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Boycott Victoria tourism

VICTORIA CP-The Victoria Labor Council approved a motion Wednesday to encourage tourists to boycott the Victoria area,The motion,put porward by the International Woodworkers of America, was passed in retaliation to a threatened lawsuit against the British Columbia Ferry and Marine Workers Union by some Victoria-area businesses,

The ferry workers’ union disobeyed two back-to-back orders earlier this month and shutting down the provincial ferry system.

A number of Vancouver Island tourist-oriented groups have said they intend to sue the union, the ferry corporation and the government for losses the reportedly suffered during the ferry strike.

But Merray Drew of the IWA said wnionist aren’t prepared to stand still for such a move.

“We aim to get ourown back,’’ Drew said.

He said the boycott campaign would be launched next Monday at an IWA convention in Portland, where unionists will be asked not to travel to the Victoria area,

Hotliner to justice

OTTAWA (CP) — Jack Webster, son of Vancouver radio hot-line broadcaster Jack Webster, has been appointed executive assistant to Justice Minister Ron Basford, it was announced today.

Webster, a lawyer, replaces Paul Manning who has returned to Vancouver toseek the Liberal nomination in the riding of Vancouver Quadra. :

Basford also announced that Bryan Baynham,.a Van- couyer lawyer, has replaced Professor Ed Ratushny as special adviser on judicial appointments,

Laurel March has been appointed a special assistant in Basford’s office.

Traffic-bound moose shot

OTTAWA (CP) — A young bull moose was shot and killed Wednesday about a mile frony downtown following a three- hour chase by conservation and police officers who tried to drive the animal from city traffic into the bush.

“Once they get into the city, it’s almost too late to save them,” said Gord Shearer, provincial conservation officer.

The 600-pound moose was the third in two months to wander into the city. The first was driven back into the bush; the second also had to be destroyed. Shearer said all bulls trave] long distances during mating season.

The moose led the men through bush in the city’s east end, along the Queensway, a cross-town highway, until the animal reached the Nicholas Street exit ramp leading downtown. It was shot hehind a hockey arena.

Several attempts were made to shoot the animal with a tranquillizer gun. Meat from the animal will go to a home for the aged.

Grants awarded artists

OTTAWA (CP) — The Canada Council announced today that $718,910 has been awarded to 76 artists, writers and performers.

Senior arts grants worth up to $16,000 each for four to 12..

months of study and work were made to six writers and eight visual artists. :

Award winners Maillet, Qutremont, Que., Jean-Paul Pinsonnaull Waterloo, Que., Joyce Marshall and Scott Symons, Toronto, David McFadden, Hamilton, Ont., and Thomas Wayman, Vancouver.

Visual artists winning awards were Terrence Syverson, Cape North, N.S., Micheline Beauchemin, Les Grondines, Que., Claude Tousignant, Montreal, William Ronald, Toronto, Ronald Martin, London, Ont., Ivan Eyre, St. Norbert, Man., Wyona Mulecaster, Saskatoon, and Ann Kipling, Falkland, B.C.

$43 million fire damage

COLOGNE, West Germany (AP) — Flames swept through the spare parts warehouse at the German Ford pliant Thursday, causing at least $43 million damages, the automobile company reported.

Three firemen were overcome by smoke while fighting the blaze, which was still burning out of control Thursday night, six hours after the alarm was given, a Ford spokesman said.

Cause of fire was not immediately determined. Police said the possibility of arson was under investigation but there was no indication the blaze had any connection to German terrorist incidents this week.

Raise minimum wage

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House of Represen- tative completed congressional action Thursday on a bill raising the national minimum wage from the current $2.30 an hour to $3.35 an hour by 1981.

Nearly five million workers will get increases in their paycheques Jan. 1 when the first stage of the four-step, 45- percent increase takes effect, going up to $2.65 an hour.

The House voted 236 to 187 to send the bill to the White

House, ignoring arguments from Representatives John Er-

lenborn (Rep. Hl.), John Ashbrook, (Rep. Ohio) and John Rousselot (Rep. Calif.), that the bill would put hundreds of thousands of workers out of jabs.

Representative J. J. Pickle (Dem. Tex.) had asked the House to reject the compromise worked out by a Senate- House conference committee because it greatly weakened a House provision exempting more small businesses from paying the minimum-wage benefits.

The House showed no inclination to push harder for its

sition, however, and with its vote ended a six-month fight or the minimum wage increase by organized labor and others.

Justice minister quits

STUTTGART, West Germany (AP) — State Justice Minister Taugott Bender, who was responsible for the operation of the West German prison where three terrorists committed suicide, resigned today, a spokesman for the Baden-Wuerttemberg justice ministry said.

