Services and train fares. : Eremplayment, Canada a) & | ‘ Unemployment up, a) s ie cost of living up; . OTTAWA — Again in December both indexes, according to Statistics Canada, rose. The stark facts that appear in the 4-page bulletins of course don’t tell the story of hardship, despair and frustration. But they do give us the following: Unemployment Rate The seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in December was 7.5% — up from 7.3% in November. Across Canada 778,000 persons Were unemployed with the Maritimes continuing to be the har- dest hit. By area the figures are: Newfoundland 13.87; Prince Edward Island 8.6%; Nova Scotia 9.8%’ New Brunswick 10.3% Quebec 9.8%; Ontario 6.5%; Manitoba 4.9%; Saskatechewan 3.4%; Alberta 4.0%; British Columbia 8.8%. eu The jobless figures for persons 25 years of age and over jumped to over 4.4% for men and 6.7% for women. For persons 15 to 24, the unemployment rate climbed to 14.0%. Consumer Price Index é Using 1971 = 100, Statistics Canada put the Consumer Price Index for December at 152.7 —a rise of 0.3% over November. Higher costs for shelter and food were mainly responsible for the jump. Items relating to home ownership accounted in the main _ for the increase in shelter costs. Price hikes on fresh milk, bread, processed fruit, vegetables, chocolate bars and coffee, as well as increases in restaurant meals accounted for the food cost hikes. In addition prices rose for tobacco products, dry cleaning ~ 000 900 (Seasonally adjusted) 800 f- “600 apne ES Bee ae Sa eae 70 ee Je 900 — 800 — 600 Oyu Bae Rie SA OM 1975 ees ee ee eee oy 2 1976 ; : J Contravenes Boundary Water Treaty U.S. project threatens to pollute Manitoba waters, damage fisheries By M. MOKRY WINNIPEG — Pollutants flowing into Canada from - North Dakota’s controversial Garrison Diversion Project will cause widespread harm to Canadian waters and wildlife unless the United States undertakes early project modifications, contends a re- port of the International Study Board, part of the International Joint Commission. The report contends that modifications -required will cost $57-million but that this will still not be protection against pollution, but will merely, help to diminish or lower its effects. 5 The report points out that the Garrison Project goes di- rectly opposite to content and intent of the Boundary Water Treaty signed in 1909, which states: ‘‘... waters flowing ac- ross boundary shall not be pol- luted on either side to the in- jury and health and property of the ‘other’. The 12-man Study Board was made up equally of U.S. and Canadian officials. It was formerly charged that untold harm would be Steel, AFL-CIO brass fail to The battle for the top interna- tional executive positions in the ~ United Steel Workers of America is heating up as the campaign moves toward the Feb. 8 election date. Finks Charges by the McBride Team, _ the establishment slate backed by: president I.W. Abel who is retir- ing in June, that reform candidate Ed Sadlowsky’s campaign has been funded with illegal contribu- tions from employers in other in- dustries, were answered Jan. 9 by the Chicago-based Sadlowsky with a full public disclosure of his contributions and a challenge to the McBride-forces to do the Same. g Sadlowsky’s move was in ans- wer to a suit filed against him by Lloyd McBride last’ month mak- Ing these charges and he answéred it with a counter suit - Charging. libel and demanding $5-million in damages. Subsequent dislosures from th campaigns show that the ap- _ proximately $150,000 collected by Sadlowsky came from 2,000 Contributors, with 87% from the 8eneral membership and 13 dona- tions of more than $1,000. McBride is reported to have col- lected $187,000 from 500-600 Sources, ve : Sadlowsky’s forces say U.S. teel vice-president J. Bruce Johnston’s defence of the ENA Strike and productivity agree- Ment, which the McBride-Abel Orces also support speaks for it- Self. Sadlowsky also has charged the McBride Team has pressured — teel staffers and department €ads on the union payroll to con- ‘Tibute from $700-$1,000 to the Campaign. “This is aside from the wide- Spread use of union facilities and ~Tesources which are aiding the McBride campaign’’, he said. Much of the heat in the election campaign has been generated by the union membership’s opposi- tion in the U.S. to the Experimen- tal Negotiating Agreement, ENA, which is a deal negotiated in basic steel by I.W. Abel banning strikes over money by steelworkers when their contracts expire. If a settlement can’t be reached the dispute goes before arbitrators. With negotiations in basic steel due to begin this year in the U.S., many steelworkers are looking for aleadership which will lead a fight against the steel monopolies and move away from the class collab- oration style characteristic of the Abel presidency. ; Lloyd McBride, Abel’s choice for president is being supported in Canada by Lynn Williams, pre- sently director of District 6 (On- tario), who has been given the es- tablishment’s blessings to run for the position of international sec- retary, the union’s number two position. Running on the McBride-Williams ticket in Canada are Stu Cooke for the spot vacated by Williams in district 6 and Gerry Docquier making a bid for the national directorship of the union. ~ _ Cooke is expected to have a hard fight on his hands from chal- lenger Gib Gilchrist, a popular staff representative from the un- ion’s northern mining com- munities for the directorship of District 6. With the retirement of National Director William Mahoney, this year the contest to fill his position is between Gerry Docquier, assis- tant to the present director of dis- trict 5 Jean Gerin-Lajoie, and Mahoney’s assistant Don Taylor. Some observers see