‘Page2, The Herald, Tuesday, February 28, 1984 ‘3 ‘Published every. weekday at 3010 Kalum Street; Terrace, B.C. by Sterting Publishers Ltd, ‘Authorized as second class mall, Registration Number-1201. Postage paid in cash, return postage guaranteed — Terrace: Circulation: 695-6357 . 635-4000 Publisher’. David Hamitfon a Editor: Advertising Sales: Brian Gregg Nick Walton’ - Statf 1 Writer- Photographer: Sports: _ Ralph Reschke . . Holly Olson Reception-Classified: Circulation: ‘Claire Wadley . Sue Booten” .NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full, complete and sote copyright : In any advertisement produced and-or any édiforlal or photographic content published in the Herald. Reproduction is not permitted without the written : permission of the Publisher. The Terrace-itimat Dally Herald Newspaper’ ie politically independent anda member of the British, Columbla Press CouneHl ; aly Letters to the Editor vues = . To the Editor, This morning T left for work at the ugual time, fully ex- pecting to be met-by a picket line. 1 was not going to cross that tine, but £ wanted to meet the picketers far the specific intention of letting them know that I did support their ef- forts, and that honouring their picket line was the only avenue open to me, to show that support. Twas met at the mill, not by the expected union members, but by a contingent of truck loggers who were there for the. purpose of ensuring that I could, and would go to work, I turned around, and went home. 8 Was. upin fact or not,.if wasup in principles hae ze not cryas; ‘My rearet. is is that no picketer: saw ‘Ine Téfuse to erogs’: : There is so much talk of union, siinciples that has become just talk, ‘that I feel that it is necessary for someone toahow _ Phat these principles de mean more. than rhetoric to some people. I feel that in a small way, 1 have shown that by bonouring a bleket line that was there in principle if not in fact. bo a -— Inbrotherhood, a , Bary Bal — Plans: quiet | : VICTORIA (CP) — Finance Minister Hugh Curtis refused Monday to explain the Social Credit government's plans to impose a second income-tax increase for health care. : Provision for the new tax is contained in the Income Tax ; (Health Care Maintenance) Amendment Act presented last: week to the legislature which increases the provincial in- come tax by elght per cent a year to offset what the government says is a $864 million shortfall in federal financing. . The bill, however, does not say haw much the govern- ment will levy under the new tax that is labelled a bealth- care maintenance levy; and which is not to be confused with the eight-per-cent health-care maintenance surtax, Instead, the bill gives the provincial cabinet the power to determine what amount will be levied and just who will be taxed. . Traditionally, rates and levels of taxation have been approved by the legislature, and Curtis would not say why the government was seeking to give this power to the * cabinet. The bill was presented to the B.C. legislature last week - and |s consequential to the $8.39 billion budget outlined by Curtis. « NO APPEAL oot Beb Milne, alawyer familiar with health financing, found the clause unbelievable, saying it amounts to taxation without representation, — He said this means thal any government in power, even a New Democratic Party government, could increase taxes at will, and without appeal. .The. bill states that the income tax, paid by any person. living In the province’ on the last day of the year whose taxable income exceeds an amount set by the cabinet, “shall be increased" by an amount determined by cabinet decree, It adds that the cabinet shall take into account any . amount thé federal government deducts from its payments to the province because of British Columbia’s insistence on keeping hospital user fees in place. . Under the Canada health act currently before the Commons, provinces that allow user fees would lose‘ one dollar for every dollar patients are forced to pay out of their own pocket for medicare services, Curtis estimates that the acute care hospital user fees will raise #40 milllon in the 1984-85 fiscal year that begins April 1, SETS AMOUNT The B.C. bill does say that the surtax, specified in the budget, is to be four per cent in 1964 and elght per cent in 1985 and subsequent years. This tax Is expected to raise $97 million this year and $166 million in a full year, =. The four-per-cent rate is in effect for ahalf year as it does not take effect until July 1. The bill treats this increase aa just another provincial