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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 3, Dear Sir: & Brian Gregg should hide = his head in shame. = He concludes his account = of the Terrace mutiny # (Herald, Apr. 16) with the a unbelievable statement that z = ‘this is true democracy.’ Since’ democracy is, by “definition, rule by the = people one cannot help wondering what part those 900 civilians played in this shameful display of ‘democracy.’ Like the blind men who went to see the elephant, your reporter makes a + @ursory examination of the 1 event and concludes that it Was oa popular and i: democratic mutiny. He > fails to see the obvious . Communist connection and ‘be carefully skirts around ‘the very real opposition te 2 the war that existed in Quebec. He cannot mow about =the itinerant “Communists, anarchists and Fascists who toured =:this country throughout the “Depression, agitating, RET propagandising and, yes, spying, all with impunity. I remember these things. I remember the slogans: ‘conscript the wealth’, “tun the guns on your leaders", ‘‘imperialist war,” and “the revenge of © thecradie.” Lenin said that “the masses can be induced to take any action, provided it is dished up with the appropriate slogans."' Gregg’s personal views notwithstanding, the article gives a clear view o£ those far off events. It might be added that many of those who took part in the mutiny were separately arrested and quietly punished. This avoided any -kind of concerted resistance. Looking back, one is inclined to think that the whole matter was handled | well and it is to be hoped that anti-subversive measures were reinforced because of it. Yours truly, Thomas Atrill “+ Dear Sir: I am a widow age 4% “Syears-old, in excellent > health." am a practical ?Srurse'by profession. Iam § *“foot 4 inches tall and weigh >“ right for my age and height. 1 was born in Virginia and lived all my life there. I ‘married a man whose ‘parents came irom British ‘Columbia and had two ‘children, a boy and a girl. . In 1962, I came with my family to homestead near ‘Anchorage, Alaska. We ‘built up a nice home. Indeed we were very happy. : Later came the earthquake ‘and destroyed our home, and my husband and ‘children were killed “outright - [ was injured but ‘survived somehow after ‘five months in the hospital “with both legs broken and ‘amerous other injuries 1 ‘received. “ Imoved to Juneau to live and work as a nurse here. Since coming here I have been very lonely since I neither drink nor smoke and most people here do both to excess. Also I have always wanted to know more about British Columbia where my husband’s parents came from. For these two reasons 1am writing to ask you to publish my letter in your newpaper, 50 1 can get 4 pen pal from your area of the country. Anyone - either women or men and young people are invited to write and I will answer all letters and send Alaskan and Juneau view cards to all who write. - Thank you for the great favor of publishing my letter. ; * Sincerely yours, Mrs. Mary Ruth Tapanie _ Apt. Nos 130 East 7th St. Juneau, Alaske 96601 * o i ra h * LETTERS WELCOME The Herald welcomes its readers comments. r All letters to the editor of general public interest : Will be printed. We do, however, retain the right libel or bad taste. aA 4 . : t r { r r Ms .to refuse lo print tetlers on grounds of possible We may also edit letters for style and length. Ail letters to be considered for publication must be signed. tad Sexual harassment is no joke. Oscar-nominated film Nine to Five may have inflated the issue of sexual harassment to rib-tickling Hollywood proportions, but the matter is no joke for millions of women who endure it. Although there have been no national studies in Canada, reports by the British Columbia Federation, of Labor, Thunder Bay Committee Against Sexual Harassment and Manitoba Women Against Sexual Harassment estimate that up,to 48 per cent of all working wamen subjected to sexual harassment actually lose their jobs. Farida Shaikh, an. official . Public Employees, says the more women protest about sexaul harassment, “the less seriously they get taken." “If you're accused of having an affair with somebody, you can scream until you're blue in the face. Nobody believes you.'* — In Nine to Five, Dolly Parton plays the role of a shapely and naive secrelary whose boss spreads the rumor he is having an affair with her, He isn't, but her colleagues believe the gos- sip and give her the cold shoulder. The Canadian Human Rights Commission says since it recommended that Parliament outlaw sexual _ harassment last year: _ “Public perception of sex- ~ ual harassment as a;major .; ofthe Canadian. Union of ....barrier,:to equality-in.em- -.