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Comp. ee mee teen - ws Tuesday, March 20, 1904 The week of March 26 has ‘been declared Northwest Community College Week and acting Mayor Ruth Hallock offers her March 29 will be Open House Day and visitors are welcome to see the many displays that will be set up by Instructors, staff, and students In: ré) cents ‘Established 1908 f VANCOUVER (CP) — Thousands of unionized wood- iworkers were heading back to work today after British ‘Columbia's two locked-cut pulp unions called off secondary picketing Monday in their bitter dispute with the pulp i in- dustry. ae Saying ‘they could no longer. ask other . ‘trade union ‘nembers to continue sacrificing on their behalf, “representalives of the Canadian Paperworkers Union and the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada said the “secondary pickets would stop at midnight Monday. », “The fight with our employer will be continuing at the “primary placesof our employment, namely, the 19 or 20 ‘mills from which we have been locked out,” sald Art “Gruntman, vice-president of the paperworkers. union. “ He said talks between the two sides were to continue today after a weekend of meetings that negotiators called : Frultless. “~ About 19,000 members of the two pulp unions were tocked Mont Feb. 2, ‘accused by the industry of stalling negotiations. Three weeks later, ‘the pulp unions established secondary ‘pickets ‘at forest companies that ran both pulp and lumber . “operations bo, apply Pressure on the industry at the bargaining table, . ‘PICKETS ‘IMMORAL’ The secondary picketing created bad blood between; the ‘pulp unions and the International Woodworkers of America. -* Woodworkers boss Jack Munro blasted the. -pickets as immoral and appealed to the pulp unions to drop them 80 «for more than two years, could return to work. " ‘The bad. feelings .were particularly visible during "sporadic incidents in recession-plagued mill towns In-the “northern Interior, ‘where residents and sonie woodworkers’ ‘ “union members taunted and fought with pulp pickets who “came to’ thelr towns. “10,000 of his workers, many‘of whom had been out of work . volume 78 Noe “Pulp unions withdraw pickets. The Industry said on the weekend the dispute is costing some companies up to 50 per cent of their contracts with United Statea newsprint customers and costing B.C, Hydro $500,000 a day in lost revenues. - Gruntman says members of the two pulp unions have lost about $4,000 each since the lockout began. Industry negotiator Dick Lester sald he was pleased that secoridary picketing will stop for the sake of independent logging contractors and the woodworkers who had been affected. LITILE CHANGED However, he said he had no reason to “think that‘ this Indicates a more pliable position at the bargaining table or a greater likelihood of an early settlement — 1 think it may be contrary.” “‘Tthink the unions may be wanting to put themselves ina position to have more public support and to have more support in the house of labor, where they may have been losing friends,” said Lester. “I suspect that they’ v6 looking for a long fight.’* Gruntman sald there was no question that the secondary picketing put pressure on the companies, but the unions had “to welgh the presgure that was being put on the industry and the innocent people being hurt.* Both sides say the central issue remains length of con- ’ tract. The unions say they will adopt a three-year-contract, which the companies want, but it must Include a cost-of- living adjustment, The companies will not accept this adjustment. The industry wants the unlons-to accept a contract similar te the three-year contract ratified by the 35,000- - member woodworkers union earlier this year. It included a wage freeze in the first year, and increases of fourlper cent and 4.5 per cent in the succeeding two years. Base rale now is $15.96 an hour fer both woodworkers and pulp workers. congratulations to John Noonan, chairman of the Open. House Commitee .at- the college. the various disciplines and support services." Picket battle reaches. 5 boiling point VANCOUVER (CP) — An, attempt to cross picket lines _ surrounding a luxury condominium construction site ended in failure Monday as angry trade unlonists » Slashed tires and pelted a M4 - Ron-UntON sub-contractor ° o 2th a:concoption of human -, Wasteand rotten meat a the “ineidait’ Game * - ‘tensiins reached the boiling -. point in the bitter battle- Over the awarding’ ‘of a $17-. Kerkhoff and Sons -Ltd., ‘a non-union < construction firm. Union Jabor ‘was in- volved in the first phase of the project. a Company president Bill ’ Kerkhoff received another setback Monday when British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Allan McBachern refused to grant the contractor's request for fn ex parte order — an” order based on submissions from one side in a dispute.