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Wednesday, March 21, 1984“. -

Josephine Buck, secretary for the Food for Thought Soup Kitchen, is very
pleased with the response from the Terrace community in light of the
amount.of donations received for the Food Drive held-March 17. The
organization hopes to find the same response wheri they conduct another

drive in areas they couldn't cover. with this one, on March 31.

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"Food drive successful

hy RALPA RESCHEE’
Herald Staff Writer

Calling it a huge-succesa,
Josephine Buck, of.” the
Terrace Food for Thought -
Soup Kitchen, says the
center now has enough food.
tobe able toremaln open for
several months. ~ -

“Our supplies have been
drastically low for the past
month,” says Buck, “and

- this shaw of generosity by
the Terrace community ig
_ greatly appreciated."
She says that ap-
proximately 100 people took
part in the food drive held
on Saturday from: 9:30 a.m,
to#:30 p.m. but even with 30
vehicles © transporting
people and donations, there
wasn't enough time to caver

the entire Terrace area with
the single drive,
Therefore, the Soup

Kitchen will be holding’
another drive on March 31,
to cover the areas the first
drive couldn’t do.

The. over-all] coordination -
of the drive was done by
Rusty Bialnes, the
secretary for the Rock and
Tunnel Workers Union.

As weil as receiving a.
large amount of canned
goods, the drive ‘also raised
$1,500 in cash donations,

A wide variety of canned ©

goods was collected ranging
anywhere from fruits to
vegetables . and ‘meat
products as well. The drive

also collected many pounds

of potatoes, always a staple
in any diet. -

She polnts opt that
although the Food Bank is.
operated by the Food for
Thought Soup Kitchen, i's

rane

’ - operation ia not carried out

on a dally or weekly basis.
“People . whe apply. for

food must first pass a set of .
criteria as set out by our.

committee," “says Buck,
“because ‘the food is only
avallabla for those who are
inan | emergency # situation.”
» This has been the’

operating the Food Bank in

: January of 1983.’

_ Buck estimates there are

approximately 110 to 130 -

people utilizing the Soup
Kitchen on a dally basis.
Most of them: are single
men.

the Food Bank fluctuate due
to -the - availability or
unavailability of food. °

‘She says she can't figure

.out where some: of ‘the

people get their food. from

help them. - :

“After paying off the rent
and other expenses from the
welfare cheque, they're

- usually left with around
$100, so that amount hag to-

feed a single” man for an
entire month. ©

.And it doesn't look better
for. April, because the

federal governnient will be

deducting a farther $25 from

‘the cheque, leaving ‘many
only | $75 to bay.
‘groceries.

with

‘Another concern for her is
medical coverage for
single, unemployed: people
In the Terrace area. .

unemployed do ‘hot: have
medical coverage and: thal

second -
food drive the Soup Kitchen
‘hag. ‘held since it began

She adds that figures for’

presents a problem wher
they get sick and have to go
in the hospital. Sy

’ She says that. one of the
reasons ‘many don’t have’.
coverage is because it’s inst
too expensive.” eee
fornis for Premium Meal
Assistance ‘Coverage,’
medical plan that has
significantly lower
‘premiums and is designed
to help those ' on-a low in-
come,

The Food for Thought

Soup Kitchen would like to ~~

thank all of those who

' donated food or money to

the food drive,-

The executive of the
Skeena MDP Provincial :
Constituency Association,
meeting in - Kitimat. on’
March 10, threw ita support -

‘behind the efforts of. the’
» Terrace Soup Kitchen, to -
when theSoup Kitchen can't ©

feed the hungry of the
Terrace-Kitimat area.
Delegates to the meeting

‘from Terrace and Kitimat, -

spoke strongly in support of
the humanitarian . actions
displayed by the organizers
of the saup kitchen wha, it
was stated, are being forced
to assume responsibility for
scores of area families‘aa a
direct result of the inability
or unwillingness” of . the -
Social Credit goverhment to .
do ‘so.

The executive

In Skeeria, to’ encourage
their snembers, and “sup: ,

” > porters to ald in all efforts to ..
Buck saya that a lot of the’

Taise food for the benefit of”

the .needy people | of the ,

, Terrace: ‘Kitimat area.

— Striking miners: clash

LONDON (AP) — Police
arrested elght pickets today
in a clash outside a coal

Britain's nine-day-old coal
strike spread despite ‘a
_massive police . security \.
" operation.

