tamp: Britis MPs are growingly, : ssension in. Canada. wipe the the BNA Act off their Statute Locks, by throwing the while constitutional 4 ‘ision -b . Canada’s ‘lap.. Which is ‘where it: belongs. -- and: ‘what a majority of (Canadians ss clearly’ want. ° 4 Oh dear! North Van District aldermen have thrown out a request from the Canadian ‘National Exhibition to sponsor a bench for -$300 at its Toronto exhibition grounds. In ‘fact, Ald. Jim Ball said he disliked Toronto ‘so much that ‘he ‘wouldn't spend even $3 to “put the District’s name there. We'd read about Western grassroots alienation. But we had no idea the grass had sprouted to park bench level. sunday inews north shore news - NEWS ° 985-2131 1139 Lonsdale Ave , North Vancouver, B C “V7M 2H4 (604) 985-2131 ADVERTISING’ CLASSIFIED CIRCULATION 980-0511 986-6222 986-1337 Publisher Peter Speck Associate Publisher Editor-in-Chief Advertising Director Robert Graham Noe! Wright Eric Cardweli General Manager Creative Production ‘+ Administration Director Rick Stonehouse Bern| Hilliard Tim Francis Faye McCrae Managing Editor Nows Editor Photography Andy Fraser Chris Uoyd Ellsworth Dickson Accounting Supervisor Circulation Director Barbara Keen Brian A Ellis North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent commun ty newspaper and qualified under Schedute Ill Part ill, Paragraph tH of the Excise Tax Act, ts published each Wednesday and Sunday. by North Shore Free Press Lid and distributed to every door on the North Shore Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885 Subscriptions $20 per year Entire contents © 1981 North Shore Free Press Ltd All rights reserved No responsibility accepted unsolicited Manuscripts and pictures which shoud be stamped, addressed return envelope for maternal including accompanmed by a VERIFIED CIRCULATION 60,870 Wednesday. 49,913 Sunday oF SN or ene THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE OTTAWA.(SF) ‘Ask most ° capital, and ‘you they do not expect Prime Minister Pierre . Trudeau: to stick. around beyond the end of this year. :— That may. or may not be ~— OWE. T ONIAIGS ) INGREDIENT DE NES 7 , ~ LM ERAS BOUL: OND ' HIM 8 MCE ANE | TAFE ASININE FORMULA HI-INTEREST 4 OH © “wishful thinking, ‘but there certainly is a possibility that Mr. Trudeau will resign again, before the end of this That possibility presents a gaggle of leadership: hopefuls — eae “te AM SHRINK BEALE Ma . insiders ~ Trudeau, - who, -when they. ~ Te ONE TABLET ENVE YEAR fe. ; REALLY FEEL THe TAREE RENT A, (PST , NL i Qe Two West Vancouver women — fed up with the inconvenience and, in some cases, actual hard- ship imposed on the innocent public by the current strike situation — are planning ways for members of the public to make an effective protest of their own. To management and unions alike. Paula and Dorothy, as they prefer to be known for the moment, are obviously biting off quite a mouthful. But there’s growing evidence that they’re more in time with the public mood than cither of the two parties in the Jabor war. That mood has nothing to- do with support for one side or the other. We're talking solely about the effects of strike/lockout non-involved bystanders. The just-ended Telecommunications ~Wor- kers Union strike against B.C. Tel, after 13 months without a contract from an insensitive and pigheaded management, originally enjoyed considerable public sympathy. But as the stoppage dragged on, the TWU image began to suffer the same fate as that of the B.C. Tel bosses. The bully-boy tactics of flying TWU pickets — picketing even cafes where company supervisors were taking a snack — became increasingly distasteful. Innocent families and businesses were left without phones in an emergency. Vandalism, though not sanctioned by the union, put every public telephone at Vancouver airport out of order. The attitude on both sides was “the public be damned”. action on THE STENCH GROWS The nine-week-old strike of municipal workers is going the same way. Again, there has been evidence of some ap- preciable public sympathy for their position. On the other hand, the management side —- the Greater Van- couver Regional District — claims Brownie points for striving to guard the tax- payer's wallet. And in this dispute, of course, it’s also obvious that politics are muddying the waters. Meanwhile the stench of uncollected garbage becomes stronger each day. Public works and = main- tenance are at a standstill. Parks, recreation centres and concert halls are picketed. West Vancouver buses have been im- mobilized. Blameless citizens are reviled as “scabs”. In the end, from both side’ of the deserted bargaining table, it’s the same “public- be-damned” answer. Who are the public in question? They are the 50 per cent of the work force who are neither unionized = nor members of the management breed (less than 35 per cent of all employed people hold union cards). In addition, they are at least an equal obvious about, it-as to ‘awake 7 the ire of! ‘the ‘present. per-. tual prime 1 minister. Liberals are: Aetang do. “their | se. leadership -hopeful denouncing -..-leadership: hopeful Y, particularly. when both.X and Y happen. to be oS ministers ‘in the’ ‘same: cabinet.. . : Those ‘with ideas about the. ‘thru leadership: must-also:be very,» -£0 careful ‘not . to. offend: the. . E “around Mr. convinced Trudeau. to _ revoke his resignation for the 1980 election, also won -renewed political life “for themselves.” Jim~ ‘Coutts, | _Keith- Davey, MacEachen - and Lalonde are chief ‘among - those. ; Allan -MacEachen, in particular, must be. courted by Liberals with : leadership ambitions.-He was the most highly. visible: midwife of.the . , re-birth’ ‘of ‘Pierre ©. Elliott Trudeau. His reward; ‘it is. accepted by Ottawa ob- by Noel Wright Citizens. They are a majority — but hit silent majority. Silent because, management and they are unorganized. The inconvenience and actual hardship suffered by this innocent, silent majority as a result of present-day unrons, strikes and lockouts — especially in the public sector — supgpest a strong argument for organizing the general public itself as a permanent “third force” in all such disputes. EQUAL FOOTING If non-involved citizens are going to be dragged in willy-nilly, they are surely ‘Allan’ -pr ‘Marc ° on a ; dime hi. servers, will be to take over | ' community | “By” then, “course,-it may be too late , Change policy directions. : entitled to their own voice’ the bargaining table. . = How to do it, of course, the unsolved problem. One proposal ‘that has been aired is a labor dispute om: budsman, directly an- swerable to parliament .of the legislature, who. would participate in all. bargaining sessions between management and unions on an equal footing a: spokesman for the public, o Another suggestion is fo labor. dispute councils with “ function. Their elected members é exclude all unionists together with anyon holding an ownership | OF! ae management position. oe Such a “third force” — : backed by all the power. ‘of media publicity — might. : nefit both other» couraging fair. and speedy settlements ~: 7 based on public)sentiment at. . the. beginning of a dispute” ther than at the bjtter end.” r) aula and: Dorothy can meet the: im? mediate challenge is an open; question. But give them full | marks for creative thinking about an increasingly destructive situation.