CLARK'S TORY LEADERSHIP FACES TEST FRIDAY
Old hounds
         by ALLAN FOTHERINGHAM Southam News columnist
and young pups snap at Joe's
The
Thursday, February 26,1981
Prince George, British Columbia
  OTTAWA - In Joe Clark’s world, the hounds of war are everywhere.
  His picture, handsome in technicolor, looms over the lobby of the Chateau Laurier, where the 2,000 Tory judges of his fate are gathering.
  But the newsstand cash register, thanks to the management of the hotel, is dominated by copies of Discipline of Power (Jeffrey Simpson’s unrelenting book on Clark’s brief rule); 200 Days: Joe Clark in Power (Warner Troyer’s devastating review of
the same subject); with a Dalton Camp tome sandwiched in between.
  On the fringes of the lobby stand the guerrillas of the Toronto dump-Clark faction, passing out the slick Review News, the ongoing propaganda sheet that tells you more than you want to know why Joe Clark should be sandbagged come Friday night.
  Some scribe has pointed out that Clark managed to fumble power in less time than it takes a woman to have a baby and his Tories, in essence, are con-
sidering the advisability of an abortion, however traumatic that may be.
   The Clark problems mount, rather than diminish, as Friday’s decisive vote approaches. The Conserva-
tive national president, Bob Coates, leaves office with a parting shot in an interview, complaining that the national headquarters staff is far too dominated by Clark. He will recommend to the weekend
meeting that the leader’s office be separated from the headquarters.
  Clark’s inability to get along with his own party president goes back to a fatal decision
in 1977 at the last Tory general meeting.
  Since he and hisadvisers had already decided to shut out of the cabinet — when he achieved power — all of the Diefenbaker old guard, he
allowed as a sort of a sop the election of one of them, Coates.
  When in the confines of the Quebec City meeting, a resolutely unilingual Nova Scotia MP was unveiled as the new harbinger of Clark, an incredulous and hostile French-language press unloaded on him — and never really took Clark seriously thereafter.
  The effort to placate the old guard simply back-fired - and they sat on their hands as the Clark neophytes suicided once in power.
  Now, there may be a threat from the opposite end of the generation scale.
heels
 A surge of Tory youth has taken the party brass by surprise and — contrary to all previous tradition — will rule a full 25 per cent of the voting delegates.
  The surprise that is about to hit adult delegates goes back to an Ontario-inspired innovation called SPAP (Student Political Apprentice Program). Under it, eager young Tories are given summer jobs working in the burrows of Parliament Hill, paid for by party funds.
 It’s been such a success (aided by the general campus
 *	See CLARK page 2
ADMINISTRATION OBJECTS TO FACULTY INVOLVEMENT
Hearing probes college dispute
 by JOHN POPE Citizen Staff Reporter
     Legal snarls in the College of New Caledonia labor dispute became more entangled here today when the first Labor Relations Board hearing to settle it was adjourned twice.
   Meanwhile, picket lines today were up at the college for a second full day.
    The crux of the issue the labor board is hearing, revolves around whether the 102 members of Local 5, the Association of University and College Employees (AUCE) are on a legal strike.
    The college, which has had a mediator appointed, believes it is an illegal strike that must be settled by mediation.
    The union position is that a mediator should not have been appointed because negotiations had not broken down, and that the appointment of a mediator was an attempt at “political manipulation” to take away their right to strike during the B.C. Winter Games.
    The faculty association position is that it is to be considered a legal strike until the B.C. Labor Relations Board rules otherwise.
    Between the two adjournments, lawyers for both the college administration and the striking non-teaching staff members, objected to the proceedings.
    The basic question of the strike’s legality was not even dealt with.
    Also involved were complications over whether faculty association president Jan Cioe should be granted “status” at the hearing, which he requested to protect the interests of faculty who had refused to cross the picket line.
    The awarding of status to a party at a Labor Relation’s Board hearing means the party has the right to speak and cross-examine any witnesses who might be called.
    Cioe said he was “surprised” that Bill Grist, lawyer for the college, objected to his having status at the hearing.
    “If I don’t have the right to speak, then I would like my lawyer (from Vancouver) here to do legal battle with the other side,” said Cioe.
    “Faculty association rights could be prejudiced by lack of (legal) counsel.”
     Cioe said his basic concern is “threats of disciplinary action” by the administration against faculty members who refuse to cross the picket lines.
