Legislative Library »Parliment Buildings . Victoria, B.C. ' V8v-124 VANCOUVER (CP) — Britiah W Columbia's two major pulp and - paper unions have voted 62 per cent to.continue & strike that may. lead to fines and a government- imposed contract settlement. . “The unlons have got to get the message across to the government of B.C, that they simply cannot, with the stroke of a pen, remove our bargaining . rights,” Art Gruntman of the Canadian Paperworkers Union, which represents 7,200 workers, told a news conference Monday night. Gruntman said the strike would continue at least until Wednesday, when union _hargainging representatives will caucus, However, members of Local 3 of _ the 5,500-member Pulp, Paper and Woodworkera of Canada, which: voted 75 per cent to return to work, Were at their jobs today at Western. Forest Products'. mill af 1 beginning work on the boilers “and we: hope to be’ in fail - pulp. praduetion . by = . tomorrow, morning. ” ‘Sim: Sloan, . president of | the” smaller pulp union, has said a. return to work would be left.ap to - ; . continuing the strike shows that — individual locals. ; Gruntman said the strike would go on even If the legislature. passed the Pulp and Paper Collective .. Bargaining Assistance Act. —" which: retroactively calls’ for an end to pulp industry disruptions as. of last. Sunday midnight. Legislature debate on’ the measure was. raucols Monday, with the NDP Opposition accusing the government of dictatorship, and Social Credit characterizing the New Democrats as: lackeys of labor feaders. cos ( . quality used parts from : La WHY BUYNEW? WHENUSEDWILL Do! ‘ Doyou want parts iofix up your car but your budget « |! won't allow it?. Beat the high cost of new parts with : $.K.B. AUTO SALVAGE | 635-2333 or 635-9095 14690 Duhan (just off Kwy. 16 E) —~ Mill manager Stan Smart said 4 full maintenance crow . was’ : y: without giving the bill approval in a principle. . Gruntman said. a per cent of the. ; membership of the: 7,200-member Canadian Paperworkers Union and: the $,500-member. Pulp Paper and. Woodworkers ‘of: Canada took part in the: strike vote, VE, The: 62-per-cent; ‘najority for. after! more than -two months without. -paycheques - ‘ the: members want to wark, Gruntman sald, ‘but we will not take what the. . governinent is trying to impose on . a mis us, - The: pulp’ and paper compases rl have’ complied: with the. bill’s’ retroactive “provision . forcing: an, end. i; the lockout the industry -) imposed on Feb. 3. But workers at: most of the 20: mills - -erintered by: going on strike. . Gruntman. discounted: 4 Tuesday, April 3, 1984 . the government fervention. “It's legislation: that Ups management,” he said.: au 4 Because management hag now “Successful in driving up the peice of pulp as of April 1 by at ‘Ie ast-$60 a: ton and my eo ke to;get the mills running.” " , ° C4 BINET POWER : NDP labor critic Colin Gbelmann told the legislature the a would empower the provincial binet to impoge 4 20-year ntract witha zero-per-cent wage “rm not saying that this is what government will do, -but hat legislation allows this,”” he ‘Gabelmann also said that ‘al ugh parliaments accept the principle of retroactivity in budget jeasures to prevent profiteering, -thére was no need for retroactivity gement expressions of regret in the government's back- to-work ~ bill. Premier. Bill Bennett said legislation ‘should not become the tool for the final resolution in industrial disputes.” ° _ However, the premier added, . “hy tough times it becomes * absolutely necessary that the . government step in when the parties show that they are unable to end the dispute themselves.” * “Big Brother is certainly on the scene,” countered New Democrat Dave Stupich, whose Nanaimo | riding includes two major. pulp -Stupich sald he would not put it past Bennett to bring in a Dill “aoying that we don’t need the legislature any more.”’ In addition to demanding a retroactive return to work, the bill provides for mediated negotiations arid an imposed settlement if these CE a ret ite ee war duh vie Menke ooh ae ee 3 - stri ike negotiations fail or if ‘work: disruptions continue, The provincial labor code provides for fines up to $1,000 for each worker and $10,000 for unions if back-to-work legislation is defied. But it is not clear whether failure to comply with retroactive legislation which bas not been ‘passed would amount to defiance under the labor code. ; The industry and the two unions are at odds over pensions, statutory holidays and length of contract. Management is demanding a. three-year contract similar to that accepted by the largest B.C. forest - industry union, the International Woodworkers of America. The pulp unions insist on a two- year term, saying they will accept a three-year contact only if