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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 2, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday May 2, 1973 scots Tell Ofifi company believed to have been instrumental in setting up a re lated Swiss company Bertram ver Lauffs a whose role has baffled the commission. He has made it known that he opposes the order and his Case will be heard wednesday in court of sessions. The commission t u c s d a y questioned Bertram principals about the relationship Between James Bertram and son ltd., the scottish engineering firm established since the 1840s, and James Bertram and son Canada ltd., the firm established in 1969 to build a paper machine manufacturing Plant at the Pas. Boundaries of their Lesli Mony were roughly staked out by two meetings they had with former Manitoba development fund chairman Rex e. Grose the first was before they went into the Manitoba project held new York in june 1968. The second meeting was held Here at Bertram s request in february 1970, after it had to come apparent to them that the project had gone sour. Several of the commissioners questions were directed to wards establishing the role of the Montgomery investment co. Ltd. Of Freeport Bahamas and for How Long Grose had been aware of its existence and its designation As major source of a quilt for the Ber Tram project. Replying to questions from commissioner Mitchell James Norman Hunter Bertram chair Man of the Board of Bertram Scotland said or. Grose came to Scotland in february 1970, at Bertram s request because the bertrams found themselves in an untenable situation. They themselves were being frustrated at every turn he said. At that meeting or. Bertram said he did not think or. Grose asked about Montgomery. Or. Bertram said he thought or. Grose accepted the role of Montgomery and it was Only one of several Points the Ber trams wished to raise. Counsel d a r c y Mccaffrey quoted earlier testimony from or. Grose to the effect that at no time had the bertrams said that Montgomery was to be a major shareholding company. Or. Grose had said that the 1970 meeting was the first he had heard of Montgomery. Later David n. Bertram a director of the scottish firm said he remembered that or. Grose was told at the feb. 1970 meeting of Montgomery being the major shareholder. Of likewise was under the impression he or. Grose knew All along of Montgomery s exis the frustration which was aired at the 1970 meeting arose out of Bertram s Canadian management not being allowed to manage James Bertram said. But the Chain of events began several years earlier when the bertrams burdened with death duties faced the Prospect of closing Down the family firm. Along came or. Alexander Kassor president of techno Pilip inc. Of Montclair new Jersey. Or. Kassor it was Clear from evidence was a Man of great intelligence and financial Wardry who interested the Ber Tram s in the Manitoba project. The bertrams knew or. Kassor from the Siace paper Mill project in Italy where Ber Tram s supplied Plant. Or. Kassor was in charge of Engi Neering at Siace. By 1967 Ber trams were owed on the Siace contract. James Bertram described How the firm agreed to Relin Quish control of the old established family firm to Mont Gomery investments of free port in Exchange for the Scot Tish company s control of a new Canadian company. This was planned by an Exchange of shares. Or. Bertram said the firer had to weigh Long term advantages of establishing the com Pany in Canada where Market appeared to be expanding faster than in Europe. They Fol it was right even to the Point o relinquishing control of the Parent company. Kill me thug cries Peoria 111. A a Mai shouting kill me kill me kill and holding a gun in one hand and a student hostage in the. Other was shot dead by policy tuesday when h emerged from a roman Calno lie elementary school. The gunman and two othe bought Refuge in the Ich Opl after fleeing police auth . The two others were taken into custody by police about an hour later. The dead Man was Idun Rifici by the Peoria county Coroner office Ai Mclvin Birch 25, o Peoria. Police said there were no re Porti of any other injuries. Authorities said the Sci Rushid into the St. Cicili in mid afternoon follow inf an armed robbery of variety store. High Funi were taken from the tort Al sporting goods depart Mist during the robbery policy Laid. Or. Bertram said we assumed that it must be or. Kasser who was behind Mont g o m e r y he would never admit to being connected with any of the nobody was Ever identified As being from Montgomery he said. We were in a desperate situation. We had Little work to Fol Low on. We were owed Money by Siacco. We were