DONNACONRA, Que.
(UPC) - Premier Kene
Levesque has said a
seventh premier may
attend a meeting Monday
in Montreal to discuss
opposition to the federal
plans on the con-
stitutional and has hinted
at a spring election in
Quebec’

A series of setbacks for
Prime Minister Pierre
Trudeau's patriation and
amendment -package,.
including growing op-
position in Britain, have
cleared the way for a
Quebec election in the

OTTAWA (UPC) -
British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher and
her government will
consider the Canadian
request for patriating the
constitution according to
precedent and the law but
there “may be dif-
ficulties,” British High
Commissioner Sir John
Ford says.

Ford also noted
Thursday the Canadian
government could have
problems pushing the
measures through if there

OTTAWA (UPC) - The
country’s unemployment
rate dropped 0.1 per
centage points in January
to 7.3 per cent and the
number of jobless
Canadians remained at
856,000. Statistics
Canada reported today,

The federal agency said

PLYMOUTH, Monts-
errat (UPI) - Producer
George Martin is working
to bring together the
three surviving members
of the Beatles for a
tribute album to John
Lennon, sources at the
International Air Studio
said Thursday.

Former Beatle Paul
McCartney is already on
the tiny isolated
Caribbcan island == of
Montserrat, 300 miles
east of Puerto Rico,
working on 0 scparate
recording project at the

Jobless rate
drops slightly

Beatles
in the works

test meeting

near future,
Thursday.
Capping a daylong pre-
campaign swing through
the Quebec City area with

he said

a speech. to 500 Parti

Quebecois’ supporters,
Levesque confirmed
plans for . Monday's

meeting of the six
premiers who have most
strongly opposed the

federal plan.

“We ‘the dissident
provinces’ will definitely
be meeting on Monday
and there may be a
seventh one with us,” he
said.”

No easy ride
for constitution

was widespread
position in Canada.

He pointed out that the
Thatcher government
had been defeated twice
in the current session in
the House of Lords,
which had shown unusual
“independence” recently.

Ford also said the
opposition Labor Party
was divided and _ he
suspected that leader
Michael Foote, even if he
supported the govern-
ment, could not
necessarily “impose the
whip” on party members.

op-

although unemployment
was higher for young men
between the ages of 15
and 24, an additional
57,000 Canadians were
able to find work last
month.

The seasonally-adjust-

ed employment level
stood at 10,839,000 in
January.

reunion

$2-million studio owned
by Martin.

The reunion album
won't be cut until some
time after February. but
sources at International
A said the reunion will
come “in

the near

future .”
Sources said Martin
has been ato work for

some time to produce the
reunion album, expected
now to also be a tribute to
Lennon, who was shot to
death in New York last
December

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keep themselves warm was

“held in a
manner.”
The passenger in the truck
claimed that picketers tried
to drag him from the vehicle.
The incident is under
investigation and will be
referred to Crown counsel,
with the possibility of two
picketers being charged.
However, CUPE office

threatening

manager, Aphrodite Harris:

issued a denial that there had
been any violence by union
members.

“To my knowledge there
has been no foul play
whatsoever and we are not
condoning violence in any

way,” she said.

“There is no violence in
our lines. We are not
blockading -— we are

picketing and trying to
persuade people not to go
through our lines.”

But the incident was
enough for Smithrite to
suspend its operations until
the Supreme Court ruling
and general manager Mass
fumed:

“There is violence on the

. picket lines all over. It is

really vicious and the drivers
are very, very upset about it.
They are very angry that
they are being deprived of
their livelihood.”

He complained that CUPE
should be fighting the
municipalities, not
Smithrite, adding: “There is
no other issue which will
bring. the municipalities to
their knees like garbage, and
CUPE knows it.

“Private industry services
in excess of 80 per cent of
the industrial and com-
mercial waste in the Lower

Mainland and they (CUPE)
know that if they can't close
the landfills nobody will
notice except the residents
and they can take care of
their own.”

Even without Smithrite on
the scene, other con-
frontations sprang up as
private individuals tried to
get through with trucks to
unload garbage.

Barricades appeared in
front of the landfill gates at
various times and picketers
warmed themselves around
an oil drum in which they

ket line confrontatic

referring details of the in-
cident to Crown counsel who

will determine whether the

driver is to be charged.
By Thursday morning the

number of picketers at the |

site had been reduced to a~
handful, although RCMP —
officers maintained their
watch.

A police spokesman said:
“We are liaising to keep the.
peace and are struggling to
maintain peace with
complete impartiality and a
high Gegree of common

burned wood, which was left —- sense.”

in the middle of the ap-
proach to the dump.

The driver of a picket -

truck drove straight at the
oil drum Wednesday,
knocking it over and jam-
ming it under the truck's
front bumper. He reversed
rapidly, with picketers
jeering at the sight of the
drum still jammed under the
truck which showered
burning wood on to the road
as it backed away.

Although the Supreme
Court ruling was made early
Thursday morning, CUPE
delayed relaying the order to
picketers for five hours,
during which time further
confrontation occurred at
the North Van dump.

The driver of a rental
truck full of garbage was met
by about 30  picketers
outside the dump. When he
found his access blocked by
a log, he accelerated the
truck, shoving aside an
awning that the picketers
had built over a chesterfield
and sending three of the
picketers sprawling.

One of the picketers went
to hospital with his hand
gashed and police are

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