Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 8, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Labor Council cancels dance at Marlborough labor delegates tuesday at the Winnipeg and District labor Council to cancel a dinner and dance at the Marlborough hotel on a matter of the question was whether to hold the annual labor social in a non Union hotel or drop the idea. Harry Munro executive Secretary of the Council said the situation which had been debated fully at the previous Council meeting and was then consid ered by the executive meant either we re going to stand on our principle or we re on previous occasions the affair has been at the hotel fort Garry but this year there had been no available room there for the Council s several Hundred members and guests and the Marlborough had been selected instead. The banquet would have been in late March delegates at the november meeting had observed that while there was t another fully Union organized hotel in. Winnipeg and therefore no Choice the Council could hardly criticize use of non Union goods and unorganized businesses As it sometimes does and then patronize a hotel that in t consid ered properly organized. The Marlborough has Only the dispensers and waiting staffs in beverage rooms and the cocktail bar Union organized. The coun cil voted by a Large majority to support the executive s decision to abandon the Celebration which always follows the annual labor seminar which has not been can celled. James Taylor a Delegate will attend a conference on Industrial democracy at his own expense As the Council is not Able financially to Send a Dele Gate to Ottawa in january. There was some disapproval of this from a few delegates who argued the election of or. Tay Lor merely because he was enthusiastic arid willing to pay was a dangerous precedent though there was no reflection on or. Taylor s personal Initia Tive which was applauded. John Raines Council Secretary treasurer said Council should t allow anyone to go unless he was sent and paid for by coun cil. In other business Council Dis cussed a motion that did t pass but brought criticism on this sort of thing would t Hap pen in Canada. In 1958 at the National Canadian labor Congress convention in Winnipeg a Large Section of. The delegates led by members of United steelworkers of America booed John Diefenbaker then prime minister of Canada when he spoke to the meeting another Delegate Drew Atten Tion to an advertisement in the free press that called for a handicapped person who had labor Board approval As Eleva Tor operator for a month with a 40-hour work week. This would work out to 691a cents an hour the Delegate said. Council will look into the matter. Council voted to cancel its dec. 21 meeting due to the Date being too close to Christmas. Winnipeg free press Sseaver Canada Usa local evil seas moving phone re estimate t we wow Toi free estimate of brochure wednesday december 8, 1971 2nd class mail registration number 0286 Hullo Van jailed for to theft from meter a Man held on a charge of non capital murder was sentenced to six months in jail tuesday when he pleaded guilty in Winnipeg magistrate s court to a theft from a parking meter. Allan David Hipke 20, of 384 Flora Avenue was arrested around 4 . Oct. 22, along with a juvenile Selkirk Avenue and Salter Street and charged with theft of from a nearby parking meter. The body of John Robert Abraham 55, was found six hours later the same morn ing on the Banks of the red River Between gait and Alexander avenues. Or. Abraham who had been staying at the Salva Hostel 175 Logan Avenue had died from a severe beating. Hipke and a juvenile have in the death of or. Abraham. Several students from Norquay school took time out from their duties of making Santa Claus table centres at Beacon Hill Lodge to find a new interest Pool. Even though she s 90, mrs. Rose Henderson a resident at Beacon Hill fort Street and St. Mary Avenue gave the Grade 6 students some instruction in the finer Points of English billiards a completely different game from regular Pool. The table Centre making activity is one of the school s Christmas projects. They will be used to brighten the festive season for Many elderly people. St. A a sets conditions on land Deal american labor for insulting president Nixon at the recent annual Al Cio convention. Or. Nixon was treated with indifference and disrespect at the convention in Miami when he spoke to delegates and the Winnipeg delegates agreed that regardless of who the president As head of state he should have been respected. The delegates said they hoped Youthful Trio Rob grocery Winnipeg police Are searching for three men who robbed the Central Park grocery 381 Carl ton Street tuesday night. The three men aged Between 18 years and 20 years entered the store at . And one of the men struck the owner in the face and took a Small sum of Money police said. The men were approximately five feet 11 inches tall and were wearing Khaki jackets. Conoho Polar Start dn-600 fluid Quick engine starts in coldest weather Conoho dn-600 fluid lubricates at 65 dog. F 6. N. Andison equipment limited Winnipeg Tho Tipton Tiu Naff 6jr 774.1828 778-70c4 weather report by Frances b1dewell a motion that would have halted negotiations for million housing development strained tempers and prompted hotly denied accusations against Alderman j. Frank Johnston at a meeting tuesday of St James Assiniboia City Council. The motion introduced by Aid. Johnston and Defeated by a vote of 7 to 3, would have revoked the option on a 40-acre site granted nov. 16 to Lake View development Ltd., which plans a ,711-unit multiple unit housing development on City owned land bounded. By ness1 and Silver avenues Moray Street and Thompson drive. Council had voted 7 to 5 to accept the company s bid of on the property on