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PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Friday, October 21, 1977

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Boycott Victoria tourism

VICTORIA CP-The Victoria Labor Council approved a
motion Wednesday to encourage tourists to boycott the
Victoria area,The motion,put porward by the International
Woodworkers of America, was passed in retaliation to a
threatened lawsuit against the British Columbia Ferry and
Marine Workers Union by some Victoria-area businesses,

The ferry workers’ union disobeyed two back-to-back
orders earlier this month and shutting down the provincial
ferry system.

A number of Vancouver Island tourist-oriented groups
have said they intend to sue the union, the ferry corporation
and the government for losses the reportedly suffered
during the ferry strike.

But Merray Drew of the IWA said wnionist aren’t
prepared to stand still for such a move.

“We aim to get ourown back,’’ Drew said.

He said the boycott campaign would be launched next
Monday at an IWA convention in Portland, where unionists
will be asked not to travel to the Victoria area,

Hotliner to justice

OTTAWA (CP) — Jack Webster, son of Vancouver radio
hot-line broadcaster Jack Webster, has been appointed
executive assistant to Justice Minister Ron Basford, it was
announced today.

Webster, a lawyer, replaces Paul Manning who has
returned to Vancouver toseek the Liberal nomination in the
riding of Vancouver Quadra. :

Basford also announced that Bryan Baynham,.a Van-
couyer lawyer, has replaced Professor Ed Ratushny as
special adviser on judicial appointments,

Laurel March has been appointed a special assistant in
Basford’s office.

Traffic-bound moose shot

OTTAWA (CP) — A young bull moose was shot and killed
Wednesday about a mile frony downtown following a three-
hour chase by conservation and police officers who tried to
drive the animal from city traffic into the bush.

“Once they get into the city, it’s almost too late to save
them,” said Gord Shearer, provincial conservation officer.

The 600-pound moose was the third in two months to
wander into the city. The first was driven back into the
bush; the second also had to be destroyed. Shearer said all
bulls trave] long distances during mating season.

The moose led the men through bush in the city’s east end,
along the Queensway, a cross-town highway, until the
animal reached the Nicholas Street exit ramp leading
downtown. It was shot hehind a hockey arena.

Several attempts were made to shoot the animal with a
tranquillizer gun. Meat from the animal will go to a home
for the aged.

Grants awarded artists

OTTAWA (CP) — The Canada Council announced today
that $718,910 has been awarded to 76 artists, writers and
performers.

Senior arts grants worth up to $16,000 each for four to 12..

months of study and work were made to six writers and
eight visual artists. :

Award winners
Maillet, Qutremont, Que., Jean-Paul Pinsonnaull
Waterloo, Que., Joyce Marshall and Scott Symons, Toronto,
David McFadden, Hamilton, Ont., and Thomas Wayman,
Vancouver.

Visual artists winning awards were Terrence Syverson,
Cape North, N.S., Micheline Beauchemin, Les Grondines,
Que., Claude Tousignant, Montreal, William Ronald,
Toronto, Ronald Martin, London, Ont., Ivan Eyre, St.
Norbert, Man., Wyona Mulecaster, Saskatoon, and Ann
Kipling, Falkland, B.C.

$43 million fire damage

COLOGNE, West Germany (AP) — Flames swept
through the spare parts warehouse at the German Ford
pliant Thursday, causing at least $43 million damages, the
automobile company reported.

Three firemen were overcome by smoke while fighting
the blaze, which was still burning out of control Thursday
night, six hours after the alarm was given, a Ford
spokesman said.

Cause of fire was not immediately determined. Police
said the possibility of arson was under investigation but
there was no indication the blaze had any connection to
German terrorist incidents this week.

Raise minimum wage

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House of Represen-
tative completed congressional action Thursday on a bill
raising the national minimum wage from the current $2.30
an hour to $3.35 an hour by 1981.

Nearly five million workers will get increases in their
paycheques Jan. 1 when the first stage of the four-step, 45-
percent increase takes effect, going up to $2.65 an hour.

The House voted 236 to 187 to send the bill to the White

House, ignoring arguments from Representatives John Er-

lenborn (Rep. Hl.), John Ashbrook, (Rep. Ohio) and John
Rousselot (Rep. Calif.), that the bill would put hundreds of
thousands of workers out of jabs.

Representative J. J. Pickle (Dem. Tex.) had asked the
House to reject the compromise worked out by a Senate-
House conference committee because it greatly weakened a
House provision exempting more small businesses from
paying the minimum-wage benefits.

The House showed no inclination to push harder for its

sition, however, and with its vote ended a six-month fight
or the minimum wage increase by organized labor and
others.

Justice minister quits

STUTTGART, West Germany (AP) — State Justice
Minister Taugott Bender, who was responsible for the
operation of the West German prison where three terrorists
committed suicide, resigned today, a spokesman for the
Baden-Wuerttemberg justice ministry said.

