Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 9, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday october 9, 1973 5 big. Labor disillusioned my Barrett s by Norman Gidney i Tokla up the honeymoon Between labor unions and the new democratic party in British Columbia is Over. The itself May be headed for the rocks All be cause of labor legislation drafted pm Premier Dave bar rett s government. Are showing in their n e r s o 1 i d and of ten uneasy some Trade unionists talking about making it Tough for nip incumbents in the legislature at the next election three years from now. Led by Ray Haynes Secre tary treasurer of the militant federation of labor which has about 1 .7 5 0 0 0 members in affiliated unions Sohie Union spokesman have attacked the week old labor code of. British Columbia act. They were already upset at having to wait for More than a year since the nip took office to have the controversial and restrictive labor Laws of a. C. Bennett s social credit government erased from the stat Ute books. Some segments of organized which provided a hefty chunk of the Money and men that organized or. Barrett s 38-s eat now feel the party has backed out of a Strong pro labor Campaign plat form last year. Since the Barrett govern ment was elected we Haven t had the relationship we could expect i considering the part the Trade Union movement played in putting the nip government or. Haynes last week. Listening to people who Are not in the Jungle of labor mr., Haynes admitted in an interview that the nip government abolished the Media Tion commission act which gave a three Man Board compulsory arbitration raised the minimum wage of both Campaign promises charged that it ignored other pledges to end gov Ernie of interference in abbr Lianag Jhent relations consult labor Oyer new Laws and make the labor relations Board a full time body with labor and Man i Iye yes got arbitration How Naii we had under the he said. Labor minister Bill King ear Lier this year called for submit Sinoh of. Ideas Froin both sides to Cool off Indus Nai relations in the province. A we gave them our views Jand they ignored them if that s what. You to Call said or. The labor relations Board under the hew legislation is an expanded full time Hody with. Wide Powers including Supply ing mediation officers. It has authority to Force a settlement where a company and newly certified Union local have been unable to reach agreement. The main beef or Haynes in this regard is that nobody on his list was appointed to the new 10-member Board the key feature of the labor code and which will be responsible for administration of its 153 sections. _ or. Haynes would not Tell other affiliated was or his list but his criticism seems a bit premature. Three labor nominees on the Board have been promised by or. King before the end of the year. Manage ment also will be allowed to name three people. The workers Are a pretty disillusioned said or. Haynes. He claimed that the labor code has 44 items that Are favourable to management and Only 16 that will help labor unions. But there is by no Means a common front among labor against the new labor code. The International Wood workers of America which had its former regional president Jack Moore named As one of three vice chairmen of the new Board has refused to criticize the Bill. With members it is the largest federation affiliate. Truck Drivers in the prov Ince represented by the teamsters Union which is in dependent of the federation Nas backed the legislation. Teamsters president senator Jed Lawson three years ago also gave the mediation com Mission a Chance. The Hospital employees Union said the fed c ration its objections to the Bill business agent Ray Mccready said the Bill s Good Points outweigh the bad. Let s face it labor and m a n a Gem e n t Are diametrically opposed interests so we can t have everything he said. Criticism from the other Side of the bargaining stable has been remarkable by its absence. Only c. J. Chuck Coli of the construction labor relations association has spoken out against it. He said the new Law would cause utter chaos the building Industry. Transport labor relations tar has merely asked or. King to delay the Bill for a while to allow closer study not a word has come from the Forest Industry giants who. Provide half of every Dol Lar in the provincial Economy. Despite the Lack of unanimity among labor a he federation will go ahead with a mass lobbying Effort today. About 200 Union leaders will converge on the capital caucus in the morning then go after govern ment legislative members and legislative buildings. It will be a Low key Effort very different from the last big protest the federation staged in Victoria. About persons mostly Young unemployed peo pie and students held a mass rally last year on of the legislature to protest unemployment rates. About 200 broke through the front doors and briefly occupied the Halls around the legislative chamber Yelling we want a prevented them from breaking inside where the. Lieutenant governor was Reading the speech from the throne. We will go and talk to the Back benches because t he y Don t know about the Legisla said or. Haynes while admitting there Are some Good things in the legislation. But there Are some very bad things that need Colin Gabelmann North the. Federation s firmer director of legislation and political education said during second Reading debate of the Bill in the legislature that he would oppose several sections of the Bill in clause by clause consideration at third Reading. He opposed Power of the labor relations Board to