Ferry Corp. criticized for breach of privacy

. _ VANCOUVER (CP) — The ‘ British Columbla Ferry - Corp. used private and confidential information ‘from B,C, Telephone Co, records ina B.C, Labor Re- . lations Board arbitration , hearing last Janvary, ar- bltration board member _ Amie Davis said Wed- ” nesday. ,. The private telephone billing recorda of ferry Captain Gerry Stalling, “whose case waa before the ‘hearing, was recelved by the corporation without sub- “poena,

“This raises serlous and ‘fundamental questions about ‘the investigative libertles taken by crown corporation ~ Becurity employees in labor relations,” said Mike Bar- -ber, of the B.C, Ferry and Marine Workers Union, ” The union represented _ Stalling in his successful tition to the arbitration ard for reinstatement and

back pay after his firing Inst year \

At the arbitration hearing Jan. 16, ferry corporation counsel Irwin Nathaneon, questioned Stalling on telephone calls he had made from his Nanaimo, B.C. home to his chief officer in Victoria,

Davis said Wednesday he questions the propriety of the questions and the source of the information concerning Stalling’s private telephone record. -

“Under those cir- cumstances that (in- formation} would have to be subpoenaed by the chairman of the (arbitration) board and the board did not issue any subpoena,” Davis sald.

B.C, Tel was subpoenaed to appear Jan. 20 and to bring Stalling's telephone records. Davis said he requested it to determine how the ferry corporation had received the infor- mation.

Pilot flying beyond his own capabilities

_ VICTORIA (CP) —A coro- “ner's jury ruled Wednesda: “that the air crash which too!

’ the lives of three Victoria ‘residents Oct. 4 was an -accident but made two “recommendations con- . cerning flying rules.

The jury was investigating the crash of a Cessna. 172 rented from Victorla Flight

Centre which went down at the 1,350-metre level of an _unnamed mountain about 30 Kllometres east of Powell River. Pilot Donald Stanley Moe, 37, and passengers Mary Ellen Kingsfield, 34, and Valerie Lynn Wuerch, 17, were killed in the mid- morning crash.

__ They were flying to Powell ”’ River with another plane pi-

loted by Victoria architect “Phil Esnout.

.. John Addison, chief flying instructor at Victoria Flying . Club, testified that Moe had “been his student for three

months between November,

1977, and January, 1978, but

had dropped out of a com- mercial pilot program, Moe had logged 290 hours, prior to the fatalerash.

Moe waa rated in visual filght rule conditions but the weather at the time required a pilot experienced with instrument navigation because of bad weather.

In finding that the crash was probably caused by Moe flying in conditions beyond his capabilitiea and because he became disoriented prior to hitting the mountain, the jury. made two specific

. Tecommendations aimed at. which was reviewing the

the transport ministry. © It said the ministry should have stringent penalties to ensure pilots don't fiy in weather conditions beyond their capabilities and that the ministry should also atrictly enforce regulations visual flight rules. Addison described Moe's abilities as an average pilot but said he wae below average in his. commercial

flying taining

“Small businessmen engaged in battle

By GARRY FAIRBAIRN CALGARY (CP) — The al- ready-bitter relations bet- ween twocompeting national volces of small business spawned more lawaults this te week, te

Vice-president Al Bisholf of the three-month-old Canadian Organization of Small Business iiled statements of claim Tuesday in Court of Queen’s Bench against his former em- ployer, the Canadian ..Federation of Independent Business, and federation officers John Bulloch and Raymond Sherk, both of To-

Tonto.

The defendants have 4 days to fille their defences -agalnst the statements of claim, which allege that Bishoff was wrongfully dismissed and that his character has been unfairly defamed in internal federation newsletters.

The Calgary court action is the latest development in seven months of internal dissent and controveray that have buffeted the elght-year- old federation, which has

Train crash

e

mquiry

100 MILE HOUSE (CP) — B.C. Railway officials are In- vestigating a head-on callision between a freight train and a yard locomotive Wednesday that sent three men to hospital, one with serious injuries.

