caus who suffer the most. Those fighting for a

_ women - on BOTH sides.

PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Friday, January 13, 1978

EDITORIAL

The Editor's Dilemma

Responsible Reporting

It has been said so often - one hears it almost
every week - that strikes would be settled much
quicker and with less bitterness if only the
“Media” did not play them up; give them front
page space in the newspapers and feature them
in the TV news. .

On the other hand, when a newspaper “Sits
back’’ and day after day a strike situation grows
more bitter and acrimonious; property is
damaged and public service is disrupted - the
editor can be accused of negativism, cowardice -
or just plain failure to cover the news.

Watching the marching picketters ‘‘at-
tacking’’ a telephone booth hearing the language
used toward the very company they claim they
still want to work for, and listening to the
epithets they hurl at the very men who will be

- their “‘bosses’’ when they return has a saddening

effect on this editor, who earnestly desires to

‘ report BOTH sides of the story, without arousing
io inflaming the passions of those involved.

The families of any strikers are invariably the

cause they are convinced is just and who put

jtheir jobs on the line deserve respect. The

Stockholders who may be elderly people with

their life savings invested in the company are
seldom mentioned. The storekeepers and
businesses whose sales drop and who may have
to go out of business - these are also invelved.
Shouting, yelling, smashing public property,
threatening personal and physical harm by
employees of a public utility whether it is Hydro, .
the Post Office, Ferry workers or B.C. Tel is,
perhaps, all partof the game. It will probably be
around long after we are gone.
The saddest part of all is to know there are
good, decent, honest and hard-working men and
All supervisors or
“management personnel” are surely not
animals; many - most - of the strikers are good,
decent honest citizens who take pride in their
work. The sad truth is there are few subjects
that inflame the emotions more than religion,
politics - and labour disputes, Society, so far, has
failed to come up with a satisfactory method of
dealing with any of the three.
Members of both union and management are
ently at the mercy of a few “leaders” who
are able either to intimidate them, or “
notize” them in going along with their meth
and their personal vendettas. Though the
leaders on both sides boast of speaking for an
“united” body, too often they are on a personal
crusade for whici: they have somehow forced the
rest of the membership to accept-as theirs, also. .
Only when cleaz heads prevail. Only when the”
“little guys”' - of both labour and management
speak up for common sense and overrule the
ery, impassioned, radical (both right wing an
left wing) leaders, will we have the “peaceful
relations” that everyone (except those few
radicals) sincerely desire.

Amateur
_ Astronomers.

‘EDMONTON (CP) —
Long winter nights don’t

look at the moon, and if a
planet is available, that’s

have to get one down.
With the aid of a
telescope and a little
knowledge, the extra
hours of darkness can be
turned inte a universe of
bright things such as
double stars, quasars and
comets,
Doug Hube, associate
rofessor of astronomy at
niversity of Alberta,
says the first step in
successful star-gazing is
finding out what the night
sky offers.
‘The observatory on top
‘of the physics building at
the university is a good
place to start. Tours on
p of the building were
started last year and
since then 2,000 people
have come to gaze at the
siars through a 12-inch
telescope that magnifies
the sky about 100 times,
What they have seen
and learned depends on
the time of year and how
much each knows about
astronomy, Hube said.

next in priority.”
SATURN VISIBLE
Amateur astronomers
can see Jupiter in
November, ars in
December and Saturn in
January or February. _
The university offers
telescope-making classes
and Hube said a number
of books on the subject
aré available.
The bigger the .
telescope, the more
detail. With a three-inch
telescope an astronomer
can see the rings of
Saturn. With a 12-inch he
can see the structure of

the rings.
CAN BE.
PHOTOGRAPHED

“The most distant

object we can see in
principle with a 12-inch |
telescope is a quasar, an
object detected about 15
years ago. They are so
far away they look like
points of light, but they
are really galaxies. The
brightest one is a few
billion light years away.’’

