_HEATS.ON o British election — . : a HOT AG EA ie agro erat i bes _ iv. . 4 _ drawing near now SuSE tae _ LONDON (CP) AB Thursday’s crucial vote ~, edges into sight, both Labor and Conservative parties have pulled out the big guns ‘* lo shoot fear into the com- '- Fruckers os strike he ry : fizzles PITTSBURGH (AP) — A .month-long strike by “Teamsters union steel haulers fizzled Monday as many dissident drivers “returned to work, but the U.S. steel industry still had many workers idle. _. “Most drivers are back," “said Charles Carelli, i. secretary-treasurer of Local ‘+00 in Pittsburgh, the unlon’s ;- largest stee!-hauling unit . -With.1,600 members, ‘I was “out at the terminals this morning and. there was a _rypretty good showing. A few SHU have to work on their trucks,” 2 A spot check of severa steel carriers in the Pitt- sburgh area .confirmed ~Carelll's observations. i. “Everything seems to be ’. | over,” said a spokesman for ‘“MeNicholas Transfer Co. “We haven't had any trouble _ overnight and nothing has. “heen Teported anywhere © else.” _2¢¢ In Detroit, Local 124 president Ralph Proctor said 45 per cent of his mem- bership has returned to work ‘hinder the terms of a ten- lative contract reached with _,:most ‘sleel trucking com- panies. “- Ken Paff of the dissident "- Teamsters for a Democratic i. Union, which had supplanted ., some elected union officials " as a strike co-ordinator, said | some wildcat striking was _- Still going on-in the Detroit ‘_ area, “"" Steel mills, meanwhile, “prepared to ship finished roducts, which have jammed loading docks in . Ohio, West Virginia and -‘ Pennsylvania, where the ' strike was concentrated. .UuThe strike. originally. wag;. ; almed at truck companies, . most of which have signed a tentative agreement with the Teamsters. But rank-and- file drivers later ignored the union's orders to go back to work, demanding a separate ‘ vote on their supplement to the proposed master freigh' . agreement, a “An expert: talks about . Bristol glass had its beginning about 1651 when an Italian set up a glass- house in Bristol, England. Glassmaking flourished there and in 1761 there were 15 glasshouses at ~ Jwork there. When the industry was at its height lat. Bristol all types of glass- _ [ware was made, . which Bristol became most! famed was ornamental ware in enantel or colors. This opaque, white glass was decorated to resemble porcelals. The decoration was of twe hinds - painting pith of] colors and treatin with permanent kiln-tire enamels. Bristol blue glass : |was highly prized. In brit- : t, t shades it was ' |oped without decoration, ‘fbut it waa frequently + The type of glass oi JEWELLERS LTD. @ 632-2171 216 City Centra Kitimat placent British electorate. Laber leaders warned Monday that a Conservative victory would lead to a4 national catastrophe while the Tories countered that the Labor party is riddled with Communists who eventually would depose Prime Minister James Callaghan. . For the first time Callaghan’s age, 67, figured in the fight. Deputy Con- servative Jeader’ William Whitelaw said Callaghan would become a victim to left-wingers and old age— “the left will use its con- siderable muscle to instal a successor of its choice.'’ Callaghan insisted Mon- day that he will not step down from his — party’s leadership and that he can deal firmly with the left. At the same time he warned that Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher, . 53, would provoke a fight with powerful unions that would lead to a wages free-for-all and economic disaster. Both sides are fighting for Britain's eight million unde- cided voters who may force the outcome of many marginal seats. About 41 million are eligible ta vote Thursday with a record 2,572 candidates fighting for the 635 House of Commons seats, Mrs. Thatcher's Con- servatives sli} lead the opinion polls but the ad- vantage has narrowed to as little as three per cent, ac- cording te a recent Market Opinion and Research In- ternational poll published in the Conservative-supporting Daily Express: newspaper. The undecided voters are especially crucial in, the 47 marginal seats, where legislators were elected five years ago with slim margins ranging from 22 to 1,000. Reg. $1300 $ SALE AiLabor defeat would put Mrs. Thatcher in 10 Downing Street:as Europe's first woman prime minister. But - she might find herself there with only the thinnest of over-all majorities. Denis Healey, Labor's chancellor of the exchequer, - maintained that Mrs, Thatcher had avoided talking about pay policy or industrial relations during the campaign. . “She has simply treated us to a spectacle of Hollywood razzmatazz that would have done. credit to . President Nixon's campaign in 1968," Healey said. “I have tound growing skepticism in the electorate -about the honesty of Con- servative politics, a growing © puzzlement and uneasiness about. the capacity and responsibility. of the Con- servative leaders," he said, Callaghan, speaking