income tax increase, and does not mention that the funds collected are to make up for any shortfall in funda the. government says it ig due from the federal government. It also does not specify that the measure Is supposed to be a temporary one; ' ally herald . cs ". told the associaticn’s mid- winter meeting. - disease.” -. We _ prosecutors," he said, ; Western world and Mi ley said f feil “Ity was 1 acquisition day 0 on Monday. it’s buying Pept 's Drug Stores Inc., a, rrisjot Amer drug-store chain for a possible total of $408-inillion: : | Meanwhile, Calgary-based ' Trizec. Corp, | Ltd; ‘announced it will spend $160 million to buy a: ‘eontyalling, interest Yin Bramalea Ltd, of Toronto, a major North ‘American, teal estate developer. *: And the Eaton family, which runs one ot Canada’ 8 largest derpartment store chains, consolidated its. control over Baton Broadcasting, which runs CFTO-TV of? To Canada’s largest television station. 4 ‘The Imasco merger will give the: Montreal-based tobacco and consumer products company a 518-store network of retail ouHets based in Alexandria, Va., that has a strong presence in several southern and midwestern U.S.: clties. : _An acquisition'by Imasco had been expected for several» months ever'since the company made an unsyécessful $L.1- billion takeover: ate for. Canadian Fire: Ltd; last sum- maprix chain ‘in Canada” ‘ab are W.S--baséid ¥ FoodSystems and. Burger’ net, Sys e Meanwhile; the ‘Trleec-Bramatea “eal: gives. “Trizec: an’. extra handle on the profitable non-residential market while providing Bramalea with a welconie- infusion: ‘of capital: It: also puts a'big chunk of Canada’s nén-housing development © industry .in the hands of the ‘two’ main: branches ‘of the: powerful « Bronfman family. and Tokonto’s ‘Reichmann family, vty Through Carena ‘Bancorp | Inc’, “Poronto - financiers Edward and Peter ‘Bronfman and the: Retcheinins are Legislation called: nightmarish - ‘WHITEHORSE (CP) — Modernizing the: 1802 Criminal Code may seem like a lawyer's dream come true; ‘but the project has some nightmarish aspects, ‘the Canadian Bar _Assdclation heard Monday. ¥ Justice Minister Mark MacGuigan’s | criminal law. reform bill, tabled in Parliament ¢arlier this month,’ ‘contains a dangerous provision allowing a suspect’s assets to be. selzed and forfeited upon conviction, said Toronto criminal } yer Edward Greenspan. .“ “This is-a nightmarish piecz of legislation,” Gresnapan “It's ill-considered. The cure is much worse - th the _Greenspan said the provision ‘was masked aga tool to get at the profits of drug traffickers and organized: crime, ' Yet 'the loose wording: will allow it to be: used in: every. criminal :case* where the accused has assels.and ‘ could become “‘a horrible tool in. ‘the chands ; of over-zealous Under the proposed amendments, ‘police could obéain a 7 ‘search-and-seizure. order for altijost any, property’ ita hey ., Satisfy a justice ‘of the peace that there are. reasonable -grounds to believe the‘property was used ira criminal ‘of fence or was gained as the result of criminal activity. If the accused is everitually convicted, -the courts can decide whether to return the property or rhand it aver to the Crown for disposal, . .. But after conviction the Crown must prove ‘oly that there is a “balance of probability” the assets were used ‘or derived from the commission of a crime, Greenspan noted. That's. a much looser test for the ‘Crown..than proving something occurred “beyond a. Teasonable doubt," ” : the _ usual standard in.criminal law... ; . Justice Department lawyer Richard Mosley said the forfeiture orders are part of the overall reform of sen- tencing provisions aimed at finding alternatives to prison, The bill says prison should be reserved for the worst. ‘offenders, when public protection is at stake, but in all other, - cases judges: should first consider. options ‘such as com; _ munity service work; restitution and. probation, ’ Canada lias one of the highest incarceration rates i in, the fective: ‘alternative : i me: | e. cele ate anyone else With'an a etek i in ine selzed pi property to.ask for a court _review.at anytime,” a Greenspan said he is also concerned - about : ‘the ‘new: . definition of pornography contained in’ the wide-ranging bill. - me The definition has been expanded to prohibit representing - This would élimninate the current need to ‘link ‘crime, ‘ horror, cruelty dr _ violence with. gex for material’ to be judged obscene, .