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. The renteetiig Bank of {canada rate increased apiiliier © -

notch Thuradsy; raising the. prospect ‘of higher ying
coats but doing lite to meen the downward, slide’ of. the
dollar, =.

The rate climbed to 10,29 per cent from 10.07 per cent Inst

week —pot far short of: the 10,25:per.cent level that many

economists suggest would prompt chartered banks to raise
the Li-per-cent ° rate” they weharge, their best. corporate
customers.

And higher borrowing Gaets would increase the chances of ;
slowing further or even snuffing out the country's recovery

from the worst recession ‘since the i880s.

George Saba of Montreal Trust said an: increaie in’ the

prime to 11.5 per cent appeara inevitable within the next

month, largely because‘of the persistent weakness of the

dollar. beside its: American counterpart.
The Canadian dollar sank below 79 cents U.S. on: A This?

- gday for the first time in almoat-20 months —closing at 78, 94
— but some traders said it may stabilize and even: recover .

some of its loat ground. os
The currency, which has dropped more than a cent since

TORONTO (CP) _ Child | pornogrephers should be jailed.
fot up to 10 years, says.a wide-ranging report spawned by a:
series of 1982 rapes ‘and murders in Metropolitan: Toronto.

“The exploitation of children through child pornography,
including the promotion of incest, has become nore
dominant in the pornography industry,” said the report by
the Metro Task Force on Public: Violence Against Women
and Children, ‘Teleased Thursday. —

“The potential harm to children who are »actuntiy used by

this industry, to children who become consumers’ ‘Of por;

m:- nography: which reflects -on ‘them in ‘this way, and. to

Letters to
the Editor

el
To the Editor,

Now that the dust has begun to settle, it is time to look ©
carefully at the labour situation locally. Given the com-
plexity of events, this is nota simple matter.

Contrary to mill management claims, It must be assumed

that the recent picketting by the CPU and PPWC was quite .

legal. Both Pohle’s and Skeena are clearly allies in the pulp
dispute. Both mills are part of larger integrated
operations.

In both cases, the corporations {West Fraser and BC
Timber) have locked out their workers. In other words, if
the economy has been disrupted it is clearly the respon- -
sibility of these corporations, Contrary to their advertising
the dispute arises not simply from differences on wage
demands but also from the employers attempts to force ‘
other major concessions. Furthermore, the breakdown in
talks is the direct result of employer inflexibility.

Problems locally on the picket lines were causes directly
by the vigilantes who attacked workers exercising their
legal rights. Many. points may be raised about this matter.
Firat, owner-operators have been specifically blamed for
the trouble. Not : all logging truck owners supported this _

nonsense. ‘Thodgiwho did may well be up-againstthe wall" 5.

due to exhorbinantpayment : schedules, Surely their anger |

would be belter dipeéted apaltist the banks ahd the Sécreds” °"*" "7"

who have driven this province's economy into the ground:

As for the involvement of local business types, who can
understand this? Most of these people would not be solvent
except for union dollars. If we all made slave wages not
many cars, shirts or computers would be sold, Their
participation was a foolish move that union money will not
forget. '

The participation of other unions in the mass picket was.
broad and solid. It was made necessary asa direct result of
the interference of a few right-wing extremists, The labour
movement is not about to be intimidated by a rump group of
certain car salesman, clothing store operators and other
Socred flakes. When you attack our brothers, you attack us.

The local media has again proven itself. less than
adequate. The two papers have failed miserably to give
coverage to the dispute’s background. Further, they have
not even bothered to cover ‘events that received both
provincial and national coverage. One could almost
‘assume thal there has been a deliberate attempt to
manipulate the news.

‘There is also reason to believe. that the vigilante action
was organised in part by the local Social Credit. The
motive is there. Given that changes to the labour. code are
expected in short order, this attempt to discredit secondary
picketting would make some sense.

The propaganda pushed by Skeena’s manager about the
28 layoffs has been disgusting. A few questions - 1) If you
knew the lines would be up Friday, why were these people
not laid off Thursday, thus avoiding the problem? 2) Why
didn’t you accept the union offer to life the lines to allow the
layoff? 3) Most importantly, why have you nat demanded
that the lockout be lifted to that these 28 people can return .
fo work instead of throwing them onto the unemployment
roles?

