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controllers!strike. Our MP's, if they are - .a halt on the partly skimmed then people voted to hang up their wrenches until
willing to stay in their seats long:enough, would be forced to drive yr even worse they received $30 an hour for a 36 hour ,
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What would our sports enthusiasts do.
if the.. professional at1 Ietes.took a notion
to strike for less ice time and maybe only
eight innings- per game and . better
playing c, nditions such as flowers
around the' pitcher's mound and 'water
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Let's get back to work.
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INFORMATION, BACKGROUND AND OPINION
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al Greenpeace members from
Michigan came to Goderich in a •
trimaran last week to alert
to a serious situation that may
ween the two communities.
mber of the Greenpeace crew
osing to store waste from their
energy progriim in the Alpina
so the site of a salt deposit.
salt is considered by scientists to
ost stable rock.formation in the
nd therefore suitahle for the
of nuclear Waste which can
-dangerous over a period of
'HERE
The group came to contact CANTDU
and also Waled people in the area to the
situation in Alpina. One member pointed •
out that Alpina is as cldse to Goderich as
the Bruce Nuclear Power Development
plant north of Kincardine.
Residents of Alpina are organizing to
prevent the government from storing
nuclear wastes in their community. One
member of Greenpeace said the people
from the' two countries ,must begin to
realize their relationship in this matter
and begin to work together.
The Greenpeace foundation was
established to protest and stop the
JIN HURON
proliferation of nticlear materials that
pose a definite threat to life and the
environment. This summer several
members of the Toronto Greenpeace
travelled the waters of the Great Lakes
to bring attention to the dangers of
nuclear power: They completed project
No -Nuc in the sailboat Greenpeace XI.
The main objective of the Toronto
group is to stop construction at Ontario
Hydro's planned nuclear plant at
Darlington outside of Bowmanv We%
Greenpeace is planning a large
demonstration at the Darlington plant
later this summer and a spokesman said
that a loud clear statement on thg' future
of nuclear power would be given. The
group is also circulating a petition that
will request the Porter Commission to
stop nuclear power development and
production in the province of Ontario.
A Greenpeace spokesman said that
dollars and cents must not be given the
consideration they recieve in this -matter,
and their petition will also ask the Porter
Commisston to recommend the im-
-mediate recognition of the need and
wisdom of infinitely renewable non-
polluting energy sources such as solar
and wind power.
Greenpeace claims that plutonium
found in nuclear waste is more lethal
than chemical cancer inducing agents
such as PCB, Kieldrin and Malathion of
DDT. They claim that a pound of reactor
grade plutonium has the capability of
inducing death and disease due to cancer
in several million people.
A major concern is the toxicidity of
plutonium and its potential for making
bombs. It takes only 25 pounds of
plutonium to build a bomb equal in force
to the one dropped in Nagasaki at the
end of World War 11. Greenpeace claims
that a pound of plutonium is valued at
$100,000 on the black market.
Greenpeace estimates that the reactor
systems at Bruce and Pickering each
procuce 1650 pounds of plutonium in
their spent fuel each year. They also
claim that Ontario Hydro has ac-
cumulated 10,000 pounds of plutonium in
spent fuel.
i he Qreenpeace crew that visited
Goderich harbor distributed literature
and buttons to people but their cause
drew little response from most people. -
The next stop for the Greenpeace XI is
Detroit.
eath of 12 year old Emanuel
in the Yonge Street body rub
harlie's Angels has sparked an
ave of protest against sex, shops
y and across the province.
ands of sympathetic Toron-
queued up at the funeral home to
ir respects to the young boy who
tly lost his life while trying to
oney for his family by shining
the,Yonge Street strip:And the
y was extended to the family,
ose ignorance and innocence of
street life, led to their granting
ion to their young son to shine
PROVINCIAL. POINTS
' Emanuel Jaques was drowned in a
sink above a Yonge Street body -rub
parlor on the Civic holiday long weekend
after being sexually attacked. Four men
have been charged with his murder and
appeared in court in Toronto last
Tuesday.
Death is always tragic somehow. But
the death of Emanuel touched the hearts
of Torontonians, and certainly most
everyone, because of , his youth and
because he trusted people and believed
that no danger would come' to him on the
streets of the city.
Thousands of people clogged the
church and the surrounding area on
Dundas Street for the funeral last
Thursday and joined the long funeral
procession to the cemetery.
The death has so enraged citizens and
politicians that they activated cam-
paigns to wipe out the sex shop industry
in Toronto and immediately established
fund campaigns for the family.
The city responded with flowers,
tokens of sympathy, demands for action
on the Strip and monetary funds for the
family. Total strangers. turned out to the
funeral home and cemetery and sobbed
uncontrollably along with family and
friends.
The city, over two million nameless
faces, showed that it cared. But perhaps -
the turnout, the sympathy and the acts of
kindness, could do little to' relieve the
grief of the family. It was the same city
that betrayed the trust of the Jaques
family and 12 year-old Emanuel.
• The political and citizen outcry for the
closure of sex shops �n Yonge Street
began long before the. sexual -slaying of
Emanuel, but the death has now
provided impetus to the cleanup
operations.
Since last week a police crackdown on
the ex shops has resulted in almost 200
arrests and the majority of the charges
laid by a special morality task force are
for keeping a common bawdy house.
The body -rub parlor, Charlie's Angels,
where Emanuel was killed closed almost
immediately and the glass front door of
the building was covered with spit and
paint splashed on by passersby.
Since the death and police crackdown
several other shops have closed along
the Young and Dundas Street area and
new legislation on body -rub parlors is in
the making'. One body -rub parlor on the
Yonge Street said that the death of
Emanuel was bad for business, which
will draw little sympathy anywhere. But
even the girls, who work the parlors and
claim to provide a needed service to the
city as social workers, were horrified at
the death.
