Page 2, The Herald, Tuesday November 13, 1979

Strike averted by removing right |

By KEVIN DOUGHERTY

QUEBEC (CP) — A
planned strike today by
200,000 public service em-
ployees was averted late
Monday when the Quebec
national assembly, meeting
in emergency session,
adopted legistation tem:
Porarily removing their
right to strike,

Union leaders represen-

that after consulting with
their membership they may
decide to defy the law and
walk out later this week,

Ironically, the legislation
was passed on what was to
be a special day for the Parti
Quebecois.

According to plans
scrubbed in June when
Premier Hene Levesque,
announced the promised

It was tohave been the day
Quehecers took a giant step
forward, the way PQ
planners saw it, and voted
“Yes” to the sovereignty-
association vision,

The stay-at-work law may

please Quebecers who op--

pose strikes affecting public
services, but party cam-
palgners may have a tough
time explaining to the PQ

Under the special law
Passed Monday, when
national assembly members
are usually at home listening

the problems of their

_ constituents, the strike right

was taken away from about.
276,000 government and
public sector employees
until the end of November,

Assembly rules were
waived and opposition

that it would not grant to
other employers,"

Union Natlonale
spokesmen repeated the
party position that the strike
right be taken away from all
public employees.

Liberalsocial affairs gritic -

Claude Forget suggested
that the real reason the
government had introduced
the law was the ‘electoral

ting the employees said they. referendum would be put off faithful why they should say emergency" of three
would comply with the untilspring,Mondaywasthe ‘‘yes"' to a government. that Preity joined the ‘byelections Weduesiey mea
legislation, but indicated likely date for a fall vote. | says ‘‘no," government in approving the another Nov. 26.
law just before midnight . Thethemewas taken up by
when the 200,000-member other Liberal members in
common front of public debate, who argued that the
employees were to strike,” Speciallaw was being passed
Laber Minister Pierre 0 save Jacques Desmarais,
; Marc Johnson, who spon- FQ candidate in the ‘Mon-
TERRAGE ROTARY sored the bill, called the treal riding of Maisonneuve,
. planned walkout an “ap- from defeat. .
prehended strike,” and said Desmarais was one of the
the unions involved had not .chief negotiators for the
RADIO, proved it was necessary. ‘common front in 1976, when
Bending to the will of the they last negotiated a con-
TV national assembly, leaders tract. The Liberals, under
of the common front said Premier Robert Bourassa,
they have no choice but to formed the government
. call off the strike, which then.
Fri. & Sat., would have closed all but a _ Reacting to passage of the
few primary and secondary Jaw Desmarais, who appears
November 30 & December 1 rut junior eoleges, "considered a PQ stfongheld
most junior colleges. considered a PQ stronghold,
The strike would have also Said he thought the law
curtailed services in would help his chances.
Fri. Nov. 30 Colurnbla Auto Haus Lid. Two 155x139 Winter Radiat $130.00 hospitals and other social “By passing. this law the
0-9 PM | Tires service institutions, such as government is showing that
MacGlllis & Gibbs (BC) 100 - 8’ Cedar Fence Posts 250.00 homes for the elderly and it wants to negotiate,” he
. chronically ill, as non- said.
9-10 PM Pruden & Currie (1976) Ltd. 1 pr. Boys Lange Sprint lee 52.00 | medical health workers in. |The common front is made
Skates size 4 the front walked out. up of members of the Con-
Toovey's Service Maen’s Floater Jacket 63.00 Ferry Service at several federation of National Trade
. nions C
10-11 PM Mar Wyn Truck Sales One Mini Scout...(go cart with 1100.00 Pee one pe Lawrence Federation of Labor be the
engine) . also. Centrale de |’Enseignement
Alt West Glass Bevalled Mirror 1860 Door 41.00 . di Quebec teachers union.
Mirror Liberal Leader Claude -peynand Daoust.
11 PM-Midnight Ev’s Mens Wear Caulfield Velour Gown 65.00 | Ryan threw his party's ceoretarygeneral of the
support behind the law “in . L, ki behalf of
the public interest,” and ak i tie ere th In at
. pe even suggested that the right “en voxtrenrel a arous .
Watch for the complete listing to strike should be taken on exwemely dange
away in some areas of the P The front leadership would
. public service, a ership wo!
But he said the law set “a consult with its membership
published Thursday, Nov. 29 arate ee tae tang whe
. ons a stating -that the common ¥ ihe law, he Said, an
in The Terrace Kitimat Daily Horald front strike was premature, there remains a possibility
“the government was ap- ea edt cay 88
ropriating to itse i f ry
prep’ 8B if a right of the PQ election win.
Another major group
touched by, the. law is the
ret ,000-member Syndicat des
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SIGHT

305 SKEENA MALL.

du Quebec, which represents
government office and
maintenance workers.