It appears that someone has latched onto the misery of
the 28 people to push a particular viewpoint. ;

On the positive side, hats off to the brothers in the IWA
who respected the line and understood the pulp workers
plight. They were the unsung majority. Also accolades for.
the brothers and sisters from Kitumat and Rupert who with-
drew their pickets, They talked to us locals and decitied to
show true strength by allowing the mills to re-open for the

- moment. It may be that not one local worker will lose even
a days pay over the longrun. The pulp workers understand,
after all they're workers, too.

Yours truly,

Paul Jehnston

To the Editor,

I would like to send a special thanka to all the people
responsible for setting up the Guide-Scout week pages In the
Herald, We have had so many favourable commnients from
all over the northern lights area, So to al] the advertisers,

Mr. Gray Quadros who co-ordinated it all and to the leaders
who submitted the items to make up the pages and of course

to the Daily Herald without whose help and Co-operation | it .

would not be ® possible. :
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iret Cooper

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appears to be under 16 with no evidence tithe contrary.

measures being taken ‘by. soclety."”: :
The report defined a child as anyone 16 or idder or who.

The recommendation was one of moré than 100 by the
task force, which dealt with obsrenity, Pomography and
sexual assault. -

The committee was set up in the summer of "1982, aiter a
series of rapes and murders of women, to review the ef-.
fectiveness of the: criminal Justice system and crime
prevention in Toronto, .

MELD HEARINGS : :
More than 70 volunteer members held public hearings,

received hundreds of ‘written briefs and enliated the aid of .

ovens of. experts. They released ail interim report last
iy.

The report also called for a new Criminal Code Aetiniton

of pornography. ;
“As a-form of sexual propaganda, pornography both

" promotes and encourages the degradation and exploitation
of women,” said the report. - ”

“Many maintain that pornography is the ideology of a
society which creates complacency about rape, wife-
battering and other forms of violence against women,"

The report recommends that the definition of obscenity

:, be removed from ‘the Ceiminal, Code and replaced with a

” Canadian women were told they've still got a long wiy to:

go as International Women’: 8 Day was commemorated from
coast to coast Thursday. -

Speaking in the House of Commons, Conservative MP
Flora MacDonald urged women not to be complacent,
saying that despite certain galns, women are stil siiffering
economically and socially..-

‘ Qlder women are trapped in poverty" because of

inadequate or non-existent pensions, low-income. women
are stuck in job ghettos and single parents are trapped in a
dally struggle for survival, she said, -

New Democrat Pauline Jewelt reminded the House that
women are still paid on the average anly 60 cents for every
dollar men earn.

In Guelph, Ont., Grace Hartman, the former president of
the Canadian Union of Public. Employees, called on

organized Jabor to take up the battle for equal pay.

“The time has come for this to become a real trade union

fight,” she declared at a gathering marking the day set
aside in memory of a protest by women textile workers in”

New York City 127 years ago.
Meanwhile, Judy Erola, federal minister responsible for.

the statuy of women, told a rally in Halifax that women | -

“have a great deal to be thankful i for, but not enough to sit
back and relax."
GREATER INVOLVEMENT. . .

Finance Minister Mare Lalonde struck a positive note as
he told a Montreal iuncheon he is heartened by the growing
involvement of women in politics. ;

Rhyming off the names of Erola, Liberal party. president
Jona Campagnolo and Health Minister Monique Begin, he
said, “the hand which.may once have rocked only the
cradle is now capable of rocking the ‘whole world.”

- However, Lalonde . said’ “basic: realistn’”: limits how
quickly the wage gap between’ men and women: workers can
be bridged

In Ottawa, Indlan women who have lost thelr status by

Trudeau promised to introduce a bill repealing a section of
the Indian Act discriminating against them. ~ .

- Trudeau's announcement :at: the second ‘constitutional |

conference on aboriginal rights brought’ ‘applause from
Mary Two-Axe Earley, a Mohawk whe has lived illegally on
her Quebec reserve for 45 years since she lost her status by
marrying a white man,

~ Aboriginal rights: hit home

WEST VANCOUVER (CP) — The reality of aboriginal
rights is hitting close to home for residents of this affluent
suburb, who may be about to lose part iof a-popular

'_ Waterfront park which has reverted to native ownership.

