Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 13, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnick Fuei Nitiss saturday May is 1972 Bourassa shuffles Cabinet continued Csc French and English journalists started a 24-hour sympathy walkout at 6 . Friday terminating All Csc radio and television news broadcasts from Quebec Points. All Montreal newspapers were prevented from publishing Friday by walkouts and threats. Two Quebec City newspapers Are not publishing today be cause of walkouts. Montrealle Devoir and the Gazette published today and the other Mon Treal papers were also expected to do so. In an interview on Toronto radio station curb prime minister Trudeau said the Situa Tion is not As serious As some believe. Premier Bourassa described it As a difficult he said the population is massively behind his government Many walkouts have been caused by Goon squads intimidating other workers. His social affairs minister Claude Castonguay announced thursday he was not resigning As had been speculated principally because of the crisis we Are living in an Ottawa interview Don Ald Macdonald president of the Canadian labor Congress said the situation is tantamount to David Lewis Leader of the Federal new democratic party said the Savage stupid and anti social jail sentences Are responsible in major part for the difficult situation that one now sees in Louis Laberge president of the Quebec federation of labor Marcel Pepin president of the confederation of National Trade unions and Yvon Char Bonneau president of the que Bec teachers corp., were sentenced for contempt of court after urging workers to ignore injunctions ordering maintenance of essential Hospital ser vices during last month s strike. Construction Sites mines fac tories schools and hospitals have been closed across the province by the protests. suburban teachers Union claimed to be holding three Union officials with their consent and promised to reveal the reasons today. The three were Michel Char Trand president of the Cantu Montreal Central Council and Marcel Perreault president of the a Al Montreal labor Council supporters of the pro tests Robert Chagnon head of a teachers Union which has refused to join the Public service common front. Earlier an official of or. Chagnon s Union claimed they had been told he was kid napped. Also in Montreal today Blue Collar workers on strike for a new contract and in sup port of the jailed leaders were to vote on new contract offers from the City. Other developments Friday included minister Edgar j. Benson said no discus Sions had taken place Between the Quebec government and any Federal minister on the cur rent situation. He told a com Mons questioner any employ ment of troops in such a Situa Tion would require a request from the province. Northern sept lies the first death linked to the pro tests was 22-year old Man who died overnight in Hospital. He was one of 35 per sons injured wednesday when a car slammed into a crowd out Side a courthouse during huge demonstrations eventually Bro Ken up by police. At baie Comeau and Hauterive neighbouring communities 100 Miles Southwest of sept lies unions claimed a general strike. A metals Plant was firebombed Early Friday and workers at a paper Mill in baie Comeau walked out. Miners and teachers Are off in areas throughout the North Shore District and numerous schools Are closed. . Rail shutdown ordered continued but another government source said the general feeling among most conservative ministers is that the unions have to realize we mean business in the very same Way that they mean London sub ways will not be affected by the slowdown or the suspension. Meanwhile the Iri Austria court is dealing with a govern ment Appeal for a compulsory vote among the Rai workers to determine membership feeling on the lates pay offer. If the court Grants the re quest it would mean that the unions would have to return t full working conditions until the voting was completed. Thi would take up to two weeks. Both the unions and govern ment have agreed on an Over All annual wage increase of j2v4 per cent with a guaranteed weekly salary of East Central actions were reported Friday rom Gaspe communities and he new Brunswick Border area All the Way South to the East townships and communities Outh of Montreal. In Quebec City Laval univer Ity was declared officially Ipen after earlier walkouts of eachers but the end of the Aca Lemic year left the Campus Vir rally vacant. Two arrests were reported after a demonstration outside a Ospital in the provincial Capi Al. More construction workers joined the walkout Friday. The Union claimed a general Trike at Thetford mines 50 Miles South of Quebec City and ther action affecting schools hospitals and other Public ser ices As Well As private Busi Ess. At St. Georges de Beauce Outh of Quebec City radio Sta Lon curb was occupied Friday afternoon. About workers left jobs it the Davie shipbuilding co. In a u z o a across the St. Awrence River from Quebec Ity. In Sherbrooke unions said 300 workers demonstrated in front the courthouse demanding hey be taken prisoner like Weir leaders. Thousand Lue Collar employees of the Ity went on strike Friday morning two Days after expiry f an 80-Day injunction that need a five Day walkout in february. They collect Gar age clean streets and look after Parks among other ser ices. Unions claimed in a bulletin lat protest action had hit More Ion a dozen Montreal area hos Italy two universities a Junior ollege and Dock workers. Police reported a firebombing a school and a bomb threat n a suburb. Demonstrators r i e d unsuccessfully to get White Collar workers at City Ransit garages to join their walkout. About 500 persons Demon rated outside a courthouse be Ore it and another in the City were closed and All cases put ver to monday. Postal workers walked out Friday saying they were going or a Coffee break and would be ack today. Some stevedores walked off he Job Friday and the car Aid off freight handlers for afternoon. Western Ste. Therese two Miles North of Montreal there was a minor disruption on the Assembly