4 D | r ~ ehallenge |: VANCOUVER ¢ (CP) ; Talks between ie ‘ dock ownerh and representatives: of the province's! 4 emen, are to resume, with the report. of a ", COmamalssloner forming the bauls of discussion... Louls Kaufmian, president of the Vancouver local of. the Intemational Longatioremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, : - . ya \federal conciliation " said Tuesday that the report of commissioner H. Allan Ho “has seyeral disappointing features and. would, if adopted 4 _ without change, threaten to bankrupt a waterfront workers’ » pension plan. - Despite rnisgivings, the union has accented the report as ‘the basis for renewed negototiations with the B.C. Maritime | ; repudiation of the report would set the scene: for a strike, In duly, B.C. Jongshoremen voted nearly 85 per cent in | Quebec language ruling tests Charter of Rights MONTREAL (CP) —A judgment may be rendered within two weeks in the first court case in which the new Constitution’s Charter of Rights has been invoked to Quebec's restrictions on Epglish- language school’ admission. days of As. seve testimony and argumeriils ~ concluded “Tuesday, Chief favor of a. motion empowering thelr leaders to call a strike Justice Jules Deschenes of Quebee Superior Court said he hopes to hand down a ruling ‘before schools reopen next month. Seven parents whose ‘children have been kept out of English schools initiated the challenge and were ‘joined by. the ‘Quebec - Association of . Protestant School Boards and two: 4,000 Bok wm - “Quebec . ‘mission . language schools to the - ‘children' of. parents who “were educated in English in w it necessary. workers. ' + a tes “Talks between te talon a expense off uy iv alter Hope had been asked by. both . - proceedings by. reporting; ia to fede cal ‘Labor Minister: , Charles. Caccla;. |." ies. to bow out of oor “He has called on the 3 pinorenna ta abandon for a 12- month period their right.to uriload or Load containers filled with two or more consignments of freight destined for or - Montreal area boards, They contend that -Quebec's Charter of the French Language, known as Bill 101, violates the federal charter by restricting ‘ad- “ English- Quebec. Article 23 of the federal 7 _ charler guarantees English instruction to children whose parents’ attended English schools anywhere . in Canada. The case is also an im- portant test for Article 1 of the federal. charter, the override clause which says - laws can infringe upon basic rights ‘provided they ‘can _be demonstrably justified in gshoremen_ to t | mo | Lippe a kn a ER onan atc me neg oa ma a EPS ting at st within the tice area. |) C.'a 4,000 longshoremen have been without a satrct Jan. 1. Hope has recommended that their basic pourly “pangear contract and by $1.50 in the second year. . year of a %&month contract. | Hope's. ceport} presented to the parties’ Moiday, upholds * The'$1.55 increase would be backdated to Jan. 1, although - the aggoclation’s position . on ‘meat issues, at rejects a key.: “the association has clalmed that it cannot. afford retroac- ° % ‘union demand for pay incentives’ to gorrect a: manpower.’ tivity. The union has demanded an increase of $2 in each’ “ * . mbilance which results in short-handed work gangs.on day” “+ gift: Instead, Hope has proposed to even up the situation by . ‘Hope endorsed an ‘association offer. of new pay premiums. reducing: differentials paid to, ght and. . eaemyand shift * 7 for skilled workers ranging between 50 cenis:and $1.50 an Se [hour for four different categories of employees..:. hour. Top premium now pald to skilled workers is 50.centa an - 4 Instead of complying with an union demand for special a free ‘and democratic soclety, ” The .Quebec government argues that limits on English schooling are necessary if the French language is to survive... But the plaintiffs main- tain that the English echool system poses no threat .to ‘the primacy of French i in -Semcoe County battles French school “PENETANGUISHENE, Ont. (CP) — for years for their own high échool, French-speaking students in this ‘small central Ontario community. jinally had their _ wishes _ iranted last year..But the ‘pening of the schoo! didnot propriate’’ _- tampayers to pay for the~ ’ end the controversy that has After fighting, surrounded. the project. since its Inception,. Another battle is, raging - around Simcoe- -County’ B. - firat francophone ~ high this time over. school, financing. Twelve municipalities and_Simcoe County council support a resolution which . says.it is ‘“‘entirely inap- -for county operating costs of ecole - secondaire Le Caron, estabiished last year’ after nents 7% tarctge at Alberta doctors ch _ pressing Ministry of Education since -. January, 1980, to pay for the live years ‘ol controversy. ‘Both the Simcoe County Board “of”: Education—and county council have been the Ontario # operating costs of the | unilingual school, which the -board projects will have a - > paylng $25,000 ‘and the education ministry finan- © - at a meeting of county: $233,000 deficit this year. “But a minisiry spokesman said Tuesday the provincial government is not. com- mnitted to paying anything beyond ‘regular grants for education, Richard Donaldson, special assistant to Education. Minister -Bette Stephenson, aaid the grants for. French-language programs. ~ ‘ _. The school in the town of Penetangnishene;-oai4he ul haa , a Jee al lon 0 arge less Lawson Hunter, director of investigations and. research’ Ace oe bins mone? CALGARY (CP) — Fewer Alberta doctors-are charging extra for their services because fewer patients can afford it, says a spokesman for the Alberta Medical Association. Extra-billing, or charging ‘patients the. difference: bet- ween ihe provincial fee schedule and higher prices set by . the doctors, was.a contentious issue in Alberta. earlier this ~ ’ Association of Canada, "year, but recent government figures show the practice is falling off. Dr. Robert ‘Clark, executive-director of the medical. association, said extra-billing has dropped sharply because . of the wretched.economy. “Doctors are definitely cutting down on balance-billing because patients cannot afford it,” he sald, “We are not gougers.” Doctors were not satisfied with the fee schedule set by the ; _ provincial medicare’ Program this year. In retaliation, » many.of the province's 3,400 phyalcians took part in a one- day strike. Some also started charging extra. "Provincial figures for April show that extra fees were added to eight per cent of medical services, — Clark saidhe does not have exactfigures, buta decline in extra-billing has become spparent to the association in ; recent weeks, ” extra billing for health care.” southeastern . shore of ‘Georgian. Bay about 50 kilometres northwest of Barrie, opened in its own’ building last. December after operating for several years in nearby Lafontaine. | “Cost of the building was about. $1.2 million, with the county board of education. cing the rest. Simcoe County politicians - say the school was built at the request of the ministry and. that representatives verbally agreed that local taxpayers would not be required to pay “‘additional expenses, . include additional . money. -: They also-say the deficit ministry’ was caused by the operation — _ of two high. schools in pene ENe ‘which ‘ap ‘ot sane se at 6,000. - Last week board officials met with Education Minister Bette: Stephenson to try to resolve the dispute . and another meeting is to take place on Aug. 27. “Every other school in the county’ is bilingualsq why Shouldn't this one be bilingual," said Mara Township Reeve Tom Garry... council on Tuesday. . Village of Coldwater Reeve Herb Stevens sald “if we don’t support it with our taxes, then. maybe they'll -elose it and that will solve all our problems. , ;.. Maybe we can put up an apartment there or something.” ; The resolution, circulated - for the federal Combines Investigation Branch, said Monday a preliminary investigation is continuing into the practice. The’ investigation follows complaints from several’ - quarters, including the Alberta branch of the Consumers’ There also have been complaints from consumer groups that some doctors are charging extra to people on welfare, | The Albertar College of Physiclans, and Surgeons has sald it plans to look into claims that doctors may be extra-billing © . welfare cases and Sally Hall of the consumers’ association . welcomed the announcement. Hall said the extra charges are an unnecessary burden In bad times. \ . “An ‘extra $5 to people on fixed Incomes. who today are fighting to stay alive means that most won't go to's doctor when they should,” she said, People were worried about the economy and their jobs. ] don't think they should have to worry about doctors ~ Chrysler Canada rules out “WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) — ‘The United Auto Workers has puled-out Chrysler Canada Ltd... .. ta ethis year but the union says a walkout is inevitable if the . tar manufacturer insists’ on wage and benefit concessions ” by its'9,500 hourly-rated workers, “1 doesn't make any sense for Chrysler to have a strike," _ said. ‘Bob White, the UAW's Canadian. director. “But by the same token, they Chrysler) ought not to > m4 misread that and think this‘is another year that they can _ come in with a meat axe and cut the collective agreement , apart. LL Chrysler workers recelve $i ait hour ‘lesa than fellow / union members at General Motora of Canada Ltd, and Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd. : primarily due to concessions two years ago tosave thé company ‘trom bankruptcy. Achieving | - parity is one of the union's ‘chief ‘demanda in _Gurrent. " negotiations. - ' ‘The union says. 5 Chrysler. hes ‘taken tte position | that any Sis “a, “ wage increase needs to be matched by. benefit‘concessions.