Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 2, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday March 2, 1972 Connelly prods Canada continued the business sign of a Butch-1 Pompeii was a carving of five or shop found in the ruins of hams. Jean Claude Killy of France former world ski Champion makes his movie debut in Snow Job which opens Friday for a one week engagement at the Capitol theatre. Skiing snowmobiles and Cable cars Are included in the action scenes centred around an Alpine Village. Canadian Nickel can compete easily Gilchrist Bubo Blower free press staff writer Thompson Man. As see it the Canadian Nickel Industry will be Able to compete with anything in the said. United steelworkers Union Northern Ontario supervisor Gib Gilchrist in an interview Here wednesday. Or. Gilchrist was in Thomp son attending a conference of steelworkers staff and local Union representatives from International Nickel company s operations in Sudbury port col borne and Here As Well As from the Hudson Bay mining and smelting company in flin Lonj and Snow Lake. And Sherrit Gordon mines Ltd at Lyn Lake and Leaf rapids Edge in the world s Nic Kel or. Gilchris said is that we have an established Industry and our or has More than one he said that the new Ore Bodie being opened up in new Gale Donia in the South Pacific have Good quantities of Nickel Ore but have no other valuable Metal Content. In the Long run or. Gilchrist feels that the world Market is big enough for All of How Ever to realize the Market s potential he will require a continued emphasis on research and on the production of an increasingly better Quality of Nio Kel. Or. Gilchrist s observations fit Well with Inco chairman Henry s. Wingate s prediction for 1972 in the company s Annu Al report made Public wednes Day. Or. Wingate expects an upturn in the . Economy to be followed after a lag by an upturn in the economies of other countries. This will increase the de Mand for Nickel. Consumption in 1972 is expected to be about 900 million this compares with 825 Mil lion pounds of Nickel in sluggish 1971 and 975 million pounds in booming 1970. Or. Wingate said that Inco enters 1972, a Leader More Cost conscious Enterprise better equipped than year to develop Supply and compete in the Nickel markets of the while sharing the Inco chair Man s optimism or. Gilchrist who represents some Inco employees said that he was equally convinced that As Well As being the top Nickel pro Ducer the Canadian Industry should also be paying the High est wages. This remark related closely to the two Day steelworkers Summit conference which or. Gilchrist was attending. Its aim was to provide an Opportunity for staff representatives and local Union leaders to review common problems and areas of concern prior to the opening of collective bargaining discus Sions on a new agreement with Inco s Ontario division on april 4. The expiry Date of the the system. The committee a met frequently and studied pro i Cedres of various other Compa Nies and unions and will spend All Day Friday with John Crispo director of the Industrial relations Institute Toronto. Agreements in principal for substantial changes have Al ready been agreed upon. Or Gilchrist said that the company . Policy of settling grievances where they occur in the this will mean giving front line supervisors the responsibility and authority to Deal with the various issues As they arise. Some supervisory staff have been series of training sessions to prepare them for the new approach. Test of All this or. Gilchrist said will be seen As the joint negotiating commit tees get together on april 4 to Start the three Day a week ses Sions which will continue till the end of May. Their Job will be to work out an agreement on All issues save finances in the new contract. Or. Gilchrist said that during the last negotiations this Point was not arrived at until the third month of the strike. From june 5 on Money mat ters will be the sole topic of negotiations. Or. Gilchrist spoke out strongly regarding Inco s handling of the layoffs at Sudbury. He said that he and the Union president Mickey Maguire were called in to a conference sever Al hours before the Layoff notices were handed out and were Fiven no Chance to participate n the procedure. After the first cutback in production last fall none of the hourly paid staff were Laid off because the com Pany arranged to take Over work that it had been contract no out to other companies. However since last july the work Force has gone Down rom to below in january 525 hourly paid men were Laid off. Some 7000-8000 Inco workers were eligible for a special five week paid Holiday which is Given to All employees every five years. The Union proposed that 500 men immediately take their five week Vaca Tion. This or. Gilchrist claimed would have meant that there would have been no Layoff necessary As during the five week period natural attrition would have reduced the work Force by this amount. This proposal went unheeded by the company although a smaller variation of it was put into effect in february. Or. Gilchrist said that he is impressed with the new approach the company is taking while negotiating a new con is sincere and the results can be fruitful but he is equally concerned that when the crunch came and men had to be Laid off there was a throwback to the old Tough attitude we be been up against in the a lot has been Learned from the last Trade unionist in Ura Lake set of negotiations during which j he has fade Boom this is one of the elements that goes into his optimistic View of Nickel s future. He said however that he there was a four month strike. A new approach to negotiations has been developed whereby teams of management and the Union have met to j that Gether twice annually to discuss the climate and problems of 1s ready for the operation. This continuous. G dialogue said or. Gilchrist one of the 20-member Union team who have held discussions with 12 management representatives has been fruitful. House Burns dog Dies one result has been the rewrite a of entire collective agreement translating it into Bosse wednesday night language which the Ordinary trans Oka police said worker or supervisor can understand without the help of a lawyer. A review of the entire grievance Ari arbitration pro Cec Fures i saw being worked oat by a committee. A Zint Bat co rates and Are Hawk Jedi by special own Ujj Ftp to leave the cleared 5. Re Jev to Jas or. Fire destroyed a Transcona tie alarm for the fire at 3z7 Melrose Avenne Cona was turned in at . The Osiier. Ann Robert escaped Fri shoot injury Bat a dog died from smoke Nihil a police ;