Alberni Valley Times from Alberni, British Columbia, Canada • 1

VA'. 4 1 192 AWL TOFINO Fire 725-3412 ALBERNI CM 725 3353 PORT ALBERNI VALLEY Alimes Fire. Poison RCMP PORT Control Ambulance Tofino Centre ALBERNI 724 723 723 2424 2135 1234 UCLUELET NANAIMO BAMFIELD Ucluelet the R.C.M.P 726-4412 Vancouver Island Fire 726-4343 VICTORIA Serving Alberni Valley and the West Coast of VOL. 23 NO. 137 THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1972 12 PAGES PHONE: 723-8171 PRICE: 10 CENTS IWA CHARGES 'BLACKMAIL' The chief negotiator for the International Woodworkers of American called upon Forest Industrial Relations Wednesday to hold an immediate vote on a proposed master contract in the coast forest industry of British Columbia.

Jack Moore, chief negotiator and regional president of the IWA, accused FIR of trying to blackmail the woodworkers by postponing a ratification vote by 115 companies on a contract proposal narrowly approved by 28,000 striking IWA members. Moore said today he would take legal action if coast forest industries do not accept a new contract proposal by noon Friday. Mr. Moore sent a letter to John Billings, president of Forest Industrial Relations, saying IWA lawyers had been instructed to initiate action in the British Columbia Supreme Court. He said FIR's refusal to make a decision on the recommended settlement was a "flagrant of the agreement reached July 4.

FIR and IWA negotiators discussed local issues for more than an hour Wednesday, but scheduled no further talks. Mr. Moore said these local problems had never been part of industry negotiations. He said both sides had agreed in a memorandum of agreement July 4 to recommend a settlement package for the whole industry and accused FIR of "refusing to abide by their commitment." "This outright effort to blackmail the woodworkers is keeping 28,000 people out of work and is detrimental to not only the workers involved but the whole community of B.C.," Mr. Moore.

Mr. Billings said the forest companies had instructed FIR to continue the local meetings, adding that "these instructions are being carried out There are 14 local disputes not covered by the master contract. The 28,000 IWA members have been on strike since June 22. Meanwhile, there appears to be growing resentment among Alberni Valley woodworkers against the fallers who allegedly manipulated last Friday's meeting at the Gelnwood Centre at which a majority of about 1,800 IWA members turned down the proposed contract. But Franklin River faller John Isaac, while admitting that one faller spoke for a long time at the meeting and several other fallers also urged rejection of the contract, contended there was no organized campaign by the fallers to control the meeting.

"The membership haven't been getting the true picture, so the fallers gave it to But there were three or four others who spoke at the meeting who weren't Mr. Isaac, a faller since 1947, said a small splinter group of three fallers is attempting to form a separate union for fallers, but are not making much headway. "It's wishful thinking far as I can see. The majority of fallers feel breaking away from the IWA isn't going to solve the problem." Mr. Isaac said the fallers, many of whom have been off work since mid-April in a campaign to get a standard pricing formula, are firmly against the day rate of $80.52 in master agreement.

He said elimination of the piecework rate will mean layoffs for scalers, reduced production and size able wage cuts for the top earners. high earners are the producers," said Mr. Isaac, who made between $20,000 and $30,000 last year. "If they take a cut because of a day rate, production will be shot. It'll be a mess." Fallers who presently earn more than the proposed day rate will have their earnings scaled down gradually until the day rate is reached.

For example, in the first year of a day rate, the top earners would receive 90 per cont of 'heir last year's earnings on the piecework rate. Mr. Isaac said the scalers "have been another pair of eyes for us" and if their jobs are eliminated because of the day rate "we'll be stuck out there alone." Commenting on a proposal that alternate jobs will be offered to fallers if possible when weather conditions are not suitable for cutting trees, Mr. Isaac said, "I'm not going to set I'm a faller." He said many fallers in the Alberni Valley worked only about 100 days last year, and few worked more than 135. Although he felt forming a separate union would not benefit the fallers, he criticized the IWA I leaders for agreeing to a day rate.

