Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 21, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday March 21, 1968 Manitoba sends two to Ottawa labor talks two Manitoba federation of labor Csc delegates Are attending a three Day meeting of federation of labor delegates a Ottawa thursday Joseph Jim my James executive Secretary of the Manitoba group announced tuesday at a Winnipeg and District labor Council meeting in the Union Centre. Or. James said he and the federation president r. A. Bud Henderson would leave ilk. My wins suit London Reuters a for Mer British member of Parlia ment wednesday won a slander action against a Coe eague who alleged that As a married Man he slept with a russian woman in a Moscow hotel. An All male jury awarded an Thony Courtney 59, former conservative my damages and costs against sir Theodore Constantine 58, former president of his London area constituency. At Issue in the three Day hear ing was the Date of an incident allegedly secretly photographed by soviet agents in which court Ney slept with a woman guide in a hotel bedroom. Courtney admitted sleeping with the woman z i n a i d a Grigorieva Volkova at the National hotel in 1961 when he was a widower and single. He said Constantine told a lec Turer at a cocktail party that the indiscretion took place in 1963 afer Courtney had Remar ried. Courtney said the photographs were part of a smear Campaign against him. Later he was sued for divorce and lost his seat in parliament. Courtney was awarded damages and costs estimated at flying Honor a former Winnipegosis man., resident has been honoured for becoming the first Canadian to Fly hours in a 130 Hercules aircraft. In recognition capt. Angus Hay now of Canadian forces base Trenton ont., was presented with a Model Hercules a hour pin and a certificate . . Lee officer commanding Ron cab Edmonton. Capt. Hay is the 35th Pilot to the world to amass hours in Tife transport air crafts. Wednesday for the conference which will discuss All facets of federations in Canada. Federal labor Bill c-186, to change Canada labor relations Board procedures will be discussed also or. James said. The meeting will be in the chateau Laurier hotel. Labor Council Delegate to the biennial Canadian labor con Gress convention May 6-10 at the Royal York hotel Toronto will be Alf Walker president or. James and j. A. Art Coulter executive Secretary from May 1 on will be the Manitoba federation delegates to the Csc convention. Or. Coulter now executive Secretary of the labor Council fills or. James Post upon or. James retirement May 1. It was also announced at the tuesday meeting that or. Walker and Harry Munro coun cil Secretary treasurer would be delegates from the Council to the annual convention in Winni Peg of the Manitoba federation to be held at the Union Centre june 7-9. Taxes Rise in . Fredericton up tax changes will provide about More Revenue in the 1968-69 fiscal year finance minister l. G. Desbrisay said in his budget speech in the new Brunswick legislature tuesday. He gave these estimates extending the six per cent sales tax to hotel Motel accommodations Long distance Tele phone Calls and Telegram rates a one cent increase in the gasoline tax to 19 cents a gallon abolishment of the five per cent discount for Early payment of real property and business an increase to from in the two year Driver s licence fee reduction to two per cent from three in the commissions paid to sales tax or. Desbrisay predicted rec Ord High expenditures of and revenues of of r a deficit of nearly All the government s department administration costs were Hob passengers Dacca Reuters Paki Stani bandits armed with knives wounded 20 persons i a bus As they robbed passengers. During the robbery one of the bandits drove the bus along at High Speed. Showbiz gets Bird j Wanstead England up show business has broken up j another two parrots. Grumpy and his mate scruffy were As close As Turtle doves says then owner an Essex publican until Grumpy i got a Job in a London play. Now he Only gets Home weekends i and scruffy has rejected him i refusing even to share a Cage. Jesus seen As hippie s removed i Vancouver up a Cana Dian broadcasting corp. Television program that suggested Jesus was a hippie has resulted in one of the producers being taken off the show. Am Stodor one of three producers of the Vancouver 7 o clock show has been assigned to other the show monday included a 15 second shot of a Long haired hippie turning into Jesus Christ. Immediately after but television received 200 protest Calls. This was followed by or. Stodor s removal from the show. Dick booking another of the shove s producers will be in Ottawa to meet with Csc officials to discuss the area of jurisdiction Between producers and manage ment. The meeting was scheduled