finding it difficult to finance our subsidiary companies and we were finding it difficult to support our very big engineering staff we had built up to expand our markets in the he agreed with or. Mccaffrey s suggestion that Bertram s were acct Cring on the Brink of ruin. At the meeting in june 1908 in new York James Bertram said or. Kasser first introduced him to or. Grose. He said or. Grose was concerned to see if tie scottish firm was technically competent to carry out the Manitoba project. There was no discussion about the extent of Bertram s involvement. At the meeting also were Dave Rodgers then assistant manager of the Manitoba development fund and Winnipeg lawyer Valter Newman. Plans for a paper machinery making Plant were discussed broadly. Montgomery was not discussed. Or. Bertram testified that he lad the impression then that or. Kassor was not keen that he Manitoba development fund should be told about Mont Omery. He said nothing Specif c. Under questioning or. Ber ram Sai the thought the import ant thing to or. Grose was hat the established bertrams would be doing the work ant heir name would be attached o the project. Or. Mccaffrey produced a Etter written by or. Bertram before the new York meeting o the Federal government ask no for details about getting a development Grant under the Rea development incentive act. Or. Bertram said we were old by or. Kasser that a Gran would be available subject to bertrams knew nothing about Aida or. Kasser apparently knew a great Deal Laid or. Bertram. Or. Bertram said he realized he project must be separate ind Independent from others Al the Pas to qualify for Aida be said replying to or. Mccaffrey he was unclear about or. Kassor s other in olym cols in the Churchill project. In negotiations with the Mani Oba development fund or. Bertram said Bertram s were he front for the negotiations. Or. Mccaffrey would you Grce that Bertram s negotiated he m r. Bertram we were under instructions from or. He said the fund and or Grose in particular must have in Bertram s were dealing Vith or. Kasser because Ber ram representatives were continually having to Check Back Vilh him. He or. Grose took Plant. Continued in Switzerland the firm that iced the turnkey contract to build the 1 As Plant and turn it incr to the owner. Air. Campbell former sales manager and director of the 5cottish firm said he used the Bertram Verkauf office in Zurich for two weeks in 19c4 when he was working from Here to buy parts for the Siacco agreed it could be de scribed As Branch in or. Campbell said he assumed the Swiss firm had been set up by the scottish firm .0 buy components on the Conti nent at More preferential rates Han would otherwise be Possi ble. At that Lime a. K. Zingre managed the Zurich office or. Campbell said. During questioning by or. Mitchell about an apparent discrepancy Over financial provi Sions for a feasibility study o the Manitoba project Douglas Bertram told of communications barriers with or Zingre. We often asked or. Zingre for information and we were told to keep our nose out of or. Bertram said it was constantly or. Zingre s attitude that he had a turnkey contract and would Sec it through. The commissioners first hear ing on their two week european Lour was in London april 2t, where they took evidence from representatives of the economist intelligence unit hired by or. Grose on nov. 24, 1909, to make feasibility studies into the four proposed projects. In testimony Michael West manager director of the unit and Liam daughterly a re searcher admitted they were unqualified to assess Hie feasibility of pulp paper Engineer ing and forestry projects. The hearings were to continue in Edinburgh wednesday before moving to Stockholm next week. Ills As quite during the negotiations with he fund it was agreed there would be no mention of Mont Gomery or. Bertram said. Or. Mitchell questioned or. Bertram about a Telegram sent under his name to then Premier Walter Weir on feb. 17, 1909 or. Mitchell quoted Verj Ilca cd to confirm that James Bertram and sons Ltd of Edin Burgh incorporated a new Ca Nadian affiliate what lid affiliate mean he asked. There was no doubt that in he . The term would be wholly owned or. Bertram volunteered. At that time Bertram s actually thought they wore going to manage a Canadian subsidiary. It turned out later that or. Kassor wanted to manage. Were the words of the Lela Gram or. Bertrams or. Bertram imagined they were someone else s for the one injuries outweigh strikes by Vic Parsons Ottawa up strikes May get More Public attention but disabling injuries Lead to a far greater loss of working Days Federal labor depart men statistics indicate. The department s annual re port for the 1971-72 