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Fu Iton ‘protests uranium minir |
_— Member of Parliament for Skeena, Jim Fulton, has must, that the question of uranium mining is both medical reasons cannot in isolation justify the use of reaction atorage there can be only one position,
_ Senta strongly worded telegram tothe Bates Uranium yolatile and complex. Ethical and safety questions uranium. a “No further development of uranium, No uranium

“The consequences of development and the
resuiling waste pose an unnatural threat to mankind.
Over time, man might well be able to use uranium
safely and wisely, however, in light of the present
technology for the development stages and post

seem to be the most problematic. It is these two areas
I wish to address. ~ , ‘

“Mining cannot be isolated from use and con-
sequence. Regarding ethics there ig poaltively, no
middle ground, Financial, economic, and even,

mining.

"T look forward to . making
presentation in the future."

Fulton asks to be kept informed of developments.

-.« Inquiry which is being held in Atlin today, expressing
.- his opposition ‘to future development of uranium
’_yesources, The telegram reada as follows: —-  .
j “~-#T am unable at this time to attend the committee
hearing in Atlin. I recognize, as certainly the inquiry.

a more thorough

inqui
VICTORIA (CP) ~- The
New Democratic Party has.
called for an - independent
investigation into allegations
that deputy attorney-general
Richard: Vogel _ interfered
with the. judicial process by
telephoning a judg

e.
Stu Leggatt (NDP —
Coquitlam-Moody), a-

Tragie fate
of refugees
Hundreds | | CANADA'S

pushed IMMIGRANTS

out to sea

lawyer, said an inquiry
should be held into charges
by Judge Phil Govan of
Richmond that he had been .
asked to disqualify himself
~ from a case because a ruling
be had'made would be ani
administrative in-
convenience ta the attorney-
general’s department.

Vogel said in an interview
that the’ judge misin-
terpreted his intentions. The
call to Govan was to inform
him . what action his
department was taking, he

Gardom sald’ he would
. - Consider the NDP request
vs and probably would an-

G . nounce’a decision today.

i the ce vag anne
2 gga “ lidde "in ° Richiciond,
ruled Aprill on a case before
him that-a section of the -
Family. Relations Act. was
unconstitutional — without
hearing any arguments,
' The judge refused to hear
any more cases related to
the act, in effect throwing
dozens of actions in the Rich-
mond court in legal limbo
until his ruling could - be
challenged ina higher court.
Gardom said the ministry
disagreed with the ruling
_ because the judge had not
served notice as required
under. the Constitutional
Questions Determination Act
and because no arguments
for or against theruling were

He said the ministry then
asked, the British Columbia
Supreme Court to order
Govan to proceed with the
case under the act, and the
higher court did so on April

3.
The attorney-general said

was to be heard, Govan was
asked by the ministry to
disqualify bimself because of
his earlier judgement. The
judge declined and
presented his judgment the
next day.

In his ruling, Govan aid.
the transfer request was
made beween April 1 and
April 10, and he inferred
from it that the attorney-
general's ministry was
looking -for a ‘‘more com--
placent judge who would
hear and make orders
without entering upon this
constituional inquiry.’

Leggatt said. Govan's
judgment cries for some
objective investigation into
what the ministry waa
suggesting.

“There is enough on the
surface here to indicate that
there was some in
terference."'

He accused the ministry of
negligence and said it should
have tested the con-
stitutlonal validity of the act
in the courts,

Gardom denied there was

” any interference and said the
ealls were “routine, ex-
pected and anticipated in the
performance of his (Vogel's)
duties,” .

Vogel said he did phone
Govan, but only to outline the
department's strategy and
give notice that {t planned to
question his ruling before the
Supreme Court,

He scald “some. con-
frontation|s clearly required
but I'm not saying anything
more wntil the attorney.
general decides on the
request for an inquiry,”

ae RO em

U
;

"3

that on May 9, when the case .

Paperworkers Union

surprise: . '
’ . The 24-hour a day

-hegotiations.

set up picket lines.

on the

_ final offer because it

have thrown its support

behind striking workers on picket. lines at
Eurocan’s Kitimat Pulpmill Tuesday afternoon
taking both union officials and management by

picket lines were set up

‘following a noon-hour study session called by
union members dissatisfied with results of

Although the majority of the 200 members at
the study session favor waiting for a full
membership meeting to decide strike action,

_ about 20 workers refused to return to work and

Members of Local 298 gave the union an 85.6
per cent mandate to strike. Strike notice served
company .
Workers are dissatisfied with the industry’s

expired July 2,

does not include changes .

they want made at the Kitimat mill.

win support
.. The executive of Local 298 of the Canadian © The union wants tonegotiate a definition of the-
term day worker - a point of controversy bet-
ween Local 298 and Eurocan management.

The company considers a. day worker to be any

worker:not on tour shift, The union, however,
wants day workers classified as working days |

only Monday to Friday.

.. The union also wants a change in shift
schedules anda cost of living clause,

The companies in the pulp and paper in-
dustries have offered a two-year contract with a
9 cent per hour increase effective July 1, 1979
and 9.5 per cent increase-in July 1980.

