Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 24, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday january 24, 1976 Council rejects 4.7% extra for bus staff Council Friday but or. Cohen had said thursday the Atu was not Adamant on it. Mayor Juba told Council the Union executive was t satisfied with his 14-per-cent package but had agreed to Call a membership meeting to consider it if it was offered. I Don t think it s unreasonable and if the review Board Rolls it Back they the Union accept it we accept mayor Juba said. In a later interview the mayor declined to say How he arrived at the 4.7 per cent figure but assured that it could be justified and certainly was t pulled out of a he said he did t want to give his reasons for the Fig ure because this is just an he thought that 1.5 per cent of it May have passed the anti inflation Hoard. During the special meet ing Union officials spoke privately to coun. Gerry Mer c i e r Independent citizens election committee fort he reported to coun cil that the Union would accept a Rollback by the Board. Stressing that the offer was wholly within the Gui mayor Juba pleaded for acceptance of the motion because a bus strike would cause great personal and economic hardship to the City. There was also the possibility it would spark strikes by other civic employee unions similar to the 1919 Winnipeg general strike. A h a t Are we running into a general strike Don t say that is not if a strike occurs he said i sense that we re going to be in deep deep opponents of the motion stressed the municipal tax increases already facing Winnipeg cars this year said continued the City Atu negotiations were regarded As a Prairie test for the Federal guidelines and urged Council not to shift its decisions to the anti inflation Board. Even before and Ching the school tax Winnipeg ratepayers face a municipal tax increase on a assessment assuming 9 per cent wage increases to All civic employees coun. Norm Stapon ice East Kildonan said. Deputy mayor Crnic Wolfe ice Transcona said City transit losses this year Are projected at we Are placed in the Posi Tion of being the Battle ground for the anti inflation said coun. Gary Filmon ice Assiniboine com. June Westbury ind. Fort Rouge said if coun cil passed the 14-per-cent package and left it to the anti inflation Board it would be a cop out of our obligation to make decisions at this other councillors Felt the package would be used by the five other civic employee unions in their current need Tiati ont. Here is How the councillors voted on the motion in favor councillors Bill Chornopyski new democratic party lord Magnus Eliason nip Ken Talanchuk ice lord c. John gee ice St. Boni Don Gerrie ind. Fort Norm Hudson ind. Lord Hub Ert Johannson nip fort Anne Jarowski ind. East Morris Kaufman ind. Fort Adam Klym nip Bill Knight ind. Assiniboine Gerry Mercier Cilc fort Harry Lazarenko nip lord Alf Penner ice East Kil Slaw Bebchuk ind. Lord Evelyne Reese civic Reform coalition St. Mike Ruta nip East Kil Ken Wong ice Joe Zuken la Bor election committee lord against councillors Bob Bockstael ice St. Boni Ray Brunka ice East Geoff Dixon ice Al Ducharme ice St. Jim Ernst ice St. Bui Hal Lonquist ice St. James Betty Ireton ind. Fort Bill Norrie ice fort lome Leech ice St. Hie Norm an ice St. James As Mike o Shaugh Nessy ind. West Kil Roy Parkhill ice Assiniboine Don Perry ind. Florence Pierce ice St. Phil Rizzuto ind. E 1 d o n Ross ice St. James As s i n i b o i a Doug stanes ice St. James As s i n i b o i a Norm Stapon ice East Bob Steen ind. Gary Filmon ice Assiniboine Dick wan Wing ice fort june Westbury ind. Fort Frank Johnson ind. Abe Yanofsky ice West Bernie Wolfe ice Tran absent were councillors Brian Corrin nip mid de Kotowich ice s t. Pearl Mcgonigal ice St. James Henry Kozlowski nip West loss of accreditation seen for engineering faculty Board s visit in 1973 there were criticisms of the faculty. The accreditation first Given for three years was extended to five years to give the Fanelty More time to get itself in since the accreditation Board s visit student enrol ment has increased 30 per cent and staff and supplies have decreased or. Wede Pohl said in an interview Fri Day. The Brief and its accompanying documentation going Back to april is primarily directed at certain proposed faculty cuts. Or. Wedepohl said he was t opposing the entire sg2.000 Cut but Only cuts in. Supplies and expenses Spe Cial academic funds and non replacement of support staff. This would reduce the Over All Cut to about although the reduction in the Cut was Small he said it was crucial since uie faculty already is in trouble. Or. Wedepohl s main argument centres around the formula used by the University to determine allocation of funds to faculties. The formula includes a teaching Clement and Rose a r c h professional and Community service and administrative elements. In an april memo to or. J. C. Gilson vice president re search and graduate studies or. Wedepohl said in first year engineering the formula results in a loss of 12 staff. According to the formula the faculty gives up 14.2 staff under the service teaching Transfer policy. Service teaching is a policy of the University which Al locates the