Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 31, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather sunny High 29 c Sun rises . Sets Vitoon rises . Sets . Details Page Winnipeg free press final edition vol. S3 to. 209 monday. May 31, 1976 25c with coloured comics strike vote creates furore at Inco by Bob Lowery free press Northern reporter Thompson a powerful backlash protesting Lack of information and privacy at a United steelworkers of America local 6166 strike vote at two mass Union meet Ings Friday broke out during the weekend. More than of the hourly rated Inco limited workers eligible to vote signed a petition sunday requesting a new vote be cause the voters in the last vote were misinformed and intimidated prior to the Vot ing and were unable to get their questions answered or express their feelings during the Friday a True and free expression of the feelings of the bargaining i n this strike Issue must be it said calling for a further in formation meeting and a new strike vote for monday. But a local Union spokes Man said Friday s 887 to 631 vote favouring a strike begin Ning tuesday would stand until further notice. The local s 68-member go verning body turned Down a request saturday for a new meeting and strike vote from steelworkers Prairie super visor and Manitoba federa Tion of labor president h. L. Len Stevens area supervisor will Hudson local president Blake Mcgrath and president elect Dick Martin. The petitioners greatly exceeded the Small number of action needed to preserve Quality of life. Habitat told names needed to Call a meet ing according to or. Martin but the Constitution said the meeting could be held up to 10 Days after the petition was presented. A representative of the rank and file group organizing the petition said it will be sent to local 6166, the company and the provincial labor relations Board. Inco has filed a complaint with the labor relations Board asking that the Fri see strike Page 4 the fishing May have been so so but the weather could t be beat at Lockport sunday. Temperatures around 29 c brought people out to photo by Alan Mackersie the area in droves. The weather office has predicted continuing hot weather for today and tuesday with highs near 29 and lows near 13. Art object slammed by Ritchie Gage free press staff writer agriculture minister eur scene Whelan says a Art object to be placed in front of the Canadian Grain commission building in Winnipeg is a waste of taxpayers Money. Earl Baxter executive director of the Grain commis Sion agrees. The piece called no. 1 North is to be unveiled at the commission 303 main Street tuesday. A will ruin the appear Ance of our building. Or. Whelan has notified Public works minister Charles m. Drury that the piece is a waste of taxpayers Money in a time of or. Baxter said in an interview monday. The coordinator of the Lea eral Public works depart ment s Fine arts program Lisa Cohen said that the Price paid for the piece of Art is one of the 12 highest Ever paid by the department. The program began in 1964 to allot one per cent of the Price of important Feder Al buildings for said miss Cohen. The sculpture was done by Saskatchewan artist John Nugent. Or. Nugent is an assistant professor at the University of Regina and is also chairman of the University s visual arts program. The piece is 48 feet Long 24 feet wide and eight feet High and is painted yellow. It May be considered Avant Garde but i can t make anything of or. Baxter said. Open fires outlawed White Shell travel warning issued the Manitoba Parks Branch has warned vacationers to avoid travelling through White Shell Provin Cial Park until further notice because of extreme fire danger. The provincial Forest pro t e c t i o n authority has announced an indefinite ban on All open fires except in provincial campsite the authority indicated extreme fire Hazard conditions exist in Eastern Manitoba. Some Manitoba Parks and campgrounds May be closed for part of the summer As potential fire hazards if warm dry weather continues assistant Deputy min ister of Parks w. W. Danyluk said sunday. It s too soon to say which areas would be closed he a plants in . Alerted said in a Telephone interview. A staff meeting. Early this week will consider which Sites could be hazardous. In Northwestern Ontario nearly 1.000 Miles of Public and logging roads have been restricted i o unauthorized travel the ministry of Natu ral resources announced Sun Day. Exceptions to the travel ban included private Camp _ owners those working in the area and guests of Commer Cial resorts. People in the area will be asked to be prepared to leave immediately if the need arises the provincial fire Centre in Toronto said. Most of the past week s fires including the Large ones near Minaki and Ignace were started through human carelessness the ministry said. Ignace fire slowed by weekend Battle looking for a t.v.? this want and under miscellaneous articles for Sale 559 Viking floor Model 18" perfect condition is 35. 452-7727. