TERR ACE ALT oe y piant, by far the greatest _ proportion, . 2.4 million. — Cancel expects to plant close t ., province fs - VANCOUVER (CP) - — Municipal workers in west * Vancouver were planning to escalate strike action - _ today in their first-ever work stoppage. -: “The 250 workers went on strike March § aver the _-¢ Game issues that have stalled settlement of a reven-. a week strike by civic workers in other Vancouver- _ area centres.. tee Earlier this week, pickets halted bus service for” - about 4-000 West Vancouver | COMLENULETD and: several thousand shoppers. . At issue are equal pay for inside and outside . workers aod wage parity with other workers in the “trades, iniluding electricians ant mechanics who. * now earn about $10.an hour with the city. ote Weat Vancouver’ workers. say labor relations started felling apart.a few years ago, when’ the —_ . Greater - Vancouver Regional District started he ' bargaining for the municipality. ot Ken Naylor, president a ployees unton, said close co-operation between city - council and employees had alwaya existed, which is ‘why ‘they had never been on strike nor participated “ ‘in a work stoppage. "Then wo years ago GVRD sept alert 2 ‘of the municipal ‘en-. city and WVMEA signed a memorandum of - _ agreement," he said. “The contract was approved . "by the membership: But the GVRD rejected three _ sues fn the agreement. The membership felt let _ Volume 75 No. 55 | _ Thue, March 9. Wel “Seeding, ~ Storage — jumps the opening of. a, new. refrigerated seedling storage facility last weekend allowed the reforestation . cwpability of the Terrace forestry region to jump over _ 0 per cent. ' ‘ Lécated close to town in a converted munitions storage - building,” the new: facility . increased storage capacity from 60,000 one to three year . qld seedlings ‘to over 2.5 "The facility: is the main - link in the regions reforestation program which ltucif jumped 300. per cent over last year: Over. 3.4) milllon mainly. ‘wpruce and — hemlock seedlings are expected to be ‘planted in the: region this to 600,000 while forestry iteeif has contracted for 37,000. a Provincewide, the. ' ministry of forests expects-to plant over 87. milllon peodlings on 70,600 hectares. . ‘This compares to 75 million ” seedlings planted on 63,000 : hectares last year. . "By. 198586 the Ministry ; Plant. over 150 ‘mi Hos. “trees on 86,400 -Twu still. “picketing . Workers Union were stl} out "on the picket line today as : they, waited for the final Wewults of this week's voting ‘ad a contract agreement ; with B.C, Tel. : Voting for, regions union - members took place on “‘Tiesday in’ what - was” described as the largeat _ turnoit in 10 years, Mem- - bere. from the Queen Charlotte Iulands, Prince Rupert, Smithers, Terrace \ and Kitimat voted. “Moral is pretty good,” ' crafts person with B.C, Tel. "negative effect on what we _ ‘accepted but everyone was giad It fas come toa vote.” Voting will continue in the today and - fomortow, with results made "public sometime on Fridsy. "There was a lot of feeling swhen we.were voting,” sald Anderson. ‘It waa a yes feeling, a vote of confidence for the contract and for the “Because the coat of living took a large jump’ with the new. B.C. budget Anderaon feela that what members secepted ia sow less than when they’ began negotiations. _ “But we've got to stop somewhere," sald Anderton. i feant a persona! lose of up by $2,500 for top paid workers with B.C. Tel. . "Sylvia Willls could fell some fish stories ... there's 26,000 of them Inthe tank next to her. VANCOUVER: (cP) — A local mining and forestry executive days deapite B.C.’ 4 bountiful resources, it has me of the worst strike records in the Western world. , Adam - Zimmerman, executive vice-president of Noranda’ Mines Ltd... said Wednesday labor problems and government regulatory changes are the biggest rondblocks facing prospec- tive investors in Western Canada. - , Zim merman, president of Norwood: Pulp and. Timber. Lid., Bald the current system of labor representation, in negotia- dons “apparently deriande extremist. behavior on the part of the Inbor leaders, to which of ‘coilfse, there is corresponding. reaction by management repre- sentatives.” Zimmerman, told a Financial Post-Air Canada- sponsored conference on development in Western Canada that a cortcentration of induatry fies led to a similar coricentration of labor. | ary He said unio négotlatora should be givéa the shme power to make binding decisions at the bargaining the - table ry thelr’. corporate counterparts, ‘because the. curretit situation results in a “kind . of ‘non-bargaining.”’. “The West bas by far the highest wages anid income in. Canadisn society and enjoys an spperent standard of living — not anywhere else’ in this _ Country,” be said. “Nevertheless, labor negotiators wold often have you believe ‘that labor comiitions in the major in-- ‘dustries -are. equivalent to those in the British textile indontry in 1850." He ald ‘another threat. to, exceeded Weatein ‘investment ia the ‘unpredictability of provincial © sand federal goverument policies." * Mining and forest -com- panels were welcomed to . services ‘Meanwhile, a tentative agreement hag been - “ ‘reached. {n,¢. contract dispute between the East. - . - Kootenay oomminity of Kimberley and its 64 civic * workets, Détails-of the pret were being withheld - “pending a ratifigation vote by workers, membersof , the United Steel Workers of America, The union has “been en atrike since Feb. + . ie project undergos change! - Permanent hatchery planned in Kitimat. By BECKY RAGLON Herald Stat Writer © ‘There: are’ some’ big changes ahead for the — Salmonid Enhancement Project in Kitimat. For the past three years the home for the project has been a sinall trailer but that — will change next year when a permanent hatchery: is esta blished. When finished, “the $8 million hatchery will be one of the largest in Canada, and it will have .an ambitious salmon spawners ‘a year. to. the Kitimat River... Currently. there are *.1,500 ' salmon spawning in. the.. river, a figure which is the . “preventative | Municipal workers to cease eile action About 850 striking civie and nicteaching school board employees in Nanaimo and Ladysmith were voting today on a tentative agreement reached ‘Renda ih coral Vans ad pb a