MacDonald quits

quits cabinet post

__ OTTAWA (CP) - Finance Minister Donald Macdonald
announced his resignation from cabinet Tuesday,

opening the door to. what many

assume will be the first

French-Canadian finance minister since Confederation

11 years agu.

The 45 year old Mac-
‘donald emphasized that his
reasons for leaving are
strietly personal. But op:
position critics were quick
to suggest that an un-
derlying reason for his
departure may have been
policy differences with
Prime Minister Trudeau
over the ending. of govern-
ment pay and price controls.

Moments after Macdonald
told reporters he planned to
quit the post he’s held two
weeks shy of two years,
NDP Leader Ed Broadbent
urged Trudeau to take over

the finance job himself.
That. would show
‘Canadians the prime

Minister is concerned that
Macdonald’s economic
policies had dragged the
- level since the great
Depression.”
But Trudeau, who said
through his office that he is
* sorry to see his six-foot-five,
25 pound colleagtie go, is
expected to pass himself
over. There is speculation
he will choose either Trade
Minister Jean Chretien or
Health Minister Mare
Lalonde when he shuffles his
cabinet sometime next
week,

-finance critic,

Whoever gets the job is
ted to do little more
than maintain the govern-
ment’s current economic
course despite high and
rising. unemployment and
inflation rates. Macdonald
said he felt any economic
initiatives the new minister
could take are “probably
pretty limited.’

Macdonald said he is
leaving the cabinet he first
joined in 1968 for “personal
and family reasons.” He
denied any major dif-
ferences with the other 32
members of Trudeau's inner
circle and said the timing af
his departure. - he called it
“an appropriate pause” -
will give the new minister
time to become familiar
with the portfolio before the
next general election.

He would stay on for about
10 days until his successor is
picked - and would remain
as an MP for ‘“‘some months
at least,'’ quitting when the
next election is called or
when some job in private

e@ opens up.

Although Macdonald
rejected suggestions that he
is at odds with the prime
minister, the Conservative
Sinclair

Stevens yore simcoe, said
he is sure. the finance
minister quit because he
had lost a fight with
Trudeau over ending
price controls,

Macdonald, Stevens
argued, wanted the three-
year controls program lifted
quickly, before its formal
expiry at the end of 1978.
Trudeau wanted them to
stay, and Macdonald ‘had
little choice but to resign.”

He was on the firing line

for much of his political
career, arid there was a
smile on his face when he
announced the end of it.
. When he entered politics
in 1062 he was considered
something of a radical on
the left wing of the Liberal
government. But his jobs,
which included respon-
sibility .for government
action in the Commons,
defence and energy, ap-
peared to dilute his radical
leanings.

As Government House
leader shortly after entering
cabinet in 1968, he developed
a reputation for a sharp
tongue and arrogant
manner. He carried it with

defence in. 1970. where he
became a key figure in a
government decision to
invoke the War Measures
Act Against Front de

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OTTAWA (CP) - The
federal cabinet has ap-
proved an agreement
negotiated last week with
the United States that sets
the terms for constructing a
northern pipeline to move
Alaskan natural gas to U.S.
markets.

- Announcement of the
agreement could. come as
early as .Thursday after
Prime Minister Trudeau
meets with President Carter
during a ‘visit to
Washington, sources said.

Although reluctant to
discuss what went on in the
late afternoon cabinet
meeting, Government
‘House Leader Allan
MacEachen told reporters,
“7 don’t see any new dif-
ficulty that we didn’t cover
last Friday.” a

‘He. was referring to
negotiations he held with
U.S. Energy Secretary
James Schlesinger. to settle

a oes

terms for the $10 billion line
through. the Yukon, British
Columbia and Alberta to the
U.S. border.

The Canadian govern-
ment. tentatively. approved
the pipeline in early. August,
saying final ratification
would depend on the
negotiations with
Schlesinger.

has said he will make his
pipeline decision by Sept. 15,
choosing _ either the
Canadian route or an
alternative proposal for a
line across Alaska to the
port of Valdez from where
the fuel would be shipped
south by tanker. .
Government. sources say
has to make a recom-
mendation to Congress and
may. want the agreement in

. writing. But negotiations on

the language’ of the treaty
still are in progress and it
might be ‘difficult to com-

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Trudeau will meet
privately with Carter at 9:30
a.m. Thursday while he is in
Washington to witness the
signing of a new Panama
Canal treaty.

