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 OTTAWA — Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has decided to call it quits as leader of the party, a job he has held since 1968.
  Trudeau, 64, sent a letter today to Liberal party president Iona Cam-pagnolo asking her to call a leadership convention “at the appropriate time,” adding that he will stay on in the job until his successor is cnosen.
  Most expect a convention will be held in June.
  “The experience of being leader of our great party has been one of the joys of my life, but 1 now feel this is the appropriate time for someone else to assume this challenge,” Trudeau said in the letter to Cam-pagnolo.
  “I want to thank each and every member of the Liberal party for the support, loyalty and friendship I
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have enjoyed. I will always be deeply grateful to the Liberal party for giving me the opportunity to serve my country.”
 Trudeau gathered about 30 members of his staff in his Langevin Block office complex, just across from Parliament Hill, to tell them of his decision at about noon today.
 “It was a simple declaration,” said Joyce Fairbairn, his long-time legislative assistant. “He thanked them for their support and made the announcement.
 “The staff were touched that he had come over to tell them. They were very quiet and they applauded him at the end.”
 She said Trudeau shook hands with each staff member at end of the 10-minute session.
 After the meeting, Trudeau left
STOCKS SOAR
 TORONTO (CP) - The To-ronto Stock Exchange was rolling up big advances today after news of Prime Minister Trudeau’s planned resignation reached the trading floor.
  The TSE 300 composite index was up 13 points in active trading shortly after 1 p.m. EST. By 1:45 p.m. it was up 19.39 to 2,422.89.
 Volume was 3.8 million shares at 1:07, representing active trading for that time of day. But by 2:45 volume had jumped to 4.9 million shares.
for home to have lunch with his three sons.
  Press assistant Jacques Hudon said that Trudeau made his decision Tuesday evening after a long walk in the driving snowstorm that blasted the capital.
 He spent the morning calling friends and close associates to tell them of his decision before meeting with his office staff.
  Doug Franklin, executive director of the British Columbia Liberal party, said Trudeau’s retirement “will mean a complete new Liberal party, a complete new regeneration.”
  The party now is without a seat in the B.C. legislature.
  “An awful lot of disaffected Liberals will be coming back to the fold now,” Franklin said. “There’s no secret that the popularity of the party in Western Canada has slid con-
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siderably the past few years. I think we will find now a tremendous resurgence in Liberalism both in British Columbia and throughout the West.”
  Franklin said he does not see the Liberal tradition of alternating between leaders from Quebec and English Canada as an insurmountable obstacle to Energy Minister Jean Chretien’s leadership chances.
  “I think that tradition could be broken down. There’s nothing written in stone.
  “I don’t think that’s going to be a fait accompli that because he’s from Quebec he will automatically be eliminated from serious contention. I’d be very surprised not to find Mr Chretien on the final ballot'’
Local reaction, page 3
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Wednesday, February 29, 1984
TRUCKERS, PULP UNION
Picket-line fight sparks police act
by JOHN SPILKER Staff reporter
  MACKENZIE — Log haulers and locked-out pulp workers clashed this morning as truckers, supported by about 75 members of the International Woodworkers of America, crossed picket lines at Finlay Forest Industries for the third consecutive day.
  A fight broke out at about 7:30 a.m. after the side window of a truck was smashed, apparently by a ball bearing. The driver was not'injured.
 RCMP said one man received slight injuries during the brief scuffle. Charges are pending against three people.
  Tensions lessened after the fight when many IWA and Canadian Paperworkers Union members left.
  Violence erupted at the line Tuesday after the windshields of several trucks were broken. Several CPU members said they were nearly struck by speeding trucks.
  The company was expected to apply to B.C. Supreme Court today for an order to limit the number of pickets to five at each of the three entrances to the sawmill and pulp mill yard.
  The IWA members did not cross the picket line this morning, but helped the group of 15 truckers pick up nails on the road near the mill entrance. About 75 CPU members who were picketing called the IWA members and truckers “scabs”.
  IWA members told The Citizen they offered to support the truckers after hearing of the problems Tuesday. “We want to be sure the two (Finlay) sawmills have enough logs when this ends,” said one member.
  All sides report emotions have been running high in Mackenzie since the 28-day-old lockout started.
  The mood of the town illustrates the province-wide growing bitterness between the pulp workers and newly-formed alliance of woodworkers and log haulers.
  “We didn’t expect to be picketed,” said one IWA member. “I’ve already borrowed money from my dad so I can eat. . .My nephew is taking garbage lunches to school because his parents are broke.
  “People around here are getting mad. They’ll really get angry when they can’t fe**d their children.”
  CPU Local 402 picket captain Bela Csizmadi was upset with the IWA action. “This is a legal picket line,"
he said. “These guys depend on us. . .It’s a small town, they have to live with us.”
