Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 18, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weather Cloudy Low -15, High to Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Derails Page 5 Winnipeg free press vol. 84 no. 91 tuesday january 18, 1977 15 cents 2sc with c01 ored comics final edition phone workers salaries Cut the Federal anti inflation Board has rolled Back wage increases for craftsmen employed by the Manitoba Telephone system the Board announced today. The Rollback reduces an 11 per cent increase Over a one year contract to the Arith Metic guideline of eight per cent. The employees members of local 435 of the International brotherhood of elec tical workers signed the contract retroactive to july 3, 1976. The Aib decision follows a similar Rollback of Cler ical and technical Telephone employees in november from a 14.5 per cent negotiated wage increase to eight per cent. The Craft employees ratified their 11 per cent one year contract sept. 15. Ear Lier they had rejected a company offer of 8.8 per cent by a five to one margin. 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 lines. He said the Union s argument was based on historical relationships with Tele phone employees in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Australian commuter train jumps tracks Rescue workers foreground carry a seriously injured Man up a Steep con Crete slab tuesday at the site where Granville Bridge in Sydney Australia collapsed on a crowded commuter train. The train s crumpled carriages Are Visi photo ble Centre and right. Police said the death toll could reach 60. More than 100 people were injured. Manitoba Outlook gloomy provincial growth May drop today Small firms promised Aid Page 2 the execution of Gilmore Ottawa. Up growth of provincial economies is Likely to show a significant drop in 1977 from 1976 following National trends in economic activity the Confer ence Board in Canada says in a report released today. The Pace of Manitoba s Al ready sluggish Economy will slow Down even More in 1977. Provincial growth will be at about 2.9 per cent com pared with four per cent last year. Agriculture May be the weakest sector this year while the goods pro duo Jig in d u s t r i e s May show some strength. Unemployment is expected to increase Only marginally. 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 1976, unless the government stimulates the Economy. The Board is a private group including business government and labor repro which develops economic the forecast says that in line with a less optimistic out look for the National econ omy projected growth in real output for almost All prov inces has been revised Down Ward from previous predictions made last november. Government spokesmen in eluding finance minister Donald Macdonald and inter National observers have said economic recovery in the last half of 1976 was not As speedy As expected All Over the West Ern Industrial world. With pressure mounting from business labor and opposition political parties for stimulative policies such As tax cuts or. Macdonald promised in december there would be a new Federal Bud get within four months. The Board report says that Alberta and British Columbia Are expected to show the strongest growth in 1977, with both considerably exceeding the National average. But a poor Outlook for spending on capital goods consumer goods and housing is Likely to hamper growth in the manufacturing and construction sectors making the future dim for both Quebec and Ontario. Both Ontario and Quebec Are expected to have growth rates of less than three per cent with Only modest employment gains and substantial rises in provincial jobless rates. 1 see economic Page 6 Page 21 peat smoke iils minimized Page 2 fur workers vote to strike Page 4 Ontario Power aids Michigan ordained women Divide anglicans 7 Mon real 3 Western Feeg part Marx pro Sowu acc Page 0 inside Bridge classified zs-3s, Wiiks Voss Wivi deaths 5.38 finance for Pew ii 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 morning. The parents who had taken their children to see the symphony s magic music concerts saturday were in Censed about what symphony staff member Bob Mcgifford termed a colossal Misander the show featured Ernie Coombs the Star of the Chil d r e n s television program. Or. Dress up 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 Nelsn beloved by children. Or. Mcgifford said people should keep their tickets stubs. The wig is trying to arrange another concert a tried and True children s which will be free to those who Bott the tickets for the or. Dress up concerts. However the symphony refund people s Money if they it. Fth ads for the concert said or dress up and his friends in a special Chil Dren s but Casey and Finegan never appeared and the re sult was Many tearful rest less tots. According to his contract or. Coombs was under no obligation to bring Casey and Finegan with him or. Mcgifford said. The performer was responsible for Bis own participation in the show and the symphony was responsible for the a Ocskal portion. However most of the publicity photos or. Coombs seat for ads showed Craa with two puppets. S3ru off bees Able deter a Toj of tether tree ads or. Dress up Auto Union chief shot dead in office Brooks shot1 four times Windsor ont. Up Charles Brooks president of local 444. United Auto workers was shot four times and killed monday in an of fice at the local Union head quarters police said. Cd a r e n c e Talbot. 36. Of Windsor has been arrested or x murder charge and is to be arraigned today in court the spokesman said. The spokesman said a Man carrying a lever action Rifle fired through the door of an office in which or. Brooks was standing. The Man then went outside the Union Hall broke a Hole in the office window and went Back inside where he fired additional shots. He fled from the building following a scuffle with a Union official who attempted to Stop him. The spokesman said. Moments later police arrested a Man outside carry ing a Rifle. The police spokesman said seven or eight Shell casings see Auto Page 6 India to hold March elections Delhi a prime minister Indira Gandhi s government announced today that the first parliamentary elections since a National emergency was declared in India months ago will be March. The prime minister freed her Arch political opponent former Deputy prime min ister Morarji Desai shortly before the elections were announced. He had been imprisoned since the beginning of the state of emergency. The so year old Desai considered the country s most prominent opposition poli Jinan. Was released along with l. K. Advani Leader of the hindu nationalist Jana Singh party. Parliamentary elections were postponed twice in the last year. 