Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 20, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Another View by John Robertson the acrid Cigar smoke Hung in cumulus layers above the sweating foreheads of the Union and management representatives at genial motives corporation. The Union representatives were Adamant guaranteed minimum wage a four hour Day a 16-hour week double time for monday mornings and thursday afternoons a and fringe benefits which included signing privileges in All licenced bars and beverage rooms pension eligibility at full pay at age 35 and incentive bonuses to All those showing up for work. Management officials had just finished an in camera meeting in the executive washroom and president Mai Fearance stood up to announce their decision. Gentlemen after due consideration the Board of directors and All non Union supervisory personnel have decided that our Only alternative is to go out on strike against the at the mention of the word strike pandemonium erupted As several jut Jawed angry Union men bolted from their chairs and shouted and Shook their fists menacingly at or. Fearance. Shadaya mean who s Gonna run the it was our idea management Ain t got any strike genial motives is an essential a Public Ain t Goin to stand Fer shut the president smiled. Our Board has decided that it can no longer tolerate the capitalistic tyranny of you Money grubbing unionists. I have instructed our comptroller to open the vault split up what s left in the Treasury among us and we re All beating off to Hawaii. See you with that the president delegation began to file out of the room Only to have several unionists Rush to the door to Block their path. Yer can t do that just walk out and leave us Well make us an smiled the president As he leafed through an airline schedule. What Day you figure it the room was empty now except Lor the Union Bosses. We can t afford to strike said one. Think of what it will do to our profit sharing plan what la the gang at the country club say when our Bosses Start letting the air out of our tires and writing Nasty slogans in soap on our cars. How about our wives getting All those obscene phone Calls the hell with that. What about our company credit cards. And those Field trips our labourers have been taking to learn modern methods of working to maybe we can offer pm a a messenger was sent to the company president who was abets pests Mosquito population May Rise Lazy hazy Days of summer they re Busy at the recent heavy rain is threatening to add new strength to the mosquitoes sum Mer invasion of Winnipeg. A lot of water is lying in Fields and ditches around the City. And Peter Belski Field manager of metro s Mosquito abatement Branch believes that they Are becoming Breeding grounds for new generations of mosquitoes. From what we see this year there is a considerable amount More mosquitoes around the the outskirts of the City and this could cause quite a problem for districts on the fringe of or. Belski said Friday. But so far we have not had any increase in complaints from metro residents. In fact our program seems to be doing so Well that we Are getting people calling up to compliment the heavy rain or. Belski. Said is also hampering fogging operations in the City. We do a lot of our fogging on to water but if it Rains any Way the water just comes and washes our chemical away. Fogging into the air is aimed at the adult Mosquito so if we Don t get them at the time it does t really matter whether it Rains later or j or. Belski s department Only i concerns itself with the metro area. And since Small Rural municipalities Are unable to finance their own fogging lunch out of i Grams the area around the City u a u u is a Clear Breeding ground for a Brown paper bag. Arbitration had awarded the executive i mosquitoes. Dining room to the employees during the previous strike the president returned to the conference room grim lipped and Ashen faced. He glanced at his watch. He said. You have four hours to offer us a reasonable settlement. Otherwise we go out on but what does yer Guys easy. First we want our offices and secretaries Back. Then we want All employees to join Pur loss sharing plan Winnipeg free press which Means off last year s operational deficit each of you owes the company about but that s blackmail wait i m not through. We want to restore the right of our supervisors to Tell the employees what to do. We want the men who were phased out of jobs by machines 10 years ago but still kept on the payroll to drop around and say hello at least once a week. And we want to lower your pay scale until it matches that of our senior geez. A Guys won t like Well there s Only one other Way to Stop us from striking. You go out on strike and Well Call you in two out j we try to do a Little fogging outside metro in the Spring but once summer arrives we have to concentrate on the City. This Means that Large stretches right around the City Are for the most part uncontrolled and weather like we have been having can be the source of a lot of or. R. A. Brust head of the Mosquito research program at the University of Manitoba said Friday that this is the worst year since the record breaking summer of 1962 for Breeding areas on the outskirts of the City. These danger areas Are less than five Miles from the Centre of the City and we have evidence of millions of new mosquitoes being bred especially after the heavy rain a few weekends ago. By Carrier soc per week saturday july 20, 1968 authorized As 2nd class mail by the . Dtpt., Ottawa and for payment of postage in Cash. Wagon race highlights big m three months and see if we can t work something out. With no fogging or larvae collect from Hawaii Well Call control in the Rural districts