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By ALAN FREEMAN

dreds of Quebee civil ser- .
vants set up pickets outside
major government buildings
here today to step up their
protest against proposed
civil service leglalation. n
- The civil servants,
belonging to a number of

professional and
other unions, blocked car-
parking facilities and gath-
ered outside entrances to
government buildings. n

About 50 people stead three

abreast oktside the main en-
trance to the national
assembly building and few
workers appeared to be
crossing the picket line.

ons are protest!
Bill 50, witch they coy would ,
give the government ar-
bitrary . powers over civil
service management,
particularly in areas of
classification and  ad-
vancement,

“CNR debt
into profit

GTTAWA (CP) - A
for the depart-
ment of insurance told a
Senate committee Wed-
nesday that Canadian
National Railways is
meeting all federal
tequirements - in the

manngenent of employee

Poznanski said inflation
meant higher salaries and
thus higher payouts to future

. He added that

fund assets such as bonds.
The senators are holding
bearings on a government
bill that will transform $806
million in CNR. debt into
common stock. This would
reduce the raiway’s debt and™
enable it to borrow on
foreign markets, company
officials say.
CN officials also aay such a
miove will allow it to show
profits in the future,

eapecibtlyoa lit getai wom
sation? Fatcolow grain
hdithy” fites “and ~ turns

over its money-losing
er services to the
government-owned VIA
Rail.
Throughout the hearings
the CNR has been criticized

for handling of the pension

fund, The company owes the
fund more than $1 billion,
money it says it intends to
pay back over a Sd-year
period. ,

fund ig not making 7.5 per-
cent but that the rallway
must pay it just the same.

He also said that earnings

‘af the fund must stay in it.

‘The federal official, an-
swering Senator Jack Riley
PC-New Brunswick, said
both CNR and CP Rail
manage their own funds
because they believe they |
can save any. payments to

i Ly totalled to it and net
to the CNR as a railroading
1 .* Pocnanski said.
J. Earl White, president of
the Canadian Railways
Emplo: ension
Aaa cietion, repeated that he
bellaved. the CNR was in-
capable of managing the
fund and should turn it over
to an outside trustee.
“There is a conflict of
interest,” he told the

senators,

He also repeated his belief
that retired pensioners could
get increases in their pen-
sions if interest rates on the

fund were higher as he said

ahould be

- MONMOUTH, Me. (AP) -
The wandering island of
Monmouth was tugged and ,
ahoved back to its home
among the marshes on
Wenesday as a snowsh

reseuer clung to lta back.

Four motorboats and a
modified barge jockeyed the —
reeds | &

nay -seopoy waters and
poy waters an

stiff head-winds to the north-
western side of wind-
Lake

away from Charles Phillips’
beach, about 25 kilometres .
from Augusta, where it was
found earlier this month.

An

UNHAPPY

about
negotiationf for contracts to
replace current agreements
due to expire within the next
two months.

Today’s demonstration
follows a half-day study
session Wednesday by clvil
servants in Quebec City and
Montreal. About 85 per cent
Of the Quebec City workers
in the 45,000-mem-
bernQuebec Government’
Employees Union took part,

while about 50 per cent of the
Montreal members walked
out. -

Hull civil servants did not
participate, but stagedna

short demonstration outside |

government buildings and
then returned to work.

The unions _ the
legislation, introduced by
civel service minister Denis
de Belleval, will give the
minister discretlonary
powers in areas which
should be negotiable.

De Belleval withdrew
similar civil service

legislation early this year
after protests from the
unions, but the changed bill
appears to be up against as
much opposition as its
cessor.

TAs Riis:

RABAT (AP) — A bus
travelling along Motocco's
Medcterranean coast
plunged into a deep ravine,
killing 23 persons and in-
juring $2, the Moroccan news
agency MAP reports. The
aceident occurred Saturday
night between Tetouan and
Melilla.

Star stopped from streets

MONTREAL (CP)
Production workers at the
Montreal Star walked out
today after a breakdown of
contract talks, preventing
the city's largest Englizh-
daily from
the second

employees,
the In:
ternational - Typographical
Union (ITU) and the In-
ternational Printing ant
Graphic Communications
Union, didn't’ work Wed-
resday, but instead attended
aunion meeting where they
gave their leaders a strike
mandate.