As part of the cutoff land claims settlement completed
this week, the British Columbia government Is turning over
10.4 hectares at the east end of Ambleside Park to the
Squamish Indian band. |

The dispute over cutoff lands has been sinmering for 64

years, since the federal government passed a bill adopting.

the McKenna-M¢Bride royal commission's 1938 report,
reducing the sizeof B.C. reserves without the consent of the
Indians affected. .
The Ambléalde Park rea includes woods, a jogging path,’
a pltch-andputt golf course and open lawns’ just west of the
Lions Gate Bridge, opposite Stanley Park. |.
The Indians plan to decide the land's future in May —~ but

band chicf Joe Mathias doubts the area will remain apublic ©

park,

+ depots gy Tear e

began wpiaei 29,1 hase bean a sin
7h.a on uly, 14, 1982,

with the Royal Bank of Canada, said he would not be sur-

. prised lf the Canadian dollar strengthened agein:
‘However, he added that the reverze could happen, undens. :
interest’ rates: rise: significant,

attracting “sapltal: flows

back into: ‘the country. wis
Both the: U.8.'and Canadian dollars have heen falling

against overseas currencies, -but the: Canadian currency

has also been dropping againat its US, counterpart becawe
interest tates have been rising south of the border:

“Finance Minister Mate Lalonde has brushed off concerns |
_ about the dollar's. decline, : saying it! will. make ‘domestic -

goods more attractive abroad and create jobs at home.
And ‘in the Commons on Thursday, ‘Deputy : “Prime

‘Minister Allan MacEachen, filling in for Lalonde, appeared

equally wnworrled. °
“This present development: is not a matter: for, ‘alarm,”

MacEachen said, adding that thedollar has dipped below 80.”
, cents U.S. on 8 couple of sceasions since December. and -

Ponnouraphars should be aed

definition of. _poknogeaphy that refeets “te dangers

inherent in the material.” -

Under the’ committee's recommended ‘definition, por-
nography would he any printed, ‘visual, ‘audio or other
presentation of violence with a sexual context or, theme,
“including the depiction of. submission, coercion, | lack of
consent or debasement. of any. human being."
IDEA SIMILAR : “ :

The suggestion Is similar to. proposals intréduced by

- Justice Minister Mark MacGuigen ina package of Criminal

~ éhildren who Indirectly suffer aaa result of ‘ettitaies | CMt® Amendmients introduced Feb. 7.

Shaped by consumption, of thle pornography; merits & O08 obscenity ‘to prohibit representing, men or women in a

: degrading n manner that. unduly exploit Bex, crime, horror,”
. cruelty oF violence. :

MacGulgan’s proposal would: expand: the defisition of

Task force chairman Jane Peping; ‘allo a'member of the
Metro board of police commissioners, told a ews coference
she doesn’t want the new. definition to’ affect works of art.

“We don't | want to~ burn’. books ‘or idan. Margaret
Laurence,” said Pepino. Ue e

But Austin Cooper, a. criminal lawyer and task. force:

‘member, disassociated himself from: the. recommended .

definition of pornography, : saying works of art could be’
considered criminal - under ks _ Proposed - obscenity
definition.

Criminal law shouldn't be used for prosecuting those who |

disseminate “‘a false and damaging image of women’’ since -

there are other means of dealing with these iseues, he said. .
The report also called for establishent of sexual-assault |

treatment centres in: Toronto’ hospitals, better telephone
systems for rape. victims ‘to call for help and en-
epuragement ‘of neighborhood wafch programs. -

Metro Chairman Paul Godfrey vowed the ‘ety would act
on the report, .

“We will take action ourselves where we can and push
and become a strong public advocate to coax, push, shove,
and embarrass If mecessary-all levels of government into
participating | to make this. happen,” he sald. | ‘

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Two-Axe eBarley,72, who has erusaded to have the section
repealed, said now she'll be able fp “eleep at night without

; having to worry about being evicte

However, the day was not all politics. In Montreal, 3,500
women from across the province packed a special evening
variety: show: Rose Tango, For Women Only.

Only women were admitted to the event, organizers sald,
in order to “celebrate our struggle and our solidarity."" .

* Postera by a women's group declaring a mock curfew. on
men over the age of 13 had. Halifax buzzing.

The posters declared a 10 p.m.-to-7. a.m. curfew on then in
the Nova Scotia capital, The reason ~- rape.

- The posters carried a city creat featuring women instead.

of the traditional ‘fisherman and sailor and Included the

‘office phones numbers of Mayor Ron Wallace and Attorney

General Ron Giffin.

The back of the postérs were stamped Women Speak Out,
and only at the bottom did it say in small letters the curfew
was a hoax, .