“Most people like to
TERRACE

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Letters to
the editor

At a general meetin
Wednesda ; TWO
members have their solid
unanimous support to
reject the back to work
terms spellout by B.C,
Tel Chairman, Gerdon
MacFarlane. If we agree
to his conditions:

(1) Provide our
supervisors with a clear
cut written commitment,
that there will be no

further job action.

(2) Agree to insure
productivity.

(3) Cause no damage to
company cable and
equipment,

Union members would
then be admitting to
MacFarlane's im-
plications of deliberately
seuttling equipment,
being irresponsible, lazy
and doing s of a
criminal nature. The sole
reason for this being
devised was to keep the
union workers off the job.

MacFarlane has
deliberately _ infuriated
employ 1. government
pub

¢ and labour people’

who have kept a close eye
on B.C. Tel’s game plan.

Even before B.C.
Supreme Court Justice
Minister, Henry Hut-

cheons, gets started,
MacFarlane states that if
it's anywhere near the
Hall report, B.C. Tel
won't accept It.

Labour Minister, John
Munroe, . announced
publicly that he favours
the Hall report. Union
members ask, - “How
much longer must the
ped le of this province let
.C. Tel tread on the toes
of the Federal Govern-
ment and watch
helplessly at the
grimaces in pain and
won't move feet?"
TWU people are seething
with frustration because
lack of ability by the
overnment hasn’t forced
.C. Tel ints a com-
promise.

MacFarlane’s ut-
§ ramble on not
unlike anything Idi Amin
and his henchmen would
provide to the uneducated
people of darkest Airica.
inion members will not
be intimidated or black-
mailed by corporate
dictators who try to
create false impressions
of decent working people.

Ken Blanes

 byjimSmith |

_ Oliver Twist

International conferences,
for the most part, are
meetings to decide where the
next set of meetings will be
held, Some international
negotiations have broken
down over the size and shape
of the negotiating table. But
tariff negotiations are dif-
ferent. .

Tariff negotiations are
serious affairs where the

participants come together

with great pomp and dignity

‘and proteed. to pick! each’

other’s pockets.

_ Something along those
lines is going on in Europe
at this very moment. The
various members of GATT

‘(the General Agreement on

Tariffs and Trade) are deep
in negotiation, attempting
to reach a consensus on
what, constitute reasonable
tariff levels. Once — and if
— the ‘members reach an
agreement; countries which
violate the agreement may
find themselves subject to
punitive retaliation by the

~others.

The trouble lies in reach-
ing that consensps, Driving a
bargain is never. easy, as
anyone who has ever bought
a used car knows. When
there are many parties
involved in the negotiations,
the difficulty is compound-
ed. Right now, Canada is
facing enormous difficulties.

Canada faces an. uphill
battle all the way because
our tariffs’ are generally
higher than those of other
Western nations. The GATT
members are trying to force
our tariffs down.

Superficially, the GATT

“nations are right. We must

be prepared to provide the
same terms to imports os
other countries extend to
our exports. The catch is
that tariffs are ‘only part of
the story.

The U.S., for instance,
has a federal program

Royal Bank Sets

known as the Small Business
Act which extends preferen-
tial treatment for more than
one-third of its purchases to
independently owned and
operated American busi-
nesses, The federal govern-
ment helps these firms pre-
pare tenders on government
contracts; smaller firms
which can match the low-
priced bids automatically
win the contract. The U.S.,

like most European and:

Asian countries; offers many
advantages to home-based
business.

. The net effect, of course,
is to exclude much foreign
business — even with zero
tariffs. Non-tariff barriers
exclude more foreign goods
than do the tariffs them-
‘selves. oe

Canada lacks these non-
tariff barriers. So the infor-
mation flowing out of
GATT — that tariif reduc-
tions will be imposed with-
out corresponding reduc:
tions in non-tariff barriers —
is bad news for Canadians.
Unless we erect our own
non-tariff barriers such as
our own version of the
American Small Business
Act. The U.S. could not
retallate against a Canadian
law. based on existing
American law.

