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By GINNY GALT
OTTAWA (CP) — Air
Canada pilots agreed

Wednesday to call off a
strike threat and stay in
,thely cockpits after the com-
pany agreed to let all 1,500
pilots travel first class
between flying assignments.

The strike, threatened for
Monday, was averted after
almost nine hours of
negotiation between
representatives of the pilots,
Air Canada and top
mediators from the federal
department.

“The strike if off, We have
reached agreement,’ said
Norman Foster, negotiator
for the Canadian Air Line
Pilots Association (CALPA).

Fester said the crunch
issue was not first-class
flight privileges, but whether
letters of intent between the
company and the association

are binding.
The pilots had voted 92 per

_ eenitin favor of a strike at the

of the summer travel
season, CALPA said Air
Canada broke an agreement
with the association last year
when it ended the right of
first and second officers to
fly in first-class sections
Between assignments.

Air Canada spokesman
Bernard Miller said
following Wednesday's
meeting that while the
airline was.meecting the pl-
lots' demand on the travel
rights issue, it was not ad-
mitting that it had breached
an earlier agreement.
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“We did it in order to
reatore our relationship with
the pilots ... and to recognize
both parties’ responsibility
to the travelling public and
to do what we could to avoid
a strike.” :

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- Canada pilots

strike

With the issue of travelling
between assignments—
deadheading—temporarily
resolved, the Crown cor-
poration and CALPA mow
will settle down to full
contract negotiations,

The pilots have been
without a contract since
January. Negotiations for a
new contract have been hdd
up by the question of whether
Air Canada violated an
agreement by restricting
-firstelass travel rights.

A letter of intent sent fo
CALPA by an Air Canada
Official in 1971 gave all pilots
the right to travel first dass,
on a space-availabie basis,
between assignments. The
company removed that right
from first and second of-
ficers in March, 1977,
allowing only captains the
firstelass privilege.

CALPA said it brought the
issue to a head because it
was worried about the status
of a dozen other letters of

intent between Air Canada |

and CALPA, :
Air Canada agreed
Wednesday night that all

letters of intent are binding. —

However, Miller served
notice that the company will
attempt to revise first-class
travel rights in the coming
round of contract talks.

Officials of the federal
labor department met Air
Canada = representatives
Tuesday and brought both
parties together Wednesday.

During Wednesday’s
negotlations, the parties
were sometimes in separate
rooms and sometimes
meeting face-to-face.

Tom Eberlee, deputy Labor
‘minister, and top mediators
William Kelly and Guy de
Merlis helped the airline dna
the pilots reach agreement
on the deadheading dispute.

-Quebecers get
tax rebate —

By CAROL GOAR .
OTTAWA _—_ (CP) _
Taxation officials were in-
structed today to begin
prepat‘ing income tax rebate
cheques. for, 2.4 million

Quebesers following “final ~

Commons’ approval Wed-
nesday of
legislation.

A spokeaman-for Finance
Mininter Jean Chretien said

’ It probably will be the end of

duly before the rebates—
mont of them worth §85—can
be sat through computers at
the revenue department.
The bill was approved bya
99 to 78 vote; all opposition
parties and independent MP
Leonard Jones voting
against the bill. Liberal
‘backbencher Serge Joyal
who criticized the $85-rebate
plan for Quebec in the
Commons, was absent as
Was Prime . Minister

Standing in the 264seat
Commons is Liberal 137,
Progressive. Conservative
87, New Democrat 16, Social
Credit 8, Independent 4,
vacant 12,

The legislation now goes to
the Senate, where it is ex-
pected to receive smooth
passage. A senate com-
‘mittee has already studied
the bill and will report to the
upper house Monday.

Debate on the budget,
which dragged on for more
than a month, came fo a
surprisingly quick con-
clusion when the Con-
sérvatives decided to
abandon their attempts to
delay . its passage and
complete third reading in
less than two hours.

. Trudeau.

’ BECAME CLEAR

A party spokesman said it
became clear the Con-

servatives would net be able -

implementing _ the
legistation.

Nevertheless, a few. Con-
servatives took one last dig
at the government during the

to stop the government from

vote shouting ‘‘shame’’ and .

“geilout’ w en members of

the bec Liberal caucus
the legislation.
One Quebec Liberal Pierre ,

De Bane (Matane) fidgeted
uncomfortably during the
vote and did not join the rest
of the party in cheering and
desk-banging to applaude
Finance: Minister Jean
Chretien. for his efforts
during the budget debate.