teaching of specific subjects to particular faculties. Other faculties using the service pay for it staff entitlement or the service goes to the original faculty based on the actual number of hours the Engi Neering faculty Only uses the full time equivalent of two staff members he said. This results in a loss of about from the engineering faculty s budget. I would prefer to have courses taught by the Best people or. Wede Pohl said but in the present financial situation i could improve it if engineering fac u 11 y taught courses now taught by members of other landlord hints at real blowup Ottawa up an Onawa landlord has threatened to blow up one of his apartment buildings it tenants with hold any of their rent under a new provincial rent control act. Robert Somody in a letter to one of his tenants Nina Anderson warned that if the full rent was not paid one night the building will go up in the or. Somody wrote new act will Force m c to lose the building to the mortgage company. I want nothing less than Bent or sublet your then came the reference to blowing up the building. Is. Anderson leased the two bedroom apartment for five years and said that up to now there have been no problems. I m really scared. When it starts getting this Bud you wonder whether it s Worth while staying on. Legal rights Don t mean much in this kind said the Young Law student. Her problems began Jan. 2 when she figured out How much rent she should pay under terms of the new act. Her rent last july was a month. Or. Somody raised it 27 per cent to under the new Law she should pay eight Pel cent above last july s rent. I was t exactly sure what i should she said. But i read in the papers that the government advised tenants to withhold any rent increases Over the eight per cent. I did and then the fun she claimed or. Somody called her a troublemaker told her to get out and said Don t be surprised if you come Home one night and find your stuff out on the when told of her Story a rent review official in Toron to said is. Anderson had acted totally within the Law. He added the landlord had no right threatening her with eviction. Funeral service for Paul Robe son actor Singer and athlete who died Friday at 77, will be held in new York where he had his Grea test Triumph As Othello. The play set a Broadway record for a shakespearean production. The photo at left was taken in 1963 the other when he was an All american football player for Rutgers University. If a strike traffic Laws Singer Robeson will be strongly enforced Dies at age 77 one thing will remain the same if Winnipeg bus Drivers strike monday there will be no let up in traffic Law enforcement. The City s Board of com missioners including mayor Steve Juba and the head of All civic departments decided Friday that if the Public transit system is not operating traffic Law enforcement will not be relaxed on major and regional streets. Parking restriction s from 7 to 9 . And 4 to 6 . Will be strictly enforced As will the Over night parking ban. No parking will be Al Lowed in bus loading areas. Police will patrol traffic during Peak hours by renting an air plane in co ordination with the traffic operations Branch. All police department leaves will be cancelled for the first two Days of the strike in order to place personnel at Busy intersections. All transit vehicles will be brought in and stored in the bus garages on main Street. The transit Centre control at 421 Osborne Street will be operated on a 24-hour basis using supervisory personnel. A Central control Centre will be established on these cond floor of the administration building in the civic Centre and will be manned on a basis with All essential services represented. Continued he said that under the University s system this was t permitted. The formula suggests Liere. Is adequate staffing he said whereas the reverse was True faculty have a heavy work Load relative to other faculties. It is by no Means my in Tention in fact i d fight it to the death but if much More is Cut we might have to drop one of the three departments in the he said. A decision will have to be made As to whether Mani Toba Lias the financial re sources to teach engineering at All. If the answer is then it is no Good allocating inadequate funds. This will merely be a waste of Provin Cial taxpayers although or. Wedepohl had wanted the Brief discussed in the open session of thurs Day s Board meeting it was placed despite his protests in the closed session one of his colleagues said. Or. Ernest sir Luck uni v e r a i to president was t available for comment Fri Day. Or. Wedepohl said he did t know what any decision was made by the Board because he left after the presentation and questions. Kissinger to sign treaty keeping bases in Spain the Secretary said the soviet Union s proposals were significant and construct but one official said a lot of work remained to be done and Kissinger might have to make one or two trips Back to Moscow to com plete the Basic outlines of an Accord. The official said however if the negotiations Progress smoothly soviet Leader Leon id Brezhnev with whom Kis Singer met in Moscow might come to Washington As Early As May to sign a new treaty with president Ford. The principal