"speech to the closing session National singing star returned home to Terrace for the ae em hs Laurie Thain night. annual mustc-hail revue, Saturday She was one of 15 acts to show. perform in ihe well-received tocal_ VANCOUVER (CP) — Striking Telecom- munications Workers’ Union members carried out a threat today to set up a picket line around B.C. Hydro's head office in downtown Vancouver. Al least some members of wiioas at the government- owned utility were not Union spokesman Leigh McCracken said Hydro management crossed the Telephone Co. main -swit- ching station in Vancouver Saturday night to fix a power feed cable and restore power’ which had been out for several hours. Hydro had been warned that anyone crossing the line would find his office picketed, he said. McCracken said he ex- pects Hydro workers represented by the In- ternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Office and Technical Em- ployees Union not to cross the picket line. The pickets could spread to all Hydro outlets, he said. Hydro spokesmen could picket line at the B.C. | _ The Heralt, Monday, March 2, 1981, Page 3 TWU places pickets at Hydro main office — workers may also partici- pate, he said. About 10,000 workers in 11° r Vancouver-area ‘municipalities have been on strike since Jan. 30. seeking . wage parity with outside laborers for female clerical workers. The womenearman average of $5.85 an hour while the males earn an ave- rage $8 an bour. The Greater Vancouver Regional District has offered 15 per cent in one year. | Federal mediator Mike Collins continued to hold talks with telephone workers and B.C. Tel Sunday. Both .- sides were discussing a new company offer that Mc- - Gracken said is the same as one rejected earlier by | the union. B.C. Tel said Feb. 8 it would agree to a three-year pact oaly if it received ap- proval for another rate in- crease from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications : Terms were the same 35 those contained in a report:. last year by federal con- cillation commissioner Ed Peck, plus 12 per cent in the Ee OE year contract, retroactive to Jan. 1, 1900, that would in- crease a. journeyman; Jineman's Ry to $13.75 an hour by July! this year from $115. s _) Theunion voted to acce: nothing dees than the " pecommendations. The -CRIC recently granted B.C, Tel a 12s-pers “gent increase for residenitiak: phone rates anda 15-per-cen$ increase ~ for business} ssuscribers. — ve iftaxtimeputs youin i the squeeze, remem- @: Terrace Downtown Lions Club 2nd not be reached [or comment. rasta yeetalsls Meanwhile, striking ~ atH&R Block took _ Clark faces uphill battle municipal workers are planning ‘a rally at noon ‘Tuesday at Vancouver city hall. Mel Logren, spokesman the pressure off for over th rs ofa milion @anar dians by preparing : accurate income tax relums at an average cost of about $20. That's a good retum for the OTTAWA (CP) — Joe and Ontario MP Chris Although the results ofthe There were apparently ac strong support from the for the Greater Vancouver 7 This . Clark made it clear Sunday Speyer. vote were about what ad- large number among those: more than 500° voting Regional District Employees money. And a lol less pressure. year be sure. § . that despite divided opinion § Blaikie quickly threw his vance polls had predicted. voting against a leadership delegates “from the Union, said the purpose of ; over his leadership in the support behind Clark and got including one by The convention who don’t’ sup ive © Conservative the rally, involving ‘‘anyone THE INCOME TAX SPECIALISTS party and among fellow unanimous backing at a Canadian Press, a Clark port Clark, but donot believe Youth federation, which met nol carrying a picket sign,” MPs, he will fight on in the meeting of the national insider described the results he should be dumped now. for. three days prior to the is ta wake up council a: uphill batile to keep his job. executive commitiee on a as “a real shocker." The biggest block of op- main convention. Ciark gota | members to the worker's 5 LP a; Clark spent most of the motionafsupportfor Clark's = Clark had thefull weight of position voles apparently warm welcome from the contract demands. Wecan help you with a weekend trying to recover leadership. the party machinery behind came from Ontario which young Tories when he ad- — Logren said he expects B.C. Tax Credi ’ cm from the serious wound be Blaikie told reporters the him and had campaigned had 767 of the total of 2298 dressed them Thursday striking members of his &. redits. a: suifered Friday night when one in three party members voted to bold a leadership convention, saying be in- terpreted tne tt tea. a mandate to. lead. .. He mingled with delegates gave, a coualng, partisan of the three-day convention Sunday that brought the Tories to their feet with chants of ‘Joe, Joe, Joe." executive had alsodecided to hold the party's next