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Labor Code

VICTORIA (CP) — The British Columbia. government brought down Its long-promisedl

_ ‘ments that will put more restrictions on secondary -Picketing, make it easier to decertify:a union, __brobiblt political: walkouts and which include a . _ Special section that can be used to open the Expo 36 ate to both union and non-union construction com-

" Employees’ Union, said it is.time. for sOperation-

Solidarity, the’ coalition of labor, chireli*and

“changes th

community service groups that -banded together last year to fight other

panies, |” oo “erie, said: "I don’t understand ' why - they’r Art Kube, president of the B.C. Fedefation: of determined to bring in legislation like this which j . Labor; said the legislation does not bode'well for _—. clearly aished at kicking the trade union movernent_ workers’ rights, Be ye Bm “This province needs labor peace;” Kube, told’. “_. Labor’Minister Bob McClelland, who introduced reporters. “This document is not 4 charterfor labor . -- ’ the legislation ; : peace.” Dt PRS et from? the J j Jack Gerow, spokesman for the Hospital’ | ~conferénce,

_@lement of the provide a solid fo

. The provinclal government is clearly. ‘hell bent" on de-mionization, sald Gerow, who with several other labor leaders went to Victoria for the in- troduction of the bill.” os : Colin Gabelmann, New

Socred Jeglslation, to

crc

“said McClelland.

changes to the labor code Tuesday — and, as ex- regroup. ee cae

pected, the province's union leaders are up in arms “HE. we don’t do it, there will be no trade union .

about what they are calling anti-labor legialation. movement left,” he said. ae The Social Credit government proposesto.tighten. = a,

up its labor legislation on all fronts, with’ amend- GOV'T DETERMINED. -

“in British Columbia,

égislate that.”

tep inthe right direction.

. ‘Buthe would not guarantee that the amendmenta - | Will reduce the number of work days lost to strikes

c. “believe that this will bring some stabjlity and I hope as a result of that there may. be fewer strikes,” “But I think fewer strikes come. ‘from a better relationship between managment and abor themselves. I don't Inow that you can:

‘Sim Matkin, chaitman of. the B.C, ‘Employers’ Council a body that has been lobbying for the labor code to be toughened, said the legislation isa

‘Matkin urged organized labor to give it a chance.

any deficiencies in the k it's too early to make a snap bad. In our view it looks good."

Board. ,

~— removes the power of a union to atrike unilaterally without consulting its membership;

' — prohibits political walkouts unless the union is. in a legal position to strike;

" s reinforces the right of union members to dissent from illegai action ordered by their union without fear of discipline;

-- and prevents secondary picketing unless

‘consent has been obtained from the Labor Relations

The bill also requires that employees be allowed to vote by secret ballot on whether they wish union ‘epresentation before a certification vote can be held. Currently employees indicate their desire to ‘. organize a union by signing a petilion-like document. If a majority of workers sign up then the ’... Inbor board holds a certification vate. . .The'amendments also give cabinet the authority ‘to declare certain economic development projects open to union and non-union workers — a measure McCleltand said he intends to use immediately at

— Wednesday, May 9, 1984".

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Serving the Progressive Northwest

This 17-year-old water tower located near Northwest Com- munity College will soon be removed. Work will begin this summer onan extension of Halllwell Avenue and McConnell | Avenue water mains, and when it Is completed, the tower will

._ the Expo G6 site.

Established 1908

no longer be needed. The tower provided water pressure.” when Wilson Avenue pumps were shut down and static water pressure for the college. . .

Improvements to remedy water problems

by RALPH RESCHKE The second system is connected to _ Herald Staff Writer the gravity feed line coming from ' TERRACE Terfface area the Spring Creek area. This pum-

ping system is used to push the water up to the Halliwell reservoir. where it in turn supplies the Bench area with water. These pumps are’ located. at the Wilson Avenue treatment plant. ; The third pumping system comes into play at the water tower located pipeline connecting Deep Creek to near the callege on McConnell Ave. * the present reservoir where Terrace. The pumps at the tower are used to draws it’s water supply. * , get the water up into the reservoir,

residents can look forward to a steady supply of water in the summer time, and reduced costs in getting that water from the source to the tap. ; Rais K According to : eon, municipal engineer, work will begin this summer on the construction of a

Keen said that 12-16" pipeline connected to the 10” pipe located at Spring Creek will give the district an additional 300 feet of ‘head’’, allowing an increase in water flow and pressure,

Not only will this assure residents of a constant supply of water during the peak use times of the summer, but it will alBo help cut costs of operating the pumping system presently used by the town. .

