Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 06, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press City news travel of and relax november 1976 2nd cuss Mali number 0284 movers lower fee hike bid opposition from Busi Ness and labor groups in to a pro posed 29to44 per cent in crease in moving and car Tage fees in the province was dropped thursday after trucking firms Cut their re quest by Al chairman of the Manitoba Highway trans port said Friday the Thompson groups More or less withdrew their opposition to the fee increases after the Manitoba movers association drastically amended its application at a hearing in Winnipeg the who were mainly concerned with pro posed surcharges on House hold goods shipped through Northern included Norman regional development United steelworkers of a m e r i c a local 6166 the Thompson chamber of com Merce and the City Mackling said the movers association reduced the scope of its application substantially from the Ini tial 29to44 per cent in creases to an increase Range of about per he said the association also abandoned additional moving charges it had pro posed for shipments Between and Points West and a a hundredweight surcharge requested for ship ments Between Points North fan including Thompson was also amended to read Points North fan including Nelson left intact were requests for increased ancillary charges a 30percent in crease for a 100 per cent empty mileage charge increase from 50 cents a mile to a mile and a new 50 cents hundredweight sur charge on shipments through in a letter to the transport Board before the Amend ments were mayor Tom of Thompson said the opinion of the Thompson City Council is that these increases Are Unwar ranted at this time and Are discriminating towards Northern despite the reductions made by the moving Mackling the application still seeks substantial fee increases involving quite a few dollars to individuals and families relocating within the he said the association has filed Complex and extensive documents on the Cost Struc Ture of the Industry and decision by the Board May be a Long time in the proposed charges affect shipments of household goods within Manitoba bottle Wash blues bring 2nd dumping Raymond Mcquade left took part in the ceremony of installing the new president and Vic Chancellor of the University of Manitoba Fri photo Day along with Richard Bowles Ralph Campbell Tho new said writing skills at University Are easy on Oliver says a number of unidentified problems with pop Bogue washing machine have forced the company to dump the past weeks production for the second time in Winnipeg manager Glen said the company closed us 17 Manitoba retail outlets thursday after a visual Check the Day be on re is ski to inside Wall of five out of bottles contained a residue of foreign Materi be the residue was the nor Mal Type of substance which the bottle Asber should have gotten but didst the company will dump cases Worth about the same amount that was dumped last month for the same Rea he the machine is being re placed by a newer Model which had been sitting Idle in the company Regina Torgerson said pop Shoppe outlets will reopen when production is expected to be Back to nor the old machine had been cleaned out after last months problem and weekly product checks showed it was doing its Job up to this he a second inspection of the machine indicated a number of possible prob lems which could Only have been resolved after a three or four week wait for he although the newer machine has a higher the problem didst arise from overworking the old he the heat of the cleaning solution was up to acceptable he bottlers employ an elec tronic scanning device to detect material missed by the he the pop shoppes scanner shoots its electronic beam up through the Bottom of the bottles and it want Able to detect residue on the inside he inspectors Check bottles visually but were unable to pick up the it might have been picked up by a Vry Clow visual in the scanner should not be Torgerson perhaps there Are More so the pop Shoppe Model was one of the Best on the mar a production spokesman for the coca cola bottling Plant said his firms scanner shoots a con shaped beam through the tops of asked if his machine would have detected residue on in Side the spokesman i sure hone As with last months occur Torgerson consid ered it unlikely any of the suspect product would have gone out to Consumers be cause new Stock is added to the Back of any customer in Manitoba who feels concerned about a pop Shoppe product they May have in their Home is invited to re turn it to any one of our Manitoba stores for replace ment or a company statement universities Rush to set up barriers against foreign says Michael outgoing president of the association of universities and m a y b e we should be thinking of waiting out the problem instead of jumping into said the president of Carlton Oliver was reacting to National students got to do with resentment of Oliver said of animosity allegedly shown by Canadian he said it is useful and necessary to distinguish be tween visa students and Ca n a d i a n s or landed immigrants from asian coun the problem can actually be coped with in Small localized areas where it looms Large by individual programs rather than in any global Oliver was in Winnipeg for ceremonies installing Ralph Campbell As president of the University of Mani students to protest cutbacks University of Alberta administrator who said quotas should perhaps be levied on students from Hong Kong to prevent racial tensions from further developing in univer Oliver said he under stands the 18 to 24yearold age group in Hong Kong has been levelling he also believes what peo ple believe the foreign Stu dents Ace in Many cases landed immigrants or Chil Dren of naturalized Canad in afraid a lot of it Hai Cancu in uie Rizii Gikai ii juju of students in protest against tuition increases and Cut backs in education will beheld student leaders at the