Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 20, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Fuff puss saturday May 20, 197z world labor body criticizes Quebec Quebec up the world confederation o f labor has lodged an International protest against the Quebec government because it appears certain fundamental liberties were Vio lated in recent labor disputes the group s Secretary general Jean Breck said Friday. Sent Here by the group representing 20 million workers in 22 countries to study the current dispute Between the Quebec government and about Public service employees or. Breck said the protest was lodged with the International labor organization in Geneva on the basis of available information. He said Quebec legislation ending an 11-Day Public service strike last month contravened the spirit of an International labor convention ratified by the Canadian government and he has asked the Federal govern ment if Quebec is in Accord with the convention. Meanwhile Justice minister Jerome Choquette threw cold water on Hopes that negotiations for a new contract might resume this weekend when he said Quebec s three top labor leaders will probably not be re leased from jail before tues Day. Widespread walkouts and demonstrations to protest the mailings were ended by a Union common front wednesday As an act of Good Faith towards resumption of talks. Or. Choquette told the que Bec National Assembly that officials of his department Are studying the requests from the three for release on temporary Day but it was unlikely the requests would Lead to their Freedom before tuesday. The common front of Public service unions made up of the must wait for tax confederation of National Trade unions the Quebec federation of labor and the Quebec teach ers corp., ordered an end to the n i n e d a y labor strife wednesday but specified that the presence of the three Lead ers at the bargaining table had to be guaranteed before talks could resume. Or. Choquette made it Clear Cantu president Marcel Pepin a Al president Louis Laberge and Yvon Charbonneau pres ident of the teachers Union would have to make the first step before their release would be considered. They took that step thursday night when they requested Day parole. Similar requests also were received on behalf of 33 lower ranking Union officials. Day parole under Quebec Law requires that the men re turn to nearby Orsainville jail each night. During the Public service strike last month emergency Back to work legislation adopted april 21, ordered the workers Back on the Job the next Day. The legislation included a provision to impose a two year contract if none is negotiated by june 1. Or. Breck said the Legisla Tion was in opposition to the spirit of the International labor convention ratified and signed by the Canadian government last month. He said he has asked the fed eral government whether que Bec agrees with the convention which specifies Freedom of Union association. Or. Breck said the protest was lodged in Geneva when it was Learned that three Union presidents had been jailed for contempt of court resulting from injunctions violated during the Public service strike the three presidents received one year sentences for coun Selling the violation of Back to work injunctions intended to provide maintenance of Essen tial services. Nixon visits Wallace Silver Spring my. A president Nixon visited Ala Bama gov. George Wallace in Hospital Friday and said after the 20-minute meeting Wal lace s morale was quite re later Wallace issued a state ment from his Hospital bed thanking alabamians for being with the governor s press Secre tary Billie Joe Camp acknowledged that the statement could be interpreted As a resumption of Wallace s presidential Campaign. Camp said Wallace has been Able to sit on a portable inclined cot away from his bed and for the first time Friday was fed food by Broth soup. Doctors said the governor is maintaining stable pulse and blood pressures. He was gunned Down late monday at a rally in Laurel my. One Bullet still is lodged in his spinal canal Para lying his legs. In the medical bulletin Doc tors said the paralysis of Wal lace s legs remained unchanged and that physical therapy was continuing. Therapists Are mov ing Wallace s legs to keep the Muscles in tone and the circulation going. Doctors said Wal lace s kidney function was nor Mal. Indian Folk Singer alanis Obomsawin meets some Winnipeg safety patrol members in her dressing room in the National arts Centre Friday before entertaining some of the children in Ottawa for a school patrol Jamboree. Flames destroy building on Selkirk a fire at . Saturday destroyed a one Storey Brick building housing the textile discount Centre 473 Selkirk Avenue. The building s contents were destroyed but there were no in juries. Continued therefore the changes pro posed by Winnipeg City Council in Mill rate figures Friday for commercial and parties will go into effect unless the province changes its formula. The City s budget asap proved by Council totals with being raised from . In 1971, the former