He, explained that now the municipality uses three pumping systems to move the water. One system is loacated on the Skeena

nearly 100 feet off the ground.

Keen said once the project is completed, the pumps at the Wilson Avenue facility will no longer be needed to pump the water up to the Halliwell reservoir because the water pressure will be high enough to move the water Into the reservoir

_ On its awn:

The ¢ngineér also said that although the pumps will no longer be needed, they.will be kept on standby for emérgénty ‘purposes, .

The pump and tower system at the college will also no longer be required but Will be torn down.

-An Additional saving that stems from dismantling the tower would be

River and is used to supply part of

Terrace with water. . that maintenance and heating costs

would no longer have to be borne by the taxpayers, Keen said.

He explained that the tower had to be heated in winter to prevent water from freezing and. maintenance work to the tower had to be done on every year." - - With the addition’ of the new pipeline to the system, the com. pletion of the water main Joop in the McConnell and Halliwell area is also possible.

Al present, the sysiem ends with dead waterlines on both avenues. . With the construction of the loop, also to occur this summer, at a cost of $22,000, the development of land to the west of the college can’ take place. ;

_ The city will negotiate’ with

‘developers who go into that area to

determine who pays for the con- struction of the loop. —

Terrace presently uses two million ° gallons of water each day, and —

during the summer months the peak demand increases to 3.5 million. As 4 result, the electric motors at the Skeena pumping station are running almost 24 hours a day, Ralph Keen knowa how expensive it is to keep those motors running,

but he is certain the running time of. the pumps will be cut in half with the construction of the new gravity feed from Deep Creek.

He said that once the system has been completed, the Deep Creek line

will provide 1.5 million gallons of. water and the Skeena system will

only have to pump 300,000 gallons ‘of ‘water. -

Further to that, he explained that should the demand for water rise above the two million gallon level, then the water flow coming through

the Deep Creek pipeline can be in- |

creased to keep up with the demand. The city purchased 10,200 feet of

Canron ductile pipe, from the Amex

mifesite at Kitsault at a cost of

$24,000. So far, 8000 feet of the pipe |

hasbeen recovered, and another 2,200

feet remain in Kitsault. The district has budgeted $10,000

for the recovery of the pipe. =~

Keen says that with the savings -

from reducing the running time of the pumps at the Skeena River, the elimination of the need for pumps at

the Wilson Avenue treatment.

facility, and the removal of the McConnell Avenue water tower, the entire water project should pay for itself in a relatively short time.

Romanians still to join the Olympics

With the announcement in Moscow that “anti-Soviet hysteria” will keep some of the world’s top athletes out —_ The deciston prompted statements of the Los "Angeles Olympics, of disappointment from athletes, organizers sought signals today on and State Department spokesman

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whether other Eastern bloc coun- tries would follow sult.

John Hughes called it a “blatant political action for which there was no real justification."

U.S. Olympic officials said they are not giving up hope that the Soviet Union will change its mind, and a Romanian diplomat sald his country will participate.

A masa pullout at Los Angeles '

would be the third in a row to hit the Summer Games. Eighty-one countries joined the United States in boycotting the Moscow Games in 1980, ‘and about 40 stayed out of the 16 Summer Games in Montreal.

For months state-run: news

agencies in Czechoslovakia, East

Germany,’ Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary have been erlticizing the

Los Angeles Games, citing smog, heat and crime,

“There was no official word from those. countries, although Poland hinted at its decision and Czechoslovakia’s state newspaper carried a strident report Tuesday on the conditions that prompted the Soviet decision.

“Poland is not certain of par- ticipating In the Olympic Games in Los Angeles," said PAP, the official Polish newa agency. “The situation created by the Reagan ad-

ministration around the Olympics places a question mark on the participation of the Polish team.”

More on the Soviet boycott on page 2

Gunman takes

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parents hostage, fires at police -

QUEBEC (CP) — A gunman suspected of wounding two: passersby in a sniper attack early today released his elderly father whom he had taken hostage, but was refusing to surrender, police said.

