Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 18, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather Cloudy Low High 10 Sun rises sets of Tom itts details 5 Winnipeg free 84 91 january 1 1 977 edition 15 cent s phone workers salaries Cut the Federal ant inflation Board has tolled Back wage increases for craftsmen employed by the Manitoba Telephone the Board announced the Rollback reduces an 11 per cent increase Over a one year contract to the Arith Metic guideline of tight per the members of local 435 of the International brotherhood of electrical signed the contract retroactive to july the a1b decision follows a similar Rollback of Cler ical and technical Telephone employees in november from per cent negotiated wage increase to eight per the Craft employees ratified their 11 per one year contract ear they had rejected a company offer of per cent by a five Toone local 435 business agent Harold Warne said in sep tember he believed the Craft employees had a Good Case to take to the Aib for exceeding the arithmetic guide he said the unions argument was based on historical relationships with Tele phone employees in Alberta and today Small firms promised Aid Page 2 the execution of Gil More Page 21 peat smoke ills minimized Page 2 fur workers vote to strike Page 4 Ontario Power aids Michigan 7 ordained women Divide anglicans Boilon 7 Montreal 3 Western Canada Winnipeg 6 Hadj acc on Page 40 inside Bridge 23 classified 4249 comics 15 finance focus for Reoute w19 Horoscope 25 Jumble movies sports television Rescue workers foreground carry 9 seriously injured Man up a Steep con Crete slab tuesday at the site where Cranville Bridge in collapsed on a crowded commuter the trains crumpled carriages Are Visi photo ble Centre and police said the death toll could reach More than 100 people were Manitoba Outlook gloomy provincial growth May drop me Futi rms Ottawa up growth of provincial economies is Likely to show a significant drop in 1977 from 1976 following National trends in economic the Confer ence Board in Canada says in a report released the Pace of Manitoba Al ready sluggish Economy will slow Clown even More in provincial growth will be Al about per cent com pared with four per cent last agriculture May be the weakest sector this while the Good producing in d u s t r i e s May show some unemployment is expected to increase Only the Board says real eco nomic growth in the country will decline to about three per cent this year from about five per cent in unless the government stimulates the the Board is a private including government and labor repro which develops economic the forecast says that in line with a less optimistic out look for the National econ projected growth in real output for almost All prov inces has been revised Down Ward from previous predictions made last government in eluding finance minister Donald Macdonald and inter National have said economic recovery in the last half of 1976 was not As speedy As expected All Over the West Ern Industrial with pressure mounting from labor and opposition political parties for stimulative such As tax Macdonald promised in december there would be a new Federal Bud get within four the Board report says that Alberta and British Columbia Are expected to show the strongest growth in with both considerably exceeding the National but a poor Outlook for spending on capital consumer goods and housing is Likely to hamper growth in the manufacturing and construction making the future dim for both Quebec and both Ontario and Quebec Are expected to have growth rates of less than three per with Only modest employment gains and substantial rises in provincial jobless 1 see economic Page 6 concerts anger parents by Janice keys about 100 to 150 Calls from irate parents kept telephones ringing in the Winnipeg sym phony orchestra office Mon Day the who had taken their children to see the symphony magic music concerts were in Censed about what symphony staff member Bob Mcgifford termed a colossal Misander the show featured Ernie the Star of the Chil d r e n s television and almost everyone who bought tickets to the concert also expected to see his two puppet com p a n i o n s Casey and Fin beloved by Mcgifford said people should keep their tickets the so is trying to arrange another a tried and True childrens which will be free to those who bought tickets for the dress up the symphony will refund Peoples Money if they request the ads for the concert said dress up and his friends in a special Chil Drens but Casey and ii Ziegan never appeared and the re sult was Many Tea Tut Vest less according to his Coombs was under no obligation to bring Casey and Finnegan with Mcgifford the performer was responsible for his own in the show and the symphony was responsible for the musical most of the publicity photos Mccoombs sent for ads showed him with the two Mcgie Ord said he Hast been Able to deter mine yet whether the ads showing dress up with two puppets were approved by is Cus Tomary for concerts which feature a guest continued see Padnis Page 6 Auto Union chief shot dead in office Brooks four times up Charles president of local United Auto was shot four times and killed monday in an of fice at the local Union head police c4 a r e n c e of Windsor has been arrested on a murder charge and is to be arraigned today in the spokesman the spokesman said a Man carrying a lever action Rifle fired through the door of an office in which Brooks was the Man then went outside the Union broke a Hole in the office window and went Back inside where he fired additional he fled from the building following a scuffle with a Union official who attempted to Stop the spokesman moments police arrested a Man outside carry ing a the police spokesman said seven or eight Shell casings see Auto Page 6 India to hold March elections Delhi a prime minister Indira Gand his government announced today that the first parliamentary elections since a National emergency was declared in India 19 months ago will be the prime minister freed her Arch political former Deputy prime min ister Morarji shortly before the elections were an he had been imprisoned since the beginning of the state of the 80yearold considered tie country most prominent opposition poli was released along with Leader of the hindu nationalist Jana Singh parliamentary elections were postponed twice in the last there was no immediate indication whether the Deci Sion to hold elections would also Lead to a relaxation or an outright end to the state of under which civil liberties and Normal to 111 i c a 1 activities were us the release of Desai and Advani left Only a handful of leading opposition politicians still in among them socialist Leader Raj Gandhi frees