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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 18, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday july 18, 1968 Quebec liberals Active by Dave Bazay Quebec up the Provin Cial liberals this weekend launch a program of policy re Newal that could diminish the strength of the party s most determined special status seeker and strengthen the leadership o former Premier Jean Lesage. Opposition l e a d e r Lesa wednesday announced that h and other leading party figure will travel across the province consulting Quebec Liberal federation members at nine Region Al policy meetings. Central feature of the Consul tation program starting in Rimouski saturday and ending Here sept. 15, is a new Survey aimed at finding out How strongly party members feel about the constitutional Issue. The opinion Survey whose re yacht Alleg pirated edly continued tired two private planes to search for his Ketch. At 11 . Or. Fabian. Sighted the vessel just East of Santa Catalina Island. The wind was picking up and they seemed to be gaining or. Fabian said. He added that at least one of the Crew probably was a Good Sailor because always steered a straight after reporting the Posi Tion of the Resolute or. Fabian and his son Mike 11, boarded the. Cutter paring to track " Down the Resolute. Shortly after noon a coast guard helicopter took Over surveillance of the Resolute. The Cape Hatteras skippered by Lieut. Harry a. Tiffany got within hailing distance of the Ketch at . Lieut Tiffany used a bullhorn to order the Reso Lute to heave to but there was no response. He then ordered 15 rounds across the boat s Bow. Betti there was still no i answer from the Youthful Crew. After m a n o u e v r i h g alongside the Ketch and hurling grappling Hooks to secure the Resolute four Cape Hatteras Crew hers two Fri agents who had joined the party by police officers and or. Fabian boarded the Ketch. Or. Fabian described the Resolute after the s e v e n were taken into custody As one dirty and added they would have died of poisoning from the dirty dishes even if they had gotten away. The destination of the stolen Ketch if the pirate Crew one was not Learned. The Ketch was built in 1937 and first belonged to the late actor Spencer Tracy. Other owners were actor Dick Powell and sportsman Huntington Hart Ford. Suits will be available Only to the party Leader could strengthen or. Lesage s Case that the people Are More inter ested in bread and butter mat ters than constitutional questions such a result would enable or. Lesage a moderate on the constitutional question to exer Cise greater authority Over the party s Radical constitutional thinkers such As former Educa Tion minister Paul Gerin Lajoie. Or. Gerin Lajoie s growing in fluence within the party was reflected by adoption within the caucus of a party constitutional committee report urging special Quebec status within a confederation renewed by a new Constitution. At the federation s annual meeting last year when former Cabinet minister Rene Levesque quit the party members rejected separatism in All its forms and endorsed special status for Quebec. Or. Levesque now Eads tile separatist movement Souverain Ete association. A special constitutional con Terence was to have been held n june 1967, preceded by regional meetings to define Spe Cial status based on a study of that became known As the be in Lajoie but this conference was can celled when the Federal liberals announced plans to hold the leadership conference that a ought to Power Pierre Elliott Trudeau a celebrated critic of special status. And during the Federal Lead r s successful general election Campaign that won him 56 of Quebec s 74 Federal seats most sberal Las Public ally endorsed or. Trudeau in spite of h e conflicting constitutional lews. The Gerin Lajoie report will e studied during the regional consultation program along with in other topics including Edu action cultural affairs and Agri culture to be discussed at the Ederati ii s annual meeting in Lontreal oct. 4-6. But or. Lesage noted that the institutional questionnaire a Ort of internal referendum Oil Constitution is not based on be special status report but is More the questionnaire goes beyond existing party policy to ask if Quebec should have a special status Partick Lier within confederation or if it should be a province like the among other things the questionnaire asks liberals Liow they rate the importance of the following issues education special Security economic development the constitutional problem. Or Lesage explained the difference Between privileged status status p r i v i 1 e g i e rather than special status status he said Quebec already has special status for example in that it has a civil code and bilingualism in the courts. Privileged status meant that Quebec would have certain Powers such As the right to Deal internationally in Fields of provincial jurisdiction Tawa would act for the other provinces in such Fields. Liberals plan reorganization Toronto up the Globe and mail says Federal Liberal party organizers Are to meet with prime minister Pierre tru Deau today to discuss far reach ing reorganization of the party. In a story1 from Ottawa the newspaper says details of the reorganization Are secret but the changes Are designed to strengthened the party s financial footing and prevent its. Campaign machinery from rusting through disuse before the next Federal election probably in four years. Among party planners who Are to meet with the prime min ister will be senator Richard Stanbury president of the National Liberal party. The Globe and mail says the most striking aspect of the party reorganization May involve the action. Trudeau groups comprised of youngsters who were Active during the june election Campaign but who were outside the formal confines of the Liberal party. Party already Laid the groundwork to trans form action Trudeau into a new social action Force to be known Headquarters operation to establish a number of director ates. These would be responsible for various arms of the and work under a director general a