There's not a minute to
waste in implementing our
own Small Business Acts at
the federal and provincial
levels, Ef these non-tariff
barriers are not in place by
the end of the GATT talks,
Canada stands to take 9
beating in international
trade, & ,

There's ho future for
Canada babe .the Oliver
Twist, in a,world of inter-
national trade Fagins.
[Think email” teen sdlorlel

matzage fram the Canedian
Fedaratian of indapendant

“Don’t just sit there worrying about inflation — go out and buy everything
: before the prices go up

yo?

. he wanted to be listed in

-_ Busines ©

(suide Lines '

MONTREAL (CP) —
W. Earle McLaughlin
chairman of the
Bank of Canada, says
wage increases -
Canada should be one per
cent below any increase
in prices.

McLaughlin, speaking
at the annual meeting of
Shareholders, said in-
flation rates are mis-
leading and estimated
that this year one or two
percentage oints of
nflation will be due to
price inereases for
energy and food. .

By this estimate, : he
said only two-thirds of the
expected increase‘in the

oyal

consumer price index this
year will be “pure in-
lation . a

n. energy prices,
or food prices, or ‘any
others, increase jus!
because of scarcity, we
Canadians must cut back
our consumption of those

goods," Mc aughiln sald, -

‘That is exactly what a

six-per-cent..wage in-

crease in a seven-per-
cent price increase en-
vironment . will ~-ac-
complish.” ° _

McLaughlin said that -
setting a wage ceiling
below, the. current rate of
price increases ‘‘is
certainly not unrealistic
nor unreasonable.” -

his Ga

Abrief on

Native students boarding in Terrace :

An excellent presentation dealing with
problems and making recommendations for the
integrating of Native Indian students arriving
from isolated villages to continue their education
in Terrace schools, was made at Monday’s
school boerd meeting by Mrs. Rena Bolton.

Rena is the Home School coordinator for
School District No. #8.

Starting with three types of problems Native
students face when they enroll in Terrace
schools, Mrs. Bolton deals with each one in

They are, she states (1). Those occurring in the
formal learning setting during school hours. (2)
Those occurring in the new families they are
boarded with pnd (3)-'Those occurring in‘con-
structive use of leisure time during evenings and
weekends.: OE TE, ees aint °

In the “formal learning’ setting, Native
children face a “‘culture shock” when the find
themselves in large secondary schools after
years in the quieter village classrooms. The loud
ringing of , moving to many different
classrooms and teachers, different codes of
behaviour, non-Indian classmates with different
cultural attiributes these can be a “tremendous

. burden for a 13 year old student ... leaving home

for the first time.”

As “Many of the Native students arriving in
Terrace at Gr. 8 have learning disabilities ... due
to .. inferior preparatory education" Bolton
stresses the need for testing and screening to
properly prepare them for Gr. 6 curricula.

Another “Shock” occurs, the coordinator says,
when a student from a Native Village is placed in

a city Har ana dial anally from members
of own village, and usually from his own
brothers and siatavs,

‘If the boarding parents are Native and.

residing in Terrace, in some cases they are
socio-economically. disadvantaged, often with
problems of their own- usually financial. ‘They
take in one or more students in their already
crowded home only for the financial benefits that
are paid for services rendered.. Soe Some
students are badly neglected and must fend for.
themselves, These usually end up walking the

 *. Gael battles

bill unpaid. This brought. .

Written for CP
By NORMAN CRIB- him a further letter
BENS —__ .. stating that in future his
PORTREE, Scotland hills would be addressed
(CP) —-Angus Nicolson inthe Gaelic.form. . .
told the British post office ANGREED TO CHANGE
Later the post office
agreed to publish his
name in its Gaelic form in
the phone book without

the New Year phone book
as MaeNeacall,
@name, = = |

as A

streets, getting into trouble with the law.
When the boarding parents are non-Native,
says Bolton, they fall into three categories: (1)
Missionary oriented, with good intentions, This
usually works out well. (2) Regular family who

want their own children to mix and live with

other races. This home is usually good because
rules of the household must be kept. (3)
Missionary oriented, like (1) but with poor
results.

