Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 18, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Another View by John Robertson the postal strike is the latest in a series of senseless strike debacles which Are changing Canada s image in the rest of the business world from that of a thriving Young nation to the epitome of an irresponsible pouty child. Until a few Days ago world shipping concerns were being driven to the Brink of financial disaster while their boats were imprisoned in the St. Lawrence Seaway. And today anyone doing business with Canada by mail can forget it. The planes and trains be next on the strike list and by that time Well probably be communicating with the rest of the world by inserting cryptic Mes sages in bottles and flogging them into the Ocean to catch the Atlantic and Pacific currents. The postal strike is a. Classic example of juvenile irresponsibility. The demands of the strikers a 25 to 27 per cent increase Are so unrealistic that they Merit All the Public outrage they Haye kindled so far. The postal employees know that it is More than double what they will eventually gladly Settle for. So what happens the conciliation Board turns in a report on the wage dispute and does t even make a wage recommendation. Then when the strike deadline is already passed the Treasury Board finally makes an offer but does t even Tell the Public what it is. And the Public that s everyone with a mailing address ends up getting the Shaft while the Treasury Board and the Union play their silly Little bluffing game. I la bet there s not one postman in this City who would t gladly go Back to work today fora 10 per cent pay increase. But the Roulette game will continue in Ottawa and every one of us including the postal employees will lose Money because of it. And even if the settlement takes a month the Union will claim Victory. Some Victory some sorry mess some just society the Little people who have responded to requests for Aid through this column in the past have been so thoughtful and generous i la gratefully excuse them from this next plea for help which i direct at big business concerns. Yogi know All this sell Manitoba jazz Well Manitoba boasts a Junior baseball team called the fort Rouge mallards who just won the right to represent both Manitoba and Saskatchewan in the Canadian Junior championships july 29 to aug. 4 in Moncton . It s baseball s equivalent of the memorial cup hockey finals but the mallards right now Are away from getting there to represent us. The total Cost is half of which is paid by the Canadian baseball federation. Mallards have raised another but since they have no sponsor they re going to have to beg a Little for the rest. These kids Are Amateur in every sense but their ability. And i Don t have to Tell you what a kick in the Teeth in would be for Manitoba prestige Wise if we Are the Only province which can t afford to Send a team to the Canadian championship. If any firm can help out in any Way please Contact Fred Parnell the treasurer of the Manitoba baseball association. The Fred Parnells of this world Are the people who have spent most of their adult lives dedicating summer evenings to see that kids in this City have a Chance to play properly organized Ball. And this would be a great Way of saying thank you to them. Speaking of sport the squad at the Assiniboine Park zoo has been doing some roster shuffling in an attempt to strengthen for the 1968 National zoo championships. Two great horned owls were traded to Portage la Prairie for a pair of White Kali pheasants. A baby Cougar has been sent to Chicago on 24-hour recall. And a pair of Blue eared pheasants have been shipped to fort William with orders to clean up their language births included a whole gang of raccoons two collared Pec caries tie four siberian tigers and one horned Lamb. I m going to miss getting All those letters both Nice and Nasty during the e mail strike. Tell you what you do. Write the letter anyway. Then go outside or downtown even and Stop the Best looking Chick you see. Give her the letter and Tell her to Rush it right Over to John Robertson. Tell her there s a Reward. No trifles please 453-3127 Portage i Simcoe 774.2471 14 St. James Street opposite Polo Park 786-6891 Esso car clinic weather report synopsis valid until Midnight Friday under the influence of a Large High pressure Centre. Sunny skies will prevail Over the Prairies today and Friday. A slow upward trend in temperatures is expected with widely scattered showers forecast to develop late afternoon or evening. On the map indicate expected High temperatures today Plant shutdown hits Cree band mrs. Isabelle Young and some of her 16 children Winnipeg free press by Carrier soc per week thursday july 18, 1968 authorized As 2nd class mail by the . Dept., Ottawa and for payment of postage in the last Power Plant inoperative deep freeze useless because Power off Good life absent Charlie Young gets a month new school Board vote set for today forecast mainly sunny today and Friday Little temperature change. Winds North at 15 rmp.h., becoming Light this evening. Low tonight for Ginli and