new position in the Liberal Hierarchy. The Globe says Liberal sources indicated the party reorganization still has to be approved by or. Trudeau and probably would hot be ready for announcement until next week. Postal strikers picket Calm Over wheat Cut target Fouti vied As action Canada paper says. It will the news have from to members working on a part time unpaid basis on a Broad Range of Community projects from a study of the negro minority in Halifax to work with indians on welfare in Vancou ver. Liberal sources said wednes Day action Canada might com Pete directly with the govern ment s own company of Young canadians in some areas the newspaper says. Fred Macdonald 22, the party s youth director for action tues Day he proposed the plan to or. Trudeau june 25 in order to pre serve the interest and involve ment of Young people in Public affairs which developed during the election Campaign. The action Trudeau groups one of the most striking devel continued dispute with the Federal trea sury Board. The Board offered six per cent pay increase wednesday. The unions demand 75 cents an hour raise about 29 per cent increase and re fuse to lower their stand. A pm ends of the election pealed to Young men and women mostly under who with or. Trudeau and wanted to become involved in the Campaign but did not want to join the Liberal party 01 one of its official youth branches. Action Canada is one Way of weaning these youngsters away from their first love or. Tru Deau and directing them into something More durable than Trudeau mania the Globe says. Tinder the plan volunteers would work in their own communities develop their own projects and choose their own Lead ers. Liberal Headquarters would provide limited help and act As communications Channel be tween action Canada outposts and the prime ministers and other members of the Cabinet. Liberal sources also said the party is seeking to establish non partisan political clubs in High schools perhaps replacing Liberal Only clubs which they feel have accomplished Little if the past. The Globe says another possibility in the party reorganization is a restructuring of the Virginia style cooked Ham first Quality lean fresh thurs. Only fri., and special sat. 99 la no. 1 Bacon 79 in. Thurs., fri., sat. Only Salami social and or. Reich said the clerks ranging were picketing the main Post office premises and the railway stations Canadian National and Canadian Pacific i while substations of the Post office were picketed by carriers. He said to his knowledge Only one clerk had crossed the main Post office picket line and had gone to work but he was t in the Union. Or. Reich and Marsh Hend Rick president of the carriers Union said in an interview on the picket line they would stand by National Union instructions if government should happen to order the strikers Back to work. Whatever the Canadian postal Union instructed they said they would carry out. The Organiza Tion represents the two unions. Post master George Toal was in his office thursday inspecting conditions. He said in an inter View about 20 administration personnel who were not part of the Union were at work and a. Similar number of maintenance men were also on the Job these regular staffs he said would have plenty to keep themselves occupied. There will be a roster kept up to maintain Security of mail lying in the Post office he said. Any one calling for mail would be told there was no one to give it out. There is a special Telephone number installed so Ottawa postal chiefs can get in touch with or. Toal. Pickup boxes will not be cleared he said As the Public would realize the situation. Pickup contracts had been suspended. Or. Toal said he did t know of any Union clerks coming to work but if they did so it was Post office policy not to lock them out Bui to allow them to work. They would not be asked to come to work however he said As there was no intention of antagonizing the unions. One special Job would be done he said regardless of the strike which was to arrange for collection of 22 blood samples which had arrived by mail for one of the hospitals. These would be made available for pickup he said. Private Telephone lines have been set up so strike head quarters in Winnipeg can direct operations at 20 locations in Manitoba and at the Lakehead. There will also be a direct line to the Union office in Ottawa. The director of the strike zone George Gatehouse whose Headquarters will be in the Hart building 261 fort Street said his zone included Northwest Ontario Post office employees. The walkout began at 4 . At the main Post office or Gatehouse said. At the sub Post offices the strike began at 6 . Or. Gatehouse said there will be 24-hour picketing duty at the main Post office on Smith Street and 10-hour picketing duty at sub Post offices prob ably from 8 . To 6 ., he said. Revenue Post offices where postal staff Are not employed at country Points he said would not be picketed. Or. Gatehouse said at press time he had received Telephone Calls from All 20 Union staff locations in his jurisdiction Manitoba and Northwest Ontario and All Are out on a s Board of Grain com missioners noted that India s re Cord wheat production of 576 million b u s h e 1 s approached Canada s average crop of around 600 million bushels. Last year s Canadian output had been 592 million a few years ago it had reached 820 million. The Indian Market fluctuates so much that it is very difficult to say what the Export picture might be in three years said Zvir Baxter. But certainly the indians have made great Progress and the end of their imports like the closing of any Market would be a loss for potential exporters like if Canadian Aid to India were Cut As that country became More self sufficient in wheat production it would not necessarily mean a corresponding reduction in Over All Canadian Aid. Under its International Aid program commitments it would seem Likely that Canada would Start supplying wheat to other undeveloped countries. In her speech on the wheat mrs. Gandhi said that due to increased acreage higher yields from new Dwarf varieties and improved cultivation