The parties returned to the
bargaining table, but the
falks broke down again early
today, ITU spokesman
George Plumber said.
Newspaper officials had

expressed optimcam before
the talks started that the
peper would publish today.
Members of the
graphiencommunciations
tnion—rep press
room employees—set up
picket lines which the ITU
workers were respecting.
Plumber described the ITU
gesture as “a supportive
action” for the pressmen.
EDITIONS CANCELLED
Star publisher W.A.
Goodson sald the newspaper
had cancelled .today's
editions even though 500
other unionized emploxees,
members of the Newspaper
Guild, had reported for

work. mo,

The 20 production
workers have been without a
contract for more than 4
year, their last contract
having expired June 14, 1877.

Plumber said the parties
haven't even started nego-
tiating monetary issues, in-
cluding wages. 0

Job security is a key issue
for both production groups.
The presemen say they are
concerned with the size of,
crews manningnthe presses.
while the ITU is wary about
job losses «whens the

newpapernchanges over to  Sulting
typesetting -

computerized
later this year.

Goodson says the paper

has not made a decision on,
any layoffs.
* The Guild's contract—cov-
ering journalists, ad-
vertising employees, cir-
culation workers: and
delivery staif—expires to-
day,mbut Guild negotlators
say their talks are still in a
preliminary stage.

Ford workers vote strike

TORONTO (CP) — About
2,000 members of the
Canadian Food and Allied
Workers at five . Swift
Canadian Co. plants have
voted 81 per cent in favor of a
strike, a union spokesman
sald today.

Romeo Mathieu, Canadi n
union director, said the
strike will begin on Monday
unless a satisfactory
proposal is made to the
unlon’s bargaining com-
mittee, The workers held
one eckesma, for canada
9? BRE ay J08 anes
Packers Ltd. said today his
company: will go ahead with
a lockout of about 4,000
packing house employees in
tive cities where both

Legion needs young —
-° _ members :

By PHILIP MAIL -

EDMONTON (CP) — The
future of the Royal Canadian
Legion will depend largely
on the efforts of its younger
members, its new president
said Wednesday. |

EdColey of Calgary said in
an interview following his
election that the aging
organization needs 2 balance

Canada Packers and Swift
have plants.

Murray Stewart, Canada
Packers public relations
inanager, said employees
would be locked out in
Toronto, Winnipeg, Ed-
monton, Lethbridge, Alta.,
and Richmond, B.C., on

Monday if the Swift workers —

go on strike. ,

. During Swift negotiations,
C, A. Cancilla, industrial
relations manager for
Canada. Packers, sald the
agreement with Swift was
designed;.to’ ensure that a

settlement: with: one ~com-:

pany would apply to all.
Stewart sald Canada

Packers packing houses in

Charlottetown, Montreal,

of old and: new members.
Most of the Legion’s 420,000
members are Second World
War vetetans.

Delegates at the Legion’s
national convention passed a
resolution Tuesday granting
branchlevel voting rights to
veterans’ children who are
associate members. But they:
rejected a motion to give the

Bell Canada tries
for Israeli deal

OTTAWA (CV) — Bell
Canada, under fere for a-
controversial contract ‘with
Saudi Arabia, is looking at a
possible deal in Israel, Trade
Minister Jack Horner said

y: . ;
Horner said as he was
going into a cabinet meeting
that there is nothing in the .
$1.1-billlon contract with
Saudi Arabia prohibiting
business with Israel. Critics

have said Bell is complying

with the ~Arab boycott of
Israel but the company and
the government have denied

this,

“There is nothing in their
contract against doing
business in Tarael
tomorrow,” Horner sald. ‘‘In
fact, Bell is looting at a deal
in Israel right now.”

David Orr, a Bell
Canadadspokesman, would
not comment on the Israeli

issue. .
. “We wouldn’t customarily

talk about any deal right
now,” he said. “I’m not even

A trade department of-
ficial algo would not say

‘more, He-said the goverm-
ment knows Bell is “active ©

innother places innthe
Middle East” besides Saudi
Arabia. ;

The Bell contract with
Saudi Arabia has been cre:
ticlzed in the Commons’ and
at a Bell rate hearing before
the Canadian Radlo-
televesion and  Tele-
communications «Com-
mission. ~ x,

The Canadian human
rights commission Is looking
tat the Bell case to see if it
contravenes any federal
human rights provisions.

