Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 14, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday March a 1975 president outlines trans air position by John Mcmanus free press staff writer Arthur v. Mauro president trans air ltd., Winnipeg has sent a four Page letter to All employees of the air Carrier telling strikers and non strikers that trans air cannot accept demands by an individual or group disregarding or indifferent to other employees the Public or those who have entrusted the company with their investments. Employees who struck Tran Sair last Friday Are in the maintenance and traffic departments and Are members of the International association of machinists and aerospace workers. said he believed the strikers Haven t been Given a True account of company Union negotiations. His letter dated March 10, said in part to h e company requested bargaining for the two units be carried out separately since the skills involved and conditions of work were separate and distinct. Early Friday we were and general aviation Boycott to end Don Watson vice president of trans air ltd., said thurs Day a secondary Boycott of the airline by members of the International association of machinists was to end Friday. About 20 employees of Gen eral aviation services Ltd which is contracted to provide trans air with ramp service and cargo and baggage handling who were Laid off when they refused saturday to Han die trans air will return to work Friday. The general aviation workers Are members of the same Union As the 250 striking trans air employees. Or. Watson said the return to work would help trans i by releasing 20 of the about 25 supervisory workers who were handling jobs normally done by the striking maintenance and traffic workers. Used that if there was to be a strike we would receive notice by . To be effective at Midnight. By Friday afternoon agree ment had been reached with members of the maintenance unit and in fact the terms of he agreement were initialled by both parties. Major unresolved relative to traffic employees. Our willingness to continue our negotiations Over he weekend was indicated but Xith maintenance and traffic employees were advised by their representatives to walk out at . The company was Given notice shortly or. Mauro went on to say that one solution was to buy a settlement by giving in to All demands. This Short term Solu t i o n would ultimately fail since it did t reflect Long term financial implications he said. The president traced the his Lory of trans air when it was in serious financial difficulty when it lacked better and larger equipment when the work Force was and Felt insecure and when service to communities on its route was below an acceptable level. He said in the letter that Bankers and financiers have gained in trans air in recent years investing million. The work Force has risen from 350 to 700 and salaries now compare favourably with those in the airline in the Revenue base has been expanded with consistent prof its. Profits Haven t yet achieved an acceptable level according to or. Mauro nor has the company paid a single dividend to shareholders in its 28-year history. The trans air head said the present management and workers have proved the air Fine can operate efficiently and have that the future would or. Mauro said now required Canada s position rapped Are investor vide capital support to pro mar was Fri agent Chicago a the chief Security officer of the Ameri can Indian movement said thursday that he was an Fri operative during the wounded knee siege and passed on trial secrets of leaders and their lawyers. Douglass Durham 37, of Des Morihei Iowa said he was also a top aide and close confidante to Dennis co Leader of will Russell Means. Both were tried in Minneapolis in connection with the 71-Day takeover of wounded knee s.d., in 1973. The charges were dismissed last september. It bothers the hell out of Durham said of his Fri connections. Kenneth Tilsen lawyer said the Indian group obtained copies of the intelligence files Durham gave to the Fri but did say from whom they were obtained. Tilsen said the discovery that Durham had Access to Public Confidence to make Revenue maximum employee Effort outlining plans for growth he told employees fare in creases alone could t meet re cent wage settlements let alone the demands we have re those employees who have withdrawn their services have every right to do so the letter said. I we on the other hand have a duty to the our investors and ourselves to main Tain the highest standards of operation. Our efforts will also ensure that the striking employees will have a Job to return to when outstanding efforts Are Ottawa up Canada s declaration of a 200-mile coast Al control limit was described As a moral monstrosity by a . Political scientist Here in a speech to about 25 maps. Or. John Logue director of the world order