in a British Broadcasting Corp. radio interview, accused the Conservatives | of scaremongering. Mrs, Thatcher has charged that the Labor party is being taken over by left-wingers, a charge widely publicized by Conservative-supporting newspapers. “The left is bound to take over in some constituencies because some constituencies have very left wing can- -didates, just as the Con- servalives have some very right-wing candidates,”’ Callaghan told his in- terviewer. “They won't push me around.” Mrs, Thatcher hit back during a news conference when she was asked why she had refpsed Callaghan's invitation for. a. television debate.tcr- ober 2 piece SOFA SUITE L- ‘ SUEZ CITY, Egypt (AP) — To shouts of “Salaam” and "Shalom" . an Israeli freighter sailed through the Suez canal Monday,’ proof that peace has come between Egypt and Israel. The 4,500-lon Ashdod was the first vessel flying the Israeli flag. aver allowed to '. SUEZ CANAL REOPENS "TO AN ISRAELI SHIP change al ‘documents. - _ The Ashdod. following the eustom of the Suez, flew both Israeli and Egyptian colors as it began its northbound passage at Suez City, Southern entrance to the canal. It had come from the Asraeli port of Eilat on the ratified pass through the 16l- Gulf of Aqaba and was on its kilometres waterway, Way, empty, to the Israeli Israeli shipping officials port of Haifa on the said, Mediterranean. Ils journey was a About 100 jubilant milestone in the nor- Egyptians, including malization of relations under soldiers and civilians the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, which guarantees Israeli ships unhindered pas- sage through the canal. The treaty went into effect last Wednesday with the ex- waiting to cross the canal to the Sinai Desert, waved and shouted “Salaam! Salaam!" as the freighter steamed past, The 22-man ship crew shouted back ‘Shalom! Shalom!" Salaam is the Arabic word for peace and shalom -is the Hebrew equivalent. The last Israeli ship to enter the canal, the Bat Galim, tried to pass through in 1954 but was seized by the Egyptians and the crew was held for three months as prisoners af war. One of the Bat Galim’s crew members was working aboard the Ash- dod on Monday, Israeli radio reported, . Though no ship flying the ‘Israeli flag had ever passed -through the cana) before Monday, Israeli shipping officials said several Israeli- owned vessels whose ownership was hidden have passed through flying “eonvenience Mags." Farm report criticized The British Columbia legislature's select. standing committee on agriculture in it's recent final re done a great disservice to the province, say two provicial farm organizations. The joint statement released Monday by the B.C. Institute of Agrologists and the B.C, Federation of Agriculture said the fun- damental assumptions of the section pertaining to land use deserves no place in the policy of any provincial government. *Both our organizations are non-partian and It is not our intent to endorse the stand of any political party during this provincial election camapaign,”’ the statement said. “However after careful study of the committees’ recommendations as they pertain to landuse questions, we believe the public must be- made aware of the seriousness of the implica- tions for the continued port has: j VERNON, B. €. (CP) — agricultural production in the province should these recommendations be adopted aS government pol ley." - ’ The statement said that the continued protection of . B.C.'s farm land by the. Agricultural Land Reserves “Act would be virtually im- possible under conditions imposed by the committee. - t sald that a’ recom". mendation ‘for instituting a. . “land-use planning com:- mission” that 7 would b charged with planning -to _ provide for all the needa B.C.’s growing economy, ‘with the choices left regional or lecal gover: Tent, talssion would be nothing but an advisory body for local government. “The value of such a move is highly debatable,’’ it said. “Land use decisions ma at the level of local gove: mentare normally subject to tremendous pressure for development, The select standing committee report means the ‘¢céfi” says there are no foreseeable long-term developments that will serve to significantly limit outside sources of food production, most notably from the U.S. and Alberta, is an attack against preserving farmland.” ‘ The statement said that to recommend that B.C. does not need to be concerned . about preserving its own agricultural land - ; {because we can always get “the food we require fram Alberta and the U.S.” -- is 1 and irresponsible. ; ““There ig .no guarantee that countries elsewhere will temptations and continue to luce enough food to look ° after our needs as well,” the statement added. “Such a position denies the reallty of the world we live ' President ‘Tom Wallace signed the report for the age ologists and president Pat Hibbert for the federation of agriculture. 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