the condition that a development agreement be signed Between the Developer and the City by dec. 30, 1971. Jack Levit president of Lake View development appeared before Council and charged that personal considerations entered into Aid Johnston s opposition to the development scheme. When my company devel oped the courts of St. James one of the gentlemen present would have liked to Supply materials. He did t and we have heard that we be been criticized because of or. Levit claimed. I at another time we were told the same Man wants to build a hotel on the Ness ave nue site. There is a conflict of inter ests Here and i wonder whether he has the right to enter into any discussions at he charged. Aid. Johnston visibly an gered denied that he had Ever mentioned products to the development company. The Alderman said he had been contacted recently by the company s lawyers offering him an option on a piece of land for a hotel on the 40-acre site which is to be developed Over a five year period. I told them i was not inter ested i m quite aware of the fac that people in Public life a subject to what we be heard to night i be never Hidde anything in my Aid. Johnston s objections t the development plan wer based on the fact that count As a whole had not fully Consic ered the scheme with schoo Board and metro officials an that the bid on the property which includes very very valuable commercial prop was too Low. Council had made the dec Sion to award the option despite the objections of councillor Dan rentals Man defends function Irh morning bulletin for tin pair it Amlyr actor wow in fact thin. A mow Prairie. Ink Ami will Atrit Iti motion. Tin pc Ifni by Gordon Arnold John e. Mason provincial rentals Man gave an activist defence of the non activist role of his office tuesday night or. Mason speaking to a meeting sponsored by the Winnipeg tenants association said people Are not looking for and do not want governments or any one else to take them by the hand and Lead them through any Given instead he said most people coming to his office want to know what their rights Are How they go about obtaining these rights and As a matter of last resort what remedies Are available for grievances. Or. Mason has received harsh criticism in past from the tenants association for the fail ure of his office to pursue actively a number of landlord tenant grievances. The scope of his office does not allow the Type of role that the tenants association some times wants him to play he said in outlining that role. J the role As defined by the the act Are not right the association should make representation to the government the rentals Man s office is not capable of dealing with Broad band accusations but with specific if a member of his staff has not dealt satisfactorily with a complaint the person complain ing should write to him or. Mason said and he will personally review the Case. And if the results still Are not satisfactory and the person does t feel the rentals Man or members of his staff Are doing their Job properly the citizen s complaint May then be taken to the ombudsman. A woman in the audience complained if a tenant has to do so much fighting with land lords we Don t need an office like yours. What Yoa have said and what the department has set oat to do Are two different or. Mason challenged the woman to list specific cases. If you think we Are Sot implementing our functions properly you Are insinuating there Are cent of the Calls his office receives every month Deal with landlord and tenant problems and of that number 221 were Active complaints during the month of november. The remainder were requests for in formation. One of the problems the of fice faces he said is Lack of Public awareness and interest for example he said people do not come to meetings like this until they Are already in woman injured in car crash a 50-year-old Winnipeg woman was reported in serious condition at the Misericordia Hospital following a one car a c i d e n t on Gertrude Avenue tuesday night Edna Connelly of 793 Ash Street was driving West on Gertrude Between Osborne and Nassau streets when she lost control of her car and it struck a tree police said. She suffered injuries to her face and Chest and possible internal injuries in the Accident her seven year old daughter Johanna who was a passenger in the car at the time suffered a broken leg in the mishap. She was listed in Good condition at the Misericordia. Back for 3rd term As Nofu president Mckenzie of the St. James Assiniboia Community committee coun. Mckenzie had asked tha the property be left for develop ment by the new greater Winnipeg Central Council once Cen trial City government takes of feet Jan. 1, 1972. Aid. Johnston also objected to the fact that the company development plan had mad several changes in a plan for development envisaged for the area by the City. He said he had never believed the parcel of land should have been sold to one Developer. Council also received a letter from the St. James Assiniboia school Board asking that five acre parcel of land be set aside on the 40-acre site for a possible future school. Or. Levit said after the meet ing that he was agreeable to setting aside the land. However he told Council that the 561 Gar Den Homes and 10-Storey, 150 suite apartment Block would i k e 1 y House Only about 300 school age children by the time he development is completed n five years time. Aid. George Minaker who opposed the development at coun cil s last meeting but was absent tuesday had estimated that 700 to 800 school children might live in the development Aid. W. J. Kay and Aid. Don Ald Macdonald voted in favor of Aid. Johnston s motion that the land not be sold to Lake View development Ltd. Council voted to request me Tro s Board of adjustment to postpone a hearing scheduled or dec. 20, to consider