Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 1, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press tuesday june 1, 1976 vote today at Ineo work stops continued morning they were met by dissident pickets. A Stream of ears was backed up to the Entrance of the Luco com plex. Union officials who had earlier avoided the strike were told to grab a strike sign or hit the late in the morning or. Martin announced the mass meeting and Vole. Officials said balloting would be kept carefully secret. In an ear Lier strike vote Friday there was criticism of the Lack of privacy in voting Inco which was prepared to shut Down had agreed to play a helpful role by agree ing to place the Premier s suggestion to the differential Between the Aib ruling a 14.9 per cent raise and the 18 per cent agreed to in the original contract in interim Trust pending the decision of the or. Martin said the Union s governing body accepted the Premier s proposal to wait until june 15 by a 31 to 21 vote. As he made this announce ment to the press loud com plaints were vented in the next room by shop stewards and workers who thought the strike should go on regard less. Tell them if they set up picket lines they re or. Martin shouted. One irate unionist said we be taken too much crap from the Aib and i can t see Why we should give them one More about 20 militants took Pic Ket signs and marched off to the main Gate at the Inco Complex. They sealed off the Road with a blockade of cars As workers arrived for the Midnight shift. Dozens of carloads and a Busload of workers were turned away. Or. Martin admitted there was substantial support for a Wildcat strike by some Mili Tants but hoped they would Cool off in 24 hours. Union treasurer John Couglin advised the shop stewards to Tell Union members not to Cross picket lines. If you run into pickets go Back Home and phone your shift or. Cou Lilin who had spent most of the Day arranging picketing of the Inco pipe open pit mines 25 Miles North of Thompson phoned the picket captains late Mon Day night to say the strike was Oft. When i came to the meet ing monday night i was fired up and ready to strike. When i heard the Premier s Tele Gram i thought we had been Given a Chance to get the agreement we originally negotiated with the company last february. I am con Vinced we must make the most of this last opportune he said. Or. Martin and the Union negotiating team met for several hours with Inco Indus trial relations officials after the Union meeting. Lome Ames Inco s Indus trial relations superintendent and will Hudson steel workers area representative announced the contract has been extended for 15 Days and we Are following the Premier s proposed course of or. Ames said the company would put aside the wage differential and would be patient with the commenting from win n i p e g Premier Schreyer said a major problem in this whole affair has been that the anti inflation Board delayed making its decision until the last minute and everything got rushed. I sin Cerely Hope we can reach an agreement. I can offer no guarantees but at least it gives us mayor Tom Farrell said the new proposal lifts a tremendous Black Cloud from the Thompson horizon. It has saved us from a spite of Divi he added that some p eople have kicked at the Busi Nessman but the ones who be shown most concern in this Issue Are people who have in vested All they have earned in one of the first men to congratulate the steel workers Board on its decision was Ron Tate who led the rank and file group collect ing More than Signa Tures sunday on a petition requesting a new strike vote. Ramp divers recover body ramp recovered the body of one Man monday and were to continue diving for a second Man who drowned sunday at Oak Lake Beach about 30 Miles Southeast of Virden Man. An r c m p Winnipeg spokesman said tuesday officers recovered the body of Lawrence g. Mccoy 20, of Brandon. They were to continue diving for David l. Wilkinson 21, also of bran Don the men drowned when their Canoe capsized. Two women survived the incident. Air strike averted but Issue remains continued and the broadening of terms of inquiry by Manitoba s 162 controllers was higher than the National average of 70.2 per cent. The provincial controllers at 5 Manitoba airports voted 74.3 per cent in favor of the government offer. Manitoba chairman Carl Fisher said monday he was quite confident the inquiry would make a thorough and Broad study the use of a second language in air traffic control. He said the key to postponement of a strike by the controllers was a govern ment guarantee there would be no further implementation of French during the inquiry and that the result would be tabled in the House of com Mons. Under terms of the new contract the government has agreed to delay expansion of bilingual air to ground communications in Quebec air ports. French now is permit Ted at seven smaller Quebec airports. The contract provides for of the terms of reference for the Public inquiry into the safety implications of bilingual air traffic control which is being John keen an of Montreal. Or. Livingston said in a statement that he regretted the b i 11 e r n e s s the bilingualism Issue has created be tween the association and some French speaking members. I can appreciate their Strong desire to use their Mother Tongue but the association puts air safety ahead of language the Quebec regional director of the association Jean Luc Patenaude has said he plans to seek disaffiliation of the association s Quebec Sec Tion because of the National association s stand on Lan Guage. Business practice controls proposed nation and specialization and Export agreements Between companies. The new Board would have authority to review any pro posed merger brought before it by the director of investigation and research and could the merger was considered Issue orders prohibiting it if not to be in the Public inter est. In the same Way the Board could review cases of Mono poly in specific industries and either Issue remedial orders to Stop abuses or in extreme cases order dissolution of the monopoly. The report says monopolies formed under government authorization like marketing boards should also be subject to combines legislation unless their restrictive conduct is specifically imposed by Law. Most of these marketing boards Are simply cartels it says. The report is critical of business efforts to improve Industrial efficiency. And it recommends that where com panties get