Winnipeg 50, High Friday 75. Temperatures for the 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Thursday Vancouver 70 Calgary .67 Max. Man. Prec. Edmonton Regina the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora 73 72 75 74 77 ?3 61 55 45 39 48 56 52 53 60 61 .03 .03 Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis new York Max. Min. Prec. 91 70 b7 67 b9 72 53 79 92 87 73 85 95 73 74 62 71 73 .57 .35 temperature comparisons july 17 last year Normal Max. Man. Mean 76.8 57.7 47.3 79.7 47.3 63.5 80.5 s7.6 highest on record 94.6 in 1936 lowest on record 38.0 in 1924 trustee William Norrie chair a n of the Winnipeg school Board has called a Board meeting for 4 . Today. The purpose of the meeting is to elect a new Board chairman a new vice chairman and a hew finance committee. If no resignations Are received by 4 -.. From the trustees now holding the e positions today s meeting will be cancelled. At. 9 this no trustees had resigned. Any resignations would go to h. J. Benningsen Secretary treasurer of the Winnipeg school division Nome the present chairman is sponsored by the greater w i n n i p election committee trustee Olga Fuga Gwen is vice chairman. Finance committee members Are trustees mar Garet Trott chairman Fuga Iso Bel Sudol new democratic Joseph j. Wilder Harvey Baker Leslie g. Slingsby Wal ter paschak Gwen and nor Rie. As school Board chairman trustee Nome serves As an sex offi Cio member of Board committees boy drowns in South Dale a boy drowned the noon hour thursday at the South end of Clearwater take a Man made like in the South Dale Section of St. Boniface police said. Further information was unavailable. Or. Justice f. M. Bastin of Manitoba court of Queen s Bench has said that using mailed in ballots for school Board elections is an improper procedure. Such a ballot from trustee Robert a Coch Rahe g Wec had been used in the january elections of the Board s c h a i r m an vice chairman and finance commit tee members. 1 but or. Justice Bastin Dis missed a motion asking that trustee Nome s election As chairman be declared void. The school Board s six nip trustees and one communist trustee called for the chair Man s resignation at tuesday s regular school Board meeting. But no formal motion was put meeting trustee Norrie did not resign and said after the meeting that the judge s ruling showed no Legal basis for saying the office of chairman was not duly elected " River yields Man s body the body of 21-year-old David Ellis of Thompson Man., was recovered from the Burntwood River tuesday. Or. Ellis drowned in a boating mishap june 28. His body was1 discovered by a Lamb airways Ltd. Employee at 5 . Tues Day near the company Dock and close to the scene of the mishap. officers had been dragging the Driver or. Ellis disappeared. Blood vein Reserve Tau. Staff for this Small isolated Community of Cree indians the Good life taken for granted in Winnipeg is much farther off than the 150 air. Niles separating the two areas. A decision by the Federal Lepart night of Indian affairs to shut Down the Reserve s Power Plant for the summer has created a number of new and has Only major problem poverty. See Story Page 1 there Are two Means of Access to the Community sea plane or boat from Matheson Island in the Narrows of Lake Winnipeg. Coming in from the air the Reserve looks like a haphazard collection of plywood houses and shacks on the Barren Rocky coast of Lake Winnipeg where it loins the red tinged bldg vein River. Mrs. has 16 children. Her husband Charlie earns about a x month taking care of the now inoperative Power Plant on the reserved mrs. Young gets about a month in family allowance payments she supplements her income by doing Odd jobs around the school and nursing station. The family s total monthly income is usually less than we never really starve but think it s a Miracle we can now that the Plant is off for the summer they Are worried whether or. Young still has his Job. Work is rare work is a rare commodity in this Community at present there s none available chief Harry Cook sat in one of the two Small dilapidated grocery stores wednesday talking about the problems his band has of face. Fishing season which is the major source of income for the Community lasts Only a month and ends in june. In that time the men must try to earn enough to support their families for the whole year he said. Chief Cook is the band s most successful with two men working for him he manages to earn to in the Brief season and is relatively Rich Man. Most of the men Don t earn anything near that sum he said. Right now there s no work of any kind. There s no trapping until fall. August will be a very hard month it s the same thing every year in the summer pretty this is the time of year that Bill Lewis s Cash Register gets Rusty. He runs the grocery store by joe1 Wiesenfeld owned by an airways firm in Selkirk. Most of the transactions at this time of year Are entered in credit ledgers to wait for said. Only Way for the men to make any Money Here is trapping and said mrs. Young. A lot of tile men were working on an Airstrip the government is putting last