The- state-run National
Coal Board sald only 37 of
ite 174-pits were operating .
normally, seven fewer than ~
on Tuesday morning, with, .
126 completely idle and the -
others producing only araall
amounts of coal. ;

Pickets from Derbyshire

- Working.

joined militants from. the .
giant Yorkshire fleld in

’ fan ut inte  ceritral
tnine in central England as - anning 9

England counties of Staf-
fordshire, Nottinghamstire
and Leicestershire, where
miners _Peraisted ‘ta

At - Stafford’s' Lee Hall
eatery, one pollceman was
’ injured and ‘eight. pickets

were. arrested ag. police
" ‘acuffled with militants’ who

~altempted to. blockade thé -
pit in déflanee of a court |
order. Several “hundred

working miners got through -

‘into the collier); 5 Ketion said.

The Coal. Board, fearing

an. escalation ‘of the dispute
Which . hag. divided
‘183, 000-member “National _
Union of Mineworkers, Said *
it planned no further legal.
moves gaint,
picketing.

ROADBLOCKS LEGAL -
On Tuesday, the union lost .
- its court bid to stop police
from... Uiing” - roadblocks |
agatist: -Btrikers trying to -
_ prevent. ‘colleagues from,
working, ;

: en =
directedits constituent clubs

: _ Christian,
. militias engaged in their.

the -

a

VANCOUVER: (cp) —

mediately against pickets
construction site,

volatile dispute.

Hundreds of unemployed : uion tradesman
2 continue to block entrances!to the luxury
condominium project, preventing: fion-union ,
contractor Bill Kerkhoff ‘from ‘veauming work
at the site, despite -a court

picketing.

McEachern refused a eqns. from Kerkhoff
‘to have the court order against picketing posted
-on the fence at the entrance

Had it been: successful; Ker
would have, in effect, ‘served; ‘the cease-and-
desist order on unnamed: pickets, exposing
them all to contempt: citations.

“If they are.to be cited, ‘they: il hive to he:
elted individually,’’- McEache ‘

A contempt hearing: against at a dozen
individuals and unions in‘the. dispute has been
set for March 29 when. they must show cause
‘why they should not be held in- contempt.

The contempt proceadinga centre onan order .

VANCOUVER (CP)
Length of contract remains -
the stumbling ‘block ‘-to.
settlement | - between. the -
locked-out pulp unions and
management in the British
Columbia pulp and _ paper
industry. :

“The Canadian . Paper-

workera: Unigii “and the *
ey Pulp, : Paper and. : Wood- ‘guale

Ceworkers Canada San not
"" fepresenting some, 12,7000
workers, met “with industty..

negotiators for. about 30
minutes Tuesday | before the
talks collapsed.

‘Paperworkers’
| negotiatora will refurn O°

25 cents

" poica have all the
legal ammunition they ‘need to move _Im-
ay a high-profile
Chief. {Justice
McEachern said Tuesday a .C. Supreme ”
: Court. : :

“The law enforcement agentjes have ample
authority to do whatever they qught to do right .
now,” he told-lawyers . for: ‘oth sides in the

ty the site,
hott’ ‘6 proposal

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rt
*>
CG
ce

y, ? union .

Allan

order: ‘banning.

Faia regional vice-president
zat Gruntman.

The 38,000 member
+ International Woodworkers
tof, America accepted. a
dcontract in: January that
“called for no wage Increase
-sin the first year, four per

scent. in, the second and. 4.5.

pa ent, dn’ the. thikd, ‘Base

ui ep
Previous contracts for the
woodworkers and the pulp
unions expired last June.

Grugtman: ‘sald’ the pulp °

unions are willing to accept

a two-year agreement with

a four-per-cent raise in the

their. Jocal . mills”. today, . second year, or a three-year

unless the industry agrees:
to. talk about a different
. -fettlement than one , ac-
cepted by the. International,

Woodworkers af America,

pact with the. same in-
creases as the: wood-
workers” three-year pact,
plus ‘some *-cost-of-! ‘ving
Protection.” ot

Established. 1908 .

the a a

TAKE JAIL.
‘The B,C, and Yukon Bullding Trades Council,
one of .the defendents in the contempt .
proceeding, has been ‘hit hard by” unem-
ployment during the past two years and has:

The woodworkers’ con-
tract does not include a cost-

of-living. clause. . "
Industry spokesman Dick

Lester said that the com-
panies will not negotiate on
the basis of the pulp unions’
ultimatum. ,

+ "They want us to-elther ©
: “capitulate | on: ithe: tetiis of >
hey’ will,

Munro’ ‘S.

agreement: Ot
onie,”* He daid.