-: | : Greenspan said the proposal isso brondlysworded that TV. news clips showing. the. horror of Massacres in Lebanon could be judged'to be obscene." But Mosley said the ‘test remains whether the materjal- involyed “undue exploitation. ” The courts have | said. that's. determined by community standards df tolerance, °: - "“T'd be extremely’ surprised if the Canadian: ‘public is willing to treat’ massacres i in Lebanon on TY news as undue * exploitation,” he sald. - Proposals to. speed up the: Judicial p process: s-by: requiring ‘provincial court trials-or preliminary: hearings to begin within six months of acharge being laid may not benefit the,’ accused, the lawyers: were told; |. Mare: ‘Rosenberg, ° Greenspan’ 3 * partrie,” . te ie ‘proposals ‘may ‘become-.*‘g club in the hand. of the. prosecution oreven the courts to force an accused Into a | trial before he is prepared, maybe, without the lawyer of his choice.” If the court p procedures do: not begin within ihe six-month period, the charges must be dropped and Rosenberg said he doesn't see how. this benefits soclely, i WERE PLEASED : wo The lawyers. were generally pleased with, the rest. of the” legislation, particularly sections dealing With sentencing, * contempt'of court and telewarrants, Rosenberg said the provisions: for ‘elewarrants are among the best in the bill, They would replace the powerful search warrants 1 known . as writs of assistance which are issuéd to RCMP officers for life, primarily for drug investigations.” The legislation would allow ‘pollce to obtain search warrants over the telephone’ where time. or other cir- cumstances make it impractical to appear before a provincial court judge in person... < Judges would be required to’ tape record the con- versations' and police would have to leave a copy of the . warrant with the occupants of the premise searched or peat. the warrant if the premise is vacant, oa R ; ar Jawyer,. Serge Menard said:.the. contemp i of bovis fetispecty maximurif pebulfite rare gue Pike oe o ent, ‘dyer - Weel, they held a.wienie roast-in the office. EXC vt ave " hy bill replaces vague -é common inw ‘offences teith th three “statutory offences — disruption of, judicial proceedings, . ‘publication of. false or scurrilous statements which bring - the! court into Alsrespect | and interference. with judicial _ proceedings: -. Menard sald'a judge who cites an individual with con- men or wonien in a degrading manner that unduly exploits, ° % > tempt will no longer preside over the contempt hearing, sex, crime, horror, cruelty or violence. - aithough he could be called a8 a witness j in the case.. Council to ‘avoid bloodbath WINNIPEG (CP) — team as long as he's boss, “We are looking for things to be corrected and, If there is an error, to publish the correction:” y The formation of the ‘council comes on the heels ‘of: the’ proposed Canada newspapers act, which flowed from the,: ” Bay, Winnipeg, RST 217. if. Aiken’ can't resdlve: the be 7 ‘problem, -complainants can appear before the council: «However, Aiken said the majority of . complaints are, resolved before a hearing: needs to be: called.” oe “In keeping with the practice of most other: ‘press. councila. in Catiada — only. Saskatchewan. doesn’t ‘have ‘one ean lawyers: are’ kept out of the hearings: because’. “we can: | , Manage well enough. without them,” says Maltby... “The: privileges and rights of newspapers and: journalists” are protected and cases: ‘of defamation will still be decided oa by the courts. 60 0 fae . The Winnipeg Free Press, Brandon Sun, “Portage “Te. ; Prairie Daily Graphic and .the ‘Manitoba: Community, . Newspapers Association have joined the council, Only the + Kent royal commission on newspapers in 1990... Under the proposed act, a federal council would be ap, pointed to ‘hear. complaints in provinces. where, no coms petent press council, exists. . . 8 ‘JUST AS GOOD’ . ; ae But a federally appointed council would provide: tio bette solutions to problems encountered by newspaper readers i in Manitoba than the Manitoba council, Maltby said, The council's first meeting is scheduled for mid-March: and Don Aiken, the council's executive secretary-treasurer,’: says he hopes the first complaints can be heard by June, Winnipeg Sun has not joined: “I can assure people there will be impartiality. as long ag: os Maltby Is chairman,” says malty, 7 70,8 native of England. an "And it will be thorough. ! " DEFEND FREEDOM - The council is to have eight major purposes: ‘ .