The accident occurred at the Exeter station just outside of this Cariboo community.

A railway spokesman said only the yard locomotive was derailed so rail traffic would not be disrupted. The freight

traln was carrying lumber,.

Ip and paper.

Pon Ranson, 48, of Willlams Lake suffered serious head injuries in the erash and waa Hsted in erltical conditlon = in Kamloops hospital.

Bruce Curll, 33, of 100 Mile House, was in good condition with head and chest injuries while Brian Barker, 31, of Lillooet, was released from hospital after being treated for minor Injuries.

about 65,000 member businessmen.

Last April, divisional man- agers flew to federation headquarters to question

oposals to reduce their number and.to build a $5- million headquarters in Toronto.

Bishoff, then western divi- sional manager, left the federation May 18. Five days later, the federation ob- tained a court order authorizing the sheriff to selze federation papers from Bishoff’s Calgary residence and ordering Bishof£ not to disclose the contents of the papera to anyone else.

The order was made solely on the basis of federation arguments, without Bishoff being heard, normal procedure for ex parte or-

ders.

After formation of the new organization was announced Aug. 8, with Bishoff ag vice- president and other former federation personnel in key roles, the federation applied for an injunction to prohibit Bishoff working for the new organization.

Court of Queen's Bench re- jected the federation ap- plication and Bishoff, meanwhile, filed sult to declare that the May 23 seizure and non-disclosure order should riever have been made.

Parallel w the various court actions, apokesmen for each group were criticizing each other's prospecta for helping small businesa.

Bulloch, meanwhile, predicted that his group would easily brush aside the new competition for the status of voice of small business within 4 year. Members of the new group ‘are not organization people,” he told reporters.

In addition to concerns over dilution of efforts on behalf of small business, federation officlals face competition for membership revenues.

The non-profit federation’s $4-mnillion budget is based on the work of 75 membership salesmen, who receive haif of each new membership fee in their districts and 25 per cent of each renewal. Fees vary from §40 to $500 a year.

Charhcterizatlons of Bishoff in the newsletters are the basis for his claim of defamation,

A, B.C, Tel official testified at the hearing the only way information con: cerning a customer's billing record can be obtained is through a subpoena.

The only subpoena on record was the one dated Jan, 10, four days after Nathanson used information B.C, Tel said is available only by subpoenaing private records, the official said.

Davis gald the Information —

sented Jan. 15 waa used Nathanson in an attempt to prave collusion between Stalling and his chief officer.

B.C. Tel officials say they have no record of a previous subpoena which would have allowed the corporation access to the private records, :

Nathanson said he does not remember the incident and does not want to discuss it,

“T just don't see any peint in reopening the evidence at the hearing when the award has been rendered and it is avallable,” Nathanson said.

Stalling was fired after a ferry hit the dock at Saltery Bay near Powell River, B.C. in September, 1978. The board ordered that he be Teinstated, because the collision was due to mechanical failure, and it awarded him $30,000 back

pay.

Union counsel John P. Brewin confirmed the sequence of eventa described by Davis. B.C. Ferry spokesman Bill Bouchard said the corporation had no official comment on the problem.

The issue of telephone records arose earlier this week in another labor relations board hearing

disraiasal of ferry employee Bob Peacock and the suspen: sion of other workers, Brewin said.

Instead of providing subpoenaed information at a hearing, B.C. Tel turned over Information to ferry corporation counsel before the hearing, he said.

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_ VICTORIA (CP) Splitting ‘the education ministry into two portfolios has led to costly duplication cf services in other

provinces where It has been’

attempted, Gary Lauk, NDP education critic, said Wednesday,

The Vancouver Centre MLA said Premier Bill Bennett's recent decision to create a Separate univer- sities ministry was a knee- jerk reaction to former education minister Pat McGeer’s disinterest in public education.