There were several young boys
shining shoes in the area but that service
will now likely be extinct on the streets
of Toronto. Such incidents, just chip
away at the trust of a city and wary
mothers will now tend to be over-
protective but with just cause,
For the killers, there can be no punish-
ment to justify the crime. A young boy
innocently and trustingly met his death
before he really knew anything about
nds of travellers have had
ans disrupted, and commercial
c has come to a halt in Canada
ir traffic controllers across the
ontinue to strike.
ntrollers are seeking a 12.6 per
e increase which would include
ent for the 60 per cent of the
hip set for reclassification into
y categories. The government
ed the controllers 7.4 per cent
says converts to eight per cent
rements are included. ,
intay the controllers told the
ent they would accept an im-
CANADA IN
mediate interim increase of 7.4 per cent
if the government would submit their
12.6 per cent demand to the anti-inflation
board.
The Canadian Air Traffic Control
Association. offered to accept the
Treasury Board's position on a few
remaining non -wage items and end the
strike if their proposal was submitted to
the AIB but the government refused the
offer.
The association was willing to give up
its demand for minimum staffing of two
men between the 8 a.in. to 11 p.m. shifts
at some smaller terminals where only
one controller is now on duty clprin'g
those hours. The Treasury Board had
proposed to do a study of these locations.
The union also wanted five weeks
vaction after 20 years instead of 25 as
provided in the present agreement. The
third demand was for a compressed
Work week for non-operating staff. The
Treasury Board had opposed this
demand as impractical.
the final effort to reach a negotiated
settlement without the need for
legislation to end the strike meant that
the controllers were conceding little.
The Government's offer has been 7.43
SEVEN
per tent, acceptable, under the AIB
guidelines but the union is insisting on an
additional 4.6 per cent.
The average salary for a controller
under the old agreement was $21,000 a
year. About 53 per cent of the controllers
are in a range of $20,000 to $23,000 a year.
The association proposed that the
government pay the 7.43 per cent until
the AIB ruled on the higher figure
submitted. The Government's rejection
of the proposal set the stage for a te
in Parliament on a bill to end th s rike
and set the terms for a new contra
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said
the Government would go ahead with the
legislation imposing a settlement and
ending the strike because the govern-
ment does not believe that the con-
trollers are entitled to a wage increase
exceeding the AI13,guidelines.
He claims the employer had a
responsibility to negotiate wage
agreements within the guidelines and
not to agree to excessive settlements and
let the an'ti-inflation board send it back.
NDP leader Ed Broadbent claims that
the Government and Transport Minister
Otto Lang have been irresponsible for
calling back parliament to legislate the
controllers back to work. Piogressive .
Conservative House Leader Walter
Baker said his party had no plans to
block the passage of the bill.
However he was disturbed at the way
that Lang has stood in the way of
resumption of air rrvice in Canada.
If the bill receiVes unanimous consent
and becomes law then the air traffic
controllers would have resumed work by
Friday. The Government would only
offer the' controllers a 7.43 per cent in-
crease and other items previously
agreed upon.
let
the largest police manhunts in
combing the city of New York
killer, Son of Sam, claimed his
im last week.
am, a psychopathic killer, beat
e biggest police dragnets ever
d last week to shoot a young
is 13 and 1.4th victims.. Stacy
died in hospital from gunshot
the neck tied head and her
condition in hotipital. One
ttere,d his left eye and'surgeons
s8 to save sight of the other
WORLDWEEK
The Mystery murderer, also known as
the .44 calibre killer, strttck in the
Brooklyn area of New York, and in doing
so completely shattered a massive and
elaborate trap set for him by the
police departtnent. A 2,000 strong task
force was employed to catch the killer
and policeWomen' accompanied by
policemen sat in cars hoping to tempt
Sem out of the shadows. ,
The latest two victims were wounded
bY four bullets pumped through the open
window of their car parked in a lover's
lane in Brooklyn, Witnesses told pellet
that after the attack on the couple, Son of
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Sam calmly walked away and disap-
peared into the night.
The special homicide task force with a
core of' 60 special detectives, reinforced -
by several others who volunteered
without pay concentrated their manhunt
on the borroughs of Bronx and the
Queens.
Fearful of another assault on the first
anniversary of his first killing police
were ordered te seal off any area of New
York where gunshots were heard but the
plan failed. Sam struck more than 19
miles where he Originally launched his
reign of terror a year ago,
Ballistics tests show that a bullet
removed from Miss Moskowitz was from.
the same .44 calibre gun used by the
killer in all his previous attacks. The gun
is a Bulldog revolver made by the
Charter Arms Corp. of Hartford, Conn.
and 28,000 of these have been sold.
,,So far the hunt for Sam has cost the
city nearly $2 million or S16,000 per day
since investigations into his first attacks
were officially combined in April. Police
Commissionee Michael Codd has
promised New Yorkers all the money,
manPower and equipment necessary to
Catch the killer.
Irut the only weapon -detectives have is
sketches of the murderer and the
description that he is 5 feet 9 inches tall
and aged between 25 and .30. And they
still have no motive for the killing.
The leads to the police have been
sketchy at best and despite the long
working hours detectives are clinging to
the hope that somewhere in New York
city there is someone who knows the
The only common denominator in the
.case is that all of the victims have been
yoling and between the ages of 17 and 26.
Now young people all over New York
city are living under the fear of Son of
Sam and all young people are potential
targets for the killer.
Now police must consider all live
boroughs of New York as possible sites
for the hunt. Sam's discreet manzwr
the killings is also complicating the
manhunt.
The failure of police to produce
anything Concrete has New Yorkers in a,
state of fear. A fear that Will not subside
until Son of Sam is caught.