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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 21, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnick Hiss Chupay May 21. Reisman unseated from cd Post continued. Or. Reisman sent a Tele Gram to the chairman of the Canada development corp. Thursday asking that his name be withdrawn from the list of those to be recommended by the directors for election to the Board at the annual meeting of the corporation in Vancouver yesterday. He sent the Telegram after receiving a letter from finance minister Donald Mac Donald on wednesday saying that the government which holds More than 50 per cent of the shares in the Corpora Tion would not be voting for him and would vote for an opposition candidate instead. With its majority holding the government was sure to de feat him. Or. Reisman who has been associated with Canada development corp. Since its inception and who has been a Board member since it was established at the end of 1971, said it was the first example he knew of intervention by the government in the Workings of the Corpora Tion. Or. Reisman was inter viewed after Ottawa sources told the Globe and mail of the move to oust or. Reis Man from the Canada development corp. Board. Or. Reisman resigned As Deputy finance minister Early last year and is a partner in an Ottawa consulting firm. The government maintains that it intended to vote against or. Heisman s re turn to the Board of directors because it had been embarrassed recently by opposition questions in the House about its relationships with former senior civil servants. Or. Reisman and his partner James Grandy former Deputy minister of Industry Trade and Commerce had Brief contacts with the government after they quit primarily to organize their files and co operate in the changeover to new Deputy ministers. But their company also re presented the Lockheed air Craft corp. For a few months and tried to help find financing for the now abandoned plans by the government to buy in anti submarine patrol aircraft from Lockheed. Sources say that if the government had wished to have no Public relationship with or. Reisman for this reason the question of voting on the Canada development corp. Directorships could have been health with in a Way that would have avoided the confrontation that has taken place. The sources say the real reason for the ousting was or. Reisman s Public criticism of government eco nomic policy. Or. Reisman said the government moved to have him ousted against the wishes of the elected directors of the Canada development corp. The directors Felt it would be in the Best interests of the corporation to have or. Reisman s name on the slate. In a speech on april 1 m Toronto to the Institute for policy analysis or. Reis Man criticized the theories of economist Kenneth Gal Braith whose views have be come popular recently among senior government figures and particularly with prime minister Pierre tru Deau. Still no Saver on the Bridge firefighters begin mop up operations at former United states Pavil Ion on the expo 67 site in Montreal thursday. A Flash fire destroyed the geodesic dome s acrylic skin leaving. Only the aluminium Skeleton. The Struc Fures in the Centre were part of the Tenor. The fire is believed to have started As welders were working on the Frame. The 20-Storey-Hifh dome was built for the world s fair at a Cost of about million. R. Buckminster Fuller architect of the dome could t be reached for comment. Shoji Sadao a partner in designing the building said he was surprised the dome had burned. Lockheed trying to revive Orion Ottawa up Lockheed aircraft corp. Talked with the government and Canadian Banks thursday it at tempted to revive its offer to sell 18 Orion patrol aircraft to the Canadian government. But defence minister James Richardson told re porters that the company would get no special consideration from government in the search for an aircraft even if it does solve the financial problems tint killed the Orion project this week. He said Lockheed must get in line with any other Compa Nies making a proposal for replacement of the Argus patrol planes that now Are patrolling Canada s coasts and Arctic and fulfilling its nato anti submarine warfare commitment. He commented to reporters after talking with Lockheed president Robert Haack vice president Bill Wilson and others. That conversation the Lockheed officials went to Toronto to talk with officials of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce who would head any Canadian consortium that would lend Lockheed the More than million needed to pay first three years of an Orion contract. Scope of new tax worries business continued province May be using for determining capital of corporations. In the brochure under the heading what is paid up Cap ital the government explains it is a tax on funds in vested or turned Over to a corporation for investment. For this purpose funds would include All types of in vestment in the form mortgages Loans and share holders it says. Some businessmen Are concerned that this definition will allow the government to include in a corporation s capital assessment Money they have borrowed from lending institutions. If this is Correct it Means a company borrowing funds for development purposes or i or other investments will have to pay tax on it. Art Roberts chief of the government s taxation Divi Sion said in an interview the brochure sent to businessmen does t necessarily contain specific provisions of the new Levy. Or. Roberts said his department wanted to notify