Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 25, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winimko Pitt i february Whelan opposes changing Way candidates selected Ottawa up some Liber als called Friday for Reform of the party system of choosing Federal election but the idea ran into opposition from an my who made it by packing his own nomination meeting agriculture minister Gene the argument in a session on party organization at the biennial lib eral party convention centred on nomination rules in some regions whereby candidates May pack meetings with newly recruited party including friends from outside the Delegate Peter Gelman of to supported by some other argued that Candi dates for nomination in a Riding should be campaigning on major political issues rather than run Ning around signing up Short term party he cited a recent Case in scar where a dark horse candidate won nomination with Tan army of new party Mem he a similar situation is developing in Toronto Rose where John former president of the University of is seeking nomination against longtime but Whelan intervened to say it would be wrong to limit member saying he wrested the Nomi nation in Windsor Essex in 1962 from a candidate he didst like by signing up enough supporters to win the if a candidate works like hell to sign up hell make a darn Good candidate in the elec Whelan those who work hardest deserve to take it you have to do it the Liberal the session took no action on a Reform Resolution proposed by the party Ontario Council and the Ridings of Scarborough East and London it proposed limiting voters at nomination meetings to residents of the Riding who have been party Mem Bers for at least 20 but the National executive said t has assigned a committee to study present nominating meth which vary across the coun to examine the feasibility of Standard options on proce the righting mood prevailed in another jobs for All delegates approved a number of motherhood resolutions on Job a Quebec Resolution Call ing on the government to give workers who reach 60 the option of retiring on full pension and obligating employers to replace them with workers under 25 was chopped Down in Short Quebec delegates argued that such programs already exist in european countries and Money now being spent on unemployment insurance for Young work ers could be transferred to pen Sions for the but one Delegate said the message is loud and Clear that taxpayers want to see business freed of government this the objector would be intolerable be cause it completely changes the mathematics of pension fund it would Lead to More bureaucracy and interference with the private that prompted a deluge of with remarks like people want government to let Industry get on with the and in damned if the government is going to Tell me How old the Man has to be that i hire All delegates to the Liber Al policy meet have to Wade through 775 resolutions plus Nur serous amendments if they Are to Complete the process of telling the government what rank and filers in the party think about the Job National the re social programs and rights and it seemed at the end of Friday workshops that they would be Able to make a lot of people had just too much to say on just about every Canada split Down Middle on attitude to South Africa Ottawa up Canada is split Down the Middle on whether the government is taking the Correct attitude toward the racial separation government of South external affairs minister Don Jamieson said he said letters show that 50 per cent of the people sup port the government policy and 50 per cent oppose he gave no reasons behind the opposition while speaking to a workshop at a Liberal con but he suggested that some feel the policy is inf the minister appeared with defence minister bar Ney Danson and Supply min ister Jeanpierre Goyer who has responsibilities in dealing with French speak ing countries in external affairs matters to answer they made these remarks there is not much use in Canada making unilateral statements about such things As Israel egyptian peace sales of american jets to Egypt and the Neutron the Neutron bomb is a Horent but what is being killed by one of those or some other nuclear weapon the West must do some hard thinking about How to Deal with the soviet Union and to talk about human rights statements in the Wake of the apparent failure of the Post Helsinki talks at egyptian israeli Settle ment must include provision for palestinians to have a Home some place to put their relations with the United states Are excellent and Munro slams insistence on secret Union ballots Ottawa up despite strenuous objection from Federal labor minister John a Liberal party workshop on Indus trial relations called Friday for Laws to ensure that Union strike votes Are conducted by secret this indicates a degree of said i think it is Munro said if such a Law is applied to it should also be applied to corporate shareholders but he added that he would find government intervention in either Case some participants