Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 21, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Of Winnipeg free press Friday january 21, 1977 talks Between postal government reported govt. Scandals be aired Ottawa up the Post office moved thursday to improve its relationship with the Canadian Union of postal workers postmaster general Jean Jacques Blais met hours Avith cup leaders and a government spokesman said there was Good constructive Jolin pare assistant Deputy postmaster general said the government wants further meetings aimed at easing ten Sions in the Post office. Thursday s meeting be tween cup and Post office officials was the first since dec. 16 when an intensive round of talks broke and leaders of the Union said dealings with the government had been damned disagreements Over technological change provisions in the contract led to a strike threat before Christmas but cup leaders later withdrew that threat saying they did t want to spoil the Holiday sea son. Cup vice president Jean Claude Parrot said thursday the Union accepted the Post master general s invitation for an informal discussion be cause we did t see any Rea son to refuse a no Date has been set for further meetings. On another front the Post office s new employer Union relations Branch starts hear ing s today in an attempt to sort out some of the grievances that have plagued the Post office. Tom Brown a former trea sury Board officer and head1 of the new employer Union re lations Branch said the new Branch is just going to have to sit Down and do its there is a. Tremendous amount of grievances in the but despite the workload or. Brown said he is excited about is new Job and very he took on the Post Jan. 6. Edmonton up fed eral Cabinet ministers will Start speaking openly about so called scandals involving the government in order to turn polls in the party s favor says Len Marchand minister of state for Small business. Speaking wednesday to an organizing meeting for the new Federal constituency of Edmonton West or. Mar Chand conceded that the liberals Are at their lowest Point in several years in pubic opinion polls. There s a mistrust of government in general and a feeling among the Public that Pierre Trudeau had let them he said. Or. Marchand said the lib eral government s reversal on Price and wage controls after first opposing them prior to the 1974 general elec Tion has contributed to this loss of Faith. He said recent scandals including commissions paid for the Sale of nuclear reactors by a Crown Agency and con Cessions Montreal Airport won by friends of a Cabinet minister have Hurt but he said no government member has been involved in scandal. Jean Marchand was investigated by the ramp in the Mirabel Airport sky shops affair and was cleared of any polls Tine but keep guard up Clark says photo two icebreakers Chew away at a huge extending seven Miles along the St. Lawrence River from Quebec City thursday. The Job is being aided by mild temperatures in the area and it s expected the River will be Clear by the weekend freeing the 18 ships that Are trapped. Police strike no Idle threat official rail Union blasts idea of Selling Stock in in Calgary up a National police strike is not just n n Idle threat. Constable Frank Mcdonald president of the Calgary police association said thursday. The Way things have been going in recent months 1 would say that police strikes across the country arc a very real possibility Constable Mcdonald said. He said recent decisions by the Federal anti inflation Hoard to Roll Back police con tracts have destroyed historical relationships established Over the years by collective obeyed the Law but now Are the victims of that he said. Now we must decide if we should break the Law and walk off the Constable Mcdonald was reacting to statements earlier this week by the Canadian police association condemn ing the Federal Board for what it termed inconsistency in dealing with police contracts. The National body advocated strike action by police in v o 1 v e d in contract talks unless the Board is abolished. Calgary police have recently Felt the sting of the Board s control. Last december the Board reduced the Calgary police contract by three per cent and Constable Mcdonald said the reason for this Deci Sion is still Macdonald slams police association appear e d we had Ottawa up finance minister Donald Macdonald criticized the Canadian police association thursday for say ing the number of police strikes will increase if the an i inflation Boa if i is not Dis solved. Police have no if jul to try i o blackmail government 1 h r o n g h such action or. Macdonall said following a weekly Cabinet meeting. Wage and Price controls were designed to protect the interests of police As Well As her canadians. He was commenting on statements by the police association that police strikes arc virtually a certainly if the controls Board is not abolished. The association accused the Board of making inconsistent arbitrary a o Ottawa up the Canadian brotherhood of railway to s p o r t and general workers cart said thurs