Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 4, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday March 4, w2 the labor scene Council stronger Force for unions by Dudley Magnus free press labor columnist March 9, 1971, i wrote a column in the free press business report that had a headline influential unions desert wan ing they still desert the Council. Meaning of course the Winnipeg and District labor coun cil but the Council does t seem to care any More below. Reprinted to Ither than labor Council. To speak on some Issue the regular anti press types deliver usually of a political or Semi who every two years or More lately boycotting the Council political nature so As to put the Council in a the press is always at coun subordinate place second to the cil meetings so if there s any. 4-1 i _. _ readers minds How i treated toe subject 12 months ago. The attempts every second year to throw out the press from Winnipeg labor Council meetings Are getting to be a Little Boring but what is worse the Council is becoming a weak spineless that brings up matters of importance to unions Hope it into the papers and on radio. Yet it in t the labor coun cil s fault it has become More or less a powerless group. Has always liked Public years Back it was very Strong. This is not something new this puppet show that Calls itself a representation of the greater Winnipeg it getting this Way. For several years even when Grant Mcle though user Les Ness of the Council Froni a labor View due fault of the reason for the waning influence of the Council desertion years by Many officials influential unions who federation. The federation was formed As a Canadian labor Congress affiliate in 1955. Before that the labor Council was a political How much of this holds True today Well the Ting continues As far As can see it but the Council As a to 1 i t i c a 1 Force is becoming stronger. With continued Cool handling it could regain its Trade Union splendor of past years Harvey n. M. Patterson last month re elected president of the Council by acclamation is riot one of the old time Union years he s of thing newsy going on it will be if there s a Chance of starting up debate then there s an even better Chance of a Good news Story getting into the papers. M Uil Irain collision kills three Oie Middle aged group. But or. Lne in the in Olstadt Statton Patterson a truck Driver and. A thursday night killing see a persons and afterwards the Sta nonsense yet quiet unassuming Tio master threw himself i manner that takes him a. Long front. Of. M6vmg train and Way with delegates. Died police in this West Ger i Law Al a Juijung j not that the president before Man City said him was t Apelin to Dele have elected him u1 Crasner la 11. Into another one that was Eit Liei is for the Best As far As Council influential unions to pfc Lor caught fire. John his Ein catapulted into unions who time to be Lief is they. Prefer to bolster ithe federation of labor tiie Council wanted to. Body 50 was found on i i a f j of cow w do 4.uui1u us . Man from tit to n time to time comes to. Who every two years or More or less make an Effort to have the press barred knowing full Well As they do it that they won t succeed but at least they la get their names in the paper seem nowadays to be lying Low. Or been More than Frank about the press. He appreciates that even if he and delegates Don t like some of the things printed and see none of the propaganda they want to be publish e d going into the papers it is still better to have the press present than not at All. Perhaps it is the. Growing need of new. Democratic party unionists to have a Good Bash at the press for Polit ical reasons that is what has silenced the Crew who want to condemn the papers. This would be in my guessing be c a e or. While making it Clear to everyone he does t want foolish publicity seeking attempts to throw the press out on the other hand if delegates have some sort of Concrete complaint they should come to him and the executive and then Hack it tout so that a. Plan of Campaign May be pre pared. In fact Don t use coun cil As none of this suddenly rising up in Council for example and then starting something which debate Ahvay fizzles out with an overwhelming vote to keep the press at coun cil i think has also made it Clear to delegates that of they want to sea pc with out uie press present they can i ways hold a regular Rivard Geoffroy parallel sought Ottawa up a famous 1965 election Campaign line went like this it was on a night like this that Rivard went out to water the former conservative Leader John Diefenbaker would use the line on particularly warm nights to describe How narcotics smuggler Lucien Rivard escaped prison earlier that year with the help of a Garden Hose. Rivard told a guard he was going to flood the prison rink. The temperature at the time was 40 degrees eight above freezing. When or. Dle Rennaker neglected to Tell the Story at Campaign rallies crowds would sometimes plead with him to. Repeat it. Conservative Leader Robert Stanfield s staff now is trying to come up with an equally Good line to fit the Geoffrey Case. That staff provides Many of the Bon Mots in Stanfield speeches although he is to Slouch himself at wit1. Convicted wife strangled Yves Geoffroy was Given a 50-hour leave from prison be ginning Christmas eve to mistress. The Cou pie then vanished Geoffroy using a forged passport. Considered and rejected by or. Stanfield s of fice was they would h Aye let. Boston strangled to do a Little necking.-., an aide said this was a Gru Essihe for general use. British maps have just received a salary annually. A Canadian. My gets e x e allowances for British maps were raised to or a year. A Ca Nadian my prime minister Trudeau has for incident in the commons in 1969 when he did not recognise Ray Perrault now parliamentary Secretary notes club sketchers Are into the third week of completing por traits of All the members for permanent display on the club premises. At the meeting feb. 24, mar Nie. Chivers completed an at Tractive sketch1 of Lily Hobbs. has been a club member or 20 years and Secretary for 4 years. The club awarded her a life membership in october 970. Marmie also presented the club with a Choice of sketches she had done of George Pratt Pratt became a life member of the Csc in 1958 and has been a1 member for 42 years. On feb. 29, 16 in attendance. Ann Neufeld was Busy capturing a likeness of. Bat Wheeler club president. Lynda Huebert was sketching Maude Brown and de Johnison who excels in the pastel medi Usiri added a c resp line Here and there to enhance a Fine portrait he was. Hugh Mcvarish vice president of the club j j. Vanwynsberg to manpower minister Bryce Mackasey. Or. Perrault then a fresh Man my got up to ask a question and or. Trudeau asked a colleague in a loud aside who the hell is the other Day or. Trudeau said or. Perrault my for Burnaby Seymour is doing a very Able Job replacing or. Mackasey absent with a bad Back. 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