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s Classi fied Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Water bombing and work by ground Crews during the weekend resulted in some Success in fighting a acre fire still burning out of control in the Ignace area of Northern Ontario a spokes Man for the provincial ministry of natural resources said sunday. Alex Latiece Forest management supervisor for the area about 150 Miles East of Kenora said the work lessened threats to the Small communities of Watcomb and Silver Dollar. The fire was estimated Sun Day to be about a mile from Watcomb a construction site about 170 Miles Northeast and was spreading eastward along neighbouring lakes. Work by 350 firefighters in an area just South of Silver Dollar about 15 Miles South cast of Watcomb decreased the possibility the fire would Advance toward the trailer Camp at Silver Dollar or. Latiece said. Today for people Evelyn Roth finds Art in the Gar Bage Heap. Page 17. Focus some of the implications of Black Rule in Rhodesia Are Analysed. Page 30. Sports Johnny Rutherford wins the rain Short ened Indianapolis 500 Auto race. Page 45. Inside Bridge is classified 23-28, is. Comics 53 crossword 1s deaths 5 Horoscope 51 Jumble movies.22 television.20 nearly everyone reads free press residents of Silver Dollar reported smoke from two directions sunday. Six families remained in the Community after the ministry issued an evacuation order late thurs Day. Or. Latiece said the fire was about 30 Miles from three mining Camps operated by Maktabi mines Ltd., Matagami Lake mines and Falconbridge Copper Ltd. On nearby Sturgeon Lake. A fire that destroyed More than acres of Timber nine Miles West of Shabagua Corner was expected to be under control by Early Mon Day fire official Allen John son said sunday. The Blaze which broke out thursday was being contained by 183 firefighters and supervisors. Or. Johnson said a great lakes paper co. Ltd. Stock pile of cubic feet of Timber a mile away from the fire s leading Edge was the fire s leading Edge was no longer threatened. Provincial police began to allow selected traffic along the 30 Miles of Highway 599 Between Ignace and Silver Dollar late sunday. The High Sec Forest Page 4 total City Lont o j Washington a p the 58 nuclear Power plants in the United states Are under a Security Alert with guards advised to exercise extra care particularly in checking people into the plants. Officials of the nuclear regulatory commission which issued the Al Ert called it a Low level warning prompted by some highly tentative and inconclusive but Tivey declined to disclose the nature of that information. An official of one Power company reached in spot Check of nuclear plants said the warning mentioned that a commission agent had lost his identification. Another Power company official said Radical activity had prompted the Alert and police in Maine warned in a separate communication that a midget submarine had been stolen. A month ago an internal arc memorandum came to Light in which the commis Sion s safety chief acknowledged that some nuclear facilities May not be Able to withstand attack by As few As three armed intruders. I am concerned that some or even Many of our currently licensed facilities May not have safeguards which Are adequate against the lowest Levels of design said Carl builder director of the Nec s division of safeguards. A commission spokesman said during the weekend that alerts have taken place previously. He did not give a reason for the latest Alert but laughed at the report of the stolen submarine and said the missing identification stolen in a Motel Burg Lary was not the reason either. The arc said the unidentified agent was an inspector who had his credentials lug g a g e and other personal belongings stolen while at a hotel near the Millstone nuclear Power Plant in water Ford Conn. In addition to advising Plant guards to tighten Security checks Plant opera tors were told to maintain communications with Law enforcement agencies in the event of any problems arc spokesman Frank Ingram said. Vancouver up a United nations conference on major social problems begins Here today after warnings from in Secretary general Kurt Waldheim that the qua Lity of life will deteriorate dramatically unless Quick action is taken. Or. Waldheim said in a statement sunday at Van Couver International Airport that the 12-Day in. Habitat conference is one of the most important conferences of the United he is to speak at the opening ses Sions today. The world Community is fully aware that the living conditions and the pattern of human settlements arc not satisfactory at All in most of the the Secretary general said. With More than 130 official delegations making last minute preparations for the habitat sessions a symposium of 24 leading world thinkers issued a statement sunday stressing the urgency of human problems such As shelter water Quality and the dangers of nuclear waste. Enrique Penalosa Secre tary general of the habitat conference said the symposium document will have a tremendous Impact on the positions of All the official de among other things the symposium of thinkers like american sociologist mar Garet Mead is demanding a moratorium on the spread of nuclear Power generators and emphasis on environmentally Safe Energy systems like solar Power. Maurice Strong chairman of Petro Canada and a former top unofficial said that in regards to nuclear Power the symposium m e m b e r s arc saying to the world s govern see Waldheim Page 4 United nations Secretary Central Kurt Waldheim arrives m Vancouver sunday to attend today s official opening of habitat. In Confer ence on human settlements. Or. Waldheim left n engaged in conversation with Federal Urban affairs minister Barney Danson n they leave Vancouver International Airport. See More stories on Page 44. Curbs test begins Toronto up attorney general Roy Mcmurtry will make a rare appearance in the supreme court of can Ada today in a Case that May determine the future of the Federal anti inflation pro Gram. Or. Mcmurtry will line up with Toronto lawyer John j. Robinette to defend the Feder Al government s imposition of the wage and Price controls. He also will argue that the Ontario Cabinet