the unionists borrowed the key to the executive Wash-1 this presents a very serious room and conferred for a full hour before a spokesman came problem especially in the sub out and. Said youse Guys have got us Over a barrel. We can t afford a strike we s already caught in a Cost profit squeeze. We gotta think of a company image. Call Inna press and Well give Emma the reporters rushed in and clustered around the Union Boss. Did you get what you wanted did you sock it to the Union Boss said. In fairness to a com Pany brass Here we won t announce details but let s just say Dat a Power of collective bargaining has won but again Over capitalist tyranny Osborne River 453-3223 Portage fir Simcoe 774-2471 614 St. James Street Polo Park 786-6191 weather report urls next door to the Breeding grounds. We Are hoping that the Peak adult population for this month will but be reached any Day now you never know what August will or. Brust said. Sunny becoming Cloudy this afternoon. Cloudy sunday b sorrow morning. Cooler sunday. Winds Southeast at 15 m Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami Minneapolis new Vork gallery show draws 600 inquiries the Winnipeg Art gallery has received More than 600 requests for information and entry forms for the Lith Winnipeg show oct. 30 to nov. 24. The deadline for entry form applications is july 31. Sponsored by the gallery s women s committee the show will be an exhibition and Sale of prints drawings and from artists through out the director of the new museum of contemporary Art in Chicago Jan Van Der Marck i will be the adjudicator. I by Gordon Arnold Morris Man. Staff controlled runaways is the Only Way to describe the thousands of pounds of thoroughbred horse flesh thundering around the half mile race track Here each night. Behind them they drag along huge Chuck wagons manoeuvred with a driving skill that Many of today s generation have never seen. The Chuck Wagon races Are taken from the pages of North America s Frontier history where skill with a four horse team was a life or death matter. Now it has been polished to a Fine Rodeo Art. But the crowd chilling element of excite ment is still there. This year the big m Stampede went Back an other years to the time of the roman gladiators to recreate the Ben Hur Chariot races. Racing four abreast the teams have been clocked at speeds up to 55 Miles an hour. Cliff a 20-year Veteran Wagon master who produces the stand show for the Stam Pede said in an interview Friday when the four horses make the turnaround to. Start there is no holding Back. But you have to be careful a sudden Stop at that Speed could throw a Man 50 or 60 feet with the or. Clagget of Cache Creek British Columbia was world Champion Pony Chuck Wagon Driver in 1963 and 1967 and is still driving to keep the title. Coming out of a figure eight Friday night his Chuck Wagon overturned but threw him Clear of the wreck As the horses con Jim Bareman of Blunt s.d., thrown against a Fence in the Saddle bronc class. Tinted to Gallop around the track. That particular heat appeared to be jinxed when a Day earlier one of the leading Pony Chuck Wagon teams was just at line when the left rear horse stumbled went under the Wagon and was dragged along for several feet. Or Clagget however after another unsuccessful race Friday night came Back to win the four abreast Chariot race. Wally Jasper who does the announcing i for the races pointed out in an interview that some of the top names and Drivers from the Calgary Stampede were Here and said that the nightly crowds of up to were seeing the second or third largest Rodeo in Canada. Or. Jasper who takes a Lively interest in All aspects of the Rodeo was anxious to Point out that the image of the Rodeo rider As a Brawl ing drinking rough. Tough individual was no longer applicable today. It might have been 10 or 20 years ago but not today. You could compare these boys with someone who plays hockey or not alone in Call for merger Vancouver 65 Calgary 76 Edmonton 67 Regina. 82 Brandon 83 the Pas. 72 Winnipeg fort William 74 Kenora 76 by Hubert Beyer in the sea of rising taxes due to increases in the Mill rate and reassessment of properties total amalgamation May have become the last Straw to which harassed greater Winnipeg tax payers can cling. Winnipeg mayor Steve Juba has often claimed that Winnipeg is the most Over governed City in Canada but until recently he has been a lonely voice in the i Lerness. Several facts illustrate mayor Juba s thesis within the metro boundaries there Are 13 mayors 13 police chiefs and 13 City or municipal engineers. The result is overlapping cer Tain municipalities get second or third rate service and taxes keep climbing. In Europe total amalgamation adopted Long ago and it seems strange that the new world should still cling to a system the old world abandoned Long ago. Has despite the protest from quite the amalgamation project had v mind you a lot of local a number of aldermen the always been the fact that older politicians Are frightened that local politicians at every Ontario provincial government people tend to look Back on their they will lose their jobs but level of government find it Nas suss ested amalgamation of City s history with a certain that s hardly the important increasingly difficult to in stiff the cities take place in 1970. Nostalgia. Mayor Laskin said. " i.1 t Haj la it la final r. Jutt j 1 i. it a feud Between the cities goes we can do a lot better than Back a Century and a half when we Are doing and i can t that fort William was a North West see How Winni Eggers Are put comes that tue company town and Forth Arthur Ting up with their 13 govern the fact that a City of Little More than half a million people has to support 13 local