Under the agreement,
Canada abandoned
suggestions from regulatory
advisers that the route from
Alaska cut deeply into the
Yukon, making it easier to
build a spur line in the 1930s
to move gas from the North-
west Territories to domestic
markets.
Instead, the U.S. will
share the cost of additional
miles of spur pipeline that
will be needed without that
diversion in the route,

The agreement | also
provdes for the Yukon to tax
the pipeline to obtaln funds
to compensate the territory
for the social and economic
impact.of the pipeline. :

Manitoba calls election

WINNKPEG (CP) - The
Manitoba legislature was
disolved. Tuesday and a
provincial general election
set for Tuesday, Oct. 11,

Lt. Gov.-F.L. Jobin signed
the writs Tuesday after the
documents were delivered
to. his office by Labor
Minister Russel] Paulley,
acting as deputy premier.

Premier Ed Schreyer led
the New Democratic Party

to power in June, 1969, and

the. government was re-
elected in 1973, -

At dissolution, standing in
the 57-member legislature
was NDP 31, Progressive

Conservatives 23 and
Liberals three. .
All three parties had been

doing preliminary cam:
paigning for the better par’
of a year. Schreyer himself
returned only Tuesday
. afternoon from a ‘weekend
tour of northern Manitoba.

During his absence, the
premier’s 80 year old father
suffered a heart attack and
died Tuesday morning in
hospital,

A June vote had been
expected following the
windup of the. 1977
legislature sitting last

spring but Schreyer said a
number of factors favored a
later election date including
the fact that neighboring
Ontario went to the polls
that month.

The opposition parties will
be campaigning under new
leaders.

Sterling’ Lyon, who
refused immediate com-
ment on the election call,
became Conservative
leader in. December, 1975,
after ousting Sidney Spivak.
, Liberal Leader arles'
Huband. is relatively
Inexperienced in politics.
and failed to. win a
legislature seat in a mid-
term byelection.

The NDP raced ahead at a

pace after taking office in

1969, with the broad goals of:

income redistribution and a
greater public’ presence in
the provincial economy. .
Its firat major legislative
acts created government:

run compulsory automobile .

insurance and abolished
hospital and health in-
surance premiums,
financing all health care
programs from general
revenue.

_ For the future, its main

commitment is to work
toward a universal accident
insurance scheme along the
lines of the plan pioneered in
New Zealand.

The current year's budget
was able to provide only
token and.selective tax cuts
in the wake of a $19 million
deficit.

. Once again, the NDP
campaign will concentrate
heavily on Premier
Schreyer’s personal
popularity and its election
- has been unveiled:
“Leadership you can trust.”
. Lyon is expected to
eampalgn for less govern-
ment involvement in private
enterprise, restraints on
government spending and
taxrelief for individuals and
businesses alike..

Huband and his Liberals
are seeking support for what
he calls the ‘middle
ground,” embracing the

social consciousness of the\

NDP and the Conservative
ideal of: less pervasive
govenrment.

Nomination day will be
Sept. 27. On election day,
polls will be open from 6
am.to8pm.CDT. |

LEG ISAT VE Cl OQ ORS

Pea (aacur (BLAS

formation and resources.

By STU DUCKLOW
Managing Editor

was so’ bad it drove Joyce Chinn nearly
out of her mind. . a

Doubled over with agony, she dropped
the clothes she was washing and fran-
tically called her young daughter, sending
her to the neighbour's for help, Rushed to
the hospital in Ashcroft, she became
delerious and had to be confined to a

straight jacket to keep her from fighting

the nurses and orderlies that were trying
to help,

“They gave mea shot of something and
put me in a straight jacket, but I got off
the bed and wriggled like a worm down
the hall,” she said, recalling the pain
caused by a burst blood vessel in the right
cerebellum of the brain. .

She lost consciousness and wasn’t even
aware she had been transferred to a
hospital in Kamloops where doctors must
have given her up for . dead.

Because six weeks later she woke up to
hear.a priest mumbling something about
passing through the valley of the shadow
of death. ‘ “I said, ‘what the hell's going
on here?’ and ripped the tubes out of my
mouth and nose and legs... One of the first
things I wanted was a cigarette, and the
doctor said, ‘sure Joyce, you can have a
cigarette if you can get it'.”

But she cound’t reach the pack on the
bedside table. Her entire left side was
paralyzed. _

Taht was ten years ago. Joyce, a
practical nurse and housewife had just
given birth to her third. child ten days
earlier and had.complained of frequent
pains in the back of her head ever since.
Her doctor had diagnosed high blood
pressure. .

_ Since then, Joyce has lost her husband,

her three children and all possibilities of
finding.a job. She lived on welfare and a
disability pension alone for much of those
ten years until she married Fred Chinn, a
mentally retarded maintenace worker at
a local sawmill.

“When .you’re handicapped, they treat
you just like a dented can - they put you on
the back shelf - you're no good anymore,”
says Bill Bell, who had a burst blood

years ago and has symptoms nearly
identical to Joyce's.

