Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 1, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday june 1, 1976 trans air office Union certified As lower court ruling reversed Ottawa the supreme court of Canada overturned a decision of the Federal a court decision monday and approved an order of the Canada labor relations Board certifying a Union for office employees of trans air Ltd. M Winnipeg. The supreme court in a four to three decision upheld the Board s order certifying the Canadian association of Industrial mechanical and Al lied workers As bargaining agent for tiie 66 office employees at trans air. Chief Justice Bora Laskin giving his reasons for the majority decision said the fed eral court was wrong in find ing that the Board had to permit Cross examination of a Union witness during its hearings in december of 1973 and january of 1974 As Montreal s firemen get emergency games plan Montreal up As part of what is believed to be the most extensive Emer gency planning Ever under taken by a North american fire department copies of a document detailing firefight ing and evacuation proce dures for the 1970 olympic games were circulated Mon Day among the City s firemen. The result of More than a year s work by fire depart ment officials the 150-Page plan at least puts All the Odds on our said Mon Treal fire director Rene Plai Sance. You can never be absolutely sure that you can pre vent a serious fire but we be tried to think of he said. The plan shows the layout of exits water sources and alarm boxes at each of 13 olympic Sites and gives specific details on procedures to Cope with virtually any Large scale firefighting or evacuation operation. Study sessions and training programs based on the plan Are to begin shortly and will continue up to the july 17 opening Date in an Effort to ensure maximum efficiency during the three week games period or. Plaisance said. The department also plans to run daily patrols through the Sites. With upwards of people buying snacks there will be a lot of waste paper and litter floating or. Plaisance noted adding that the Iso Man patrol should be Able to extinguish any Small fires in trash cans and the like. An additional precaution will the stationing of pumper truck and a Rescue vehicle at the main stadium and pumper trucks beside both the velodrome and the olympic Village. Having the equipment on site will prevent delays in getting to the scene of a fire through the huge volume of traffic expected in and around the olympic area Dur ing the games the fire director said. As for the controversy sur rounding the velodrome s acrylic roofing to be highly Plaisance said he believes the Clanger has been exaggerated. It s True that we re not too Happy with the roofing acrylic itself May be More flammable than other Materi als but in the velodrome i Don t believe it will be that he said. Medium weight aluminium storm window special for quantities of More than 6 these will Cost a. Installation s4.00 cottage window specials continues and up with 7 sizes in Stock. Over 6000 have purchased our windows since 1961 West wind aluminium window manufacturing phone 633-5551 105 Paramount re. Off Inkster blvd Public auction saddles tack we have been commissioned to sell per order of american Saddle com Pany. A Large shipment of hand made Western saddles 4 tack of All kinds. Including approx. 100 saddles most All with 5 year Guaran tees. Kool Kare pads stable blankets. Sunbeam clippers plus everything imaginable in the tack line. Plus 1-24 it. Gooseneck Stock trailer. Auctioneers notes this is one of the most Complete lines of saddles and tack that we have had an Opportunity to sell and each item offered will be sold at auction to the highest bidder. Monday june 7th . Winnipeg convention Centre 375 York ave. Meeting rooms 3 4 parking charge will be refunded with Purchase. Auction conducted by Seifried auction service Ltd. Terms Cash or Check with proper . To the numbers of employees involved in the application for certification he also found that the Board was not obliged to con Sider a late petition of trans air employees opposing the Union s application even though he thought it was unwise to ignore it. Trans air had opposed the Union s application on the grounds that it was not appropriate to act As bargain i n g agent for the office and that it did t have majority membership support of the employees. The Board made its certification order on april 17, 1974. On that Day it received notice of the employees petition but returned it As the next Day it issued the certification order. Trans air challenged the order because it failed to con Sider the petition and refused to allow Cross examination of Union witnesses. The Federal court of Appeal set aside the Board s order. Noting that the lower court agreed with the company that the late petition should have been considered the chief Justice said that the court plainly erred in Law in re Quiring the Board to ignore its valid he also observed that it was the company which appealed on this ground and not the employees who signed the petition who did not them selves in any representative or other capacity seek to intervene in the in his dissenting opinion or. Justice Wishart Spence stated that the labor relations Board failed to act in accor dance with the principles of natural Justice in refusing to allow Cross examination As to numbers at the hearings and in rejecting the employees petition. In my View. It was a most deplorable Reliance upon technicalities to have simply returned that petition Asun timely with no investigation by its own officers or examination in the hearing As to the different position which at any rate the petition in he said. The majority decision was concurred in by or. Justice Wilfrid Judson or. Justice Jean Beetz and or. Justice Louis Philippe Pigeon. The dissenting opinion of or. Jus Tice Spence was concurred in by or. Justice Ronald Mart land and or. Justice Roland Ritchie. The court assessed no costs to the parties. Fine photo finish inc it. Films Given with Black and or Koda color. 8 or out of 12, or 14 or More out of 20 film you film. No pay for what you Goodall photo Ltd. 321 Cartton St. Opp. Free parking at established the year i talk Ftp Hairdresser uni pm Mil i of count m a safari 0ar Casey Anderson unknown Lnger limited time Only once Conics win a 65.00 dance course you la win a dance course if you can unscramble these puzzles example we Jim we m mfr him Ahw my i Pmj Mejlak of Tam in Mali h tit put ital ill idols nil this program is sponsored for the purpose of acquiring a list of people who May be interested in receiving information about dancing and cd arts As available through our dance club. World of dance Fred Astaire Portage ave. Nun Tuoi City prov. Phone no today s the Day to count yourself in. We thought there still might be a few questions to which you need answers. So Here goes. . The instruction Booklet you have received with your questionnaire should help you answer the questions. But if there s anything you re not sure about please Call the Telephone assistance ser vice number printed on your questionnaire. Receive questionnaire if we missed you or if you did t receive a questionnaire in the official language of your Choice simply pick up a phone Call the Long distance operator and ask for Zenith 0-1976. The Call is free and the opera Tor will put you in touch with your nearest Telephone assistance service. Completed questionnaire. If a pre paid self addressed envelope is enclosed with your census package mail Back the completed questionnaire in this envelope. If a self addressed envelope is not enclosed keep the questionnaire in a Safe place. The census representative will pick it up before june 18th. Why is Canada counting Anjou the information Only you can provide today is so important to the future of our country that there is a Law re Quiring youth count yourself in. That same Law ensures that the information you provide is kept confidential and most important of All census information helps in Many kinds of planning which contribute to the Well being of canadians benefits of a census May not always be apparent but they Are real and they Are important please help us make the 1976 census of Canada a com plete Success. Canada s counting on you statistics Canada Statis Tique Canada ;