PAGE 8, THE HERALD, Tuesday. qJune 13, 1976

Hopes to end 13 week
mines strike in Que.

Hy MARK DALY

MONTREAL (CP)
Negotiators for 3,500 nor-
theastern. Quebec miners
reached an pereementiin.
principle Sunday
Quebec Cartier Mining Co.,
raising hopes for an end to a
13-week strike which has
paralysed three-quarters of
canada’s iron ore produc-

on,

A spokesman in Montreal
for the United Steelworkers
of America said the minéra,
who live-in the communities
of Port Cartier, Fermont and
Gagnon, will vote by secret
ballot today on the contract
proposal. :

Lawrence McBrearty,
chief negotiator for 10,000
striking miners in northern
Quebec and Labrador, said
in a telephone interview
Sunday from Fermont the
union’s “goals have been
reached on all issues.’'n

Although McBrearty
would not divulge details,
sources close to the union
said the agreement-in-
principle includes wage
increases of more than 90 per
cent in a 33-month contract
retroactive to March.

The source sald the agres-
ment-in-principle would
raise hourly wages—with
cost-of-living |. bonuses—by
more than $2 over the jength
of the contract, Miners’
annual salaries now average
$20,000.

Plans to
refine

US. oil

By KEVINN-
DOUGHERTY

WHITEFIELD, N.H. (CP)
— Quebec will offer to refine
the oil that New England will
need in the 19908 when the six

‘state governora sit down

today with the five Eastern
Canadian premiers for their
annual meeting.

Premier Rene Levesque,
attending his first meeting of
the premiers and governors,
will offer the excess capaci!
in the oll refineries of
Montreal’s East End during
a morning-long session on
energy: on

- An official in the Quebee
delegation explained that the .
Montreal refineries can
produce 100,000 barrels a day
on top of what they now
refine,

But New England faces a
shortage in refining capaci
and should begin to feel the
Pinch in 1961 unless new refi-
neries are built, the official
said, adding that there is
opposition in New England to
construction of new

refineries,

Premiers Gerald Regan of
Nova Scotia, Richard
Hatfield of New Brunswick,

ty to vote on.

HOPES FOR TALKS

A agreement-in-principle
has still to be reached bet-
ween the Steclworkers and
the Iron Ore Co, of Canada,
which employs many of the

striking miners in Quebec
and Labrador. Talks came to
a hait several weeks ago.

McBrearty said he hoped,
in light of the agreement-in-
principle reached with
Quebec Cartier, that talks
with Iron Ore would soon
resume.

Iron Ore asked union
locals more than a week ago
to hold secret ballots to
consider ita latest contract
offer. Locals in Labrador
(City, NOd., and Septiles and

Schefferville, Que., all
rejected the offer.
The strike has also hit Wa-

bush Mines and Sidbec Nor-
mines, a sybsidiary of the
Quebec-government owned
SidbecDosco _steel

conglomerate. jt tins closed
the Quebec North Shore and
Labrador Railway, . which
hauls much of the ore from
the mines to shipping points
on the Gulf of St.Lawrence.

Major . issues in the
dispute, aside from
monetary demands, in-
cluded better pension plans

and improved dealth and -

bafety measures in the

Ax might drop

on tax

By DOUG LON

OTTAWA (CP) — Op.
position party jJeaders say ~
they expect the government
to drop the axe on debate of
its controversial sales tax
measures for .the second
time as MPs continue clause-
byclause study of the bill

The dispute on how. the
federal government should
pay Quebec funds set aside —

debate

Debate on second reading,
approval-in-principle, was
cut off last week and the
Liberal majority beat back
the combined opposition ina
recorded vate,

Conservatives and New
Democrats -said it, probably
will happen again this week
as the government forces the
bill tall foward third and final

for the province inthe April |

W budget enters its ninth
week with a solution finally

in sight,

But Progressive Con-
servatives and New
Democrats say they will

continue to oppose the

government proposals until
Finance Minister Jean
Chretien says exactly how he
intends to transfer the $156
million at stake to the

province.

Last week, Quebec an-
nounced it accepted either of
two federal proposals for
transferring the money. But
‘Chretien has
which proposal he will use,

The Opposition, in turn
says it cannot agree to
speedy passage of the bill
when they have no idea what
the government wants them

“The sooner
clarification’ is given by
Chretien, the faster the
government. will.'get it
through,” Ray Hnatyshyn,
Conservative deputy House
leader’, said Friday.
INVOLVES REFUSAL

The dispute revolves
around Quebec's rejection of
the federal budget proposal

ty to compensate provinces

which made across-the-
board tax cuts..