corporations of what was. Coming in the form of new Taxa on but it had to rely on the budget address information and that provided by other provinces with similar levies. I cannot say to you what is in the act the new Taxa Tion Bill or what is not in the act. It will be the minister to decide what Actu ally goes into the or. Roberts said the definition of paid up capital was taken from a Page and a half Long explanation in the . And Ontario legislation. If the minister wishes to base our definition of those acts then this will be the definition we will use. But i have no Way of knowing what he will when questioned about the matter in the legislature by Sidney Spivak the Premier would Only say the government Bro Chure was not a Legal obligation to proceed with the contained. Province sues for lathes continued part of the much larger Legal action under Way to extradite or. Alexander Kasser one of the chief principals in the Churchill Forest industries scandal. Resources minister Sidney Green minister responsible for the Manitoba develop ment corporation said the equipment was purchased from a Swiss company owned by or. Oskar Reiser another key figure in the Chi affair. The subject arose during discussion of the massive Bertram machine shop at the Pas which has had Only limited use and which has never been put to its maximum potential. The machine shop last year employed an average of 30 workers and showed an operating loss of most of the work done was that is for the forestry Complex itself. The shop was originally designed for world markets. Under opposition question ing or. Hallgrimson said the shop might be Able to put to its original use of manufacturing paper making equip ment if the capacity of the Complex were doubled and provided Manitoba forestry resources could get the two lathes. While expansion of the Complex is being looked at it in t under serious consideration for the immediate future or at least until the rate of Cost increases level off the chairman said. The Crown owned company in t using the full Wood re sources available to it and because the production capacity leaves it in a marginally viable state investigations Are under Way to possible expansion. Or. Hall Grimson estimated that it would Cost about million to double the present capacity. Average capacity in 1974, the last Good year was 380 tons a Day. The annual report says the main problems Are that in creasing the annual Harvest of Wood Means going into More inaccessible areas with the attendant increase in the Cost of Wood harvested. As the company must Market its product in Competition with foreign sup pliers whose operating costs Are lower. Quebec Steelworker doubts general strike support continued workers in general in the smaller mining firms in my Ana. The truth is Many of these workers would t want to be too hard on their pm plovers mostly for this relationship Rea son. They All know each other pretty Well. Most of us know however that the Way things Are in the Economy today a one Day strike would t Hurt the employer very much if at All. The Boss would save a Day s wages. Probably he d Benefit by this saving. A strike has to be carefully and fully explained to the membership. The handling under these circumstances would have to be thoroughly thought out. Before walkout took place it would have to be discovered whether the workers actually wanted to strike. And this analysis must be done with each group of workers. We have to find out exactly How United we Are. To take such action As a strike in the wage contract period. We will have to find out How we can Hurt the government and the big Compa Nies because just As workers Are exploited by government and the big corporations so Small firms Are often exploited by the big corporations. Workers and Small firms sometimes have a lot in com Mon Here. How do we sell the idea to members in Small firms Many of whom Are getting a Little Over the minimum wage Levels that they must support by losing a Day s pay the Public service workers who will have walked out in Masse when they would know the civil servants were getting More pay than some men employed in Small companies one reason Why we will have to Little More Subtle about this Issue in Northwestern Quebec is because we have already lived through More than our share of illegal strikes. People in our area Are sceptical about those who gargle great phrases about Solidarity. When Louis Laberge a Al pres ident Marcel Pepin of the Cantu and an other labor Leader went to jail in the fall of 1972 for contempt of court in refusing to Send unionists Back to work something they could t have done if they had wanted we had people walk out of several mines in our area along with the civil servants. It was pretty spontaneous. We had to do something to distract the government from sending police to those parts of the province where workers had already walked off the Job. There was t much information available to the labor Council in and tilings were pretty flexible. We had some Liaison with the civil servants natives but not much and some of our members in smaller muting outfits did t walk out. However the strength shown then by the Union movement was somewhat sur prising considering that just previously we had voted from our area As being against a general strike in a vote taken for the Quebec federation at its Conven Tion before All this trouble about contempt and jail started. Then there s the Economy then and the Economy now. In 1972, Metal prices were on the Rise and generally things were on the upward climb. Today we Are