The company has in-
formed Saudi Arabia that it
has not done any business
with Israel, But Horner says
this. does not stop it from
future business with, Israel.

The government has sald
Bell's contract with Saudi
Arabia complies with federal
policy against accepting

. contract clauses supporting

‘+ Tn other business, the 3,500

Moose Jaw, Sask., and Red —

Deer, Alta., will not be af-

fected by the lockout.
Mathieu charged that

the or-

settling the dispute without a
strike even more remote, he

-. pejected ia. company . offer
which would have given”

Swift workers a wage in-
crease of about 6.5 per cent
in the first year of a two:

* contract.

w

sons and daughters full
voting and officeholding
rights at all levels.

“The average age of the —

veterans in the organization
has been estimated at 61 and
some Legion officials are
concerned that participation
of these members will fall off
dramatically within 10
years,

Coley, 43, said he wauld
like to see future conventions |
grant more privileges to sons
and daughters. The
national convention is to be
held in 1980. .

In a close vote, delegates

Wednesday to allow
certain conscripted. war
veterans into the
organization.

WELCOME ZOMBIES |

Conscripted veterans who

‘served only in Cansada—
Imown to some as “zom-
bies"—were made eligible
for - membership after
delegations from Quebec,
Saskatchewan and Alberta
voted heavily in favor of the
move, Manitoba and British
Columbia o it, and the
large Ontario delegation
aplit on the issue.

Conscripty who had served
overseas already were
allowed membership.

delegates urged labor and
management groupe and the
federal government to ob-
serve Remembrance Day on
Nov, 11, rather than using
the occasion as a Moating
holiday. oe
The convention ends

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OTTAWA (CP) - The
Advisory Council on the
Status of Women was urged
Wednesday to launch a
campaign against ad-
verising which portrays
women as witless fools,
mentrapping sex objects or
cleanliness fanatics.

Tom Whipple, co-authour
of, a council-commissioned
report called Canad.
Pers", "sew
Stereoty:... arta HIT,
called for a car:paign’’in
schools, advertising: aget-
cies, the manufacturing:
industry and government to:
eliminate sexism in ad=
vertising. “oh
The report by Whipple and.
Alice Courtney, University
of Toronto professors,
recommends government
sereening of advertisements
to eliminate sexism only as a
last resort. They said self-
regulation by advertisers
‘would be better. ;

They said itis often the
long-term impact of com:
mercials, showing household
products for example,
‘which we believe «many
men and women in the
viewing audience find in-
eredible, hilarious or in-

“Household cleanliness
has obvious merits in terms
of sanitation, appearance
and _ health. When
cleanliness becomes an‘
obsession, however, it

priorities or a condition
bordering on emotional ill
health.”

In their assessment of the ~
-immediate impact of ad-

vertising, the authors said
the widespread portrayal of
women as passive “may

influence . doctors to
misdiagnose and over-
prescribe for women
patients.”

Whipple said ads for the
tranquilizer Valium, for

READING, England
(Reuter) - Women teachers
at a school in this town 84
kilometres west of London
have claimed victory over
their headmaster who wants
to keep them in skirts.

Last week headmaster
James Dunkley suspended
nine women teachers for a,
day for breaking his two-
year-old “no pants” rule.

The National Union of

Teachers . threatened .a-

strike.- The schoo) governors
supported the headmaster
but four teachers again
turned up for work clad in
the offending garments.

next -

example, showed it was
needed for women with
anxiety and problems al,
home but for .men was
needed as a muscle relaxer
for more serious problems.
They said advertising
stereotypes influence adult
perceptions. of male and

Quebec picketters block buildings Campaign against sexist advertising
to protest proposed bill

female occupational roles
and influence adults to

believe housewives “‘are,

unintelligent, dependent on
men, subservient, have
personality problems.”
Commercials influence
children’s perceptions of
thelr capabilities, may in-

aed

fluence women:to devote too
much time to personal ap-
pearance and men to regard
women as sex objects.
Women are seen as being
incapable of exercising
authority, and liberated
women ate seen as funny or
insignificant.

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