rn vat 4 ‘4 . 4 1 ' . . 4 * ‘ . . a a ‘ ibreaks this IBEW local, Page 4, The Herald, Tuesday, September 26, 1978 TERR ACE/KITIMAT daily herald General Office - 635-6357 Published by Circulation - 635-6357 Sterling Publishers . PUBLISHER - Laurle Mallett . GEN. MANAGER - Knox Coupland EDITOR - Greg Middieton CIRCULATION - TERRACE - Andy Wightman 635-6357 KITIMAT - Pat Zelinski 632-2747 _ KITIMATOFFICE - 632-2747 Published every weekday at 3212 Kalu Street. Terrace, B.C. A member of Varified Circulation. Authorized as second class mail, Registration number 1201, Postage pald In cash, return postage quaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, comptete and sole copyright in any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published In the Herald. Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. Labour dispute must be ended The big unions and big companies hammer out their differences, not in the negotiating room, but more often on the backs of the little guy who can do nothing more than sit and suffer. This ts increasingly the trend. Both jabor and management strategists call this getting public support. We call It unfair. In the current dispute between the In-. ternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Pacific Northern Gas, the pawns being GOT CHANGE fork AQUARTER? & ul dene yoy : KAS FOMOHTOR ThURTAL manoeuvered are new businesses and those who built homes last spring and this summer, thinking they would have natural gas installed. The paint of the strike isn’t the usual reason of more money or working conditions. A small group of workers were certified and have been trying to negotiate a contract, as is their right. The company, however, appears to have been . stalting. The money the workers want ts less than other, similar, union workers are getting. What the company Is afraid of Is opening the door and letting.a union in. It employs a large number of otherworkers who are watching these negotiations closely. This is a high-stakes game. If the company then it will probably _ ikeep the unions out for some time. Ifthe IBEW | inegotiates a contract, there will undoubtedly be ‘a flurry of certifications among Pacific Northern Gas and parent company Pacific Transmission employees. The gas company has an obligation fo provide service. The workers have a right to be represented by the union they have chosen. The aa “Is there any hope of Ottawa separating from the rest of Canada?” | public, at least in this case, ha the alferpative of . a hook ingzup propane -.although at.an-a ded and =. unnecessary expense. Gim’s Restduranf, perhaps foolishly, went ahead and connected up togas. The union claims this could be unsafe. This is where the crunch comes. Public safety could be jeopardized by jury-rigged connections, especially come spring. There Is already a situation where a gas line was broken and pat- ched. Work has stopped on the Deep Creek ’ diversion for safety reasons. This country Is having 4 difficult enough time with prolonged labor disputes and their effect of the economy. While labor and management have the privilege of freely negotiating contracts, a situation where one side keeps backing away is an abuse of that privilege. Continuing: labor. disputes should not be allowed to bring this land , fo its knees. When public safety becomes a question, government fnactlon becomes in- folerable. We urge the government to step into this current dispute and at least get the two sides together enough and if necessary order a resumption of work so that essential connections and service can be maintained before there is a serious accident. their new editor. The Herald welcomes a new editor to its staff. Greg Middleton comes to Terrace from the - Vancouver Island city of Port Alberni, where he was news editor of the Alberni Valley Times. Middleton worked his way up there from a job as a printer's apprentice. Although he has a university background, Middleton refers to the business of gathering and reporting the news as a “trade’’ and considers himself ‘working’ newspaper man. He says the title “tournalist’’ is affected by scribblers who aren't willing to pound a beat or roll up their sleeves and dig fora story. While he sees that the responsibility of the press is to provide comment and give an in- formed overview to events, Middleton says most of the news is the bits and pleces of information generated by the people in a community. He says it is the responsibility of the newspaper to provide a record of the day to day events of the people it serves. . In this light, this paper and its new editor ask for the co-operation of Its readers. We can only do as good a job as the readers help us to do. We ask that If you are the president or head of a community service graup, union, political party or special interest group, give the editor a call, introduce yourself and see how you can help keep your community informed. For the next few weeks, the new editor will be looking around the community he intends to put his roots down in. He will be lacking forward to meeting the people he Is here to serve. The Herald urges its readers to make the newcomer welcome that he may better become part of