Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 13, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday june 13, 1974 unit trains move wheat to East 50% pay increase for Las inflation Index supported by Ron Campbell free 1 a Csc legislative reporter members of the Manitoba legislature unanimously gave the Canadian wheat Board is using two unit trains to and have no agreement to arrive at the Canadian port Reading wednesday to a Bill which would give them a bushels of durum wheat from Moose jaw sask., directly to Quebec Days. Another wheat Board spokesman said the . Shippers per cent salary increase and a now improved package of Ringe benefits. One train left wednesday and one is to leave Friday. Grain Lias not Ben moved by rail from the Prairies to the East coast by rail during the great Lake shipping season within living memory but a need for additional Grain in Quebec City and a backup of Grain at Thunder Bay ont., has made it necessary at charter vessels contracts than does the Board and Are prepared to pay More than we Are on our seasonal or. Vogel said it is still too soon to say whether the wheat Board targets for moving Grain out of Thunder Bay will be met by the end of the crop year but no is Bill 95, proposed amendments to the legislative Assembly act introduced for second Reading wednesday afternoon by premiered Schreyer. If the Bill becomes Law this legislative session the new Money it would give the legislators would be retroactive to Jan. 30 this year. The East coast have would increase an la s lately we have had to session Al indemnity to slow Down of Lake vessels m. Runciman from the. Present riving causing a Little bit of a Back up at Thunder g. N. Vogel chief commissioner of the wheat Board said in United Grain growers said the Winter movement agreed rates have always been much higher than the water increase his tax free expense allowance to from the. Present for a total Basic package of interview. This is one Way of relieving he explained. The Grain was ready and cleaned at Moose jaw and needed at Quebec City for movement into position to meet sales commitments. Or. Vogel said the rail rate negotiated with up rail for the two trains each with 65 Hopper cars combined with the bypassing of various costs at Thunder Bay has made the Cost of the movement about the same As shipping the Grain on the Lake. Frank t. Rowan a wheat Hoard employee who negotiated with up rail for the cars said it is not possible to give the exact difference in Cost because of the Many other costs involved but said it was not very much different slightly the agreement with up rail for the cars is similar to the Winter unit movement agreement he added. Up rail had a surplus equipment available for the Grain due to the overload at Thunder Bay and a Union slowdown at the Vancouver terminal elevators. There is 66 million bushels of Grain at Thunder Bay one Ever moves Gram by rail during the shipping he said in an interview. Or. Runciman questioned the planning ability of the Canadian wheat Board and asked. Why the Board had allowed the present situation to arise. Surely if the Price per vessel for june was higher they should have been Able to gel Canada s share of the or. Run i. Man asked whether the Board had nol chartered enough vessels on the Hope of Selling wheat to the United Stales who would themselves have to Supply he vessels to move the Grain out. The shortage of wheat in the . Earlier pronounced by the wheat Board did not materialize however. This is a very wild conjecture but no other set of circumstances explain the he of the House Peter Fox would receive a total of up from the present and in additional expenses As the provincial auditor May approve. The Deputy speaker would get a total of the Leader of the official opposition progressive conservative Leader Sidney Spivak would receive total under the Bill while Liberal Leader Izzy Asper would receive each party caucus would receive an annual research Grant of a caucus member up from the present Rale and each member would get a annual constituency allowance. Cabinet members of the governing new democratic party would receive the Basic la s package on top of the salaries they vote themselves As members of the province s executive Council under the executive Council act. Or. Schreyer would thus receive a year for his services while other Cabinet ministers would get Bill 95 would tie the Las building strike still unsettled Saskatoon up present 10 million bushels above that port s proper operating capacity and More Grain than had been at agent for the construction and general labourers Union said wednesday he will not be stampeded package As Well As their pension plan to the rising Cost of living by a formula which takes into account the port when the shipping of a strike that has stalled construction increase in the consumer Price Index and the or. Vogel said the the province yearly composite in number of ships have not been arriving at Thunder Bay 1. Al Neumann