(sexual; harassment) an. NDP justice critic Svend Robinson, MP for Burnaby, B.C., recently suggested that sexually-harrassed but Dor-tunionized employes of politicians should have the right to grievance procedures. He said the government should draw up legislation defining sexual - harassment as a form of discrimination. Justice Minister Jean Chretien has said the government is shidying the reeommendatipn. Ratina Ray, director of the women's bureau of Labor Canada, has recommended to Labor Minister Gerald Regan that sexual harassment be in- cluded in the federal Labor Code. , sont HE. you: don’t make ployment for women has ‘employment-related, day- greatly increased.” Porro OT ee ere Peet er errs 4¥2e “Can the guy downstairs borrow some milk?’’ to-day concern, workers aren’t going to go Very far,” "It's a delicate, sensitive and insidious issue, “Nobody should take this kind of complaint lightly,” says Ray. “Women have mental breakdowns end have to quit jobs as a result of this kind of harassment.” Labor Canada has setup a hotline for women to call the department, and so far calls have been coming in at a rate of about 16 a day. “We can go to the em- ployer and say we've had a complaint," said Ray. “Discreetly. In nine out of 10 eases, things are settled within the organisation.” If legislation dealing specifically... with. sexual harassment is passed, it will be a first..No other. country has incorporated the issue TALKING. POLITICS — This space offers your provincial and fedaial elected officials a place to say their plece. ‘Columns are. selected -on the . basis of. relevance, not party preference and are the. opinions of the author not the editor or this without any qualification. -eoodemning the media. -sfaternent by the former chief prosecutor in Vancouver that ‘Sit bas become an honour to be fired by this government”. : delivery system and those responsible for it since the days yan mee eS ee ee C into its labor code. | - Clark grows less conservative VANCOUVER (CP) — Bill Clark bucks the adage that owe tend to become more conservative as they grow er. 7 From an admitled position on the left wing of the New Democrati;’ Party, the #-year-old leader of the Tele- communications Warkers Union, who first walked a picket line as a teensger with his father, recently led his union through a 14-month labor dispute at B.C. Telephone Co. The problems presented were difficult ones: ‘How do you force a satisfactory collective agreement out of a monopoly which has 2,700 supervisors who can maintain the he lelephone network during a strike-lockout? And how do you do it without spending five months or more on the picket line? It was.a challenge worthy of Clark and his background of militant unionism. His father was a Scottish coal miner who immigrated to Canada during the depression and spent years lrying to organize a meatpacking plant in New Westminister, B.C. Bornin New Westminster, Clark became imbued withso- . cialism and union values early. “L remember when my father was organizing the plants. He'd be handing out leaflets at the gates and when I waa a teenager I'd go on the line with him ... I just grew up with unions. Mostly it was with us all the time.” Under a different union structure, Clark served fram 1968 until 1970 as assistant general secretary of the plant division, the union's largest, then became general secretary of the division for four years until a heart attack forced him ont. « He later returned as.a business agent. And last June be defeated incumbent Bob Donnelly for the presidencey of the 11,000-member union. Clark is disarmingly friendly and unpretentious. Reporters covering the telephone dispute repeatedly remarked on his good. humor. But at times, especially after failed altempts at Mediation, Clark looked particularly haggard. And this worried many union members who were aware of his previous heart attack. Asked why he would take on such a high-pressure job having had a heart attack, Clark said: “I was 40 pounds heavier back then and | was working too hard for the union. . Now I exercise regularly, don’t smoke, drink very little, and make sure [ get seven to eight hours sleep every night.”’ The stage was set for a showdown with B.C. Tel in August ‘when the union accepted a conciliation report by federal commissioner Ed Peck, but the company rejected four key recommendations — including wages. -The union resolved to settle far nothing short of the Peck report, but its bargaining clout bad been dramatically eroded aver the previous 35 years by # massive growih in the number of non-union Clark says that when the union was certified in 19 there were 19 union members to every supervisor. Now that ratio is 3.5 to one. “We didn’t want a repeat of 1977-78 when we were locked : out for 81 days," says Clark. We knew that the company could'weather a long walkout or strike because the supervisors could run the operation, So we set out to burt B.C. Tel slowly, without forcing an all-out job action. “And we felt that if we did go out it should only be for -ebout five weeks, Well, we were off that target by only one week and that was because we were playing with the hack- to-work agreement."’ Theunion tried a number of tactics including an overtime ban, a limited strike by installers and construction linemen for B.C. Tel's lucrative commercial program and an ap- pearance before the Canadian Radic-television and Tele- commiunciations Commission to demand that the company be denied a new rate increase unless it promised to improve ” gervice and maintain employment. In February, the union, anticipating a lockout, occupied company offices across the province. Members left the building five days after a court injunetion was granted, and a bix-week strike-lockout ensued, newspaper. \ —/ By DAVE BARRETT : Under the British parliamentary tradition, there is one department of government and .one minister of every cabinet that has a special relationship to the Crown awa to parliament. They are the minister and department respite tor tice. ‘ ans special relationship ‘arises from the axiom of democratic forms of government - that justice must be above politics at ali times. The department has the duty of, delivering a justice system that is fair and even-handed. That's why the minister is clothed with, power to bypass even the cabinet. whed. necessary to take action upholding that principle. . -~"’ It is, therefore, disturbing to reflect on several eveoks that have occurred in the past two years. = The most recent were reports of an apparently critical secret assessment on the justice delivery system which drew from Attorney-General Allan Williams only &. Retort Earlier there was a public There hisn’t been as much comment about the justice of Robert Bonner who was Attorney-General during the long drawn out Sommers case. This is a troubling situation. All members of the government, as well as‘all citizens, should reflect seriously on the following paragraphs from a recent lead editorial in - the province’s leading newspaper, the Vancouver Sun: “There is a nasty cloud swirling about the department of our provincial government that should be as shiny chan as a scrubbed doorstep: the department of the Attarney- General .. “Whatever has been going on it does not inspire the highest confidence in the administration of justice. “Attorney-General Allan Williams and his deputy, Richard Vogel, have become a focus of controversy, and . that in disquieting ... “The reat with which Mr. Williams and Mr. Voge! bave purged their department: of perceived undesirables | contrasts strangely with the zeal with which they pursued - allegations of a more political nature against members of the government. . “Mr. Williams was ‘unable to fund anything untoward in . the messy business of undeclared campaign funds, of the - affair of ‘Gracie's Finger’, or the conduct of officials in the ‘dirty tricks’ campaign after lengthy and unconvincing inquiries that were in-house rather than independent... “It is difficult to know how all these unpleasant thoughts can be satisfactorily banished from the public mind. The profile of the Attorney-General's department has been allowed to rise rather high. Somehow More convincing reassurances about the conduct of its officials, who like See rat mut be above mspicion,are going t have to 1 oe -_ os be 3 apes Sa ar Ope ete aed Snazy sackages — signs of times It's a sign of our times.. The marketplace is a maze of foods and food products. Snazzy packages. Catchy names, A bewildering array of choices. Faced with this consumers offen find it difficult to make effective decisions that will help them get better value for their food dollar. Sure, there is a wealth of information available, but it is often fragmented or incomplete. Or the material is just too complicated. That's why Consumer and Corporate Affairs Canada developed the Food Basics Kit; &@ comprehensive and concise guide designed to assist community leaders in their efforts to bring useful shopping hints to the consumer, The kit was especially prepared to be Mexible in format; it can be used as the basis for a series of workshops, or specific postions can be adarted for a wide range of autience ilies aco emo of the hightight: . The Grocery Store Game - an audio-visual presentation which explores good food-shopping practices both at the Planning and point-of-sale stages. Two new publicalions for consumers involved in the Food Basics program: one contains tips to help reduce shopping bil, while the other takes the mystery out of shopping through the use of labelling information. ~ A sampling of food packages and labels to be used as visual aids and a selection of posters and publications from all federal government departments involved on food programs. , Leader's guides to eight different programs which will help consumers make ouutritional, but lower-cost food choices. The kit is not meant to be used by individual consumers — its distribution will be limited to group-ume situations. For those who wish to make use of this valuable and informative resource, the kit is now available an loan at no cost, from Consumer and Corporate Affairs Canada. Contact their District Office at 209 Victoria Street, 7th Floor, Prince George, B.C. | Vi 5B8, telephone: 562-7235. eu GOMER, You SURE GAVE Me HecK Nor Aut. ENVIRONMENTALISTS ARE COMMIE PINKOS) Wy