Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 13, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Voting indicates rejection of offer Winnipeg free press thursday february 13, 1975 up voting to Date by Federal Blue Collar workers indicate an Over whelming majority will reject conciliation proposals but the Union has left an opening for the resumption of contract talks by the weekend. The group includes employees who clean Airport runways and maintain postal Post office equipment. Labourers and tradesmen also Are included in the unit. If they strike the workers have the potential to disrupt postal services air travel and Grain shipping operations. The Public service Alliance is conducting votes on the conciliation report released last Friday which recommended raises of 15.4 per cent in the first year and 10.66 per cent in the second year of a. Two year agreement. The Union wants a 42.5 per cent raise to total payroll which officials say would pay to 90 per cent of similar rates outside the government. Average hourly pay now is the Union said wednesday in a news release that trends Are showing the workers will Back a unanimous Call from leaders for rejection of the conciliation report. But it adds that the re sult will not be confirmed until late today. Known results from Ottawa Winnipeg Vancouver and smaller centres show a Strong vote for rejection. But the Alliance says that be fore planned selective strikes begin Treasury Board will be Given a Chance to assess the situation and to avoid a strike by returning to the bargaining walkouts will begin if there is no reopening of talks the Union says. Legally strikes could begin Friday morning. Alliance officials Are hoping to place maximum pressure on the government with the Selec Tive strikes without pulling out All members of the group. Among those who will stay on the Job Are employees working in veterans hospitals and those taking care of animals. 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The Call is almost cer Tain to be endorsed this week privately if not publicly by the ministerial meeting of the organization of african Unity the Council has so far shrugged off the idea of a ceasefire with bandits but As afro Arab diplomacy is begin Ning to make Clear the government s Price for a stubborn and bloody policy toward Eri Trean nationalism will be a commitment to a War of Attri Tion at a time when disorders in several ethiopian provinces Are making maximum de mands on the country s shaky military establishment. The military Council which finally deposed emperor Haile Selassie and formally took Power in september last year has already deployed around troops and paramilitary and the country s second City is in the hands of government troops As Are the red sea ports of assay and Massaway. There Are conflicting reports As to the situation in Keren a Small town 60 Miles to the North of Asmara. But Road links Between the police in Eritrea since the guerrilla offensive began 12 Days ago. It is understood that Only two battalions of soldiers remain to guard Addis Ababa itself. The police who May Well have political ideas of their own Are now in a majority in the Capi Tal. In spite of heavy troop move ments to the North tangled re ports indicate that the military situation in tenuous Asmara the provincial capital Eritrea remains the government. Mint talks halt Ottawa up negotiations Between the Royal Ca Nadian mint and its 550 strik ing workers broke off again wednesday after two Days of contract talks. The employees in Ottawa Hull que., and Winnipeg have been on strike since Jan. 9. The workers produce coins for general use and specially minted corns designed to raise Money for the 1976 olympic games in Montreal. Talks resumed monday for the first time in More than two weeks after Federal labor min ister John Munro intervened. The strike has made worse an existing Coin shortage in the country and the Public service Alliance representing the workers has mounted a Campaign calling for hoarding of coins to put pressure on management. The workers who now earn average wages of an hour had asked for raises of 22 per cent in the first year and a similar increase in the second year of a two year settlement. The mint a Crown Corpora Tion had offered 10 per cent in the first year and 8.5 per cent in the second year. Union negotiator Warren Edmundson said wednesday the mint raised its offer by Only of one per cent in the latest talks a change that was not the Union had changed its position sub Stan he added. Country s Only two seaports and the provincial capital have repeatedly come under attack from the combined forces of the eritrean liberation front Elf and the popular libera Tion front the two guerrilla move m e n t a whose political differences have been sunk into a temporary joint military com Mand control the province by night and much of it by Day. Their Supply problem is min Imal compared to that of a government which is heavily dependent on continuing . Military Aid and Long landlines from the South in order to maintain a defensive posture in Eritrea. It is a situation in which there can be no Militar Victory for Ethiopia s Nev rulers. As an Oak Delegate said recently we Are trying to make this Clear to the Council in the pol test Possi ble Way hut there is no sign that the Council will the political persuasion tha is being brought to Bear on Thi Council stems mainly from the sudanese government backed by president Anwar Sadat o Egypt. A sudanese diplomatic Mission Here urged the Mili tary Council to agree to a ceasefire and open talks with the guerrillas. The Mission has yet to make any Impact. The coun cil has been busily reinforcing its positions in Asmara and throughout the eritrean prov Ince. It is exactly this response which is fueling forecasts of a Short life for the Council at least in its present unwieldy form. The military leaders Are following their initial and instinctive backlash policy against the eritrean secessionists. In the words of a Western Diplomat Here the government has got its Arm caught in a door that is being shut very hard and with a lot of outside it is open talk in Addis that the diplomatic and military pressure on the government is beginning to foment serious divisions within the military leadership. The Council however appears determined to ref use any demand for autonomy let alone Independence for Eritrea. 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The system has not been fully the spokesman for the minister said. Syn crude looked at the idea but rejected it in favor of the cok ing Cost estimates have been calculated As yet but some department officials said it could run to about million. However this would include Only the Cost of a Hydro crack ing system with no provision for the Cost of mining the Oil Sands or removing Bitumen from the Sand. Those services might be provided by great Canadian the Only Oil Sands Plant now in production department officials say. A second Plant is scheduled to go into operation in 1978, turning out barrels a Day. Special Odds and ends Sale. 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He had been head of state Tor just six Days on the Indian Ocean Island. A new military Council blamed the killing on a rebel Security police group. The rebels holed up in a Camp on the Edge of the capital and loyalist troops surrounded it wednesday. Some of the estimated 400 rebels were understood to have escaped. Martial Law has been pro claimed and a dusk to Dawn curfew imposed. The capital was Calm wednesday night and foreign residents were not believed to be in danger. There Are sever Al thousand French residents in the country formerly the French Colony of Madagascar. Low you can your 5 on your income tax too. Very shortly Royal Trust will announce a new plan that can make life a lot better for you. It will be called a registered Home ownership savings plan. And we want you to know about it first. If you Don t already own a Home within the meaning of the legislation applicable to such this new plan will allow you to put away so much each year towards buying one. 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