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12 THK l'UOVINCE, Saturday, June 17, 1973 Steelworkers seek mediator Tilting on the, chess scene Champ sorry for rival Canadian Press y' i I 1 '-ewer ft I 4 tJmtH' vS Spassky, 35, was reluctant to comment on the 29-year-old Fischer's boasts that be would win tiie championship and his accusations that the Russians bad plotted to deprive him of the tide by arranging to hold the games in Iceland. But, after repealed questioning, he said Fischer's "remarks make a strange Impression, lie appears to have a persecution mania and thinks Soviet chess players want to harm him. There is nothing to it and I feel sorry for Fischer." Spassky also defended Fischer against charges of an overriding interest in nuking money from chess. "In my opinion, although he is anxious to make money out of chess, that is not the only thing he cares for," Spassky said. "His talk about money may be only an effort to assert his individuality in a country like the United States where there is a lot of money." Spassky refused to predict the outcome of their match.

"I do not know who will win but I am certain it will be an interesting and important event," he said. When the two grand masters last met in West Germany in 1070 Spassky won three games and the other two were drawn. But in a conversation with a Western newsman several days ago Spassky said that, unlike Fisher, he did not set out to be a world champion and that he would he "the happiest man alive if I were no longer champion." "I like to play chess for fun and nut fame," he said. Members of the local have voted DO per cent in favor of strike action if no settlement js reached by the contract expiry date, June 30. Wages are a top item of contention.

Workers are requesting a 44 cent hourly increase in the first year and a 9.5 per cent increase in the second year. The basic huurly rate now is $3.40 and union demands would raise it to $4.95. The company has offered 4 5 per cent in the first and five per cent in the second year. ROR1S Sl'ASSliV ROBERT riSClll Ji Hellyer demands jobs, not welfare Canadian Press VICTORIA Canada should sharply cut back on welfare and unemployment insurance spending, Action Canada leader Paul Hellyer said Friday. The government should guarantee jobs to anyone who is employable, Hellyer told a chamber of commerce meeting here.

"Then the grotesque anomo-lies in the operation of the Unemployment Insurance Act could be eliminated. "The practice of using the fund as supplementary income for highly-paid seasonal workers could be abolished," he said. "It is stupid when people who have earned $10,000, or $20,000 or more in a year can be given a winter bonus paid for in part by hardworking people who live on far less." Hellyer repeated bis earlier call for compulsory wage and price limits and said it would lead to zero inflation. A program of guaranteed annual work should replace plans for a guaranteed annual wage for employable on welfare, he said If they refuse to work they should then he cut off the welfare rolls, he added. Unemployables on welfare, TRAIL The United Steel-workers of America Friday applied to the B.C.

Mediation Commission for the services of a mediation officer in the union's dispute with Cominco Ltd. President R. L. Keiver of Local 48(1 said the decision was made by the local's bargaining committee. At a meeting with Cominco Thursday the company made "no new significant offers," he said.

Keiver said the union Is prepared to continue negotiations with Cominco. fares! Swami delivers message of peaec By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press International MOSCOW Boris Spassk-y, the world chess champion, said Friday he felt sorry for U.S. challenger Bohhy Fischer because of his "persecution mania" but considered him a "remarkable" player without whom the world of chess would be very dull. "If I had the freedom to choose my challenger I would ask for Fischer," Spassky told a news conference. Their world championship matches start July a at ReUjavik, Iceland.

however, should continue to receive benefits, he said. Hellyer said Action Canada wants government curbs on all types of monopoly power, both unions and industry. Productivity would rise and prices would gradually fall if wages and prices were controlled by government, lie said. Increasing costs of providing police, firemen, teachers and other labor-intensive services would be offset by lower costs in highly-efficient industries, thus producing a net effect of zero inflation, he said. "There is no alternative to mandatory price and wage guidelines if we are to pursue vigorously and effectively the twin goals of full employment and stable prices at tiie same time.

"If there is any other solution, I haven't heard of it. Monopoly power, no matter what it is called, has to be restrained," he said. "Abuse of power by a privileged minority does violence to the principles of a free society." Hellyer said that due to unemployment, Canada is underproducing by $3 billion to $5 billion a year. CRONSHAW But wealth, he said, is in the eye of the beholder. "It is love and peace alone that can make the world go round." With 100,000 followers and 34 yoga vedenta schools in Canada and the U.S., the swami is a man of substance and plane schedules.

Only the twittering birds interrupted the swami. His followers were enraptured and their eyes glowed as he said that unless a prophet of peace and love arrives among us, we will never see the year 2K)0. But the swami was not about to suggest that he was tins prophet. Of late, it has been his mission arising out of a vision in his meditation to fly over the world's trouble spots in his brightly-painted plane, spreading leaflets and the message of peace. In five months he covered Northern Ireland, the Middle Fast, Pakistan and Vietnam.

my goodness, this warplane swoops down on us and he is three feet away. "The pilot, he is looking at me, and so I smile at him and I throw a flower toward him and he flies away. How can you shoot someone who throws a flower at you?" Could he equate spiritual fulfillment, peace and love with personal wealth? "Wealth is nothing," the swami told the little gathering. "It is all in the mind. This (gold) watch on my wrist means nothing to me.

If it Is coveted by you, then it if your problem. "If wealth Is used for good, then it does not matter how much a man possesses." Whereupon, the swami rose and was ushered carefully into the house for lunch. Six cliargcd in Ini raid Six persons were charged Friday with possession of cocaine for the punxjse of trafficking after a joint RCM1' city police raid on Point (ircy apartment house. Police said a half pound of the drug was seized tn the laid at Hi'Jl West lentil. Charged are l'eiir Fkke Remit, 25; Gibson, 24; Nancy JUtl anil, 17; Dciil Henry Carr, 23; Huhaidl-ar-i ell Newman, 25; and David Lawrence lbs, 25.

cy- rh' v. vA'' Stir By KEITH Canadian peace missionary Swami Vishnu-Devenda left i psychedelicallyeolored personal plane behind in Montreal Friday and arrived here aboard an Air Canada charter llight. He de-planed with a cargo of chattering kids and tired adults. The plane was 34 minutes late and the swami was quieter than usual, although he still had the glow of happiness and goodwill, lie wore a yellow shirt with a hole in it and thinning brown pants. He was met by a retinue who drove very small cars and convoyed him lovingly to a neat, unpretentious bungalow in North Vancouver.

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