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VANCOUVER (CP) — tensive bargaining to end the British Columbia longshore-. men’s strike bbre fruit Sunday as. negotiators -reached a teatative contract settlenient with tho help of a, federal mediator.’

The: crippilng strike by

$,500 longshoremen at seven

B.C. ports that began last ‘Monday had stalled vital export shipments from Weatern- Canada a and ralsed

i.

the. * possibility that Parliament would have to Segisiata an. end to the dispule. |.

Norm

Cunninghat, ‘president | of the B.C,

Maritime Employers’ Association, said he was not happy with the settlement but could live with jt. :

Details of the pact: wére

‘unavailable since union

negotiators wanted - their

members to bear the results .

LEGIS, | PARLTARENT VECTORI

of the bargaining first hand.

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deputy labor minister Bill

Bob Peebles, Canadian Kelly. -

head of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Unions, sald & ratification vateby the

‘union members will be held

early this week and the workers could be back on

_ thelr jobs by Thursday, — ’ The tentative settlement . . reached about 1 a.m. Sun-

came after 20 hours of tough mediation by the federal - government's top mediator,

Last Thursday, new Labor Minister Lincoln Alexander dispatched Kelly to try to head off the dispute. The mediator met with the two sides for three hours Friday and began a conttnuous

negotiating session Saturday

at 9 am, The accord was

day. All three previous ten-

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tative agreements reached innegotlations were rejected by either union negotiators

-or the' membership, The last

to be turned down was rejected by only one vate.

The last offer on the table called for increases of 90 cents an hour in each year of a threeyear contract. The current base rate is $9.10 an hour...

. Kelly said he was pleased

with the “fruitful” -con- clusion of the talke and in- dicated there had been some apprehension in Ottawa’ that Parliament would have to be recalled prematurely to deal with the walkout.

The strike, which affected Vancouver, Victoria, New Westminster, Nanalmo, Prince Rupert, Chemainus and Port Alberni, had halted

: shipments of Prairie grain,

sulphur, potash,

and newsprint, all ial’ t to the economy a Western Canada.

Most important were grain

coal

‘ shipments, already down 10

per cent from levels of a year ago. An estimated 50 ships were at anchor because of the strike as cargo piled up at terminals,

The governments of B.C.,,

- Tentative séttlement i in seen port strike

the threa Prairie provinces and business groups all had appealed to Prime. Minaiter Joo Clark to take quick. action that would resolve the dispute.

In 1975, the Liberal government of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau legistated an end to a similar atrike by the longshoremen, who at that time called the legislation repressive,

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Justice Thomas Berger presents diploma to Erwin Alexander

NESS has their first |

’ pioneer in the area of law

by Greg Middleton’

' dealing with Indians and

Saturday was @ proud day for the native people of the Nass valley, the Nishga, when B.C. Supreme Court Justice Thomas Berger presented diplomas to the graduates of the three-year-old Nisgha Elementary Sec School in New Aiyansh.

Berger, who was a

Indian land, handed out certificates to the first graduating class of the only native-controlled school district in the ‘province.

After a church service in which the graduates and their parents were blessed by Father Hubert MacMillan, ‘the graduates paraded up to

the gymnasium of the

-school that Berger said could “like people themselves teach

the Nishga

all Canadians a lesson.” . Berger, following congratulations by NESS principal Eric Ban- Sgrove, urged the students to be strong in their conviction ~ to remain Nishga. . “Hold to your values,” said Berger, who argued

‘the case in which the court recognized the Nishga people's aboriginal title to the land, at least before the . white man came to this

country.

“When you are strong and know who you are you make Canada strong,”’ said Berger, after urging the students to be strong in their

Photo by Greg Middleton

conviction’ to remain Nishga.