line f a general Canada Ltd. Plant when some members f the United Auto workers Union walked out. A truck manufacturing Plant in the ame Community was shut own by a Law walkout. In the Hull area across the Ontario Quebec Border from of Awa police said nails had been Pread Over two Miles of High Way 11, causing a few Fiat tires before they were cleared away. In the Rouyn Norada area 40 per cent of the teachers were reported on strike and most schools closed. Three mines were shut Down at Normetal a Duffault and Chibougamau and three sawmills were closed at Amos. The Road from Rouyn Noranda across the Ontario Border to Kirkland Lake was blocked for time by 300 persons using burning tires and Trees to halt Raffic. Three Federal Cabinet ministers present a United front at her new Canadian Grain commission building Friday. They Are left to right agriculture minister h. A. Bud Olson Supply minister Jim Richardson and Public works minister j. E. Dube posing with the ceremonial trowels from the official Cornerstone laying. The 17-Storey building a at main Street and water Avenue. New Grain building gets Cornerstone from 3 ministers the million Canadian Grain commission building received its Cornerstone from three Federal Cabinet ministers Friday morning in a Brief Cere Mony. Public works minister j. E. Dube agriculture minister h. A. Bud Olson and Supply min ister James Richardson combined forces for the placing of the Tynda Stone Cornerstone. The 17-Storey building located on Maui Street Between water and Pioneer avenues one Block South of the Richardson was dubbed form following function by or. Dube for the dual role it will serve. Or. Dube explained that the specific requirements of the Ca Nadian Grain commission Call for the functioning of a Labora tory and office within a single building. The laboratories occupy the upper floors a separate Seg ment handles the mechanical functions and the lower floors provide office space. Designed by Smith Carter Parkin of Winnipeg the build ing with a total area of Square feet will offer Commer Cial space on the ground floor and a cafeteria on the lower level. Or. Dube said every consideration has been taken into account in situating the building at this site. We have attempted to harmonize with the surround Ings and to project the latest concepts of Urban design with a View to highlighting the importance of Winnipeg s famous Portage and Tyndal Limestone has been used to face the build ing. Winnipeg mayor Steve Juba who along with Manitoba pub Lic works minister Russ Doern made up the official party explained How the building will fit into the downtown redevelop ment scheme. Or. Olson said the new build ing is yet another indication of the value and the importance the Grain Industry will continue to play in the Western econ with the. Grain commission s Headquarters in Winnipeg the government is Able to Deal directly with the Grain Industry on a daily basis working in Harmony with the people in v o 1 v e d to maintain present markets and develop new ones and to work toward our com Mon Aims of More customer acceptance and increased sales thereby resulting in increased returns to the or. Richardson said the new building represents another of the Federal governments Steps to decentralization of its operations. The government he added will place a fair share of National expenditure in Manitoba ethnic thrill Trudeau by Norman Graham 6rimsby, ont. Up prime minister Trudeau Friday praised a group of polish canadians for singing o Canada in French. It was one of the most mov ing things that Ever happened to he said when he spoke at the opening of place Polon aise a Centre for canadians of polish ancestry built by the polish Alliance of Canada in this Lakeshore Community 20 Miles East of Hamilton. He told his audience it was wonderful that you people who already master two languages should show respect for the symbols of French Canada. Their action showed a willingness to accept the More difficult aspect of being Canad which he said some other canadians have trouble accept ing. The choir also Sang 0 Canada in English Well As the National Anthem of Poland. Or. Trudeau said Canada s Multi cultural p o 1 y permits people to carry on the Best Tea. Lotions they bring from their native land and this makes Canada a better nation. The prime minister visited Hamilton earlier Friday on the final Day of a two Day meet the eople tour. He was in Toronto thursday and flew Back to Ottawa Friday night. He told a group of Hamil ton area liberals at a person reception they May be among the last people who have the privilege of giving Money to a political party with out being Able to declare it As a tax he was referring to his announcement thursday that the government will introduce a Bill o limit election Campaign expenditures. Or. Trudeau also spent 20 minutes at the Hamilton press 31ub where he was Given an honorary membership. St. Louis not until Stan Musial piled up 429 total bases in 1948 had a major leaguer exceeded the 400 Mark. With Bright new colors typical of its birth 90 years ago old engine no. 3 chugs out of the Canadian National railways Transcona shops Friday on its Way to link up with other units of the Prairie dog Central railway. The train oper ated by the Vintage locomotive society inc., begins its summer excursions june 4. Shown Here putting the finishing touches on the old steam engine Are left to right fireman Wilf Hendrickson brakeman Doug Loudon and Engineer Ralph Grant. Les Benjamin nip Regina Lake Centre wanted to know whether the Bill had taken note f recommendations made on he subject by a special Par alimentary committee. The Saskatchewan rally wanted to know if it would Force political parties and candidates to disclose the names of persons companies or of animations which donated funds. Or. Laing was t about to Tell in. He said he thought or. Ben Amin would want to be kept in a state of anticipation until he Bill was printed. Or. Baldwin interjected to a that or. Trudeau had Given some details about the Hill to Why could t or. Laing former prime minister John Diefenbaker