Both Bill and Joyce are trying to start a
group of handicapped people in Terrace.

health you. just don’t realize how
fristrating it is," says Joyce.

“Tf you're handicapped, and stay
together you can. help each other,” says
Bill, who lives with Fred and Joyce in a
small, unfinished house Fred owns in
Thornhill. ‘Joyce and [ sit here and
unload problems on each other - it helps a
lo aid .

Both Bill and Joyce are paralyzed on
their left sides, but they can walk with
difficulty. Movements of their left arms
are limited to only general control from
the shoulder. In addition, three fingers on
Bill's right hand have been amputated
after they were. caught in an extrusion
press in a plastics factory several years

ago. .
Neither has been able to find’ work,

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Handicapped people in the local area can phone 63
Chinn or Bill Bell about their problems. Both partly paralyzed, Joyce and Bill are
trying to get a group of handicapped people together in Terrace to pool in-

vessel in the same area of the brain two:

6-0435 and talk to either Joyce

Painful recovery
for handicapped

though Bill was employed for one day six
weeks ago at Totem Ford here as “grease

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squashed. that deal,” he says. They
refused him a driver's licence and he lost

hig fob. [ Bo
-The burst blood vessels, called
aneurysms, have left both of them subject
to infrequent epileptic fits, so neither
qualifies for driver's licences, though Bill
is . a former truck driver.
Bill became paralyzed after he. passed
head pains because he. was working too
fast untoading a truck for a building
supply firm in Edmonton, two years ago.
“My heart was pumping too fast, I guess,
and it (a blood vessel) popped. It was like

somebody putting a railroad spike te your .

temple and driving it with a five-pound
hammer.”

He was ina coma for three months after
that incident, but has not yet been able to
receive worker’s (compensation
payments. The claim forms, says the
board, are still tied up at the medical
office. He phones them about twice a
week...

Similar bureaucratic inefficiency has
held back a federal disability pension he
applied for last February. He has been
told payments will start next month.

Since the attack, he’s been living on
welfare “and bumming around an
sponging off relatives.”

If handicapped people got together for
meetings, members would not only get a
boost in morale, but would be able to trade
information ‘about equipment made for
them and be able to lobby for their rights.

Right now, the two are at the mercy of
various civil servants. Fred, who can’t
handle money, signed power-of-attorney
for his salary to a local housewife, ap-
pointed by the department of human
resources. Joyce, who never even sees a
pay stub, could administer the funds
herself, though she would need a taxi to go
shopping.

Since Joyce only gets $10 a month from
Fred’s paycheque, she hardly gets out of
the house at all. Occasionally Fred’s
broth Laverne takes her shopping in a
wheelbarrow because he doesn’t have a
car. “People see me in my wheelbarrow
and they laugh, but I just laugh and wave

c

“If they're picking on us, they're not
picking on anyone else,’’ says Bill.

A group of handicapped people would be
able to locate and purchase’ goods needed
by the members, says Bill. ‘We know
they're available, but we don’t know
where they are.”

Things they need include wrap-arouna
shoelaces, which need only two fingers of
one hand to tie up. They could also use
special holders for propping up playing
cards in a fan shape so they could play
cards with each other,

Joyce needs a scrub bucket With a foot:

pedal to help her squeeze a mop dry, She
casters on itso she doesn’t have to get wet
sitting on the floor while washing It.
Both are capable of doing any kind of
work where they can sit down and use
only one hand. Jobs they could do include
children, working as a receptionist or
telephone answerer.

Ml don’t believe

ee rt

Union

rights

limited in bill

VICTORIA (CP)- The
Social Credit govenrment
introduced amendments to
the Labor Code Tuesday
that make It more difficult
for unions in British
Columbia to be certified as
bargaining agents for
workers. ;

Labor Minister Allan
Williams said that under
provisions of the Labor Code
of British Columbia
Amendment Act a minority
of workers at a given unit
can prevent a union from
becoming bargaining
agents.

Under the changes, at
least 55 percent of the
workers participating in a
certification vote must back
the certification application.

Previously, a simple
majority only was
necessary.

As: well, the support to
make. successful an ap-
plication for.a certification
vote would rise to 45 percent

i of the workers from 3.

“I suppose some will
presume in this an anti-
labor attitude,” Williams
told a news conference. “I
this is the
case,”' .

However, Bill King, labor
minister with the former
New Democratic Party
government, criticized the
changes as being
retrogressive and anti-
labor. ;

“It deals a body blow to
working people in British
Columbia,” King said.in an
interview. ‘It erodes the
rights of workers. It’s a bill
obviously borne out of bias

and hostility. to working
people.”