The students, who were lead into the gymnasium by the colorful Nishga drummers in traditional

‘ costume, were told the

Nishga changed Canadian history, Berger, who in 1965 won a case for the Vancouver Island Indians upholding

Con’t. 3

Newspaper dispute not nearing settlement

VANCOUVER (CP) — Members of the Printing Pressmen’ eject Union - voted

y to reject a proposed agreement with -Pacific

Press, undercutting optiin-

ism that Vancouver's two

daily newspapers would be back on streets early next week,

USS. goes after new oil supplies

EDMONTON (CP) — U.S. government plana in

ecentives to heavy oil ,he

‘production that will reault lu 20 projects and several hun thousand: barrels a day of new domestic oil production by 1990, the

United Natlons conference -

on heavy oil was told, @ paper presented to the UN rm asitentered the

sixth of ite seven working

. days, Robert Aitken of the

U.S. energy department declared:

“The U.S. government is enthusiastic su ve of heavy oll production projecis, aware of the enormous potential ented by the resource

se, and is working on a ogre tohelp the industry achieve a significant amount

of production in the next tra

several years,” Thick, mineral-laden AVY oll, difficult to either extract or refine, has been generally in oil development and Is not even precisely defined, Aitken

ote Washington definition, he sald, seems to be that ay “all natural bon gunk except oll

les,!?

Yet the resource in the U.S. ia huge, ‘‘perhaps hundreds of billions of barrels,”

we rliapi igh roved supplies o olls that are includes in official U.S, reserves total only 43.8 billion barrels and are steadily decining,

Not all the oll can be ex- ected, however, —

The Vancouver Mailers’ Union had voted 59 to 10 in favor of the pact, but Harold Dieno, co-chairman of the Joint Councll of Newspaper

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The deposed shah of Iran and his wife, Empress Farah, flew into Mexico City Sunday from the Bahamas and let im- mediately by car for an undisclosed location, airport sources sald.

They said Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his group landed at the Mexican capital aboard a Grumman Gulfstream twin jet awned by a leading Mexican bank, Banco de Comercio, on a direct flight from Nassau.

The sources said the executive jet landed at 4:35 p.m.

Unions, sald the pressmen rejected, on a pretly good vote.

There are slightly more than 200 pressmen at Paclfie Press, which produces the morning Province and evening Sun.

Manning clauses, which determine how many of. them work on each shift, had been the most contentious Issue during the seven- month-old strike-lockout, but both sides agreed last week to submit the question to compulsory arbitration.

Four other unions, representing the rest of the 1,400 union members at Pacific Press, are to vote on the pact during the next few days.

However Dieno said the

‘joint council has always

taken the position that all six unions must ratify any proposed settlement.

"You're golng to ask where do we go from here and I'd have to say I don’t know,’ he said In an in- terview,

The executives of all

unions except pressmen’s have rec- ommended that their

members accept the con- inact which would provide a

‘35-per-cent wage increase over 40 months retroactive ang last Nov. 1, the day the strike-lockopt started.

The pressmen’s executive recommended neither ac- ceptance or rejection of the tentative agreement which was reached early Saturday morning after a fina] 40-hour bargaining session. -

Earlier in the day, Sun publisher Clark Davey said he was optimistle that unions would accept the settlement,

"I would be astonished if

“they didn’t accept it, par-

ticularly considering all the concessions the company made in the last few days,”’ Davey sald in an interview.

He said other factors Prompting acceptance would ba the length of the strike, which began Nov, 1, and an agreement reached a week ago that manning clausea for the pressmen, the most contentious issue in the dispute, would be put to binding arbitration.

The twonewspapers would probably be back on the street one week from today if the tentative agreement is accepted, Davey said. Pacific Press requires 72 hours efter ratification to resume publication.

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JETLINERS ee “Inspection |

is ordered |

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Federal Aviation Ad- ministration’ has ordered inspections of engine mounts on all widebodied jotliners operating in the United . States, the agency sald Sunday.

The FAA directive making inspections mandatory fallowed the issuance of advisories to the airlines by . manufacturers saying the engine mounts on wide- bodied jets should be in- spected.

.Fred Farrar, spokesman, emphasized that

no grounding orders are involved, .

“Wa. belive. that moat. of hy, yissguver ase om f 8

thesa "inspections "can © be during .. routine maintenance of “these air- planes,” Farrar sald. “We do not expect any disruption . (of airline service) resulting from these inspections.”

' - The aireraft involved are

the Boeing 747; Lockheed’s

- L-l01 Tristar'and the A-S00: _ Airbus manufactured by a

European consortium. .

Farrar. said the FAA directive was issued during _ the weekend.

“T's not an emergency ~ thing like we ordered for the DC-10. It's purely precautionary. We have no indication, no information there is anything wrong with any of these aircraft. We just want to make sure,’

Last Wednesday the FAA ordered all 138 DC-10s operated by U.S, airlines grounded as an investigation into the May 25 Chicago crash of an American Airlines DC-10 continued. The crash, which killed 275 persons, occurred on takeoff after one of the plane's wing-

_ mounted engines fell off.