commenting wage for Manitoba. The Bill also gives a member cause of a slowdown of report tuesday that a Telephone privileges on vessels reaching the i v e agreement had related to legislative ports. Also there has been Between the and gives improvements diversion of Lake vessels to construction a member s pension plan Luth Minnesota and and carpenters said allowance and inter ses United states ports on would remain on committee indemnity. Great lakes also for the or. Neumann said x p 1 a i n i n g the Bill or. Ment of Grain. Or. Vogel issues include the said the novel thing the Lake vessels arc of a contract hiring it is the provision for to the wheat Board for procedures members indemnities to a certain volume during a Cost of living. This would go toward avoid no arguments about what a member s indemnity should be said the Premier. That kind of debate in t rational and not particularly he said. He said the Bill was the re sult of discussions Between members from both govern ment and opposition sides of the House though he himself to do with that. But the indemnity package proposed in. The Bill represented reasonable in line with Las salaries in provinces of comparable size. The Premier. Said it was thought better for the Mani Toba Las to simply work out the Bill among themselves rather than. Go through the form of having a Royal com Mission study the matter As has been done in past years. Or. Sidney Spivak said the matter of Las salaries is considered delicate by some but must be dealt with in the course of an adjustment has not been made for some years and not Only has the Cost of living in creased during that period so has a member s workload or. Spivak said. It would be wrong to con Sider this a part Lime occupation it is in proposing the Bill the government have taken the responsibility and have taken a rational the opposition Leader said. He called the indexing of salaries and pensions a rations and asked for s better research and secretarial allowance for opposition parly members. Or. Spivak had really Only one Basic disagreement with the Bill the Premier would t be paid enough. He should be getting More than a year in excess of his own Cabine ministers and the opposition Leader or. Spivak said. The Premier Heads a govern ment which controls a Quarter of the Gross provincial econ omy and that should be reflected in his salary he said. Steve Patrick s i n i b o i a agreed that or Ich Cyer should get better salary. There is almost no consideration Given for the head Man the coach of the said the former Winnipeg Blue bombers player. Labor minister a. R. Russ Paulley agreed the Premier should get More than he does and i think i can propose that Resolution which would be adopted by the House he certainly deserves the Premier sat doodling modestly on papers smiling faintly As the members lauded Lis worthiness. Outside the House or. Paul Ley said in an interview he re ally could t raise the pre Mier s salary by amending the legislative Assembly act but a could t be outdone in the House by opposition members n praising his Leader he said. The labor minister said he might bring the subject up in Cabinet however and the Cabi net could accomplish the Job under its executive Council act Powers. Conservative financial critic Donald w. Craik and conservative whip Warner Jorgenson both disagreed with the salary and pension indexing the Bill pro poses. Although admitting there were two sides to the argument or. Craik said Legisla tors could theoretically be accused of abetting inflation just so they could get salary in creases through indexing. Although other pensioners in the country should have their pensions indexed to the Cost of living they Don to or. Craik said. Or. Jorgenson said the legislators should Deal with the problem of their own salaries themselves from time to time and not make the raises Auto Matic through the indexing procedure. There about making this thing automatic that concerns or. Jorgenson said he was speaking in the debate because the subject of Las salary raises has received so much attention in the news Media of the province. I would hate to disappoint the press who have Given so much publicity to this sure and i would like to see that they get their Money s the Bill passed second read ing on a voice vote All yeas and nary a it will now be considered in the legislature s committee of the whole House Safe from direct submissions by members of the general Public before going on to third Reading final approval and Royal assent. Bad brakes for dealer Windsor locks Conn. A when Germaine Faivre 70, found her brakes failing at an intersection she immediately drove to her car dealer. On arriving her brakes failed again and her car smashed through a showroom window. The dealer estimated damage at several thousand but said he would Haye the women s brakes fixed. Polly wants a Rock the Teeth of the parrotfish Are so Strong that they can bite through Rock. 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