“Ata time when education costs are mounting, the government should be lyoking for waya to become more efficient not more wasteful purely for ex-

pedient political reasons,”

Lauk said,

“Bennett should have fired McGeer If McGeer wasn't interested in education rather than create a new sandbox for him to play in Bennett's partisan manipulations are going to prove very costly to the tax-

payer.

Bennett split the education portfollo in his cabinet shuffle Friday, namlng McGeer . minister — of universitles, sclence and communication and Brian Smith education minister, responsible for public schools, community colleges and vocational schools.

Pleasant surprise

NORTH VANCOUVER (CP) — Frances Tesale thought she had won $25 in the Western Express lottery — until she went fo cash her ticket at the bank,

“T didn’t look at the ticket closely enough,” Mrs. Tessie, 48, sald in an in- terview. ‘They checked the number at the bank and I found out I had won the grand prize of "100,000. It was a pleasant surpriee.

Frances and her husband, Patrick, who have three chil- dren, are planning a trip to Hawaii with part of the win- nings,

Another $100,000 winner

was truck driver Fred

Kuxhoure, 48, of Maple e,

VANCOUVER (CP) — A Vancouver-area em- ployer recently gave all the women in his small office vouchers to take: assertiveness training as part of the settlement of a human rights complaint about sexual harassment,

Hanne Jensen, a senior human rights officer, said Wednesday inost sexual harassment cases end with a money settlement anda letter of satisfaction for future employers but in that case the employer didn't understand why his female employees didn't object to being grabbed

“The employer said these women should have sald they didn't like having their brests grabbed,” Ms. Jensen said

Canadian Pension Con- ference that the branch considers “any unwar- ranted sexual attention where the recipient is not free to respond without worrying about the consequences’’ to be sexual harassment.

Earlier, she told the

HE HELPS THEM SAY NO

‘It is rooted in office power and the wotnen picked on are young, inexperienced staff members, she sald.

Employers are usually shaken up when an em- ployee complains of sexual harassment, she sald in an interview, One employer even gave a cash donation to Rape Relief as a result of a sexual harassment complaint.

Ms. Jensen also told the conference that one- quarter of the branch's complaints about sex discrimination come from women who are fired because they are pregnant, Two standards of competency seema to exist — one for women workers and one for mothers-to-be.

Few are reinstated in their jobs and most cases are settled with a decent severance paycheque, she said.

MLA Dennis Cocke told the conference that mandatory retirement at age 65 is being falsely

touted as a human righta issue because pensions are not keeping up with the needs of those ap proaching that age. Most pension plans have succeeded only in making rétired workera die poor and older women second-class citizens, said Cocke, NDP member for New Westminster. Everyone knows someone who is fit and anxlous to remain at work past age 65, he said, but many others hang on because they have to. He urged the con- ference members, who eome from _ private business, public corpo- rations and trade unions, to press for universally portable pensions that allow workers to transfer their pension contribu- tlons from job to job “If we don’t work toward thia end, what we're saying to gov- ernments is ‘come on in,’ because governments are going to be driven into it for no other reason than the cost of social welfare.”’

Report reveals reprimands

DELTA, B.C. (CP) — Mayor Ernie Burnett said Wednesday that he is not paranoid because 24 out of 92 policemen in this Vancouver suburb have been warned to change their ways.

A number of reprimands as well as other statistics concerning the actions of Delta policemen came to

light Wednesday when a

supplementary report on the investigation by British Columbia Police Com- mission chairman Judge Roy McQueen was made public.

Burnett said the reprimands prabably were given by acting police chief Ken Brown or other senior officers, although he said he had no idea what kinds of acts had led to the officers being reprimanded.

“Ym not worried that so high a percentage of policemen were warned about their conduct,” said Burnett. “Maybe all 90-odd _ policemen should have been j told to. watch their step." « He sdid it could be that some of the officers had never been told to act dif- fer2ntly under the old ad- ministration and now were being informed of the correct procedures.