research Institute Villanova University Philadelphia said Canada betrayed its reputation As an internationalist country and opted for narrow nationalism in deciding to. Assert economic control Over the 200-mile Ocean limit which includes the Continental shelf. He said the Canadian delegation at the Law of the sea con Ference in Venezuela last year displayed Brilliant Diplo m a c y in convincing mos other maritime nations to sup port the 200-mile so called exclusive economic but he warned that the country will someday regret the decision. Or Logue an Ocean Law expert whose research Institute studies the needs of countries was invited to speak to maps from All parties at a meeting organized by David Macdonald he said Canada became the most influential Force for nationalism in International affairs by helping to shatter the belief that Mineral wealth below the Ocean Beds should belong to All countries. The declaration will deprive most developing countries of the benefits they need from Ocean resources he said. The Only Way to offset this is to obtain commitments from Canada and other wealthy Mia rite countries to pay a portion of revenues from exploitation of Ocean Mineral wealth developing. Countries. He said such payments could be calculated on the basis of per capita income in the contributing country. Or. Logue said he. Hoped prime minister Pierre Trudeau would re examine the country s maritime policy and direct it into channels which reflect his deep concern for peace Justice and third world William Teron president of Central Mort Gage and housing Ottawa who will be the second lec Turer in the 1975 r. H. G. Bonnycastle lecture series at the University of Winnipeg. Or. Teron originally from Gardenton man., will talk about the growth of cities at 8 . Tuesday in theatre a Manitoba Hall. The Pas Complex to close Premier s speech extended the president of Manitoba Forest resources the company which took Over the Churchill Forest industries Complex at the Pas said thursday a shortage of orders will Force the Plant to shut Down for a two week period beginning at 4 ., March 21. The shutdown will affect about 450 employees but l. J. Hallgrimson said most will take advantage of Holiday benefits they have built up and won t suffer any loss of income during the period. Or. Hallgrimson said such shutdowns were common in the pulp and paper Industry and said the Down time would re Fleet a depressed Market for the end product of the Plant which is mostly converted into paper bags. H e said company " orders were falling off because Many customers had decided to use up stocks on hand in an expectation that the reduced demand would ultimately affect the Price they pay for paper. Despite a procedural Chal Enge premiered Schreyer of Manitoba was granted extended speaking time thursday night and used his time to catalogue the achievements of six years of new democratic party government in he touched on redistribution of wealth aut Opac inflation failures of the previous progressive conservative administration the surreptitious deceit of the previously secret transactions of the Manitoba development fund the inequities of Federal funds Given to the aviation Industry and land leasing. His speech ended when by House rules time arose for the vote on a conservative non Confidence motion in the gov eminent part of the ritual of throne speech debate. The government won the vote by 28 to 21. The non Confidence motion was supported by All Liberal and conserva Tive members present and opposed by All Foo Verumen members. Absent for the vote were health minister Larry Desjar dins attorney general Howan Pawley Donald w. Craik pc Bob Banman Verendrye and James h. Bil ton at the end of the afternoon sitting Warner Jorgenson pc challenged the pre Mier s right to speak without the Standard 40-minute Tim limit. Or. Jorgenson argued tha the Premier had granted i right to speak without Tim limit tuesday night to re sources minister Sidney Green who had spoken for 90 minute prior to the vote on a libera non Confidence motion. He said the throne Speed debate should be considered a one motion and the Premier Opportunity to speak without limit had been used up. Speaker Peter Fox ruled i favor of no time limit for the Premier saying the Debat was on a different motion see ing As the Liberal motion a been dealt with and the conservative motion was unde discussion thursday his ruling was upheld in a 27-to-15 vote. Members of the government supported the speaker s ruling. Conservatives opposed the ruling and the liberals split. Or. Lloyd a worthy Rouge voted with the conservatives and Gordon e. Johnston age la Prairie voted with the government. The third member f the Liberal caucus Steve Atrick was sent. After the secretive dealings f the development corporation while the conservatives were n Power they have the Gall o say we Lack the Premier said. They