general meeting in February, 1963, apparently an attempt to unilercut discussion of a deadership convention. Blaikie, , doubted. , the: “meeting . would... be held! earlier and said the question of a leadership convention was not even discussed at the meeting, which Clark at- tended. . extensively across the country meeting delegates. “if it is one in three after all that 1 shudder to think what it was a few months . ago,” the insider said: - “ark ‘buppivtets “said “his: lacklustre speech prior to the Friday night vote cost him support. The tub-thumper he delivered Sunday attacking the Liberals and the NDP voting delegates and Quebec which had 434. The anti- Clark vole from Quebec was helped by more than 100 Quebecers who arrived by bus at the last moment to- His strongest support, which some estimated as high as 90 per cent, clearly came from the three Prairie provinces which had about evening. and John Crosbie, Clark's former finance mionister, gave Clark-a strong endorsement when he spoke | to them 1 Wedneaday. ' union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the Vancouver Municipal and Regional Employees Union toshow up. Striking 8.C. Tel - 4650 Lakelse 635-2908 + Fri, — 9-4 AS amechanic, you tknow t the - nuts and bolts of good form. ABA AAO A _“The nation needs a party But Clark's toughest job should have been used 470 delegates. . to speak for Canada,” Clark will be convincing a badly- Friday. Clark also apparently em Ask Al. said as cheers erupted from = split caucus to support him ; ” H the crowd. “I am proud to when he. meets them on “4 lead the party that speaks Wednesday. NOW OPEN i for Canada” British Columbia MP L fi _ He got a break as Peter Robert Wenman, a strong , : ; i: Blsikie, -a 43-year-old Clark supporter until now, Aspen Motor Inn 7% Montrealer, captured the a A eae thin a 4 dency on the first will have to within a tS ei and pro-ark can year to 8 ments on Smithers, B.C. : didates executive =“ eu podtions Blaikie bad been but be will have We face 60 units, swimming pool, sauna, hot pool. | jared by Clark people over another we we . - ; een other candidates, can't win another election | For reservations call 847-4551 (conecn Nova Scotia MP Pat Nowlan like this,"" Weaman said. ; Ca i i ( WEATHER } _ TORONTO try - High low ; Suen aa yr ~ mit 4 Winnt 1 -16 600.0 i Sr 0-13 000.0 cots ist d Hefills out the UI Record of Employment | Saskatoon “4 -6 000.8 -a a ste ail om, 4204. Sparks St. ectly ev time : festa Hel a eee T ace B Cc | ery Calgary S Sam: “EPet se | fe 3 ore an employee parts company. | ankesok a 7208 j Casileger 9 -7 00m oe 8 } Peniicten La -3 900.8 r M : h 1 at ; Ravelerene 7 ee When you're in » good Leaving in good form. Last year, Prince, Rupert 3 At Opening arc st commpeay, stay in good The Recordof Employment _ in filling out cpr nit form cost at *t Terrace 18 ; . form. is one way we can make sure —_teast $125,000,000 in over- j Fert Herdy use 7 . Al takes care of personnel no one gets short-changed payments. Plus the cost of : Conon ris ~—=———=The adult oriented apartments featuring:-———4 and finance matters for a and no one gets overpaid. econ peor 7 io? . usy mid-town service ssavestimeand money meni penalizing or : mies uate "Tiles —One & two bedroom apartments station, And he knows that for everyone involved. Al prosecuting. qi Siceeniie 3 ea a mo one of his responsibilities is foundout thatthe mostcom- Were cut tocut down that : Komieope sso —Undercover parking . nn to fill outa Ul Record of mon mistake isin reporting ——-$125,000,000. And we're i Carte se iery 5) we ; an Employment form every the “Insurable Earnings”. going to do it, together. Car Neteet ie —Cablevision hookup available time an employee hasan Insurable earnings a net Segectcees eipetes comes . Fert a cone prt . interruption in earnings. He —_ necessarily the same as pay- ramen ¢ peta ¢ Lt Caneentte xia - _ knows oar if he doesn’tget it roll earnings. Because Al fills taster inane i Elevat Invelk 19-78 8.0 evator { mom 1 ; TE eA excetployees domi hae to eel ° end VW. a8 H : : ve Ou in or fe eect vitae —Pressurized hallways 7 took the time io pet the come back to him for Goh | 7 —Laundry facilities _ booklet “How toComplete changes. And neither do we. ey The [ i ! ‘The dollar the Record of Employment” It’s just good business to R ) | on - MONTREAL (CP) = ~-Carpating throughout Loe ment Cente, bein good form. ; pee | nCense, —-AtUnemploymens coor Of Employment. | funds at noon —Every suite complete with fridge, stove and dra es, ance, we process about of Pp Monday was up 17-100 at 4,000,000 Records of _ : “91.2086. Pound sterling Employment every year. It’s just good business form. wis down 2 1160 at For further formation call Lloyd or Marg: 638-1097 2.054: In New York,, the . Se ; or Prince George (collect) 562-8343 © \* Canadian dollar was down 235 at 90.5000 and . sterling was down 13-20 at $2.1515.