It includes cost-of-living protection in the final year. 15 cents Established 1908 Alcan not hiring Volume 78 No.66 dersat. Alean’s Kitimat spending money to travel to such areas as safety and ; Wa will accept no more job Kitimat onspeculation or Kitimat productivity. The fllp side of the dlications at least until the end residents passing over other colnfor the public, however, Is that @ 1984. That's the word from the opportunities whenwe simply have / Alcan is no longer able to supply ". company's personnel manager, -nothing to offer them,” says the volume of job openings people Armand Robitaille, who saya he. Robitaille. in the area have come to expect, doesn't anticipate any hiring at the While Alcan has traditionally | Robitaille says it’s impossible.to aluminum smelter before 1685 at the;earliest, The only exception may be for certain highly specialized jobs which may be _ advertised when the need arises, , ’ - The decision to close the door to applications is being made now s0 that-people seeking work will not be ‘given false hope about job. propsects with Alcan in Kitimat- Kemano, “when -~we began filling | a few: predict when the Ught~ hiring situation: might loosen up. “It depends pretty much on the general economy, although I don’t think we see ourselves ever returning to the days of high. turnover. Right now, the .only bright spot on the horizon in terms a job creation is the Kemano . Completion Project, if it, goes ahead. At the Kitimat smelter, though, we don’t’ expect. the been the major source of employment for people seeking work in the Kitimat-Terrace area, turnover at the plant has declined dramatically in recent years. With: a turnover rate of less than five pr . cent at the end of 1983, hiring has been at a virtual standstill for some time, Robitaille explains, He points out that the stability of . _Alcan’s current workforce of 2,300 ‘is ‘due ‘fo a number ‘of: factors, 10th In B.C. The Caledonia Math Team did very well In the recent Fermat Math Contest, placing In the front row, from left to right are lan Mooney, Greg Sunderwood, Schmilderer, Secondary Manbir Prihar. In the back row are Mike Cal math team knows the score Results of the Fermat Math Contest for grade 1) students across Canada, show the Caledonia Senior Secondary team taking 10th in B.C. The Caledonia team score consinis of the sum of the ecores of the three top participants, Manbir Prihar, Greg Sunderwood and Mike Schmiderer, . Manbir Prihar earned tha second highest individual score In B.C. after. Mathias Klimach of St. Michael's: University School In Victoria, Mike Schmiderer and Marcie - Jackulack placed on the. zone honour roll, Other Caledonia nae include’ Tan Money, Sonia Sahota, Marcie — Jackulack and Arlene Renaud. They are.all “grade 11. students - at Caledonia Sr. replacement work; unfortunately, we can't place these people let alone new applicants. And the last © thing we want to gee 1B job-seekers SEATTLE (AP) — Explorer . Scouts combing a wooded area Arlene Renaud and Sonia Sahota. The contest was written by 11,816 - students in 992 schools across Canada - approximately 4 4 per cent of the total grade 11 population. Greg Sunderwood of Caledonia Placed on the provincial honour roll, one of of the top 50 students in the province $220 million cocaine bust MIAMI, Fle. (AP) —. A Canadian-registered sloop carrying some 998 kilograms. of cocaine, with an estimated value of more than $220 million on the illicit market, was confiscated during the weekend in what the U;S, Coast Guard calls the largest such seizure at sea. A coast guard spokesman, Chief PO Bob Baeten, said the coast guard cutter Gallatin escorted the 103metre-long sailboat intt the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, © CN spills Herald Staff Writer TERRACE— Rail ‘experienced a methanol leak from a tank car located behind the Terrace Co-op, on Saturday. A pedestrian walking by the railway yard, noticed the leak and notified CN officials. Al Menard, a spokesman for CN says that a crew was dispatched to the scene, and the Terrace Fire department was alerted. It was determined that the leak ‘ was coming from a safety check valve as a result of the warm temperatures on Saturday. ' Menard said lemperature was 80 warm, the aftr atopping || The. coast. guard seized the Canadian: -registered Chinook and arrested two men, identified only. as U.S, citizens, aboard it Sunday night In the Windward paarage between .Cuba and Haiti, the spokesman said. te The two men, "identified as Hewltt McGill, 4, and Johnny Crews, 36, wera scheduled to arrive in Miami with the cocaine ‘on Wednesday aflernoon, | Baeten said, . liquid methanol began expanding and eventually released from the safety valve, . He added that there was no. danger of .the tank car