Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 29, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnick of tit muss saturday Novemia 29, 1975 schools mails Mills disrupted by strikes by the Canadian press strikes continued this week to disrupt postal service the pulp Aad paper Industry and schools in Canada. Mail delivery has resumed in some areas because a number of the 22.000 members of the Canadian Union of postal workers Are Back on the Job but most of the inside postal workers Are on strike for their 40th Day. About workers at a newsprint Mill in Corner Brook Nykl voted this week to join thousands of other pulp and paper workers on strike in various parts of the country to Back contract de mands. Some workers in the Industry have been of strike since the summer. Meanwhile school teachers in the Montreal area continued selective work disruptions to protest the Quebec government s latest contract offer. The s.600 secondary school teachers in metropolitan Toronto who went on strike nov. 12 were told Fri Day by the Federal anti inflation Board that the latest offer to the teachers from their school Board was in excess of what the anti inflation Board would consider appropriate. Earlier in the week the Post office made an offer to striking workers and the Union s National executive met Friday to consider it. An official of the Saskatoon local said regional meetings will be held across the country Sun Day to discuss the latest con this Little dog was trapped n a burning House in Regina when the fire men arrived. Fireman Alfred noels finding the dog overcome by smoke used an oxygen mask designed for humans and brought him Back to near Normal. Higher Federal minimum wage Likely Post office talks _ i to resume today o hourly on monday from the current British Columbia currently is setting the Pace for the rest of the country. Its minimum goes to hourly on Mon Day from the a second staged increase to is effective Jan. 1. Continued historically t h e Federal government has been the Leader in minimum wages a labor department official said. Or. Munro said most labor ministers when asked at a Federal provincial conference Here oct. 24, said they would continued not object to the Federal mini mum being raised. The Yukon minimum is set at the Federal minimum plus 10 cents extra hourly. A higher Federal minimum Trudeau Stanfield clash profit on the Sale of sky shops shares. Or. Stanfield opened the questioning1 Friday in the House with an oblique refer ence to remarks by health minister Marc Lalonde in a television interview about the Marchand incident. Or. Lalonde stated in the interview that wasps White i Anglo Saxon protes Tants Are making it look As though French canadians and italians Are responsible continued for All the country wrongs in the the prime minister predicted that if the ramp Ever questioned members of the tory opposition the attitude of the opposition will change has the prime minister not read the record of the proceedings of the House of commons about this whole unfortunate Walter Baker pc Gren is he now brow Ystone furs Ltd. Wholesale fur manufacturers wish to announce they have moved their premises to 167 Bannatyne 5th floor. Industrial saying that the opposition is being irresponsible for Rais ing matters which have since come to outside the House or. La Londe denied that he had accused the opposition or the press of racist in their handling of the sky shops Case. He admitted using the term but demanded what s wrong with the minister said that he slated in the interview that he knew it was the opinion of some English speaking canadians that francophone Are corrupt that s a lot of he snapped. You can t generalizations like in another interview. Or. Marchand said it in untrue that or. Trudeau prevented the ramp from talking to my. He stated that he or. Marchaud would co operate once he knew what the. Ramp were looking for. The minister complained that reports that his office or Home have been raided create prejudice to me even if there is he argued that the Force should not create prejudice to any i am a citizen or. Marchand said he has never complained that the affair is racist inspired but added that it seems funny that he was the Only one who had cameramen and report ers waiting for him the Day the ramp were trying to see him. Puts pressure on such prov inces As Prince Edward is land which has a minimum hourly to raise rates. Newfoundland s minimum wage currently is but the government announced in a budget nov. 20 the rate would be raised to hourly on Jan. 1. Nova Scotia s minimum rate of an hour is being raised to on Jan. 1. New Brunswick is expected to announce shortly an in crease in its current hourly minimum. Among the Prairie prov inces there have been no announced changes. The Alberta minimum is and Manitoba s is but Saskatchewan is re ported preparing to raise its minimum to hourly on Jan. 1 from or. Munro said the labor ministers discussed raising the Minim urns in the con text of the government s anti inflation there was some Concerro that in creases in minimums might put some Low paid workers in violation of the selected wage and Price controls imposed oct. 14. The Federal government subsequently agreed to Amend its program so that any worker can bargain for increases above the Basic 10 per cent allowed by the controls in order to bring his hourly rate up to legislation to put the anti inflation program into full operation was