together to make Export or specialization agreements the director of investigation and research should be Able to review these agreements in Advance. Canadian business Small and Large has a Long tradition of Reliance on govern ment for help in solving its the report says. A review of the submissions of business associations to governments Over the dec Ades makes painfully repetitive Reading. This record does not in spire Confidence in the Capac Ity of the Canadian business Community to undertake an Independent program of structural sections of the investigation act that set out special remedies for anti competitive abuses of patents or Trade Marks should be abolished. Instead the markets Holder to Grant licences or not continued to assert his rights preventing use of the Patent the report suggests. One of the More controversial directorships where a director sits on the boards of competing passed Over quickly. The report says there is no evidence to Sug Gest abuses and so recommends against legislation prohibiting the practice. A Large Section of the re port deals with. Unfair Busi Ness tactics in pricing their products. It recommends that the markets Board be Given Power to prohibit the Sale of products to a favored buyer at unfairly Low prices. This would protect Small Busin esses from predatory pricing that restricts markets. It also strongly recommends that action be taken against Basing Point pricing in which Sellers add to uni form list prices a transportation Cost that does not necessarily represent the ship Ping Cost from the manufacturing Plant. This is a Way for a seller to avoid Competition because he charges the same Price no matter from which Plant the product is shipped. The prac Tice should be discouraged by fines and prohibition orders if it is found that it was used to fix prices or restrain Competition the report says. Loss Leader generally considered to mean offering a product at less than its Cost too hard to separate from accepted aggressive marketing and should not be made an of Fence the report concludes. The National markets Board would be a substitute fir the courts not a regulatory Agency and could Issue re medial orders including Disso Lution of monopolies and interim orders of injunction. Its orders could be appealed to Federal court or they could be changed or rescinded within 60 Days by Cabi net. The report on class actions concludes that this would be an appropriate right to be Given Consumers and Small businessmen Hurt by anti combines offences. Besides giving redress for losses that Are Small for an individual Al though significant in total it would be a deterrent for anti competitive behaviour by All businesses the report says. It says the courts could Dis allow a class action if it Felt administrative costs for pressing an action would be too High or the amounts involved were too Small and might not reach class members. But in that Case a Public official like the director of investigation and re search should be Able to bring a substitute class action on behalf of class members the report says. Big syrian Force Rolls into Lebanon continued to Stop the War by the end of the month. Radio Damascus confirmed that syrian intervention halted the attack Oil Ribyat and Andret but made no mention of troop movements. It said syrian representatives arranged a ceasefire agreement in which the christians agreed to moslem occupation of the lebanese army Garri son at Andret. Reporting the syrian in Vasion from the East a pales Tinian statement said an a Mored brigade of troops moved 14 Miles from the Border shortly before Dawn and took positions on the North and of the key Mountain town of Chat Surat Abies held by Yasir artist s Palestine liberation army. To h e advancing brigade then fanned out its tanks along the Bekaan Valley Road set up roadblocks and Dis armed passing palestinian guerrillas and lebanese leftist Mac May extend tantalum shares continued All the seats in the House were taken at one Public session in hangar five at habitat forum on English Bay in Vancouver but this lady used a Cushion and plumbing to Good effect. Someone s errant mercenaries face trial continued country i did not see him night or Day for More than about 30 or 45 minutes until he left feb. She said. He must have come in about 6 o clock in the morning he had been packing his things and he was very vary nervous. He could t even look me straight in the eyes. There was no Way i could Stop him if i had put a Ball and Chain on that same Day with promises of making up to a month Gearhart boarded a plane for Paris and then hopped another for Zaire. Bufkin a californian who has since returned to the United states said there were seven other . Mercenaries aboard the same flight. Upon arriving in Kinshasa Bufkin said each Man received military equipment and food plus two weeks in Crisp new . Bills. They left on feb. 8 for Battle in Sao Sal Vador an angolan town near the Zaire Border where they were paid an additional to reports on the men s capture were sketchy. Bufkin said a British mercenary reported that Gearhart was part of a patrol surprised by cuban troops. Gearhart s predicament has been extremely delicate for the . Government which has no diplomatic relations with the communist backed angolan government. A stale department spokesman said the government is relying on the International red Cross to protect the prisoners inter ests. To Date however not even the red Cross has seen the captured men. A spokesman for the Central intelligence Agency which spent millions of dollars trying to turn the leftist tide in Angola said it has no information on the prisoners and has Only mild interest in the mat olympic Hazard to stay Ira guerrillas defy Southern Irish government Dublin renter Irish Republican army Ira guerrillas in Northern Ireland will shoot any Southern Irish Legal or state officials coming to Ulster to help prosecute its members the underground organization said monday. The warning from the Ira s army Council High command is considered Here As an escalation of the confrontation Between the the organization and the Irish Cabi net which has joined forces with the British government in fighting the republicans. The Irish government is under constitutional commit ment to work for Irish unification but has agreed with the British government that this can be brought about Only by peaceful Means and not against the will of North Ern Ireland s pro British majority. It has jailed hundreds