  Several CPU members urged the IWA members not to help the truckers. But IWA member Jacques Poulin said: “We’re here to fight for our rights. Instead of calling for the resignation of our leader (Jack Munro), they should ask for the resignations of their leaders.
  “They haven’t negotiated in good faith. Maybe they should stay at the bargaining table for more than 15 minutes at a time.”
  Andy Andersen of Analog Investments' Ltd. of Prince George, the company which owns the truck that was damaged today, said he was happv with the IWA support. "Without them we would have been outnumbered.”
  Meanwhile, production continued without incident today at two other Prince George-area sawmills operated by Northwood Pulp and Timber, despite secondary picket lines.
  Northwood’s Shelley sawmill “is 100-per-cent normal” today says Mike Madrigga. vice-president of wood products at Northwood, while at the company's Prince George Sawmill “100 per cent of the planer crew and about 70 per cent of the sawmill crew” crossed Canadian Paperworkers Union picket lines and reported for work this morning. Workers at both sawmills are members of the IWA.
  Delivery of logs continued as as truckers ignored the pickets.
  “Everything is very civil and log deliveries are commencing in a very
peaceful manner,” says Madrigga.
  Northwood’s North Central Plywoods operation remains shut down as employees, members of the PPWC, refuse to cross the picket line. However, log delivery continued.
  A locked-out PPWC member from Prince George Pulp and Paper told The Citizen as many as 12 pickets left for Fort St. John at noon today to set up a secondary picket line at the Canadian Forest Products operation there.
  The situation is back to normal at the Takla Forest Products mill in Fort St. James. Pickets have not returned since sawmill employees and log haulers forced them out of town Monday.
  In Vancouver, where negotiations aimed at ending the lockout were to resume today, woodworkers union president Jack Munro has shrugged off a demand from pulp union leaders that he resign as executive member of the B.C. Federation of Labor for his criticism of their secondary picketing.
  Munro, who has attacked the secondary picketing at woodworker union-certified mills as “unjustified, immoral and insane.'' said their demand simply showed their frustration over the deadlock in contract talks.
  "When they’re calling for my resignation, I think I must be getting to them,” Munro said in an interview Tuesday night. He said the resignation demand should be on the federation executive meeting agenda today.
Economy bounces back
 OTTAWA (CP) — The economy gretv by three per cent last year once inflation is taken into account, gross , national product figures released today by Statistics Canada show.
  The increase, in line with that forecast by Finance Minister Marc Lalonde in his February budget, followed a 4.4-per-cent decline in 1982.
  Gross national product, the value of all goods and services produced by Canadians and the widest measure of the country’s economic performance, rose to $388.7 billion, only 0.3 per cent short of the pre-reces-sion peak set in mid-1981.
  While the performance is in line
with Ottawa’s expectations and above the 2.3 per cent Lalonde had predicted in his April budget, the GNP figures show economic growth slowed in the final quarter of the year.
  Real or inflation-adjusted GNP grew by 09 per cent in the final quarter, down from the average 1.9-per-cent growth recorded in the first three quarters of 1983.
  However, Statistics Canada said that despite the slowdown in growth, the recovery now is virtually com plete with real GNP having reached 99.7 per cent of its peak pre-recession level.
today in brief
MICHAEL JACKSON scored an eight-award triumph at the annual Grammy show. Page
THERE HAS been no federal-provincial agreement, but the feds are going ahead with plans to implement the new Young Offenders Act.	Page
 THEIR HOPES for the playoffs were improved Tuesday when the Canucks beat Washington.
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THE AMERICAN vice-presi-dency has never been much of a job, but its getting a lot of attention now that women are being considered.	Page
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Index
Bridge..................17
Business...............8.9
 City, B.C.......3,7,10,21,26
Classified ............14-19
Comics .................24
Crossword..............16
Editorial.................4
 Entertainment .......24,25
Family .................22
Horoscopes .............17
International.............2
Movies..................24
National.................5
Sports................11-13
Television ..............16
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the truck door and reached inside the moving vehicle. A fight broke out minutes later after a truck window was smashed. Charges are being considered bv RCMP.	Citizen photo by Dave Milne
Tempers flared in Mackenzie near the entrance to Finlay Forest Industries’ operation today as an independent log hauler tried to kick the hand of a Canadian Paperworkers Union member who opened
 Sadrack says
   A new frontal system could give us cloudy skies and rain this evening and mixed rain and snow after midnight Cloudy skies and isolated showers are expected Thursday.
   Tonight's low could be -2 and Thursday's high could be 5.
   Tuesday, the high was 7. the low was 2. and we didn't have any sunshine or precipitation On our last Feb. 29 in 1980. the high was 9. the low was 1. and we had five hours or sunshine.
 The sun sets at 5 47 p.m. today and rises at 6:58 a.m. Thursday
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