

other firms.”

Its survey shows that
more professionals want
to live in metropolitan
areas because of the
cultural amenities and:
alternative job  op-
ortunities, but can-

dates in smaller cities

ish Bay Flu?

settle land claims bears

A Terrace glass truck passing TWU picketters on Lazelle St. Could

be, as one onlooker suggested, ‘‘the driver is looking for business.”

— Tnuvik scoops Canada
to sell Berger report

3INUGIJ, N.W.T. (CP)
—~ At least five copies of
the second volume of Mr.
Justice Thomas Berger’s
pineline ine ‘Valley 1d
einquiry were so
re two days before the
report was to be officially
released,

And the reason, says
the man whg sold them,
was: that government
officials forgot to tell his
bookstore copies he

- received were to be held
f ease inti! today,
eee

Since the first report

' was’ released,. the
Canadian . and U.S.
governments have --

ided.in favor of an

Alaska
route to ship natural gas
from Alaska to the U.S.
mainland: Slee the
ecologically-fragile
Mackenzie delts.

Mr. Justice Berger
Maintains in

hissecond
volume that if a pipeline
has to be built to trans-
port Alaskan gas to
southern markets, the
Alaska Highway route is
preferrable from an en-
vironmental]
view, .

A Mackenzie Valley

pipeline would have

‘dev ast
impact -and limited
economic benefits”. and
would “frustrate the
goals of native claims if it
were built may i jin
He said any e
eventually to be built
along the Mackenzie
Valley route woul
depend on the. size of
natural
the Beaufort Sea.

who used to prefer

Toronto and Vancouver .

now refuse to consider
thent-because of high real
estate prices, —

4 fob hunters in the

however, generally are
willing to go anywhere,
the survey found,
CAN HURT .

Macdouga!l sid the
greater reluciznce to
move can hurt lidustr
as well as stay-put indl-
viduals.

A particular: group the
counci} counsels is
executives who have been
fired

Increasing numbers
are being fired, said
Macdougal.. Previously,
employers ‘tended to
make work for employees
with 10 or 15 years
standing, keeping them
“out of concern, or a
sense of responsibility.”

“Especially with nose-
to-thegrindstone lypes,
being fired is a complete
blow," he said. “They
lose self-confidence and
sense of self-worth, |

ake

hway pipeline -

point of: j

mtmmenton!

Skeenaview Lodge

: Debate lo

§ reserves in:

‘Kitimat-Stikine

‘Regional District board is

expected to discuss the
possibility of a regional
aundry facility for the
Terrace-Kitimat area
which would service
several types of in-

stitutions,
Roger Davis, staff

” representative for the

B.C, Government Em-
ployees Union, said he
would be mak a
proposal to the regional
rd this Saturday.
Skeenaview ge
Mills Memorial] Hospital,
Osbourne Guest Home,
and. Northwest Com-
munity College are all
govenrment institutions

experiencing laundry
roblems at this time,
davis said.

The union represen-
tative claimed it would
make sense if all these
institutions used a central
Jaundry facility.

Currently, these in- -

stitutions use a variety of
facilities. Mills hospital
sends its laundry down to

_Monday

Gerry Shaw, owner of
Mac's News Stand in this
Mackenzie delta com-
munity, said the ship-
ment of books that
arrived at his store
Monday wasn’t accom-
panied by any govern-
ment - instructions con-

So the books were put
on display, and at least
five copies of the 250-page
work: were ‘sold ‘on

Kitimat General Hospital
and Skeenaview has its
own laundry room.

However, with the
eventual phase-out of the
resent Skeenaview

odge, the provincial
government has proposed
that a regional laundry be
set up in Kitimat at a cost
of $165,000.

Davis said he feels
moving the laundry to
Kitimat -for use by
Kitimat General, Mills
and Skeenaview would be
uneconomical for a
number of reasons.

If the laundry is moved
from Skeenaview, eight
employees belonging to
the BCGEU will be af-
fected,, Davis said.
Although all eight will be
protected by their union
contracts from hein
laid-off, the move woul
regult in the loss of ex-
perienced laundry per-
sonal. ,

Another argument
against having the
laundry in Kitimat is the

cost spf transporting

cerning a release date.

The Edmonton

Journal obtained a copy
and broke the story first.

*'The girls who opened
the boxes probably
thought it was more of the
original (first volume of
the report) Shaw said.
“Itlooks identical, except
it has volume two on it.”'
He said it was “an
honest: mistake’—and
when officials of the
federal department of

‘supply and services told

him to get the books off
the shelves, he complied.

cation for —
new laundry ss.

laundry back and forth
and the necessity of in-
creasing laundry stock at
the institutions, Davis
said, _

Kitimat hospital is
probably the only
govenrment institution in
Kitimat which could
benefit from the regional
laundry, the union
spokesman said, while
there are several in-
stitutions in Terrace
which could make use of
the same Jaundry.

The regional district,
which has some ad-
ministrative — authority
over hospitals in the
region has indicated its
support of the Kitimat
site.

The board, however,
does not normally act as
a co-ordinating body for
other institutions, and
has therefore not con-
sidered regionalizing
laundry for other in-
stitutions. .

Davis will present his
roposal to the regional
board at their regular
meeting on Saturday.