In Montreal, both of Canada's major airlines said they already had completed checks on the engine mounts of their widebodied aircraft before the FAA order.

- An Alr Canada spokesman sald inspections of the Crown corporation: ‘3 L-1011 Tristars were completed a week ago and that the airline had just

hed checking the mounts on its Boeing 747s.

“We are satisfied with the results of these checks,” she sald.

Privately-owned CP Air ran similar checks on ite wide-bodied aircraft in the week following the May 26 crash in Chicago, a spokesman said,

Nelther airline owns any DC-108. |

an FAA —

appeal will be launched. :

puver police, stop) ‘te RCMP,

results of tesla in other

After the ruling;

deaths amd injuries. sald officers

motorcycle clubs.

- HELMET LAW THROWN OUT |

VICTORIA’ (CP) — ‘Many - British Columbia motorcyclists were riding without helmets on the weekend after a Friday court ruling that laws requiring helmets were invalid,

However, police forces in some areas were can- tinuing to charge helmetless ridera in spite of the rullng. Provinctal authorities are to decide early this week whether to order police to atop laying charges,

Associate deputy attorneygeneral Neil McDiarmid said he would meet Monday with motor vehicle branch officials to discuss the ruling and to decide whether an

hile, many pols es digit, ng

“-weére stl being laid by Victoria police and Kelowna

The confusion began when Burnaby provincial court Judge Selwyn Romilly ruled invalid a regulation in the B.C. Motor Vehicle Act which requires motorcyclists to wear helmets, He sald the act states that the su-

-perintendent of motor vehicles must specify which helmets meet provinelal standards.

However the superintendent has been using the parts of the world without having the helmets tested locally, Judge Romilly said ‘the regulation is null and vold because no helmets have been officially approved for use in the pollce said the number of motor: cyclists riding without helmets escalated on the weekend and police said they feared an increase in

Staff-Sergeant Art Burgess of the Burnaby RCMP reported that about 75 per cent of motorcyclists in the Fraser Valley were not wearing helmets Saturday, many of them members of

aser Valley: ROMP. “ tener Dat coy ae

province.

Bus crash kills 11

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

Eleven persons killed early Saturday when a char

tered bus smashed into overpass supports near St.: ‘Hyacinthe,

Que,, were among at least 45 persons

“who died in accidents across

Canada during the weekend.

A survey by The Canadian Press from 6 p.m. Friday to lateSunday night local times showed 41 traffic deaths, three drownings and one

death In an airplane crash,

The 11 victims of the Quebec bus accident were members of a golden age club whe were on their way to Victoriaville, Que., after a night at the harness races in Montreal, It was raining when the bus, carrying 40 passengers, went out of control near St. Hyacinthe, 50 kilometres east of Mon: teal.

Quebec had 11 other traffic

death: during the weekend.

Newfoundland reported five traffic deaths, including three in singte-car accident Saturday about 38 kilometres west of Grand Fails.

In Alberta, four persons died in traffic accldents and one person was killed in an airplane crash.

Monitoba had three traffic deaths and a drowning, and Britlsh Columbla had twe drownings and a traffic death

Nova Scotia and Ontario both reported two traffic fatalities.

New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island both had one traffic death.

Nofatal accidents were re- ported in Saskatchewan.

The survey excludes in- dustrial deaths, slayings and known suicides.

Leak shuts pipeline

VALDEZ, Alaska (AP) — The 1,280-kilometre trans- Alaska oil pipeline was shut down early Sunday after a leak was discovered, an official of Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., the pipeline operators, said.

Sam Akin sald repair crews were at the scene assessing the size and cause of the leak.

A pilot found the leak near

the summit of Atigun Pass in the Brooks Mountain Range, about 265 kilometres south of Prudhoe Bay where the oll originates, Akin said,

Some crude oil spilled Lnto the Atigun River, but Akin said he did not know how much. A containment crew was sent to the scene,

Oil north, or upstream, of the Jeak was being pumped back into holding tanks at

pump stations, Akin said.

The line usually moves 1.2 raillion barrels of ofl a day.

Fred Gunther of the state transportation department said the North Slope haul road which runs parallel to the pipeline from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay was closed . at the Yukon River check- point to provide exclusive access to Alyeska work crews.