toe Paris hits Back the los Angeles times Paris president Valery g i s c a r d Destain struck Back vigorously monday at what he called a Campaign of insults attempting to cast a slur on the dignity of France and her Honor Over the release from French Cus Tody of the palestinian terrorist Abu French foreign policy is not made and will not be made in the newsrooms of a few International news the French pres ident told an Elysee Palace press conference in cold and forceful it is the business of the president of the the government and the its people and its Laws do not have to take lessons from i invite those coun tries which wish to remain our friends to abstain from giving us Giscard Destain said that the scope and unpleasant Aura of orchestration in this Campaign of denigration against France shows that Here and there some coun tries do not accept the in dependent policy of look current weekly column that will interpret the news for Start today on Page 18 will appear each it has been Spe c i a 11 y developed for student readership and classroom each an event is presented and followed by a breakdown of Points or it also will include an upcoming event to watch fur and a Quick quiz on the australian commuter train jumps tracks death toll May hit 80 in rail crash Australia up police estimate that More than 80 persons were killed today in the wreckage of a commuter train that jumped its tracks 20 Miles outside crashed into a sup port stanchion for a Highway overpass and brought the 45 ton Bridge and several Auto mobiles Down on two crowded officials said 95 persons were Many of them if the death toll is con it will be Australia worst rail after 13 bodies had been re moved from the police George Marshall said there was Little Chance any of those still trapped in the two coaches were we believe there May be As Many As to 80 people dead in he the train came from mount 50 Miles Northwest of and was crowded with people bound Lor work in the the wreck occurred at its smashed like match said a Man who Stag gered from the leading we were upside inside out and then the Carriage burst like a bloody sardine nine hours cranes and other lifting equipment had been unable to move the police said it might be wednesday before this was accomplished and All the bodies were High voltage Power lines fell with the increasing the danger to any survivors in the wreckage Aad Rescue medical teams crawled into narrow spaces to operate on trapped persons As nurses and medics administered of four operations were under Way you believe the Messin an exhausted doctor one of the Leigh was Small enough to crawl into the flattened rec i got in under the Bridge but there want a lot we could she there were eight dead alongside Many were still sitting squashed in their they haunt been Able to move be fore the Bridge fell on Michael Campion said he administered the last rites to about 20 persons in one Carriage after crawling alongside the most of them were he some of the injured i could see were crying for he the scene was its Hor pensions protest called premature9 by John Sullivan the Manitoba human rights commission has Dis missed As premature and on sided an employer groups protests against the Agency efforts to remove sex discrimination from employee pension the labor relations Council of the Winnipeg builders Exchange claims the com Mission intends to recommend changes in the human rights act in at tempting to remove an Ima g i n e d sex discrimination against will pay men an average of less than in a letter to Manitoba premiered the builders claimed the commis Sion will urge the govern ment to equalize monthly pension benefits paid to men and women they said such a move is mathematically unsound and discriminatory against Mene cause who live longer would receive More Money for their pension but commission executive director Harvey Moats said in an interview the employers have misrepresented the commission and jumped the gun with their he said efforts to remove see pensions Page 6 discourages smoking in office by Lawrence Martin Globe and Toronto Toronto the Ontario government will ask employ ers to provide incentives to employees for not smoking during working and to provide cessation clinics and guidelines developed b y the health ministry but not to be made Public until the end of the month say workers should be Able to carry out their jobs in a satisfactory for non this would suggest the elimination of cigarette smoke in their immediate the to be made available to All Call for permitting employees who now smoke on the Job to have Short cigarette Breaks in a nonworking area designated for employ ers also should provide non smokers with an Opportunity to work next to other non where the government has decided to tackle the problem with voluntary guidelines rather than Law because it Felt legis lation would be too difficult to guidelines for col Leges and universities say that smoking should not he permitted in any lecture la Library or gym a secondary and Public schools already have rules against smoking in but in Post secondary institutions there Are few Britain a building with dry Philip says London a Prince Philip said tuesday that Bri Tain is like a building deteriorating from dry third Here we we have virtually the league of the big p o w e r s the 55yearold Duke of Edinburgh said in an interview published in director the conservative monthly of about circulation is published by the British inst Lute of a proves body supported by Bri gains big business Philip blamed the decline of once the seat of 9 mighty on High Taxa Tion and socialist measures he claimed have diminished comparing Britain eco nomic troubles to the spread of dry rot in a the Prince said you know when it but gradually tue place becomes unit habitat while not attacking prime minister James Callaghan labor government by the Prince had scathing things to say about both the British soviet forms of Comrade As he called the Eastern Are no example to russian system is total total there is nothing wrong with the its just Souie Truog wrong with the sys arguing that a totally egalitarian society was unworkable except in primitive he said the British had be come too concerned with the underprivileged in a great Effort to make life easier for we have in Many re moved the one thing that makes it which is a Challenge and an opportune a risk both of loss and we have forgotten Oue end of the we Are constantly making it seem that he cause some Are badly therefore the people who Are better off Are we seem to have got the balance slightly while the British Royal family officially is politically a Eutran Huip has made occasional outspoken comment of contemporary the latest interview was among of his ;