“Well,

Be.
“we are not going tb meet on

those terms." “
Lester also said that’ the

Police have ammunition to.
against trades union pickets

against picketing issued by the Labor Relations
Board and registered at. B.C, Supreme Court,
giving it the foree of a court order.
McEachern criticized the delay until the end
of the month, saying it is unnecessary, because’
" thecourt is ready to hold a hearing'at any time. :
“Ts that the right thing to do; to leave this’
_ thing unresolved.in ‘its present state for that
length of time?” McEachern asked.
On another front, Kerkhoff protested the lack -
of policé action in a letter to’ Vancouver city
council, complaining that: police did not im-
mediately lay charges agninst pickets, . ,
"Police must lay charges,” he said. “If they “.
don't, then- we're: going to have. to atart an-
action against them.” . .
_ About 30 police ‘officers were on standby
Tuegday in case’ trouble erupted, ,but- were
wallting for the outcome of cotirt aetion. before |
“becoming involved.
That was not good enough for Attorney -
- General Brian Sniith, who warned that he will
"personally order police to Intervene if the.city
refuses.

pulp unions’ hatred of Jack ©

Munro, head’ of. the wood-

workers union, i is poisoning

contract talks,

‘He said the two unions,
locked out Feb, 2 at 20 pulp
mills in the province, have
refused to talk about other

Issues — such as health and _
_ welfare,

pension, job

Mondale knocks wind

CHICAGO - (CP) — For-
mer vice-president Walter
Mondale won the Illinois
‘primary Tuesday, knocking
_8ome wind from the sails of
Senator. Gary  Hart’a
campaign. to ‘lead... the
Democrats in the US.
presidential election next
fall.

Black civil right leader
Jesse Jackson came: third
but still managed to. capture
the Hion's share of black
votes — a bloc large enough
ta put him in second place
behind Mondale in his
hometown of Chicago.

: The 42-year-old preacher
-‘and community organizer
yowed to stay in the fight for
‘the . nomination, _ telling

Beirut peace conference

supporters: “We' re tough;
we'll hang in there; it’s a
three-man race.""

Results of 79 per cent of
the popular vote gave
Mondale 42 per cent, Hart 37
per cent and Jackson 18 per
cent. Three per cent was
divided among candidates
who have since dropped out.

Mondale, 56,
acknowledged his margin
over Hart was not great and
refused | ‘to-take' back the
front-runner label he lost to
the Colorado senator in
string of state defeats last
month. |
- Hart, 47, called his
showing “extraordinary for
Someone who was at three
per cent in the national polls

from Hart campaign

four weeks ago.”

Arecord 2.7 million voters
went to the polls, part of a
state-by-state
leading to the nomination at
a naticnal convention in San
Fransico next summer of a
Democrat to run against
Republican —- President
Ronald Reagan on Nov. 6

The primary in¢luded the
popular vote, called a
beauty contest, ~ and
selection of delegates to the
summer convention where

the winner rieeds 1,967 of

3,932 delegate votes. Fur-
ther big contests are
scheduled during the next
few weeks In New York;
Conneticut, Pennsylvania
and Ohio. !

sends. without agreement

BEIRUT (cP)

and’ Moslem

"heaviest © battles . in’ more

than. a“week today - after.
_ thelr leaders ended a peace.
Lh ‘, conference’ in’ Switzerland:

--with “ino. Fagreethent ,” on
political reforma. .
‘The’~ ' combatants Ox
changed artillery, mortar
and machine-gun fire in
residential -- neighborhoods

‘aa both sides ‘of the-Green -
. Line. dividing Belrut into

| Christian east ‘and Moslem
if west:

Ovezilght casuailies
‘tolalled® four dead and. 2
, wounded, said police who
- repotted lighting in the pe
eommertial district,

" Ras el-Nabaa residential

Nw

neighborhood and the Shilte

Moslem-populated soulhern

suburbs,

The. national ~ recon-
ciliatlon conference ended
in the Swiss city’ of
Lausanye on Tuesday night
with the nine rival leaders

‘agreeing to try to reinforce
"a ,weekold ceasefire

Beirut,

When the conference
announced the truce March
13, many considered it to be
a iiajor Syrian-backed
ceasefire, but in the last
four days 22 people have
béen Killed and nearly 100
wounded in.and around the
Lebanese capital.

process ©

contractors.

and-desist order.