University of Manitoba have not asked students to Boycott classes and no demonstrations or pickets have been says Joan my director of academic services for the students the Ontario federa Tion of student councils has urged All Ontario students to Boycott Ben Hanuschak minister of continuing education and parents and sex top youth line Experiment will sneak at an open forum with Edward ii Gill of the Manitoba progressive conservative party and Liberal Leader Charles he band at 1 in the Multi purpose room in the univer sity the University of Winnipeg students a member of the National Union of Stu has planned round the clock debates and workshops for the students at the downtown Mcconnel said National students Day plans did not provoke much discussion at the University of Mani t o b a s fort Garry the University is not a Nus she said this was not be cause of apathy but because students Are primarily inter e s t e d in cd dont think political issues feet them their prime interest is to get their degree or finish their topics dealt with in University of Winnipeg work shops tuesday will be provincial government in Educa accessibility and Quality of postgraduate inter National student continuing a Community forum is slated for in rid Dell at the University of Mani a discussion and presentation on engineering re ports and slides on the Condi Tion of tache Hall will be held in tache Hall Auditori Jet removed from Woodhaven a t33 Silver Star Jet Trainer has been removed from its mount in Woodha Ven Park in Kamesas Sini Boia for refurbishing by the Canadian forces in win Pat Karroll said the exterior of the Jet was Start ing to show Wear and it was removed to we twin for about six he said the Jet will be re placed on its mount problems with parents and sex were by far the main difficulties that led Young people to Telephone the youth line this figures for july and August showed about 78 per cent of Calls dealt with prob lems in these youth line was run As an Experiment by family ser vices of Winnipeg Calls about problems with especially girl friends and boy to talled about 30 per cent of the 355 Calls during the three month there were 99 Calls about difficulties with parents 27 per cent and 81 Calls 23 per cent involving which included birth control Homo sex rape and drugs accounted for Only 22 of the seventeen had problems with their self images and 18 with lonely the figures also showed fit per cent of callers were age 14 or under and about 35 per cent age 15 to the program ran mondays to fridays from june 7 to Marion Volun Teers coordinator for youth line and for the family ser vices of Winnipeg said Friday it int known if sufficient funds will be Avail Able for the program next a total of 23 people worked the two most volunteers were aged 17 to Packham provincial phone books being delivered Manitoba Telephone sys tem has started delivery of the 197677 provincial Tele phone the Book has 648 White 24 More than last and the yellow pages have been increased to 368 from about copies were an in crease of the Utility said in a Manitoba communities included in the directory for the first time Are b i o o d v e i n Moose Pelican Pikwitonei and Lukata news quiz on Page 35 Ray p e r r a u Ron Shaver and John Turner Are some of the personalities youll find today in the names in the news which appears on Page turn to the quiz to see if you correctly identify these and other news youll also get a Chance to answer a Vari Ety of National and inter National news the free press pub Lishes your news quiz each week As a service to area Folk arts Council Board of directors win control Battle the Legal Battle for control of the Folk arts Council was resolved Friday when a Manitoba court of Queens Bench Justice ruled that the organization should be run by its Board of directors and not by individual actions of its of Justice Peter Morse turned Down a request by two of the councils directors to put the which organizes the annual Folk Lorama under control of a he said the wishes of the majority of directors should decide policy for the and he c h i d e d Board chairman Julius Koteles for acting contrary to those i cannot avoid the impression that this the Legal Battle was just a ploy by Koteles in his continuing Battle with the Folk arts Justice Morse Koteles has lost control of the Board and if he Doest agree with its Deci Sions he should either resign or accede to the will of the the judge Justice Morse also ruled that Koteles had no right to appoint lawyer Paul Walsh to represent the Council in its Legal Case with an Organiza Tion whose Pavilion was excluded from this years Folk the dispute began in june when Koteles decided to exclude three pavilions from including one from the hungarian United the next seven Council directors met and decided to allow the excluded pavilions to take Koteles maintained that this meeting was unconstitutional since Only As pres ident and Board was empowered to Call such a i n Justice John Hunt granted an in Junction allowing the three pavilions to according to the latest ruling Koteles was judged to be in breach of the councils Constitution by re fusing to preside Over a Board the Powers of the ident must be subject to the Board of jus Tice Morse he has no Independent authority apart from the Council manager Joseph who sought to have a receiver said after the judgment he would have to speak with treasurer do Menic Romano before a Deci Sion to Appeal the ruling would be both directors were not among the seven who had overturned Koteles decision in july and called on him to re court earlier heard arguments from lawyer Paul Walsh that the appointment of a receiver was essential in solving the the Only Way we can have a Fol Lorama in the summer of 1977 is if some intermediary Force calms the he argued that the Council was bogged Down in jurisdictional disputes which it didst appear capable of David who was representing seven of the councils 12 said Koteles abused his Privi Leges by