Ottawa has agreed to pay
Quebec #40 million to help
pay for selective tax
eliminations. It says it will
@ive the rest of the $225
milllon set aside in the
budget for Quebec through

income tax rebate or

Alex Campbell of Prince reduction

Edward Island and William
Doady, minister of in-
tergovernmental affairs to
Newfoundland Premier
Frank Moores, have come to
the meeting,

Maine Governor James
Longley, Meldrim Thomson
of New Hampshire, Michae!
Dukakie of Massachusetts,
Joseph Garrahy of Rhode
Island, Richard Snelling of
Vermont and Ella Grasso of
Connecticut are also present,

HAS DOUBLE MEANING
A bar at St, John’s, Nild.,
has a sign: WYBMADIITY,
and questioners are told it
standsfor; “Will you buy me
a drink if I tell you?”
NEWFOUNDLAND HAS
MOST ;
Newfoundland is the
province of Canada that
observes the most holidays,
all national holidays plus Bix

others.
LEFT

TRADERS
LEGACY

Two Canadian universities
are named after fur traders:
Simon Fraser and McGill,

RARE EGGS STOLEN

WHIPSNADE, England
(CP) — A thief who sealed
two security fences at
Whipsnade Zoo, Bed-
fordshire, escaped with two
eggs laid by the Manchurian
crane, one of the world's
rarest birds, The bird is
worth &2,000 ($4,000) when
fully grown.

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Until last week Quebec re-
jected that idea. Now it says
it will agree to it and then get
the money back from the
taxpayers through its own
income tax or some other
method,

Government spokesmen
confirmed Friday that
debate on the bil] may be
limited for the second time if
the Opposition fails to co-
operate in approving the
measures.

‘refused to say -

that .

e

Manitoba beer
drinkers dry

WINNIPEG (CP} — As
Manitoba beer drinkers head
Into the secohd week of a
brewery strike and lockout
today, nwith supplies quickly’
evaporating, United States
centres in North Dakota and

by early this week—if they
aren't already,

The only town in the
province where the shortage
will not be noticeable. will be
Flin Flon, even though the
supply of beer ran out Friday

‘ Minnesota are taking up night,

some of the slack.

Canadian customs officals
at Manitoba border crossing
points said many persons re-
entered the country with
American beer this
weekend. Although they
complain about it, they are
having to pay duty of bet-
ween $4.70 and $5.0 per case
of 24 bottles,

There is no limit on the
amount of beer brought into
Manitoba from the U,S., as
long as the ‘duty is paid.
However, those who
beer. over provincial borders
are limited to 24 bottles.

RCMP at Falcon Lake,
near the Ontario border, said
they were watching for iarge
shipments, but have not
found any as yet.

In Saskatchewan,
Moosomin has been a,
favorite source of beer for
Manitobans. The beer
vendor at the local motor
hotel was sold out Saturday
night, and an emvloyee there
said moat of their customers
were from Manitoba.

Most hotel vendors and.

beverage rooms in Manitoba

are expected to be sold out —

A CUT(-) ABOVE THE REST!

“Creighton, Sask. is only a
half mile away,” said a Flin
FlonnRCMP officer, “so I
don’t see why we should
evenmotice the shortage.
The hotels here won't have

The province-wide beer
shortage started one week
ago when employees at
Labatt Breweries of Canada
148. went oniistrike,” That
action resulted in the lockout
of workers by the two other
breweries—Molson and
Carling O’Keefe—and bx the

breweryowned associated.

Beer Distributors Ltd. n
Noimmediate negotiations
are planned between the
Canadian union of Brewery
and Soft Drink Workers and
the breweries. The main
issue is industrywide
bargaining, which the
brewerles want. The union is
insisting on indlvidual-plant
bargalning.

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adi-day police search in 1975
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condition today after being
stabbed on Sunday at
Millhaven penitentiary.

Provincial police said
Kelly, a6, underwent surgery
and now is under guard in a

» boepital in Kingston, ‘about

40 kilometres south east of

hee,

A pollce spokesman sald
Kelly was stabbed. during a
fight with another prisoner:

, it the common zoom of, the

prison'’s special handling m'

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- prisaners:in the 26man unit

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