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Grain piles up

OTTAWA (CP) — Piles of
harvested wheat will con-
linue to rol in farmers’ yards
unless a labor dispute ends
that has tied up Greal Lakes

. shipping, two Prugressive
. Conservative MPs from
Saskalchewan said Wed-
' mesday. bye
_ Thecongestion in the grain
_indusiry was disastruus
before the strike, which has

‘only aggravated = the
situation, Duuglas Neil
(Moose Jaw) and Frank

Hamilton (Swift Current-
Maple Creek) said in in-
. lerviews.

However, Andre Ouellet,
acting labor minister, saidin

> aninterview Wednesday that

. he dues not plan to introduce
-. legislation lo get the Great

Lakes engineers and deck
.. officers hack to work, The
- glrikers are members of the
- Canadian Marine Officers
. Union and Uhe Canadian

|. Merchant Service Guild.

. “My people are getting fed

up with it all,” Hamilton
said, with special crilicism
aimed at Olto Lang, minister
for justice, transport and
wheat.

“The minister in charge of
wheat is in charge of every-

thing,” Hamilton said, “He ~

does nut have the time to
devote to grain handling.”

Prairie grain elevators
were plugged with wheat
before the strike began
Monday. Farmers were
unable lo haul their wheat to
the elevators and many had
been forced to pile the har-
vesied grain in the open, ex-
posed to rain.

“There has been six inches
of rainon top of those piles in
some places,” Neil said.
“The wheal is beginning ts
sprout.”

The two MPs were airaid
thestrike, combined with the
earlier cungestion problems,
will seriously hurt Canada’s
balance of payments
because wheal is one of the

nalion’s must
exports.

Quellel, who has been tied
up for several days wilh the
postal dispule, said tabor
department officials are
meeling union officials and
employers {uo ailempt to
teach a settlement.

“1 believe progress can be
made."

If necessary, the minister
would personally intervene
but did nul plan to introduce
legislation, as was done with
the puslai workers, tu force a
return lo work.

The two Conservalive MPs
said they favor immediate

important

disrupts

RICHMOND, B.C. (CP)
— Major airlines set up
vperations al Abbutsford

airport, about 0
kilometres east of here,
today as heavy fog

blanketed Vancouver
International Airport and
prevented planes from
landing.

AirWesl's flights
between Vancouver and
Vicluria were cancelled
indefinitely.

Barry Wall of Air
Canada said the airline

Blanket of fog

flights

was sending staff and
buses tu the Abbotsford
airport.

cP Air and Pacific
Western were = also
preparing to use the
Abbotsford terminal.

Visibility at Vancouver
international varied from
zeru tu 4% kilometres
today, allowing all out-
bound flights to take off,
although some were upto
40 minules late.

CP Air inbound flights
during the night were
diverled to Calgary.

back-to-work legislation
because each day of the
strike cosis millions of
doHars,

Grain stocks are up 35 per

NEWS IN BRIEF.

cent from las! year. These
high stocks have resulted in
a 33-percent drep in
deliveries by farmers to the
plugged Prairie elevators,

-Grain talks stalled

OTTAWA (CP) -
Progressive Conservative
MPs from the Prairies un-
successfully pressured
Transport Minister Otlo
Lang Wednesday to legislate

gin end to the Great Lakes
‘,Bhipping strike which has

deem TE eee et

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weer ret

paralyzed the grain in-
dustry.

Lang replied to the MPs in
the Cummons with bilter
partisan attacks, calling
them irresponsible for
demanding legislation while
negutialions to end the strike
conlinue.

Lang, who is also the
minister for justice and
wheat, also criticized

WITH FIGURES
Caution urged

; VERNON, B.C. (CP) —
Caulion should be taken
when interpreting
agricultural statistics

released by Agriculture

Minister Jim Hewitt,
Richard Bulluck, president
“of the B.C. Fruit Growers

Assutiation, said today.

may not have been taken into

ro Bullock said many factors

account when the figures
were compiled.
However, he said if the

‘ Gold prices

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LONDON 3(4Ppe— Gold

reached record prices in Eu-
rope Wednesday while the

: U.S. dollar remained under
i.,pressure on foreign ex-

i
$

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&

changes and closed mixed.

Gold closed in Zurich, Eu-
rope’s largest bullion centre,
at $229,125 U.S. an ounce, an
alltime closing high and 50
cents above the previous
record closing uf $228.625 in
Zurich Tuesday.