production had shot up by 250 per cent since 1951-52. Small pos still operating continued similarly if you the free press drop the papers off a Small Rural Post they be put in the boxes individual pigeonholes in the Post offices same As Only larger Rural Points such Only larger Rural Points such Dauphin Swan River and flin flon Are completely without mail service. The tracking service Between same Manitoba Post offices includes a portion of Northwest Ontario. However he strike financial effects of by most Posta personnel Are already being Felt. Estimated daily additional Ost figures Aren t yet available it Winnipeg spokesmen for oth Eaton s and the Bay said he postal strike As it affects heir mail order business is a matter of grave concern. Eaton s is accepting dug distance Telephone Calls re arding. Mail complaints or adjustments. Parcels Worth More than and weighing 25 pounds or More will be expressed or tracked to Points outside Winnipeg. But Small orders will simply be set aside and held for the a stoners until after the strike Over. Mrs deaf f6r miners continued some Haven t been Able to pay their premiums because they Haven t received wages for about a month but there have been no cancellations the spokesman said. He said if a Miner gets sick and has to see a doctor the medical service will still pay his doctor s Bill even if he is in arrears on his payments. It will try to recover the outstanding premiums later the spokesman said. There has t been a doctor in Bissett for three years. The nearest doctor is in Pine Falls 80 Miles away by gravel Road. The Only exception to this applies to a Rural Community which has a mail order office n. That Case packages both arge and Small will be trucked rom the main store in win Peg. However customers will ave to pick up the parcels Roin the mail order offices. Don t worry if you re living in a town that has an Eaton s order office you will be Well served despite the postal a spokesman for the firm said. The Bay s Winnipeg store does t have a mail order department but has an equiv Alent in what is called the personal shopping out of town Bay customers often Telephone the City store and during the postal strike the firm intends to express deliver goods so ordered regardless of the size or value of the parcels. Nevertheless spokesmen for anticipate a loss in business As Well As delays to the customers through the express arrangement. We re trying to get our orders out just As Well As we can but we can t Promise said one store employee contacted. Another said the positive Side of the business Lull caused by the strike is that the shopping service girls will get a chant to catch up on office detail.1 and what about running card shop during a posts stoppage Lillian Mcgregor proprietor of the card Iipp at Polo Park said she d been quite Busy wednesday. There was not to much t h u r s a y Mornin though she does t normally be much business before noon. I imagine the strike will Hurt business a on the other hand people put cards in express and hand delivered however if the strike continues for any length of time i can be very bad news mrs Mcgregor said because people do mail a lot of cards. Beer stores reopen continued when to work David Lewis new demo cratic party member of Parlia nent for York South and Chie Union negotiator said the work ers will receive another 25 cents an hour Jan. 1, 1969, and the remainder a year later. Rates under the old Contr a from to an hour. The new agreement sex dres dec. 31, 1970. Or Lewis said it includes another 15 cents or so in Arious fringe Cally improvements in the pen Ion plan a guaranteed wage Cheme and increased life insurance. The Union had originally asked for a in crease Over three years. The Industry had offered 80 cents an hour in wages plus fringe Bene fits valued at an additional 15 cents. The dispute started june ,2.1 when 300 workers at Molson s Toronto Plant walked off their jobs. The Industry retaliated by Locking out workers at o Keefe brewing co. Ltd., car Ling breweries Ltd., John la Batt Ontario Ltd., w. A Hyatt Ltd., Canadian b r e w e r i e s transport Ltd and Brewers warehousing co. Ltd strike in blonde testifies Toronto up a striking Pla tin inn blonde told a judicial inquiry wednesday she saw the Man with whom she was living give Vincent Alexander april 19 to arrange a remand of her narcotics Case. Dianna Baker kappas testifying before or Justice Camp Bell Grant in the judicial in Quiry into the behaviour or mis behaviour of two Toronto Magis trates said she understood the Money was to pay for a lawyer. Mrs. Kappas in custody on a charge of illegal Possession of narcotics testified that Alexan Der said he could arrange for my trial Date to be moved from april to she she arranged with Alexander to pay him to have her Case remanded to sep tember. If he were successful in arranging an acquittal during the summer she was to Pav him another when she and de Rutman saw Alexander april 19, or. Rutman wrote a Cheque for i remember him handing the Cheque to or. Alexander but i can t remember if he accepted t. I remember or. Alexander said he preferred the investigation of the two magistrates George Gardhouse and Fred Bannon and their Alexander ended its third Day wednesday. The magistrates were relieved of court duty june 18 pending the outcome of the in Quiry. Magistrate Bannon re signed monday saying he had been indiscreet in jus Deal nos with Alexander a client when he Practised Law before his appointment to the Bench. Crown counsel Frank Calla Jhan also v i d e n c e wednesday to show magistrate 3annon influenced the setting of ail for Alexander on a charge f breaking and entering Laid Way 15. A police wiretap indicated Al Xander called his wife to get in ouch with magistrate Bannon shortly before his arrest. Aneth r had his wife telling her Moth r thai the Good Guy the Edge was handling the affair. Or. Ca Laghari said Magis rate Bannon asked mrs. Alexnder to meet him at his office he morning alexanders was to appear in court and a police of cer said she was observed in ering the office. 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