Bender's resignation followed by one day the dismissal of the warden and security director at Stammheim Prison. Convicted terrorists Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Ras and Gudrun Ensslin committed suicide in their celis Tuesday morning, a few hours after German commandos

ended an air hijacking staged to force their release.

A fourth, Irmgard Moeller, was found stabbed in her cell but was rushed to a hospital where she is recovering.

Bender said Raspe and Baader shot themselves with pistols but was unable to explain how the weapons were smuggled into the prison, V1 Germany’s most secure,

Leftists throughout Western Eurupe claim the terrorists were murdered.

State President Hans Filbinger affirmed his confidence in Bender's “personal and moral integrity’’ but accepted the resignation in respect for Bender’s wishes.

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Cherry Pol

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Governor Dixy Lee Ray's administration will continue to seek elimination of the portion of the state’s Coastal Zone Management Plan

Superport west of Port Angeles ; nt proponents still

favoring creation of an oil superport at or west of Port Angeles.

State Ecology Director Wilbur Hallauer confirmed the administration’s in

tentions in an interview Wednesday, adding that “it looks like we'll never have a trans-shipment point here in the state.”

He conceded that

President Carter and Congress have blocked construction of such an oil trans-shipment port east of Port Angeles. United States Senator Warren G.

Magnuson was responsible jor that action.

“Our action won't change anything as far as east of Port Angeles goes, but we want to eliminate the state’s

Parliament's failed regional interests

By ALAN ARBUCKLE

REGINA (CP) — The Canadian Parliament is not working as it should to cope with regional interests Saskatchewan Premier Allan Blakeney told the task force on Canadian unity today. _ Blakeney said in a diverse country such as Canada there will always be con- flicts, but Parliament has failed to act as broker, satisfying regional interests and power groups by making trade-offs.

The Senate was intended to meet regional needs but does not and the House of

Commons, because of its party structure, cannot do the job, the premier said.

As aresult, Blakeney said the provinces are dissatisfied.

The task force is headed jointly by former federal cabinet minister Jean-Luc Pepin and former Ontario premier John Robarts.

The NDP premier added that federalist, forces must get organized in Quebec. He said a federal] leader, organization and program are needed in that province.

Quebec federalists, ap- preaching a provincial referendum on separation,

might say that Premier Rene Levesque’s proposal for a sovereignty association between Quebec and the rest of Canada was unacceptable. ‘ Blakeney said in a brief to the task force that a sover- eignty association offered virtually no economic benefits to Saskatchewan. He called on Canadians outside of Quebec to define their negotiating stance so that Quebec federalists could show voters in that province what alternative there is to separation. Blakeney said he was assuming that any

Prairie Francophones want more protection |

REGINA (CP) — A group Oo: gni ka residents in Saskatchewan have called for protection of French language rights in the provincial school act and for an official minority office in the government,

L'Association culturelle Franco-Canadiennes, meeting with the provincial cabinet Wednesday said the two proposals “must be implemented at once if the francophone community in Saskatchewan is to survive and grow.”

The association said creating an official minority office or secretariat would make an agency responsible for developing francophone

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“The predicament of francophone communities outside Quebec, and more particularly in Saskat- chewan, continues to be one of constant struggle for sur- vival,” the group said in a statement released prior to the meeting.

The outcome of the struggle will be largely determined by individual francophones, the grou said, but “all levels o ‘government must commit themselves to reversing the disintegration of the fran- cophone community as shown by the alarming rate of assimilation.

Following the meeting with the cabinet, Rene Archambault, the group’s

Vote

useless and costly

PRINCE ALBERT (CP) “Useless and very costly” is how former prime minister John Diefenbaker described Prime Minister Trudeau’s suggestion of a national referendum on Canadian unity.

‘Tt will determine nothing,’’ Diefenbaker said Thursday.

He added that it is obvious Canadians want Quebec to remain in Confederation.

Trudeau was trying to “blow up" the national unity issue so that he could pose as the ‘savior of the country.”

Diefenbaker said Quebec will not vote for separation.

“I know Quebec well. It gave me support received by no ‘other Conservative prime minister since the days of (Sir John A.) Macdonaid."”’

In a telephone interview, the Prince Albert MP said -he has talked with many French Canadians and they have supported his feelings.

The real reason for the problems in Quebec is high unemployment, about which the government does

nothing, Diefenbaker said.

vdi as , tned Education Minister Don Faris presented a coun- terproposal to an official minority office attached to the executive council.