said or. Trudeau s disclosure of the planned legis action outside the commons was a contempt of parliament. He said the commons should have been told about it first. Defence minister Edgar Ben son shouted across the floor that when the pcs were i Power they did exactly the ame. Replied or. Diefenbaker it would not be contempt for the former minister of finance be cause he was used to doing that sort of urged Ottawa delegates at a National Steelworker Confer ence Here have voted in favor of splitting in half the present huge District 6 territory of the Union into East and West Divi Sions. The motion presented by Thompson man., local 6166 of the Union will mean starting up a new Western office instead of continuing with the present Loose knit situation covering steelworkers memberships from the West coast including the Northwest territories to the Quebec Ontario Border using Toronto As head quarters. No Western City has yet been named for the new of fice. The matter arose at the Ca Nadian policy conference of Thi United steelworkers of America Al Cio Csc which ended Here Friday night. Nick Evans president of the Thompson local said in an in Tervit late Friday after the conference that the move will mean appointing a new Directo and supporting administrative staff to cover the new Region which will extend from the Lake head to the West coast including the . Donald Macdonald presiden of the Canadian Labo Congress told the steelworkers meeting that at the Csc biennial convention to be held Here next week the country s economic situation will be the Mai topic for discussion. Unofficial sources however claim that of equal if no greater importance at the Delegate gathering will be nationalism As it stands alongside internationalism in the Canad an labor movement. Govt. Taunted on Bill continued boat owners americans owned. Pleasure boats at the end of 1959 along with motors. Pm strike begins with lunch break by Norman Martlet St. Jerome que. Protest strikes which brought More than workers out in two Days in St. Jerome spread Fri Day to the big general motors of Canada Ltd. Plant at nearby Ste. Therese and it All began with a lunch break. At lunch time yesterday about 600 strikers from St. Jerome 45 Miles Northwest of Montreal drove unobtrusively Down the Laurentian autoroute to Ste. Therese and put up Small picket lines at the entrances to the pm factory. Inside there were no signs of life just a giant car Park full of pm products belonging to the workers and the Anonymous High walled buildings and smok ing chimneys. It did not look As though the St. Jerome group would have much effect where they were several Hundred Yards from their colleagues in Side. Then suddenly an hour later about 50 cars started heading out of the factory and the St. Jerome pickets cheered. Their strategy was going to work. The pm people Don t usually go out to a St Jerome Union official explained. They eat in the cafeteria but their leaders had t wanted to org Nize a strike officially. So they told us to put up some picket lines outside so they could t Cross them. They re coming out for they won t go at the Gates three members of the tiny police Force of Ste. Therese West stood by without i n. T e r f e r i n g As the pickets turned Back incoming staff and visitors. A pm Junior executive arrived and was stopped. No one goes in. There s no work he was told. By what he asked through the car window. By the authority of the workers of he was told. Move another car drove up and a minor argument started. One of the strikers turned and shouted to the picket Leader with a Grin it s All right. He does t speak he s but although the pickets were successful in blocking the entrances they were visibly re lie v e d when the first pm workers started streaming out even though they represented a Small proportion of the unionized men inside. I Don t know How Lone they la stay St Jerome Union official Yvon Leclerc said. We Are not fooling our selves. We Don t think there s Koine to be a Long illegal Gener Al strike. But it s symbolic. It s the first time it s happened this Way in Quebec. Someone in every family in the Region is being by mid afternoon yesterday the St Jerome pickets Wen no longer needed. Many pm workers were on strike but they had gathered in their old Union Hall in Ste. Therese to talk Over the strategy for bringing out their mow workers. The snowball was still rolling. The snowball strategy had been planned earlier yesterday in the hotel Lapointe in St Jerome the town s unofficial social Centre and also now its unofficial Union Headquarters. The three main Union bodies the confederation of National Trade unions the Quebec federation of labor and the Quebec teachers corp., All meet there to plan their efforts within the Region autonomy they have been Given. There s not exactly an official line of action but every one has been asked to organize whatever protest they can As Best they Cantu local president Pierre Mercil said. So far the teachers have been the least divided. In two Days of their members have struck closing All the primary schools and most of the second Ary schools around St Jerome. More than Public ser vants have also their numbers mounting with the same snowball effect As was used in Ste. Therese. One group comes out. They go and encourage the next there has been no need for coercion but everyone feels isolated and it helps to know that other groups Are coming out top. The free radio in Union hands now across the province also help a lot making the strikers in St. Jerome feel less Cut off. Rollow wic i we it Newt attend tin Fishers of men crusade May 14-21 of Mays i . Sunder 7 . Guett speaker. Rev. Morrison 5jmmnmwv Sofr int Reward for information and landside on Amul 21st 786-464 or 4524539 enjoy the quiet life in the Thirft an my up in Maplet. Shopping a Imp Golf Stirm and All hmm Fadl Ihm by Well planned bus routes. Just ii minutes from Down town Winni of and Only 45 to Manitoba s far away from City or Tsouros and your youngsters Havo a playground As big As All outdoors. 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