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1h 'mm ran MONDAY OCT. 15 1973 VANCOUVER BRITISH COLUMBIA 15 CENTS anlway iv Unions shut dwn Wag es mam issue for shopcrafts By GEORGE DOBIE Sun Labor Reporter British Columbia Railway operations came to a standstill today when 400 shopcraft unionists went on strike. The workers began setting up picket lines at terminals of the provincial government railway at midnight after emergency Sunday bargaining broke down. The railway said all freight and passenger services have been halted. 1 I Vj" fnfij Vv' i -7 Wf -V -V it It CAR CRASH KILLS 7 TILLSONBURG, (CP) Seven persons, including five members of one family, were killed Saturday night in a two-car collision near this town 20 miles northwest of Simcoe.

Dead are Jacob Peters, 29, his sons, Jacob, 5, and Hein-rich, 10 months, all of Vienna, and the children's grandparents, Peter Krahn, 71, and his wife, Katrina, 69, of Port Burwell, Ont. Killed in the second car were Tony Deryk, 35, and John HewSon, 19, both of Aylmer, Ont. Peters' wife and two more of his children were injured. Bill offers 'two-tier' bargaining By MICHAEL FINLAY Sun Victoria Bureau VICTORIA Legislation to provide full collective bargaining rights on a "two-tier" basis for almost 40,000 government employees was introduced in the legislature today. The Public Service Labor Relations Act, first introduced during the spring session as Bill 182, was reintroduced by Provincial Secretary Ernie Hall as Bill 75.

Under the legislation there will be a two-tier system of bargaining, in which each bargaining unit will negotiate a master agreement and subsidiary agreements as well. As set out in the earlier version of the bill, there will be separate bargaining units for psychiatric and registered nurse professional em- ployees and the remainder of the public service. Under the two-tier system of bargaining, a master agreement will be negotiated for each of the three bargaining units and will be followed by a number of subsidiary agreements affecting the special interests of various unit components. In this way; Hall said, special interest employee groups will be able to control the "singularities and peculiarities" of their jobs. There is no provision in the bill for a separate bargaining unit for ferry workers, one of the major demands made by ferry employees before their five-day strike this summer.

Nor is there any provision to prevent ferry workers or other employees considered "Wages and term of the contract are the main issues in disputealthough a substantial increase on a very low base rate of pay was suggested," said Norm Farley, chief spokesman for the shop-craft workers carmen, machinists, pipefitters and electricians. "The length of the contract management is demanding would make is impossible to keep abreast of the spiralling cost of living. "We want a shorter contract," Farley said as picket lines went up at BCR terminals in North Vancouver, Squamish, Quesnel and Prince George, Farley also said the workers needed a wage catch-up because their previous contract had expired nine months ago. He charged "management's position grew steadily worse" in direct bargaining. "They kept coming back with a lesser amount." The base rate for journeymen is $4.05 an hour with a 30-cent hourly trade differential.

The railway's offer would faise the rate to $6,01 an hour over 31 months but Farley said management negotiators wanted to take away part of the increase for apprentices, trainees and helpers. "They wanted to rob Peter to pay Paul," he said. "They wanted to cut the increase for the 100 or so lower categories to give it to the journeymen," Farley said. "We told them to reduce the term, come up with some more money and don't rob the little guys. "We are pretty militant on across-the-board increases.

That is really what is required to solve this problem." Farley said shopcraft picket "Rail" page 2 An estimated 1,100 are homeless as through area of wooden tenements and AP Wirephoto result of fire which swept warehouses. (Story, 3.) HICH-PRESSURE DECK CUN is directed against blazing buildings in 20-block area of Chelsea, a rundown suburb of Boston. Russia, U.S. rushing arms to Middle East combatants SUPREME COURT, LB BUGGED, JURIST, SAYS WASHINGTON (Reuter) "Supreme Court Justice William Douglas said today he was sure the private conference room in which the court's justices decide cases had been bugged. Douglas added that President Lyndon Johnson once confided to him his belief that even the presidential telephone had been tapped.

