To China

PEKING (UPI) - Natural
disasters in China this year
are not expected to affect
the country’s import of
foreign grain, but Canada is
ready to increase its wheat
and fertilizer shipments,
Agriculture Minister Eugene
Whelan said Monday.

“They've told us about
their drought. They've told
us about their floods,”
Whelan told a news con-
ference after signing the first
memorandum of  under-
standing on agriculture co-
operation between Canada
and China.

“I don't think it will affect
their imports that) much
because they still have
harvested very good crops,”
he said.

Whelan said the Chinese
have not indicated to him
they wanted to buy more
Canadian grain

The mimister said Canada
is selling 200 millon tons of
wheat to the Chinese durnng
the current grain year (from
Aug. | to July 31.)

Next year. he said, “We'll
sell them two mifhon = tons
but if they wanted more |
think we'll be in a position to
sell them more ~

He said improved sai
transport from the praines
through the Rocky
Mountains to the Canadian
west Coast means that “well
be in a posiion to not only
export grain to China but
also an increasing amount of

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RUSH HOUR off Ambleside beach. (Elsworth Dickson photo)

potash that they're going to
be buying very sub-
stantially.”

He said the amount of
potash imported by China
over the next two years was
expected to increase 100 per
cent. Canada has just signed
an agreement to provide 2
million tons of potash an-
nually over the next three
years.

In addition, Canada _ will
sell the Chinese 200,000 tons
of sulphur per year over the
same pend.

Asked whether Canada
intends to continue to
support the U.S. grain
embargo on the Soviet
Union, Whelan said “the
embargo on grains to the
Soviet Union, if you
remember, was agreed upon
by the previous (Con-
servalive) government. And
were continuing on with
that program I know of
nothing at the present time
that we intend to. dascon-
tinue” the embargo

The document Whelan
signed called for “intensified
couperauvon” in agriculture,
including jor prosects,
Visits and
Contacts

commercial

Planned for the coming
year are joint research on
rangeland management. a
model range in northeast

China the swapping of plant
and animal breeding
methods and others

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MEDIATOR SAYS

Relations between
B.C. Tel and union

‘tortured’

VANCOUVER (UPC) - A
federal mediator has lam-
basted the British Columbia
Telephone Co. and _ its
10,000-member union for
their poor labor relations,
noting that neither side
would meet face to face in 68
days of meetings.

" The 88-page report of
federal mediator Ed Peck
was released by Labor
Canada Monday after Peck
spent 42 months as a
conciliation commissioner.

The report, which was
delivered to both sides last
week, recommended a two-
year contract calling for a
total wage increase of 22 per
cent for the Telecommuni-
cations Workers Union up to
the expiry date of Dec. 31,
1981.

TWU president Biil Clark
said the union executive had
recommended that its
members accept the con-

tract offer set out in the

report.
Keith Matthews, B.C. Tel
spokesman, said the

company was “still studying
the report” and would not
comment on it until later.

In his report, Peck
described the relationship
between the two sides as
“tortured” saying he was
“obliged. to meet separately
with the parties, for at no
time in the mediation
process did they evince any
desire to meet together in
my presence, nor, for that
matter, did I consider that
any useful: purpose would be
served by them doing so.”

“It is clear that the parties
have a major problem which
has evidently persisted for a
considerable time,” the
report said. “In short, I
regard thei relationship as
highly adversarial, with
destructive overtones.”

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