Bender's resignation followed by one day the dismissal of
the warden and security director at Stammheim Prison.
Convicted terrorists Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Ras
and Gudrun Ensslin committed suicide in their celis
Tuesday morning, a few hours after German commandos

ended an air hijacking staged to force their release.

A fourth, Irmgard Moeller, was found stabbed in her cell
but was rushed to a hospital where she is recovering.

Bender said Raspe and Baader shot themselves with
pistols but was unable to explain how the weapons were
smuggled into the prison, V1 Germany’s most secure,

Leftists throughout Western Eurupe claim the terrorists
were murdered.

State President Hans Filbinger affirmed his confidence in
Bender's “personal and moral integrity’’ but accepted the
resignation in respect for Bender’s wishes.

for creative writing were Antonine

Cherry Pol

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) —
Governor Dixy Lee Ray's
administration will continue
to seek elimination of the
portion of the state’s Coastal
Zone Management Plan

Superport west of Port Angeles ;
nt proponents still

favoring creation of an oil
superport at or west of Port
Angeles.

State Ecology Director
Wilbur Hallauer confirmed
the administration’s in

tentions in an interview
Wednesday, adding that “it
looks like we'll never have a
trans-shipment point here in
the state.”

He conceded that

President Carter and
Congress have blocked
construction of such an oil
trans-shipment port east of
Port Angeles. United States
Senator Warren G.

Magnuson was responsible
jor that action.

“Our action won't change
anything as far as east of
Port Angeles goes, but we
want to eliminate the state’s

Parliament's failed regional interests

By ALAN ARBUCKLE

REGINA (CP) — The
Canadian Parliament is not
working as it should to cope
with regional interests
Saskatchewan Premier
Allan Blakeney told the task
force on Canadian unity
today.
_ Blakeney said in a diverse
country such as Canada
there will always be con-
flicts, but Parliament has
failed to act as broker,
satisfying regional interests
and power groups by
making trade-offs.

The Senate was intended
to meet regional needs but
does not and the House of

Commons, because of its
party structure, cannot do
the job, the premier said.

As aresult, Blakeney said
the provinces are
dissatisfied.

The task force is headed
jointly by former federal
cabinet minister Jean-Luc
Pepin and former Ontario
premier John Robarts.

The NDP premier added
that federalist, forces must
get organized in Quebec. He
said a federal] leader,
organization and program
are needed in that province.

Quebec federalists, ap-
preaching a provincial
referendum on separation,

might say that Premier
Rene Levesque’s proposal
for a sovereignty
association between Quebec
and the rest of Canada was
unacceptable. ‘
Blakeney said in a brief to
the task force that a sover-
eignty association offered
virtually no economic
benefits to Saskatchewan.
He called on Canadians
outside of Quebec to define
their negotiating stance so
that Quebec federalists
could show voters in that
province what alternative
there is to separation.
Blakeney said he was
assuming that any

Prairie Francophones
want more protection |

REGINA (CP) — A group
Oo: gni ka
residents in Saskatchewan
have called for protection of
French language rights in
the provincial school act and
for an official minority
office in the government,

L'Association culturelle
Franco-Canadiennes,
meeting with the provincial
cabinet Wednesday said the
two proposals “must be
implemented at once if the
francophone community in
Saskatchewan is to survive
and grow.”

The association said
creating an official minority
office or secretariat would
make an agency responsible
for developing francophone

eS in _— the

communi

Province...

“The predicament of
francophone communities
outside Quebec, and more
particularly in Saskat-
chewan, continues to be one
of constant struggle for sur-
vival,” the group said in a
statement released prior to
the meeting.

The outcome of the
struggle will be largely
determined by individual
francophones, the grou
said, but “all levels o
‘government must commit
themselves to reversing the
disintegration of the fran-
cophone community as
shown by the alarming rate
of assimilation.

Following the meeting
with the cabinet, Rene
Archambault, the group’s

Vote

useless
and
costly

PRINCE ALBERT (CP)
“Useless and very
costly” is how former prime
minister John Diefenbaker
described Prime Minister
Trudeau’s suggestion of a
national referendum on
Canadian unity.

‘Tt will determine
nothing,’’ Diefenbaker said
Thursday.

He added that it is obvious
Canadians want Quebec to
remain in Confederation.

Trudeau was trying to
“blow up" the national unity
issue so that he could pose
as the ‘savior of the
country.”

Diefenbaker said Quebec
will not vote for separation.

“I know Quebec well. It
gave me support received
by no ‘other Conservative
prime minister since the
days of (Sir John A.)
Macdonaid."”’

In a telephone interview,
the Prince Albert MP said
-he has talked with many
French Canadians and they
have supported his feelings.

The real reason for the
problems in Quebec is high
unemployment, about which
the government does

nothing, Diefenbaker said.

vdi as , tned
Education Minister Don
Faris presented a coun-
terproposal to an official
minority office attached to
the executive council.