govern ments in addition to the Provin Cial and the Federal govern ments not to speak of metro. While a number of greater Winnipeg municipalities have started negotiations concerning r a possible merger the Provin Cial government stays quiet. The he Iii i will take place. Vince is going a Hudson s Bay company town Haye to a full a ii of t Ufa h Tyllere is Ronol for with and How Are they put tag up expensive the mayor they usually Don t complain said. Of course it s hard to get slim tar Law Mont Foj i Ruff except once a year when it mayor Saul comes to paying property taxes. And if i. The provincial govern voluntary agreement for such a St. John s by Bob Culbert summer school two words that unnerve Young people looking Forward to those Lazy hazy Days of Sunshine and fun. For most it is a second Chance at those few missed subjects a time for regret Over wasted hours and for rededication to study for others it is an Opportunity for new adventures in education for crash courses in subjects missed in a tight school curriculum. But for All it Means six weeks of giving up favorite summer pastimes including that popular one sleeping in to return to the classroom. Why do they do it Are they there because they want to or because they have been forced to is it a punishment or a helping hand Over a hurdle at St. Jphn s High school the largest summer school in the Winnipeg area is under Way. There something of a revolution has been taking place in summer school education. More than Junior and senior High school students from grades 7 to 12, Are attending the six week session at St. Johns run by the Winnipeg school division. Almost of them Are trying to make up deficiencies in certain subjects caused by examination failures course i transfers or school changes from outside the area. There is also a group of 175 above average students Tak ing non credit Merit courses aimed at helping them later on i in their education or solely i because of interest in particular i subjects. J and the school also has its j own Little United nations 160 Young people of seven different nationalities being introduced to the English language in preparation for the school term in the autumn. No one is compelled by the education authorities to attend summer school but students who have failed subjects May have to go Back to avoid repeating grades otters May be told that if they Don t Bone up on. Subjects they will be going into new territory at their own risk. Does t this tend to make the Young people resent the whole concept of summer school a. E. Nazarko the St. John s summer school principal who is in charge of the 64 teachers on the staff this year said i think that in recent years there has been a whole new attitude to summer school most of the students Are Here because they wanted not because parents or teachers forced or. Nazarko head of the English department at Gordon Bell High school thinks there Are three reasons Why there is a much More responsible attitude among summer school students. Firstly principals Are be coming More careful when it comes to recommending Stu dents for summer school. We re not getting kids who Don t want to be Here in the first place and in Many cases Are wasting their time. This can Only Lead to discontentment. Also new regulations this year providing a wider variety of diplomas Are proving an incentive for students wanting Ito remain in the course of their Choice. In some cases now there Are three classifications of Success instead of one and this stops some of them giving up Early on because they feel the Standard is too High. It is also Good to have file facilities like this where there is plenty of room and air conditioning. Put a Load of kids in a Small Stuffy room and they will soon get fed in the past a wrong Atti tude among students caused some bad discipline at summer school. Many Felt that if they were going to have to lose a Large chunk of their holidays they might As Well make a nuisance of themselves in the process. But they Are realizing now that they Are not being punished but Are being Given a second Chance to proceed and Are starting to be thankful for said or. Nazarko. I m not saying they like it any More but they Don t resent or Nazarko s comments were confirmed by some of the students. For instance one of them 16 year old Carl Capuchin 184 Matheson Avenue a St. John s student who missed his Grade 10 French and literature said i was going to study at Home at ment alone that could rectify the situation effectively. There Are other parts of _ even Aliue outspoken. Tie con to the province Means a med the Ontario rising taxes. That a study should be made of i of Winni Eggers complaining about1 he said amalgamation be demanded Canada which have enc Oun Ween the two cities would be tired similar problems Intner Mutual Benefit. Some past but they Are doing of his councillors he said were something about it. Stal very much opposed to the fort William population in t going to and port make any Tion will amalgamate. He said the main obstacle to decided this was the sensible Way. I had a Job lined up for the summer so-1 lost a bit amalgamation prospects. That total amalgamation they would Money on the Deal. Study was completed la St year probably get it. Politicians Are yeah sure my friends Are and total amalgamation was the supposed to act in the interest out enjoying themselves but top priority of the report. We can do a much better Job for the people if we Pool our resources and becom e one he said. Of the people but the Job is nobody forced us to come Here sometimes made a Little difficult j i reckon it s Worth it to have when the people Haven t got any interest according to mayor Juba. This second Chance and All the kids i know Here think the ;