Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 27, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press final edition vol. So 202 h cents cents Friday july 27, 1973 air Canada Fern Sunset Moonrise . Moonset forecast sunny periods 55 and 70 Ontario still out rail strike. Where next the up rail strike forced passengers to embark in Calgary and get Home or to vacation spots by other Means. After the westbound trip ended in Calgary thursday passengers transferred to bus or airlines. Toronto up amid Union warnings of a National railway shut Down and Federal government not to panic Ontario entered its second Day today without trains and telegrams. And the other provinces were wondering which would be next for strike action by the w to member association of operating railway employers. About 20.000 workers halted rail and Telegram service in Ontario thursday As they left their jobs for in hours in the first of a series of rot a tin strikes to Back contract de Mauds. They Are in dispute with Canadian National Kail w a y s it Hail and right smaller railways. Despite the shutdown thurs Day no major communication or telecommunications prob lems had been reported in on Tario to this morning h u t in Montreal. It c Smith chairman of the unions joint negotiating committee said the railways were laying off employees in some areas not on strike in an attempt to push into a country wide strike and bring the govern ment Down on us with Emir it was by use of Mich Legisla Tion that the Federal govern ment brought an end to a please set. Kail 2 unions charge lockout Fowx to Winnipeg Blue bombers today released three More players bringing the roster Down to the required 32. Fred Riley a run Ivins Back from the University of Idaho Tom Scott a wide receiver from Washington and Canadian defensive Back John Steele from Simon Fraser University were released. I free 1 Russ Stafl Wilri a senior official of the non unions in Tho Prairie Saskatchewan Mani Inha Region has taken the country s in air railways to task for stopping train travel in areas not affected by rotating regional so Ricks. Al a press conference thurs Day w. Ii. Matthew Secre tary treasurer of the associated non of railway strike commit tee in Winnipeg told reporters striking unions and their Prairie Region Nice hers Sec the nationwide train Stop Page both As a lockout and As a propaganda move by management to arouse Public Opin Ion against us or. Matthew added to what extent the railways have succeeded in their design we can t Tell just yet of course. But we sure Hope this plan won t work and the people won t be the spokesman said there please Sec a move Page 2 Balcony Chile i icle slain Santiago. Chili Ith Paul o Linen. A for the oin Milce t o Ite elect the Inlo the Vyater Alc Allair h i in thai depot i Ai Pamn v a prepared in that Hen n in in Hrc Tiu Mallei Iii in to unit Cante cordon sir Alcuin Kaiui thai Sli Arhan in l a in scr . Canada lashes out ski Mike Scott of cps _ Canada is sued a Surprise statement today that lashed out at it termed the treatment of two Canadian officers detained by the Viet Cong for is Days. Vernon Turner senior rank g Canadian on the International commission of control 1 supervision. Pcs read the statement to pcs commissioners at their regular meet ing. The statement said that the officers. Capis. Inn Patten of Toronto and Fletcher Thomson of Ottawa were denied even he treatment accorded prison ers of War 1 they had forced marches through the Jungle under guard while bound by tie hands and neck they were subjected to political propaganda they were deprived of their uni tvs and. On occasion in the Case of capt. Patten suffered physical treatment of this sort for members of an International com Mission is outrageous in the extreme and must be nearly it not Eom plemely with out precedent. It is clearly tint the Lype of behaviour one would expect of a serious responsible parly cons Cious of is moral and Legal obligations under an agreement it has today barbecued 40 winks 25 37 classified i 2.1, 2fi to 31 comics in comic Page features -17 deaths finance 7 to 10 movies a is to 12 television a e women nearly everyone reads the free press commission Cousim i i a c after consider t Able questioning it appear the contract was pre pared in March unless hex k. Cruse former lid chairman could provide fur ther evidence or a different Dale. The Namei int Between the Lund my Llic Manitoba development corporation l and Mph was dated May after submitting Chr Contrael for signing. Or. Cross changed his mind