    But Grist objected, saying the basic issue of the strike’s legality “doesn’t flow out of” an interpretation of faculty rights.
  Grist also objected to AUCE lawyer Steve Wood’s request for an afternoon adjournment to interview witnesses — calling the request a “delaying tactic.”
   Wood said he took "severe issue” with this description of his request to interview witnesses.
   Wood, who said he supports the faculty association request for status at the hearing, said he was called into the dispute at 4 p.m. Wednesday, and needed some time to “get to know the facts.”
   After listening to all the arguments, LRB meeting’s chairman Van Der Woerd agreed to adjourn the meeting until 1:30 p.m., on the basis of Wood’s request.
   But he said he was not prepared to rule on whether the faculty association should be
given “status" at the hearing.
    The 102 AUCE members, who work as clerks, secretaries and maintenancestaff at the college, served strike notice Saturday.
     They have been without a contract since Nov., 1980.
     The negotiating teams had agreed to a tentative settlement that would give average wage increases of 13.7 and 11 per cent on a two-year contract.
     But this offer was rejected by the union, which voted 88 per cent in favor of strike action.
     At the college, a group of See COLLEGE page 2 ★
'We want back in classes . .
  by DON MORBERG Citizen Staff Reporter
    Following a confrontation between student factions, student picketing of the College of New Caledonia has changed from supporting striking nonteaching staff to a demand to be back in classes.
   About 60 students who had crossed the picket lines of striking Association of College and University Employees today confronted student union representatives who had been carrying signs stating the student union supported the striking workers.
    “You’ve made a pretty rash decision concerning my education,” one student told the pickets. Another added “There
Rally planned Friday
   A rally scheduled for the CNC grounds at noon Friday will take on a “we want back in classes” theme rather than support for the strikers.
   “It won’t be a support of either side, but a statement that we want back in classes,” Lisa Poulk, student union first vice-president said after the confrontation. “I believe AUCE does have the right, but I do believe the students feel strongly about getting back into class.”
   Forestry student Rob Hall said about 200 students cross the picket line today and about half that number met in the cafeteria, opposed to the student union support of the strikers.
   “The statement that all the students are in favor of the strike is just not true,” he said. “The students here represent all technical faculties and some university transfer. We
 should have been a vote of all the student body on whether or not they wanted to support the strike.”
  Another added, “You’re supposed to be representing me, but you’re out representing a strike.”
   At the end of the confrontation, the student union representatives agreed to make their support personal and to change the emphasis of Friday’s rally to support a return to classes rather than support for the strikers.
   After the confrontation which includes some heated arguments, the student pickets agreed to change their signs to read, “I support AUCE,” indicating personal support rather than that of the student body.
 all feel the student body should remain neutral.”
   Hall said the student union was not elected to take views. “We don’t want to take a stand at all in the issue and we don’t want some fool from the student union making statements for us.”
   Hall said about 200 students had crossed the picket line as did an estimated 15 instructors.
   “No classes are running. The instructors here are not covering new material,” he said. He estimated the education situation would become critical for many students in another week.
  “My courses are so condensed that if a week is missed, it could mean failure,” hesaid. “One person I know missed a week last year and failed. I have 35 hours of class a week and six to seven hours of homework a night.”
TELEPHONE FACILITIES
 Pickets could hit Games office
  by JAN-UDO WENZEL Citizen Staff Reporter Vancouver headquarters today overruled a decision by Prince George officials of the Telecommunications Workers Union to let B.C. Tel supervisors install telephones for the B.C. Winter Games.
 • “If there are supervisors, there will be pickets,” said Wolf Tietbohl, northern strike co-ordinator for the TWU.
   Earlier, Tietbohl stated union members would be at the site where supervisors would work, but the union would not carry pickets.
   “This is a Vancouver decision,” Tietbohl said.
    The TWU here had refused to install the telephones for the Games which start next Thursday, but had not opposed management doing the job to ensure the Games’ success.
    In other developments in the dispute between B.C. Tel and the TWU, the company hand-delivered another contract offer in Vancouver, and in Prince George, Mayor Elmer Mercier said today city hall’s switchboard would just have to
 wait for repairs until the dispute is over. The switchboard has been out of order for the past two days.
   “We cannot afford a strike by our own employees who would not cross a picket line,” Mercier said.
   “City hall can function without telephones,” he added.
   The hand-delivered offer was in form of a letter from B.C. Tel chairman Gordon Macfarlane to TWU president Bill Clark.
