Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 2, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba fat pc wednesday june 2, 1976 Inco picket line removed continued Dick Martin president of United steel worker of America local 6166, addresses Union fathered at Thompson s Ballpark. The mass information meeting was called by the Union to discuss Premier Schreyer s offer. Doctor wins forests still ablaze fire Crews get almost no Relief Chicago a a doctor who accused a woman and her lawyers of maliciously Fil ing a malpractice suit against him has won an from a jury Tor damages from the suit. A doctor has to answer for his actions so Why not Law said or. Leonard Ber Lin who filed a counter suit after he was named in a malpractice suit last nobody denies that medical malpractice occurs. But that was t the Issue circuit court judge David Canel said the verdict tues Day Means that lawyers should t be filing lawsuits unless they have enough Evi Dence to substantiate the Law by the Canadian press continuing warm tempera Tures and isolated Thunder storms with Little or no rain today mean Little Relief for about 350 firefighters battling a Forest fire in the Valora area of Northwestern Ontario about 160 Miles East of Kenora. Environment Canada said v temperatures will Rise to be tween 21 c and 25 c and winds will come from the Southeast at 20 . Adrian Vanfraassen Forest management super visor for the Dryden area said the general fire situation still hazardous because of the hot dry weather. The ministry of natural re sources reported tuesday that the fire which has not increased in size since Mon Day has responded to water bombing and work by ground Crews. Other ground and water Crews contained 17 new fires caused by lightning monday in the general area of the main fire which is being held the ministry said. Many of the lightning f ires covered less than an acre. In a news release the ministry said 600 firefighters were working on the Valora area fires. The main Blaze started May 24 at wintering Lake just South of Valora. Highway 642, the Road from Silver Dollar through Umfreville to Sioux Lookout about 105 Miles East of Kenora was opened to traffic tuesday after being closed since late last week. Travel probe sought by Iain Hunter staff correspondent Ottawa conservative my Elmer Mackay urged transport minister Otto Lang tuesday to order an investigation into charges of improper charges and Billing practices by travel agents dealing with Canada s two major airlines. When he raised the matter in the House of commons or. Lang said he is basical satisfied with the Way the Issue is being handled at present. Or. Mackay my for con trial Nova noted that he Drew to the minister s attention last november a joint letter by senior officers of air can Ada and up air warning the airlines appointed travel agents of abuses in commis Sion practices. Prairie crops badly need rain i continued j late May gave Hope of a break in the weather but brought no real break in the dry spell dating Back to last fall on the North american great Plains. J. H. Tunson climatologist with the weather office said in an interview that Alberta had some Good Rains in some areas last weekend. Saskatchewan also received some spotty rainfalls. North Battleford reported 10.7 Milli metres Swift current 22.1 Millimetres and Meadow Lake 28 Millimetres. Manitoba however got Al most none at that time with just a sprinkling at Brandon and the Pas about it for or. Judson said. The Winnipeg area got a Light Shower a week ago barely enough to Dampen the fevered brow of the Golden High atop the legislative building. But in spite of the recent showers weather records of environment Canada show May was a month of Abnor Mally High total Sunshine hours and much below nor Mal precipitation All across the Prairies. Total rainfall for the month was less than half the Normal and less than one tenth the Normal in some areas. Brandon at the buckle of the Manitoba wheat Belt had Only 6 Millimetres of rain in May compared with a nor 53.6 Millimetres As re at the experimental farm. Unfortunately the Outlook for the month in t promis ing. The United states weather Bureau s 30-Day-fore cast Calls for above Normal temperatures and below nor Mal precipitation for most of the North american great Plains and All of the Canad an Prairies. If the indicators of a crop searing Long hot summer Are Correct the costs in eco nomic terms could be consid Erable. Some 25 million acres have been committed to wheat with Hope of producing about 600 million bushels. World Market prices Are Strong Ami the Canadian carryover is extremely Low. With Canadian wheat Board list prices on wheat ranging from to about a Bushel a rough work the prime minister now in British Columbia is expected to return to his office late this week. Or. Macdonald s recent budget is being debated in the House of commons. Or. Schreyer said he has no basis to believe the fed eral government won t be amenable to the the mass meeting was hurriedly arranged at Thompson s recreation Centre. The balloting was supervised by Thompson municipal Secretary treasurer Gordon Smith and a citizens committee in an attempt to counter criticisms of voting procedures at a pro strike meeting last Friday when a Lack of privacy and information were alleged. A protest petition Over the meeting signed by Union members last weekend and the pre Mier s move led the executive to postpone the strike monday night but the Mili Tant group went ahead any Way. Tempers flew As or. Mar tin and other Union officials appeared on the picket line to announce the results of the vote and explain the con sequences of continuing the picketing which they said was illegal since the Union s contract with Inco was extended. Or. Martin urged the picketers to support the will of the majority. If you Don t want democracy you Are asking for but a picketed replied strike or Start or. Martin said that if the picket line continued the company