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[FRmay JUNE 24/ 1977 5 rd TECTORIA ‘ . ; a ¢ ) Radie shack ) INSIDE The Right Sound At The Af- \. fordable Price ° Twinriver Timber, p. 3 Sony Precision Belt Driven Turntable Brian blasts council, p.4 $159.95 Dear Abby, p.7 4607 LAKELSE AVENUE, . \ PHONE 695-5610 P, ‘a Comics, p.8 a GRAHAM LEA CHARGES el do id OIL PORT INQUIRY | - More funds to study effects Herald staff writer The Nishga tribal council Iwill receive'$25,000 and the ‘Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) will get $35,000 in federal funding to assist devel ‘specia their direct participation in | Of this additional funding, the West Coast Oil Port (a $25,000 contract will be Inquiry, inquiry arranged with seven Indian commissioner Dr. Andrew bands in the northwest Thompson announced region for a study to be Wednesday headed by UBC antirtpiltgst John Pritchard. “The purpose of this to enable the | special interest of the native people to be represented ore the inquiry,” he said. . Thompson also announced that an additional: $40,000 will be made available ‘to evidence on the dependency of native people on food from the sea and river eyetems. A $15,000 contract will be arranged for studies to be conducted in other areas of the province including the CULTURAL IMPACT SUBJECT OF LOOK - Astudy involving seven northwest Indian ‘bands will “attempt to noject the damage to the Indian culture from the establishment of an oil port in Kitimat, UBC anthropologist John Pritchard told the Herald - Wednesday. - yt Kitimat oil port inquiry commissioner Dr. Andrew . Thompson just announced that the proposed study will receive $25,000 in federal funding. The native groups participa in the study are:" the Kitamaat band; the Kitsumkalum and Kitselas -bands from Terrace; the Hartley Bay band; the Metlakatla band near Prince Rupert; the Kitkatla .band; and the Port Simpson _ band. ' Pritchard, who has served ds a consultant to the Kitamaat band, said that the study will focus on the native fishery, which greatly affecta the economic and cultural life of the native eople. “If it is damaged," Pritchard declared, “thewhole culture is damaged. oo But the anthropologist noted that he will be lookin into a whole range of other areas as well. Pritchard said that the study would take two months. and would involve himself, an assistant as well as a _ native field worker in each. village. “We are going to get as much native input as we - ean,” he stated. The field workers will gather dietary, economic and social data on the native groups which willl then be complied and analyzed by Pritchard. The conclusions will then be submitted to. the Thompson inquiry. Pritchard said he hoped to begin the sutdy ‘'ag soon as can,’’ possibly next week. Pritchard has just completed his doctoral thesis at UBC which dealt extensively with the economics of Kitamaat Village. . Queen Charlottes and the regions of the Thompson, ‘Fraser and Skeena River systems. These studies will be co-odinated by UBCIC. The $100,000 being made available to native organizations is part of. a total of $380,000 in funding previously announced by hompson to aid environmental - groups, fishermen, native Indians and others in presenting evidence to the inquiry, previously called the timat oilport inquiry. Thompson noted that “various oilport proposals could result in tanker traffic along the west coast of the Queen Charlottes, Vancouver Island and into *he Strait of Juan de Fuca.” “This traffic could adversely affect the marine resources of great : { 1 i i classrooms. With subject matter like the Grade Two class (above), it’s little wonder. There was, as can be imagin childrne’s part to take their noses out of the colouring books to pose for an appreciative photographer. importance to native Indian people along the coast and upthe major river systems,”’ he _ siad. The commissioner said that he had received fundin applications from sever bands and organizations. The decision on allocation was made on the absis of discussion with native froupe during the course of e preliminary hearings and through individual meetings with native groups, _ he said. “As has been the case with the other major interest groups - the coalition of environmentalists and the fishermen - the level of funding available will not permit all applications to be satisfied,'' Thompson admitted, Freight rates high, BC Rail study told . MACKENZIE, B.C, (CP) — British Columbia Forest Products Ltd. told the British Columbia Railway inquiry Wednesday that freight rates