Williams’ preference of Docquier over discredit Sadlowsky challenge Taylor forthe National Director's post as a combination of a move to attract the Quebec vote Docquier is expected to pull, as well as part of a deal with the in- ternational to decentralize the Canadian section of the union and bring it under more direct control of the international headquarters in Pittsburg. The anti-McBride campaign in Canada stresses Canadian oppos- ition to the ENA, supported by the Abel-McBride forces, but fo- cuses on the establishment’s plans to destroy the national character of the Canadian section of the union. The reform forces in Canada also charge that under Williams’ stewardship, the union has lost some important locals and has not done enough organiz- ing of the unorganized. Though he is regarded as an advocate of a strong Canadian identity for the national office and is opposed to decentralization, Taylor is ironically supporting Williams’ bid for the Steelwork- ers’ number two position. This is seen by some as an at- tempt to cash in on the high vote Williams is expected to get in Canada. Taylor has not indicated any support for the rest of the McBride slate and has publicly criticized the way their campaign in the U.S. has been conducted. The McBride Team’s charges against Sadlowsky and the recent intervention into the election campaign by AFL-CIO president George Meany backing the McBride-Abel forces, are charac- terized by Sadlowsky as an indi- cation the establishment is wor- ried about the outcome of the Feb. 8 vote when-members in the union’s 5,360 locals across Canada and the U.S. will make their choice. ite - = ; pa 4 Mg oF - The North Dakota Garri done to Manitoba lakes — especially Lake Winnipeg and its rivers, as far as fish and other wildlife go. Loss to Fisheries The report is even more specific than previous claims of damage. It foresees a loss of $3-million. to. commercial fisheries in Lakes Winnipeg and Manitoba alone. Other waters, it is estimated, will lose $130,000 annually. The loss would be disastrous to Indian and Metis settle-— ments that depend on fishing and hunting for a livelihood. Undesirable algae would do harm to all life, beaches, swimming and resort areas. The report foresees need of extra water treatment proces- ses for all water consumed by Macdonald tour doesn’t impress SFL REGINA — The Saskatche- wan Federation of Labor, Jan. 12, called federal Finance Minister Donald Macdonald’s recent tour of the western provinces ‘‘no- thing more than a cynical attempt to create the impression that the government is being pressured by the public to retain wage controls, and only gradually remove them.” The SFL statement pointed out that the view of over one million Canadians on Oct. 14 against the wage-cutting program has evi- dently been ignored by the Lib- eral government. — By talking to a few hundred businessmen, the SFL charged, Macdonald ‘‘is deliberately trying to create a false impression about the need for a continuation of controls. “Of course most businessmen would favor a continuation of controls’ the federation said, not- ing the absence of any significant price rollbacks since the inception of the federal government’s anti- labor program. . The tour is a blatant attempt to mislead the public into thinking there is substantial support for what the SFL. termed a ‘‘totally discredited’’ program. ““Of course,” the statement concluded, “if the government has to choose between the wishes of a million workers or a few businessmen, we can predict in advance whose wishes will be fulfilled.” © “yo humans and wildlife. It fore- sees iricreased costs of up to $2-million annually to municipalities for treatments required because of ‘*... in- creased nitrates, sulphates, and sodium resulting from the Garrison diversion.”’ Up to 5,200 acres of land irrigated by waters that will be polluted will be affected by it. To all the above must be ad- ded the danger of seepages into lakes that supply or are the source of the supply of drink- ing water to cities and towns of Manitoba. ; As it was pointed out previ- ously this is an incursion into Canadian economic life by U.S. interests that see only the profits to be made from iri- gated soil in the Dakotas, especially its so-called ‘‘Bad Lands’’. Will Go Ahead As if anticipating a negative response to the project on the part of the International Com- mission’s Study Board, the project’s manager, Homer M. Englehom, assured its backers that the project will go ahead, as it is going ahead now. He denied any need of major alter- ations in the project’s plans de- spite expected affirmation of it now revealed in the report. Premier Schreyer referred to the Manibota Government’s protests about insufficient safeguards taken to avoid pol- luting Canadian waters. The position of federal au- thorities ran parallel with other _ protests that resulted in the set- ting up of the International Study Board by the IJC. Now son Diversion Project will cause severe dam- age to Manitoba waters and wildlife. the truth is out. A real threat- arises to future life in central Canada as a result of short- sighted, ‘‘fast buck’’ private enterprisers who undertook the present plans of the Garn- son Project, short-circuiting needed safeguards against pol- lution to save money and in- crease future profits. Only a firm position by the Manitoba and federal govern- ments immediately to under- take the needed safeguards will present any hope of preventing disaster. Both Ottawa and the Schreyer government must act now and decisively. No column Alfred Dewhurst's column, Marxism-Leninism in Today’s world will not appear in this week’s issue of the Tribune. It will return next week. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JANUARY 28, 1977—Page 9