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: 4 ‘Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 20,1987 on -

_ OPINIONS |

COMMENTARY.

- Quite
frankly

- by Frank Howard

This guy, angry at the
- ~ government, took $100
-! from his bank account.

~ and burned it on the lawn

/ of the Legislature just to
show his anger.’

’ Another angry guy, a
teacher, took a day off
‘from teaching to attend a
_ one-day: ‘‘study session’’.

He lost -at least $100.in —

wages.
‘This : “‘study “session”
_was part of a campaign by
_ the B.C. Teachers’ Feder-
ation to get the provincial

government to withdraw

Bill 20, The Teaching Pro-
fession Act. I don’t think

. this campaign can suc-.
". * ‘eged, It'is my:impression .
~ that Premier Vander Zalm
“is a very stubborn person.
“He will not give in to the ©

ue BCTF.
=I think Bills 19 and 20

‘yi “nots help todevelop

“harmonious labour-man-

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vagement relations. Bill 20

puts the. B.CLF. in. the’
position most unions were:

in some 40 years ago. By. =

law teachers must belong
to the B.C.T.F. Under Bill
20 such membership is
voluntary. The fuss, rhet-.
oric, and flag-waving
seems to be about pres-
tige, position, and’ multi- .
million dollar: yearly in-
come to.the B.C.T.F.
Premier Vander Zalm
has clearly said that the

~Choice is up to teachers to.

organize into.a union. If
they want the B.C.T.F. or
some other union then go

for it. B.C.T.F. President |

McMurphy has said that
Bill 20, so far as the
Premier is concerned, ‘‘..,

‘will have the effect of, dis

-membering. the B.C...
Teachers’ Federation, of

rendering the federation

useless as an_ effective |

voice and advocate for
-education.”” _:.

- Sure, some: ¢ teachers do :

‘not want to pay. dues.

Why should they be dif- .
- ferent? Some want the
_ benefits’ without the

contribution. :The Premier
recognizes that free-load-
ers exist. Why do you
think he is making mem-
bership in Bill 20’s college

_of Teachers mandatory? .

The law says a union
must bargain for all em-
ployees. Therefore, em-
ployees should help pay
the costs of winning better
wages, hours and working
conditions. That principle | -

of union membership led -

unions decades ago to bar-
gain, and in some cases to

Strike, for union security

provisions. The B.C.T.F.
never went through that

"struggle; it got the union

‘shop as a gift. .
Bill 20 allows any union

_to organize teachers.

The major spur to the
B.C.T.F. moving itself to

. Organize would be a so-
. called raid by some union.
Unions -have a history of -

“raiding’’ or ‘‘libefating’’

workers in jurisdictions

other than their own.
_Maybe some of those un-

ions who are forceful or.

determined will’ see

teachers as .prime targets

for ‘‘liberation’’. -

Quite’ Frankly I think
the B.C.T.F. should stop
the moaning and groaning
about its potential loss of

membership and income.
It should get out there and.

organize. I think that
would be much more ef-
fective than foregoing
wages for study sessions.
Premier Vander Zalm is
betting that teachers won't

_. produce a union. At the!!:
_._. Moment the odds are that
: he i is correct.

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GURUS TE LONG :

Kempf goes after forest industry |

| Hubert

_ Beyer =
Terrace Review
Victoria Correspondent YJ

If Premier Vander Zalm expected. Jack: Kempf to
quietly lick his wounds and fade into oblivion after be-
ing fired from his job as forest. minister, he. was } dead
wrong.

. To the premier’s acute embarrassment, ‘the now in-
dependent MLA from Omineca is feistier. than ever and -
doing his best to make life miserable for his former
Socred colleagues. ©

If Kempf’s attempts at recovering. from. his downfall
at the expense of the government were confined to vin-
dictive remarks, they would hardly be worth mention-
ing. .What continues to make the Kempf affair in-
teresting are his. recent statements Tegarding the forest

industry giants.

Equally interesting is his claim that he kept Vander

Zalm informed of his contact. with the U.S, lumber.lob- '

_ by during the Canada-U.S. negotiations that culminated
in the 15 percent export duty on 1. Canadian softwood
lumber. .

Kempf: told me some time ago, when he was still,
forest minister; that he had a pipeline into the U.S.
lumber lobby. He felt that it could only help British Col-
umbia to have an open line of communication into the.
enemy camp.

When he repeated that claim publicly, Vander Zalm
said he couldn’t remember Kempf telling him anything
about it at the time, He didn’t say Kempf never told
him, just that he couldn’t remember. A subtle dif-
ference, particularly if Kempf is right. Is he right? Did
he tell Vander Zalm? Hard to say. But if he told me,
chances are he told the premier, wouldn’t you say?

If Kempf is telling the truth, Vander Zalm’s insistence
that he can’t recall being briefed at the time by Kempf
on his contacts with the U.S. lumber lobby would
strongly suggest that the premier is suffering from selec-
tive amnesia. -

In a letter to the editor of numerous newspapers,
Kempf said that the industry is short-changing the tax-
payers by an estimated $1 billion a year. He arrived at
that figure by comparing stumpage fees paid by: the
forest industry in Washington state with those in British
Columbia.

When I questioned him further, Kempf said if the
forest industry paid its fair share to the government;
there would. be no budget deficit. ‘British Columbia
would have no debts if the forest industry paid what it |

Biter

ny aint'at the fdtest'indilstry; hie édid ‘that eWew |
with the 15 percent export tax, it will still cost more to

finance Forest Service operations and related functions

than the industry returns in stumpage fees, royalties,
rents,.etc. The reason, he added, was the lack of. com -.
petition in the forest industry.
- **Clearly, 93 percent of the annual allowable cut in

1 British Columbia is-in the hands of a few. very large in-
|. ternational companies, leaving precious little for small
business or woodlot programs,” Ken] pf said.

Only seven percent, on average, is left for small en-

trepreneurs to fight over, as dogs do a bone, and even . .

here, the biggies have the upper hand. They either.steal -
‘this. wood away through surrogate bidding or pay.
precious little for it at the mill gate,” he added.

It should be made clear that Kempf said some of these
. things long. before : he was fired, _perhaps- not as .
graphically, but say: ‘them he did. He made no bones
about his plans to bring the big forest companies to heel

by making them pay fair stumpage fees. :

‘That’s why the industry couldn’t wait until Vander
‘Zalm dumped Kempf and replaced him: with someone
who sées things their way. And early indications are that
the industry has little to fear from Dave Parker, the new

- minister, :

The industry may or- may not have had a hand in

Kempf *s demise. A lot of people believe it did. In either

case, Kempf’s fall from grace couldn’t have come at a
better time for the industry which can now gO, about its
business as usual,

Letter

Temptedte tosubscribe

To the editor, would ‘border on. libel if
‘With reference to the anyone took his ravings -
commentary article by Bill seriously. |
Homburg, ‘‘Who is “Occasionally I am temp- -
boss?’’, from your: issue ted to subscribe to your

dated Wednesday, May 6,
I must severely criticize
your judgement in agree-
ing to publish such trash,
In my opinion, . Mr. Hom-

-burg’s facts are wrong and _
his. writing is an in-.

publication . in order to |
keep in touch with local .
issues arid events. It is run-:

‘ning ‘into such blatant
‘foolishness. as the Hom-
burg » ‘article that always:

changes my mind.

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