* Citizeri called the ‘mayor! 's office Wednesday night, some
of them angry over what they interpreted asa real curfew.
KNOCKS UNIVERSITIES

Speaking at Moint St. Vincent University, Erold elas said.
more women should write to their MPs and legislature.

members, about women’s rights, and more women should

run for political office.
‘The federal minister received a standing ovation and loud” .
cheers when she announced that Mount St: Vincent’ will

_Fecelve a $500,000 federal grant to establish the first chair af.
women ’s studies at a Canadian university. —

~*- Mount St. Vincent, originally a Roman Catholic women's -
university, has been nominally co-ed for several years but -

‘its students’ are almost all’ women.

The da al parta
marrying outside their race got a boost as Prime Minister‘ e _ vas 0. celebrated in some other of the:

World. . .
Ta the Soviet Union, schdola, most Factories; businesses

4 ‘and offices were closed to give workers the day off to honor :

‘the "glorious daughters of the motherland."

- Soviet women were honored with bouquets of tors a and L
boxes of candy as well as tributes in the press. *

In‘ China, women got a half-day holiday and were
exhorted to struggle agalnat “the veetiges of feudalism. "

“Now you know how ny grandfather, my: grandmother,

_ and all our people felt,”*.Mathias said this week. “Now: yout’).

kirow how it felt to us to have our land stolen
PARK ‘ESSENTIAL ,
Ambleside Park is an essential part of we ‘Vanec
realdents and metchanta say... er
_ Wealthy matrons from the British Properties walk their

” dogs there. Young urban professionals run along the fitness

Brian Osmar, assisiait 2 manager ‘of ‘as peeh

Erola ‘told her Halifax audience Canadian universities
are practising sex discrimination because they pay men on’
' thelr faculty substantially more than women.

« aN aes
” Whille Canadian « compasiles es selling the
benelit because a falling, ‘Canadian ‘dollar ‘makes, “tele

_ products cheaper, importers are complaining for exagily

the oppoaite Treason.
it takes more devalued Canadian délters to buy. the same

” goods overseas and importers are warning that these coms —
et be passed on to the consunier. ‘This: could te-ignite

inflation which stood at 5.3 per cent in'January. “36°.

- Meanwhile, ‘the Royal Bank. of Canada “announced | a
Thursday it is Jolning several other financial Jostitutiens in’.

raising its, mortgage rates, ;
“The interest rates on- ‘ofie-and twoy

-inerensed by 0.60 per cent to10.75 per cent. andl, : ier. we

‘cent respectively. The rates on three-and four-year .mor-

‘tynges are Up a. quarter to 12 per.cent for three-year: and 7

PORE on

-12.60.per cent on four-year mortgages. .

“The bank also sald it is reintroducing a rate on five-year °
‘mortgages, which were suspended in September The. mate:

was set at 12,75 per cent. | .
In other developments Thoreday: | ee

_— ‘A survey by Statistics Canada of: newspaper help :
‘wanted ads suggests demand for labor rose-in’ vs

The agency’s help-wanted index rose to Sin Febriaty; ip

from $2 in January but still down from 56in December when |
it reached the highest level since the recovery began last, .

‘ year. ;
_ Jean de Grandpre, chairman pf Bel! Canada’ ‘Enier-
_ prises Inc., gaid Bell Canada may contest the: four-per-cent
” eeiling on rate increases imposed on utilities in last month's

' federal budget. De Grandpre said a flat across-the-board +
ceiling of four per cent is unfair because the phone: company “
will likely need different: increases among its vari pus _

regulated activities. . 4
- _. The Toronto Stock Exchange ruled that® Richaed Shitt,
“chairman of Bramalea Ltd. of Toronto, may not Cast his 3.5
million shares when shareholders vote on an ‘arrangement

that could lead to Trizec Corp: Ltd. of Calgary. ownlng

Hunters ready :

begun their annual f preapring ritual on and around’ the

Atlantic coastal ice pans.
The seals have whelped, the hunters are oreparing. to

harvest them and two anti-sealing groups have set bd shop :

in‘a Charlottetown motel. |
Some. inshore fishermen In Newfoundland have started

their hunt, but the main quest, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence:
near the. Hes de la Madeleine, is not expected toatart util ;

later this month.

Meanwhile, the Canadian Sealers Association, wantilig
the world fo know that sealers no longer club pups to death,
asked the federal government Thursday to declaké. a
moratorium on the already defunct whitecoat and bluebiack
portions of the hunt.