just creeping out of a slump. Many of our members have been Laid off and have been for Long period some mines have been closed Down. Yes it would be More difficult to Orga Nize walkouts now from where i sit the motivation is different too you see be cause in 1872 on leaders respected men in our movement were in jail. We had a cause. No if a general walkout is called by the Congress i can t visualize people walking out from the smaller firms and there Are Many such concerns. Yet if the government does t soften its position the Csc will hav to do some thing just to save face. But the some thing that is done will perhaps be a sur prise to government which has already underestimated the strength of the labor movement whih will of course bring on work stoppages of some sort As i say to save face. And it should t be difficult to get sub Stantial numbers of we companies workers on strike on say a Friday be fore a Long weekend. If this happens three or four times this summer it May have a snowball effect and encourage others. But before Aneth. Jug like this occurs we should be very sure we hurting ourselves when we act. Workers Are much better informed of current events than they were i the 1960s. J remember when prime minister Louis St. Laurent addressed us in those. Days at a convention and no one asked him any hard questions. I could t see Trudeau finding the scene like that had he turned up at the convention Here. I speak of course largely for my area and about the Miner and mine sur face worker. When negotiating we adapt to the times if it s Good times or if it s bad times economically. We have to adapt to the economic climate As it affects each individual company. Unlike the United autoworkers i Lack the big clout of that powerful Union although we in steel Are also a powerful Union. We cannot negotiate on a Large scale As the autoworkers do for master agreements. Many Small firm contracts weaken the bargaining weight As a whole for the Strong Union even though it s a big Union. In fact because of the fluctuating costs and prices in the mining Industry and its Industrial Structure some of our locals Are Lucky to gain pay increases which Are in some instances lower than the guideline maximums. People Call us a big powerful Union in Quebec. But in this province most of our locals have an average membership of 75. I think our workers Here would be More than willing to walk out if we were absolutely sure that not just Quebec workers and not just Public servants were striking that everyone was going to Down pipeline hearing held Here ring printed i by British Columbia supreme court Justice Thomas r. Berger was established by the Federal government in March 1974, to examine the effects of a Mackenzie pipe line. Or. Berger is also expected to recommend terms and conditions under which a right of Way might be granted to either of the two pipe line applicants Canadian Arctic Gas pipeline Ltd. Of Toronto and Foothills pipe lines Ltd. Of Calgary. At one Point. Or. Justice Berger reprimanded opponents of the pipeline when they booed a Brief presented by pipeline supporters. Opponents of Early construction of a pipeline led by Manitoba Indian brotherhood president Ahab Spence and or. Allen m. Lansdown chairman of the Manitoba environmental Council gave highest priority to settlement of Indian land claims and increased environmental safeguards. Most of the opposing briefs called for a 10 or 15-year postponement of Northern re source development a de tailed land use plan for the Western Arctic More efforts to reduce socioeconomic effects on traditional native life styles and a Promise from Ottawa to make no decision on the pipeline until after Competition of the Berger report later this year. Several groups and individuals also urged the inquiry to recommend cancellation of All Long term natural Gas Export contracts to the United states and More funding for research into alternate forms of Energy. However All the govern ment and business spokes men supported one or both of the pipeline bids saying arc tic Gas is urgently needed for both residential and Commer Cial use in Manitoba. Austin Rath be president of operations for the greater Winnipeg Gas company con firmed earlier statements by the City that Gas Supply shortages have already forced cutbacks in service to Homes and businesses in the last two years. He said these caused serious disruption of Home building and Commer 1 Cial expansion plans. Continued the Box can t be seen from the Bridge and there Are no signs indicating where a life preserver can be found. The Box is set High off the ground so children can t get at the preserver and throw it in the River Martin Benum director of the City s Parks and recreation department says. However the free press discovered a person five feet 10 inches tall had trouble lift ing the Iron bar that keeps the doors on the Box closed. The Iron bar is More than seven feet off the ground and must be lifted up More than six inches to get the doors open. If someone were in danger of drowning on the Portage Avenue Side of the River a would be rescuer assuming he knew where the preserver was would have to run across the Bridge which is More than 500 feet in length open the Box assuming he was tall enough grab the preserver with its Long rope and run Back to a Point in the Bridge where there was open water. The time to do this at least a minute and a half. The time it takes to be carried away by the River s Strong currents a few seconds according to the har Bour master in Winnipeg. Or. Benum explained that at the present time