Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 12, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday june 12, 1969 smuggling impedes mexican Industry by Francis Kent Mexico City special deviating Only slightly from the flight plan he filed before taking off the Pilot touches Down at a Clandestine Airstrip unloads his cargo and within min utes is airborne again headed casually toward his Legal destination. Another shipment of con Traband smuggled goods has been delivered with out interference from the authorities. How Many times a Day this routine is acted out in Mexico no one knows but the number of secret Landing places is estimated officially at or More. The value of merchandise brought into Mexico illegally without payment of customs duties is calculated at More than million a year. This is almost a third of the amount that Mexico s Federal government budgeted last year for Public education. What this illicit traffic Means to Mexico and its Economy was further under scored Here recently by. A spokesman for the National chamber of clothing manufacturers. Elimination of smuggling in his Field alone the spokesman said would result in new jobs for mexicans in the garment Industry. Moreover clothing is regarded As a minor item on the contraband list. Of More importance in volume and value Are electrical appliances radio and television sets tools Auto parts and accessories tobacco pro ducts and liquor. All this merchandise is not flown in although the airborne smuggler has be come increasingly Active in recent years. Much of it is brought ashore from boats lying offshore or simply hauled across the International Border in cars or trucks. With about Miles of seacoast and More than Miles of Frontier with the . Southwest Mexico would need a second army to guard its Borders against smugglers. The problem is not peculiarly mexican. Indeed smuggling is a Way of life in much of latin America. Not Long ago Peru was rocked by a Public scandal involving officers High in the armed forces. Much of the paraguayan army s Leader ship threatened open rebel Winnipeg Supply a hardware and building materials specialist miss Jean Brygider you need hardware or building materials for any project around your Home visit the building materials Centre arid get fast expert service from our special representative Jean Brygider. She has 18 years of taper ence and can give you the advice and assistance you need no matter what the Job. Visit the building materials Cen tre for All of your building needs and get personal at Tention from specialists lion when president Alfredo Stroessner ordered a crack Down on los contraband is at the highest Levels Mexico is moving vigorously to discourage the costly traffic in illegal goods. The supreme court re Dently upheld a lower court s conviction for simple Possession of imported Mer Chandise on which duties had not been the defendant argued that the merchandise valued at consisted solely of gifts from a relative abroad and that they were not intended to be resold. But the six year prison sentence was sustained. At Monterrey a current Campaign to halt the illegal importation of foreign made autos resulted in the seizure of 80. Vehicles in just two Days. But economists and sociologists believe that smug gling will continue Here As Long As Mexico remains a relatively undeveloped coun try. The economists contend that the smugglers will enjoy a seller s Market until mexican Industry reaches the Point where it can compete with the More developed countries in Cost and Quality. In other words Why buy a made in Mexico to set when the smuggler can provide one from abroad that is both better and cheaper Industrial studies urged the Manitoba government called today for concentration of research in Fields which will yield maximum results in Industrial Canada does not have the resources of Money or personnel to do work in All the provincial government said in a Brief presented in Ottawa to the Senate special committee on science policy. Copies of the Brief were made available in Advance. It said the Federal government should create centres of excl Lence for research programs to consolidate research and e m p h a s i z e regional development. Although the Brief stressed the importance of research oriented to Large and Small industries it recognized scientific and research activities that May not necessarily have immediate and direct Industrial implications. Such activities can Lead to Industrial spin off in the Ling run. Canada lags far behind the United states in the innovative the Brief said Sug Gesting research carried out at the Point of production in premiers St at Odds far the provinces should be Able to go in controlling the Federal Power to take from the Rich and give to the poor through various Grants and programs. Provincial premiers generally agreed discussion was amiable. Several applauded the meet ing s privacy in contrast to televised sessions held last february and a year earlier. Labor s Lewis Dies Washington a John l. Lewis the unsmiling Bushy bowed labor Leader who defied j presidents and the titans of Industry to better the of of Amer Ica s working men is dead. Sec picture on Page 27 the 89-year-old former Leader of Coal miners and found dog s death leads police to Rifle Harry Phillip Reimer 19, of 92 later Avenue St. Vital was sentenced to four months in if wednesday for Possession of i sawed off Rifle. He pleaded guilty to the charge in provincial Magis trate s court Here before Magis trate John j. Enns. Court was told that May 23, St. Vital police went to r e i m e r s Home to investigate the shooting of a neigh Bor s dog that Day. They had found a .22 Rifle with the barrel sawed off to eight inches. Reimer had admitted he owned it. Court was told he informed pol be he had fired a shot from the gun into Bushes near his House and that unknown to him it had hit and killed the neighbor s dog. Reimer has an extensive record of juvenile delinquency court was told. The Winnipeg Supply fuel co. Ltd. Building materials Centre Portage Avenue lust West of Polo Park phone 775-0211 censor critics Brasilia a brazilian editors got orders sunday to screen out any stories that might have an Adverse effect on the june 16 visit of gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller whose latin american tour has been plagued by violence. Government Cen sors told editors to tone Down both Domestic and foreign news dealing with labor strife Stu Dent disorders and subversive activities. Correction the Price