Archambault said Faris suggested an advisory

~CUPE against

VANCOUVER (CP) -- Leaders of the Canadian Union of Public Employees have drafted a! policy: statement for the union’s national convention here next week that opposes the policy of tripartism ad- vanced by the Canadian Labor Congress (CLC).

The draft polic statement, released Wed- nesday, says the CLC aim of a povernment, business and labor partnership to run the country is unworkable.

The policy says that ‘unions in this country could not participate with government and business Interests because they have not yet got equal economic and political clout.

CUPE is the biggest af- filiate of the CLC, which has held some discussions on tripartism with the federal government and representatives from big business.

CUPE leaders __—irwilll present their position paper to 1,200 delegates making up what they describe as the largest convention of a single union in Canadian labor history.

The policy statement says the manifesto adopted by the parent CLC two years ago on tripartism won’t work. .

“Employers and govern- ments, respect power,” it says ‘What the (tripartism) manifesto does not face is

The policy also wams delegates that if the CLC entered a form of tripartism “from its present position of weakness, it would be co- opted into serving the in- terests of corporations because government has not shown itself to be a neutral third party standing bet- ween business and labor.’’

It charges that “recent history has amply demonstrated that govern- ment policies are eavily weighted toward business.”'

"In addition, it describes tripartism as undemocratic because the high-level body would be made up of people who are appointed rather than elected.

The policy says that the alternative to tripartism is to build a more powerful union.

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MEDIATE OCCUPANCY

council responsible to the minister of education.

Donald Cyr, general director of the association, said in an interview Wed- nesday that access to French education should be a right, not a privilege.

agreement on a rearrangement of the relationship between the federal government and the provinces would have to wait until after a referen- dum on Quebec and the subsequent change of at- titude on the part of the government there.

In his strongly-worded brief, the premier said Saskatchewan _recognizes the long-term henefits of Confederation and values the consept of a united Canada.

But in the short-term, he added that Saskatchewan might even gain some economic benefits by Quebec leaving.

He repeated Saskat- chewan's complaints about freight rates, tariffs and

resource policies and suggested the province may have more luck

renegotiating its deal in mh federation Quebec.

‘Confederation was a bargain which had some

advantages for us,” Blakeney said. “But lately the ad-

vantages have become harder and harder to detect,

Unity vote ‘unnecessary

ST.. JOHN’S, Nfld. (CP) — -

Premier Frank Moores of Newfoundland says that at. first glance a national

_Teferendum on Quebec

‘separation from Canada seems somewhat unneces- sary.

“T's assumed that the other nine provinces would like to see national unity,” Moores said today, com- menting on remarks by Prime Minister Trudeau in the Commons Wednesday.

Trudeau said the’ federal government is working ona new law that would enable it

to hold a_ national referendum on the Quebec question.

Moores said Quebecers could probably use a national referendum to their own advantage “by saying the rest of Canada can’t get along without us so therefore we can have economic union.’’

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understood agreements are abandoned or attacked.” He noted that the federal government took its share of oil revenues while other

_resources were left ex-

clusively for the provinces and the producers.

Blakeney complained that tariffs and freight rates mean Saskatchewan residents pay too much for manufactured goods and they also discourage the de- velopment of manufac- turing industries in the province.

Without that manufac- turing, the province was left with a fluctuating agricultural economy.

The premier also pointed to the proposal from federal Transport Minister Otta Lang that user pay the full cost of rail transportation. Blakeney said while other forms of transportation are subsidized, Saskatchewan will loose the Crow's Nest pass freight rates, ‘which we regard as an essential part of the Confederation bargain.”

Biakeney said a Canada without Quebec would not be able to cope as effectively with world problems.

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pro-Port Angeles superport policy,’’ Hallaver said.

Former Gov. Dan Evans amended the state’s federal coastal plan to lend support for a common-use terminal at or west of the major city on the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Northern Tier Pipeline Co. is asking permission to build a port at Port Angeles and a Mid- westbound pipeline aroun Puget Sound. ° .

“If: we accomplish deletion (of the Evans amendment), it would leave us in a neutral position, with no policy,”’ Hallauer said. “1 don't see why the Ray ad- ministration should be bur: dened with the Evans

policy.”

He said he will go to Washington, D.C., at the end of the month to discuss the matter with Commerce. Secretary Juanita Kreps, He will also attend US, Supreme Court arguments in Atlantic Richfield’Co,’s suit against the state’s ban on supertankers on the inland waters.. :

Meanwhile, state energy chief Larry Bradley says he isn’t saying final rites over the proposal for a port at Cherry Point, despite the congressional ban. Public debate should continue, he said,

“don’t regard the door as completely closed on the Cherry Point project,” he:

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