acting against the Koteles is also holding up the business of the Council by his unwillingness to sign for Che ques and carry out other duties since he Proctor also charged Koteles with failing to have the Council incorporated after it was formed in even though he had been instructed and undertook to do new pension Board gets applications the Manitoba government has received about 700 applications for pension plans registration As required under the pension benefits labor minister Russ pan i Ley of Manitoba said Paulley said the applications have been made to the Manitoba pension com Mission and were received from insurance and Trust companies and Oiler involved the commission has the Job of registering existing pension plans and with promoting new ones As Well As upgrading old pension the commission checks to see if the individual pension plan conforms to the Princi Ples and rules of the pension benefits which came into Force july Paulley said those that do not conform with the act will be amended by the prov Ince and the changes will be made retroactive to it is expected the Provin Cial pension commission will Register about 900 pension plans another 400 or 500 plans affecting Mani to bans will be administered from outside the province where companies or organizations operate Inte Provin scially or by the Federal gov the pension benefits act Aims to protect individual rights of employees to ensure benefits promised through their plans will be million granted team to carry out City study More than million has been granted to a study team now being established to form a development strategy for the City of Urban affairs minister Saul Miller of Manitoba said Friday the funds for the study group became Avail Able following an agreement Between the Provin Cial and civic under the he said the Federal government will pay 50 per cent of the up to while the City and province each pay up to the City will be responsible for establishing the study which will be advised by technical and Trievel government As it will have a full time manager and Miller said that within two the study group would be expected to have produced a development Model for the backed by data for each level of government costs of arbitration in teacher salary disputes High by Glen Mackenzie arbitration of teachers salaries May be easier than strikes but it Hast been an easy Way out for school trustees or arbitration hearings have Cost an estimated this year and could total about by the time con tracts for Manitoba 57 school divisions Are de assistant executive director of the Manitoba association of school Trust said thirteen agreements have been arbitrated and disputes in 28 More divisions May be headed that he the costs could be higher than the estimates Are based on for a on Day hearing but a three Day hearing in trans con Springfield Cost Martens Aubrey an economic welfare officer with the Manitoba teachers said he didst have figures to Dis Pute the estimate but he put the Cost at to a Legal fees and travel costs Are the main he costs Are split evenly Between the association and the the association gets its funds from the local school boards so its All tax payers teachers Are paid by tax but Asper said arbitration fees be included in salary proposals so the relationship is too in teachers have to pay the fees from the salaries they Settle neither Side has had to hire additional personnel to Deal with Martens said the association has five employees who As Sist boards with labor mat ters every Asper said the teachers society has had to change its Only four disputes went to arbitration in 1975 in Pine Creek and Lym Lake school Asper Manitoba teachers gave up the right to strike in the 1950s in Exchange for tenure and the stumbling Block this year has been the Federal an to inflation Martens said Many school boards made initial offers lower than guideline figures but negotiated up to those teachers asked for More and outside forces come into this starts with a Provin Cial conciliator who usually meets with both sides Tor about 15 minutes to find out what they have agreed to disagree he representatives Are then put in separate rooms and the conciliator goes Back and trying to soothe Dif conciliation usually takes a after which the conciliator files a report with the ministers of labor and if the dispute int each Side appoints an Arbi the arbitrators name a both sides Natu rally Seel someone expected to Rule in their if they cant agree on a Manitoba chief Justice appoints Martens after an arbitration hear ing its usually More than a month before a decision is he the Deci Sion Doest have to be unan there Are alternatives but no attempt has been made to try if teachers again had the right to it would Cost them despite the fact that a school Board would save mar tens said this would mean some loss of and the possibility of schools closing Down int a Happy thought the association favors bar gaining on a regional rather than divisional basis so con tracts for teachers in seven or eight regions could be settled at Asper said the society would be willing to consider this if local boards gave authority to their negotiating regional bargaining failed in Saskatchewan Dur ing the late 1960s because each school Board had veto Over the he this resulted in the Provin Cial government bargaining on behalf of an school Divi Martens said starting negotiations in summer rather than in november work because neither Side could predict that Early what inflation would lie the following but there could be a deadline for Arbi perhaps March of the year the contract is to take effect Asper said the anti inflation program has destroyed the effectiveness of conciliation and conciliation could work if both sides had Confidence in the a few school divisions had signed agree ments without arbitration be cause they trusted this third but the process is often carried through to arbitration because the ant inflation Board rules on agreements rather than he ;