GRACE HARTMAN . . . "The AIB is a destructive agency which has frustrated the legitimate pursuit of women's rights."
Hart man scores AIB
Wage controls hold back women's rights
■ The Anti-Inflation Board was called "a destructive agency which has frustrated the legitimate pursuit of women's rights" by Grace Hartman, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, speakiag to an International Women's Day meeting sponsored by the Canadian Congress of Women in Queen Elizabeth Playhouse March 6.
Women, she said, suffer even more than men under wage controls because they perpetuate inequitable wage rates, and they have a particular interest in seeing them scrapped.
Hartman had harsh words for Beryl Plumptre, former vice-chairman of the Anti-Inflation Board, and her successor, June Menzies.
She described Plumptre's appointment to the board as an attempt to appease women by appointing a token woman.
"She had a good establishment background. And she did such a good job for the corporate sector that, in the six months since she resigned, she has been appointed to the boards of directors of three
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"I believe this speaks volumes about the mentality and philosophy of the authors of the AIB and the whole wage restraints program.
"June Menzies should give the matter some thought. When she accepted the appointment as vice-chairman to succeed Beryl Plumtre she must have known it carried with it clear implications that it could not make a positive contribution to the women's movement."
She ridiculed Menzies, a former member of the Advisory Council on the Status of Women, for her claim that restraint on higher wage levels works to the advantage of women receiving lower wages, terming it "illogical and backward."
Although wage controls provide exemptions for women who have suffered discrimination in the past, she pointed out, "we are faced with the utterly ridiculous situation in which the employers — those who have inflicted the discrimination — are required to make the case for equality before the AIB."
Declaring that free collective bargaining affords the only effective avenue for eliminating inequities, Hartman charged that Menzies, in serving a government agency which seriously diminishes collective bargaining, was being "made a party to the government's stance that free collective bargaining is proper so long as it isn't too successful."
The meeting adopted a resolution calling on federal and provincial governments to abolish the controls program.
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Lower goal set for pink production
The salmonid enhancement program task force has introduced the results of a year-and-a-half of planning by federal and provincial biologists and one of the results is a reduction in the pink salmon production target from 15 to 5.6 million.
It is estimated that a 15-year program of enhancement projects and stream work could add 25 million salmon to the annual British Columbia catch and a target of about 15 million pinks had been regarded as technically feasible.
Similarly, based on the state of biological knowledge and technology, the proposed target for all species could have been 42 rather than 25 million.
"Other factors must be taken into account, however," says the enhancement program's newsletter Salmonid, "and in the case of pink salmon a rough benefit-cost assessment suggested that aiming for production at the higher level would not represent the best investment of . . . funds and resources."
The cut was also based on the "continuing deterioration of habitat," the high cost of working in the central coast region where there is a high potential for pink salmon production, uncertainty about developing odd year pink stocks, intermingling problems and the need to identify factors currently depressing pink production in Masset Inlet, the newsletter explains.
By contrast, the target of seven million additional chum salmon exceeds current production by two to three million fish. There are fewer stock intermingling problems with fall chum fisheries and the fish also are amenable to low cost, relatively simple enhancement techniques.
Spring and coho objectives are characterized as "very ambitious". Plans call for an increase of two million springs and four million coho in the catch, with primary attention being given to them early in the program because of serious stock maintenance problems.
Simple, relatively cheap egg incubation techniques can be used to increase their numbers, while small stream restoration and improvement will also contribute significantly to the enhancement of both species, biologists believe.
Major enhancement for sock-eye has not been scheduled for the first three years of the program, pending settlement of a Canada-U.S. agreement on salmon interceptions.
Proposed production target for the species is an increase of 5.3 million, possibly more if experimental lake fertilization proves successful.
Emasculated Bill C-61 Just worth/ess paper
Acting on a warning voiced by Canadian Merchant Service Guild delegate George Nelson that Bill C-61 was to be reintroduced in the House of Commons shorn of its provisions to restrict trade between Canadian ports to Canadian flag vessels delegates to Vancouver and District Labor Council unanimously adopted a motion March 1 demanding that the bill be left in its original form.
Bill C-61, which died on the order paper at the last session, would establish a maritime code.
Nelson reported he had met with transport minister Otto Lang, who had told him of government plans to delete the bitterly contested restrictive clauses.
"Without these clauses the bill will be so much worthless paper," Nelson declared.
Council secretary Paddy Neale said that while he sat as MP for Vancouver East he had introduced three private member's bills to amend the Canada Shipping Act to accomplish the same purpose of restricting trade to Canadian ships — "no more than bringing Canada into line with the U.S. and Australia."
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