problem now is reported to concern whether to include the new . Cruise missile and the soviet backfire bomber in the new agreement. The soviets apparently acre less receptive to Kissinger s reminding Brezhnev that so Viet Aid to one faction in the angolan civil War was under mining East West detente. The soviets were reported to have indicated no interest in an american proposal to pull tactical nuclear warheads Otil of Europe in and son in 1950 because he h a d criticized the United states particularly for its racial problems while Travell ing abroad. For the last 12 years of his life Robeson saw Only rela Tives and close friends while living with his sister in West Philadelphia in a self Ini posed seclusion. But Robeson s problems began Long before his Public acclaim As an entertainer. He won a scholarship to Rutgers and was the third Black to attend the school. He literally fought with teammates to make the football team and was named All american in 917 and continued lion from their european allies opposed to the right Wing dictatorship of the late Gen. Francisco Franco. 1918. He made Phi Beta Kappa his Junior year and was valedictorian of his senior class. At Columbia University lie earned a Law degree and met h i s future wife Eslanda the marriage lasted 44 years. But Roh Sun chose the stage rather than the court room. On a visit to Russia he once wrote Here is a country where a Man can breathe so easily and freely. For the first time i could properly straighten my shoulders raise my head High and with All my soul sing return for the soviet withdrawal of a tank army. The nato foreign ministers reacted favourably to Kissinger s report on the arms negotiations but some notably West Germany s Hans Dietrich Genscher said they were still much concerned about the angolan situation. Approximately . Servicemen Are stationed on bases built by the United states at a Cost of nearly million and turned Over to Spain under the last agree ment signed five years ago. They include air bases out Side Madrid Zaragoza and Moron and the Rota naval base West of Gibraltar where the . Navy services nuclear submarines. T h e american Secretary was expected to face pressure in Madrid from the new Span ish government to Puli for Spain s admission to nato. Successive . Administrations have favored this but have always run into oppose 6long fight9 ahead Mma adviser by Esther Tennen Holise free press staff writer the doctors dispute with the government might end up being a Long Battle Over the province s anti inflation measures and also involve other professional groups a Manitoba medical association spokesman said Friday. I can Sec there s going to be a Long fight which won t Only involve or. Francis economic adviser to the medical association and a member of the negotiating team said in an interview. The association opposes the ceiling on net income increase the province plans to hang Over Manitoba doctors and appears to be zeroing in on the question of the application of Federal anti inflation measures. The provincial government decided to apply the ceiling to All Manitoba doctors even though Federal guidelines might allow some doctors to earn More. Jean Luc Pepin anti inflation Board chairman in a Beaupit session Winnipeg press club Friday said the dispute Between Doc tors and the Manitoba government would Force the anti inflation Board to clarify what is vague in the anti i inflation he was replying to a ques Tion from or. Piggott. Or. Piggott asked or. Pepin what it meant when the Manitoba government signed an agreement with tile fed eral government to enforce the anti inflation guidelines. Or. Pepin said the agree ment meant that the Federal government has transferred most of its jurisdiction to the province concerning mat ters such As those involving the doctors. He said before the doctors could refer to the Federal Board they would have to agree with the province to do so. Or. Pepin also said the doctors could come in Der a number of guidelines rules including the use of averaging but the question is we Hope the two parties the doctors and the prov Ince will come to terms. I will add that to my usual also on Friday premiered Schreyer of Manitoba explaining t h e province s land said Low and medium income canadians think the Federal program is inequitable and so any exceptions to the guideline would under mine the anti inflation Campaign. Or. Piggott complained that t a c ceiling would t give Manitoba doctors parity with doctors outside the province. But if the province can legally make its own Mea sures the ceiling should be applied to All other professional fee earning groups in Manitoba he said. Or. Piggott who disagreed with the idea that the treat ment of doctors would affect the rest of the labor Force said the association intends to look into the question of whether the government can go beyond the Federal guide lines without legislation. The ceiling would be fair if u was enforced by legislation and applied to All fee earning professional he said. The medical association will be calling William lady Man the Federal anti inflation Board s member for the Prairie provinces to find out the exact requirements of the Federal guidelines. The protocol of application