With the sales tax
legislation approved, the
way is cleared for the
government té introduce its
congtutlonal proposals for
debate next week.

_ First, however, Chretien is
expected to seek approval of
legislation allowing the
Caen ee aif Corp.
& its legal financial

Capacity to $26 billion from :
a ty to $25

existing $8.65 billion.

federal budget .

The Crown corporation has
said it will be forced to
curtail operations by mid-
summer unless the bill
becomes law.

START FRAY...
“Debalon that bill s'ex-
pected Friday." {°°
In the two months since
Chretien introduced his
budget, he bas faced con-
tinued and angry opposition
from the Quebec gov-
ernment, the Conservatives,
New Democrats and a few
Liberal backbenchers, .
Two days after the federal
budget was presented

Hixicen siddents at Thornhill Junior Secondary School were responsible for compiling
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and 10 class taught by Kathy Sereda, worked on the figures about three houra a day for
abont a month and finished thelr end of the project shortly after Easter. Misa Sereda
said the work was an extention of the students atudies in the community.

. Nuclear plants

not safe _

TORONTO (CP) — Two of
Ontario’s nuclear power
plants have been under
federal orders to operate al
reduced power because of an
insufficient safety system,
spokesmen for the Atomic
Energy Control ' Board
confirmed Wednesday.

They said the board is not
satisfied that if certain front-
line safety systems fail in the
plants, enough cooling water
can be flooded instantly on
the nuclear-fuel sheaths in
the reactor core to prevent
them from overheating,
bursting and spewing deadly
radiation into the plant and
possibly outside.

The spokesmen ‘said the
296,-000-kilowatt Douglas
Point generating station,
owned by Atomic Energy of
Canada Ltd. and operated by
Ontario Hydro at the Bruce
nuclear development site 50
kilometres west of Owe
Sound, has been frozen at 70-
per-cent production since
April 21, 1977.

The twin. 750,000-kilowatt
Bruce, generators at ‘the
game site,- owned and
operated by Ontario Hydro,
have been limited by the
‘control’ board ‘from going
beyond 88-per-cent power
production since the piant
opened, for similar reasons.

The spokesmen said the
federal agency failed to tell
the publle about the order to
reduce power production and
that it should have.

The tiny 20,000-kilowatt
nuclear demonstration plant
at Relphton, near Ottawa,
owned by Atomic Energy
and operated by ‘Ontario
Hydro, was ordered several
months: ago to make ex-
tensive changes fo its emer-
gency system.

However, the Rolphton
plant was allowed to con-
tinue at full power because it
runs less risk of overheating
the reactor core,
spokesmen said.

The spokesmen said the
Douglas Point plant was de-

- pated by 20 per cent because
the key emergency core-

cooling system was judged.

by the control board as in-
sufficient.
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They said the remaining
nuclear power plant in
Ontario, at Pickering, just
east. of Metropolitan
Toronto, operates at a lower
temperature and is not
expected to need additional
cooling systems." .
Bob Blackburn, secretary
of the. board, said in a
telephone interview that the
Relphton ‘plant was or-

CBC strike vote

OTTAWA (CP) — The
4,800 CBC production em-
ployees, including an-

Quebec Finance Minister nouncers, are taking a strike

Jacques Parizeau rejected a
federal plan under which

-each province would reduce
its retail sales taxes in order
to qualify for federal re-
imbursement. -

' Faced. with only one
Lae that would not
ac proposal, en
offered a series of modified
sales tax cut schemes to
Quebec, none of which the
Parti Quebecois would
implement. Quebec said it
had its own scheme, under
which gales taxes on selected
items would be al

The agreement finally
reached was: that Ottawa
would provide Quebec $40
million to finance this plan,
-but the remaining $186
million set aside for the
province would go directly to
its taxpayers in the form of
1977 income tax rebates.

The budget legislation also
includes provisions alrea
in effect to:

—Relax capital gains. on
small businesses and family
farms. . ,

—Encourage industrial re-
search and deyelopment.:

—Increase tax avoidance
provisions for workers at
remote worksites.

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vote following a breakdown
in negotiations with the
corporation, a union
spokesman said today.

The employees,

' rep ted by the Canadian
Union of Public Employees,
had earlier voted 98 per cent
to accept recommendations
in a report prepared by.
conciliation commissioner
Pierre Dufresne.

