Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 25, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday july 25, 1968 teacher contract predicted according to the 1967 salary schedule. The teachers requested arbitration in late May when deadlock was reached in negotiations Over four items the teachers requested be included in their agreement As working conditions. The school Board s negotiating finance committee Felt the items were management rights not eligible for inclusion. The committee finally reached tentative agreement to include one of the items but rejected the other three. A Compromise move by the teachers to have a clause included governing establishment of a continuing joint committee to study teacher function problems was also rejected the arbitration Board gave an interim report july 15, recommending inclusion of the four working condition items in the agreement but not the continuing committee clause. It then recessed until wednes Day to give the two parties an Opportunity to hold further discussions in a fresh attempt to reach agreement using the guidelines of the report. It was Learned wednesday that Basic agreement has been reached on All items under the present terms of reference of the arbitration Board As authorized by education minister George Johnson. However the school Board has now asked that the arbitration Board seek an Extension of the Terras in order to give a decision on re inclusion in this St. Vital stalled continued mayor Hardy said St. Vital in t definitely opposed to amalgamation and in to planning to oppose it if the Manitoba bound Aries commission recommends in favor. We re leaving the door he said. If someone can show us there is Mutual Aid to be gained Well look into it much More closely. At the moment however we re in favor of remaining As we he said the report presented to aldermen wednesday also showed on the basis of a study done in Halifax by Dalhousie University that municipal costs increase with the size of the municipal unit. This seems to throw out the one City mayor Hardy said. Continued year s teachers agreement of a clause initiated in agreement the clause covers Issue o payments for class 1 teachers taking regular univer sity courses to qualify them for class 2. The Board expended in payments last year but now contends it does not have the Legal authority to Issue them outside Legal opinion has recently declared the Board in error in its belief that authorization existed through a clause in the shortage of Cabinet suites continued most holdovers from the last Lester b. Pearson Cabinet will probably stay where they Are. Or. Macdonald himself is an exception. A parliamentary assist ant before he now is privy Council president As Well As House Leader and will need a three room suite. Another exception is the for Mer Justice minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau who has moved into the prime ministerial cubbyhole just a flight of stairs away from the Entrance to the commons chamber. When the existing suites Are All handed out and three Innis ers remain each extra minis or will get two rooms Side by Side and a door will be carved out of the Wall Between them. Simple. And the sergeant at arms David Currie pc will have the work done As soon As or. Macdonald lets him Enow where All the ministers Are going to be. In most cases the Ordinary my has no private office. His Secretary works in the same room with him. Senior opposition maps and parliamentary assistants to cab inet ministers do better. They Jave a sort of Sandwich a rang ement. Two of them take a Iree room suite in which their secretaries work in the Middle room. Party leaders and some for Mer Cabinet ministers in the opposition ranks occupy suites similar to those provided for the Cabinet. An of can bring his own Sec Petary to Ottawa but few do. Most secretaries Are selected from the House of commons staff. Correction k Mart dept. Store advertisement of wednesday july 24th, read master Cut 26" electric Lawn Mower should have read master Cut 20" electric Lawn Mower rely on us for Superior Cut color clarity and brilliance. Free Diamond insurance written guarantee and service warranty. Vej Diamond Oje Portage at Margrave est. 1912 open thursday and Friday till . Public schools act. Governing payment of Grants for Specia courses. Of. Or. Justice Dickson said we in la s Day the arbitration Board does not feel it can make a Legal decision on who holds the authority. But he said the Board s final decision will us the payments clause be included in the 1968 teachers agreement pending a court ruling on its Validity. The arbitration Board will apply for the ruling using statements from the school Board and the teachers As evidence. Leon Mitchell counsel for the teachers said wednesday the teachers want to avoid the extra tax Burden which result from court proceedings which he said could last two or three years. But he said the teachers would Appeal to the supreme court of Canada if necessary any court ruling invalidating the school Board s right to make the payments. The teachers were prepared to accept a binding decision of the arbitration Board without reference to court ruling a settlement t h r o u g h regular school Board teacher channels or a civil court ruling which would come if a teacher sued the school Board for non payment. Dollar Drain stopped by James Nelson Ottawa up the finance department believes it has plugged the last Hole by which the United states Dollar Drain might flow through Canada to other parts of the world. Finance minister Benson announced wednesday in a state ment a set of guidelines to be followed by insurance Trust and mortgage loan sales finance investment and Small loan Mutual funds pen Sion funds and the like. While asking for voluntary adherence the minister s announcement amounts to an order that those non Bank institutions should like the Banks ensure that they Are not being used As an escape from the . Restraints on . Dollar move ments abroad. The chartered Banks have been under such guidelines since May 3, and the finance department gets regular reports Erom them on their perform Ance. It is asking a couple of Hundred of the non Bank institutions to Start reporting in Sim Ilar fashion. The finance department does not know exactly How much Money is involved. Its statistics on the non Bank institutions Are limited that they Are not made Public because they May be inaccurate. In the Case of the chartered Banks they had net foreign As ets As of two weeks ago amounting to but us includes both . And Over seas accounts. Bank of Canada figures show that at the end of april the chartered Banks had . Dollar liabilities to foreign residents to Talling of which was for Continental Europe. But against these liabilities the Banks had . Dollar for eign assets totalling of which was on Continental european account. The figures for Continental Europe however include assets and liabilities of the Bank for International settlements and he european Coal and steel Community. These Are Multina ional organizations y governments not conducting he kind of operations against which the . Controls Are aimed. The Story of the Canadian guidelines dates from