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The GAZETTE, Montreal, Wednesday. May 23. 1930 asbesta urore i till if' -iix a 1 i Nv. hT -i hum I fit. 1 Grant said CP employees who worked on the re-ballasting did not wear masks.

"I guess we weren't aware that they were required," Grant said. "At that time there wasn't any concern. We had checked with Asbestos Corp. and were assured that there were no precautions needed in handling it." Officials at Asbestos Corp. could not be reached for comment.

Grant said a sampling of the air around the railbed by scientists from the federal department of health and welfare revealed a "negligible" health effect. However, leading asbestos disease researchers at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, quoted on a special CBC television report on the railbed controversy, harshly criticized the department's findings. They said the researchers had only measured the number of asbestos fibres more than five microns in length, leaving out the shorter but potentially harmful fibres of less than five microns. (A micron is one-thousandth of a By DAVID LiSAK of The Gazette Canadian Pacific Railway's use of waste rock from an asbestos mine to ballast a rail line is causing controversy in the Eastern Townships. Concern for the health of workers who laid down the ballast the crushed rock used to support the tracks and growing fears of people living along the 90-mile stretch have prompted CP Rail to vow to stop using the asbestos-spiked rock.

"We won't use this material again until the air is cleared and even then we'd certainly think twice," CP engineer Rod Grant said yesterday. "Not because we feel it's at all harmful, but because asbestos is very much in the news. "We don't want to get into any crossfire." Asbestos has been linked to cancer and other diseases affecting the lungs. CP Rail used about 270,000 tons of crushed rock with a one- to two-percent asbestos content to re-ballast the Adirondack line. It runs through a number of Eastern Townships communities, including Farnham and Grant said CP Rail used the rock from the asbestos mine because they could buy it for about one quarter of the price they usually pay for crushed rock.

"(Asbestos Corp.) has millions of-tons of the stuff sitting around," Grant1 said. "They have no use for it. They would Uke to get rid of it." City buys building from bankrupt firm The City of Montreal plans to spend $760,000 to buy a building near the city's des Carrieres garbage incinerator from the trustees of the bankrupt New System Linen Service Ltd. The city council has approved the purchase of the building at 5945-55 de Gaspe Ave. and its site, next to other city-owned buildings.

Some offices of the city public works department are already occupying the building under an interim arrangement with the trustees. City officials believe steam produced at the incinerator could be used to heat the building. rmi iht' V'mi' 3' uriim ni Ga2n, Arn GiMteurg Construction truck lies on its side after sliding, driverless, down a steep hill in Westmount. Woman hurt, 4 cars smashed in rampage by runaway truck Wednesday Grocery Index Dominion one-ton truck took off, driverless, down the sharply angled road. On its way, it bounced off three cars and sideswiped a station wagon which was backing out of a driveway.

The runaway rolled onto a sidewalk and came to rest near Rose-mount Crescent. The station wagon driver, an unidentified woman, suffered minor injuries and was taken to Reddy Memorial Hospital. Police are investigating the incident but they were unable yesterday A truck slipped out of its parking position and careered 1,000 feet down a hill on a Westmount street yesterday, leaving one woman slightly injured and damaging four cars. The truck, owned by Antigone Construction was parked in front of a construction site on Mountain Ave. in Westmount.

The parking brake had been applied and there was a block on a front wheel. But a police officer from Station 23 said the brake either snapped or slipped on the steep incline and the 36. 37 PAGE 21 28. 29 Specials 3 PAGES 93, 94, 95 PAGE 90 PAGE 4 PAGE 85 PAGE 78 PAGES 24, 25 PAGE 6 Econoprlx Warshaw Esposlto IGABoniprlx Metro Kypsrmarchd Quebec delivers an ultimatum to board and striking teachers Mont Carmel Fruit PAGE 31 Steinberg 4 Friru ASP PRODUCE PAGES PAGES ALL SPECIALS EFFECTIVE SUNDAY, FESTIVAL AT ALL SPECIALS OF THE MOST FINEST AND The Quebec government has delivered an ultimatum to the Montreal Catholic School Commission (MCSC) and its 6,500 striking teachers solve the dispute or face a government-imposed settlement. An aide to Quebec Labor Minister Pierre-Marc Johnson said yesterday that both sides were given a mediator's report last night.

"We have asked them to give us a response to it by midnight (last night)," the aide said, adding that if the responses indicate a negotiated settlement can't be reached, back-to-work legislation could be introduced in the CALL 878 Courthouse logjam is predicted as lawyers plan week-long protest IIUallBlnHUMHHiHMMUM to give an estimate for the damages. "All told, everyone seems to be pretty lucky that nothing more serious than this happened," the police officer said. "When you get a one-ton truck rolling out of control like that, nothing is safe." The accident occurred on the second day of National Transportation Week, during which the federal government and organizers are stressing travel safety. Organizers refused to comment on the incident. mit to binding arbitration.

But the teachers' union, the Alliance des Pro-fesseurs de Montreal, rejected the idea. Yesterday, the union called on the provincial government to put the MCSC under trusteeship. The main outstanding issue in the dispute is the criteria by which teachers receive teaching assignments. The union wants seniority to be the only factor considered in determining which teacher gets first crack at a position. The MCSC wants to take into account teaching ability as well as seniority when making assignments.

cases heard in Sept-Iles area in a week, but only four criminal cases are going on there this week. "In all of those cases, there is a danger the individual might lose his personal liberty he might go to jail," Gauthier said. Jean Chalif oux, a negotiator with the private practice lawyers' committee, said legal aid cases make up about 40 to 50 per cent of business for the lawyers who accept them. There are about 200 salaried full-time legal aid lawyers in Quebec, said Pierre LaBrie, a negotiator with legal aid lawyers. He said they support and will participate in the boycott.

An official of the Quebec Bar Association said the Bar is offering its "moral support" to the work stoppage. Officials at the justice department were not available for comment. transforming the interior into a garden or park. But Filion said: "Those are only a couple of the possibilities. Frankly, we'd be open to ideas from anyone with the money to spend." AMARC is a non-profit organization founded by the city two years ago to promote civic projects.

Its eight-member executive includes five city department heads including Filion, who is director of the real estate division. The $300,000 granted by the city last week will cover clean-up operations to the interior of the structure, but will not be enough to allow for further re-pain. Filion said. A contract for the clean-up should be awarded "very soon," he said. AVAILABLE AT BOTH STORE LOCATIONS, MAY 28.

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He would not say exactly when the Montreal work stoppage will take place. The first boycott is under way now in the Sept-Iles area. Gauthier said the boycotts apply to criminal cases only, and not to civil dis National Assembly sometime after it reconvenes on Tuesday. The strike by the French-Catholic teachers cost 100,000 students eight days of classes this month. Another 13 days were lost earlier this year to other strikes by school board employees.

Negotiations broke down last Thursday after MCSC representatives left the mediation table, saying that the three days of talks had been useless. Johnson criticized the MCSC for unilaterally breaking off negotiations. Two days ago, MCSC chairman Luc Larivee proposed that both parties sub putes. The lawyers now receive an average of $300 for each legal aid criminal case they accept, and are demanding an immediate increase of 30 to 35 per cent. Gautier, 32, said such an increase is needed to make up for what the lawyers have lost since 1976 because of inflation.

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