might take out an injunction against the Union or the picketers which might prevent the Union from strik ing june 15 if the Cabinet a peal is unsuccessful. The executive supported Premier Schreyer s proposal he said because it seemed the one Way to get the 18.1 per cent wage increase negotiated in the original agree ment last february. The Aib rolled it Back to 14.9 per cent in a revised decision last week. We have already won a major Victory with the pre Mier s offer to go to Ottawa with us and negotiate directly with Trudeau and the cab or. Martin argued. Ken Yurchuk speaking for the picketers at the Ballpark accused the Premier of intentionally or unintentionally engaging in strike without the Premier s intervention he Felt the strike approved by a majority last Friday would have gone ahead tuesday. We have taken a lot of crap from the company the anti inflation Board and now the provincial government s getting into the he said. Out of All the flak and bitterness we have begun to get some democracy Back into this he added. This meeting is a Sample of Pam Foley one of the first women in Thompson to join the mining workforce said we decided to go on strike on june 1 last Friday and i cannot see what we Are wait ing another Miner said i Don t want to strike i be got five kids two dogs one wife and plenty of debts. But i think at this time we have to make a Thompson King Miner lome Spicer said he could t understand Why Premier Schreyer could t have acted two months earlier. There were Many threaten ing speeches about the ineffectiveness of the Union on the picket line. Mark Matthews said he and three other Young miners had just burned their Union cards. It seems to me our Union is in a bad state when ave have to rely on help from elsewhere even from the refinery shop Steward Bob Walpole said i am All for striking but i respect the decision of the majority. It s been a Tough 24 hours on this picket line. The Only rest i got was lying Down in the ditch for about 20 William Loewen of Spring Stein man., checks to the stage of germination of his newly planted crop. Moisture is lacking in most Manitoba farming areas and As each Day passes without rain the situation becomes More critical. Or. Loewen has Farmed his land since he homesteaded it in 1932 and has seen few drier years than this. Montreal police inspector Jean Claude Rondou examines a police radio monitoring device seized along with two weapons and More than in a series of raids on several Montreal area houses tuesday. Police say the Money is part of the million brinks robbery. Brink s robbery solved police say continued Public relations officer would neither confirm nor deny the releases. Mir. S h o o f e y said the woman her two daughters and a 30-year-old son were arrested at the Mother s Home in the East end of the City. Two other sons aged 42 and 25, were arrested in a sum Mer cottage at Ste. Anne Des lacs 130 Miles North of Mon Treal. Inspector Jean Claude Ron Dou in charge of the squad which made the arrests said police believe some Money has already been spent on a car and a summer cottage in the Laurentian. I guess quite a lot of Money was spent. We now Are trying to gather evidence to prove he said. The inspector said one or two suspects May have been missed in the raids but Well get them in the Long or. Daigneault said As Many As 12 arrests might be forthcoming. The arrests came exactly nine weeks after the robbery the biggest in North Ameri c a n history in which a Brink s Security truck was commandeered from outside a Bank in the heart of Mon Treal s financial District. A 50-calibre Browning m-2 truck but no1 shots were fired threaten the Driver of the machine gun was used to and police later said tests on the gun proved it was inoperative. Bonus plan bared for mine discovery continued amount for any one Dis covery is not to exceed the president and the chief geologist Are to receive 20 per cent each of the maximum of for each major find and the entire staff arc to receive lesser amounts As m r Koffman defending the Bonus system said he would not necessarily receive an extra for a highly profitable discovery. Instead he said the figure might Only be however when asked by or. Minaker if he could receive the full Benefit As out lined by the Board s decision he said that is or. Koffman said he was offered no such arrangement when he once was employed by Hudson Bay mining and smelting Ltd., and that was one of the reasons he quit. However he said a similar Bonus was available when he switched to Noranda mines Ltd. As its chief geologist after negotiations with that firm s officers. Or. Koffman admitted that with the government funded company s successes so far in the exploration Field it was unlikely he would receive any Benefit from a Bonus for some time anyway. In his report he said the Only Revenue generated from the company s work in 1974 75 was in Oil Royalty exploration investment o f or. Koffman said the firm received from the Manitoba government in 1974-75, All of which was used and brought the province s total investment to in addition the company receive contracts for exploration from the provincial department of mines one of which totalled Dur ing the 1974-75 fiscal period. In response to questions or. Koffman said it could Cost the province As much As million before a profit Able mine is found and pos Sibly even however he said such investments to find a profitable mine were the name of the or. Koffman also reported that the company participated in million in exploration projects during the fiscal year in which it in vested meanwhile the economic development committee approved with few questions tuesday the annual report of the Leaf rapids develop ment corporation responsible for the administration of the mining Community of Leaf rapids in Northern Manitoba. The committee was told the corporation expects to earn a profit next year and also predicts it will be Able to return the province s entire investment