Jan. This year when president John son announced strict controls to Stop the flow of . Funds abroad and bring Home . Corporation profits from Over tax hurts to gain an exception from iese controls Ottawa promised Washington to ensure that Cana Dian financial institutions Are not used As an escape Hatch from them. The chartered Banks were the first to be covered. If they wished they could Transfer funds in hundreds of millions of dollars in a few hours. But they agreed not to do so. And the in Spector general of Banks along with the Bank of Canada had ways to Check their perform Ance. The Case of the non Bank fir Mancial institutions was More difficult. The finance department believes that Only a few of Triem Are engaged in International transactions. Of the 200 or so. Firms it will ask for reports it expects the continuing figure to be whittled Down to a handful of major concerns. Trains foreign pilots four norwegian air Force pilots have completed 14 months of Jet training in Canada. Montreal continued of so being lost in other parts of the province. Tie application of Quebec s eight per cent sales tax to e highest in North american to hotel Robins is almost unique giving other major Canadian cities a big Edge when it comes to convention booking. Or. Berger said for example convention requiring single rooms for four Days Likely winds up in cities like Toronto instead of in Montreal because of the room tax. He said the rooms renting at a Day have a charge of added to the Bill in Quebec. This amounts to in room tax convention organizers can save by holding the Confer ence outside this province. At the same time a City like Montreal loses in hotel room Revenue it loses the Esti mated convention Dele Gates would have spent during their visits. Provincial government is defeating its own. Added or. Berger a 41-year-old 2algarian who came East in 1945 to learn the hotel business. If it removed the tax on rooms it would encourage convention business to the province and gain much More from the sales taxes on most of the that would be spent by convention statistics compiled by an in dependent firm showed that be Ween last november and april Montreal hotel rooms were occupied at 49 per cent of Capac to while Toronto hotels were filled to 70 per cent of capacity. Conventions made the differ ence. People in the hotel Industry generally agree that most hotels cannot survive for Long if they operate at less than 60 per cent of capacity. Israel Algeria cautions Tel Aviv the israeli i government talked softly today about its hijacked Airliner despite growing abroad that retaliate with action against one of its Arab neighbors. Algeria where tie plane was land tuesday by three members of an Arab terrorist organization also seemed to be moving cautiously. The algerian Delegate to the United nations Tewfik Boua Toura told in undersecretary Geneil Ralph Bunche his government is still investigating the hijacking and has not decided what to do with. The Boeing 707 Jet its 10 Crew Mem Bers from Al at the israeli air line and the 12 israeli Passen Gers. The 23 non israeli passengers tuesday including two canadians. We have to give the Alge rians a an israeli government spokesman said. How passer Cairo renters Gamal Abdel Nasser said last night he would go to Russia in the next two Days for medical treatment. He was addressing the National Congress the Arab socialist Union. There was no need to go into details of his health trouble he added but it is something which caused pain and made it difficult to col. Nasser 50, said he had some health trouble during the past two months and during a visit to Russia this month he underwent medical tests. He was advised to remain there for two or three weeks to cure his condition which he described As not on his doctor s advice he gave up smoking two weeks ago. Long we Are prepared to wait nobody is Able to Sayi at this stage Israel in still trying not to take any Stern measures or teach a cd Fronta Tion on matters of prestige with the algerian said Aviezer sch Teluch assistant director of the foreign ministry in a broadcast but diplomats in London Felt an israeli act of reprisal against some Arab Egypt or inevitable Hanoi a pledges on Elf Paris special tons North Vietnam evaded clarification wednesday in the latest peace talks with american diplomats of its fundamental change of line in downgrading the National liberation front ambassador w. Averell har Riman asked the North vietnamese Point Blank whether the wording used in the North vietnamese foreign ministry s memorandum of july 17, which dropped All mention of the Elf from Hanoi s four Points correctly stated the views of their government. 4 if or. Harriman told them then the Way lies open to making Progress towards a peaceful settlement ? there was to direct or. Harriman told reporters when he left the three hour meeting. Even without making a direct reply the North vietnamese appeared to confirm the change by avoiding reverting to their previous insistence that any settlement in South Vietnam lad to be in accordance with lie political program of the e in any of the total of seven instances in which their official spokesman mentioned the Elf in briefing newsmen on the meeting. If the algerians Don t release the 22 israelis and the plane. An israeli spokesman said his country had not rated out measures which Witt make it impossible or impracticable to have anyone repeat such an in the past our blows have not been he added. The Arab group which did the hijacking the front for the liberation of Palestine said in a Cairo news conference the detained israelis would be released Only in Exchange for Arab commandos held in Israel the plane itself has become the property of a Palestine resistance a spokesman and has been named the liberation of pales v an israeli government spokes commenting on the Cairo statement said the israelis Are not in the hands of the palestinians but of the algerian there win be no Exchange on the basis of prisoners of War. We cannot regard the Passen Gers and Crew of a civilian air plane As prisoners of. an algerian government still gave no indication that it considered the captive israelis hos tages. R algerian foreign minister Abdel Aziz bout Flika said his government was not involved in lie hijacking directly or indirectly. Soar in set for aug. 4-11 there have been teach ins love ins sit ins and even eat ins. Now soar in. The red River association plans a Long soar in aug 4 to 11 for advanced members and students at its club site four Miles Southeast of Ste. Agathe Man. The club has three gliders and a Tow plane. There Are facilities for a Camp out at the club site. French classes in coqu1tlam, . Schools where engr ish is used As the language of instruction in other classes in he same grades. Or. Murphy said the Board will evaluate lie project during the four year period and mine How it is to be carried for 1 Ward beyond the Evel. The Ziess now you can mix your favourite1 and be pleasantly surprised. Mcguin Fiess White Canadian is fury aged in Oak casks distilled four times then triple filtered to give it its Superb smoothness and its unique clarity. 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