+ PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Monday, November 28, 1977 TERRACE daily herald — Published by Sterling Publishers General Office . 635-6357 Circulation - 635-6157 PU@LISHER... W.R. (BILL) LOISELLE EDITOR... JULIETTE PROOM Published every weekday at 3212 Kaium 5St., Terrace, B.C. A member of Varified Circuiation. Authorized as secaondclass mail, Registration number 1201. Postage paid In cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editoriat or photographic content published in the Herald. Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. Collective bargaining cornerstone The following is an exerpt from a speech made by Labour Minister John Munro to the collective bargaining forum of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association. -At the tutset let me restate the federal government's view that collective bargaining is the cornerstone of our industrial relations system. We have no intention of chipping away at that cornerstone. Indeed if you look at the Omnibus Bill I-have in- troduced in the House recently you will see specific measures designed to reinforce theis system and to remove some of the obstacles that unions in federal’ juridiction now confront when organizing employees. Yet we would be ostriches to pretend that collective bargaining alone has proved totally satisfactory. There is no doubt the system has been under con- siderable strain. This is proven by our appalling record of man-days Jost to strikes and iockouts. One of the off-shoots of this has been a growing clamour to limit the right to strike in essential ser- vides. Apart from the very real difficulty if defining what is essential and when it is essential, I do not believe that a blanket removal of a democratically won right would solve anything. While there may he instances which require government intervention — and these will always be wu ement calls — to restrict this right would only ead to frustrations being vented in other ways. Illegal walk-outs, slow-downs, work-to-rule and study days are all techniques that have been used in this tupe of situation. No — what is needed in Canada todya are new ways of doing things that will complement the nuts and bolts discussions at the bargaining table. We must begin to develop the structures and attitudes that will allow the collective bargaining process to function at its best. That essentially means developing ways to ensure that an already complex process is not burdened by a climate of ill will or a backlog and always will be a tough enough process not to be hampered by any more differences than absolutely necessary. _I don't want to hold out the idea that there is any Simple solution to improving labour relations in Canada. One thing I have learned in my years as a politician and Cabinet Member is that there are no single everlasting solutions to problems involving human relations. What we can do is to begin implementing, over a wide range of trouble spots, remedial measures. Taken individually the kind of measures I have in mind and have put forward in a 4-point program will not of themselves bring industrial harmony. But taken as a package, they can have a significant impact on the excessive and damaging commitment we have developed in this country towards confrontation. Earlier I said one of the major developments oc- curring in the industrial relations scene in Canada is the growing role the labour movement will win in’ influencing public policy. Some of you may have some doubts about this after hearing some of the statements made by various spokesmen for certain sectors of the labour movement in recent weeks. What I would stress is that what is being questioned today is not that this will happen. It is a question of how this will happen and when. _ Even the Canadian Union of Public Employees, in its rejection of three-way consultations between the government, labour and business, does not dispute this. Its position is essentially that the labour movement is not ready, and will be averpowered by the other two participants. ; But I find it difficult to see how a return to all-out confrontation will strengthen the labour movement or improve the economic climate in Canada on which all of us depend for our prosperity and jobs. While wage and price controls ironically have been a stimulus for more discussions with the labour movement than ever before in Canadian history, they have also been a stumbling block to the immediate continuation of some of the quite successful measures we took to put tripartitism into action before they were implemented. However, it is incorrect to conclude the various roposals that have been put forward to involve the abour movement in a consultative body at the national leave and on other tripartite bodies have been rejected permanently. HERMAN ’ “I see you've fixed the drip|” : WHE or a backlog of,. suspicions, |... 2. girevances, and issues that could and should be‘dealt? {*"' ~ with on a continuing basis. Collective. bargaining-is'’ |'' °°.’ * Grey Cup big business By ESTELLE DORAIS MONTREAL (CP) ~— The third Grey Cup ever held in Montreal—the first was in 1931 and the second in 1969—is ex- pected to benefit the city to the tune of $10 million to $18 million. Roger Laterreur, president of the Grey Cup organizing committee, based his $18-million es- timate on last year’s Grey Cup which he said. was worth $15 million to Toronto. But the evidence so far seems to favor a lower figure, as 40,-000 visitors are streaming in to join Montreal Alouette fans waiting to see their team repeat its 1974 victory over Edmonton Eskimos. One spending estimate is $100 a day for three days, but a Montreal - Chamber of Commerce weekend estimate of $200 for each visitor gives a total of $8 million. And that’s not counting Montrealers themselves. SEATS SOLD OUT The Olympic Stadium is sold out at an average of $20 for each of its 72,000 seats, for a total gate of $1,440,000, an organizing committee official said. Air Canada spokesman reported the ‘airline has put on 3,-000 extra seats to bring in visitors from Edmonton, Toronto, Nova Scotia and