Members of CPU Local. 1127 are not on strike
but are refusing to cross picket lines.

The union executive have called a special
meeting of Local 298 to be held at 10a.m. Friday,
July 6 at Riverlodge Recreation Centre.

Eurocan management has declined to com-
ment on the strike, claiming negotiations are
continuing between the industry and: the CPU.

at ane ee nite a
Serer ar Seren

KUALA LUMPUR (AP) —
Four hundred Vietnamese
refugees who eluded the
Malaysian naval blockade

TRYTOHELP | @

OTTAWA (CP) — The addition to- church and
Chinese community and service organizations that
dozens of other ‘citizens already have pledged

“|. annually

and landed on the east coast
damaged the engine of their
wooden boat beyond repair
_and tried to set the craft
afire to avoid being put back
to sea, refugee officials re-
ported Wednesday,
Malaysian officials, ac-
cording to a government

said they will put the 400
refugees in other boats,
probably those abandoned
" by earller arrivals, and tow
the Vietnamese back out into
the South China Sea.
The boat beached late

Trengganu, "250 kilometres

[silvetgaysntght-citokuaerd: ante ad nd)
Hs daycuaty [Otek “tidividuals and

northeast of here.
The Malaysian navy has
_ towed more than 15,000
’, Tefugees out to sea in 80
boats since it announced last
month it would accept no
more boat people. There
already are about 76,000
Vietnamese in camps in Ma-
laysia where they are
awaiting resettlement in
* third countries,
In Canberra, Australia,
Wednesday, Dick Clark, the:
U.S, co-ordinator for refugee
. affairs, said if the nations of
the world would double the
fumber of refugees they
accept — to a total of 250,000
— the problem
would be solved,
Clark was in Canberra for
"the meeting of ANZUS, the
military alliance of
Australia, New Zealand and
the United States. ANZUS.
sources, who asked nat to be
hamed, said U.S. State
Secretary Cyrus Vance, who
is participating is the, talks,
focused the first day’s
discussion on the refugee

Alaska gas pipeline trouble

WASHINGTON (CP) — A
copy of a draft report to Con-
gress says it is unlikely spon-
sors of the joint Canada-U.S,
Alaskan natural gas pipeline
will be able to raise the
private financing needed for
construction of the $15-billion
project. .

Congressional sources who
have seen the report
prepared by the General
Accounting Office, Congress!
watchdog agency, say it

likely will mean more.

demands for loan guarantees
or other federal assistance if

the pipeline is to go ahead.-

The project is already two
years behind the original

‘case with the energy
department proponents of
the pipeline.
But these officials add the
draft report may yet be
revised and it doesn't
Suggest the pipeline should
not be built. It does,
however, make it difficult
for Northwest Alaskan to go
to private money markets
and ask them to supply the
capital for the project, the
officials concede, .
The report says the
Pipeline, which would move
&@n estimated one trillion
cubic feet of natural gas a
year south to U.S. markets,
might end up costing con-

January, 1933, schedufed sumers about $6 a thousand

date for completing the

system to transport Alaskan
natural gas through Canada
to the lower 48 states,

The massive civil project
ia a joint effort by Northwest
Alaskan Pipeline Co. of
United States and Foothills
Pipelines Ltd, of Calgary. It
means thousands of jobs and
billions of dollars in in-
vestment in Canada during
the construction pericd.

Officlals at ‘the federal
energy regulatory com-
mission who reviewed the
draft report say it “‘cagta a
less sympathetic eye toward
the practicality of the
project’ than has been the

cubic feet in 1979 dollars for
the fuel, This compares with
a curreft cost of $2.16 a
‘thousand cubie feet for
‘natural gas exported from
Western Canada.

It urges Congress to look at
alternatives to the natural
#as pipeline for getting more
energy to hungry U.S.
markets in the short term.
But it doesn’t rank the

Shut ’em up
More than 700 people were
jailed in 1984 after free

speech demonstrations at
the University of California.

alternatives by ‘order of
preference, nor does it sug-
gest the northern pipeline
will not be needed even-

‘tually, congressional sources

y.

An energy department
official, contacted at home
on the July 4 holiday, said
Energy Secretary James
Schlesinger has not yet seen
the General Accounting
Office report. He added
opposition to the northern
pipelineseems entrenched in
some areas on Capitol Hill,
and he was not surprised to
hear about another critical

report,
Officials at. the federal

energy regulatory com- -

mission say the real
significance of the draft re-
port is its timing. Northwest
Alaskan is nearly ready to
put ite financing proposals
for the project before private
money markets and this may
make it ‘doubtful; if not
impossible” they will suc-
ceed,

The officiala anticipate
Northwest Alaskan’s
chairman, John McMiLan, Is
being handed the am-
munition he needs to demand
federal agsistance for the
project. Although McMilian
has insisted from the start
the project can be privately
financed, this is before the

report by a federal agency
saying it might not be
possible, ‘the energy

regulatory officials point

out.
They also note that,
because of the recent sharp
increases toa ceiling price of
$23.50 U.S. a barrel for
Middle Eastern oil, there is a
strong sentiment in Congress
for developing any energy

alternatives to imported

supplies. That could give
added impetus to any
uest for federal financial
ald to a northern natural gas
pipeline, .

problem.

