Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 16, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saling your Home consult a professional my on a Maireni Winnipeg free press travel Osi and relax tuesday october 1 6, 1973 0214 Cost of living demand by Union impossible u of the wage dispute Between the University of Manitoba and the Canadian association of Industrial mechanical and Allied workers Ccu includes a Cost of living demand by the Union that is beyond what the University is Able to a statement from the administration said. The statement made late Friday said at the oct. 10 meeting with the Union in made a change in its original demands which had amounted to an average 27 per cent in crease in wages in a one year term agreement putting for Ward proposal which de creased the original demand b y three per cent to an average 24 per cent increase in wages in a one year contract the statement continued however this apparent reduction was coupled with a new demand ,.riot previously discussed in bargaining that a Cost of living adjustment clause be included in a one year the new demand the state ment said calculated at the current rate of u of m food outlets x to break even the University of Manitoba s food service operation is tougher to run than restau rants that Are in business to make m one a John Mac Farlane the University s comp troller told a lunch freon meet ing of the fort Garry rotary club in the Tamada inn Mon or Macfarlane said the University s operations made up of several cafeterias canteens and snack bars is literally a Chain of restau rants. But unlike most restaurants the University s food services Are Only out to break even he cause students Little Money. It does create some management problems would increase the Cost of the new contract by 29 cents an hour More than the original de mands. The University decided this was More than it could afford and the demand was unjustified. The Union had reduced its demand to 50 cents from 60 cents an hour More at the oct. 10 meeting but the 50-cent in crease would the statement says apply to Only one half of the bargaining unit. The remainder of the unit would according., to the Union de Mand receive in excess of the 50 cents increase because of a classification adjustment of up to an the association went on strike Friday arguing its pay Range was too Low. The Range covers Utility employees who Start with an hour and after three months service get hourly Cand caretakers who Start at an hour and get after three months. Skilled tradesmen receive from hourly for painters up to the top Trade rate of a hour for plumbers. Panel truck Drivers receive to begin with and be after three months. The dishwasher who starts at gets an hour after three months. The University statement said that the present Basic starting rate of if the As location demands were met would even without the cosi of living increase to an hour and the top Trade rate an hour would go to or plumbers. The University said it has conducted of pay Scales and this includes Provin Cial government concerns Manitoba Hydro and the City of Winnipeg. The Union has stated these surveys had Triec to match hourly rates for slave labor and the univer sity rates were not up to the Levels of these concerns. The University counters this saying t believes its total wage Posi Ion for employees in its bar gaining unit is competitive with these government Hydro ind City employees transmission api Clat 1786-2437 Anil Oak Torteo la i i Mylna 453-4124 586-8049 weather report morning bulletin for the Prairie provinces cloudiness Over the West Ern Prairies will be Vari Able while Eastern regions remain primarily sunny under the influence of a slow moving High pres sure system. Similar conditions Are expected to pre Vail on wednesday except that temperatures in most areas will be a few degrees higher than those forecast for today. Figures on the map indicate expected High temperatures today temperatures following Are High temperatures recorded yester Low temperatures for the 12-hour period which ended at 6 . Today and precipitation for the 24 hour period which ended at 6 . Today Max. Vancouver 50 Calgary 44 Edmonton 53 Regina 50 Brandon 50 Thompson the Pas Winnipeg 5 Thunder Bay 53 Kenora 45 Ottawa 59 Toronto 65 Montreal 57 Halifax. 60 Chicago 72 Miami Ai los Angeles 80 Minneapolis 62 new York 76 Phoenix 98 Rome 77 Paris i. 63 London 54 Berlin 52 Amsterdam 54 Brussels 57 Madrid 69 Moscow. 39 Stockholm 43 win. Forecast for Winnipeg Bissett Interlake and red River regions mostly sunny today. Frequent Cloudy periods this evening North West wind at 15 to 20 . A few Clouds tonight and wednesday. Low to 25 to 30 High wednesday near 55. Winnipeg temperature comparisons Max. Man. Mian oct. Is 50 33 Las Lyme 57 31 Normal s5 35 4 highest on record 71 in 1963 lowest on record ii in 191 Host Hans Christian Sommer of Germany sings out at oktoberfest opening oktoberfest returns s. To Winnipeg Arena by Janice keys free press staff writer music rang up to the balloon festooned rafters of the Winnipeg Arena monday night As Man sphere presented the Sec Ond annual oktoberfest. Starting at 9 . Monday workers managed to transform the building into a bit of a Varia the original Home of the Beer with balloons streamers tables covered wit Bright tablecloths and food Booths. Add music and you have All the ingredients for one of Ger Many s most enjoyable exports oktoberfest. The music is supplied by five brass bands direct from Ger rezoning proposed for shopping Centre East Kildonan Community committee recommended Mon Day rezoning of a