The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 2

I The Sydney Morning Herald! Thurs, June 29, 1978 2 It's all quiet on thie? rtish-hour line Pay ciit or of protestin Paper mill for Albury Continued front Pace 1. The Premier sitid thai the Government arid the company, had reached agreement on cost-sharing arrangements for essential roads. This would cost the Government more than $1 million Alderman Roach said that the decision to go ahead was the news that Albury had been wailing for. "ft ''provides' the green light for the 'greatest expansion and growth that Albury-Wodonga has 'ever experienced," he said. "Jt will brush aside any uncertainty of this centre and is a mightiv boost to confidence." Mr- Craig said the announcement would herald the start of a new industrial era fur the region.

Ho said the process to be used in the mill would not threaten the Murray River because it would nut involve harmful chemical procedures. Yesterday's decision is not without political significance. The Government is expected to exploit the development when campaigning to capture the State seat of Albury from the Liberal Party. teachers By CAROLYN PARFITT, Education Rcporte Hundreds of teachers taking part in the campaign of industrial action in NSW schools have had their pay docked, the Department of Education said yesterday. And the department warned teachers in Sydney's Workers face the bus queue blues Seemingly endless bt queues in the City yesterda faced many passengers wh usually travel by train.

And with no direct bi routes to many suburbs service by trains, it was a case fc many of having to catch two three buses to get home. By 3.30 pm, hundreds people were waiting in the cit for the Chalswood bus. The queue stretched dowi Carrington Street and into Yor Street. Somewhere near the en stood Mr Abdul Aziz, J9, ai electrical engineer from Wo Woy. In the morning he had drive his car lo Wahroonga where car hired by his company pick ed him up.

But he had to fim his own way home in the after noon. "How to get from Chatswooc to Wahroonga I don't know. "I'll just have to get Chalswood and see from there, he said gazing down the queue. Further back, Mr Fell Rosenblum of Warrawee said i usually took him 35 minutes gel to the city by train. Yesterday he had to caic two buses and sland all th way: it took three hours.

Most of the "train people seemed resigned to the Ion waits and crowded bu journeys, but many describe: the strike as "deplorable" am "futile and petty." With their trains cancelled hundreds did not know how t. get home and bus conductor and inspectors were inundatci with "how do 1 get to questions. Interstate coaches were full) booked yesterday. Mr Les McKay, 60, of Re Hill, Brisbane who is in Syd ney on an eight-day holiday found that his train home Tuesday night had been can celled. The fare was refunded.

Thi coach fare to Brisbane is cheap er, but he had to pay for at extra night's accommodation a a hotel and will now have travel for 20 hours sitting instead of 15 hours in a sleepei "It's just bad luck, isn't it?" Labor needs a swing of more XL than 8 per cent to win the seal but it believes the fact that the present Member, Mr G. Mac-kie, is retiring and the credit it will take for atlracling a major industry to the area, make it possible to win at the next State The silent tracks at Central Station yesterday afternoon. Strike raises important election. inner-city schools that their pay will also be docked if they take part in the campaign. Teachers in infant, primary and high schools in the inner-city have been conducting a program of minimal supervision as part of the campaign by the NSW Federation to cut teaching time.

The department's assistant director of industrial relations, Mr" Neil Morrison, said yesterday that it appeared some teachers were under, the impression no action would be taken against them if they refused duty. He said that since the campaign began about two months ago, the pay of hundreds of teachers had been docked. Campaign activities were centred on the inner city schools this week after the Premier, Mr Wran, deferred a decision on the federation's claims. The federation is demanding a 20 per cent reduction in teaching time for infant and primary teachers and a cut in the number of periods taught each week by secondary Mr Wran told the federation that the Government would not be in a position to make a decision on the claims until the end of July. The president of the Inner City Teachers' Association, Mr Greg Smith, said yesterday that the campaign had received widespread support this week.

Most inner-city schools were conducting minimal supervision of classes for up to an hour a day. Teachers in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie will take part in the campaign next week. A vice-president of the federation, Mr Jack Shield, said yesterday that up to 2,500 teachers in the area could be involved. In its environmental impact statement, Australian Newsprinl Mills said a safe and adequate water treatment plant would be industrial issues Plea for bomber's lost' bits CANBERRA, Wednesday. The Australian War Memorial has appealed for the return of parts "souvenired" from one of its prize exhibits, the famous Lancaster bomber for George.

George was stripped of many internal parts at Canberra, before being moved to the memorial in 1955. The memorial's director, Mr Noel Flanagan, said he would be grateful "no questions asked" for the return of any of the old bomber's parts. The memorial would also like parts from other Lancasters, to rc-cquip for George. An instrument panel, minus a few parts, would soon be fitted to the bomber, Mr Flanagan said. Between October, 1942 and April, 1944, George flew 90 operations in raids over Europe, more than any other RAF Bomber Command aircraft.

The Lancaster was damaged 20 times by enemy fire and once limped home with only one of its four engines operating. Another time George hit waves while crossing the English Channel, bending a propeller and filling the bomb bay with water. provided at the mill. Tests, with a pilot treatment plant at' Boycr in Tasmania had shown: that potentially harmful and putresctble waste water could be converted into effluent which would cause negligible biodcgradalion of the river environment. The statement said that "piney'1' type compounds, potentially harmful to fish, were apparently satisfactorily removed by the pilot plant process.