in the establishment of the Community. Leaf rapids about 550 Miles North of Winnipeg was developed with funds provided by the Manitoba develop ment corporation to serve a mine owned by Sherritt Gor Don mines Ltd. At habitat Canada neglect charged Vancouver up Ai Leen Smith a new York Pho to journalist who for three years documented the effects Mercury poisoning at Miu Amata. Japan told a tuesday workshop at habitat forum that Canadian authorities Are showing the same disregard for the disease As was shown by Japan 20 years ago. Airs. Smith told the work shop sponsored by the inter National Alliance of the Vic Tims of Mercury poisoning that native indians in North Western Ontario and Quebec Are in danger of disease and death if the government does not take More positive action. Teruo Kawamoto a representative of a group attempt ing to gain compensation for those afflicted with Mercury poisoning in Japan told the workshop it took 10 years for the japanese government to officially recognize the Dis ease. Or. Kawamoto speaking through a translator Drew applause when he said people must act themselves and not wait for government or Industry to resolve the prob Lem. Prof. Jun i a leading spokesman for anti pollution movements in Japan said Mercury poisoning affects the poorest people in Sci the disease is an expansion of social injustice it is a social he said. Other speakers at the work shop included several Canad an native indians who de scribed their frustrations in attempting to get government action on disease prevention treatment. Housing action outlined Vancouver up pro vision of adequate housing need not wait until govern ment structures change but housing action can be a part of the attack on injustices and environmental dangers that afflict the world John Turner a British architect said tuesday. Or. Turner a lecturer at the architectural association and the University College of London told a habitat forum symposium that the nature of housing must be changed. He said three major issues Are involved in the symposium s topic of self help Low Cost housing. First the Issue of authority should Centre not on ensuring Public participation but on seeing How governments can Smi p p o r t locally controlled housing action. Second Low Cost housing should not relate to Large scale production reached through mechanical and managerial efficiency but through use of All resources. Third the definition of housing should not be con fined to the number of exist ing houses of a certain Stan Dard but what role the hous ing plays in the user s life. He said that in Many areas of the world a dwelling s location Security of tenure and proximity to jobs and friends Are More important than its size or Dollar value. He also said few of the peo ple attending the forum were really poor or had worked with the poor. The expense of attending the conference can be justified Only if we hum Bly admit we Lack the author Ity to speak for those we re talking or. Oscar Newman director of the Institute for Community design analysis in new York urged developing nations not to follow devel oped nations in creating of poor people and suburbs of Middle income families. Resignation demands expected ing figure of per Bushel would mean the value of the projected hard Spring wheat crop could be estimated at billion. It could also be estimated that if drought cuts the yield of the Prairie wheat crop in half As it did in the last major Prairie drought in 1951, production losses would mean a loss to the Economy of billion. Manitoba alone with some 3vb million acres in wheat was expected to produce about. 85 million bushels Worth about million. A drought of the 1961 proportions could result in a loss of million to the Economy. The Prairies had the Mak Ings of a bumper crop with id Cal seeding conditions in Early Spring but any Hope of getting even average yields now depends on timing of rainfalls in june july and Early August. Ottawa up opposition demands for the resignations of defence minister James Richardson and sup ply minister Jean Pierre Goy for Are expected to be re. Nowed in the commons today Over the collapsed contract to buy Long Range planes from Lockheed aircraft corp. Or. Goyer rejected the res ignation demands tuesday saying that an error that will Cost Canadian taxpayers million was made by two pub Lic servants not by ministers. Their error led the govern ment to sign a conditional contract with Lockheed for Advance work for which Ottawa agreed to pay the Mil lion or. Goyer told the com Mons. Or. Goyer said he believes in the parliamentary tradition that ministers Are responsible for their departments but i do not believe that ministerial responsibility extends to cases of misinformation or Gross or. Goyer told the com Mons that he was Given incorrect information by l. H. Stopforth Deputy head of a special projects group set up for the proposed Purchase of 18 Long Range patrol aircraft from Lockheed. The minister said he was assured several times that or. Stopforth was not aware of an Oral commitment by Lockheed to put up Advance funds for the aircraft Pur Chase. Lack of Advance financing led to the govern ment scrapping the proposed Purchase. However the minister was informed monday night that. Or. Stopforth did know of the commitment said or. Goyer. For that reason or. Stopforth had been removed from the projects group. Or. Goyer said it was elementary that an agreement involving millions of dollars should have been confirmed in last week he criticized Brig Gen. Dudley Allan who also knew about the Oral agreement and had not had Lockheed put it in writing. Progressive conservative defence critic Allan Mckin non said the minister was to blame his own in competence and Lack of us p e r v i s i o n on his sub or he said both or. Richard son and or. Goyer should re sign. I think the government would be better off without i think they Hope that by throwing Stopforth to the wolves that to. Will quid he added ;