of the guidelines dealing with professional fees won t be re leased from Ottawa until next week. However or. La Dyman speaking at a seminar on the guidelines in Winnipeg Friday intimated that the doctors Are right in As suming the ceiling could be averaged out among the pro f e s s i o n a method which w o u 1 d give some doctors higher gains. Earlier Friday or. Piggott said the association expects to meet Premier Schreyer next week and is pinning its Hopes on the meeting. The Premier Friday said he will stand firm on the ceiling Issue and said he will discuss non monetary issues with the doctors but it can t be hoped the meeting will re solve All differences. Or. Piggott said Friday the association at this Point in t trying to escalate any thing and wants to let the situation Cool. Individual Doc tors will continue to opt out of medicare he said. A Manitoba health services commission spokesman Fri Day said 118 doctors have opted out since Jan. I. Forty of the notices were received Friday. Sixty one of the province s doctors opted out last year or earlier. Deficit justified Premier Manitoba s Premier and finance minister says he has absolutely no that the Success of the provincial beef producers income As s u r a n e e plan May mean larger than anticipated fiscal year end deficit. The plan is the sort of fundamental thing govern in e n t s do in times of premiered Schreyer said at a press con Ference Friday. The voluntary plan initiated by the government to improve net farm incomes attracted g5 per cent of the beef producers and will Cost the government million. Without the plan the prov Ince might have ended the fiscal year March 31, some where Between a s5 million surplus and a million Defi Cit or. Schreyer said. Last week he said he expected the province s deficit at the fiscal year end would run Between million and million. He said his estimate could be no closer than that until the revised income and corporation taxes estimates Are received from the Federal government but he still Hopes the province will end up close to the million deficit forecast in his budget presented last March. Palestinian army policing Beirut continued a Pondant Edward Cody poured Eastern Lebanon and said Battle hardened pales Tinian soldiers were running the area like conquered Terri tory. We Are masters of All the strategic military said Abu Amjad Battle zone political officer for the popu Lar democratic front for the liberation of Palestine. We will not leave before making sure that the National demands of the lebanese progressive forces Are he referred to the syrian sponsored ceasefire agree ment designed to equalize Christian and moslem poli tical Power. Palestinian spokesmen said an agreement to let the Pla soldiers patrol Beirut had been worked out by syrian foreign minister Abdul Halim Haddam Yasser Ara fat head of the Pla s Parent Palestine liberation organization and left Wing moslem leaders. The lebanese government made no comment on the agreement which was announced on slate run television and radio. But the right Wing phalanges parly which has the largest of the Chris Tian militias said the agree ment violated lebanese sovereignty. Regulate . Money mexican i continued diminish the closeness of our relationship with the United the prime minister explained the Workings of can Ada s foreign investment re View Law. However he told Echeverria that Canada will Likely rely heavily on foreign investment for its economic development during the next 20 years at least. T r u d e a u expressed this agreement w i t h Mexico s plans for a unilateral Declara Tion extending its sovereignty Over a 200-mile coastal zone off mexican shores. Lighter thought cause of fire a child playing with a cigarette lighter thought to have been resp Masibile for a fire which caused damage Friday night to suite 4 of 1206 Plessis Road North Transcona. A Winnipeg fire depart ment spokesman said the Walls ceilings and contents of the suite were damaged in the Blaze which started at 9 . A tenant in the suite Cut his hand when he broke a window but there were no other injuries. Averaging of Ladyman continued we leave the initiative where it is. We Tell employ ers and employees to go As far As they can in the spirit of the guidelines. The Manitoba government has a great responsibility in the interpretation of the guidelines. It is theirs too not Only he said if premiered Schreyer of Manitoba wanted the matter of the Ceil ing clarified he should take it up with the Board. Or. Pepin said the role of the Board is to give an Opin Ion and that it is improper for it to enter into Degoti. Actions. He said the Board was t set up to subject itself to the whole collective bargaining system. We Are Friendly persuaders. We Are advocates of what is required within the he said. In a luncheon address to City businessmen or. Pepin said that so far the Board has achieved a Rollback in projected Telephone rate in creases in British Columbia a Cut in the Price of eggs and a Rollback of projected increases by air carriers. He said some stores had imposed Price freezes and that Many suppliers of goods and services have pulled Back Price increases to re Vise them in a Way More favourable to the regulations ;