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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

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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

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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.

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