PAGE 2, THE HERALD Wednesday, June 14,-1978

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Levesque calls constitution
changes “insignificant”

By ALAN FREEMAN

QUEBEC (CP) — Premier
Rene Levesque remains as
unimpressed with the full

version of Prime Minister.

Trudeau's proposed con-
stitutiona] changes as he was
last week when a summary
was leaked to the press.
“There are more words,
there are more pages, but it
has the same fundamental

insignificance,” Levesque
told the Quebec national
assembly today.

Last week, the premier
told reporters that the
proposals were ‘“‘profoundly
insignificant” and a “con-
stitutional abortion.”

Levesque was back in the
assembly, today after
spending Monday at a
meeting of New England
governors and Eastern
Canadian premiers in New
Hampshire.

Gerard Levesque, leader
of the provincial Liberals!
parliamentary wing, asked
whether the premier had
found insignificant the
federal proposals for more
power sharing, guarantees
of economic-equalization
payments, and enshrining of
fundamental rights in the
constitution,
. “Globally, the answer to

all these questions, is yés,’’
the premier replied. .
‘Union Nationale Leader
Rodrigue Biron also had
harsh words for the federal
proposals, saying ‘“‘they
want to go back to the Vic-
toria Charter."

REJECTED BEFORE

That charter was
presented by Ottawa to the
premiers in 1971 it Victoria,
B.C., and subsequently
rejected by then Quebec
premier Robert Bourassa.

Levesque said that power

sharing has been put off until ©

1980, while Trudeau proposes
to go ahead with the moet
“superficial” aspects of the
plan first.

These include reforms to.
the Supreme Court of
Canada and the Setiate to
give provincial governments’
a say in appointments.

Asked what Quebec's
attitude would be towards a
planned federal-provincial
constitutional conference in
the fall, Levesque replied
that he: has not decided

whether it is worth while to
attend the meeting. ©

If Quebec did attend, it
would not accept Trudeau’s
plan as a basis for
discussion, the premier said.

Civil servants

Rather, he would base
talks on the PQ’s proposals
for Quebec independence’
coupled with economic
association with the rest of
Canada.

costing millions

OTTAWA (CP) — The
treasury board needs more
information before taking
steps to correct over-
classifications for civil
servents chat are costing the
public about $19 million a
year in excessive salary
payments, board president
Robert Andras said today.

Lincoln Alexander (PC—
Hamilton West) told Andras
that he was puzzled by the
government’s failure. to act
on the issue, discovered in an
audit of 2,000 Ottawa-area
civil servants, completed in
1976.

Andras said about 300 of
the employees in the survey’
were over-classified or in
jobs at higher pay than their
qualifications
From that, he estimated that
for the total civil service it, is
costing taxpayers $19 million
more a year in salary
payments than is warranted.

But he added that until a
complete audit for regions
outside the Gttawa area is
completed, the treasury

merited.

board is reserving its
decision about what
corrective action to take.

He told Alexander that he
is not yet considering
removing authority for
classifying employees from
individual departments. He
said no deputy ministers:
have yet been called before
the board to explain why
overclassification has
become such a problem.

The government’s
ultimate action is red-
circling, or freezing pay
levels for civil servants who
are over-classified, Andras
said. :

A treasury board official
told the committee the board
is negotiating with the
180,000-member. Public
Service Alllancé of Canada.
about red-circling. The
board has a memorandum of
understanding with the
union, which represents
most federal civil servants,
that now limits the govern-
ment’s ability to use the red-
circle procedure. —

More ears for

By ROD EDWARDS

WINNIPEG (CP) —
Transport Minister Otto
Lang said today that the

‘ federal government will be

buying more hopper cars for
grain movement but

_ declined to say how many of |

when,

Lang, who also is the.

minister reaponsible for the
Canadian wheat board, told
a news conference that the
government afto likely will
participate financially in
repairing boxcars for use in
grain transportation.

The wheat board hus asked
the government to purchase
4,-000 new hopper cars to add
to its fleet of 8,000 now used
exclusively for grain
movement, It also has asked
that funds be provided for
repairs to 5,000 boxcars now
sitting idle,

“We haven't been counting
on the railways to buy more
hopper cars,” Lang said.
“(But we are not closing the
door on what to expect from
the railways regarding
boxcar repairs."

| Stats show unemployment drop,
is unchanged

adjusted jobless rate

OTTAWA (CP) — The
number of unemployed fell
by 56,000 during May from a
month earlier to an actual
level of 933,000, Statistics
Canada reported today.

But the jobless rate, ad-
justed for seasonal
‘yariations, remained un-
changed from the previous
two months at a post 1930's

. high of 2.6 per cent of the

work force.

The number of unem-
ployed peaked at 1,045,000 in
March before falling to
990,000 in April.

In May a year ago, there
were 624,000 on the jobless
rolls, The actual jobless rate
in May was 8.4 per cent,
down from 9.3 per cent in
April, but well above the 7.7
per cent actual rate in May
last year. :

The number of people
working was up to 10,118,000
last month from 9,752,000 in
April. A year ago, there were
9,822,000 working.

Job opportunities for men
improved slightly in May,
but for women wunem-

‘ployment rates rose. The
jobless rate for men aged 15
to 24 eased to 15.8 per cent
from 16.1 per cent in April,
while for men 25 and over it
was unchanged at 5.4 per
cent, ‘

MORE WOMEN: AF-

’ FECTED .

But for women in the 15 to
24 age group, unemployment
increased to 14.2 per cent in
May from 13,4 per cent in the
previous month, and for
women 25 and over it rose to
eight per cent from 7.8 per
cent.