of Ira members under Emer gency legislation and has implemented a controversial Law allowing special courts Here to convict suspects on evidence gathered in Britain or Northern Ireland by Brit ish Security forces. Montreal up the roof of the newly completed olympic velodrome has been declared a potential fire Haz Ard by the National research Council arc the general manager of the olympic installations Board said Mon Day. However Roger Trudeau in charge of construction at the site said the transparent sky lights will remain in place and special firefighting pre cautions taken. The arc found in tests completed last week that the acrylic material of which the roof is made Burns twice As fast As Wood when ignited or. Trudeau said i an inter View. The research Council found that the acrylic sur passes the safety Index of he said. So what we do now is de cide what precautions we need maybe More hoses on the roof and additional fire men or whatever. What we should really do now is a bigger test building a garage out of the acrylic and setting it on fire but we Don t have time before the games. Bercy co industries incorporated s 24.9 per cent share has t been discussed he said. The mine showed a profit for the year ending dec. 31, 1975, com pared with a loss the previous year says the financial statement under re View by the committee. The Manitoba government i n 1972 loaned tantalum which was converted to si.5 million 25 per cent in shares shortly after. Cne Malloy has been involved in a proxy fight involving Angelo and Elvio Del Zotto Heads of Del Zotto enterprises Ltd. Of Toronto and or. Peter Briant former chairman of the Manitoba development corporation and Nicholas Matossian former development Corpora Tion finance officer. There have been allegations that some shares have been sold twice. Or. Parsons said the corporation would have to know who the shareholders Are be fore decisions could be made regarding the financing of a million Plant to mine Lithium. Studies regarding a Lithium Plant Are expected in the late fall or next year. Financing could be done by shareholders or from outside sources or. Parsons said. Questioned by Sidney spi v a k pc River or. Parsons said he had talked to Kawicki Bercy co with David t. Winchell and with the Del Otlo group about financing. He told or. Spivak that he and two corporation directors had talked to the Del Zotto group about a year ago after chem Alloy was placed in receivership. At the time he said he was t aware of allegations that the Del Zotto group might be linked with the mafia. He said he had seen Only Media reports which also made allegations about the Winchell group. Faulty kettles sold in Winnipeg stores continued the kettles but removed them from shelves last week when a notice appeared in the paper. The association said a new company has been manufacturing kettles with the Iden tical markings since april 1s76. It said there is no Evi Dence of failure of kettles manufactured after that Date. Lee Taylor an official with the products safety Branch of the Federal department of consumer and corporate affairs said his office has been sending complaints to the Winnipeg Branch of the association and to the provincial department of labor which is responsible for enforcing Cha standards within the province. A department o f labor official said monday the department can t enforce re Call by the association until dealers have been notified of the recall either by the manufacturer or by the association. The labor department official said however that individuals in Possession of such kettles Are obliged by Law to return them to the dealers who would either re fund the Purchase Price or Send the product Back to the manufacturer. The kettles were manufactured by the Eastern tool an d manufacturing com Pany which has since gone into receivership. Baum seeks approval for major housing development company representatives called the development concept involving 650 acres residential area with open spaces and storm water re Tention lakes 150 acres of Light Industrial area in the Northwest and Southwest and a 130-acre town Centre with a Park and Freshwater Lake in the Northeast. To go ahead Baum needs an amendment to the greater Winnipeg develop ment plan to permit residential development. It is now designated As a present and future working area. Vice president e. B. Bodic said Baum wrote civic environment commissioner David g. Henderson to request the change March 17. Environmental planning director Roy Darke warned committee that Baum s proposal would require a fundamental review of the City s development policy. But or. B o d i e also Baum s land division Winnipeg regional manager said in an Intel View that Wilkes As the proposal is tentatively called won t conflict with the City project. Just 51 per cent of the City Assembly is slated for residential use he said. Residential development there is years and years Clown the on the other hand could take As few As eight to 10 years from do vol continued Ozment to Sale or. Bodie said. Baum Hopes to Start the extensive engineering de signing Early in 1977. What Baum Avants from the City he said is consent for residential development particularly on the site s City owned land. Or. Bodic suggested the City could Trade the land for another Baum property or simply sell it. He said Baum does not expect the City to put up the Money for municipal services within the development. Baum planning consultant Harold Spence sales told environment committee a 26 per cent population growth from in 1971 to in 1981 is projected for the City s Southwest Sec Tor. Though it s Winnipeg s most rapidly growing sector less than 10 per cent of the greater Winnipeg develop ment plan s residential re serve lands there remains to be developed. On the other hand More than 60 per cent of the plan s working area Reserve lands remain for development about acres of a total of thus Baum thinks the City should Grant Baum s re quest to use 780 acres of this Industrial land for residential use or. Spence sales said. Baum s concept for the new suburb is envisioned in the greater Winnipeg development plan he said. Focus the Community would be the town Square surrounded by commercial institutional and recreational Lacil tics. Associated with the 60-Acrc town Centre would be a 76 acre Park and Freshwater re. Creation Lake which or Bodic said in an interview is planned to be fed from the City s Shoal Lake Freshwater source at off Peak times ;