Flower power
Who says you can’t paint your own rainbow? After gaining permission, Foothills Elementary students oil painted their drab building wall into a bright cheery picture. The painting was a major project for some of the school’s art students.
IWA WITHDRAWS SUPPORT HERE
Labor council near collapse
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  Wednesday, June 10, 1981 Prince George, British Columbia	^
    by JAN-UDO WENZEL Citizen Staff Reporter
   The Prince George and District Labor Council is on the verge of collapse because its largest member union, the International Woodworkers of America, has withdrawn.
   The IWA, representing about 6,000 workers in this area, pulled out of the council because “the council is not living up to the constitution set by the Canadian Labor Congress."
   The move came as a result of the fight between the CLC and 12 international building trades unions, which were ousted by the CLC over their failure to pay per-capita dues to the congress.
   The ousting of the building trades representatives leaves the council without an executive and the withdrawal of the IWA leaves it with a
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impatient for talks
   VANCOUVER (CP) - The leader of the woodworkers’ union says he is still waiting for the three employer associations to get together and call his union for a meeting to discuss the contentious joint-negotiation issue.
   And on Vancouver Island, members of the International Woodworkers of America began work slowdowns Tuesday in spite of a recent labor relations board order banning job action before the current contract expires at midnight Sunday night.
   “If we’re going to hear from them (employers), it’s got to be this week,” Jack Munro, union western region president, said Monday in an interview.
   The union has asked the provincial government for help in getting the two sides of B.C.’s biggest industry back into negotiations, but to no avail.
   Munro said the government should have got involved three or four weeks ago when negotiations broke off.
  Chief negotiator for coast employers, Keith Bennett of Forest Industrial Relations, said Monday his organization has not contacted Munro officially.
   The master coast agreement between the IWA and FIR, covering 28,000 woodworkers, expires at midnight Sunday and agreements with the 11,000 Interior employers expire at the end of the month.
   Officials of the three employers’ groups have said they fear joint bargaining will eventually lead to a province-wide master agreement, a long-time IWA objective.
large loss of money.
   The council also does not have a president since Ernie Myers resigned several weeks ago.
   Since the local labor council is an affilate of the CLC it has to obey the decrees of the congress. In this case the CLC decreed all officials of the ousted unions were to be dismissed from any position they may have held in the council.
This left the council without a
by BOB MILLER Citizen Staff Reporter
   Three faculty members at College of New Caledonia and five support staff have been terminated, effective June 15, as a result of a major reshuffle of the college budget this week.
   The five staff members have been told their jobs were cut, but two of the three faculty members hadn’t been informed at press time today.
   A spokesman for the faculty association who wishes to remain anonymous said five faculty positions have been cut, all in one program area, but that two positions are vacant right now.
   The collective agreement between CNC and faculty restricts the college’s power to terminate faculty. As a result, the three faculty members will receive 16 months severance pay. Fa-
  OTTAWA (CP) — Canada, Israel and the Arab diplomatic community in Ottawa exchanged communiques Tuesday in a flurry of activity following Israel’s bombing attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor outside Baghdad.
  External Affairs Minister Mark MacGuigan announced that Canada, after spending 24 hours gathering information, has officially registered its condemnation of the incident with Israel.
   “We strongly condemn this act of violence by Israel and we believe that it does a great disservice to the cause of peace in the Middle East,’’ MacGuigan told reporters after filing the protest with the Israeli embassy.
Earlier, the Arab diplomatic com-
quorum in its executive.
  At the monthly meeting in May the council decided to defy the CLC and keep the building trades representatives in their elected jobs.
  This prompted the IWA to withdraw, saying the council was doing “a personal thing” and not abiding by the constitution.
   “We want proof the council is acting within the constitution before we consider returning,” said Toby Mogensen,
culty members at CNC earn between $30,000 and $35,000 a year.
  The spokesman said the news “came out of the blue” Tuesday and caught the faculty association by surprise. Confusing the terminations is the fact the CNC board has received a 16-per-cent increase in its 1981-82 operating budget ($12.6 million).