Moncton airports and take them back for ad- ditional revenues of more than $300,000. Canadian National Railways has added 30 cars to meet an increase in passengers of 41 per cent from Ottawa, 190 per cent from Toronto and 162 per cent from the West, mostly from Winnipeg, a spokesman said, The city's 10,000 hotel rooms are booked for the week; for estimated total | 1 AN room revenues of at least $400,009 a night. Reg Groome, president of Hilton Canada, said the chain's two hotels—the downtown Queen Elizabeth and the Airport Hilton—are fully booked at an average $50 a room for their 1,700 rooms. As president of the Montreal Board of Trade, Groome estimated the total eco- nomic impact ‘‘has got to be between $10 million and $15 million. NO LIQUOR ESTIMATE A spokesman for the Quebec Liquor Corp. said the Grey Cup would certainly have an impact on sales, especially in the entertainment industry, but that preliminary estimates were not possible. Gaby Mancini of O'Keefe Brewing Co. Ltd., the Grey Cup’s biggest sponsor, said this year's game is the first he ean think of which had to Wp wil e me = Ss a, be organized totally with private industry funds. Mancini, who is co- ordinator of the organizing committee, said that Montreal and Quebec had provided services but not money. “O'Keefe has spent more than $40,000, Pepsi is quite active, as is Benson and Hedges,”’ he said. ‘Then there is Coca Cola, 7 Up, Panasonix and Schweppes The “biggest chunk” of profits from committee events will go to junior football and the rest to service clubs, Mancini said. an Among committee events are the three-night casino in the Velodrome expected to bring in $25,000, a hingo game which cleared $2,500 and a fashion show un derwritten by Eaton’s department store which netted $1,215. won| ~ No-frills policy popular WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) - — Are Canadians ready to give up their color-co- ordinated pastel toilet paper in favor of plain white one-ply in a plain old wrapper? Even if it sells for 59 cents a roll of four? In the suburbs of Chicago, men and women are flocking to the grocery store Co stock up on no-frill food deals, . Saving, They. pass by the fancy packages, roli carts to the ‘noname’’ goodies and count their savings at the check-out counter. And while they're they are par- ticipating in what might become a retail grocery phenomenon. It is all part of the in- tensive bared-to-the-bone consumer setup by the Jewel Food Stores chain in the United States to put Risque parties TORONTO (CP) — A pair of enterprising young women have borrowed from _ the Tupperware party idea to market black lace garter belts, loungewear and lingerie. Margaret Bill and Barbara Semrick hold their sales parties at home and over coffee and eake their customers watch the two women model sensuous lingerie. Later, the customers can order the garments which Ms. Bill and Ms. Semrick make up for later delivery, The two women stylize, manufacture, model, entertain to sell their lines. The business is an extra for both Ms. Semrick and Ms. Bill. For Ms. Semrick iife is exhausting. She works alongside designer Marilyn Brooks in her boutique and has designad a dress line under; fer own label. Ms, BXil, who worked in televisifn production for about -ine years, is a eocktaii waitress at the moment. Her free time during the days allows her the chance to pick up fabric, deliver orders and make the accessories for the line. Her partner negotiates her work in the evenings and weekends when she is busy cutting and sewing to fill the individual or- ders. The line is based on a “threesizes-to-lit-all” concept, They generally deal: with saft, stret- chable jersey fabrics that will-idrape on a slightly thinner woman and stretch on the voluptuous. All their pants have drawstring waistbands, the camisole tops have adjustable front ties, and tops and bottoms sell peparately for a proper it. a halt to rising food ices. NO ADVERTISING It features standard no- name, in-store canned goods, lower quality ades instead of the igh-priced fancy ver- sions and there is no costly advertising for the consumer to carry. Would such a revolutionary plan work in Canada? At A and P head office in Toronto, assistant merchandising director Billi Beaton says no way. “There’s no move afloat,’’ he said guar- dedly, for his company to introduce such a plan in Canada, “T don’t think we're ina position even to make such a comment,” he said. “I know it’s hap- pening inthe U.S., but not ere, Not by A and P and not, I'd say, by any of our competitors.” Beaton said that ‘you'd sure have to change in philosophy to carr something like that off. “Everybody's always’ ready to have the next guy save, Let him buy the one-ply white toilet paper and I'll buy the yellow to go with my bathroom. No— we're just too conditioned _—for something like that." CHAIN INTERESTED A spokesman for Dominion Stores said, ‘We're watching this with interest. “When we see what the results are in the States we'll be in a_ hetter position to know if this is really a good idea. “But if shoppers really show that they want this type of labelling, we'll do whatever will make them hap yy." The food industry forks out billions of dollars each year in advertising and presumably, con- sumers would be willin to pass up the advertis specials in favor of prices which seldom fluctuate. Fred Gilbert, who is the manager of ‘the Village Market Food Stores in Windsor, said that if Canadian companies want to follow in Jewel's footsteps, there has to be a massive—and ex- pensive—educational advertising campaign. “One of the big problems with the bi chains is the nation market,’’ said Gilbert. “The well-advertised national products move fast, and chains are goin to be afraid to hurt a g thing. “Everybody offers store brands, but the scale is small and we all realize that a lot of people are brainwashed. They see Green Giant on the label and the They don't often com- re.” Gilbert says that the national brand is not a better product and Beaton agrees. Gilbert said take off the hame, replace it with a stock label and set it beside your national brands. , “You'll find that people are going to head straight for something they're familiar with,” he said. “They're no longer famll- iar With your product because it no longer has a familiar face. So they're back {fo Green Giant again.” buy it.’ “unknown and they Referendums not bad? Think again. Ottawa — Prime Minister Trudeau himéelf {son i the record with the belief that.“referendums aren't a bad thing.” He was speaking recently’ the Quebec Association of to the annual meeting of untry Lawyers, meeting . Marguerite Sur La Lac near Ste. Adele in the Sate tian Mountain resort region north of Mon- aver he was talking about countering separatist Premier Rene Levesque's promi referendum delayed — and ever on “sovereignty lation, ;; which is the Parti Quebecois’ new and supposedly more acceptable buzz-phrase for ‘‘in- dependence.” fact, Levesque is toning down his act, asking his followers not to use that nasty word ‘ independence,’ , and for goodness sake not “‘separation’’ because the ‘‘irghten,” he says, the nervous English. Trudeau was telli the country lawyers that it might be a good idea for him to beat Levesgue to the referendum punch. But in so sayin , he opened up a whole new political bag of tricks, bleseang the referendum as an acceptable part of the parliamentary process. Trudeau's precise words: ‘'Referendums are not frequent in the Parliament's business, but it's not bad to use them once in a while.” So the Conservatives at their recent convention passed in one of their special policy committees a resolution calling on Parliament to hold a referen- of capital punishment. ‘dum on the resotration or once-and-for-all abolition Many of the Conservatives remain in a highly Wi their electors. apprehensive state of mind, knowing full well that hen they voted against captial punishment they defied the clearly defined wishes of the majority of And they are worried — as well they might be — that these deliberately betrayed voters will long remember — long enough to take retribution in the leletion in the wor for next Spring or Fall. To make sure that even the forgetful remember, the Canadian Association of Police Chiefs and members of law enforcement agencies generally plan mounting a “reminder campaign.” The lice are going to ask people to demand a commitment from the different candidates as to where they stand on the issue. — ding os! le don’t require reminding. The Federal Parole Baard has made sure of that in turning loose killers to kill again. Such a criminal, given eight years for murder, was involved in a spectacular motorcycle gang shootout in Ottawa the other night, and when police grabbed him they discovered at not only had the Parole Board turned him loose in Jess than four years, but that he was a parole violator the Board had neglected to have chased down Two or three of the more vocal bleeding hearts who not only defied their electors on the last capital unishment vote, but gloried in it, have retired from arliament, But scores of other parliamentarians who chose to upstage their constituents — b knowledge and understanding of around. Now that Trudeau has open claiming superior ‘tie issue — are still ed the door to a referendum as an acceptable process of Parliament, and the Conservatives have stuck their foot in the opening in calling for just such a plebiscite on capital punishment, a lot of parliamentarians will be doing some second thinking. ~ No hurry VANCOUVER (CP) — Although protective air bags. are being promoted as a major development in car safety, an American scientist says that because not enough is known about them, they should not be made mandatory in Canada. John States, a speaker at the annual conference of the American Association for Automotive Medicine here, said in an interview that although protective air bags would lower fatalities in the United States by approximately 15 per cent, there are other aspects still to be looked into. Because of seat-belt legislation, he said, Canada can afford to wait. Upon collision, the air bag is released from the steering wheel column or the dash board and cushions the impact. It inflates in one- twentieth of a second and deflates in threetenths of a second. The bag would be released at speeds over 24 kilometres an hour and experts say they are effective up to 128. kilometres an hour, QUESTIONS RELIABILITY _,Some experts say that if air bags were standard safety equipment in cars, highway deaths could be lowered by BO per cent, but States said the reliability of air bags is ave drawbacks, Because they cannot simply be rolled back u after they are deployed, he said, they are ex- pensive to install and to replace, tates explained that if the ‘bags are used once, many people will not replace them because of for air bags the cost, so large holes will be left under the dash and in the _ steerin column which coul cause deep lacerations to the knee area if the car stopped suddenly. Also, although the Dacron bags are tough and have never deflated upon impact, it is not yet known how weather would affect - ‘their response. Anotherquestion concerns: the chemical used to inflate the bags. Two Washington State University professors recently warned that this chemical is proved to cause cell mutations in laboratory experiments. Robert A. Nilan, a genetics professor, said the possible relationship between cell changes and the origin of cancer “makes this concern very serious.” States also noted that _ the bags are set off by an explosive device which presents a danger for mechanics working on car, “I don't think the bag will stand up to the or- slaught of inept mechanies,’”’ he said. “They could set it off too easily.” In @ 1973 experiment, 11,000 cars were equipped with air bags, he said, and of 143 eplo ments, only four people died, but they probably would have died anyway..Of the 143, 12 should not have been set off. _ Because. they did not inflate fast enough, air bags were not used when they were developed 20 years - ago. . Ford demonstrated they. could work fast enough in the late 1960s, States said, but this did not convinee the U.S. . government ‘to approve them.