"When they negotiate a wage cut for anyone, they're not doing their job." Mr. Isaac recalled that 5,000 IWA members marched to Victoria in 1946 to support their demands for a 40-hour week a and a 25-cent per hour raise. "It was very We've been considering marching to Victoria again to get public support. Sitting at home on our hands will gain us Mr. Isaac claimed that the fallers, whose refusal to return to work could jeopardize the coastal forest industry, have gained a lot of support recently.

vote speaks for itself." (The master agreement was approved by a narrow margin although the Port Alberni IWA local and four locals rejected it.) other, woodworkers wait for FIR approval of the contract, and a back-to-work order from union leaders, the question of finances remains confused. John Squire, financial secretary of the Port Alberni IWA local, said there has been a great deal of misunderstanding regarding strike pay. The basic principles are as follows, he said: All IWA members in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pay an equal amount, $1 per month, into a central strike fund, and only members in those areas can draw from the fund. All members in the four areas are bound by the same rules and each local union must apply the rules without discrimination. There is no strike pay as such for picket duty because "the $1 per month paid by each member does not allow such I luxuries." Strike pay can only be paid on the basis of need.

"There is no means test, as has been erroneously reported, but the principle of payment on the basis of need must apply," Mr. Squire concluded. Eligibility of woodworkers for Unemployment Insurance benefits is uncertain and no "hard and fast rules" can be applied because of the complicated rules governing payment to workers involved in labor disputes, said Unemployment Insurance Commission spokesman Helen Patterson. "We can't pre-judge the we can't say what will happen until the actual claims come in." The Unemployment Insurance Act states that a claimant who loses his job because of a labor dispute cannot receive unemployment insurance until "either the work stoppage is he has obtained and held another job in his own line of work for at least two weeks, or he has taken up regular employment in some other line of work." If FIR approves the contract and the IWA orders woodworkers to return to their jobs, many of them will have no jobs to go to, or will work only for a short time, because of a drastic log shortage caused by the fallers' dispute. Glorious Twelfth becomes bloody chapter in battle Eight shot dead in terror reign BELFAST (AP) Security Forces counted today the cost of the 'Glorious Twelfth" and found Northern Ireland had suffered one of its bloodiest chapters of gunfighting in three years of strife.

New sign election nearing VANCOUVER (CP) Speculation that there will be a general election in British Columbia next month gained strength Wednesday when it was disclosed that election signs are being prepared for the Social Credit Party. The signs, urging the public to re-elect Premier W. A. C. Bennett and other Social Credit members of the legislature, are to be ready by July 23, according to a source close to one of the sign companies involved.

Premier Bennett has said several times that there is a 75 per cent chance of a B.C. election this year. The dates 25 and Aug. 28 are most often mentioned by leaders of the New Democratic, Liberal and Conservative minority parties. Premier Bennett, meanwhile, said from his home in Kelowna Wednesday that the sign operation has been going on for months.

'PERSONAL' Kennedy declines VP bid MIAMI BEACH (CP) Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, the reformminded preacher's son who won the Democratic nomination for president Wednesday night, gets his first chance to pull together a divided party before today is over. In his choice of vicepresidential candidate and in his acceptance speech to the final session of the party convention tonight, the 49-yearold McGovern is expected to set a tone that will guide the enthusiasm of his early backers while wooing the substantial blocs of wary or antagonistic Democrats who fought his nomination. He already has been denied, apparently, the one candidate for the vice-presidency that virtually all Democrats here agreed would strengthen the party ticket in its efforts to unseat President Nixon in the November elections. McGovern told reporters that Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts was the first to phone and congratulate him after the nomination was confirmed. But Kennedy declined, "for very real personal reasons," to become McGovern's running mate.

That appeared to leave the field wide open. Eight persons, including two British soldiers and a 15-yearold mentally-handicapped boy, were shot dead before, during and after Wednesday's parades throughout the province by tens of thousands of Protestants, including some Orangemen from Toronto. The loyalist -of a 282-year-old Protestant victory over Roman Catholic armies in the Battle of the Boyne-themselves passed off peacefully, with 32,000 troops, militia and police sandwiched between the communities to forestall violence. advance of the marching, on its periphery and in its wake guerrilla assassins and bombers worked furiously. The army suffered two killed and 11 wounded in battles with offensive units of the Irish Republican Army.

