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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