exploding ' ‘and that the amount released was very minimal, Once it was found where the leak was coming from, the Terrace Fire Department began. flooding the area utdemeath the tanker to ‘disperse the liquid and also applied a coding spray to bring the temperature of the methanol down, The tanker was faken from the . townsite to await further shipment toKitimat, The coast guard pursued, and seized the sailboat ‘based on information. provided by the El Paso intelligence Centre, a multi- agency U.S. intelligence rroup, coast guard officials said. where three skeletons were found during the weekend discovered a fourth skeleton Monday, and all were being ‘examined as possible - yictims-of the Green River killer, P officials said. If. the latest discoveries are | officially identified as Green River | victims, that would bring the death toll in the serial murders to 20. Twelve missing women fit the profile of Green River victims, mest of whom have been young | prostitutes. No one hag been charged in the: slayings. . Explorer Scouts, called in after a mushroom hunter found a skull, discovered three skeletons Sunday in a wooded, litter-strewn area : hear Star Laké, in King County about :25 kilometres south of downtown Seattle. The skeleton : found Monday was about 400 ‘ metres away from the previous | . discoveries, police at the scene Federal officials have: seized’ aig tore than 1,300 kilograms of the white powder in the Miami area, dut coast guard ofd cials sald this was the largest ever at:sea, Tt was not yet known from what port the Chinook set sail or where it was headed, officials bald. Coast guard officials. first _ Spotted the Chinook on’ Saturday,” boarded with the consent of its crew and conducted: a: search ~ during which what appeared to be concealed compartments and false’ bulkheads were | spotted, the spokesman aald. . At this point the bosirding party was askd to leave the sailboat, but on Sunday government gave U.S, authorities '. permission to stop the boat and prosecute the two. men under American law.. a No further information on MeGill and Crews was available and it was not yet known whether any charges had been laid: = the . Canadian | . Another victim had been found last September about a kilometre away. Capt. . Frank Adamson, commander of the 40-member Green River Task Force, said the four ekeletons are the most found in one site since October, when three victims were found near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. . The remains of 16 victims have been officially listed as Green River victims to dale. The latest remains “obviously” were potential victims in the serial killings because of proximity and the fact there is more than one," Adamson sald. - “We may find a few others, here or somewhere else,”’ Adamson said he doubted that - the Green River killer had struck in 1984, adding, ‘I'm hopeful that ‘there aren't any current victims, at least since the first of the yéar. ‘I'm not: optimistic that there won't be any miore if we don't cateh him some time soon,” Adamson today has the most: “ experlenced workforce it has ever enjoyed. This experience is paying off in . paid, “I feel that whoever it is will continue to kill until he’s caught.” The county medical examiner's _ office is attempting to identify the skeletons. positions for the restart-of halfa = including . improved ~ working situation, to, change In the next _ polling that bad-heen ‘shut down“ conditions’ ‘at: -the ‘ plant, better year.’ . - athe: the. aeebasion, we! found.+ -\amenities-ie the community; “and:.-" The jpersognel, aa curselves recelying’ tloge’-t6. 60 ~ the acotioniic allmate of the past that any appiicadliiy: by ‘applications for every available , Couple of years. Alean’s employment department opening, We have a backlog of ‘The drop in turnover is a good - after today's date will be returned processed applications for both . thing from an operations paint of to the applicants rather than being ’ permanent and summer | view, he says, in that the smelter kept on filé. "He adds that the public will be advised when the moratorium oa applications is lifted, ~~ =< fF -3 ‘More bodies in Green River. Police dubbed the case the Green River killings after the waterway where the first five sets of remains were found In the summer of 1982 near Kent.. “thelr . . Wayne Braid, lef, vice-president of the Terrace Rotary Club, presents Paul Clark with a cheque for $2,000 for the purchase of new wheelchairs for the Terrace Wheelchair Sports Club. Mr. Clark says the money will probably be matched by a grant from the B.C. Lotterles Foundation. The Rotary. Club also donated $200 to the Sexual Assault Help Line to enable that organization to bring in a guest speaker for the education of parents In regards to child abuse.