   “ We are not going to respond to the offer. It’s a tactic to avoid a hearing before the Canada Labor Relations Board on our charge of unfair labor practice," Clark said in a
  VANCOUVER (CP) - The Insurance Corp. of B.C. is preparing for an imminent shutdown of government auto insurance services, the Office and Technical Employees Union said Wednesday.
  “ICBC has been making plans with body ishops and
 telephone interview from Vancouver today.
   The TWU filed the charge, claiming B.C. Tel failed to bargain in good faith.
   Clark also claimed the offer was not new, but a juggling of old figures.
   However, Tony Nolli, regional customer service manager in Prince George, said the offer is higher than what Edward Peck recommended in his conciliation report, although the company offered only three days of additional accumulated time instead of six, as Peck recommended.
   Nolli explained that a top craftsman would earn 126,699 a year instead of the $25,678 in the Peck report. Currently,
 agents to prepare for a total shutdown,” said Fred Trotter, OTEU regional vice-president.
   "Indications are the corporation intends to either lock out all the employees or fuel the anger and frustration of the employees, causing them to walk off the job,” Trotter said.
 under the expired contract the same craftsman earned $21,823 a year. The last contract expired Dec. 31,1979. The Peck report was accepted by the TWU, but not by B.C. Tel.
   By 1982 the employee would earn $29,560 a year under the company offer. Peck made no recommendations for 1982.
   But it’snot the top craftsman the union is worried about.
   "The lower-paid employees will not benefit at all. They’ll just stay low,” Clark said.
   B.C. Tel’s latest offer calls for a wage increase of seven per cent by Jan. 1,1980; six per cent by Oct. 1, 1980; 10 per cent by May 1, 1981 and 12 per cent by Jan. 1, 1982.
   But Clark points out that the 1980 wage increase would work out to about 8.6 per cent spread over the full year and the next increase would not amount to more than 6.6 per cent if taken for the full time.
   As far as the 12 per cent for 1982 is concerned, Clark said, no contract in B.C. has been, settled for 12 per cent because it is lower than the inflation rate.
Spending:
$129,000
a minute
    OTTAWA (CP) — Promising to give taxpayers more for less, the government unveiled plans on Wednesday to spend $129,000 of their money every minute for the next financial year.
    Buying new fighter airplanes and paying for money borrowed to cover past deficits will help push government outlays up almost 13 per cent to
    Full details page 7
  $67.6 billion — $13.2 billion more than the government will raise in the 1981-1982 year which begins April 1.
     In the year ending March 31, the government expected to spend $59.9 billion.
 Treasury Board President Donald Johnston was to have tablpd the government’s latest detailed spending plans in the Commons on Wednesday.
  But Progressive Conservative MPs, professing indignation because reporters got to see the hefty blue book first, talked out the three hours remaining in the Commons day. preventing Johnston from presenting his plans.
'ICBC plans shutdown'
Citizen photo by Douf Weller
 College of New Caledonia student Faythe Thompson makes a point during a confrontation between student union representatives and students who had crossed the picket line. Stories, right._
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FEATURED TODAY
 Vanderhoof plays Japanese
  The Japanese national B hockey team, which lost 6-2 Wednesday in Quesnel, plays the Flyers in Vanderhoof tonight. Page 13.
 Local skier injured
  A Prince George downhill skier suffered a broken leg Wednesday during a practice run at the Canadian championships. Page 13.
 'I put two eggs in this cake!"
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THE WEATHER
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  The weather picture is boring, the weatherman says. We are sitting in a trough between two storm tracks, one to the north and one to the south. That means mostly cloudy skies with occasional sunny breaks. The same goes for Friday. Temperatures could reach 2 degrees today and about -7 tonight. Again, Friday is expected to have the same. .
   During the past 24 hours the high was 2 and the overnight low -7.
   One year ago it was 5 and -1 at night.
   The sun sets today at 5:41 p.m. and rises Friday at 7:05 a.m.
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NOW HEAR THIS
 • The picket line around the College of New Caledonia has caused tonight’s concert by Pied Pear to be moved to Vanier Hall. The performance will be 8 p.m. with tickets available at the door.
 •	The patter of tiny feet came a step closer for one city woman earlier this week. As she and her husband entered a prenatal class 10 minutes late, the button of her jacket suddenly burst off and flew across the room.
 •	A local woman was bemoaning the fact that she wasn’t able to fit her night school class into the rest of her schedule and might have to drop it. The class she had no time for — Time Management.
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