PAGE2 Improved civil, rights needed VANCOUVER (CP) — Pre- mier W. A. C. Bennett received a brotherhood award Tuesday night but was also told belter civil rights legislation is needed in British Columbia. After a speech by the premier acknowledging the award from the Canadian Council of Chris- lians and Jews’ B.C. region, industrialist Paul Heller of Van- _ couver said he hoped the pre- mier “will do something to improve” existing laws. Mr. Heller, who sat at the head table with Mr. Bennett and other dignitaries, said there are recurring instances of racial ~ discrimination in the province. Much could be done to im- prove the situation through edu- ealion and dealing informally with cases of discrimination be- fore they reach the courts, Mr. Heller said. Mr. Bennett was asked what he thought of Mr. Heller's re- marks, “I'm nota lawyer. The main thing isnot what's written down but how people act, We have the best relationship among races of any province in Canada.” During his speech, the pre- mier referred to Chief Dan George, the Indian actor who lives in North Vancouver and who was also a guest at the dinner. Mr. Bennett said natives had lived in peace with all newcomers to B.C. “There is no racial, no color har here,”’ he said. Angelo Branea, a justice of the B.C, Appeals Court, pre- sented him with the plaque, which cited the premier’s “years of public service to this province . . . his personal honesty and upright conduct . his devotion to the ideal of the brotherhood of man."* Labor report says jobs down MONTREAL (CP) — A report prepared for the Quebec Feder- ation of Labor shows 15,000 Que- becers were laid off their jobs between Noy. 1, 1970, and May 4, 1971, while the federal depart- ment of regional economic ex- pansion gaye grants to indus- tries to create 6,000 new jobs over a period of three years. The report, prepared by eco- nomie researchers and distributed to delegates at this week’s convention of the QFL, says 13,000 of the layoffs were in the manufacturing sector which the federal department is designed to aid. The department designales certain regions across Canada in which businesses are eligible for federal aid to stimulate the local economy. The QFL study says that under the scheme—the Gaspe, Lac St. Jean and northwest re- gions, traditionally the poorest ‘parts of the province—received between October, 1969, and ‘April, 1971, only 14 per cent of grants in Quebec and wil] get only 11.1 per cent of the newly- created jobs. From October, 1969, to May of this year, Quebec received $577 million for 213 projects designed .to_create 12,818 new jabs, the report said. | The economists who con- ducted the study claim the fed- eral plan perpetuates foreign eoitrol of the Quebec economy. Of 10 enterprises which re- ceived more than $1 million in grants each, none were Quebec- owned and seven reported net income for 1970 ranging from $14 million to $1 billion, the economists said. Path for peace hinted WASHINGTON (Reuter) — Israeli Premier Golda Meir, hinted on arrival Tuesday night*= © Her-visite= fot talks with President ae in ees that she might be ready to sug- gest some new path towards a Middle East peace, Mrs. Meir didnot write off the currently-stalled U.S. attempt to bring about an interim Israeli-Egyptian accord to re- open the Suez canal. But she told reporters: ‘‘Maybe a new thing should be tried," Another possibility, she sug- gested, was renewal of the United Nations mediation effort | by special envoy Gunnar Jar- ring—overshadowed by the U.S. drive on the cana) question for the last nine months. Mrs. Meir is due to hold talks with Nixon and other cfficials Thursday on Israel's long- standing request for more American Phantom jets and the next U.S. diplomatic move in the search for a Middle East Settlement, . comes at a critical‘juncture in Middle East developments. The latest crisis was brought about by Egyptian statements indicating possible renewal of hostilities, the UN debate on the Middle East starting Thurseay which is expected to complicate peace diplomacy, and Israeli- U.S. differences over the effect of Soviet. arms deliveries to Egypt on the military balance of power in the Middle East, The 73-year-old Israeli leader apparently was brought to Washington by broader con- cerns than her government’s unanswered request for more! Phantom supersonic aircraft. She said: she would be worried if she didnot get the planes, but that the main focus of her dis- cussion would be U.S.