municipalities and metro now in the new City spent City Council did t make any changes in the City s budget at a two hour meeting Friday. But the property owners of Winnipeg can expect a slightly lower tax rate than originally proposed As a result of Revi Sions made by the civic Board of commissioners and the civic executive policy committee to figures prepared by Community committees and civic depart ments. Original figures called for a civic tax rate of 40.329 Mills plus the Mill rate for education Al purposes. Increased Provin Cial government Grants and a reduction in expenditures helped reduce the figure to the 38.814 Mill tax rate approved by coun cil Friday. Council barely managed to at tract enough members to pass the bylaw to approve the tax rates. The City of Winnipeg act requires attendance of a two thirds majority of Council at least 34 members of the 50 member Council to pass the tax bylaw at one sitting. Only 36 members attended the Spe Cial meeting. Business ineligible for Aid property tax rates okayed Here Are the 1972 property tax. Rates approved by Winnipeg City Council Friday. Last year s comparable figures Are in the Mill rates Are based on a tax rate of 38.814 Mill for civic purposes. The total rates., vary because each of the school divisions in Winnipeg set separate rates. Residential commercial school division Mill rate mid rate Winnipeg. 74.394 73.151 97.354 St. James Assiniboia in St. . St. James Assiniboia in Charleswood 96.510 j7.9s Assiniboine South in Charleswood Assiniboine South in Tuxedo Assiniboine South in fort Garry St. Boniface. Norwood. 73.99 61.677 99.073 87.385 fort Garry St. Vital. 72.913 67.03 97.996 92.55 River East in the former City of e. Kildonan 69.227 71.4 94.310 96.61 River East in the former municipality of North Kildonan seven Oaks in the former City of w. Kildonan 70.516 60.88 95.599 77.1 seven Oaks in the former municipality of old Kildonan Transcona Springfield 64.188 64.33 s9.271 90.61 Seine River in the former municipality of. Fort Gan a 62.711 76.84 87.794 101 continued Premier Schryer said the province rejected As an unnecessary expense the idea of sending provincial cheques out to homeowners. The Money he said will be paid out to the various Community committees for application against the Mill rate in each Community. 80 per cent read paper new York More than eight out of 10 people in the 30 to-54 age bracket read a news paper on the average weekday a new Survey shows. And 72 per cent of those 15 to 20 years of age Are daily readers of news papers. Brazil Coffee Leader Washington according to . Department of Agricula lure forecasts Brazil will re main the world s top producer of Coffee in .1972 with a total of 23.6 million bags of .132 pounds following will be colom Bia with 7.3 million bags and the Ivory coast with 4 million. No it s not the Start of a new High Rise build ing. These Light standards were scattered Friday morning Over the Road when a truck carrying the standards under the train overpass on Higgins and Sutherland avenues did t make it. Traffic was held up for a time but there were no injuries. Democrats Bill California As decisive primary by George Lardner or. Gov. Wallace this year he said Washington special tons at the Detroit City Airport recently sen. Hubert h. Humphrey was asked what Impact a Wallace Victory in the Michigan primary would have on the democratic party. He said it would serve notice on the nation that the democrats Are in some trouble. It Means that we d have a great division in our sen. Humphrey it would appear was putting it mildly. With 17 of the nation s 24 Pri Maries out of the Way the Man with the most popular votes of any candidate for the presiden tial nomination Democrat or Republican lies paralysed in a Silver Spring md., Hospital the governor of Alabama George c. Wallace. Gov. Wallace has not Only w o n More democratic Pri Maries than any other con tender but according to nearly Complete but unofficial returns he has also collected nearly 3.3 million votes. By contrast sen. George s. Mcgovern the candidate with the biggest pocket of Delegate strength 362 for the demo cratic National convention in Miami Beach has the fewest popular votes to show for it. Returns from the states that offered a Chance to vote directly for an individual candidate showed Wallace Humphrey Mcgovern music despite that arithmetic politicians agree gov. Wallace has no Chance of winning the nomination. The contest looms at this Point As a Choice Between sen. Humphrey and sen. Mcgovern with the California Pri Mary june 6 being billed As decisive. Both candidates Are cer Tain to pass gov. Wallace who is not on the California ballot in total popular strength after the voting there. But so far neither of the front running senators has been Able to put together the kind of Broad constituency that the democrats need if they Are to defeat president Nixon in the fall despite a series of virtually uncontested lacklustre gop primaries the president has drawn votes More than any candidate except gov. Wallace. Meanwhile both sen. Humphrey