— Defend press freedom; * us -— Encourage high standards of Journilistic ethics, sme Act apa medium of understanding, between Press and a F public.: ‘— Investigate public complaints agains news, comment, mn access and advertising. —~- Investigate complaints from the press about the El conduct of individuals and organizations against the press: - — Investigate restrictions on press access to information| of public interest. — Make representations to government on Insues relaled to press council objectives. — Issue annual and periodic reports on press couneil - work, MAKE SUGGESTIONS Maitby said the council will not police the presa or govern it in the same manner as the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications - Commission runs the: electronic "media, Its decisions will result tn recommendations only, but _ hewspapers joining the council have committed themselves ‘ta publish those recommendations, he said. Each member publication fias an employee of its own on Z the council, which is expected lo meet three or four times 4 year. Each professional on the council is paired with a cillzen't 8 representative for the publications’ immediate readership area. . (tame len erates A ispoint list. of proposed procedures Includes George Maltby, chairman of the ” fledgling Manitoba Press Council, says angry. newspaper " readers can expect a fair hearing from the nine-member requirements ‘that all complaints be in writing. and that ‘they ‘The proposals also call for the council to hear complaints ° only after the parties involved have failed to resolve their ‘> ‘differences through other means, ; ‘Readers with a beef against a newspaper will be asked ‘to try to resolve tieir problems with .the publication -in “question at first, with the council acting 4s an appeal: body. - Complaints mugt be sent in writing to Aiken at 10 Tulane | "The council also won'thear any ‘matters wl l are, or aie Maltby added, - a | got her in a poker game. 1 had a pair of eights and the other. he ET guy had three jacks.” g I | - Montreal-based cousins, through CEMP Investments, ‘awn a big chunk of: Caditlec-Fairview- Carp, another major Player in the Canadian real estate business. Under. terms of the Trizec-Bramiale ; grecinent/. ex. _pected tobe finalized April 12, but still subject to regulatory | approval, Trizec will buy, 3.5 million common: shares from : Bramalea's treasury at! ‘gi? a share ‘and: < $100. million “debentures eventually convertible into 4. 8B mailtion | common stares. : : “Upon purchase of the ¢oimmon aliares a ane the debentures, Trizee woilld own’ about 90 per: ; company's common shares -~ equal to that of. Bramalea’ iB three senior executives. Trizec has also acquired. an Option’ to pick up an additional lo per cent ofthe shares, from “Bramalea chairman Richard Shilf woe ~ JOINT INTERESTS | wey : The two companies have collaborated severgl times in the last five years, particularly in the shopping. centre f field , where they ‘holding joint interests, ‘in: two. Vancouver-area developments, ; " Bramalea also has links with Reichmann wned Olympi pia and York Holdings Lid., with which it shares ownership af the Toronto Star building In downtown Toronto, - ere The Baton transaction, ‘approved’ by: ‘federal -bi ideas regulators, may have severed the last findnetal : dink: bet ‘ween two of Toronto's moat prominent | families; the Batons -" gnd the Bassetts. It also leaves the. Bassett, without, a ‘major media vehicle. . . In the sale, the Eatons, through Eaton’ 8 of Canada’ Lid., bought the 20.6 per cent of Telegram Corp, held by: Douglas and David Bassett. Eaton's already | owned the remaining 70.4 per cent of Telegram, . the company that: ultimately - holds a controlling interest in: Baton, . : ‘Baton fully owns CFTO-TV, the Toronto flagihip atation of CTV, and Russwood Broadcasting Ltd. of Toronto, CFTO _owns CFGO Radio Ltd, of Ottawa, and Russwood - :OwWns ._ CKLW. Windsor, CKIY-FM Windsor, CFQC:Saskatgén, “CFQC-TV Saskatoon ‘and _ its three Haatihies Tebroadcasting facilities. * In other business developmenis Monday:” _ = Inco Ltd. of Toronto, the -world’s. ‘biggest: producer, sald it is laying off about 400 workers in’ Eur because of a corporate reorganization and the: continued - slump in world metala markets, Inco epokesman Marc . Tesaler said as many as 250 workers out of 1,600 will be. let goat the company’s rolling mill i Wedneabury England’é ‘as ‘part of a.corporate reorganization that. will put-In British and American alloy businesses utider one company. ,- Meanwhile, about 65 workers will be laid off at the London headquarters of its Inco Europe subsidiary ‘becau of ‘ continued sluggish markets for nickel and copper’: * ’ | Crown-owned