Christmas she went on. Work has stopped on that for the i Don t know when they la be starting you d think summer would be the Best time to do chief Cook said. A few the Young men leave the Reserve in Winter to work in Winnipeg or to take upgrading courses there said mrs. Young they usually can t afford the air fare to Selkirk and the Only other Way is by boat to Matheson Island and then hard hitchhiking South it in t an easy trip. A Nephew of hers Norman Young from work ing in Winnipeg last week. He hitchhiked up to the Island and then was met by his family in their fishing boat. He had t eaten in two Days while making the trip. The school in the Community offers courses up to the Grade 8 level. It is a Well built one Storey Structure with two class rooms. Two additional smaller structures serve As extra class rooms. The Indian affairs office in Winnipeg intends to build a larger school on the Reserve commencing this fall. The present school is staffed by four teachers. The. Teachers quarters Are in a Large five room Bungalow the Best dwell ing in the Community. The Power Plant at the Back of the school was installed chiefly for its Benefit according to John Geisbrecht the agent for the Reserve. It also serves the band Hall the roman Catholic Mission the band s deep freeze and the television set in the band Hall. Since the school closed and the teachers left the Power has because of exor Bitant costs or. Geisbrecht said. M since none of line residents Homes is connected to the Generator Plant this has Only created major problems with the necessary for the storage of fresh meat. Without Frozen meat the people Are forced to use canned meats available at the grocery stores. If we want to have meat and fish we have to Hunt every Day. Sometimes you can t catch said mrs. Young. "canned., meat is too. You can eat it and you Don t get filled up. There s nothing you can feel the Cloud of depression that hangs Over blood vein. No work very Little Money forced to buy food not As Good As they could catch and freeze themselves if the Freezer were still running and no More entertainment. In a Way having no television or movies any More can be every bit As demoralizing As the More important problems or so the residents believe. Too old and yet too Young by John Heath Bissett Man. Staff Bissett is like a Mirage set in the Middle of the Eastern Manitoba wilderness. The town is there buildings roads and 500 people but it in t there. The major employer in the area san Antonio mines Ltd. Has experienced a number of the latest two weeks ago when it was placed in receivership. A year ago 50. To 60 workers occupied two bunk houses on company property. Six workers live there now. Only a Short time ago Bob Shine Ruk 36, owner of the san Antonio hotel had a thriving business. He now faces a Between and he says. For Percy Berens 56, who earned a Good living and had a. Reputation As a hard worker there is no future. For Stanley Seymour 26, who worked on and off for four years in the mine and whose wife had a baby sunday there is Complete despair. The end of the mine Means the end of Many local Busi Nesses possibly including the san Antonio hotel according to its but even More is the pact that Many men Over 40 Are unemployed without much Hope of finding another Job. Some of the workers Here Are owed to according to local Union officials they Are assured of getting Only and that not until after a creditors meeting july 29. Bill Kennedy a Stafl member of the United steelworkers of America said that although a Young Man can relocate a Miner with 20 years of experience could to even find a Job in Sudbury. There has to be a hell of a i shortage of men for them to be re employed. If is Over 40 nobody will hire him there re men Here with 35 years service who Are now 50, they re too old for work and too Young to a Large number of workers in Bissett have no More than Grade 8 education he said. Their entire life savings Are usually tied up in Homes which have now become worthless. Bissett tensions ease tensions in. The northeastern Manitoba mining town of Bissett eased wednesday As the com Pany store containing Worth of groceries re opened for business. Some miners had threatened tuesday night to take at least part of the wages owing to them from to each in groceries. Most of them been paid for a month their Money and food supplies were running out. The company store was re opened wednesday on. The order of Winnipeg accountant Chris Gopher Flintoft the official trustee in bankruptcy. The store closed Antonio mines Ltd. Was put into receivership . V miners Are now buying Gro Ceries at the store on the same basis As whatever they buy will be from their wages. No Cash passes the counter. I the miners still working on the clean up Crew in the employ of or. Flintoft had picketed the mine monday and spun a one Quarter Inch across the main Gater monday in a spontaneous protest the Crew was Back at work. Wednesday while a three Man team from the Man Power c e n t r e in Winnipeg headed by Mike Shewchuk was compiling lists employable people in Bissett. Ultimate of the Survey is to have everyone relocated. R ;