and sen. Mcgovern have been trumpeting their capacity to win in november. Rarely has so much been made of so few votes. If neither can beat gov. Wallace in Maryland or Michigan some political observers wonder Jiow either of them can Hope to beat or. Thixon in the fall. Asked that question wednes Day Frank Lanckiewicz. Sen. Mcgovern s National political director quipped the pres ident is not nearly As attractive a candidate As gov. In a More serious vein he attributed the fragmentation of the democratic vote to the conflicting demands on the candidates energies the some times emotional issues involved such As busing and the multiplicity of candidates on the bal of in Many of the primaries Hus far. Or. Mankiewicz also took Ssue with the Afl-c10 theme that gov. Wallace s third party candidacy in 1968 Cost sen. Humphrey the election then organized labor has been Ham Mering at it steadily this year claiming that a vote for Wal acc is a vote for by that Standard the pros Dent would seem to be in sex cell Cut shape. J in dissent or. Mankiewicz said he Felt sen. Mcgovern would get More Wallace Voles n november than or. Nixon. That Wallace vote in was an anti establishment he maintained. Among democratic voters who decided to Send them a message by supporting sen. Mcgovern was the leading second Choice. Sen. Humphrey s Deputy Cam p a i g n manager James p. Telephone charges to go up by Bob Douglas Ottawa up Bell Canada has won a healthy rate in crease which will raise Basic monthly Telephone charges five per cent and boost other tariffs. The Canadian transport com Mission Friday granted Bell about 60 per cent of the total additional Revenue sought by the company. The rate increase would bring in million if in effect throughout 1972 while Bell asked for million. Immediate reaction came from Bell president r. C. Scrivener in Toronto who complained of the decision to Grant Bell million less than it sought. He said that while the amount awarded would allow Extension of direct dialling on the fringes of metropolitan areas it would not be enough for Many capital plans for 1972 and is clearly inadequate for 1973." the increase is Bell s third since 1969. The company obtained increases of million out of million requested in 1969 and million out of million sought in 1970. The new rate increases will take effect 10 Days after the company submits a detailed Tariff list to the commission. The list based on the decision probably will be submitted next week. The increases will apply to Bell territory in Ontario que Bec and pans of Labrador and the Northwest territories. Will visit China London Reuter foreign office minister Anthony Royle will go to China this month the first official visit to China by a British minister since the establishment of the chinese peo ple s Republic in 1948. Royle a parliamentary under Secretary specializing in asian affairs be in China from May 30 to june 8, the foreign office announced. Mike Maloney jr., also said he saw no cause for democratic alarm in the heavy vote that gov. Wallace has managed to Roll up. He said he Felt gov. Wal lace s strength especially in the 11-Way democratic race in Florida and what was essentially a three Man contest in Michi Gan stemmed above All from the controversy Over school busing. Although he conceded that Many of these votes might go to or. Nixon in the fall or. Maloney said in a phone inter View that the voters then will be. Far More inclined to make up their minds on pocketbook issues such As. Unemployment and inflation which now favor the sen. Humphrey has not been demonstrating the vote Power with the White under-40 Popula Tion that he used to or. Maloney said. But those voters he maintained Are just As worried about economic issues As they Are about busing. If the democratic candidate in november and i expect it to be sen. Humphrey can articulate to the White under-40 popu lation a greater sense of Leader ship to Deal with economic issues in an enduring Way hell be or. Maloney said. Tuesday s balloting in Michi Gan and Maryland however showed surprising slippages in several areas for both sen. Humphrey and sen. Mcgovern. According to a poll for the Detroit news sen. Mcgovern despite his reputation As the youth candidate lagged behind gov. Wallace among 18-to-24 year old voters. The Alabama governor won at least 41 per cent of the youth vote com pared to 37 per cent for sen. Mcgovern the Survey indicated. The poll had a margin of error of four per cent but in the Case of the youth vote the calculations were said to have probably Short changed gov. Wallace More than sen. Mcgovern. There was still More Comfort for sen. Mcgovern in the Michigan results than sen. Humphrey who ran a poor third could Hope to find. The Detroit news poll found 38 per cent of the Wallace voters list ing or. Nixon As their second Choice 32 per cent naming sen. Mcgovern and Only eight per cent choosing sen. Humphrey. Douglas a. Fraser chief Politi Cal operative for the United Auto workers said sen. Humphrey s poor 16 per cent showing in the state with its Large Black and heavy