operated Vith surreptitious the conservatives Are Fol owing the old adage that the Iest deceit is a big lie and hey Are crowning classic examples of he agreed with the Corpora Tion had some difficulties but noted that government lending agencies in jurisdictions with Liberal and conservative governments had similar prob lems. Politically the Best Way around High risk enterprises is through an outright Grant rather than a loan such As the hundreds of millions of dollars which have been expended by the Federal department of re g i o n a 1 economic expansion or. Schreyer said. He said the opposition seemed stubbornly deter mined to misinterpret the government s gasoline tax for aut Opac and said even wit the additional two cents a Gal Ion the gasoline tax in Mani Toba would be one cent a Gal Ion lower than it was under the conservatives. He predicted within 10 year the categories of preferred general and All purpose insurance would be dispensed with because of administrative difficulties and the difference would be made up through a Oline taxes. I believe with All my hear and soul that there is n better substitute for Public automobile the pre Mier said. He trotted out a civil Servic report from the conservative term of office 1968 to Counte opposition claims that the and was politicizing the civil sir vice. The document asked the Civ service to advise the govern ment How to bring in program More sensitive to different constituency political patterns with the implications for cab net. High priority for sensitive projects was seen As essential for the political Security of the government the Premier said. He said the 1968 study Segre ated constituencies As to solid government seats solid oppose on seats volatile government r opposition seats and mar Inal government or opposition eats. Different programs might be Ood in one Riding and produce negative reactions in another e read from the study. He also cited financial mis dealings at a grand rapids i s h i n g co operative and at Asherville under the previous administration As a counter to conservative charges of mis management or malfeasance at Wabowden. After the vote George min Aker pc St. James criticized the Premier s speech As offering nothing new and no ind Valion on pending govern ment programs. He suggested is signalled the imminent prosecution of the government and forecast Dis Missal of senior civil servants Over the Wabowden affair. The lengthy Cabinet chorus line has been dancing the Cabinet he said. Orders to kill not passed on Cecil Merritt a Victoria Cross win Ner said tuesday he disobeyed instructions to have a British expert shot rather than it him be captured by the germans in the second world War raid on1 Dieppe. Or. Merritt now a Van Couver lawyer was awarded the pc for gallantry in com manding the South Saskatchewan regiment at Dieppe. He said in an interview he supplied the escort for the radar expert sgt. Jack Nis s e n t h Al 1 of the Royal air Force. A new Book on Dieppe by James leaser says sgt. Nis sent Hall knew so much about British radar that his escort of 11 Canadian soldiers had orders to kill him rather than allow him to be taken prisoner. Or. Merritt said lie had received the instructions but did not pass them along to the escort. A directive to that effect was i recall received by or. Merritt said but i m afraid i disobeyed it. I said to the escort listen i Don t like this. Keep him Safe rather than shoot him.1 most of the escort was killed on the Mission which failed in its primary Mission but which succeeded in gaining inform t i o n useful to the allies throughout the remainder o the War. Or. Merritt said he could no remember who gave the instructions o r whether they came in written or verbal orm. He said sgt. Nissen Thall s Mission was to find out How a the germans had advanced in the development of radar. There was a German radar station at Dieppe and they sent this fellow to pick up some pieces to bring or. Merritt said. Or. Merritt said that since sgt. Nissen Thall returned alive and Well from the raid the decision turned out to be the right one. But it s quite possible that in the interests of winning the War the instruction was one i should have obeyed to the let lie said. Had he been captured and tortured and our secrets got from him i would have been today very ashamed of my or. Leaser reports in his Beach that while sgt. Nissen Thall was unable to reach the radar station he succeeded in cutting Telephone wires and forcing the germans to use radio transmissions. These were monitored and Analysed disclosing German radar secrets that made Possi b 1 e the electrical jamming which later cleared the Way for Royal air Force raids. Or. Merritt said sgt. Nis sent Hall who now runs an elec tronic business in South Africa visited him Here last year. Trial strategy planned by defendants and their lawyers several trials