The supplementary report is more critical of the farce in Delta than the interim report released two weeks

ago.

_ The latest report says 60 complaints from citizens, policemen and government officials were investigated by the police commission.

Of the citizens’ 34 com: plaints, 13 concerned use of excessive force; seven disrespectful behavior, three neglect of duty and 11 miscellaneous,

Six criminal matters were investigated and two members of the force were charged, the report said. Two other members are being investigated by RCMP and charges could come later,

The report said 21 ad- ministrative deficiencies were identified. It pays particular attention to conflicts of intereat arising from policemen working on affduty jobs.

The inquiry has led to the resignation of police Chlef Mervyn Smith and deputy chief Terry Brennan.

SHOPPERS.

It says the Delta police board must set down strict guidelines forbidding moonlighting in situations

Policeman thought driver saw lights

DELTA, B.C. (CP) — Surrey RCMP Constable Jan Vandenborn sald Wednesday he thought the driver of a car’ stopped at an intersection in this Vancouver-area municipality must have seen his police cruiser’a flashing lights seconds before a fatal collision.

Vandenborn has pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving in the death Nov, 22, 1878 of Michael Varelle, 29,

Varelis apparently didn't see the lights and pulled out -into the intersection, only to be rammed by,. the. police. cruiser, which was chasing a speeder.

Vandenborn~ told provincial court he had his red and blue flashing lights operating as he pursued a car which had gone through a slop sign.

He said he saw a car stopped at the intarsection and was convinced the driver had seen his emergency lights. ‘

Almost as he entered the intersection, he said, the other driver pulled right in front of him and he couldn't

.avold the collision,

Vandenborn also told Judge John Drysdale that he did not notice a stop sign at the intersection and thought it was a two-way stop.

Vandenborn said he began chasing a black station wagon after seeing two cars drag racing in the adjacent tunicipality of Surrey. He sald he followed the car and watched it go through a stop sign.

Vandenborn said he didn’t put on his emergency lights or siren because he was afraid the driver would try to escape, He said he wanted to get right behind the other car before activating emergency equipment.

The trial was adjourned

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where there is the slightest Hint of a conflict of interest.

The report also deals with two fatal traffie accidents, one involving a police car, the other involving the daughter of a Delta police staff sergeant.

The report deemed adequate the pollce in- vestigation into the death af Nancy M. Varhaug, who waa killed when struck by a car carrying a8 a passenger the daughter of S.Sgt. H. Ber- hoff.

However, the report said there were minor areas of the original police in- vestigation open to criticism.

It said the decision to lay charges as a result of the accident was solely that of a Crown counsel “as was the decision not to read into the inquest evidence the statement of the daughter of the Delta police staff sergeant.”

The report said that in “retrospect perhaps it would

; have been belter to, have rhe *ghgnged ‘the “driver “at the i «Shah oltg vette” tnd" thus

have the whole matter aired in the public court."

The other accident con- cerned a Delta police cruiser which hit a civillan vehicle, killing a woman occupant. It said the original police In- vestigation ofthis incident was more than adequate.

The report said that as a- result of the commission investigation new guidelines , have been set for the use of © emergency equipment and an internal review board has been set up to look into ac- eldents involving police vehicles.

McQueen's report suggested that many of the problems identifled in the report could have been avoided if there had been an ongoing audit of municipal forces.

It said such an audit would have monitered depart- ments, ensuring that ap- propriate checks and balances were in effect.

When the interim report was released, three pages were held back because they dealt with incidents still under investigation. They are still being withheld.

Delta council is standing by the decision to keep back that material until RCMP investigations are com- pleted.

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Punch proved costly

VANCOUVER (CP) — The victim of a 1977 highway accident was ordered Wednesday to pay the man who crashed into him $200,000 because of a punch the victim threw in a roadside argument that

follawed the mishap. The single punch sent Marshall Johnstone ta the vement where he struck is head-and now is per: manently blind, British Columbia Supreme Court

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