The statements were made in passing without substantiation by Douglas in a dissenting opinion he wrote in a wiretapping case. Skagit 'park7 created OIL SUPPLY TALKS ON CARACAS (UPI) Canadian Energy Minister Donald Macdonald met Venezuelan officials today in talks aimed at assuring continued supply of crude oil to Canada's east coast. Venezuela ships about 10 per cent of its three-million-barrel-per-day exports to Canada. Not guilty of anything, Agnew says NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)-A bitter Spiro Agnew says pressure from the highest levels of the Nixon administration forced him to resign, the Nashville Banner said today.

In a copyrighted story, the Banner said Agnew told the newspaper's Washington correspondent, Frank Van Der Linden, that he never cheated on any income tax return in his life and was guilty of no wrongdoing. Agnew said the government forced him into pleading no contest to the income tax evasion charge and resigning as vice president in return for the dropping of charges of bribery and conspiracy. Agnew said that the gifts he received from supporters were not taxable income, nor were they bribes, and he provided no influence in return. Gang gets $299,000 NAPLES, Italy (AP) -Four masked bandits, armed with sub-machine-guns and pistols, held up a bank truck on a highway outside Naples today and made off with police report. king late Saturday night with Premier Chou En-lai aboard a special train.

Trudeau and Chou toured an ancient capital, Loyang, on Sunday. This morning, the Trudeaus flew aboard a Soviet-built turboprop to Kweilin, a city set amid limestone formations, rising out of the Li River valley, northwest of Canton. Mr. and Mrs. Trudeau will remain here, finishing their week-long visit to China in leisurely fashion before beginning their return to Ottawa and the political wars on Wednesday.

Today, the Trudeaus toured spectacular limestone caves not far from Kweilin. On Tuesday, they are to take a nine-hour ride down the pic-" Trudeaus" page 2 Weather Name in New 6 Nesbitt I Sports IS Theatres 1 3 TV 32 Information Circalatia 732-2111 732-2371 3T4 62 PAGES BY CARRIER delivered to Syria and Egypt, involving about 280 flights by various planes, since last Wednesday. McCloskey declined to go into details of the U.S. resupply of Israel but he said supplies had already reached that country. Officials said the effort began sometime in the last 30 hours.

Western defence analysts in London said today they estimated that Israel lost between 80 and 100 planes during the first nine days of the Middle East war. This represents about 25 per cent of the Israeli air force. The Syrians, they said, have lost about half their planes and the Egyptians about one fifth. WASHINGTON (Reuter) -The U.S. has begun resupply-ing Israel with arms, the state department said today.

Department spokesman Robert McCloskey told reporters: "We have begun some resupply of Israel. To an appreciable extent this is designed to prevent the massive airlift by the Soviets from unsettling the military balance in the area." (In Moscow, Tass news agency said today the Soviet Union is "determined to assist in every way" the Arab effort.) McCloskey said the Soviet airlift to the Arabs had continued at an increased pace both in number of flights and tonnage. He said about 4,000 tons of Russian equipment bad been ngnring The estimates are that Syria so far has lost between 90 and 100 planes arid Egypt less than 100. The analysts said that the bulk of the Israeli air losses was due to the use of Soviet built SAM-3 and SAM-6 ground-to-air missiles which the Syrians and Egyptians have fired off in "unbelievable" numbers. U.S.

State Secretary, Henry Kissinger last week described the Soviet airlift of arms to the Arabs as moderate. Asked when the U.S. decided that the airlift had become massive, McCloskey said the judgment had been reached on the characterization of the airlift over the last 48 hours. He said the U.S. goal in sending supplies to Israel was to re-establish the military balance in the area.

Congressmen have demanded that the U.S. step up supplies of Phantom and Sky-hawk fighter-bombers to Israel to make up for those shot down by the Arabs. Peking accords hailed by Trudeau velopment," Williams said in a statement. "We are committed to fostering recreational facilities near the major concentrations in the province and the firm establishment of the Skagit as a recreational facility will provide yet another key recreation resource to service the burgeoning recreation -mands in the Lower Mainland." Under a 1967 agreement between B.C. and Seattle City Light, the valley is scheduled to be flooded by the raising of the Ross Dam, to provide "Skagit" page I I along Sinai front By DAVID ABLETT Sun Ottawa Bureau KWEILIN, China Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau declared tonight that his meeting with Mao Tse-tung and the agreements made with the Chinese government "will be very beneficial to our two countries." He said the benefits will be evident in many areas Picture, page 10 "from trade, to science, to culture, to sports, to medicine." Trudeau's comments were made at a banquet tonight in the South China city of Kweil-in, one of China's ancient beauty spots.