With a market for 60,000 pelts of juvenile and adult, hit
seals, the hunt this year will again be small.‘Hunters once
killed upwards of 190,000 seals a year, put.the markat , ,

* disappeared for its former malin product, the fluffy snay r

Sv hrcnineeher mrerroe wcontviiite pelts of newborn harp seals,

HARMINCEC BANS IMPORTS ~~

The pelt. buyer,. Carino Inc., stopped purchasing’.

- whitecoat and blueback pelts last year because it: had .

‘nowhere to sell them. The Internatnional Fund for Animal =;
Welfare had persuaded the European Economic: Cen:

‘munity to ban their imports. =. ~ .-

- Bluebacks are the pups af hooded seals; a Jess common
and less valuable species that whelps farther offstvore than
harp seals, mes

The hunters now go after only small numbers of juvenile.
” and adult seals. The whitecoats moult at about three weeks

: old and turn into mottled juveniles known 48 beaters. °°
Unlike the icebound whitecoats, the beaters can swim and
are too mobile to club, so the hunters shoot them with rifles.
Thus, the passing of the whltecoat hunt’ has ended: “jhe
traditional clubbing method of killing. -
, Mark Small, president of the Canadian : Sealers
"Association, ‘sald the organization decided to-call for a
moratorium on the whitecoat hunt because the literaturé ‘of
anti-sealing groupe sill portrays them. being clubbed.’ The
sealers want Ottawa to inform people that this in no longer
. true,
Small suggested that the moratorium last for eight to, 10

something has to be done about it.

a landamen, who venture a short way from shore by aay
and return to-their homes at night. '

_» “We're satisfied to let the offshore go becauie there Is nm
‘market,” Small saidin a telephone interview. from his home oo

In Wild Cove, Nfld.

“There’s not too many people involved ini the ‘offahore “
. fleet, but there’s 5,000 inshore fishermen around the.nor-"
theast coast of Newfoundland who take part in the seal hunt :
every year, and they have no ather income at that time of:

"year,"

‘the meat, for which there is a ‘strong demand this year"
In Charlottetown, teams from the two chief anti-sealing

groups — Greenpeace and the International Fund for

’ Animal Welfare — — moved into a motel this week,
Vivia | Boe of Greenpeace ‘sald the. sealers. ‘association

. _ appears ‘only to be trying to confuse the situation, becaime

pups are still being killed even if they a are not whitecosts.
BEES LITTLE. CHANGE...

“The fact is that threeeskcld | pups are being killed, in

“2 OMe Cases gaybe Juste or two after they could be
 clabltted af whit isd reall

its, Boe,anid, “There's really very
rs péevoln ‘a Whliécoat and the animals that
being killed now. wo

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tha

githeir tune now?’
ip the hunt, she sald,

Sih ps mbbitained thelr vigil in
_Charloitetown but ted byert protests, The Sea Shephierd

path. Children frolic on the grass and. ‘pensioners stroll ,)'Sociely, not connected Wwith' the two main’ protest groiips,

along. the seawall,
“There's nothing we can do about it, I guess,” says Mel

’ Grant, who has been jogging regulariy alorig the seawall for

10 years. “We took it from them. It’s theirs. Thate to lose It.

It's a.great park to jog In.” oo

. Not-all park users are so philosophical about the change

In the park's status.
“Tean’t see why they would want to get so damn greedy,'’.

said a man briskly walking his dog. ‘It hasn't been theirs

for: years. ” He Geelined to give his: name.

. beats Siabdage

sent the ship Sea Shepherd to ram sealing ships and it was
arrested and permanently Impounded. .

The International Furid for Animal Welfare recently
talked two major Britlsh supermarket chains out of selling
Canadian fish and now it is starting a similar effort in the
United States. That has lead External Affairs Minister

Allen MacEachen to consider banning the seal hunt, andan -

executive of Canada’s biggest fish eompany, National Sea

Products, hay said it should be banned to protect fahing

tobe,

Set seabi a! aE mish mae atten, aaabe

— Hydro-Quebec received approval far the export of up’ to oo
24 billion kilowatt-hours of interruptible power a year to’
New York state for. il years from ‘Sept. 1, 1084, uit Aug: “81; .

" que ed vas

“Years, unless te seal. population grows so mauch » hat

The whitecoats were taken mainly by offshore ohtpes: The : .
- older seals were taken mainly by inshore fishermen, known,

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The: juvenile: and adult pelts are: mainly converted’ io a
- leather for the shoe and boot industry. The sealers also, cell

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