- . McEachern said the union veraus non-union dispute is too sensitive for the court to act without hearing bath sides. The B.C, Labor Relations Board has issued an order banning picketing at the construction site, where Kerkhoff’s work has been delayed by two weeks by — building trade union pickets and supporters. Kerkhof£ fought an order allowing a _ general notification of all * million contract .to- J.C. . _ment problems because: ‘he: can't | see ” why ‘anyone - “Wold “* sabotage the exposition at - the coat of thousands of jobs © US. economy pick up ” WASHINGTON (AP) —. The U.S, economy, which roared back last year from ~ a steep recession, picked up even'more steam as 1984 began, the federal govern- reported today. Through ° March, the economy waa growing at an estimated annual rate of 7.2. per cent. Today's ~ Commerce Department . report por- - trayed an economy “60 strong it continues | confound experts who h Ve been forecasting — slowe: growth. Many. . puidits’ growth estimates had been five to six per cent for the frat three months of the distance away, eventually. helped Rempel get his truck ctowed away... Kerkhofts car had three of "year. The department not only projected growth of 7.2 per cent for the first quarter but revised the growth rate for the final three months of 1983 upward once again — ~ to ., five per cent. | . The department quarter growth at 4.5 per “cent as measured by the ‘ gross national product, ‘after adjusting for inflation. The GNP is the country’s total output of goods and ‘services. The revision in the fourth ‘quarter boosted real GNP _ growth for all of 1983 to 3.4 per cent. It had _ been ‘Later, had ally put the fourth- | demonstrators « that - ‘thelr in the province lis tres slashed andit had to: actiona’ were in contempt of ° Tha plckels anger peaked | be towed away. court. |. when Ewald Rempel; a Kerkhoff, who earlier said 5 - Meantime, : Premier BI. concrete < “gib-contractor, his. firm wouldn't be in.” Bennett said Monday: a. “drove up to Inspéct the site. imitated into having’ its ‘major blow-up over the use ~ fils truck wad immediately . contract bought out, said he _of npn-tinion labor at Expo’ ” surrounded , by’ “shouting . would walt until the order Is 84 would. result in “the . protesters; w drove en ae ayes on the pickéts before - cancellation':of the: Pigs ‘geikes Into : atteripting,' to move, his .. expositfon ; , wigs qorbeag yee eee =m + on ten. - ope Vainicdt aia 7 ‘' bers of 4 2, 1986. _erethent “hit: ‘him and the Binirs a te AG; and : COST JOBS... 2+ JiMbide of-his truck. ., Couiiell: were joined at, the “However, ‘Benaett said he " ‘Police, who were main- ° False’ ‘Creek. site: by “doesn’t” anticipate“ any taining “a watch. some~ representatives of several other unions, teachers and Women’s &roups ' ‘asthe ’ labor movement.geared for a major fight. originally put at 3.3 per cent . and compared with a decliné in real GNP of 1.9 per cent in 1982, when the _ United States was mired in _ the recession. — The GNP report was certain to stir fears in the financial comminity that the Federal Reserve Board May nove to tighten credit to -prevent the economy - from overheating. The stock market plunged Monday after’ banks raised their prime lending rate to 11.5 per cent, the first upward revision since August in the rale the banks charge their most " “credit-worthy customers. The Terrace Icebreaker’s, a local break- dance group, will be heading down to Surrey, B.C. In a challenge break-off against a lower mainland breakdance group called the Fourth Dimension. The Icebreakers formed ‘their. group four months ago and have just recently “finished performing at Jezebels. made up of Ron Steinke, Bowsher, Jim. Bowen, The group is Scott Welton, Gary Jack Kester, Paul Basanti, lan Arnold, Alan Brodie. The break- off will take place at Bumper’s a local night spot In Surre ,on March 24. - Fowles music festival winner : TERRACE— “Linda “sFowle,.of Kitimat, was one of the big: winners at. the Festival. Not only did she “tie “for the’ Knights of . “Columbus _ calong . with John: -Nelson, of Prince. ‘Rupert, but phe also won three’ other: awards, and highest “marks in the Woodwind Solo class, and, in a duet with- Terrace’s ‘ Whitney. Brinnen, won the - -Terrace Concert Society Award, This award goes to the duet achieving the highest marks in in- strumenial, Along with ‘Karen Som: mer and Michelle Marleau, - Linda won the’ Skoglund Equipment Limited Award for highest marks in an ‘inatrumental trio, . Finally, for attaining the highest marks in concert Pacific - Northwest Music ~ Scholarship, . Linda . Sroup, concerto, Linda ¥ won - the Prince Rupert Rotary Club Award, Linda has been active in musie since grade four, when she began studying plano, and it wasn't long after, that she took- up playing the flute with’ the beginner band in grade six at Roy. Wileox Elementary . Shie-woi the Dr. “Phillips” ~ Trophy for achieving the ; REALL TRE” School. In ‘the. summer of 1993, “attended "Johan: nesen's International School of the Arts, located at St. Michiel’s University School in Victoria. She was enrolled in the flute faculty there for six weeks, For the last two years, Linda has been studying undér..the tutelage of Andrew Brodie and she’s studying piano in Kitimat with Stephan Wagner, another former music festival winner., , Linda is hoping to do. her Grade 7 Royal Con- servatory Exam Ln piano as well as her Grade 10 Royal Conservatory Exam in flute. She will also be taking her Grade 4 Harmony Exam from the Royal Conservatory {n. Toronto: Linds is applying ‘to the: University | of" Victoria's - School -of Maas, and ‘the