will result in numerous Legal actions since the government contended it had no direct Access to the defendants strategy. Durham said at a news con Ference he was a paid Fri operative for about two years be ginning in March 1973. He said he was paid Between and a month. He said he had Contact with a half dozen Fri agents in Sev eral slates and was asked to feed information concerning any foreign involvement with the travel of Lead ers fund raising activities As Well As defence strategy at several trials involving members. Durham said his future status with was not Clear and leaders who attended the news conference did not elaborate. I like them i Don t know what they re going to do about Durham said. . House approves Aid Bill Washington a the House of representatives has passed by an la vote margin a s3.5-Biliion appropriation Bill for foreign Aid and related pro Grams after rejecting pleas for both higher and lower amounts. The measure for spending during the current fiscal year ending june 30, was sent to the Senate after the 212-to-201 approval thursday. It is Bil lion below what the Ford administration requested and billion less than was appropriated last year. A proposal to trim it by an additional 10 per cent lost in a preliminary 71-to-25 vote and an Effort to ban Aid to coun tries that Are More than 90 Days behind in paying United states debts lost by 54 to 20. But the House also turned aside amendments that would have tacked on an additional million for food Aid. Pro Grams million for Popula Tion control and million for Cyprus refugees., the billion includes Maceachen itinerary announced Ottawa up the dates for external affairs minister Allan Maceachen s trip to Africa were announced Here. The minister will leave april 13 and return april 26, visiting Nigeria upper Volta Ivory coast Cameroon and Ghana. Huband to speak. Charles Huband newly elected Leader of the Manitoba lib eral party will speak at the annual meeting of the Osborne Liberal constituency association which begins at 8 . Monday in the James Richard son constituency office 900 Cory Don Avenue. Billion in economic and Mili tary Aid and military sales credits and million for the peace corps refugee pro Grams and International Banks and development agencies. The billion in direct eco nomic Aid includes million for postwar reconstruction in Indochina and million for Middle Eastern countries. Israel would receive Mil lion Egypt million and other Arab states million As part of state Secretary Henry Kissinger s efforts to Spur peace negotiations in the Region. The vote on the foreign Aid authorization Bill annually a controversial measure because objections to various specific provisions Cut across party lines. Vote to approve it were cast by 153 democrats and 59 republicans while 122 democrats and 79 republicans opposed it. 5th science fair the fifth Winnipeg schools science fair will be held april 4 and 5 in r. B. Russell Voca school 364 Dufferin ave nue. The fair will be open to the Public from 7 . To 9 . April 4, and from 9 . To noon april 5. Air Canada and the nation s other commercial airlines have been operating under difficult circumstances for More than four weeks now. Rotating strikes by the government employees who remove Snow from Airport runways make it impossible for airlines to assure the travelling Public they will be Able to leave when they want or to land at their final destination. Our major airports can be completely closed with Little or no warning during this strike. As always air Canada s objective is to continue providing air transportation to As Many passengers As possible throughout this period. When weather threatens to make operations questionable we Endeavor to advise passengers in Advance so they can either delay their travel or make alternate arrangements. We shall continue to serve every Airport As Long As existing conditions permit the Safe operation of our aircraft. A sudden Airport shutdown can however create tremendous problems. Thousands of travellers can be unexpectedly diverted to an alternate destination with Little or no warning and this of course puts great pressure on staff facilities and alternate Means of transportation. Under these circumstances air Canada will provide As much individual assistance to passengers As it can although Normal service standards inevitably suffer sometimes severely. In All cases As much help As possible will be Given in making alternate travel arrangements. We regret the inconvenience this strike is causing. We Hope our customers understand that these Airport workers Are not employees of air Canada and the situation is one completely beyond the airline s control. We Are asking for your patience if you become affected by the strike. In turn air Canada will do everything in its Power to continue operations and to move everyone As smoothly and efficiently As possible. Air ;