zoning adjustments to permit construct Ion of the multiple dwelling development planned for the Ite. Amending Aid. Johnston s original motion which called Pon Council to oppose the de Loper s application for zoning i t w t my. T allows others via my the rentals Man s office to re hints t ofic cases chive. Investigate and mediate j Hanges a. William Hallon quist suggested that the Board x asked to consider the application Only after the City and in Developer have signed a development agreement or. Levit replying to a ques Tion from Aid. David m. Gra president of the now defunct Kat Chewan was returned by i Ham told Council that his Corn Roy Atkinson challenged for the first time tuesday was it elected president of the National banners Union. His Only Opp Orrist was the an the Union s founding convention Here in 1969 and again at last year s convention. He declined the nomination both times and or. Atkines won by acclaim meeting to elect advisers a residents advisory group of Midland Community commit tee will Likely meet next week i to discuss a Date and procedure 1 for a meeting to elect citizen advisers to the area s four councillors. I councillor Robert Steen of a Westminster Ward told about 25 people at a meeting of residents from two of the area s four wards in Clifton school tuesday he will Call the steering com Mittee together next week. Ten residents from Polo Park and Sargent Park wards were named to the steering commit tee tuesday. They will join ten. Named monday from the Community committee s other two wards to plan the Community conference where citizen participation in local government affairs will be institutionalized. Some steering committee members volunteered and others were nominated by friends. Councillors Bill Mcgarva of Sargent Park and Geoff. Dixon of Polo Park and coun. Steen explained the City of Winnipeg act which established the new government to the residents and answered questions. Charles Thompson a member of the provincial government task Force on Community committees also answered questions about the role of the local bodies. The residents asked about 25 questions during the meeting which lasted about an hour and a half. The questions dealt mostly with the function of the citizen advisers and the Community committees and the commit tees Powers in relation to the Central Council. Ion s vice president Walter j Miller of Ontario a former Evelyn Potter of Biggar. Sas Ontario Farmers Union. I acclamation to a third one year forecast for of wow Biaett a t to Repetz _ num mtg. Fah Owma High hip Iuliu it storm year comr Low period a acid. 6 Art 15 far period far 24-Fconr Max. Van cower Brandon thirds say us 32 13 16 1 6 -5 -74 i 35 32 7s 6 -79 -t2 -14 -s7 -72 2sl is 3 3s 3si Jit Wjk _ j w my complaints. It also allows the i office to inform the Public and j this includes landlords As Well As tenants of their rights and allows the office to act As Arbi Trator in disputes with the con sent of both parties. I i m not Here to ten Yon Bow i it should be Bat Bow it or. Mason told the 15 people at tending the meeting at Robert son House. J arc not sheep they Are not cattle. They do not s rant to get something for Noth j i ing. The objective of our office i i is to generate a climate where i j peop3e can act themselves. J i if Yon wanted the Golem Tenai to intervene in every Sofia i action. Brach would Yoa be j Wiuf Fig pay in taxes. If we were to be at Kivist a Eaife of the 4 Calls a we flaw Jassy do we would you like me to bring j Yon a list of the other com votes to or. Miller s 160. The woman asked. Or. Atkinson won by a More term president of the to two to one margin polling men s Wing of the Union. Stuart Affleck of Prince de of or who Jug Ward Island was re elected the Pany would agree to gradual 3 Hurt As car taxi hit one Man was reported in poor condition wednesday in Winnipeg general Hospital with broken neck suffered in an Accident shortly after Midnight which sent him and two other people to Hospital. He is Donald Collins 42, of 87 3agmar Street who was a Pas Enger in a cab belonging to Duffy s taxi. Winnipeg police said the taxi was eastbound of Mcdermot Avenue when it was n collision with a car at Isabel treet. Police said taxi Driver nor Man l. Hansley 43, of 627 due Erin Avenue is in fairly Good condition in Hospital with injuries suffered in the collision. His taxi was in collision with a orb bound car driven by Eorge Zelasney 48, of 374 Lora Avenue. Police said Lena Zelasney rho was in her husband s car s in fairly Good condition in Hospital with cuts to her fore head. Postmen get three Day Yule Holiday postmen will get a longer than usual Christmas Holiday this year with no letter Carrier service being available Christ Mas Day or on the monday and tuesday after Christmas. Deliveries will be made the the saturday before Christ Mas but for the monday after the Holiday there will be no de livery or wicket service. Wic Ket service will be provided on there vice chapter and Jerse and 111, Saskatoon it is the third i Union s Junior president Deal with or. Mason re cons Cothre time he to positions of plea angry. Decked to the National president women s vice development Mason said that it per Fann for a j or e s i d in t and Junior vice one year term. President were to be filled Carol sheets reprinted us free press Christ Mas Carol song sheets Are pro ring so popular this year that the first 20.000 copies ran oct a week ago. Options on the land As it is de-1 the tuesday although eloped. Will be no deliveries. But he warned if there Are no Post office services will be any More delays i am afraid j provided on new year s Day the City of St James Assiniboia j and there will be no delivery or will be losing a magnificent wicket services on monday Jan. Have been printed. Those wife org copies Cha sects by at fee cute ;