from this community 80 miles north of Prince George are too high. In a_ brief to the commission . investigating the railway’s affairs, the company said it is ‘concerned about higm shipping rates from its Mackenzie mill and the extra cost to the company when B.C, Rail service is interrupted, | Richard Drake, BCFP general manager wood products division, said it cost the company $2.3 tmaillion to ship products in 1976 when the railway was shut down by laborndisputes. His company shipped 27 million board feet of lumber and 27,000 tons of pulp by truck to Prince George and: Dawson Creek during the dispute, Drake said. A mill in Prince Rupert shipping to New York would pay the same rate as a nee George mill andni4 cents a hundredweight less than a Mackenzie mil] closer to to market, Drake said, The hearing continues, Weather Yesterday: High: 19 Low: 9 Today: High: 14 Low: 10 Forecast: Cloudy with a few showers in the morning; rain by afternoon ed, little reluctance on the B.C. canneries 1,500 shore jobs lost by wheeling, dealing VICTORIA (CP) — A secret international cartel is forcing British Columbia's small, independent fishing and canning firms out of business, Graham Lea (NDP—Prince Rupert) said Wednesday. Lea called for an emergency debate on the matter, but Speaker Ed Smith ruled the request out of order. Lea told the legislature that unless the government takes quick action, the cartel will force thousands of B.C, workers permanently off the job. “More than 1,500 shore and packing fleet jobs plus those of hundreds of individual fishermen are evaporating in an epidemic of peculiar closures, receiverships and financing problems .,.,” said Lea. The NDP MLA said the problems have particularily t Francis Millerd and Nishi Sons, Industries, . Oakland Industries and recently, Queen Charlotte Fisheries “right at the start of its busiest and most lucrative season.” “These disasters have oc- cannery owned by the Weston multi-national conglomerate, has signed a first-ever contract for export of eight million yesterday in backwards.” living. ‘ benefits. tour. provincial TOUGH BARGAINING FOR PUBLIC SERVICE Herald staff writer The British Columbia Government Employees Union (BCGEU) is facing a tough session of bargaining, vice-president Sid Burton said yo Terrace. “This is going to be a tough session,” he predicted. ‘““We are not goint to stand going Burton described the union’s demands as “not extensive” and ‘reasonable’, and said that the BCGEU was just rying to keep up with the cost of The union’s bargaining priorities include a Cost of Living Adjustment clause, job security, protection of employees transferred to or displaced by crown corporations, and other The union is seeking a one-year agreement. Burton was in Terrace Tuesday as part of a pounds of sockeye salmon, representing the bulk of an average year’s pack, to Japan. “This strange sequence of events also coincides with the culmination of several longplanned federal fishery policies concentrating ishing licences into a the fishing limit to 2h e it to miles,” he said. PRODUCED DEALS Lea said ‘this was a circumstance which has produced ‘‘a spate of selective deals on both coasts between the major Japanese and Canadian fishing interests.” “The situation demands immediate overnment response," said Lea, “and a public inquiry to determine if British Columbia’s small independent. firms and workers in the fishing in- dustry are being sacrificed to help bring about a secret international cartel.” Lea’s accusations were made on the heels of a - protest by more than 100 fish cannery workers employed | at Queen Charlotte Fisheries—owned by Delta ..urred at the same time that--Food Processors Ltd.— reports have circulated that “Which closed Monday. — B,C. Packers, the dominant. Worker representatives met with Economic Development Minister Don Phillips, who told them he was doing ‘everything within reason" to try to revive the canneries, but promised no miracles. Lea said that when Phillips met with the workers, belonging to the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, he immediately mentioned a monopoly, although no one had suggested the idea. “Why did the minister start his conversation off with the delegation—no one asked him— he said ‘I'd like to assure you that there is no monopoly being started in this province,"’ said Lea. “I mean, nobody asked him why did he seem to have - to defend the’ companies before anyone even asked Prior to Lea's statements, Phillips told the legislature the ‘most recent closures were not the result of