before the controversial show said or. Bocking. He said the Stodor Issue is one that is an internal problem which we would like to Settle inter Nally at Friday s informal meet or. Bocking is Vancouver s representative on the producers association which represents Csc producers in All parts of Canada except Toronto. Quebec up Premier Daniel Johnson wednesday introduced a proposed Public pro Tector act to authorize the legislative Assembly to name an ombudsman who would protect the citizen against abuse by the Ever growing machinery of the the Public protector is empowered to conduct investigations make recommendations to Correct injustices and to re port to the Assembly but has no encyclopedic knowledge Sejna threat to Russia Prague a Gen. Jan Sejna the highest ranking com must officer Ever to defect to the West carried with him to the United states an encyclopedic knowledge of soviet bloc military affairs a Czecho slovak staff officer acknowledged wednesday. The state department in Washington declined comment on the statement by col. Lubos Kohout. There were indications Here however that Kohout s de liberate underscoring of the intelligence Windfall fit into the Reform government s Campaign to clean out stalinist who were friends of Sejna. Kohout said Sejna must know the Loca Tion of All military and military economic objects to the entire Republic. Even four years of secondary school education provided him with enough Elemen tary knowledge of the Czecho slovak geography. His information on the mor Al political p b 1 e m s of the army can also be very valuable or his father confessors in the United Kohout s disclosure appear ing in the Trade Union news paper Prace coincided with an official report of an army investigation of the Sejna affair and he return from Moscow of Dep Uty Premier Oldrich Cernik the chief investigator on a govern ment commission looking into he defection. While in the soviet Union Ternik met with Premier Alexei Kosygin Tass news Agency reported. It said they talked about co ordination of eco nomic plans for 1971-75." but sources said discussion May labor Honor for Mcleod Grant Mcleod president of the Winnipeg and District labor Council since its forma Tion in 1956 until being voted out at a recent annual election has been made president emeritus in Honor of his 50th year of association with the Winnipeg labor movement. The Council tuesday endorsed an executive recommendation on the emeritus award and that a testimonial dinner be Given to or. Mcleod and Chester King retired a recent former vice president of the Council. The recommendation was car r i e d unanimously by the delegates at their meeting in the Union Centre 570 Portage Avenue. We re renovating and have reduced the prices on All floor Model organs buy now and save now is the time to shop for that Organ you be always wanted. 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Yep Shev his soviet counterpart on problems that presumably included the Sejna affair. Sejna went to the United states last month and immediately dropped from View. He had been accused of involve ment in a profiteering scandal and of attempting to mount a coup last january to prevent the ouster of old line president Antonin Novotny from his More important Post As party Secre tary. Novotny who remains under increasing pressure to resign received a new blow when a National Assembly committee called for a no Confidence vote against him. The official news Agency ctr said the Assembly presidium was discussing the matter. Novotny promised mean while to break his silence on the attempts to him from Power by government liberals. He told the newspaper Vecerin Praha he would talk after re covering from the flu. Johnson proposes Public protector authority to initiate Legal proceedings. Or. Johnson told the House that the Public protector Bill does not authorize the ombudsman to investigate arising from abuses inflicted by municipal governments. The Public protector s duty would be to receive complaints of the Public against provincial government administration and to bring abuses if any to the attention of the authorities involved. Super port meeting proposed Ottawa up transport minister Hellyer has suggested a meeting Early in april of Federal provincial and Munici pal representatives to discuss the development of a Harbor at Roberts Bank ., in the Southern outskirts of Van Couver. He replied monday to a Tele Gram from Reeve dug Aid mor Rison of Delta That he welcomed or. Morrison s recommendation that such a meeting be held. A spokesman for or. Hellyer said tuesday night that the minister had made a similar suggestions to attorney general Robert Bonner of British Colum Bia last month. Or. Morrison wired or. Hell yer that or. 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