The troops, whose death list since 1969 rose to 91, said they wounded or killed at least five of their shadowy assailants. INVOLVE BOTH SIDES The other casualties came from skirmishes involving operatives from both Catholic and Protestant private armies and Ulster's -all fatality toll rose to at least 425. Twentyone persons have died since the Catholic-base IRA renounced its ceasefire and resumed its offensive Sunday night. There was one slight glimmer of hope amid the debris and gore of the day, however. Seamus Twomey, chief of the IRA's Provisional wing in Belfast, summoned reporters to his home in the Catholic enclave of Andersonstown and told them his forces might consider renewing their ceasefire.

But he said the British government must guarantee there would be no army raids or arrests, no "harassment" of his men, and complete freedom from Provisionals to move around, albeit in "low profile." He again accused British troops of breaking the IRA's ceasefire after only 13 days of relative calm. The British insist the IRA renewed the warfare. WHITELAW CAUTIOUS British Administrator William Whitelaw was believed looking at Twomey's proposal "with caution." The first to die Wednesday was a Protestant youth, gunned down as he strolled through a park in Portadown, County Armagh, while Protestants prepared their banners, flutes and drums for their biggest day of the year. Then gunmen burst into the Belfast home of a Catholic widow and shot dead her teenson, said to have a mental age of four, as he slept in bed. A detective said: 'This was brutal and completely without -where the hell are we The hooded body of a man, believed a Protestant, was discovered while intermittent shooting punctuated the background to the marches which proclaim Protestant ascendancy in Northern Ireland.

He had been shot. PORT ALICE TRAGEDY AVERTED 100 hit by gas leak mill and were taken to a hotel in the village, miles away, where residents initially were warned they might have to flee if the wind shifted. Emergency oxygen treatment was administered to seven Rayonier employees. They were the only persons needing medical treatment. About 70 persons inside the movie theatre near the mill had sufficient warning to get out of the area without being affected, but a score of men at the plant gulped oxygen to clear their CP JACQUES SAULNIER lose job Police chief 'unfit' QUEBEC (CP)- Jacques Saulnier, Montreal police director, is unfit for his job and in the Montreal police organization should be reevaluated, the Quebec police commission says.

The police commission made the recommendation in a report made public today by Justice Minister Jerome Choquette. The report, outcome of an inquiry into the conduct of the Montreal police chief, says Mr. Saulnier "has neither the competence nor the aptitudes to direct a police service of the size of the police service of the City of Montreal." At a news conference in which he released the report, Justice Minister (hoquette said: "I plan to follow up these recommendations." inquiry into Mr. Saulnier's conduct followed published reports that he had received an $800 color television set from a hotelowner while he was a police captain in charge of the squad in Montreal in December, 1966. Liberal leader David New says Many B.C.

residents are tired of being "conned" by a Social Credit government that is spending more than $4 million in a massive preelection advertising campaign to "tell people what they already know," B.C. Liberal leader David Anderson said in Port Alberni today. Mr. Anderson, the 34-yearold Esquimalt-Saanich MP who Interior workers off job CRANBROOK, B.C. (CP)Some 900 woodworkers were off the job in four interior mills today as bargaining continued in Kelowna on a new contract between the International Woodworkers of America and interior forest companies.

About 400 employees of Crestbrook Forest Industries mills in here and in nearby Canal Flats walked off their jobs Wednesday night, and another 500 men at Boundary Forest Products mills in Grand Forks and Midway went out today. The walkout is believed to be linked with negotiations in Kelowna, B.C. between the IWA and the Interior Lumber Operators Association. Earlier Wednesday, about 1,200 IW A members returned to work at six Kamloops area mills. CHESS FORFEIT REYKJAVIK (Reuter) American challenger Bobby Fischer failed to show up tonight for the second game of the 24-game world chess championship series here and forfeited it to Soviet title-holder Boris Spassky.