external pressures or monopolies. JUDGMENT MADE “There was a value judgment made by the bank involved,’’ said the minister, but he refused to elaborate. Phillips said he has receiv are ort on the BC. velopment Corp. on Delta clos but refused to reveal the details to the legislature. le said the government is ready to call an emergency meeting of the BCDC board to make a decision on the plants. Vanderhoof case ends in acquittal VANDERHOOF, B.C. (CP) — Richard Redekop, 23, was found not guilty Wednesday of negligence in the traffic death last year of Cordéen Thomas, 21, of the nearby Stoney Creek Indian nt Provincial court Judge David Lewis ruled that on the evidence of the dead girl’s sister Marjorie, 16: ‘Thomas made a grave error in judgment in darting across the road in front of Redekop’s car July 3, 1976. Thomas, nine months pregnant, was struck and illed on a road from this northcentral British Columbia community to the Stoney Creek Reserve, nine miles southwest. People she was walking with had testified that she had been THOMPSON'S LAMENT IWA ‘getting hosed’ VANCOUVER (CP) — Union spokesman Syd Thompson said Tuesday that anti-inflation guidelines will hold total compensation increases for International: Woodworkers of America members to not more than six per cent this year. — “Tt is not a good situation at all this year because of the anti-inflation board,” Thompson told a meeting of the Vancouver and District Labor Council. “We're going to get hosed. mane no mistake about Thompson said AIB guidelines wil] hold IWA members to increases of not more than six pe cent, while the cost of living is rising at a rate of between seven and eight per cent. “Our wages be going backwards," he said. Thompson's remarks were made on the eve of serious bargaining sessions between the IWA and the forest industry for a new master contract covering 28,000 coastal woodworkers. Both sides have been meeting sporadically since April 18 with litde progress reported. ompson, president of the IWA's Vancouver local, said the union will announced the result of its region-wide strike vote on day with a majority of more than 90 per cent expected, ‘Within a week or 10 days, we will have some idea of where we stand and what kind of problem we're facing,” he said. Although the master coast agreement expired at midnight June 14, all union members have remained on the job while negotiations continue. The IWA’s original contract demands included a $i-an-hour general wage increase anda total package boost of 30 per cent over one ear. The current base rate is $7.01 an hour. Thompson said a main goal of the union may be the establishment of one union pension plan covering all members between B.C. and Manitoba. There are currently three plans—one for coastal woodworkers and IWA Members in Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba, one for B.C, northern interior woodworkers, and a third for southern interior wood- workers in the,province. “We would then have the largest portable union nsion plan in Canada,” ompson said. drinking heer and smoking marijuana at a street dance before the accident. At an inquest into the death last September, Indians used the accident to publicize human rights issues in the community. None of those issues became part of the trial this week. The trial b3gan Monday as a preliminary hearing but was complicated by defence lawyer Sid Simons reserving the right to change his client’s election of trial by judge and jury and ask that the hearing be converted in mid-stream to a trial by judge. ASKED FOR DISMISSAL Simons, of Vancouver, made that move Wednesday after the Crown had resented: its case. After lekop re-elected trial by judge, Simons moved for a dismissal. He argued that the death occurred because of circumstances in which a roup of people acted oolishly and: Redekop became a victim of their actions. Crown prosecutor Don Clancey argued that another car had passed through the ‘oup on the road without itting anyone because it had slowed down and because Redekop hadn’t slowed down indicated a wanton disregard for the balely of others, Although evidence of wit- nesses, mainpy native people, was contradictory in details of what happened all denied that Thomas had been playing “chicken” when she was hit. The game involves standing in front of an oncoming car and daring its driver to elther avoid the player or hit him. Witnesses told police that a game of chicken was being played but denied the statement at the inquest and at the trial. ee ee we owe ewe ww ee - eC Ce er ene > wee ee ese