had the right to pass the order giving the Federal anti inflation Board Power Over Public employees in the province. Opposing the order is organized labor particularly the unions representing pub Lic service employees such As teachers whose wage con tracts were approved often after reductions by the Board. The Case considered by Legal and political officials to be one of the most important to go before the highest court in 50 years began with a Legal Challenge by 449 teach ers in the Ottawa Valley county of Renfrew. Angola seeks world Aid in feeding War refugees the Washington Post Luanda the angolan government has appealed to the International Community for assistance in dealing with the needs of an estimated refugees from the co Lonial War against the portuguese As Well As the civil War that has just ended Here. The main concern now is the threat of famine facing hundreds of thousands of an Golan peasants because of the destruction of crops Dur ing the civil War and the nearly total breakdown of the marketing system due to the massive flight of the portuguese from the country. The situation is described by angolan and United nations officials Here As serious particularly in the War torn North and in some isolated regions of Eastern Angola. It is expected to get worse in the coming months be cause last fall s fighting disrupted the planting season and it now is too late to put in new crops. Foreign Relief officials and journalists who have recently travelled in Northern Angola Tell of seeing or hearing about Many cases of near starvation and seriously undernourished children and adults. So far there Are no reports of widespread deaths from hunger there however it is Clear from talking with in Relief officials and angolan authorities that if immediate Steps Aren t taken a threat of generalized famine exists both in the North and in some localities in the East around Ca Zombo. U n officials say the prob Lem of helping the officially estimated angolans see Angola Page 4 Martha Mitchell died today of a rare Type of cancer of the Bone marrow. Mrs. Mitchell 57, estranged wife of former . Attorney general John Mitchell was released from Hospi Tal earlier this year after treatment for the illness. Fund proposed to ensure fair play for third world Nairobi up a forum of the world s Rich and poor countries ended Early today with approval of a program of negotiations on commodities designed to ensure fail prices and Market stability for the third world. The United nations Confer ence on Trade and develop ment Unstad voted in favor of a Resolution urging that a conference to negotiate a so billion common fund to finance commodity Buffer stocks be convened no later than March of next year. The vote came during a tension packed final plenary session of tiie three week con Ference when a clash be tween Rich and poor countries Over the Resolution was narrowly avoided. Informed sources said the United states Britain West Germany and Japan decided after behind the scenes consultations not to make a planned joint statement emphasizing their Freedom to de cide whether to take part in a negotiating conference on the fund. Major industrialized see prices Page 4 Job and in Canada creates anger in by David Macdonald staff correspondent Glasgow an advertise ment in a Canadian news paper has become part of a developing political Battle in Scotland Over Job prospects for student teachers. Angry students say thai canadians Are being offered jobs in Scotland at a time when scottish teachers face heavy unemployment. Scottish Secretary Bruce Millais Only in his Post a few weeks is being asked by a conservative to explain lie advertisement. This comos after a Shoal of deletions from student teachers Trade Union leaders clergy parents and schoolchildren All demanding that or. Mil Ian do something to avoid Hie alleged peril of bloated clasp sizes next fall. The problem is that British local authorities have been ordered to hold the line on Public expenditure to help curl inflation. Twelve thousand scottish student teachers have just realized that this Means no jobs for them when they leave training College this s u m m o r demonstrations have erupted across Scotland. Supported by employed teach ers who fear the next Cut backs will be in their own jobs. Similar demonstrations have occurred in England and Wales. The largest demonstrations in Scotland arc centred on the Mammoth Strathclyde re Gion which radiates out from Glasgow to take in surround ing country areas and parts of the inner hebrides. Now that the whole Row is merrily on the boil student teachers have just obtained copies of the Globe and mail of May 8, which carries i Large advertisement appealing to canadians to come and teach in Strathclyde. The angry students find that the Strathclyde educational authorities arc offering career opportunities of unlimited scope in communities on the islands of mull and tired in Rural Girvan and Lanark and in the City of Glasgow. T h e advertisement also says that a number of High calibre teachers who wish to realize their full teaching potential arc needed and will enjoy outstanding Quality of life in housing sports and so Cial Ian Davidson who is read ing a current sit in of student teachers at Jordan Hill col lege Glasgow said bitterly advertising for teachers in Canada at this time High lights the hypocrisy of the whole system. We re absolutely William Harley chairman of the Strathclyde education committee is unrepentant. There is a shortage of specialist teachers in this re he said. By employ ing these people we will not be denying any scots trained student teachers a ;