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Parrot free

sentence appeal —

Judge gives him three months

POSTAL LEADER”
Jean-Claude Parrot

The ‘president of the
Canadian Union of Postal
Workers has been sentenced
to three months = im-

_prisonment for defying a

government back. to work
order.

But Tuesday morning, it
was announced that Parrot
would be released on $250

“bail pending an appeal from
his lawyer.

And in the B.C. Supreme
Court, the trial of Frank
Walden, the Western
regional president of the

union of postal workers,
continues.

Jean-Claude», Parrot was
charged following last
‘October's postal- strike, .and.

was found guilty early in

April

. Walden, like Parrot, is
charged with defying the
order by parliament to
return to work. _

In passing sentence,
Monday, in an Ottawa court,
the judge said Parrot’s
defiance of the order was

dpending jail

‘arrogant and contemptous.’

—

The judge said it would be:

a mockery to levy a small
fine against Parrot, which

was what his lawyer had

suggested.

‘

employees demonstrated
outside a mail sorting plant,
to protest the jail sentence.

And the president of
Canadian Labor Congress
has asked postal workers not
to overreact to the sen-
* tencing.

INCO peace in sight at last

-INCO workers in Sudbury,
Ontario, who have been on
strike for almost eight
months, will this week be
voting on a_ tentative
agreement worked out over
the weekend.

crease of $3.50 an hour to
steelworkers, but reaction to
the offer by workers has
been unemotional.

With the town’s economy
devastated since the strike

out the strike, the dispute
has bitterly divided the
community.

Steelworkers whose hopes
have been repeatedly raised

and dashed by erroneous’

they would not react or
make comment until the
offer had been officially put
to them by their bargaining
committee.

Union officials have told
Strikers they should be proud

In Toronto, post office —

began September 15 and
5,000 of its population
having moved rather than sit

The three-year contract
would provide for an in-

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executions —__—w®

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Khomeini killings hit 200 mark

Islamic “firing squads in
Iran shot 21 former officals -
of the Shah’s regime, —
Tuesday, making it the
largest mass execution since
the revolutionary. courts
took over in February.

For the first time one of
the charges against the men
was that of insulting
Ayatollah Khomeini.

Two hundred people have
now been reported executed
in Iran since Khomeini came
to power,. and- many.

AYATOLLAH
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awaiting trial.

Before Tuesday’s -

- executions in Iran had been
toning down.

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feeling that the trials and

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