this community. It has now become apparent that unless ANALYSIS BY NIXON BAKER | Long cold strike ahead The union has made many concessions - some government agent intervenes, - the . strike of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers against Pacific Nor- thern Gas Company will continue through the winter. The union has agreed to binding ar- bitration, ihe company has refused. The union has refused to cut the gas pipe which runs up Kalum soas to allow city workers to compiete their work on the diversion of Deep Creek. The union is picketing Gim’s Restaurant because gas was connected to the building. by. Management personnel. An injunction. to :) document, outlining alleged abusex of buman rights in Cambodia, ‘un external falfairs official ~ said during Ube weekend. ‘Thegoveroment's more public stand un human rights issues follows, parliamentary pressure and the example sel by United States President ] Jimmy Carter. It is an apparent. shift frum the J government's past practice. of. behind-the- scenes diplomacy. ‘However, an external affairs infurmant'said the gradual change In recent months is due more to ‘Canadian public upinion than Carter’s public. pro- - pouncements. “h is (a parallel evolullon,” he said. _ Along with the human rights issue, Jamieson is expected to discuss such issues as Middle East peace developments, peacek: ,. the UN's effectiveness and the * Namibia problem in his” UN speech Tuesday. |. Jamieson also .is to meet foreign ministers from: other countries in New York today. The Namibian issue may comme up.in talks’ with ministers from Western countries joining Canada in’ ng oan .in- dependence —_setilement for the tefritory, now | * ruled by South ‘Africa. The Namibian issue is expected to be debated:in - the coming UN session. South Africa has objected to items in a settlement proposed by UN See- retary-General Kurt . Waldheini and based on ~ the Western plan. South Africa announced plans last week “to proceed unilaterally ‘with -elec- tions in the territory this year leading to inde- iy feed affairs ‘released a. report last week based on‘daterviews with Cambodian retugees by Canadian ‘embassy personne} in Thailand. The report tells of Khmer Rouge {roope systematically | beating people to death, arbitrary arrest, deletition ‘and execution, cruel punish- ment, religious sup: ion- and denial of Later, the British governmen!.. released a ‘ similar report = con- demning alleged human nights” violations In Cambodia. | Canadian diplomats have long preferred quiet chats. with. foreign governments to settle lut- “man rights issues sitch as reuniting families ‘and helping people thrown in Sénior external affairs officials said befare the Lelgrade conference on problems. _ gnuniry | Canada speaks © Murophin evurity an | janman raghts fas winter Hoa quad diplomacy wan Inere surceastul on get ling results Chan public denusciationa. They views Carler'n appriwth with) MURpeI, Mut publit prennure, | particularly =n Parliament, “seema ty have edged the Bovern ment taward ip rights issues. ‘She Carmnouni up proved unanimuusly including cabinel man: isterp several — miutions capressing = Canadian concern about specifie humao rights problems such as the jailing of | ‘Suviel dissident Anutoly Sheharansky and alleged Cambodian atrocities. * These molions were sent ty the governments . Trudeau refused Wa’ make 4 — personal “ statement on the Sh- | charansky issue after the - Commons motion : _, concerned. “because he sald |it is - important luo “have good relations with the Soviet © Union" if Canada wants | Soviet citizens reunited | with their families in, Canada. Bul on another occasion the prime minister was — critical of a Czech - government amnesty plan which sume Caech refugees said amounted to blackmail.. Some refugees in Toronto said they feared réprisals ‘against their families in Czechoslovakia if they did | not comply with the ° amnesty regulations. ” Of think this is unae- ” ceptable treatment of Canadian. citizens,” | Trudeau told reporters. — “I don’t think they should be subject to-blackmail.”” . In June, Trudeau said © Canada takes a “very 7 “dim ‘view" of the ‘$en- tenclng of Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov. His statement came after the Commons condemned the sen- lencing. . Cambodia reacted to ~ the Commons motion on allegedCambodian alrocities -by telling Canada to mind iis own business and look to’ its own. human rights ‘An external affairs official said the purpose of the statement on the Cambodian issue at the UN is to focus world at- tention on the problem. The human = rights Prollem in foreign countries like Chile, Uganda and the Soviet Union is a “question | which » the Canadian public is paying more and mare -altention i." he said. ° The Cambodian issue was a matter af concern tu many Canadians aware of the alroejty stories vuming fram Canbodia. But he suggested. tactics rust vary fram -ty couniry, Publicity may work with soe countries and nit with others, Ino sone Places; behind-thescenwes diplomacy might be tore effective. “i niere | ' public stand an human if _— i What’s MAKQUETTR, | Mich. 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