and told forestry officials to forget it. He later re signed from the fund March i he now is an Industrial development adviser to the Prince Island govern ment in Charlott ctn n. At the end of a series of questions on possible dates in Tho contract. Or. Me where it leaves he said there a hard evidence re Garding trips East made by please see contract Page until oct. 16 org Home by vat of Mackino i Yee press staff correspondent Ottawa parliament adjourned Friday Lor a summer recess until oct. I after passing legis lation special coins and Stamps to help i i n a n e e the olympic x e s in Montreal in 1976. The House Jive unanimous consent to the and Journ men. M o v c d by Charles m. Usury. Trea sury Board president. The mouse is subject in i in m e dial e recall by s p e a k e r a a Conreux in tie event of an emergency f the rail Way strike drags on past mid August parliament will Likely be recalled to enact Back to work Lalun. Tie adjournment Molina provides fur the capital punishment lie ins to the fall Silling. It will be Filfli Arteil Ihnn hours of Sil Ling to give it Pri Only on designated Days. Premiers unhappiness unanimous rail and Bank ideas hailed Bui still fenced in by Frecie free press political reporter Calgary the i our _ Western premiers Dis played unanimous disappointment thursday As they bade Farewell to prime minister Trudeau at the close of the Western economic opportunities conference. They Loki the prime minister that in their judgment the fed eral government has not evolved a new National policy loosen the shackles that have kept Western Canada from developing an Industrial base for 100 years. But they also joined with or. Trudeau in holding out Hope that such a policy May yet evolve from he discussions in Calgary especially once Feder Al officials get Back to Ottawa to Analyse what the four pc Miers said. In the meantime the pre Miers acknowledged that they have been promised significant a see Page griping has no party prime minister stops on his Way to the Western economic opportunities conference in Calgary to sign autographs for several children. In the background the hag of British Columbia flies at half Mast in Observance of the death of former prime minister Louis St. Laurent. Manitoba s of p o a i t i o n leaders joined the c h o r u s of disappointment thursday As the conference on Western economic opportunities Drew to a close apparently without shaping a new National policy for Western Industrial development. Joth Ping Resmie conserva Tive Leader Sidney Spivak and Liberal Leader Asper who attended the conference As observers at the invitation of Premier cd Schreyer. Said the three Days of meetings had failed to live up to their expectations. They did t r a National policy because they did t Deal with the problems of the old National said or. Spivak. Or. Asper agreed. A great Deal was accomplished but it was All symptomatic treat ments. They did l treat the or. Speak noted that prime minister Trudeau had stated he Felt he Federal position p a p e r s presented the Start of a new National policy. H i i c the Federal papers Lirmon strayed i change in the attitude of the Federal govern ment he said this change was a result of the general election not a desire to forge a new policy. Some of the changes or said would have come without the conference. Or. Spivak de scribed the Manitoba delegation As the weakest of the four provincial Erin ends. They a p p e a r c d to he i Eliise see ck11mnc Page a grains policy lags Lang by Egon Mie h free press political reporter Calgary the Federal government probably won t he Able to meet its own aug. 1 deadline for the announcement of a new National feed grains policy. Justice minister Otto Lang said Here thursday. Or. Lang who is the Federal minister in charge of the Cana Dian wheat Hoard told report ers thai his depart men s Prepa rat Ion for he conference on a Steni economic opportunities Lias put the new policy behind schedule. Or. Ing gave pre Miers and agriculture Mill Isles the guidelines he tiding to develop the new policy but failed to or the questions of whether feed grains would come under the jurisdiction of the wheat Board and whether the feed freight subsidy to Eastern Vanatia will be eliminated. However indications were that the solution might be re moving the feet freight sub Sidy and allowing a totally free d o in e l i c Market i feed grains while maintaining u heat Hoard control Over exports. The first of the guidelines outlined by or. 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