  The cutback represents a change in direction and emphasis on programs offered at the college. The faculty association is seriously concerned and will meet today and Thursday to discuss the cutback.
   Among the five support staff at least two were "quite vocal” in recent contract negotiations between the Association of University and College Employees (AUCE) Local 5 and the college.
Lauma Avens, a library technician in the college resource centre, said she
munity requested an urgent meeting with the minister to discuss the incident and called on Canada fo speak out against Sunday’s surprise air raid.
   Meanwhile, Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir sent a note to MacGuigan explaining the background which led to the Jewish state’s decision to proceed with the attack.
   Abdo Ali Deiri, Iraq’s ambassador to Canada, told a news conference the French-built research reactor was never intended for use in making nuclear weapons as claimed by Israel.
   Asked about possible retaliation by Iraq, the ambassador replied:
   “As Arabs, we will never forget this aggression.”
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 financial secretary of IWA Local 1-424.
   At Tuesday’s monthly meeting a representative of the CLC read the riot act to delegates.
   He said the May meeting was unconstitutional and warned council that if building trades representatives were allowed to stay in their positions, the congress would suspend the council.
   Council secretary Ed Bodner said building trades officials could attend meetings as guests.
faculty
 and Ivan Shukster of the audio-visual department, athletics and recreation assistant Bill Lambert and two custodians were laid off.
   “I don’t buy that it’s a question of money,” she said. ‘‘It’s an attempt to get rid of certain people.”
   She said she thinks she was singled out because she was a spokesman for the union’s negotiating committee during recent contract talks.
   If she had been laid off alone she would have had grounds for a grievance. but the college has played “by rules” in spreading out the layoffs.
    Support staff will get 15 days severance pay.
   Lambert said he wasn’t really shocked by the news since things have been "in chaos” at the college for the past two years. The layoff came with no warning and was very sudden.
   He said he was called to the personnel office supposedly to discuss a summer sports program and told he was laid off.
   Lambert said the college was emphatic that the move had nothing to do with his ability to do the job and was based strictly on money.
   He said it’s ironic that money could be the reason when the college increased its budget this year. Lambert says his "gut feeling” is CNC doesn’t care about the quality of service it provides the community and is more interested in perpetrating its own bureaucracy.
   With Tuesday’s developments, upwards of 15 jobs have been terminated at the college, Lambert claimed. Contracts for five people on temporary appointments won’t be renewed as a resultofan administrativeevaluation.
 College administration officials were not available for comment at press time.
  This prompted Bob Metzler of the carpenters’ union to ask why the CLC allowed Jim Kinnaird. the former president of the B.C. Federation of Labor to stay in his job.
   Kinnaird is a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, one of the unions ousted by the CLC.
   He is no longer the B.C. Federation of Labor president, but its executive director.
  “If this can be done in Vancouver, why can’t we do this here?” Metzler asked. He was a member of the council’s executive.
   Rino Fornari, president of Local 399, Canadian Union of Public Employees, is acting president and Tuesday Fornari expressed himself forcefully on the in-fighting within the labor movement in Canada.
   “We waste all our energy on fighting among ourselves. We should direct this energy to fight those who exploit us,” Fornari said.
   “Do you know what a union is for? A union protects us from exploitation. Now that we have finally reached a fair deal from employers, we are destroying ourselves. Even if the building trades are not affiliated, they are welcome to sit with us,” Fornari said.
   Bodner suggested that all positions vacated by the ousting of the building trades representatives be kept vacant until regular business resumes in September.
  Bodner, a former president of the labor council, assumed the role of mediator, but his efforts resulted only in an invitation to the building trades to sit in as guests.
  "We have always helped nonaffiliates. but the time has come that we must preserve this labor council,” Bodner said.
  Asked about the withdrawl of the IWA. Bodner replied he hoped the IWA would be back by September.
BULLETIN
  OTTAWA (CP) — Treasury Board Preeident Donald Johnston announced today that the cabinet has decided to grant Mounties a pay year change to Jan. 1 from April 1.