-Israeli relations. ; ; Canada income up ten percent OTTAWA (CP) — Canada’s per-capita national income has risen by 10 per cent this year, to $3,300 for every man, woman and child compared with $3,000 ‘Jast year, figures released by Statistics Canada show, ~ The bureau Tuesday said the gross national product—the total value of all goods and services produced by Canada— rose te $93.7 billion for 1971, based on the country's perform- ance in’ July, ‘August and Sep- tember. The comparable figure one year’ago was $84.9 billion, - The biggest component of this is the net-national income— . wages, salaries, supplementary labor income, military pay and allowances, pre-tax corporation profits, farm {ncome and small business. income, after deduct- ing dividends. paid to. non-resi- dents, - The national income for the estimated . population ..of.. “SL.6 -- million at‘ Jund;1 this year :-was running-at an annual Tate of $71.5 billion-in the third quarter of 1971. This compared with $64.2: billion: for 21.4. million ‘inhabitants last year. a PROFITS UP -_ ‘the most notable features of {n- comes recorded in the. GNP ae- ' gounta this year: was a rapid -. during ‘the:intl-inflation price’ : restrainta ‘that had their bigges ‘+, Bite in the final months of 19/0. . “oy Pretax’ corperation. profits “mM _ Were running to $7.6 billion last - “a ar, and then sank to.an an- . toal. A-per-cent gain the third . juacter + of i874. Tey une, ae oual:yate ‘of $6.7 billica ia the’ ‘ club found it. L ‘The ‘divers: ‘placed | a “£000. . “féot - line: on‘ the -bottem. of’. “Georgian Bay with lead |. is the first hips compass, a comimode | Ea Was: abandoned and: a ‘y Bplvage rights.” i ‘Many well-equipped expedie: day, a bomb badly damaged an electrical shop in Belfast, but no one was injured. TIME RUNNING OUT ; Prime Minister Brian Faulk- ner of Northern Ireland said Tuesday night that the Trish Re- publican Army might try to step up its campaign of violence. But he said it is only a matter of time before the IRA is defeated. He said that last Saturday’s wave of-violence in which three persons were killed and: scores of explosions recorded, was only a temporary rallying of the Addressing a ‘meeting of his . Unionist party, Fautkner said improved intelligence enabled Northern Ireland’s security forees to move in daily on pre- cise targets. He said this resulted in major -. hauls of wanted men.and “ma- terials of terror." . he and ‘other: merabers ‘of the: weights to. hiold it in‘ position, “with: surface | SOfeel, Bee : The monetary dispute over éollar-valuation and the import surtax will figure in the Azores talks, too. At Bermuda, Nixon is ex- pected to stress that the United States does not want its goods discriminated against by the growing European Common Market bloc. With Sato, Nixon will be deal- ing with the head of a govern- ment which has been dealt dou- ble shocks by Nixon's Peking and economic moves. « | skyjocking v was. "Red ot (cP) — WATERLOO Ont. The president of the Canadian Arab Federation Tuesday . denied a claim in a new British spy book: that the Arab skyjacking of four . Western airliners last year was part of a worldwide Communist plot thal delivered secret Atlantic Ajliance documents to: the Soviet Union. , The book is totally wrong, says Dr. George Hagar, a politi- cal scientist ‘and native af Leba- non, who says he has hed talks with the skyjackers. He said in an interview the planes were captured by Pales- tine guerrillas a3 a step i in their national conflict. - The British book, Spy Trade, published Sunday, said -that pouches containing top-secret reportson a NATO air-sea exer- cise and the military budget™ were taken off the planes before they were blown up at Cairo airport and in the Jordanian de- sert. The air piracy had little to do with Arab nationalism, said the book, by Edward H. Cookridge, a Vienna-born espionage spe- cialist. att. was in fact part or a. worldwide Communist conspir: acy. .'. .Hardly any of the ac- tual skyjackera were Palestin- ians or Arabs,” . Dr. Hagar disputed this and ‘the book’s claims that the pir- ates included two Africans ‘and : two Latin Americans. He said ‘seven survivors of the piracy. were all Palestinians and have jj returned to rebel bases in Jor: dan and Lebanon. ae He is preparing his own book on the subject, an account of the experiences and background of the rebels which he expects to be published in New York shortly. He said two other skyjackers 7 were Arab students in Europe ‘who had no prior contact with the rebels before capturing the last plane taken. - The rebels were photo- graphed, seen by 500 airline passengers, newspaper men- and , police and gave their authentic names, he said. He added he will urge contacts in Beirut, Lebanon, to have the rebels appear in public to dispel’ Spy Trade’s allegations, ’ any hopes for Palestine libera-. called for Arab:nations to sup- - press ‘the © resistance: ‘move- ‘The real aim of. the skypiracy. . ‘was to raise pressure against ‘Middlé East. proposals : from a Washington .two months’ pre- vious which would have quelled tion, said Dr, Hagar. noite . “Several Arab states had al- | ready accepted. the United States Secretary of State’ Wil- gm am ‘Rogers’. proposal-: which ments,’” he said. INTERVIEWED HIJACKER Dr. Hagar said he had lengthy interviews last July: with Lella’ . Khaled, ‘the girl ‘guerrilla briefly” jailed in’ Britain after .% ' she failed to capture an Israeli’ 7 El Al plane” over’ the English - Channel. Spy ‘Tradé claimed she: may have been born in Honduras. It } said the name on her passport was Maria de la Luz Chaves and she speaks Spanish. 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