of eggs in Safeway s june 1 us advertise ment were incorrect. Should have read breakfast gems Canada Grade a 7 medium size by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff Prem Ier Walter Weir said some Progress was made at the first session of the three Day closed Federal provincial conference. We made some solid Progress in some aspects of the talks. In other areas we agreed to he said with a smile wiping his forehead As he relaxed with his colleague in his chateau Laurier hotel room after the first Day s meet ing. Ottawa is experiencing 80 degrees temperature with High humidity. Sweltering in humid atmosphere of the Ottawa Valley the Western delegates spoke Longly of the cooler dry air of the Prairies. The forecast from Winnipeg tonight is for said attorney general Ster Ling Lyon. I d like that better than this muttered or. Weir. He refused to comment on the Day s discussions. I m one Premier in particular that has to keep quiet. If i talked even for Back ground purposes and not for attribution i d be suspect immediately facing a provincial election As i he said. Other sources said the first formula presented to the provinces by Ottawa was not Well received. A second formula met with a much better reception. But Western premiers when asked to confirm this in formation which came from an Eastern Premier declined comment. You got the Agenda. There was lots of meat in that for the press Premier Weir said with a Grin. Meaty like a remarked one reporter. Asked if he could detail the Federal government s proposals or. Weir said you d better ask the prime minister for that information after All they Are his that was More than Premier John Robarts of Ontario would admit at end of the first Day. Asked about the Ottawa proposals he replied proposals what other premiers had acknowledged that the Federal government made certain propositions. On some we made some Progress on others the Progress was not so said the Manitoba Premier. Whew what then As an after thought but i guess we can t expect there would be no hot air around this City not after what we heard asked if Manitoba would stand to get More Money from Ottawa under the proposals he said., sorry no then half apologetically he explained i can t say anything. We Are All keep ing quiet. This is a working session and we Hope to get something Bedson Manitoba Cabinet Secretary interjected that if the Federal government could spend million on the National arts Centre in Ottawa it should be Able to provide More Money for the provinces. Yes we re supposed to go to a reception in that Centre As the guests of the government. I m looking Forward to seeing inside it to see where the said the Premier. The conference sessions Are being held in the old disused Union railway Sta Tion across from the Chat eau Laurier hotel where the delegates Are housed. It is a far cry from the Swank chandelier illuminated confederation room in the West Block on parliament Hill where the first two open to the press constitutional conferences were held. The Union station is due for demolition soon. Guess they be got us in there to try and emphasize that Ottawa is hard or. Weir chuckled. At the close of the wednesday Sesions the delegates Dis covered that the rickety old elevator had broken Down. It would go up but not Down. Just like suggested or. Bedson. Or of the Cio died wednesday night at doctors Hospital where he had been admitted sunday night suffering from internal bleeding. In his time Lewis put a spark of Light in the Coal Black future of thousands of miners in the soot grim company towns and Backwoods hollows. The unsmiling labor giant with the Leonine head and Shoul Ders like feed sacks often was called a dictator. He was accused of stopping the United states in its tracks. He said the nation s Coal is stained with his last words to a five years organize the same language he used in leading the. United mine work ers Union and founding the Cio. Harry Bridges another controversial labor figure and Boss of the longshoremen s Union said about Lewis he wrote history in words deeds and action. I be never seen his equal yet and i to live Long enough to do Lewis could be mean. As a youth in the mines he was kicked by a mule. He brained the mule with a the wooden break lever of a Coal car. In 1935, he floored an Al Leader at a Union convention with one punch. But the Leader of the United mine workers for 40 years and moving Force in the drive to organize the country s unskilled workers could also be eloquent and ironic. In 1949, he told a Senate com Mittee on mine safety that miners had been killed in the mines since 1930. To ram this Home a said if i had the Powers of a Mer j Lin i would March that million and a Quarter men past the Congress of the United the Quick and the dead i would have the ambulatory injured drag the dead after them trailing their bowels. I would have the concourse flanked by five weeping Mem Bers of each Man s family six and a Quarter million people waiting and when president Franklin Del Ano Roosevelt refused to sup port his bid to organize steel workers Lewis scowled might ily it ill behoves anyone who has supped at labor s table and who has been sheltered in la Bor s House to curse with equal Ferver both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly vice president John n. Gar Ner was a labor baiting poker playing whisky drinking evil old a labor proposal of president Truman was a foul smelling Lewis s contributions to labor were two fold. He fused scores of scattered ineffective miners locals around the . And Canada into a Phalanx under his leadership and dealt with miners woes and Hopes on an Industry wide basis. This led to their first pen Sions their own hospitals Quin Tuple wages and underground j travel pay the length of a mine corridor. He once said of his miners i am their agent. They pay my salary. They keep me in Good clothes. They buy me cigars. I work for them. I expect to but Lewis moved for Power throughout labor forming the Congress of Industrial organizations in 1935 and clashing direct with the Craft oriented Al. Canada Grade a Large size Doz. Doz. Sun habits Fairbanks the never sets for 147 clays Sun and never rises for 145 Days on Ellesmere Island near the North pole. Firemen overcome by smoke three firemen were released from Winnipeg general Hospital wednesday night after being treated for smoke inhalation resulting from a fire in a two Storey office building at 120 Mcphillips Street. 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