There were no compounds in the effluent which were known to accumulate or remain changed in the environment for By KEITH MARTIN, Industrial Reporter The crippling strike by locomotive crewmen is basically about money but it involves two important industrial issues: Whether people working for different State governments should get the same pay rates. Whether skilled workers should suffer the loss of buying power through partial wage indexation. Both issues are bound up with wage indexation, the concept now under review by the Arbitration Commission. The locomotive crewmen's union, the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Engine-men, claims there is now a wage differential ranging from $4 a week to more than $5 a week between crewmen of the same grade in different States. It wants all pay rates levelled to the highest rate for each grade that paid in NSW.

About a year ago the NSW Government granted about 40,000 employees of the Public Transport Commission pay rises ranging from $4 to $11.95 a week, in the form of increased service increments. The rises the highest for PTC employees since wage indexation was introduced on April long periods. Hunt for girl, 18, goes on If any compounds harmful to 30, 1975, attracted little publicity at the time. Rut the sionc cast by the NSW Government caused ripples in the industrial millpond when have spread throughout Australia's public-lianspprt systems. Later, the NSW Government put NSW railwaymcn even further ahead of their interstate counterparts by agreeing to index these payments.

According to the Federal secretary of the AFULE, Mr Glen Moorhead, it is traditional for pay rales on the various rail services to be approximately level for each grade. The previous State-to-Stalc variation for locomotive crews' pay was only 40c lo 90c. he says. Now, he says, they vary as much as $5 or more, and the union wants them levelled up, of course, rather than down. Later last year, the union applied in Victoria for increases similar to those granted in NSW.

Victorian public-transport authorities rejected the claim on the ground that it was outside the wage-indexation guidelines. After a series of stoppages in Victoria, the dispute went before an Arbitration Commissioner, Mr G. Walker. On Octo ber 27, he granted Victorian railway workers an ncross-lhe-board rise of S6 a week. Victorian rail authorities immediately appealed to the Full Bench of the Commission, and a new scries of stoppages broke out in Victoria.

On December 13, the Full Bench upheld Ihe appeal, declaring the $6 increase outside the wage-indexation guidelines. Faced with the prospect of more industrial strife, the Victorian Government negotiated through Ihe Trades Hall Council pay increases for a wide range of State employees. The rises ranged from $1.80 lo $4.20 a week, and were in the form of increases in incremental payments. But Mr Moorhead says: "These arc a far cry from (he $6 lost, and even further from the increases granted in NSW." The Victorian increases flowed to Western Australia but not to other Stales. The result is that locomotive crewmen (as well as other railway employees) have a three-tiered system the highest rates being paid in NSW, an intermediate rale in Victoria and the lowest rate in Queensland, Tasmania and South Australia and the Australian National Railways.

The second major area of dispute centres on whether indexation should be full or partial. Full indexation means that, if the Consumer Price Index rises by a certain percentage, that percentage increase is granted lo all work groups, whether they are labourers or airline pilots. Partial indexation means that the full percentage is applied only up to a certain rale and that, above this, there is either a flat increase or a tapering off. Of 1 1 quarterly national wage decisions since indexation began, only five have granted full indexation of award wages the others have been some form of partial indexation. In striking over the indexation issue, the AFULE says it is acting according to ACTU policy.

In March the ACTU executive condemned partial indexation and asked affiliated unions lo "organise on-the-job campaigns designed to demand restoration of amounts lost through partial wage indexation, and the achievement of full wage indexation in future national wage cases." Miss Adams, who is 162 cm aquatic life managed to pass (5ft 4in) tall, of medium build, through the treatment plant they with a fair complexion and long brown hair, was reported missing by her father early the next would be further diluted in holding pond. morning. She was wearing navy blue jeans, a green blouse and black Two get life for murder jumper. Police are continuing a search for Trudy Jcanette Adams, 18, of Central Road, Avalon, who has been missing since Saturday night. According to police, Miss Adams took a lift in a panel van at midnight on Saturday after having been at Newport Surf Club.

Police said she was seen by a friend being driven off in the van along Barrenjoey Road. Neither Miss Adams nor the vehicle had been found last night. The area around the St Ives Showground was searched after an anonymous phone call last night. Nothing was found. The van was described as a fawn-coloured late model Holden Correction Mark William Holmes, 2f labourer, of Glenview Avenu Revesby, was remanded ir Central Court on Monday on charge of having driven in Kcl lett Street, Kings Cross, Sunday morning with too mud alcohol in the blood.

He plead ed not guilly. In Tuesday's issue of the raid he was included in error ii a list of people charged will having taken part in an illegs procession at Kings Cross i connection with a demonstration for homosexual rights. with no side windows. The deputy chief of the CIB, Two men were found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment last night over the murder of a service station attendant at Tamworth in January. Bevan Wade Novley and Stepehen James Walmsley, both aged 20.

of Gunnedah, were found guilty by a jury at Detective-Superintendent Jim The jury deliberated for six hours. Mr Acting Justice Knob-lanche passed sentenced. Colin Robert Scales. 37, died in a Sydney hospital on January 6. four days after he was assaulted and robbed at a service station in Marius Street, Tamworth, while working at night.

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