The amendment act also
contains a provision which
would allow employers to
refuse to give to union
organizers a complete list of
all employees.

Williams said he had
received many complaints,
the majority of which were
from workers, about this
“invasion of privacy.”

. King, however, said such
lists were necessary for
union representatives to
properly conduct an
organizing drive.

“To argue that this is an
invasion of privacy is
tantamount to saying a
voters list is an invasion of
privacy,” the NDP MLA

Said.

The bill also gives em-
ployers greater freedom to
convey its sentiments to a
union during an organizing
drive. .

Williams said that, in the
past, employers were afraid
of being accused of unfair
labor practices when they
should have had every right
“to communicate to an
employee a statement or
fact or opinion reasonably

held with respect to the

employers’ business."

The minister said that
another amendment would
give the employer the right
“to make any change in the
operation of the employer's
business réasonably
necessary for the proper
conduct of that business.”

King said those two
ehanges would give em-
ployers a better chance to
dissaude employees from
joinging a union.

Near million
in legal fees

VICTORIAL(CP)- . The
British Columbia Railway
paid $804,700 in legal fees in

court settlement -of
controversial MEL Pa
case, Economic Develop-
ment Minister Don Phillips
disclosed Tuesday.

He was replying to an
earlier question from Alex
Macdonald NDP - Van-
couver East .who had
requested details of the
settlement, — ;

Phillips also repeated th
details of the $2.5 million
settlement, as they were
outlined in a letter from,
railway chairman . J.N.
Fraine. which the minister
tabled in the legislature Jan.

17. .

MEL Paving Ltd. laun-
ched a. civil action against
the railway charging mis-
representation, mutual
mistake and fundamental
breach of contract, and
seeking more than $4 million
in compensation for work

connection... with. the. out-of
vi ba

ne. ,

Settlement was reached
just before Christmas, when
B.C. Rait legal advisors
indicated the contractor
would probably recover a

judgment of not less than
$2,500,000 including interest
and costs plus another claim

“substantially of
ae ae ip exeess

‘ The Crown-owned rallway

made a secret settlement
with Chinook Construction
and Engineering. Ltd. of
Vancouver which was
awarded .a $10.2 million
contract in July, 1976, and
atill had $4.2 million of work
outstanding when Premier
Bill Bennett called a halt.to
the Dease Lake extension
into northwestern B.C,

Negotiations are under
way With Miller Cartage and
Contracting Ltd. of Rich-
mond,  &5.C.

The railway faces two
other suits as a result of
work done on the Dease
extension by Keen In-
dustries Ltd, and KEM
Construction Ltd., both of
Dawson Creek, B.C.

Macdonald asked if the
$804,700 paid in legal fees
included $285,000 paid to the
Vancouver law firm of
Russell and DuMoulin.

Phillips said he would
take that question as notice,

which means he will reply at

a later datc.

Racism -feared

By ROBERT WELLER

BARROW, Alaska (AP) -
The arrest of an Eskimo in
the. brutal slaying of two
white hikers and an attack
Eskimo youths on a white
man are being cited by some
residents as evidence of
increasing racial tension in
this northernmost United
States town. .

Other people, including
Mayor Eben Hopson, an
Eskimo, cite other. reasons
for the recent violence -
which Includes a bullet fired
through a National Weather
Service office window.

But no one denies that the
artic town of 2,500, which
Police Chief Kim Moeller
says includes about 200 non-
Eskimos, js on edge. .

. Hopson blames sand
liquor for the sporadic in-
cidents and has ordered a
week-long ban on liquor
sales, made legal only last
December. His brother,
Eddie, blames it on the
coming of age of youngsters
who used to be sent to
boarding schools, where
parents had no control over
them, There now is 4 local
high school.
the same time the other
incidents were reported.

For years Eskimo chidren

have occasionally harassed
tourists. Several white
residents, many of them
government ‘employees,
say Eskimos periodically
threaten to kill them.
There has been an in-
crease in what some call
“Eskimo pride’ as they
assume control of local
government. At the same
time. the people of the
Inupiat Eskimo tribe face
the first-ever restrictions on
subsistence caribou hunting
and a. proposed  In-
ternational Whaling
ban on bowhead whaling,
which is their livelihood.
There has been talk

among some Eskimos of -

starting a ‘‘war’ to protect
their rights and of joining
with Eskimo people in
Canada and Greenland to
Eskimo nation. -

But local authorities deny
that these issues.are related
to the latest violence and

that the slaying of the

hikeers was racially
motivated.
Sovalik, 19, a local

Eskimo, is described by
police as a loner who shot
the pair while committing
the theft of a small item.

. Pollee Chief Moeller says
he wonders whether some