However, the
spokesman said the Crown
‘corporation rejected most of
the proposals in the Dufresne

Results of the strike vole
should be known by next
Thursday, the union
spokeaman said.

A major contentious issue
is contracting out of work to
nonunion employees.

‘In May, a number of CBC

bolished, -

. announcers—including

many’ famillar :facea and

dy voices from radio and

televisidn news programe—
held sporadic walkouts
across the country to protest
delays in contract settlement
and to protest the company’s
proposal to remove all an-.
neuncers from - union
jurisdiction and retain them
by individual contracts.

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AGREEMENT EXPIRED |

The last collective
agreement expired July 3,

Dofresne recommended
across-the-board wage in-
creases of 15 per cent aver 17
months. His

applied to office, profes-
sional and _— television-

production employees.
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the right

WATERLOO, Ont. (CP) —
Canada's increased con-
servatiam and ils wish to
return to the basica because
of the faltering economy are
starting to affect education,
says Laurier LaPierre, head
of an Ontario commission
studying the education of
children.

He told a seminar on
education reporting Wed-
nesday at the Univeraity of .
Waterloo that the tightening
economy has’ meant more
people. are moving to the

right in political and social —

fairs. ' .
An unfortunate result has
been that Renaissance types
have succeeded in getting
certain books banned from
school use, LaPierre sald.

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dered, indirectly, to make
improvements; we told the
Douglas Point plant by letter
it didn’t meet our cooling-
systems guidelines and
ordered a reduction to 70 per
cent; and the Bruce plant
will operate at reduced
power until all cooling
systems are amended.” -
Blackburn said the chance
of two or or three other
safety systems failing first is
“highly improbable—
perhaps impossible— but we

cannot say it is impossible,

“We recognize that it is
possible to have such a
coincident series of failures.
And if you do, yes, then a
yelease of radiation could
happen."

Joe Malloy, the energy
board’s chief of power
reactors, said a complete
systems failure has never
occurred at any nuclear
plant, “but there have been
some near misses, in the
U.S, military installations,
for example.

“There is cause for con-
cern at the Bruce plant. We
are not fully satsified with
the safety systems, We want
more”. a

Malloy. said the. board
determined that Douglas
Point needs an emergency
cooling system which floods
the entire reactor core,
system, ‘even if that means
radioactive runoff into the
lakes. _

“We want that at all the

plants.”

Willam Morrison,
director of design and
development at Ontaric
Hydro, confirmed on
Wednesday that “‘we haven't
completed work to satisfy
the control board about
operating Bruce beyond 88-
Péfforricon said the board's:
demand that fuel bundles
should never fail ‘is im-
possible to meet.

“But we can assure

Morrison referred to the
nuclear plants’ giant
yacuum buildings, designed
to take in any radiation that
might escape in the plant, as
“another, last line of
defence,”

However, published
reports last year showed the
vacuum system suifered a
leak that went unnoticed for
three days.

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Construction workers -
stopped from moving

TORONTO (CP) -- On-
tario will retaliate with
legislation preventing
Quebec construction
workers from working in On-
ltario if the federal govern-
ment does not challenge
present Quebec legislation in
the Supreme Court of
Canada, Premier Willlam
Davis said Thureday.

Davis told the legislature
he has. written Prime
Minister Trudeau asking the
federal government to
challenge the eon-
stitationality of a Quebec

regulation which would |

prohibit Ontario con-
struction workers from
taking jobs in Quebec, ef-
fective July 1.

The premier also said he
has algo written to Quebec
Premier Rene Levesque
outlining Ontario's position.

The letter to Levesque
noted that the pravinces had
not achieved an appropriate
agreement on the issue
despite lengthy negotiations
involving officials from
Ontario and Quebec.

Since agreement has not
been possible ‘‘we have

decided to push ahead with -

these other initiatives,"’ the |
letter said. .

“Our purpose, like your
own, is to ensure both the
protection of the rights of
citizens of our province and
proper treatment of workers
in ail provinces.”

If court action is not
initiated, I have asked our
officials to prepare

legislation that will give ~

adequate protection to On-
tario construction workers."

In his letter to Trudeau,
Davis said that fewer than
2,500 Ontario workers now
are employed in Quebec
whereas more than 5,000
Quebec workers are em-
ployed in Ontario.

In an interview last week,
Ontario Labor Minister
Bette Stephenson estimated
there are six Quebec con-
struction workers employed

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Davis told Trudeau his
government has been
reluctant to impase
restrictions on Quebec
workers employed in QOn-
tario.

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