de Havilland Aircraft Canada Ltd; sald it has received.a $44-million order for five Dash 7a from Calro- ‘based Petroleum Air Services, the largest. single 0 order: for the turboprop aircraft in its lo-year history. . - * ickel “WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) — Jerry Slavik is ‘president ‘ol shia _ company. but. he lets Kis 100. employees hire. and fire, bet - thet ploy maiaes and working hours. ° decided recently to spend company mioney’ ‘to Cottage propérty for thelr own, usenet. re whee It sounds like every manager's nightmare ‘of what hap- pens when his employees take over, but Slavik ‘says it’s great and the company, Windsor Factory Supply," ig profitable and growing. ~ . .. The-company, a. major suppller of factory tools’ iinid ’ supplies to local industry, has been writted up in business ‘magazines across Canada as a ‘model of enlightened: labor management relations. , The idea of profit-sharing and ‘worker-participation is being touted as a way North American industries can’ beat ” the. Japanese at their own game. But Windsor Factory Supply is strictly a home-grown phenomenon, the product of two very sociable»personalities,: _* Slavik and partner Joe Soboran were perfectly hap 10 be specific. No complaint will be considered {E it comes . A py ‘more than six months after, publication of: the item in " {question ~~” _ But, says the former English bobby, “the less compulsory . control, the better. The emphasis must be ori freedom of the _ press, We aren’t looking for.a bloodbath, years ago to sell 49 per cent of Windsor Factory. to: their -staff. “We had all the satisfaction of starting the company "and making decisions, 80 we decided to let the staff find. but they can make decisions just as well AS US. s. We know we're . bot always right.” JUST LIKE: BOSSES Te How haye the employees done? i “They found they were right most of the time and wrong "some times, just like us, Slavik sald. Although: Slavik and ‘Sobocan can, ag 4 last resort, overrule staff decisions, they’ ve never done it on a major — ‘Ispue. . ; > Slavik works in ‘sales and Sobocati in the aceounting - department. While they retain controlling ownership, they 2 try not-to interfere in Tanning the company, =. >” “Neither attends the monthly managers’ ‘Meetings, where department heads and elected staff: represen! atives. make the day-to-day management decisions, Any sti aff ‘member 7 who wants to bring up an _Tesue can also. attend, those meetings. Employees really have power, from: buying a fi =w truck 7 to reorganizing the corporation, which they're. now, ‘doing. ‘ ‘about to become, subject to: ‘eriminal or: ely itigation - “John Soulliere’s friends at Chrysler Canada: Ltd. told him “* he-was crazy 11 years ago when he left Chrysler, to Work at ‘Windsor Factory. Supply-for hai. the salary. MAKES MORE MONEY - < But today, Soulliere saya he is making more money t ‘than “his autoworker friends, thanks ‘to. bontizes | brid, profit- sharing. And he has a say in the company's ‘affairs; : - The Windsor Factory system has stéod traditional labor- . Management relations on ite ear, ,v This year, Slavik sald“thé company should make viel “over $13 million in sales,‘ At the annual meeting; the, em- ployeda: vote on how much of. the profits they. will | pay. oul to “J themselves and how much, will be left with the company to expand or buy new equipment, such Bs computers, ; Depending on how an employee's work has been "| :., evaluated, he or she tan feceive anywhere from nothing {o "-moré'than $8,000 4 year'in bonuses or profit-sharing. Some employees raise their base pay by 20 Per cent from bonuses. Slavik said:Windsor Factory employees, who are all non- : “unlon, aré Wage leaders ih the Windsor: area, But they have to share the hard times as well. DIDN'T LOSE SALES. , Twice since the. cbinpany started, workers have received " no annual increases. Bul unlike other companles taught in _ the. recession, ‘Windsor. ‘Factory, had no layofts and didn't lose gales, Slavik says most businessmen would: never ‘adopt auch a labor-management system unless it: increases worker ” productivity, lowers absenteeism | and increases’ pride. of work, therefore raising service or product quality.::: Ail these are evident at Windsor Factory. A ‘quick look around the building thows an unusually iriéndlly, and busy gtalf.. People realize the business has to thrive;. Slavik. sei. They are alse aware that their attitude and work is being - . evaluated by their peeta..The expense of supervision has ‘ been shifted’ toe the workforce.