Meanwhile, London's five
major bullion dealers fixed
the melal at an even higher
price of $229.25—a trading
record— Wednesday mor-
ning, but the price slumped
by late afternoon and closed

‘, al §227.75, down 50 cents

from Tuesday's final rate of

"$228.25.

ers

Dealers said instability in
the currency markets and
worries over high inflation
continued to make guid
attractive to wary investors,

Central bank intervention
around Europe was reported
Wednesday in the dollar’s
mixed fortunes.

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and the application of new
methods of farm production.

Hewitt said Munday that
B.C. farmers are outpacing
those in the rest of Canada in
the quest for self-sufficiency
in fuud production.

Bullock said that if
production is actually up by
18 per cent in the province it
is because B.C. producers
are: the most efficient in
cinadaset ene
'"Ha-ééla ideal farmers are

faced with market place
pressures than any other
farmers in Canada because
of the nearness of United
States production areas such
as Washington and
California.

“We are farming in une of
the most competitive areas
in the world, We have te be
efficient in urder to slay in
business against this lype of
competition.”

‘Bullock said he questions
slalistics saying the
peovince is getting close to
goals of self-sufficiency in
food production and that the
number of farms in the
province are increasing.

He sald the number of

peuple to be fed is steadily.

increasing and the
produclion figures might
mean “we may just be
keeping up.”

“A Jol of farms especially
in the Okanagan are being
cuto kp,” he said. “This may
mean more farmers for the
statistics but I doubt this
means more agricultural
land in praduction.”

Saskatchewan Premier
Allan Blakeney, who had
asked Lang lo help end the
slrike.

“At this very moment, I
am optimistic that we will
have a setllement later this
day,”’ Lang lold the Com-
muons.

Labor department officials
involved in the talks were
less optimistic than was
Lang.

The Commons daily
question period began wilh
former prime minister John
Diefenbaker, whv represents
the Saskatchewan riding of
Prince Albert, introducing a
mation which would have
forced a debate un the Greal
Lakes strike.

Liberal MPs refused Die-
fenbaker’s mulion, which
said $400 million may be lost
from the Prairie economy if
the strike continues,

Diefenbaker urged the ~
Rovernment to intreduce
immedialely legislation lo
end the strike, which has
resulted in cungestion uf
grain in Prairie elevators.
Farmers, unable io haul
wheat te the elevators, are
being forced to pile their

.wheat un the’ ground, ex-

posed to rain and snow.

When another Saskat-
chewan MP, Ray Hnatyshyn
(Saskatoun-Biggar)
questioned Lang on the
strike, the minister sneered
al him for being a protege of
Diefenbaker and an ally of
Premier Blakeney, who
faced voters Wednesday ina
provincial election.

Lang, whu represents the
Saskatchewan riding of
SaskatoonHumbuldi, takes
an active interest in the
province's politics.

Hnalyshyn retorted he
would rather take the advice
of Diefenbaker than Lang
any day. .

In a calmer muod, Lang
said the government would
not allow the strike to con-
tinue for a long time,
However he refused lo state
when and if the government
would consider introducing
back-to-work legislation.

Lang reminded — the
Cummuns thal they had just
passed legislation forcing
striking postal workers to
return to work.

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VANCOUVER (CP) — The
annual convention of British
Culumbia’s governing Secial
Credit party, which gels
under way here tuday, will
provide the basis for the
party’s platfuem n the next
provincial election, expected
in the spring. _

“We are definilely gearing
this as a pre-election cun-
venlion—the ast opportunity
for
uur members to contra
ngs to plans and platforms
we'll be taking tu the peuple
of 6.C.," says party
president Les Keen.

“Emphasis will be placed
on geussruuls participation
by our members as we
prepare fur a_ provincial

_ @lection within a year.”

Premier Bill Bennett said
he is prepared to go to the
peuple on the basis of his
government's record “but
we must also lovk ahead to
the plalform of policies we
will present to the peuple."

He said the convention
allows party members the
best upportunity to indicate
whal they wauld like lo see in
the platform,

The cunvention will be the
most important since his
party became government in
December, 1975, ‘because
there is a pussibility that this
will be the last convention
before the next provinciai
election,’ Bennelt added.

Independence talks end

PRETORIA (AP) — Five
Western foreign ministers
ended three days of secrel
talks on independence for
South-West Africa. un
Wednesday and left the
cuwntry. U.S. State Secre-
tary Cyrus Vance said a
South African decision on
Western proposals for the
disputed lerritory is likely
today.

The Western ministers
hupe to persuade Svuth
Africa to abandon its

Black daily starts Friday

SALISBURY (AP) — In:
defiance of a. government -
ban on Rhodesia's only black
daily newspaper, anuiher
black daily with the same

owners and staff is
scheduled to hit the streels
Friday.