impose a first settlement in a dispute where a local has been unable to gain a contract. He also said the labor code s h o u 1 d have included farm workers fishermen and domes tic help. But two Cabinet ministers with of Union membership have strongly endorsed the Bill. Recreation and conservation minister Jack Radford 27 years a Union Man and former Canadian labor Congress representative in the West and consumer services min ister Phyllis re searcher for the federation said the legislation will be a big help to unions. Nobody Ever promised labor a Rose Garden one newspaper editorial said after or. Outburst Over the new labor code and said pre Mier Barrett s warnings last year have All come True. Lie Down thinking heaven has arrived simply be cause the nip has been elect Premier Barrett told the federation s annual meeting a year ago it s not going to be that the federation and the nip kicked the slats out of each other a year before or. Bar rett said then. It s a very Nice honeymoon. But there will be times when Well have opposing positions and clashing viewpoints. Don t want undying Loy Alty from the Trade Union he said. Say it in Welsh London car the government bookshop has a Public c a t i o n on Sale entitled y do Eddy in Ryno. Hawl a ate i be Cheri a tenant. It s the Welsh language edition of the rent act and you. High year 13 pounds apiece Chicago americans love onions. Each of the 210 million american Consumers eats about 13 pounds of them a Ontario men robbed port Huron Mich. Be four men from the London ont., area were robbed of about arid three of them wounded by a gunman Here saturday night. Police chief Charles Gentry said the wounded men Are Earl Bell 32, London and Robert Thomas Lavery 35, and Alvin Campbell 31, both of Hensall ont. Campbell was released from Hospital while his two companions were in satisfactory condition today Witk wounds. The fourth Canadian John c. Taylor 20, of Hensall was not wounded. Chief Gentry said the four met a group of men in a car in the parking lot of a bar Here. Men offered to a c Imp y the canadians in their car so he could show them so Mei Bahhe Froni Unity s entertainment so tots but after. Driving around the City for Man pulled a gun on the canadians and ordered them out of the car. He told them to drop their wallets on the and then shot Bell in the foot say ing i m not the robber fled with the Money but fired three More shots at the canadians hitting Campbell and Lavery. No arrests have been made. Reg1na up four of five positions on the first Northern Saskatchewan Munici pal Council appear to have been decided although results from a number of Remote locations still have not been received. Residents across the North went to the polls Friday to choose five councillors from 31 persons nominated. Unofficial results have been received from 28 of the 40 polls with the remaining votes expected to be reported sometime tuesday. One candidate from each of five Northern regions will serve on the Council along with two other councillors to be appointed by the provincial govern ment. The Council will have municipal jurisdiction Over most of Northern Saskatchewan. Marriage restrictions loosened Louisville Scopal anglican Bishops acted monday to ease restrictions on second marriages recognizing for the first time that Divorcee persons May be remarried in the Church. In the past. Episcopal rules like those in roman Catholic i snip have barred remarriage except when there were specific grounds for Church nullification of the previous marriage. The r change still subject to action by the other Branch of the Church s legislature the House of deputies allows any person whose marriage has been civil divorce or otherwise be re married in the Church. Past requirements of year s waiting period before remarriage also were eliminated the new regulations Perm episcopal pastors to marry couples even though neither is a Church member. Previously one or the other had to be a member i Good standing. Tattooing has often been used to denote nobility. Sask. Northern votes counted unofficial voting results show Region one far North four of nine polls show George Mer Credi of Stony Kapels leading with 83 votes. The Only other candidate Clement Fische of fond do Lac has 16. Region two including Buffalo Narrows and Laroche five of seven polls reporting show Fred Thompson of Buffalo Narrows far ahead of Frank Petit of Laroche 712 votes to 122, with three other candidates trailing. Region three Green Lake to Ile a la Crosse with seven of eight polls reporting Lawrence Yew of Jans Bay has 135 votes to 124 for Joe Favel of Ile a la Crosse and 83 for Leo be Langer also of Lle a la Crosse. Region four Central with five of eight polls reporting Nap Sanderson of Pine House has 148 votes and the five other candidates have a combined total of 45. Region five Eastern with seven of eight polls in Lionel Deschambault of Cumberland House has 238 votes far ahead of Ron Norman of Denare Beach with 88 and Jim Carriere of Cumberland House with eight other persons also contested the Eastern zone although a breakdown of votes was not available officials said Many treaty Indi ans appeared to refrain from v o t i n g a directive Friday from the executive of the federation of Saskatchewan Indi ans said treaty indians should not participate in the election even though a number of treaty indians had been Nomin ated As candidates. The directive suggested that participation could result in an erosion of the jurisdictional ties that treaty indians have with the Federal government. 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