Alberta streets
not gold paved

EDMONTON ° (CP)
Easterners thirsting for
employment are __ still
streaming into Alberta,
despite government war-
nings that little work Is
avialable. -° -

An estimated 130 migrants
—some already penniless —
are arriving each day in the
province they believe has
streets paved with gold.

Many, however, find
nothing but hardship,
poverty and heartbreak.

‘Typical of those seeking
work in Edmonton is Carson
Davies, 17, a carpenter's

from St. John’s Nfld.
working in
Newfoundland ‘for a year,
Davies was laid off ‘and
found there was no work to b
had‘in that province. .

“The guy I talked. to in
Canada Manpower there
sadi why didn’t I go to
Alberta,” Davies said in an
interview. ° :

. Davies spent $330 of his
remaingin $500 on air fare to
get here. Now, after a couple
of weeks of job-hunting, he's
flat broke. .

“J don’t even have the
coins to call up possible

= émployers.and if I did; they

‘would have to be dowritown
because I don’t have the bus
fare to go for an interview.”

Fog stops
sea search
HALIFAX (CP) — A
Canadian destroyer escort
and a fisheries-patrol vessel
report fog today inan area 83 ,
kilometres: south of St.

PierreMiquelon, where they
are searching for one man

” missing after a ship collision ~

at sea,

The steel trawler Lady
Maria out of Sydney, N.S.,
collided with the Greek bulk
carrier Marka L. on Monday
night; The trawler ap-
parently went to the bottom...

An official of the Canadian
Armed Forces search and
rescue centre at Halifax said
no one actually saw the
trawler sink but she
disappeared from radar
gereens as 12 of her 13 crew

members were being taken —

aboard the freighter. -
After all but one of the
Lady Maria’s crew were
aboard, the Greek ship
moved over the area where -
she had been watching the

trawler on radar before the -

image disappeared. ,
Debris, an oil slick and a
strong smell of oil were all
that remained.
The Marka L, headed for

St, John’s, Nfld., where she —

is due about 8:50 p.m.

fonight, while.other ships

continued the search for the
missing man.

. The rescue centre had :

planned to send aircraft to
the scene but fog today
prevented this. Official
reports shortly after the
collision Monday night. put
visibility at between 100
metres and 250 metres and
ships on the scene - this’

morning reported dense fog —

grain hauling ;

the area.

‘An official atiAlder Point,
outside Sydney, N.S., where
the trawler was registered,
identified the missing man

as Junior Joseph Savoury, in _

his late 20s, of Burnt Island,

Nid.
- The offical said Savoury
was ‘one of three brothers.

among the 13 men aboard the
fishing vexsel,
. The skipper of the Lady

Maria was identified as Fred °

Davidson of Glaee Bay, N.S.

The official said six of the
12 picked up by the freighter
were from Newfoundland.
Five of the other six were
from Glace Bay and one was
from Alder Point.

DISLIKES HOSTEL
’ Davies spent one night in a
free single-men’s hostel but
says one was enough. Since
then, he has been wandering

the streets for three nights

and sleeping in parks during |
the da’

iy mo

-“T don’t know what I’m
_ going to do, I just don’t know
what ‘I'm going to do,”

Davies said, near tears.
Two others in trouble are
_two friends from Ontario
who .have wives, children
and mortgages to pay for.
Plimber Kelly McDonald,
25, and truck driver Jay
O'Grady, 27, decided to take
a chance on Alberta when
they heard via the grapevine
that there were jobs here,

. “We decided it was go for’

broke,’’ said McDonald. ‘‘We
came and now we're broke."

They arrived in Edmonton
last week, after a 38-hour
drive from Toronta in
QGrady's old car. Their
remaining. money was spent
on mechanical repairs along
the way.

They too have tried the
hostel but say they would

rather sleep in the open. So

far, they've been spending
, their nights in the'car. ~

Unemployment rates,
seasonally adjusted, fell in
six provinces in May. But the
rates rose in four others,
including the industrial
provinces of Onlario, British
‘Columbia and Quebec that
have the largest provincial
work forces, as well as in
Newfoundland.

As in the past, Newfoun-
diland had the highest
provincial unemployment
rate, It has 17.9 per cent of its
work force jobless, up from
46.9 per cent in April and the
highest rate this year.

But there was an im-
provement in the other
Atlantle provinces.

Prince Edward Island’s
unemployment rate eased ta
10.1 per cent in May from
11.1 per cent in the previous
month, The rate fell to 10.8
per cent from 11 per cent in
.Nova Scotia, and to 12.9 per
cent in May from 14 per cent
in New Brunswick.

In Quebec, the jobless rate
rose to 11.5 per cent of the
province's work force in May
from 11.2 per cent in April.

The Ontario jobless rate
was also at the highest level
‘go far this year, as 7% per
cent of the work force was

three
provinces all showed an

6

' Prairie

in unem-

improvement
“4 April

ployment rates from
levels. :
The rate fell to 6.7 per cent
from 6.8 r cent m
Manitoba, and to 5.3 per cent
in May from 3.6 per cent for
Saskatchewan. ,

ALBERTA LOWEST

Alberta, which again had
the lowest unemployment of.
any province, had only 4.4

per cent of its work force

jobiess in May, down from

4.8 per cent in April.
But in British Columbia,

unemployment rose to eight

per cent last month from 7.7
percentin April, "  -
Students seeking tem-
porary work started coming
inte the work force during
May, and the statistics
confirm that they face a

tough task finding work this .

summer. ‘

From an estimated
student work force in May of
$56,000, Stalististics Canada
sayd 97,000 who wanted jobs
could not find them. That isa
14.8 per cent unemployment
rate, up from 13.6 per cent
among students in May last
year.

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