The prime minister left Pe Index MOUNT GARIBALDI SUMMIT By MICHAEL FINLAY Sun Victoria Bureau VICTORIA The creation of an recreation area in the Skagit Valley was announced today by Resources Minister Bob Williams. In conjunction with Recreation and Conservation Minister. Jack Radford, Williams also announced the creation of an special forest service recreation corridor between the Skagit Valley and Hope. "This should make it abundantly clear that we are going to keep the Skagit for recreation, not for power de- NEWLYWEDS Couple wed at 8,700 feet essential service workers from going out on strike. The bill states all current agreements with government workers will be renegotiated as soon as the legislation' is proclaimed.

Hall said the renegotiation will, in many cases, probably take the form of reaffirming current memoranda of agreement but provisions of the new act will result in a different approach to negotiation in some cases. He indicated that a large "2-tier" page weeks ago and I felt it was such a spectacular spot that we should use it for our ceremony," Harris said later. "You can see snow and mountain tops forever. Even Mount Baker, and that's 100 miles away:" Harris, who teaches social studies and an outdoors appreciation course at Prince of Wales secondary school, said he and bis bride waited for a good, clear day, then rounded up a few close friends and the Rev. Jack Kent of the North Shore Unitarian Church for the ride in a rented helicopter from Whistler to the top of Garibaldi.

Bride and groom wore traditional mountaineering garb for the occasion red down "Bride" page 2 rej The communique did not pin-point the location of the reported raid. The Israelis said Sunday's Egyptian tank offensive was repelled and that Cairo's forces lost more than 200 tanks and 15 planes. The Egyptian version of the same battle said the Israelis pulled back an unspecified distance into the peninsula and lost 150 tanks and 29 war-planes. "The pattern of today's fighting has become localized clashes in various sectors," the Egyptian statement said. On the Syrian front, Damascus reported heavy tank, infantry and artillery battles raged as the fourth Arab-Israeli war ground into its 10th day.

Syrian shelling was slowing the Israeli advance toward Damascus and the Israeli tanks were reported about 21 miles from the ancient Syrian capital. Correspondents with the Is-wSandi', page 2 porrea Sun News Dispatches Egyptian commandos sneaked behind Israeli lines in the Sinai today and stormed an Israel position in hand-to-hand fighting as Egyptian tanks consolidated new lines in the desert battleground, Cairo claimed. Israel said the Egyptian armor again tried to push forward along the Sinai front but More on war, pages 12, 61 was halted where it stood following a seven hour armored battle Sunday. Tel Aviv did not report the commando raid. "Troops were landed in darkness behind enemy lines, stormed a position from more than one direction, clashed in savage hand to hand combat and inflicted heavy losses in lives and equipment," the Egyptians said in a communique.

"Our units returned to safety except for some losses in men." Bridge 36 Entertainment 33 Bumimm 23 Gardens 43 Comic 36 Letters 3 Crossword 36 Living Today 34 By ROBERT SARTI The bride wore red, but there was enough white around her to cover a mountain. Like Mount Garibaldi, where two Vancouver school teachers got married Sunday on top of the peak. And instead of a limousine to the church, they were set down in front of the preacher by a helicopter landing just 10 feet from a thousand-foot precipice. Christopher Clifford Harris, 33, and Margo Anne Fowler, 26, decided to get married on the nearly inaccessible, 40-foot-by-100 foot summit of Garibaldi as an expression of their passion for mountain- -climbing. "I was up there about three WEATHER: Mainly cloudy Tuesday with chance of showers overnight tonight and Tuesday.

Low tonight around 40, high Tuesday near 55. Details, page 3. Telephones: Classified 736-2211 FOUNDED 1886 SUBSCRIPTION VOL. 87, No. $3 A MONTH Jack Kent photo parkas wedding garb I 1.