Rena Bolton summarizes the problems of
boarding homes in Terrace for children from the
Native villages very simply. They are mostly
caused by the adjustments the student has to
make; lack of cultural preparation; difference in

food and household faces ting {he: vil ag a a
student would. spend time, cutting. woad for the:
d ishing." uch

fire, hauling water, hunting and fi
of the time would be spent outdoors. In his city
boarding home there is little to do besides watch
television. These students soon find they way to
localhangouts in town, and trouble.
No matter how sympathetic boarding parents
may be to the needs of their student ‘guests’,
they cannot be expected to provide space in their
homes for Native students as a group. ;
“Weekends (particularly) present problems.
As many students are from remote villages and
cannot return home throughout the year except
for Christmas holidays .. on weekend and other
holidays the students walk aimlessly searching
for something to do. (They findonly)...
frustration, loneliness and boredom." -

Although, says Rena Bolton, Terrace provides _

a variety of recreation activities there is little or
no participation on the part of Native students.
This is because (1) Costs of equipment and fees

_ are not provided to boarding parents for them,

(2) The recreations centres would provide ‘‘just
another group of different people the students
would have to adjust to “‘and (3) Native people
will not compete on a one-to-one ‘basis; they
normally will compete only as a group.
The home and School coordinator, Rena Bolton

_ made some interesting recommendations in her
brief to the Board. We shall deal with some of

these in our next editorial column.

phone book

Gael. I think it would be a
ood thing if every free-

Gael asked for their
Gaelic names to he
printed in’ the phone

refusing to

right ‘to print only one
name. English or Gaelic,
in the phone book and &
Said the post office: ve only one name lis

“Mr. MacNeacail has service.” .

exercised his. right in.
y an extra -
fee. We must exercise our ©

with our information .

The post office said the

. Jisting would cost-him an .

additional entry fee of 25
pence (60 cents) per
arter. His,. name in
English would be the
normal free entry.
MacNeacail, who is
officially known as
writer-in-residence at.the
Gaelic College of Skye
was indignant an
refused to pay the extra
25 pence. He replied:

“Tt will.be a gross in-

fringement of my rights
under ‘Scots Jaw if the

‘post office persists in

posing on me a form of
name (Nicolson) which I

’ donot wish to recognize.”

The post office further
annoyed MacNeacail by
sending him a quarterly

hone bill addressed in

nglish to Mr. Angus

Nicolson. He returned the

extra charge. But there
was one snag. The
English form would. be
‘removed not only from

the phone book but from -.

the information service.

Therefore, if an
inquirer — asked = In-
formation for the number
of Angus Nicolson he
would be told it could not
be traced. It. was
suggested MacNeacail
should make an alter-
native entry in English—
‘at a cost of 25 pence per
quarter, © oo

“We think this would be
_the. most satisfactory
‘solution of problem,"
wrote. a post office of-
ficlal. . ;

“Not on your Ife,”
retorted MacNeacail.
“I'm not paying any
extra charge. I have a
right to my identity as a

C of C protests

_. Okanagan left out

PENTICTON, B.C.

-(CP)} — The chamber of

commercedecided
Wednesday to protest to
Travel Minister Grace
McCarthy. about om-
mission of Okanagan
Valley ski resorts from a
provincial-government
onsored tour for. five

Jnited States ski writers. -

Gary Deriton, manager
of Apex-Alpine ski area
here, said he was sur-
prised. at some of the
areas Included in the tour
while the Okanagan is
being bypassed,

A similar concern was

are involved. * -

expressed Tuesday by -

Dave Woodman

manager of Silver. Star |

ski area near Vernon.

The tourism ministry is

‘helping to sponsor a tour
by The five Los Angeles-
area writers in the hopes

of attracting skiing tour- —

ists. The Alberta: and
federal overnments also

: Areas to: be. visited

include Whistler
Mountain and Grouse in

the Vancouver area, Tod .

Mountain at Kamloops,

B.C., and the Banff, Alta.,

area.

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