parcel of land in its area to permit construction of a million shop Ping Centre. The rezoning application will now go before civic environment committee which is examining a similar application for a shopping Centre in Transcona about one Quarter of a mile from the East Kil Donan site. At a Community hearing councillors passed a motion by coun. Jim Smith ind Epen Kildonan recommending the land in question a 46-acre site bounded by Cro Zier Avenue Lagimodiere Bou Levard Dunrobin Avenue ant Molson Street be rezoned to c2 from i and Al. The present zoning allows he land to be used for single family houses and agricultural purposes. A c2 zoning Wojic allow commercial development such As a major shopping Centre. Included in coun. Smith s motion was a clause calling for he Developer. River East developments limited to enter into a development agreement with the City and to pay All costs of servicing the proposed site with land drainage Sani Ary sewers water and any necessary Street improve ments. It also requires the Developer of obtain the Community com nit tee s approval for Laii Scap no plans on the site. Spokesmen for the develop ers of the proposed shopping Centre in Transcona Metropolis hotels seek Beer liquor Price boost by Barry mull1n free press staff writer the Manitoba hotel association has urged the provincial government to increase the Selling Price of alcoholic Bever Ages and Vendor Beer As soon As possible an increase which hotel men claim is essential to our viable Busin Nick Pyrch president of the Manitoba hotel association told the association s 46th an Nual convention tuesday i regret to say. That the Manitoba hotel Industry in general has found itself facing an Ever de creasing profit As a result of the decreasing profits or. Pyrch said it is hoped and i know i speak for All of us that the waiting period will not be too Long when we will be permitted to Otic ease the sell Iii Price of beverages sold i our beverage rooms and Beer or. Pyrch who is the Man Ager of the Nia Kwa motor hotel urged the provincial government to adjust the sell no Price of Vendor Beer to compensate for our Ever in creasing operating or. Pyrch said the average Mark up on Vendor Beer in Western Canada is for a 24 pack but in Manitoba the Mark up is Only 40 cents. I dare you to run your icus Ehold on the same budget rim used in or. Pyrch old a news conference before Lis address at the official open-1 no of the three Day convention at the Winnipeg inn. The current Mark up for Ven Dor Beer he explained was established in 1959 and it resulted in grass profit margins varying from slightly More than five per cent to almost 15 Ler cent. The provincial average he added is about seven per cent. Quoting from a productivity study done for the association or. Pyrch said with Only a seven per cent Gross profit we estimate what in a substantial number of Mani Oba hotels surveyed Are unprofitable. Our review of Vendor operating costs indicates that seven per cent is not sufficient to cover the labor expenses involved in receiving storing and Selling Vendor Beer plus compensating the operator for Jie Cost of carrying the invent Ory and using a portion of the or. Prych said the last Lime h e provincial government made a Price adjustment was in 1967 and in the period Fol lowing that year labor costs Lave risen from m to 114 per cent. We be always Ell our Mark up was t adequate Vendor he said. When asked if he Felt a Esrice increase might prompt the government to provide for Beer sales in grocery stores or Pyrch said such a move would be unlikely because of the major problem of controlling sales of the project. Grocery and Corner stores he said May not be Able to provide the service or hours necessary y for Beer Vendor sales and i think it would be a Radical departure from our controls on Beer he added. D a r i o Perfumo managing director of the Manitoba hotel association s a i d the hotel business must be Able to adjust its prices like any other Busi Ness. I would suggest. That Only once every four or five years is neither adequate nor realistic and serves Only to put us in the position of not being Able to adjust our employees wages As their costs of living increase the United a fair one in a series q How do i know campaigners arc turning in All receipts to the United Way a Campaign report Enve Lopes Are checked with the chairmen and scaled. A com plate audit is made throughout the Campaign at the United Way office. Naturally the United Way operation is audit cd annually by a firm of chartered accountants and the re port distributed to organizations and to the Community via newspaper advertisements. Individuals May obtain an Annu Al report on request. Q Why arc youth ser vices in the United Way a the United Way believes Young people Are the Community s most valuable asset and it is appropriate for United Way funds to be used to subsidize services which provide charac Ter building and leadership training opportunities. It is bet Ter to build Strong characters and Leach responsible citizen ship toddy rather than repair the effects of neglect Lormor Many who provide continuous entertainment from the time the doors swing open at 6 . Until closing time at 1 . The Lively polkas and proper us Umi Iea a Leared at monday s hearing in Kildonan to voice objections to the River East proposal but were told by the councillors that they were sunday ring marches were appreciated with increasing enthusiasm As the evening wore on and the East Kildonan project on its own merits and were not taking the Transcona year Large crowd gathered to Welcome oktoberfest