The SFPQ has been
staging. partial walkouts,
crippling some government
services since the apring.
The government has replied
with retaliatory lockouts.

The terms of the law state
that the government must
make its final offers to the
275,000 employees alfected
by Nov. 21 and the unions
must vote on them by Nov.

They get their right -to
strike back Nov, 30.

Aspokesman for the SFPQ
sald that according
constitution of his union, the
union cannot meet the delay;
The vote will be held from
Nov, 26 until Dec. 15 in 195
separate meetings.

Other unions subject to the
Jaw includes the 7,000-
members of the Federation
Quebecoiss des Infirmieres
et Infirmiers nurses union
and the 23,000 strong COPS
— .Cartel des Organismes
Professionnela de la Sante,

The 30,000 nurses and
healthcare professionala
were to strike on Thursday.

Another union, the Syn-
dicat des Professionnela du
Gouvernement du Quebec,
representing government
professionals is bound by the
law, even though the only
strikeaction they have taken
was a halfday walkout.

When the PQ was in op-
position for six years before
coming to power, the Liberal
government used back-to-
work laws about a hali-a-'
dozen times, over howls of
protest from the handful of
Peqnistes in the assembly.

WOMEN GAINING

WASHINGTON (AP) —
Women are catching up with
men in enrolment-at U.S,
colleges, a new Census
Bureau report says. The

report says :Inép., attending.

'd- women
by 1.4 million in 1970, but by
1978 the gap had shrunk to
about 410,000, largely as the
result of growth in the
number of community
colleges.

college outnuimbere

to the”

-the Basque

‘NEWS

BRIEFS |

LONDON (Reuter) — The
Patriotic Front guerrilla
alliance showed no- signs
today of bowing to a British
ultimatum at the Zimbabwe

‘ Rhodesia peace conference,

Foreign Secretary Lord
Carrington told guerrilla
leadera Joshua Nkomo and
Robert Mugabe that &
decision on British proposals
for the war-torn territory
must be reached “ina day or

0.
Guerrilla objections to the

British plan mainly centre
on the short two-month
transition period priar to
new elections. They want six
months to organize their far-
flung forces for the polls, and
in this they are supported by
most black African states.
The Patriotic Front's
rival, the blracial Salisbury
delegation of Prime Minister
Abel Muzorewa, has already
accepted the British plan fer
new elections and legal in-
dependence, .

Not with the Basques

MADRID (Reuter) — The
Spanish government has re-
fused to bargain for the
release of a leading member
of parliament kidnapped by
separatist
guerrilla group ETA.

Javier Ruperez was ab-
ducted from his car Sunday
and ETA's political-military
wing said the kidnapping
was part of {ts campaign for
an amnesty for alleged ETA
activists held in Spanish
Prisons. —

But a government
statement issued Monday
riled out any negotiations
and demanded the im-
mediate release of the 38-
year-old deputy.

The statement was issued
after Prime Minister Adolfo
Suarez called an emergency

meeting of the governing
Union of the Democratic
Centre party. .

The government described
as blackmail the abduction
and ETA's ensuing demand
for an amnesty, the with-
drawal of Spanish police
from the region and the
integration of Navarre
province into @ fully autono-
mous Basque country.

An ETA communique
accused the government of
trying to delay and reduce
the transfer of powers to the
region, which were over-
whelmingly approyed in a
home-rule referendum last
month,

The exact conditions for
Ruperez's release have not
been made public.

New oldest Times seen >

LONDON (Reuter) — The
Times, Britain's oldest daily
newspaper and required
reading for the country's
establishment, reappeared
today for the first time since
a labor dispute closed it
almost a year ago.

‘The 92-page edition
published today was the
same combination of the
solid and unorthodox that the
newspaper's readers have
come to expect since it was
founded in 1785.

The leading story on page
one was an account of the
occupation of the U.S, em-
-bassy in Tehran. Also on
page one was a report of

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closer diplomatic ties bet-
ween Britain and the Vati-
can, with the headline;
Vatican and Henry the
Eighth bridge thelr official |
rift. .

The labor editor wrote a
fourcolumn account of the
labor dispute, which was
aver new machinery, staff
euls and unofficial strikes.

The traditional crossword
puzzle, letters to the editor -
and obituaries reappeared.
To make up for obituaries
missed since it last published
Nov. 30, 1978, the paper plans
toruna three-part obituaries |
supplement,