- -. Ineluded ‘in-the company's.’ § ‘are! » sharing for health benefits, pension restrictions, lesa rellef arid changes-in work practices. THEN Viale be waite’. -. guts for some employees, - “These demands Chryslet mad will: ‘certainty 1 mean ‘more attention from my office," White aaid. “Its certainly ; ~~ gtupid collective bargaining.” Chrysler’ officials refused comment on “current - bargaining. While only Ford or : General Motors will be designated by we _ the UAW asa patteri-setting strike target, the chairman of “the union’s national bargaining committee says a strike relepsed, : One boat that did violate the security zone, the " against Chrysler is now a detinita posslbility. “We're hoping tc-settle without one . but the cor- poration: is. asking for concessions again here,” sald chairman. Frank. Gerard.” cosh! a “Any disturbanee of our medical health care ust isn’t : ms going to happen.” _A sirlke was also on the minds. of_ union ‘members as” reports of the offer spread ‘trough the: Windsor car. assembly plant. “IF we don’t go on strike, what are we going te ‘do tures years from now?" asked t 1e-year-old ' Ted Grant. Tea discovered: _ SEATTLE (AP) — The “auspicious vegetable substance’. ~ - found on the Trident protest vessel Pacific Peacemaker has been identified as tea. ‘The substance was found during a routine inventory of the ship after it was: detained by the U.S. Coast Guard last. . Thuraday, and submitted for analysis. The -Peacemaker - “was one of several. ‘boats involved ih protesting the arrival of thé nuclear submarine Ohio. # -Authorities have agreed to release the vesiel. | a * Steve Hirsch, peace blockade spokesman, sald wryly “ Bene! “tor inow if you can quote this, but J understand there was a significant amount of tea consumed along the voyage.” ~ “Thera. are rumors that crew Peacemaker have had tea-in-the past,” he added. The Peacemaker and another boat, the Lizard of “Wie; were taken into custody during a waterborne protest in’ - Hood Canal surrounding the arrival of the USS Qhio, the . nation's first Trident submarine. The protest vessels were not officially: seized because they had not violated the - security zone éround the sub, The Lizard of Woz was later © ~ ‘keeping it. ‘ ‘Plowshares, was also released, after the coast guard - decided the value of the boat was not sufficient to justify. a -members of the |, | SEES SEES ECE EERE CEE EEERES FREER MEME OSE EASE EEK MEER EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE ETE SEE EEEISERS , Deputy Reeve Steven Davie of Oro Township, -near Orillia, who said, “As far as I'm concerned . they can build a Chinese school. The province ‘ordered it built; and now they want to make this county pay for it.” The French school. has | been at the centre of con- troversy since a student at the local bilingual high school made a formal . request about five years ago for a French- ‘language facility. 7 At the height of the furore, various citizen’s groups were formed for and against building the school. Premier William Davis... supported the. project and ‘the Ontario Supreme Court to. the county’ s .33 refused to allow the - ‘municipalities | for. en: question 40 be put to waters _ Seen vo Sri” i hi ie A inal opened last Dec. 17. At the end of June, it had. Ul students. to ‘buy Quebec and that ‘English ~ school. enrolment will continue to decline even if : entrance erlteria broadened, Deschenes said “the heart ‘of the case — or almost” is the offer made by the Quebec government in 1977 to negotiate reciprocal are education agreements: with the other provinces. At a first ministers’ conference, Premier Rene - said Quebec — would give anglophones ~ provinces English education provided . Levesque from other Quebecers ‘could: have French schooling elsewhere eee o oe The ‘Herald, Wednesday, August 1h a Pees. 43 ‘ alk with dock owners diye way rae, Hope ald perms pad tir ; aeerarrore | ™” ahifts should be cut back, to decrease the incentive to - longshoremen to work night and graveyard shifts, Night shift workers now are pald a oe “the day-shift rate. Graveyard ahift workers are paid double, ae “time... mendatlons are accepted. in the ‘country. The anglophone provinces refused the offer. . University of Ottawa demographer Castonguay testified that French Quebec must he shielded‘