Anderson (right) and Wayne Cathers at press conference. Liberal leader Socreds 'con men' built a reputation as an outspoken critic of various Liberal policies and as the main foe of the U.S. oil tanker route down the West Coast, told a press conference he has noticed considerable resentment against the Social Credit government in various parts of the province since he took over as leader seven weeks ago. People are concerned about problems such as housing, special care for the aged and inadequate hospital service and are "awfully fed up" to see public money spent in large government advertisements, he said. Publicizing the Victims of Crime Act, for example, has cost more than the amount paid to victims of crime, and the B.C.

Railway bonds to be advertised throughout B.C. next week have already been sold, so the ads will be "for a useless purpose," the Liberal leader said. Mr. Anderson, who will run against Trade and Industry Minister Waldo Skillings in the Victoria riding, said the W.A.C. Bennett government is 'running out of gas" and the Liberals have a chance of winning the next election.

which will probably be held toward the end of August. He said 32 Liberal candidates have already been chosen and interest in the party appears to be increasing. In Premier Bennett's hometown, Kelowna, over 200 people attended the nomination meeting this year, while in 1969, "the meeting had to adjourn halfway through to find 3 he said. Mr. Anderson criticized the Bennett government for "using labor disputes for political purposes" but predicted that the New Democratic Party "won't be the bogeyman as in the 1969 election.

He said he would like to see a labor -management com- Convict captured mittee meet on a regular basis to discuss problem issues such as automation, to head off labor trouble, and suggested the Liberal policy on a regular basis to discuss problem issues such as automation, to head off labor trouble, and suggested the Liberal policy on labor negotiations, formulated at the provincial convention in Penticton, might improve the troubled labor climate in B.C. Mr. Anderson also suggested the legislature should be recalled if necessary to settle strikes in the public interest (involving hospitals, for example) and a secret vote taken, so NDP members could vote "without having labor looking over their shoulders." The Liberal leader spoke on trade with the Orient at a Rotary Club luncheon today and will attend a public meeting at the Italian Centre at 7 o'clock this evening, along with Wayne Cathers, Liberal candidate in Alberni constituency. PORT 100 PORT ALICE, B.C. (CP)- A score of persons were given emergency first aid treatment Wednesday night when a chlorine gas leak forced the evacuation of a hospital, movie theatre and the pulp mill at which the leak originated.

Fire department units rushed oxygen tanks to the Rayonier Canada (B.C.) Ltd. mill as the 80 men on the afternoon shift evacuated the plant while the gas leaked from a hose hooked up to a railway tank car. Seven patients were evacuated from a hospital near the KINGTON. Ont. (CP; Police captured a sixth escaped convict from Millhaven penitentiary today as 150 soldiers from four military bases were put on a standby ready to help search for eight other convicts still free.

A prison guard confirmed that Richard Smith, 32, of Petrolia, serving 12 years in the maximumprison on seven charges of armed robbery, gave himself up to police near a farm house just south of Japanee, 25 miles west of here. Meanwhile, troops from Canadian Forces bases at Barriefield near here, Petawawa and Ottawa were mobilized to help more than 200 provincial police officers and prison guards conduct an intensive search of countryside surrounding the prison for the eight missing men. (Earlier story on Page 2) lungs of the choking gas. Mayor John Vanderelft said chlorine, used to bleach puip, had been leaking at the plant earlier in the day, although without serious effect, and that "these leaks have been happening quite often recently. Rayonier plant manager Ralph James noted that the leakage was not from plant equipment, but from the hose leading to the plant from the tank car.

The crisis erupted at about 8:30 p.m. when plant employees noticed a cloud of gas emanating from the area of the tank car, which was brought in by ocean barge to this community on northern Vancouver Island, 200 miles northwest of Vancouver. A southeast wind blew the gas to the hospital, where the staff rushed to close windows and doors to protect the patients until they could be removed. Massive or prolonged inhalation of the gas can cause severe inflammation of the lungs and death..