fiscal Yucai shows that Man Days were lost due to disabling injury in the Federal Public service and the private sector under Federal jurisdiction. The Canada labor code covers employees or roughly six per cent of the labor Force. In the Calendar year 1971 Only Days were lost due to strikes and lockouts in in Federal jurisdiction which in eludes such industries Asna tonal railways and airlines broadcasting and communication Banks and Grain handling and processing. Comparative figures for Al jurisdictions show that in 1970 there were 8.5 million Man Day lost due to disabling injuries injuries that involve the loss o at least one Day of work. In the same year 3 million Man Days were lost due to strikes. This proportion of Abou Ivo and a half to one of injury Over strike time loss is not unusual officials say. There Are always a orca Nany More Days lost due to in juries than due to department spokesman says. Reason that would have used the word the words might be or. Kassars or. Bertram said. Would they not be air. Groses or. Alit Cheu they May Well be so earlier James Bertram s brother Douglas Bertram former president and Secretary of Bertram Canada said the consulting firm of Arthur d. Little inc. Of Cambridge Massachusetts Bertram s. Was working for startled commissioners Smith and Mitchell pressed air. Ber Tram about whether the Little was working for Bertram s and not the Alan Toba develop ment fund. Doublas Bertram said i think they were also working for the air. Smith suggested this might be unusual As interests were not necessarily identical. Or. Bertram said or. Grose had suggested the Little firm might be appointed be cause the firm already knew a lot about the Pas projects there were discussions Between bertrams and the Little firm but Littles weren t prepared to say much. Air. Smith said that was strange attitude for hired consultants to be taking. Air. Ber Tram said we engaged con Sulla its he cause the master finance agreement signed nov. 7, 1968, Between bertrams and the fund spelled it they were not hired on bertrams own initiative. Al r. Mccaffrey question i James Patrick Campbell Aboul the role As he understood it of Bertram ver Lauffs a of Klo convicted doctor reinstated port c 0 l b 0 r n e on up a physician who a barred from practising med Cine after his conviction for the attempted murder of his if has been re instated on a probationary basis. Or. J. L. Johnson assistant to the registrar Ontario Collig of physicians and surgeon said in a Telephone interview from Toronto tuesday that d Ernest a Cilcy 46, has Nee granted a special licence the will permit him to return Normal practice. Or. Pc Ley was sentenced Welland last october to is months in jail and two Yeai probation after he please guilty to attempting to Murde his wife Buth 44. She died i january after suffering fron cancer for seven years. The physician told the com he was trying to end his wife suffering and had substitute an anticoagulant drag for he sleeping pills. The switch a discovered when she called he own doctor. Or. Johnson said the special licence for or. Pedley was granted last week. He said the College will need a period of time to see How the physician is conducting his medical f Aclise. Mrs. Pedley went to England. Fir her husband s conviction and died there. Or. Pedley was paroled earlier this month. Norway s Fleet fourth Oslo Norway s merchant Fleet the world s fourth largest now exceeds 22 million Gross tons including 35 vessels of tons and Over. Report of death exaggerated Victoria up Arthur Peterson has a bit of a Battle going on with the Federal in come tax department. The department considers or. Peterson a maintenance worker at City Hall to be dead. Air. Peterson said he received a letter addressed to the estate of late Arthur f. Peterson asking that the deceased a income tax be processed without delay. I got that letter the Day before i went on Holiday and that was april 19.1 just about i Felt my pulse but there was no doubt i was still or. Peterson said. A finance company filed his income lax papers on april 12 and when the letter from Ottawa arrived he thought it was his refund. Or. Petersen Laid he has replied to the income tax department telling them he is alive and awaiting a refund. Cheap Highway Toronto up the St. Law Runci i away it the quit t e 11, cleanest and cheap tit Highway in Canada and Thi total Cost of the full mile Long route was no greater than the Cost of building 29 Miles of expressway says an Engineer ing report by Ken Gilbert of the Toronto Harbor commis Sion. The Seaway should by used to its full potential be fore we go off building Road and he writes in report. 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