The new daily, called The
World, fullows the Oct. 2 ban
on the 15,000-circulation
Zimbabwe Times, uwned by

the Britishbased
multinational corporation,
Lenrho Lid.

“If we are constructive in

unilateral plan fur in-
dependence fur the mineral-
rich territury, known lo the
United Nations as Namibia,
and adopt instead a Western-
inspired UN plan which
involves the use of a mainly-
Canadian peacekeeving
force,

A senior U.S. official de-
scribed the Lalks as helpful,
but the ministers refused to
release details until Svuth
Africa decides what it will

our criticism, if we are
caulious and if we are even-
handed in the-way: we deal
with the various (black)
parlies, I see ne reason why
we shuuld nul survive," sald
World editor Tendai Dum-
butshena, who was assistant
director uf the Zimbabwe
Times.

The Zimbabwe Times was
banned hy an order signed
by a black member of
Rhodesia’s biracial interim
government, Bishop Abel
Muzvurewa.

WEATHER

Cloudy skies and uc-
easiunal showers will
probably continue
(throughout the remainder of
today, with temperatures
reaching a high of 12 degrees
Celsius this afternoon.

Partial clearing is ex-
pected tonight, and as a
result the mercury will drop
to aboul 6 degrees Celsius.

Another frental system
slowly appruaching the

Pacific coast tomorrow
afternuon threatens lu bring
more rain to the Terrace-
Kitimat area throughout the
weekend,

The long range outlouk is
fur more above normal
lemperatures for this time of
year, and (he remainder of
October will probably be
sumewhat wet, Greal
weather far ducks.

WHITEHORSE (CP) —
Misplaced government
priorities and indifference to
mining industry complaints
have created a development
dilemma in the Yukon,
mining engineer Rubert
Cathro said Wednesday.

Cathro told the opening of

"the sixth northern resvurees

conference that major
nurthern mining decisions
will be differed until
government indicates that
industry efforls are
welcomed. He predicted
there will be no new round of
mine construction in the
Yukon until 1983 or 1984,

The federal government's
atlilude towards mining
becomes evident by glancing
at the Indian affairs and

northern develupment
department organizational
chart, he said. The de-

partment had one deputy
ministeriand six assistant
deputies, but no une had car
respunsibility “as an ad-
yocate

of resvurce development,"

The depariment is
responsible fur resource
development in the northern
40 per cent uf Canada, he
added. Wet the senior civil
servant directly responsible
for mining development was
five full levels below the
minister.

“The priorities uf (he
government have been
anmistakably clear...”

Catto, a partner in a
Whitehurse  enginecring
firm, said the government’s
land use policies and
regulations and apprvach to
electrical power needs are
hurting the mining industry.
He cited native land claims
and stringent regulations
aimed at protecting the
nalive lifestyle as examples
of government policies (hal
conflict with
mining strategy.”

The government alsu was
establishing unnecessarily
large national parks without
laking resource inventories
and without consulting
resuurce USErs.

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MINING REP SAYS

North has problems

If the government gues
ahead with plans fur a
nurthern Yukun wilderness.
park, 8.1 per cent of the
Yukon will have been tied up
in parks, he said. The per-
cenlage in nineprovinces,
excluding Alberta, is only 0.6
per cent.

“Although the mining in-
dustry dues nut uppose the
principle of parks, it favers
smaller parks and would like
a strung voice in park
planning to minimize the
amuunt if mineral lands that
are tied up.”

Cathro said the federal
government musi start
listening to the mining in-
dustry and find ways uf
resulving conflicts. Closer
trust and liaison are needed
tw help formulate a new
mineral pulicy.

Northern Development
Minister Hugh Faulkner met
recently with induslry
representatives and both
sides have appeared op-
timistic about a new working
relationship.

However, Cathro said the
guvernment’s sincerity soun
will be put tu the test.

A text of Cathro’s speech
was released in advance of
delivery.

Meanwhile the conference
was told thal lax rates may
have to be revised if

Canadian industries are to’

remain viable. That came
from John Bonus of Ottawa,
managing director of the
Mining Assuciation of
Canada.

“As a means of financing
government and essential
services, taxation is ac-
ceptable unly to the degree
thal the producing sectors uf
the economy can afford to
sustain the burden and still
remain cumpetitive,” he
said. ,

He added thal politicians
have been reluctant to speak
out in favor of the mining
industry, probably because
mining has become an un-
popular subject and because

ithas nol commanded many
yates.

“Yet politicians must
realize that without a slrong
mining industry, Canada
would be a very sorry place
ina competitive world,” said
Bonus.

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