the Assiniboine s current is running at More than 10 k n o t s an hour and this rate in t expected to subside to the nor Mal rate of about four knots until july. Or. Benum said his department has no plans to erect any More life pre servers on the Bridge at this time. He said the More obvious the preservers Are the More abuse there would be. He did t feel alarms on the preservers similar to a fire alarm would be any help either. He said the two constables who patrol the Park in the evening have other problems to contend with especially illegal Park ing. Ottawa considers Job plan continued has been conducting an Experiment in Newfoundland to encourage unemployment insurance commission beneficiaries to take training courses while collecting Bene fits. The beneficiaries do not collect More pay for taking the courses but Are relieved from their obligation of look ing for a Job during courses. More than unemployed newfound Landers have taken part in the Experiment since Jan. Sources say the manpower department intends to bring the unemployment insurance commission now an Independent body under its com plete control to facilitate linking unemployment tour a n c e commission benefits with manpower training pro Grams or Job creation schemes. Economists unemployment will be a problem for Canada at least until 1978, with the jobless rate exceed ing 7 per cent through 1977. The usual technique governments use to reduce unemployment is to stimulate the Economy into More production until it achieves a so called full employment rate of about 96 per cent. Private business is usually relied upon to create the witnesses Tell court police shot suspect without warning yer Jay Prober asked mrs. Gauthier. I did t hear she said and later added they did t say anything be never thought it was the police a4, she said she did hear or. Kop Tonchuk swearing a 1 though she did not remember him ending one phrase with the Way police witnesses have testified. If i had heard the word cop i would have known what had she told Crown counsel David Rampersad during Cross examination. We spent the night won Derina who had shot the Guy next mrs. Gauthier testified. After the shooting her Hus band phoned the police court was told not knowing that the men surrounding the nouse at 166 Cathedral ave nue were detectives. Or. Kop Tonchuk testifying in his own defence told the jury that Only alter he had been shot in the stomach did he realize he men outside of his Back door were police officers. He said he recognized one or two of them although he did t even now know their names. A janitor and Doorman at the Regent theatre 646 main Street or. Kop Tonchuk had left work and arrived Home at about . Sept 6, 1975, the jury was told. Only a few hours before five people had been wounded in a shooting incident at the National hotel which is across the Street from the theatre. M r. Kop Tonchuk said he had heard about the shootings from a Friend that night and Learned some of the details. He agreed that the testimony of two ambulance attendants he met after going Home was substantially Cor rect. It was acting on information provided by these two men that police went to Cathedral Avenue that night continued expecting to find the Man responsible for the hotel shoot Ings. The ambulance attendants called to the House on an unrelated matter by an other tenant had become suspicious because they said or. Kop Tonchuk was Wear ing a gun and seemed to know details about the main Street hotel shootings. They called in to their dispatcher and police were notified. The detectives who have Given evidence have said they expected the that night and thought the Man they were after was going to be found inside 166 Cathedral. Or. Kop Tonchuk said that heard knocking on his door at about . He had already gone to bed and had to get up and dress before checking to see who it was. I asked who was there but there was no he said. He picked up the Pellet gun and took it with hint because he had trouble before with drunks at the door and thought it might be the same people or. Kop Tonchuk said. Or. Kop Tonchuk said there1 Xmas another Knock and after again getting no res Thise to his who s he unbolted the door and opened it. When i opened the door i was shot he testified. M r. Prober asked him when he knew that the men were police officers. That was after i d been det. Victor Bozyk the officer who shot or. Kopi Tonchuk also testified thurs Day. He told the jury approximately what the other police officers have already said. They went to the House that night thinking the suspect they were looking for was inside. Det. Bozyk called Winnipeg when he heard a voice inside the House ask who was knocking and the door was suddenly thrown open and a Man emerged with a gun in his hand pointed at first one then another officer. I had nowhere to go. I Drew my gun and i shot or. Kop Tonchuk in the Hope to disarm the detective testified. Police have testified that the Pellet gun or. Kopi Tonchuk was carrying looked like the Type of Large calibre revolver that was used to wound five people in the National hotel. He bought the gun for Protection court was told. Also admitted As evidence thursday was a statement or. Kop Tonchuk made while still in Hospital recovering from the Bullet wound and the notebook of a police officer who talked to him the night he was admitted at the Gen eral Centre. Neither differed substantially from his court testimony. Or. Kop Tonchuk was in Hospital for two months Follo Wing the shooting and has had two operations so far court was told. The trial continues ;