  The Mounties had been talking about forming a union to represent them if the change, promised last year, was not made.
  The government announced May 28 that a 12.2-per-cent increase for 14,571 uniformed members of the RCMP would be retroactive to April 1 only.
  Johnston said cabinet has agreed to change the start of the RCMP pay yearto Jan. 1. Buttheadditional$12.3 million added to the payroll "must be absorbed from within the RCMP’s general budget so that no additional cost will accrue to the government.
 Citizen photo by Doug Weller
NHL picks two players from city
  Two products of the Prince George hockey system were selected today during the first five rounds of the National Hockey League’s entry draft.
   Mark Morrison was taken in the third round by the New York Rangers and Kelly Hubbard was a fifth-round selection of the Minnesota North Stars.
   Morrison, a centre with Victoria of the Western Hockey League, was born in Prince George and played his early minor hockey here before moving to Vancouver.
  Hubbard, who played defence with Portland, Ore., of the WHL last season, played all his minor hockey here.
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Gov't grants for women up 300 pet.
   OTTAWA (CP) - A $3-million increase in government funds for women’s organizations across the country, bringing the total to $4.1 million this fiscal year, was announced today by Secretary of State Francis Fox.
   Fox made the announcement at the opening of a three-day meeting between top officials of his department and representatives of 42 women’s organizations to decide how to spend the money and how to raise funds in the private sector.
   He said the increase of more than 300 per cent approved for women’s programs by the federal cabinet is much larger than that received by other financial grant councils.
   It was a sign of the government’s commitment to social justice, which can only be achieved if men and women are treated equally. Fox said.
   Fox told reporters that by financing the activities of women’s organizations the government is calling for a change in attitudes.
   "We have to admit there still are some prejudices rampant across the country,” Fox said. "It really is a call to change attitudes. Government alone can’t do it.”
   Nancy La wand, director of the women’s program, said in an interview that the $1 million in the program last year was distributed to about 240 organizations. Some got as little as $800.
   There are about 500 voluntary women's groups in the country, ranging from national women’s rights lobby groups such as the National Action Committee on the Status of Women to regional and municipal organizations which provide social services such as centres for victims of rape or domestic violence.
The minister urged the groups to also seek funds from other grant councils instead of restricting themselves to the women’s program.
CNC cuts shock
Canada protests raid
"Watch this! This is whore she hits her husband over the head with a saucepan."
 Former governor guilty
 Ray Blanton, the former governor of Tennessee, faces up to 70 years in prison after being convicted in a liquor-licence kickback scheme. Page 5.
 Diamonds are not forever
  The junior girls’ softball league has lost a diamond it’s been using this season and is unhappy with the Civic Properties and Recreation Commission, but CPRC insists its decision is valid. Page 15.
 Index
Bridge...........................21
Business.......................8,!)
 City, B.C...............2,3,6,29
 Classified................. 18-26
Comics........................... 10
 Community pages.......3($
Crossword....................20
Editorial..........................4
 Entertainment........ 10-12
Family......................34-35
Horoscopes................... 12
International..................5
Movies........................... 10
National........................... 7
Olson column.................(>
 Rolling Stone............... 13
Sports.......................30,31
Television......................20
THE WEATHER
   Forecast for today and Thursday is cloudy with risk of afternoon and evening showers.
  High Tuesday was 18 and low, 5 with .8 mm of rain and 7.2 hours of sunshine. Forecast high today is 18 and low, 5 with Thursday’s predicted high 18.
   On this date last year the high was 16 and low 9 with 8.6 mm of rain.
  Sunset tonight, 9:41 p.m. and sunrise Thursday, 4:39 a.m.
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NOW HEAR THIS
 • Prince George Corporate Cup runners will get to see themselves in the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Cablevision will be running film of the event from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. today and Thursday.
 • Sometimes you just can’t win. A fellow who totally ignored parking metres in the past, smartened up when the fine was raised to $5. He plugged in a dime and when he returned 45 minutes later, he had a parking ticket. It was then when it dawned on him he had fed the wrong metre on one of those posts that have two heads.
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