labor vote Borders on woman fire victim continued guests were registered in the hotel which has about rooms. Those affected by the fire were allocated other rooms. Some guests tied bedsheets together to let themselves Down to an inner courtyard but most were led Down stairways and Aerial ladders. Graham Fram. A Myca representative said in a Telephone interview with the Hamilton Spectator that he and three members of a russian delegation escaped from the hotel by a window. Or. Fram had been acting As a guide for the russians who were not identified. The hotel has been plagued in recent months by a number of Small fires which Are believed to have been set by an arsonist. Or. Lariviere said it was too Early to Tell if arson was behind this morning s fire. Seizure illegal court continued Crown in1 Light of the fact that criminal charges of fraud have Jeen Laid against the firm. Crown counsel h. C. Coller Man expressed his concern that it would not be in the Best interests of Justice to return the documents to the company. Or. Justice Matas ruled that All proceedings relating to the matter be Frozen until a ruling is made on the two outstanding matters. Or. Collerman expressed his concern that the matter had Jeen Given a great Deal of pub icily on radio and television and specifically named the Csc 3 u b 1 i c affairs program 24 hours. He said the matter was a Case for the court to decide upon and he asked or. Justice Vlatas to caution the Media on to treatment of the Case. Or. Justice Matas replied hat he could not direct the Nedia and expressed Hope that he matter would be dealt with n a factual manner. More members Csc by Ian Porter Canadian pres labor writer Ottawa up a sizeable increase in the number of workers belonging to unions is the main goal of the Canadian labor Congress Over the next two years Congress president Donald Macdonald said Friday. And or. Macdonald told re porters at the end of the week Long Csc convention he certainly Hopes for a change in the climate of Public Opin re elected to his third full term As president of the 1.7 million member labor body or. Macdonald described a two cent a month increase in membership dues As one of the most important accomplishments of the convention. The increase will bring the Csc an additional a year to be used to finance a major Campaign to organize new members. Focus of the Campaign will be on one million Oil ice technical and clerical workers who now belong to no unions. Or. Macdonald said the Campaign Likely would be under Way in the fall. Organized labor never has re presented More than 34.2 per cent of the Canadian work Force High Point set in and its current share of 33.3 per cent is the same As in 1955 when the Csc was founded. Or. Macdonald said he Hopes the Congress will be Able to break through the traditional ceiling with its organizing Campaign. To avoid jurisdictional Battles by affiliates Over the anticipated new dues payers the Csc executive Council has adopted a plan under which White Collar units will be chartered directly by the Congress at first or. Macdonald said. A decision to join a major affiliate will be made by the new units Only after expiry of their first collective agreements. Or Macdonald said a major problem for the Campaign is the Lack of Clear guides on what constitutes an appropriate bar gaining unit. He said it has yet to be established whether Bank employees must be organized on a regional provincial or National basis. He said the Campaign would be faced with considerable Dif f i c u 11 y should the Canadian labor relations Board Rule that a bargaining unit must include All eligible employees of a chartered Bank across the country. Or. Macdonald admitted to serious concern about Public attitudes towards labor. Adverse opinions he said Are retarding labor s social programs and endanger its present rights. Or. Macdonald who has said he will retire in 1974, would offer no indication of whom he favors As a successor. There will be no laying on of hands at this he told the news conference. Or. Macdonald was challenged in voting for president by James Bell Secretary treasurer of the Nova Scotia federation of labor. The out come of the vote was a fore gone conclusion but the margin of or. Macdonald s 649 to 380 much less expected. The Only other candidate to Challenge the Congress executive was William Stewart pres ident of the Brit ish Columbia shipyard Central workers. Or. Stewart was believed to be aiming at the seat held by William Ladyman top Canad an officer of the International brotherhood of electrical workers. He received 493 votes to or. Ladyman s 745. Surplus change Large Ottawa two Way Trade Between Canada and Japan to talled billion in 1970, with Canada having a surplus of million. In 1971 the Trade expanded to sl.5 billion with Japan having a surplus of about million. Sophisticated distinctive Aza in apartment f i at 1030 Grant ave. 7 limited time Only one month free rent viewing hours j Mon thru Fri 9 am. To 10 p m if sat Sun holidays 12 noon to 6pm. 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