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CUPE may boost members dues QUEBEC CP The Canadian Union of Public Em ployees is to decide today whether to go ahead with proposed increase in union dues that some members say they cannot afford The proposal by the CUPE executive divided delegates to the unions weeklong national policy convention Tuesday The union is the countrys largest representing more than $7000 workers The smaller locals are being squeezed to death said Kathy McNamara Sudbury Ont hospital workers union representative and one of several delegates opposed to the increase She said many hospital workers and other employees who are prohibited by law from striking to get higher wages just do not have the income to pay more dues We get small increase and we end up paying it through the nose But Bill Baker CUPEs Toronto district representative said he feels more money is needed to increase union activi ties Who is going to go out and organize the disorganized Your boss Now more than ever youre asking your members to go out on strike said Baker Who the hell is going to pay for it War brides sought for movie TORONTO CPI If you lived in the Netherlands at the end of the Second World War married Canadian soldier and then settled in Canada after 1945 Toronto film production company would like to hear from you and Film Productions is filming commemoration of the 1945 liberation of the Netherlands by the First Canadian Army and seeks war brides to appear in the film Would expand insurance services TORONTO CP Legislation that would expand ser vices of mutual insurance corporations was introduced Tuesday in the Ontario legislature Frank Drea minister of consumer and commercial rela tions told the legislature that these corporations have tradi tionally insured farms against fire and associated risks Until 1954 the corporations could write only fire and light ning insurance on agricultural land and farm stock Gradually the coverage has expanded to include wind storm theft and liability insurance Drea said the legislation would empower these corpo rations and members or the farm mutual reinsurance plan to undertake and transact any class of insurance for which joint stock insurance company may be licensed under the In surance Act Drea said the amendment under the Corporation Act is in response to the growth and changing nature of farming and the needs of the provinces rural society and the industrys demonstration of its financial stability and responsibility to its insurers Speculating on Trudeaus future OTTAWA CPI Pierre Trudeau who once grabbed in ternational attention as swinging bachelor prime minister turns 60 on Thursday amid speculation about how long he will remain as leader of nowtroubled Liberal party In place of the power and rime ministerial perks held since April 20 1968 the verdict of voters May 22 means Trudeau now is having to adjust to the more humble role of leader of the Opposition Quake aftermath Calexico store owner Sezundino Arellano works at piecing his market back together Tuesday mor rocked Southern California Monday atternoon The quake registered 65 on the Richter scale AP Photo is Senior Citizens Month at SHORNEYS Come in and pick up your Senior Citizens courtesy card 20 off any purchase valid for one yean ME NRAD FRAME We feature frames from Menrad Rodolphe and Da Vinci plus other fine lines of optical products SHORNEYS OPTICIANS GEORGIAN MALL 268891 MEDICAL ARTS BLDG 12 WELLINGTON 72264941 Byelections maintain status quo WINNIPEG CP The status quo has been maintained in Manitoba said Premier Sterling Lyon Tuesday sum ming up the results of three provincial byelections Conservative Gary Filmon was elected in River Heights constituency Liberal June Westbury took Fort Rouge and NDP candidate Vic Schroeder won the Rossmere seat All the ridings were in the Winnipeg area and each elected candidate belonging to the same party that took the seats in the 1977 provincial election The byelections leave stand ings in the 57seat legislature at Conservatives 33 NDP 23 and Liberals one Only about 55 per cent of the 45000 eligible voters in the three constituencies turned out at the polls and Lyon said his party would have won at least another seat had the turnout been better But he added the fact that we naVe tne same number 01 seats as in 1977 indicates we have been on the right course In Fort Rouge and River Heights byelections were needed to fill seats left vacant when Liberal Lloyd Axworthy and Conservative Sidney Spivak resigned to fight for seat in the May 22 federal election which Axworthy won Rossmere was the former base of GovGen Ed Schreyer when he was Manitoba premier and then opposition leader TWO CONTESTS CLOSE Two of Tuesdays contests were fairly close In Axworthys former Seat of Fort Rouge Ms Westbury de feated NDP candidate Vic Sav ino by about 400 votes while in Rossmere Schroeder defeated Conservative Harold Piercy by less than 150 votes In River Heights however Filmon won comfortably over Liberal runnerup 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