Archambault said Faris
suggested an advisory

~CUPE
against

VANCOUVER (CP) --
Leaders of the Canadian
Union of Public Employees
have drafted a! policy:
statement for the union’s
national convention here
next week that opposes the
policy of tripartism ad-
vanced by the Canadian
Labor Congress (CLC).

The draft polic
statement, released Wed-
nesday, says the CLC aim of
a povernment, business and
labor partnership to run the
country is unworkable.

The policy says that
‘unions in this country could
not participate with
government and business
Interests because they have
not yet got equal economic
and political clout.

CUPE is the biggest af-
filiate of the CLC, which has
held some discussions on
tripartism with the federal
government and
representatives from big
business.

CUPE leaders __—irwilll
present their position paper
to 1,200 delegates making up
what they describe as the
largest convention of a
single union in Canadian
labor history.

The policy statement says
the manifesto adopted by
the parent CLC two years
ago on tripartism won’t
work. .

“Employers and govern-
ments, respect power,” it
says ‘What the (tripartism)
manifesto does not face is

The policy also wams
delegates that if the CLC
entered a form of tripartism
“from its present position of
weakness, it would be co-
opted into serving the in-
terests of corporations
because government has not
shown itself to be a neutral
third party standing bet-
ween business and labor.’’

It charges that “recent
history has amply
demonstrated that govern-
ment policies are eavily
weighted toward business.”'

"In addition, it describes
tripartism as undemocratic
because the high-level body
would be made up of people
who are appointed rather
than elected.

The policy says that the
alternative to tripartism is
to build a more powerful
union.

-tri-partite |

MEDIATE OCCUPANCY

council responsible to the
minister of education.

Donald Cyr, general
director of the association,
said in an interview Wed-
nesday that access to
French education should be
a right, not a privilege.

agreement on a
rearrangement of the
relationship between the
federal government and the
provinces would have to
wait until after a referen-
dum on Quebec and the
subsequent change of at-
titude on the part of the
government there.

In his strongly-worded
brief, the premier said
Saskatchewan _recognizes
the long-term henefits of
Confederation and values
the consept of a united
Canada.

But in the short-term, he
added that Saskatchewan
might even gain some
economic benefits by
Quebec leaving.

He repeated Saskat-
chewan's complaints about
freight rates, tariffs and

resource policies and
suggested the province may
have more luck

renegotiating its deal in
mh federation
Quebec.

‘Confederation was a
bargain which had some

advantages for us,”
Blakeney said.
“But lately the ad-

vantages have become
harder and harder to detect,

Unity vote
‘unnecessary

ST.. JOHN’S, Nfld. (CP) — -

Premier Frank Moores of
Newfoundland says that at.
first glance a national

_Teferendum on Quebec

‘separation from Canada
seems somewhat unneces-
sary.

“T's assumed that the
other nine provinces would
like to see national unity,”
Moores said today, com-
menting on remarks by
Prime Minister Trudeau in
the Commons Wednesday.

Trudeau said the’ federal
government is working ona
new law that would enable it

to hold a_ national
referendum on the Quebec
question.

Moores said Quebecers
could probably use a
national referendum to their
own advantage “by saying
the rest of Canada can’t get
along without us so
therefore we can have
economic union.’’

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.ag one after another the well

understood agreements are
abandoned or attacked.”
He noted that the federal
government took its share of
oil revenues while other

_resources were left ex-

clusively for the provinces
and the producers.

Blakeney complained that
tariffs and freight rates
mean Saskatchewan
residents pay too much for
manufactured goods and
they also discourage the de-
velopment of manufac-
turing industries in the
province.

Without that manufac-
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with a fluctuating
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The premier also pointed
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Transport Minister Otta
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cost of rail transportation.
Blakeney said while other
forms of transportation are
subsidized, Saskatchewan
will loose the Crow's Nest
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fighting

pro-Port Angeles superport
policy,’’ Hallaver said.

Former Gov. Dan Evans
amended the state’s federal
coastal plan to lend support
for a common-use terminal
at or west of the major city
on the Strait of Juan de
Fuca. Northern Tier
Pipeline Co. is asking
permission to build a port at
Port Angeles and a Mid-
westbound pipeline aroun
Puget Sound. ° .

“If: we accomplish
deletion (of the Evans
amendment), it would leave
us in a neutral position, with
no policy,”’ Hallauer said. “1
don't see why the Ray ad-
ministration should be bur:
dened with the Evans

policy.”

He said he will go to
Washington, D.C., at the end
of the month to discuss the
matter with Commerce.
Secretary Juanita Kreps,
He will also attend US,
Supreme Court arguments
in Atlantic Richfield’Co,’s
suit against the state’s ban
on supertankers on the
inland waters.. :

Meanwhile, state energy
chief Larry Bradley says he
isn’t saying final rites over
the proposal for a port at
Cherry Point, despite the
congressional ban. Public
debate should continue, he
said,

“don’t regard the door as
completely closed on the
Cherry Point project,” he:

‘said. “If we are going to.

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