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reas Police protection costs toxpo THUNDER BAY Ont ii Taxpayers in the north western Ontario communities of Kenora and Fort Frances face slmillion bill for extra police protection in bitter loggers strike William Lidstone assistant Ontario Provincial Iolice com missioner said in telephone interview from Toronto on Tuesday that the strike has cost the force an extra $705687 to send reinforcements to Kenora alone In Fort Frances the ex tra cost to the provuicial force so far is SISHJQS Total costs to tiie Oil in cluding officers regular sala iies comes to 9337028 The municipalities are responsible Metric move lunatic OTTAWA WW II opposi tioii critic said Tuesday the governments latest efforts to step up the move to metric measures are lunatic and arbitrary tonseryative Ray Ilnatyshyn complained in the toniiiions that retailers face fines if they iolate new law ltqtlllr iiig them to advertise products such as meat and candy in kilo grams rather than pounds and ounces by nun consumer affairs spokes man said later those who can not comply with the law for good reasons will not be prose cuted But Itnatyshyn warned conr sumers can easily he ripped off without government super lStOll of IlilllOlHHdt con ycisions Grocery retailers must also be usmg metric scales by the end of 1981 only for the extraneous costs overtime pay trans ortatioii and housing not including sala was The strike against Itoise as cade Canada Ltd by members of Local 2693 Lumber and Saw mill Workers union began ille gally at the companys Fort Frances mill seven months ago and spread to the Kenora plant in October when the strike be came legal because the con tract expired the centre of the dispute is the owneroperator piet work issue The company wants to expand its current system ot selling logging equipment to workers and paying them on the basis of the wood they cut instead of on an hourly basis USIS IIINI Sporadic violence both otl and on the picket lines forced officials of both communities to seek added police presence and i75 ADAM BOOKS INC 14 Dunlop St Barrio the costs have been mounting steadily Members of other unions at the two mills initially stayed off the job in sympathy with the loggers But as the strike wore on they began crossing the lines to return to work as they ratified contracts of their own The workers who went back along with management personnel brought in from other mills were the objects of taunts and then acts of violence Itiises bringing workers through picket lines were pelted with rocks homes were yaiidalied and firebombs thrown Municipal forces in both comr iiiiinitiis began putting their men on In hour shifts Often those at home were required to remain on standby duty in case the lOItllt erupted again The ll beefed up its coiitiii gent at times by more than l00 men There were 73 men reas OFF INS morol signed on constant basis from southern Ontario detachments each doing fourweek stints In Fort Frances Chief Mik Solomon said strikerelated costs incurred by his force be tween October and the end of the year total $75874 The January figure has not been tabulated Solomon estimated his men have worked close to 5000 over time hours since the strike be gan in Fort Frances WORK LONG IIOURS In Kenora Chief Webb Engst rom said his men have worked 2588 hotirs of overtime since the picketline violence began He said the costs to the commu Unicorn 19 In Barrio 1265208 the examlner Wednesday Feb 1979 My excluding policcmcns salaries now totals $3294 That figure combined with the Fort Frances costs and the OPP bill brings staggering to tal of $100030375taggering to the towns that must pay In Toronto Lidstone said the process of getting extra men to the communities began with re quests from their police comr missions for assistance The re quests under the Police Act got to the board of police commis sioners of Ontario But Lidstone pointed out the province is not responsible for the extra cost unless the solicitorgeneral steps in In Fort 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