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Move by Quebec surprises PSAC QUEBEC CP The Public Service Alliance of Canada PSAC was rocked Wednesday by defiant Quebec members who announced plans to separate from the national union Robert Martin president of the Montreal area council said he decided on the breakaway bid after the alliance re Jected his request Monday for Quebec component within the PSAC PSACpresident Andy Stewart said he has ordered in vestigations into complaints about inadequate service to Quebec members and plans to correct the problems feel frustrated they feel they would have to go to that length to satisfy what they feel are cultural needs said Stewart of the breakaway plan Martin meanwhile told news conference the alliance is racist and undemocratic Guy Foucault vicepresident of the Montreal area coun cil said his group will start Monday to ask the 35000 federal public servants in Quebec to join the new Quebec Union of Federal Wot kers Returns from hell of Nicaragua OTTAWA CP Canadian Labor Congress official just returned from visit to civil wartorn Nicaragua said Wednesday feel like Ive returned from hell John Simonds said in statement distributed by the 22 millionmember congress that rescue teams are finding dead dying or almost insane people in hidden underground prisons Men had been found castrated and murdered and every day more atrocities are being uncovered by horrified volunteer rescuers Meanwhile crops had been destroyed and there was little of anything left in the country following the war that saw dictator Anastasia Somoza ousted from power Lake levels pose flood threat DETROIT High water levels throughout the Great Lakes pose flood threat in early fall to area lakeside com munities lakelevel report issued Wednesday by the US Army Corps of Engineers shows The report said all of the Great Lakes are above last years generallylthigh water marks and well above 30ltyear averages While each lake is about metres under the record levels that caused devastating spring floods in 1973 series of rainy months combined with fall storms could cause pro blems corps spokesman said Guards get new cap badges OTTAWA CPI Federal prison guards soon will be wearing cap badge with key torch and maple leaf on sixpointed star The badge also carries the Latin moto futura recipere which means to grasp the future The badge was officially unveiled Wednesday when SolicitorGeneral Allan Lawrence presented it to Donald Yeomans commissioner of the federal correctional service at ceremony at ii mediumsecurity prison in Mission BC Mailopening proposal rapped OTTAWA CPI The Progressive Conservative govern ment is showing total disregard for Canadians civil liber ties by proposing to allow police to open mail the president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers said Wednesday JeanClaude Parrot accused the Conservatives of an abrupt turnabout in abandoning the objections they had to mail opening when they were an opposition party He was reacting to SolicitorGeneral Allan Lawrences statement last week that legislation to allow police to open mail in drug investigations and cases of national security is high government priority Open this weekend OnlyTrilight has 60 calories Check the label on your light beer and see how it stacks up against Trilight Know what youll find When it comes to light beer Nobody brews it lighter TORONTO CP The threeweek strike by 2700 Express employees disrupted CP Transport operations in Western Canada and was mark ed by picketline skirmishes in Montreal on Wednesday The Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks is seeking court order against the use of security guards near picket lines at CPs rail and truck ter minal at Lachine Que CP Express is seeking injunc tions against picketing that in terferes with CP Transport in Western Canada Union president WCY McGregor accused of using goons to interfere with picketing that had led to refusals by some truckers to pick up shipments at the Lachine terminal But CP president Ian Sinclair denied the charge and said in dependent truckers hired security guards to prevent harassment by union members CP Transport operations in Vancouver Edmonton Cal gary and Winnipeg were hindered when truckers refused to cross picket lines set up by express employees The Express workers are seeking the same wage in creases that railway employees in the same union negotiated in threeAyear contract this year 10 per cent in the first year and eight per cent more in each of the second and third years CP Express however says the contract should be in line with those in the small shipment section of the truck ing industry company sp0kesman said CP is willing to resume bargaining within that framework Express employees have negotiated contracts separate from railway workers since 1975 Auto workers in Windsor Plant layoffs could be perma TORONTO CP The gas oline crisis that ended the American love affair with the big car has put hundreds of Canadian auto workers in Windsor 0nt out of work and the layoffs could be permanent Chrysler Canada Ltd and Ford Motor Co of Canada Ltd have laid off total of more than 1500 Windsor workers in what the companies describe as indefinite layoffs with no set callback dates As well more than 7500 On tario workers at Ford and General Motors of Canada Ltd have been laid off in Oshawa Toronto and Oakville for from one to three weeks because of decline in US sales company spokesmen said Wednesday These layoffs are extensions of the annual summer shut downs by the Big Three au tomakeis Douglas Glynn spokesman for the United Auto Workers UAW in Toronto said Wednesday the union is so con cerned that the indefinite layoffs could become perma nent that it has proposed major action to improve the financial situation at Chrysler WANTS HELP At the recent opening of negotiations between the Big Three automakers and the UAW the union proposed that the US government help Chrysler by buying shares in the company Glynn said Robert White UAW Cana dian director said the 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