in the Industrial relations workshop at the liberals National policy convention said strike votes Are not always and cases of intimidation Are not of you dont win them said Munro with a shrug As the majority of about 90 workshop participants voted for a motion urging a change in labor Laws so As to ensure Union democracy and individual Munro was More successful when he spoke against a controversial proposal to restrict the right to strike by Public after a heated delegates accepted Munro recommendation to set aside a to lion that called on the government to in quire into the status of civil service employees in society and rearrange their right to increases in pay and pension plans to reflect our society ability to pay and to bring their benefits in line with those of the private delegates later rejected a motion that would require the Federal government to make Public service wages comparable to those in the private they voted instead to favor the principles of free collective including the right to while encouraging the development of improved techniques of dispute in the area of Industrial the work ship recommended that tolerance of known unhealthy conditions by any employer be come an indictable offence to be included in the labor code and emphasis be placed upon compensation of the victim by the towards the end of their three hour work delegates Defeated a recommendation that All agreements intended to set up closed Union shops be declared Charles Liberal my for the Ontario Riding of said unions Are not the Only organizations that have closed think of the closed shops that take place when someone decides the number of people admitted to faculties of Medicine and dentistry in this Caccia urged his fellow liberals not to become too self righteous on this mat Henry Block Block knows everyone tax situation is our specially trained tax experts sit Down with you and ask you Well look for every legitimate its part of our and that service is dedicated to making sure you pay Only the absolute minimum at we Are income tax Block the income tax people 565 Portage 7746927 1010 main 218 Henderson 943 notre 213 2621 Portage a 837 Corydon 1383 Pembina 136 Regent 993 Mcphillops 3505 Roblin 159 Provencher 1050 98 Sherbrook open 9 9 9 5 saturday m downtown uni City also in Polo Park Garden City Canada Trust 230 Portage during regular store hours Altona flin flon Neepawa Stemback 07mc Brandon Killarney Grandview Stonewall Winkler Carman Pilot Mound the Pas Thompson Portage la Apple ploy proves noisy British Columbia Dele Gates offered fellow liberals Crisp Okanagan apples Dur ing a convention session de signed to help regional Dele Gates get to know each the move was almost the apples were handed out just As the Dele a rolled a tourist promo Tion and the sound of crunching apples All but blocked out the sound of the things Are preceding nor Mally with the soviet Union despite the fact that Canada recently expelled 13 Mem Bers of the soviet embassy for the ministers faced no Strong protests to their poli Jamieson said he can give no extensive assessment of the effect of government pol icy started last year of Den big assistance to Trade and business with South one Trade commissioners office was but he said letters aide said they number in the hundreds show canadians Are Many think that we Are spitting into the to use a Down East but he said most of the presidents of the so called frontline states of such As Zambia and Tanza feel last years action had a tremendous moral Impact and that Canada showed leadership that May be Fol Lowed by Jamieson and Danson were asked by delegates Why they did not oppose acquisition of the Neutron bomb the weapon that can kill people without destroy ing in not sure whether a person is less dead if he is dead in the rubble of a build ing than if he is in a building that is not said he said there is a certain repugnance about the weapon that Danson called a reduced blast weapon be cause it destroys people but not he said what is needed is abandonment of All nuclear not just the Neutron Danson said the bomb is a horrible weapon but then speculated that the existence of horrible weapons has kept the world at peace for 30 the Neutron bomb brings the Battle Back to the Battle in that it had not the widespread effect of other nuclear it would be a Little preachy on the part of can Ada to Start opposing the Neutron bomb by the country that would shoulder most of the Load in a major answering questions from Donald Mac until recently finance said Bel Grade has shown that it is not possible to have full detente with the soviet Union and make Many Public criticisms of its human rights Viola tuesday to Price at Simpsons proc Idle see mondays paper for Complete list of Sale items Sam Foni Manitoba 1 ski shop photo Deputy prime minister Allan Maceachen and Trade minister Jack Horner applaud prime minister Trudeau Friday at the Liberal convention in they Are flanked by other Axworthy feeling a bit lonely Ottawa staff it was a Chance to see an