Earller this week on the
Indonesian island of Bali,
Vance pledged the United
States would double its
refugee quota to 14,000 a
year,

“If we can get the numbers
doubled to 250,000 per an-
hum, itisa problem that can
be resolved.

"Clearly we have the
ability to do it, the only
question is if we have the w
to do it," Clark sald of the
world community,

He said the proposal would
call for a facility capable of
housing 1.2 million refugees
who could be taken out of
Vietnam for resettlement
without having to make the
dangerous boat journey to
other Southeast Asian
nations.

policy announced June 18, |

here have rallied behind
’ Mayor Marion Dewar's
plan to accept 4,000
telugees from Southeast:
Nine, Chinese
associations have joined
in an attempt to sponsor
100 of the hundreds of
thousands of boat people
living in temporary
refugee camps ip
Malaysia, Thailand,
indonesia and other
Southeast Asian countries
granting temporary
_refuge from Vietnam. __
Galtier; sabaiit “50
organizations have made
‘commitments to the plan
-— Project 4,000 — to
sponsor anywhere from

The plan, announced
last week, is not
scheduled {o be  op-
erational until mid-July,
Dewar plans to ask city.
council to authorize funds
for hiring a fulltime co-
ordinator of the project,

Project chalrman Alan :
Breakspear sald the
group plans to lobby the
federal government to cut
red tape to speed refugee
passage. Other. groups
involved in sponsorships
have complained that red
tape is delaying refugee
arrivals up to five
months,

There also are plans to
put pressure on
government to raise its
1979 quota of 8,000 ref-
ugees. About half of them
already are in Canada,

Breakspear sald that In

PRogram, | any os,
*-Earporaved  -orgoizdllan,

one to a dozen refugees. -

support, the plan is aimed
at finding nelghborhood
sponsors ~~ condominium
corporations, apartment
_ Unita and community
associations. -

“We're going to need
funds for renting facilities
and perhaps hiring
counsellors and teachers,
but we don’t want people
copping out and merely.
sending us money,” he
said,

Under the fedefally-
administered sponsorship

9 te te

or group of ‘at ‘leaat five
adults signs a contract
accepting responsibility
for one or more refugees
. for up to a year,
Breakspear estimated
it would cost a sponsor
about $1,-000 monthly to
Support a_ fourto-six
member refugee family.
_ Sponsors are obliged to
supply housing, food and
clothing until the refugees
have jobs and can support
themselves. They alsqare
supposed to help the
lugee feel at home in a
new culture, meeting
them upon arrival,
counselling them: and
helping them find work.
The government takes

care of emergency
medical billé, and
language and

job
training. The government
provides loans to cover
the more than $1,000 air -
fare from Indonesia on
charter flights scheduled
for the summer and
regular Asian fights on
CP Air,

Motorcycle gang
shot found dead

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)
— Four men and a woman —
all members of the violence-
prone Outlaws motorcycle
gang ~ were methodica
shot and killed early Wed-
nesday in the house that
served as their local
headquarters, police sald.

One of the men was found
sitting with a gun in his lap
on a side porch, where he
apparently had been posted
as a guard, said police
Captain L.L. McGraw.

“It very possibly and prob-

ably waa somebody they
knew,” McGraw said, noting
there were no signs of a
struggle inside the house.
The victims were not tied
and all were fully clothed.

One of the first officers on
the scene sald the victims
were shot “all aver. None of
them were shot just once,"

Police refused to release
details of possible murder
weapons, how so many

people could be killed with no *

signs of a struggte, or about
the scene inside the house,

Union rep sees difficulty —

VICTORIA (CP) — The.

road to a contract settlement
between the B.C. govern-
ment and the union
representing most of its

“employees could Ke a rocky

one, says a union
spokesman, -

“Indications are at this
point that we may have great
difficulty getting a set-
tlement,"" John Fryer,
secretary-treagurer of the
B.C. Government Em:
ployees’ Union, said in an
interview Wednesday,

The union will not be used
a8 a scapegoat for the
government's restraint
program and a strike vote
could come this summer if
no progress is made, Fryer
said.

The union, which
represents 37,000 govern-
mentemployees, is seeking a
two-year contract with a 10-
per-cent across-theboard
increase in the first year and
a cost-of-living clauge in the
second, .

Fryer said he expects the

government will offer four
per cent inthe fit year and
reject a cost-of-living clause,
an offer he said could apark a
strike.

The issue of temporary
employees is also con-
tentious,

There are (bout 8,000
employees in category
who receive few, if any,
fringe benefits and in many
cases, particularly In the
hughways department, tem-
porary employees have
worked stea for years,

The union's position is that .

anyone who has worked
more than 200 days should be
a fulltime employes, Fryer
said,

The union alao is
improved weekend dif-
ferential and pension,
vacatlon and maternity
benefits.

The union will likely use
rotating strikes, If
necessary, but these will not
affect liquor stores, he said,

The talks continue here

today,