RAIL BACK-TO-WORK IN LIMBO

Sacer oceans

operations -in low gear

By CHRIS LLOYD outlawed by the picketers’

Own unions.

North Shore industries
crippled by the month-long
B.C. Rail strike were this

B.C. Labor Relations
Board ordered the picketers

past week gearing up for a ‘° a” FE qack to-work
resumption of operations as °T di. r th ay h ait
commodities began trickling Predictions that the line

would be closed again within
three weeks.

in On railcars.

But nobody was counting

on their troubles being over R Ewen the Counc of
or assuming they may not atiway. o1ons,
soon be back to a halt T"ePresenting the seven
because of the uneasy nature (UIONS, declared it was

“thoroughly disgusted” with
the picketing, while IWA

of the back-to-work.

As the first rail cars President Jack Munro said
brought shipments to the the picketers were inviting
North Shore Thursday, at the implementation of the
least four of the seven Essential Services Act.

railway unions were being

recommended to reject the Thursday the first rail
settlement negotiated by carloads of grain in five
Labor Minister Jack weeks arrived on the North
Heinrich. Shore — 23 of which went to
the new Pioneer Grain

The extent of the bit- Terminal which has not
terness among the rail crews operated since it opened

was evident by unofficial
picketing in North Van and
Squamish, which was

during the stnke, and 56 of
which went to the Saskat-
chewan terminal.

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The Saskatchewan _ter-
minal had been supplied by
trucks bringing grain from
the south shore during the
strike. By the time the trains
resumed, the trucks had
reached a level of moving
23,000 tonnes a night and
may well continue because

of the success of the
arrangement.
Canadian Wheat Board

Assistant Manager Norman
Ralkie expects the railway to
be moving 100 grain cars a

day bv this week.

Other industries were
equally glad about the
resumption of train cargoes.
Even with a barge ramp of
their own which has been in
use round the clock Van-
couver Wharves have been
Operating with a third of
their usual volume.

And Neptune Terminals
had been even harder hit,
having laid off their work
force before Christmas, and
with rail uncertainties still in
the air, a spokesman said the
terminal would not be taking
workers back on until a
working amount of cargo
had been received.

-moments of the robbery

N.Van industries resume

A3-Sunday News, January 27, 1980

ALSO
INSIDE

BANK ROBBERY at the
1805 Lonsdale branch of
the Toronto Dominion was
carried out by two men
thought to be 18 or 19,
Friday lunchtime. At News
press time it was un-
derstood that they did not
produce a weapon while
robbing one of the tellers
and it had not been
determined how much cash
had been stolen. RCMP
officers were there within

but the two bandits eluded
them after leaving by the
15th Street exit of the
bank. (Elisworth Dickson
photo)

A quiet

weekend
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