University. . Cattenbis’s Sebst of Music Beitieh | and hopes to get accepted to ‘elther one or the other. In order ‘to get into the School of Music, Linda will have to not only have to be accepted by the University but also = successfully complete her auditions for. the music program: She will be going to Vancouver and Victoria in early May to take part in the auditions. " Linda achieved very high marks during this music festival. Playing flute music written before 1900, Linda achieved a first place score of 87; in woodwind duet, she and Whitney Brinnen achieved an 95; playing flute music written by twentieth. century com- posers, she received a second place score of 65; in woddwind ‘trio, along with Karen. Sommer © and Michelle Marleau, ‘Linda a achleved-a:firat- placa score of ag Dee helt Playing - -in - the. “concert . group - (grade 8 and 10) Linda achieved a first place. score of 88 and'in the con- certo class (grade 8 and 10) she was first:with an 80. Linda hopes to complete - her grade 4 harmony and history, and her grade 6 piano and grade 10 flute and by completing these dif- ferent levels, she will be a fully qualified music teacher. She also plans to complete her degree in — music and hopefully go on to become a professional music teacher, Teachers to challenge school act VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia's teachers have voted overwhelmingly in.favor of challenging the provincial act thal prohibits them from going on strike. The vote to test the B.C. ' School Act in court was just one of mary resolutions passed at.a B.C. Teachers Federation ‘convention Monday. Most of the resolutions dealt with political issues,, which drew harsh criticlam from a small number of teachers who complained that the federation is heading towards trade unlonism. Convention delegates also - agreed to establish a legal defence fund to pay for the challenge to the B.C. School Act, The federation believes the act violates collective bargaining: rights guaranteed under - the Charter of Rights. The 675 delegates at the annual meeting approved maintaining their ties with the Solidarity Coalition, whose fight. against the -recommendation - The pro-union mood was reinforced about an hour later when delegates voted to support construction unions fighting use of non- unlon labor at a Vancouver condominium site. The teachers’ pledge to. stay in. the Solidarity Coalition, an amalgam of unions, academics, tenants and human rights activists, came on the heels of. a speech by Renata Shearer, the coalition’s co-chairman. She told teachers their . support in fighting the Social] Credit government's restraint program waa needed more than ever now. “Hf anything our challenge increases. As a coalition we must address the issues of education, the problems of increased class size, the cutbacks of educational - support. ser- vices, the elimination of special programs and the . layoffs of ‘teachers and suppor! staff.” Delegates . adopted a that against teachers who cross the picket lines, saying the —- issue should be studied first by federation committees. - One Chilliwack teacher opposed to the proposed fines of 150 per cent of an offending teacher's pay said even those teachers in his district who walked out during the November strike opposed punishing those who didnot. Vanceuver teacher Ken Walters, who opposes the federation moving closer to unionism, told the con- vention that forcing teachers to observe picket ‘lines would also deprive them of the right of dissent. “Tha executive is prepared to spend $1 million to challenge the Con- stitution for the right to strike,” he said, “Are you Soing to disregard the in- dividual's right as guaranteed in the Con- stitution not to participate In a strike by reason of freedom of consclence or expression?” in British Columbia and now must help the unions guard those rights. However, an Abbotsford delegate warned - that teachers will find. them- selvea forced to join more and more picket lines as labor disputes continue. Other recommendations approved included a call for a public commission on education in B.C.; a cam- paign to protest government plans to increase class, sizes; and, support for locally based. - parents groups campaigns... Brian Shortall; prealdent of the Canadian Teachers Federation, told delegates that B,C.‘s school system is not the only one under assault in Canada. He said governments acroas the country are trying to Ilmlt teachers collective bargaining rights falsely in the name. of restraint, "Yet where is the necessily, the justification for such measures? Have provincial government's teachers are expected ta ; teachers In their con- restraint program peaked . observe picket lines sdt up Delegates favoring ractual demands ever with a three-day walkout by - by their peers at schools. support for the building resisted reason? Have we most of the pravince's 28,000 However, they shied away trades council saidteachers ever insisted on the ioon teachers last fall. ' from approving fines have benefited from the when there waslittle cash in : gains made by trade unions {he till?" f . ; _ - WHY BUY NEW? WHEN USED WILLE Do! INSIDE Doyou want parts to fix up your car but your budget - won't allow il? 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