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closed by cook’s strike

MONTREAL (UPC) - A
strike by kitchen staff forced
evacuation Monday of ail
12,500 workers at the
sprawling James Bay
hydroelectric complex and
threatened to delay some
construction projects until
the spring.

James Bay Energy Corp.
spokesman Dominique
Gauthier said the 1,000
striking cooks and main-
tenance workers would be
flown out of the area, about
1,400 kilometers northwest
of Montreal.

Their departure will be
followed by that of
engineers, builders and
other personnel over the
next three days, she said.

“We told them that they
had until 2:00 p.m. Monday
to get back to work-if not we
would be obliged to
evacuate the work sites.”

Gauthier said.

The workers were being
airlifted to four points in
Quebec, including Montreal
and Quebec City, at a cost of
$1.5 million to the cor-
poration.

Some 650 members of the
union of Heavy Equipment
Operators walked off the job
Sunday at two major Sites,
LG-3 and Camapiscau, after
widespread work slowdowns
at 15 sites scattered over the
134,000 square-mile James
Bay municipality.

“It was a kind of wildcat, if
you like, because the strike
was not called for by the
union,” Gauthier said. “With
all the problems we've been
experiencing, we just didn’t
have any choice.

“We can't afford to leave
the workers’ without
adequate food and hygiene
services. Our staff served

them breakfast this morning
without too much problem
but dinner is impossible.”

The corporation said if the
strike goes on for more than
a few weeks many of the
projects underway would be
delayed until after the
winter.

“If we can get the workers
back as soon as possible
there shouldn't be too much
problem,” Gauthier _ said.

“Otherwise when the snow
sets in and the ground
freezes, no dykes or dams
can be built.”

Meanwhile, talks between
the union and two catering
firms, J.A. Hubert Ltd. and
Crawley McCracken Ltd.,
failed to solve renegotiation
of the last year of the
workers’ three-year-contract,
which expires July, 1981.

The corporation was using
its fleet of six Convair planes

New campaign to downgrade Mao

PEKING (UPI) - The
Chinese Communist Party
Monday brushed aside
objections by Chairman Hua
Guofeng and took new steps
to limit the cult surrounding
the late Mao Tse-tung.

A directive issued by the
party Central Committee,
possibly over the quotations
and poems of Chairman Mao
in public’places said, “There
have been too many por-
traits, quotations and poems
of Chairman Mao in public
places.

“This is lacking in political
dignity. The number should
be gradually reduced to an
appropriate amount,” the
directive. ordered.

The Central Committee
also banned the construction
of any more monuments to
glorify national leaders like
the ones erected for Mao.

The directive criticized
the rash of biographies and
collected writings of Chinese
leaders, the most prolific of
whom was Mao himself.

These decisions all were
indirect swipes at Hua, 59,
Mao's handpicked suc-
cessor. Hua edited the latest
edition of Mao's writings and

is believed to be the person
who pushed for the con-
struction of the monolithic
Mao mausoleum on Peking’s
sprawling Tien An Men
Square.

It was also Hua who
turned Mao's birthplace in
Hunan province into a
national shrine. This too was
attacked. :

“There are no com-
memorative decorations of
the birthplaces of current
Central Committee leading
members, schools where they
once studied and places they
visited,” the directive said. It
added that “decorations
already put up should be
removed.”

“From now on, except by
specific decision of the
Central Committee, no.halls,
pavilions or monuments are
to be put up in memory of
individual veteran
revolutionaries,” it said.

Now
you know

The Colorado River does
not flow into any body of
water.

and several chartered air-
craft from Nordair and
Quebecair for the mass-
evacuation, the third since
construction began a decade
ago on North America’s:
largest hydro-electric
project.

Gourmet termites

invade civic centre

IOWA CITY, Iowa (UPI) - -
A nest of gourmet termites
have invaded the city’s civic
center, passing up loads of
wood in the basement to
devour 20,000 sheets of high
quality paper.

The estimated loss was
$135.

Cathy Eisenhofer, a
purchasing agent for the

city’s Finance Department,
theorized that the termites
found the paper a delicacy.

“That paper is like candy
to termites,” she said. “They
don’t want wood when they
can get good quality paper.”

City officials have signed a
$4,800 contract with a
Coralville exterminator to
get rid of the insects.

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