. vowed to make the site’ an example-for future
developers thinking about hiring non-union

Council head Ray Gautier sald his members
_ will go to jall before they will honor the cease:

4 ‘ a

"They are not going to see a union job flipped
over tonon-mnion,” he said. “They will obey the

law, but there will be passive resistance,

“There will be
resistance,”

no violence, only passive .

McEachern said during Tuesday" 's hearing

that “these are not criminals involved.

particular issue."
In Revelstoke,

affiliation clauses
“Simply: put,

. “These are honest decent law-abiding
citizens who have become aroused over this

B.., a mining industry

spokesman said that construction unions and
cintractora are pricing themselves out of
business, and the biggest culprit is the non-

in their contracts. _
people will stop building

things," Tex Enemark, president of the Mining
-Assoclation of B. C., sald in a speech Tuesday to

the local chamber of commerce.
Non-affiliation clauses allow union workers

‘security and management

. rights — until the question

af length af contract is
decided.”

Gruttman ~ sald his

members, who now have
lost an average of abgur
$4,000 each in wages since :
are

the lockout degen

to Regally refuse to work alongside non-union
workers, or workers who are not affiliated with
- the 17 unions or union locals that make up the
building trades council.

‘Collapse. over contract length .

prepared to fight for the’
union's contract, demands.
Meanwhile, thousands of
unionized ‘woodworkers
returned to work Tuesday
after the pulp unions called
off ‘Secondary picketing of
the " integrated forest.

companies..

‘a Tota ve

Spit Sipe.
ens

proposal _

unacceptable

YELLOWKENIFE, N.W.T, (CP) — The government of the
Northwest Territories wants the federal government to halt
plans to require French-language government services in
the territory, saying | it prefers to set up its own bilingualism

program, -

The amendment to the Northwest Territories Act,
proposed Sunday by Northern Affairs Minister John Munra;:
is a “serious -infringement" upon the constitutional-

authority of the territories,

Richard Nerysoo, N.W.T.

government leader, said Tuesday,

“We are not opposed to

the (federal) bilingualism

policy,” Nerysoo- said at a news conference. “‘We have
asked the minister to delay an amendment to the N.W.T.
Act, How he responds is clearly up to him and the govern-

ment of Canada.

“But in my opinion it isin his interests and the interests .

'. of Introducing and supporting bilingualism to allaw the:

government of the Northwest Territories to take the thing i in.:
hand and, in fact, to Introduce our own legislation. that”
would recognize bilingualism and ensure our constitutional

responsibility in that area.”

Under Munro's proposed legislation, which he plane to
introduce today, the territorial acts would be amended to
allow for transtation of goverament documents, court and
legistative proceedings and services of government
agencies in the Northwest Territories and Yukon.

NO DETAILS
Nerysoo wouldn't outline

specific details of any

legislation he would introduce or make any comparisons - -
with the federal preposal, saying he wantarta walt and see”

Munro's amendments,

“Unless I've seen the amendment it’s difficult to say
whether we would be suggesting the same kind of things.
The reality is that we don't want to create a situation where |
we have animosity and confrontation with regard to the”
whole question of bilinguallam.

“We think it is important the legislative assembly of the

‘Northwest Territories have input.”

Munro's proposed legislation was prompted by a Yukon
man, Daniel St. Jean, who fought a traffic ticket because it *
wasn't written In French and thus violated the Charter of

Rights and Freedoms,

The territorial court convicted him, ruling the charter’

didn't apply to the Yukon becauise it lan't an institution of
Parliament as the provinces are./

St. Jean has appealed and his case is scheduled to be |
heard Thursday by the Yukon Suptemdé Court: Munro said ”
he wants his amendment introduced before then because, if
St. Jean wing, all ordinances of the territorial governments _

could be.considered invalid.

In that case every piece of territorial leglilation could be :

challenged individually in the

courts,

Nyersoo said the N.W.T. government will apply to in- |

tervene in St. Jean's case. The

N.W.T, will argue it has the

. Same obligations and privileges as provinces and any

fequirement for bilinguallsm should be incorporated into

the charter as was done by New Brunswick.

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