A6 - Wednesday, May 2, 1984 - North Shore News Embezzelment further $200 million bailout for de Havilland Aircraft (making $700 million in the past 18 months) is the latest reminder of how lightheartedly govern- ment squanders our tax dollars. The company has no hope of recouping its losses on the money-eating Dash 8 comffuter plane, so Ottawa is obligingly underwriting the misspent millions to avoid a_ politically messy employment shutdown. The de Havilland bailout, however, pales. into insignificance compared to the hundreds of millions Canadians pay every year to keep _ the dead-end, monéy-losing nuclear industry afloat. The total to date is about $12 billion, or $500 for every man, woman and child in the country. Used for productive purposes, that stag- gering sum could have built a quarter of a million $50,000 houses; or covered the present rate of medical extra-billing in the country for the next 167 years; or created tens of thousands of lasting jobs in industries able to stand on their own feet without feeding from the public trough. Today, nobody in the world wants to pay cash for a Candu reactor. The last ‘‘sale’’, in 1978 to Romania, had to be a barter deal. Romania paid us in tractors, farm produce, footwear and wine - all of them _ items Canada produces and destined, therefore, to throw still more Canadians out of work. Worst of all, there’s no end in sight. If a private citizen did this with other people’s money, he’d be jailed for embezzlement. ~ Sad necessity’ est Van Police have taken a positive step with their announced plans to. have a voluntary fingerprinting of children to keep on file for identification. But there is also sadness in the recognition that our advanced western society has reached the point where this type of action must be im- plemented because of the violence and sickness that has sprung up, particularly against the weak and the innocent. Tie8 VOICE OF WERTH Aree WERT VATtDRUWER sunday news north shore news 1139 Lonedale Avoe., North Vancouver, B.C. 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By ROY GAUTIER President, B.C. & Yukon Building Trades Council It should be recognized that every Expo or World Fair in North America in re- cent years has been built union on the agreements reached with unionized contractors and Building Trades umons. That’s also how the Los Angeles Olympics sites are being built. The reason 1s simple. Only the organized construction industry has the proven capacity to complete Projects of this magnitude, providing quality work under time deadlines. When our respective levels of government wanted the Stadium at B.C. Place built, they recognized this fact and the yob was done union, on tine and within budget. TALKS PROGRESSED last’ year Expo manage basis) of. ment and the Building Trades held meetings designed to reach an agreement for the construction of Expo. There was no question in the minds of Expo management of at- tempting the project in any other way than through the organized construction in- dustry. Talks were progress- ing satisfactorily and there were no serious Obstacles to agreement. Then, last fall, Kerkhoff Construction went to the Labor Relanons Board seck ing a ruling that would re- quire Expo to allow them to bid on work at B.C. Place and, subsequently, at Expo. The Building Trades were contident of winning a dec) sion from the Board that Ex po was a common site. Such a decinon would have paved Noel Wright on vacation Building trades wan the way for Expo and the organized construction § in- dustry to finalize an agree- ment for the construction of Expo. The Provincial Government persuaded Kerkoff not to proceed at the Board, with a public an- nouncement that, as a matter of Government policy, Expo management must include non-union contractors in any bidding on Expo, irrespective of the problems that would pose to the project. As a result of this an- nouncement, serious discus- sions to finalize an agreement on Expo were left in limbo. The problem was aggravated with Premier Bennett's March 29 TV announcement that Expo must be an open site and that Mr. Pattison dnd Expo management had 10 days to reach ah agree- ment which would make that possible of the Government would consider cancelling Expo The Building Trades LETTER OF THE DAY How Collins got that nose Dear Editor [ first) met shortly Doug Collins after our defeat at Dunkirk We were both cor poral in the Beitish Army tic inthe Gloutestershite Regi ment, Loin the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders We had both been wounded and found ourselves betng mare h ed through France, Belgium and Holland as prisoners of warotthe Genmans heading into Gecrmmany and Poland where we were to face We wee many years of deprivation and hulhation What fins first tomy attention fron among the brought Doup Col thousands of prisoners on the brutal march was thes A Senegalese Preneh (bola hk) had run into a fictd to steal a turnip pPriseuctr When he returned to thre columnaoa German guarc (celled tam with his citle bute fio owas then thar © ollins sprang tnto action) and told the guard to deave the man alone The guard turned on the racist Orpot’ and stbashed him ao the lace with his cifle butt Take a look at Doug s nose The cesults of that atlack are still there During Our many years of caplivity Collins was a cons tant thom in the side of the Coctmans Sooruct so that they put ia high prwe on tas head because of the thousands of man hours they had wasted hunting hin on his numerous escapes In the end he made uo back to Ber tain toocarry on the fight for freedom that ay so dear te form Dust a word of warning to t Expo responded by taking the posi- tion that Expo should go ahead, could be completed satisfactorily, on time and within the original labor cost estimates. GOING RATES As President of the Building Trades, | also an- nounced that to ensure Expo went ahead, Building Trades unions were prepared to guarantee no work stoppages during construction, a step which has been taken in the past on other major projects, and were also prepared to go a step further and agrec, for this project only, to waive a provision in the collective agreements with Construc- tion Labor Relations Association which gives Building Trades umons the right to refuse to work alongside non-union contractors The Building Trades sull want Expo to go ahead and can ensure successful comple tion, based on an agreement negotiated with Expo management, if the Govern ment permits agreement such oan those who spew out therm filet omooity old a! humbed his eoantade ble nose at thre whole Gorman Army and will do the same to you Keep up the Rood work Dodou and remember what we told the Narr tin the Stalag when they told us Hither would be tn Buck ingham Palace by Christmas Pity wt couldn't be printed! Alen #10312 North Vancouver Masterton POW