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 emergency under which civil liberties and Normal to 111 i c a 1 activities acre suspended. The release of Desai and Advani left Only a handful of leading opposition politicians still in jail among them socialist Leader Raj Zarain. Candahl frees political foe hits Back the los Angeles times Paris president Valery g i s c a r d d Estwing 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 Daoud. French foreign policy is not made and will not be made m the newsrooms of a few International news rhe French pres ident told an Elysee Palace press conference in cold and forceful tones. It is the business of the president of the Republic the government and. The parliament. France its people and its Laws do not have to take lessons from anyone. I invite those coun tries which wish to remain our friends to abstain from giving us Giscard d Estwing 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 events weekly column that will interpret the news for readers Storto today on Page 12 and will appear a acc toes Day. It has been Spe c i a 11 y developed for student readership and classroom ase. Each week an event is presented and followed by a breakdown of Points for discussion. It also will include an upcoming event to watch for and a Quick quiz of the column. Sydney 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 Sydney crashed into a sup port stanchion for a Highway overpass and brought the 45 ton Bridge and several Auto mobiles Down on two crowded coaches. Officials said 95 persons were injured Many of them critically. If the death toll is con firmed it will be Australia s worst rail Accident. After 13 bodies had been re moved from the wreckage police supt. George Marshall said there was Little Chance any of those still trapped in the two coaches were alive. We believe there May be As Many As 70, to 80 people dead in he said. The train came from mount Victoria 50 Miles Northwest of Sydney and was crowded with people bound for work in the City. The wreck occurred at . It s smashed like match said a Man. Who Stag gered from the leading car. We were upside Down inside out and then the Carriage burst like a bloody sardine nine hours later cranes and other lifting equipment had been unable to move the Bridge. Police said it might be wednesday before this was accomplished and All the bodies were removed. High voltage Power lines fell with the Bridge increasing the danger to any survivors in the wreckage and Rescue workers. Medical teams crawled into narrow spaces to operate on trapped persons As nurses and medics administered oxygen. Four operations were under Way simultaneously. You would t believe the mess in an exhausted doctor said. One of the nurses Leigh Street was Small enough to crawl into the flattened wreckage. I got in under the Bridge but there was t a lot we could she said. There were eight dead alongside me Many were still sitting squashed in their seats. They had t been Able to move be fore the Bridge fell on Rev. Michael Campion said he administered the last rites to about 20 persons in one Carriage after crawling alongside the wreckage. Most of them were dead he said. Some of the injured i could see were crying for he said. The scene was unbelievable. It s Hor pensions protest called premature by John Sullivan the Manitoba human rights commission has Dis missed As premature and one sided an employer group s protests against the Agency s efforts to remove sex discrimination from employee pension plans. The labor relations Council of the Winnipeg builders Exchange claims the com Mission intends to recommend changes in the human rights act which in at tempting to remove an Ima g i n e d sex discrimination against will pay men an average of less than women. In a letter to Manitoba premiered Schreyer the builders claimed the commis Sion will urge the govern ment to equalize monthly pension benefits paid to men and women employees. They said such a move is mathematically unsound and discriminatory against men be cause women who live longer statistically would receive More Money for their pension Dollar. But commission executive director Harvey h. Moats said in an interview the employers have misrepresented the commission and jumped the gun with their protest. He said efforts to remove see pensions Page 6 ont. Discourages smoking in office by Lawrence Martin Globe and mail Toronto Toronto the Ontario government will ask employ ers to provide incentives to employees for not smoking during working hours and to provide cessation clinics and counselling. Guidelines developed b y the health ministry but net to be made Public until end of the month say workers should be Able to carry out their jobs in a satisfactory environment. For non smokers this would suggest the elimination of cigarette smoke in their immediate the guidelines to be made available to All employers Call for permitting employees who now smoke on 2te Job to have Short cigarette Breaks in a non working area designated for smoking. Employ ers also should provide non smokers with an Opportunity to work next to other non smokers where the government has decided to tackle tie problem with voluntary guidelines rather than Law because it Felt legis lation would be too difficult to enforce. Guidelines for schools col Leges and universities say that smoking should not be permitted in any classrooms elect Are Hall auditorium. Laboratory Library or gym a secondary and Public schools already have roles against smoking i classrooms but i Post secondary institutions there Are few restrictions. Britain a building with dry rot Philip says London a Prince Philip said tuesday that Bri Tain is eke a building deteriorating from dry rot third world Feere we jape Var Sally left the of Cage of the big f fee 35-y Edisto Srob s signal body supported by Bri Tain s big business Philip blamed the decline of Britain once the seat of a mighty Empire on High Taxa soc asst Isea swes he Kinnex have incentive. Corps visit Eri Taia s trashes to the spread dry a said while not attacking prime minister James Cada Faan s labor government by name orifice bad scathing things to say Boft Soi soviet Fores of be said a Goring that totally egalitarian society was unworkable except la primitive tribes. He said be Ted be curare 100 As Wjk Fae Eastern toe is a w6a there is a great to a face life East far people. We Sassy cases re ?5w me Tiese if cat is 3th by. A Riss we have forgotten one end of the Story. We Are constantly making it seem that be people some people Are badly off Kie Refore ties people Are better off Are we Nesiti to Cave got Ajjie balance Sis ugly Royal is pow Ticejr Focas Swanfe the to ;