scheduled to go into final third Reading de Bate in the commons Friday but was delayed until Mon Day by agreement among the parties. Postal workers said work week and a 10-Cenl-Aii the Union did not wish to. Com ment on any aspect of the situation. I m sorry we just Don t have anything we want to he said. M r. Mackasey said he did t want to comment on what aspects of the contract dispute would be under negotiation. But he reiterated his position that the government would not Budge on its offer of a Suo an hour increase Over 30 months a 40-hour backlog of mail below forecasts continued hour Cost of living increase every three months. There Are a few areas where we Are prepared to he said. He named specifically a Union demand for equal pay for Parkima and full time workers and a reclassification of mail the Union has been seeking a wage increase of 38 per an 27 months in addition to a Shorter work week to 35 hours and a More generous Cost of living clause. Average hourly salary is the Union has said since the talks broke off it was will ing to be flexible in its de mands and appealed to the Post office to do the same. But with the Union decision to cease All comment at this stage of the negotiations it is not known if the demands have been lowered. Tract offer of which no de tails were give. Contract negotiations con tin used in Vancouver for workers in the British Colum Bia pulp and paper Industry who Are on the Job but a number of Industry workers remained on strike in the East. About members of the Canadian paper workers Union in the Atlantic prov inces Quebec and Ontario went of strike this fall seek ing a wage in crease to a base hourly rate of and average hourly wage of in Ontario where about pulp and paper workers Are on strike the labor ministry has invited the presidents of Mills affected by the strikes to a meeting some time next week a ministry spokesman said Friday. On tuesday Federal labor minister John Munro said he would ask presidents of pulp and paper companies to re sume negotiations with strik ing workers. Jean Luc Pepin chairman of the anti inflation Board said Friday that bargaining should Rusu me Between strik ing teachers and the metro Toronto school Board in an Effort to reach an agreement More properly reflecting the anti inflation policy of restraint. The teachers were seeking a 43.9-pcr-Ccnt wage increase Over two years and the metro school Board had offered 39.2 per cent. In Quebec the government has proposed a 2g.5-pcr-cent salary increase in the first., year of a new contract for teachers but teachers say the increase represents Only eight per cent if a Cost of living Bonus of 17 per cent awarded last year is taken into account. Montreal also was affected this week by strikes by about. Cashiers and clerks of Steinberg s Ltd. Clerics of Miracle Mart a Stein Berg s subsidiary Plo yees of the Quebec. Liquor _ corp. And the City s 475 Blue Collar foremen. Mint offices weren t surveyed he said. With smaller businesses and private mail about five to six million let ters can be expected As Well As second and third class mail and parcels. There is already mail in pc Survey shows strike is Hii Rtin continued jobs Are also being lost country As follows British they Are jobs which in some Columbia 14 per cent the Prairies 32 per cent on -4 m 200 Aksum or. In the Maples 5-a v t " Etc Mai of a w i furnished december 1st Possession open daily 2-8 sat Sun. 1 . 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Clarke said the conservative party has taken the initiative to launch a nationwide sur vey to try and determine the economic Impact of the strike on the country. Prime minister tru Deau told the commons Fri Day he knew of no Way that an exact assessment could be made to assess the real damage inflicted of canadians shutdown of the Post office. He said he. Believed it would be impossible to make an exact assess ment. He hoped the striker would be soon settled on the basis of the generous offer already made by postmaster general Bryce Mackasey. Conservative party re search office staff members have spoke i to a total of 204 person since the Telephone Survey was started tuesday up to 4 . Thursday out of the total of 204 businessmen and women accounted for 112 of the Calls or 50 per tent. Fifty nine were concerned citizens while n were pensioners were special interest groups four were students four were disabled persons and four were postal workers. The statistic released by the pc research office were in the area of business Only. Most of the firms Call ing the tory researchers were in outlying or Rural areas and depended heavily on the mail sen ice for Bill collection Bill payment in voicing and shipment of sup plies. The Tenor of these re a Ponsch was uniformly Perlac. All reported substantial business losses As a re suit of the strike and said they were in immediate jeopardy of bankruptcy or t h a i their recovery from losses in the near future i v. O u 1 d be rerno7c. T or. I 3 Clarke said. The Calls v a r i it Tario 42 per cent Quebec four per cent and from the maritime eight per cent. Of the total 64 per cent said they were facing real possibility of bankruptcy or layoffs. A majority had been forced to Lay off staff. The Post office trapped by the strike although there is at least less than when the strike began. One parcel turned out to contain a noticeably perishable item meat or fish. 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