Back to into account. The proposed site in Day nov. 11 Falls on a sunday this year. Is at the Northeast All other holidays friends and strangers Lagimodiere and Regent remembrance Day fall arms and Sang and swayed to the music while those who and would service much the same area As the a sunday no other Day in designated Asar Holiday consumed enough of the Kildonan shopping to build up their letter from civic _ _ remembrance Day varies i crowded the available commissioner David respect from the othe which was read holidays. Except of band members opening session of providing Emer their Tuin on stage said a shopping services such As Hospi with the crowd and Lent a needed in the area fire Utility Emer Tain authority to the both the Transcona repairs and such am since they were the Only Kildonan locations service businesses such a who actually knew the stores bread and Mil however people who had letter also said hot is and restaurants ably never spoken a syllable East Kildonan require a permit t German before in their provide fewer open on remembrance were shouting Ein Wei a labor department g Suffa translation one two three drink with explained. Businesses and operations Don t require a permit the proceedings were directed by the seemingly tireless Hans Christian listed in legislation. With remembrance Day fall ing on a sunday there Wil the Beer helped to be fewer requests Down quantities of t. Eaton co. Limited usual for special permits sauerkraut has filed notice remain open the labor de be cued Chicken potato of a conviction spokesman said. And Apple combines investigation who must work special attractions at the festival include eight dancing girls acrobatic clowns and to Dellers. False advertising. Eaton s was fined sept. 13 by or. Justice James e. Wilson in Manitoba court of Queen s Bench. Remembrance Day must be paid double time or Given Day off at full pay within 30 Days he said. The origins of oktoberfest Federal department Hack to 1810, when a Celebration which included has filed a Cross Appeal on grounds the Fine was juveniles ing and Beer drinking was thrown for the marriage in Light of the offence. The charge of false Prince Ludwig of Bavaria arose out of an juveniles were taken Princess Therese. The in a Winnipeg custody Over the weekend Tion developed into an 11, 1971, which said Winnipeg inner City police affair until today it is a of Power tool was a result of two incidents. Affair which attracts s a priced at of the juveniles were lion people from around an investigation into custody following world every that the company h e break in Early sunday in recent years it has the tools at the of Laura Street become an International suggested 3 r a t i o n with and the tools could eight were taken being held in Australia at a cheaper Price custody after a fire had the United states and now in the at the rear of cres Ada. Officials fruit sales on Pacific Winnipeg s version will guilty to the charge Leld from 6 . To 1 a trial at which juveniles were de until Friday 4 . To 11 20 other retailers of in the custody of Juve saturday and also tools were called the authorities with the other to 2 . Thursday and Eaton s guilty being released prior to juvenile court hearings. Scientist sees need to Gas and dust in outer there is Gas and dust in Light year being the appear red As does the vast regions Between the travels in one year at when seen through a Haze. And detailed study of this of Miles a reddening effect due to Gas be important in and the Bright it Star in the Winter sky is 8.7 Light be extremely Small so it is known there Are other inter the formation of stars from particles dust due to Ter Stellar material a space Gas he said reddening he said. Told University of of atomic and Herzberg showed a Cou students of slides showing huge con the atomic he of stars such As the the physicist or. The gases identified Way but the pictures Herzberg of the National sodium Black spots some of search Council in Ottawa oxygen with relatively huge. These Winner of the-1971 Nobel the most abundant said indicated dust Clouds in chemistry spoke at a thus being quite the Light from the hour lecture on the space Clouds of Calcium tween the Beun summing up he said or. Herzberg said it the molecular Side is evidence of physical been thought at one time said research chemical material Between the space Between the among others stars. Was empty. But relatively water vapor detailed study into the cent evidence indicates Carbon 13, and and processes of phys presence of Gas and dust and chemical particles in space of the Gas interstellar medium can be As an indication of the come from using he said. It could be distances Between stars in understanding the said the closest Star to the space dust or. Of stars from the in Earth is 4.3 Light years away said some of the medium he said. Marijuana trafficker jailed a 20-year-old Man who had been on probation for a year was sentenced to 18 months in a i 1 monday after pleading guilty to a charge of Possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. The Man Stanley Paul of 640 Burrows Avenue was charged sept. 25 after the ramp went to his residence and found two pounds of Mari Uana in plastic bags. Defence counsel Manly Srael said the marijuana was of Paul s but had been left by no Thor person in the care of aul. Paul was sentenced to a two ear term for robbery in of Ober 1972, was paroled in Jan Ary 1973. Judge c. C. Sparling in sen in c i n g Paul in provincial Udics court in the Law courts funding said Paul had put a knife in the Back of the person who had Given him a Chance ;