Earller, the shotgun-wielding man

~ freed his mother and two brothers,

police said. . The man fired shots at municipal

police and a provincial ‘police tac: | -tical squad through the-door of, the ° _-honse where he was holed up, Hut: “police did not return the fire. °°.’ Pollce spokesman Gaetan Lacasse

said officers tried to negotiate with the man by telephone, but he was refusing to talk. :

The area surrounding the two-

Quebec

We. gunman psychiatric”

storey brick house located in the St- Sauveur section of Quebec City’s lower town was blocked off and nearby houses were evacuated.

Police had said the man, dressed _ in a green raincoat, had threatened to kill his father.

The passersby were shot in the St- Roch area, a commercial district in the lower town, a few blocks away from the house. ., eo

Police were checking oon _ gunman ae, bean. receiving. ifeatiieat” for many years... Py Police’ said a 25-year-old male pedestrian was wounded in the arm, Jeg and hip in the early-morning: shdoting. <‘ os

mourns |

shooting victims |

QUEBE€ (CP) — Flags at Quebeo’s national assembly flew at half-mast today in mourning for three government = emplbyees gunned down Tuesday by a Canadian army corporal bran- dishing a submachine-gun and dressed in full combat fatigues.

Despite the deaths and the

“wounding of 13 people, the national

‘assembly's 63-year-cld sergeant-at- arms, Rene Jaibert, emerged as a

_ hero credited with saving the lives of _ other legislature employees as he

calmed the gunman and persuaded him to surrender to police. ~

-“J'm sure Mr. Jalbert saved the -

lives of many people whe were at the

' mercy of the gunman because he

Stopped shooting shortly after

because my language is in Quebec . and I-don’t want anyone or anything to destroy it.

“No one will be able to stop me, not the police, not the army, because I am going to carry out this destruction, and then I will destroy myself, It will be a first in Canada.”

Leaving the radio station in a cream-colored rental car with Ontario licence plates, Lortie drove first ta the Quebec Citadel, a 18th- century fortress where he fired a burst from his submachine-gun. No one was injured,

He then drove to the assembly, parking his car ona driveway just beside the main building near a statue of the late premier Maurice Dupleasis.

"after the man had installed himself

Jalbert stepped in,” said Johanne Tanguay, a national assemble camerawoman who was operating a remote-controlled television camera in‘ the chamber when the gunman

RECOUNTS EVENTS .

Recounting the events that followed, Guay said Lortie entered the assembly from the side entrance

burst in with his submachine-gun where he shot and seriously

blazing. wounded assembly hostess Jacynthe National assembly: Speaker Richard.

Richard Guay also praised Jalbert’s Assembly messenger Camille

“courage, coolness and quick Lepage, 54, who was corilng down a

thinking’ in defusing the situation

; stairway near the entrance, was the by walking up to the gunman shortly

next victim of Lortie’s submachine- gun fire. Lepage died on the spot. —

Lortie, who seemed to know his way, continued through the building, wouncing Denis Samson, security chief with the Quebec Justice

in the Speaker's chair, shaking his hand and offering him a cigarette.

At the time, the gunman, iden- tified as Cpl. Denis Lortie, was

holding a dozen frightened people hostage In the chamber.

Lartie, a 22-year-old supply

technician from CFB Carp, Ont., horth of Ottawa, is lo appear In court

today,

LEAVES CLUE

Lortie left.a clue to his motives in a Cassette tape he dropped off at radio station CJRP minutes before the’ shooting and 4%-hour seige began at 9:45 a.m, . ’ On the tape, he said he was armed and planned to ‘destroy’? Premier Rene Levesque and his Parti Quebecois government for the “wrong” they had done to fran- cophones in Quebec and Canada,

“The, Parti Quebecois wants to have one language in Quebec, For what reason? They want to canfine us ta Quebec,” he said, speaking softy in French.

“E could have attacked something

' tore important, like the Liberal

party in Ottawa,” he added. "This ig a very important --" ° "ma

Department, Jean-Olivier Blanchet, a tourist from Riviere-du-Loup, Que.,- and construction worker Mauril Roy.

Raymond Pare, an assenibly clerk, thought there had been an explosion when he heard the gunfire.

“Fran out and there I was, face to face with a soldier. He didn't say anything and, frankly, I wasn’t keen on chatting either.’

A bullet went through Pare's black flannel trousers without hitting him.

Helene Savary, a national assembly secretary, was also wounded as she worked in her office near the assembly chamber, known as the Blue Room.

Witness Jean Blanchette said the gunman shouted threats against Levesque and Finance Minister Jacques Parizeau aa he ran through the building toward the assembly chamber,

No politicians were among the injured. Levesque was in Montreal at the time.