Day the suggestion that shares in Canadian National railways be sold to private investors is such an outrageous proposal that we have difficulty taking it i would Hope that this scandalous proposal is just another Crackpot idea of Otto Lang s and will be shot Down by his Cabinet Don Nicholson president of the Union said in a statement released by the cart. Or. Nicholson said if shares of the Crown owned National company Are sold to the Public it will guarantee two service will continue to be sacrificed to pro fit making and that any profit actually realised will go into private hands rather than to the taxpayers fio have been subsidizing the railway for More than half a he also said if the proposal is not shot Down it will surely be another Nail in the lib eral party s political coffin when the next Federal election is Kingston ont. Up Joe Clark Federal Progress s i v e conservative Leader warned party members thursday not to be Over confident at out winning the next election. We Are doing Well in the polls he said. But we should to get too up about or. Clark introduced As Canada s next prime minister at a meeting of local conservatives said however that i he party is in a Good position to change things in the next election. Events have created for us a Chance to represent the entire he said. Quebec is the weakest area of party strength he said Al though he Hopes to get More than four of the 74 seats in the province in the next elec Tion. The party is Strong in the rest of Canada he added. Or. Clark said one of the party s problems is that it has not formed a government since 1963 and is viewed by some As the party of oppose he said that Between now the next election he and other High ranking party members will travel around the country talking to people and learning attitudes to use in developing policy. During a Short question and answer period or. Clark Cri the Liberal govern ment for forcing provinces into Cost sharing schemes and then leaving them holding the he was referring to a re cent first ministers Confer ence in Ottawa i which the Federal government provide As much Money for Cost sharing programs As the provinces said they need Edi it won t be our. Policy to Force provinces into expensive Cost sharing programs that Aren t on their priority he said. Asked about wage Price controls he said controls Are not the Only Means of curbing inflation. A party committee is expected to present a report on inflation next month with be com inundations which might direct policy on the question. Or. Clark added haps one solution to inflation might be the creation of an administrative body which would Point out excesses to the government. . Could Speed air pact Montreal up a new radar system being introduced in Canada will re Duce the workload of air traffic controllers and play a very significant role in solv ing the problem of two Ian k u a g e s in aviation communications s i y s Walter Mcclish top Federal civil aviation official. Or. . The transport in Parl mom s air adm Nistra i old reporters thursday the joint in route terminal system should be ready to function in lion local by the end of 1978. Montreal is the key area in the current Battle Over bilingual air traffic control. He was commenting after the operation of the system was outlined for members of the Federal inquiry and the use of French in Quebec airspace. The commission was also shown some filmstrips which the transport department uses for training pilots and controllers and one of these Westark winners sound ont. Chi of Jevc tickets Worth rach were drawn thursday in inc u Ontario lottery draw. The winning ticket number 60522 in series i 2 a soft in i cries 48 c87p.7 in a Rio in series and Jjo in series there was in Money for a Loial too prizes. The next draw will be held in Bowmanville ont. On feb. 3 when an extra is million a ill he Given away. One h u i d r c d Bonus numbers North each be drawn in conjunction with the regular draw. The extra million comes from unclaimed prizes in ear Lier draws. Prompted the first major clash of the week Long hear ing. Colin Gravenor. Counsel for the Canadian air traffic control association objected to comments in one filmstrip that introduction of French at Quebec airports has increased aviation safety. He said this was an opinion and should not be accepted As evidence unless the person who said it could be Cross sex anti cd. Commission counsel Yves Fortier said this was a trans port department opinion and 1 Ransport department officials could be questioned on it later. But the commissioners ruled the contents of the filmstrip could not be accepted As evidence. The the . System which is already being partially used at Moncton .v.b., is that it provides automatically and continually in formation about aircraft that controllers have the Soquist repeatedly under convention Al radar systems the inquiry was told. The system is being introduced Over the next three years at Vancouver Edmon ton Calgary Winnipeg Toronto and Ottawa As Well As Montreal and a Moncton. 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