By CHRIS LLOYD

, Striking B.C. Tel: workers who last week closed .
down Horseshoe Bay.ferry terminal for five hours.:
after B.C. Tel supervisors had worked on a pay.
phone there, this week gave an indication that’
there are exceptions to their picketing policy. -

When this reporter. called
the Telecommunication
Workers’ Union (TWU)
strike office for a news
update on local picketing,
the call was muffled by a
crossed line issuing an
“unobtainable” tone.

On commenting to strike
coordinator Russ McNicol:
“It sounds like your phone
needs repairing,” McNicol
said there was: already
somebody working on it.

“But as_-the- sound con-
tinued it was obvious the
repairer wasn't getting very
far. ,

This reporter suggested to-
the strike coordinator:
“Maybe you should call in
one of the supervisors to sort
it out,” and was promptly
informed that it was a
supervisor who was at that
moment outside the strike

headquarters trying to repair.

the line.

“Aren't you out there
picketing him?” was the,next -
obvious question.

“There’s not much point
picketing someone up a
pole,” came the answer.

I pointed out the irony of a
_ B.C. Tel supervisor. carrying
out phone repair work to the

headquarters of the
telephone strikers and
McNicol commented:

“We're customers. We get
a phone bill the same as
everybody else.”

* Asked who it-was who had
called in the supervisors,
McNicol said: “I don’t know
if was anybody from this
office. It may have been a
member of the public trying
to phone in, for all I know.”

But weren't these TWU
members who were allowing
a supervisor to work on their
own phone line the same
people who were setting up
picketers when the super-
visors work on other
customers’ phones?

“I don’} want to comment
on that,” said McNicol.
“You're trying to put your
own comments in my
mouth,”

A News photographer who
went down to the Eagles
Hall strike headquartcrs
found the supervisors had
already gone.

Local TWU vice-president
Larry Borsa explained that
the union had called in the
supervisors, who had been
unable to find the fault but

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