endangered that How Manitoba Liberal la Lloyd Axworthy jokingly summed up the survival prospects of a Liberal in his province at an opening Day ses Sion of the National Liberal party convention Axworthy Gallows humor referred to his lonely role As the Only Liberal in Manitoba he could also have been referring to the three Prairie which Are represented in Ottawa by Only a six Liberal maps two from three from Saskatchewan and one but there was no talk of election optimistic or at the conventions Prairie regional workshop Friday morning As westerners concentrated on giving their views about what is right and wrong with a panel of six including spelled out the Root cases of Prairie alienation a list of traditional grievances ranging from rail freight rates to Tariff policies that Hurt Western Farmers and favor Eastern the regional workshop was one of six at the the others being presentations of regional priorities and beefs from the Atlantic que British and the delegates were requested to attend a presentation by representatives a re Gion other than their Only 300 or so of the approximately delegates and observers at the three Day convention showed up for the Prairie and about Halfway through the hour plus presentation it became apparent Western alienation was a subject that alienated Liberal at that Only about 100 people remained in the hotel ballroom where the workshop was the exposition of historical Western grievances was livened when a Toronto Delegate called for the establishment of collective farm ers on the Ron a onetime merchant was with one person in the room Yelling Hes an nip Sonny a Saskatchewan Liberal la and Farmer who was one of the featured retorted that the family owned farm was the most efficient Way known to Man to provide the la noted that under the Russia had been a net exporter of but the of farms under communism had made the country a net Axworthy said the Western Are unhappy Over the Basic imbalance of political the Prairie provinces do not have the Type of political representation in Ottawa that they one solution would be election of the Senate that would revitalize the Mori bund originally envisaged As a Means for the smaller provinces to counterbalance the representation in the commons of the populace prov Axworthy criticized the new stress on Federal provincial conferences As a Way of increasing provincial influence in Ottawa decision he called the conferences a fourth level of government another step away from the Jim a Saskatchewan phys Ician and workshop said westerners feel alienated because they Are getting a raw Deal economically and but he said people in the Prairie provinces Are willing to make accommodations for French speaking canadians and Are willing to pay with their taxes for French language creating jobs gets top priority 2s4sm4 pwn Bim Ottawa up liberals gave preliminary approval Friday to a plan to make Job creation the governments top economic contradicting the emphasis fed eral policy makers have placed on beating Down in the passed by delegates at the Liberal party biennial was supported by Peter Stol my for the Toronto Riding of Spadina and chair Man of the Liberal parliamentary passing of the Resolution came As a Surprise after the conservative mood that participants displayed calling for reduced govern ment involvement and More participation in economic development by private Busi a Delegate who objected that the private sector does not give a goddamn for working people was round by booed and several delegates shouted for him to go official statistics for Jan uary show canadians were jobless per cent of the nations work Force on a seasonally adjusted but one Delegate said he was sceptical of the Statis adding that i have trouble finding people who know 10 out of a Hundred of their friends who Are Unzem delegates whoop it up Ottawa up hundreds of Liberal conventioneers Discoed and combined into the Small hours today in a round of partying in downtown hotels after plans for a single party in parliament was scuppered by what prime minister Trudeau termed a lot of spoil delegates at the biennial Liberal party convention took Over three hotel ballrooms for parties billed As the the disco and the a shuttle bus service transported them among original plans called for a with three bands and 26 in the Centre Block of but the plan was dropped after protests by opposition who complained it would turn parliaments stately Hall of Honor into Trudeau the titled jobs for All even rejected a Resolution calling for the government to open new mines in Cape where unemployment exceeds 20 per cent of the local work the government has no business in the mining one Delegate despite frequently cited concern Over nig youth in delegates turned Down a bid to have the government consider letting workers retire at full pension at age 60 so Young people 25 or less would have More work this would be unwarranted government interference with a Delegate adding that in damned if there going to Tell me How old the Man will be that i hire ;