Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 14, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press tuesday March 14, 1978 More than one million out of work in Canada British Columbia s Rak fell to 8. T per cent from 8.7 per cent. Unemployment declined for both men and women in the 15-21 age group. They recently have a fade up Al most half the unemployed. The rate for men in that a group fell to 15.5 per cent from 15.8 per cent while for women it declined to 13.8 per cent from 13.9 per cent. The Rale for women 25 and Over increased to 7.7 per cent from 7.5 per cent and that for men in the same age cat ego continued by remained steady at five per cent. Although opposition spokesmen have been saying for months that Here Are at least one million unemployed it is the first time official statistics Canada estimates have gone Over that Barrier. Critics have said the Federal Agency s labor Force Survey leaves out Many unemployed. In the depression of the 1930s, unemployment rates were higher than current Levels but the labor Force was less than half its current size. The figures Are Likely to renew the clamor for govern ment action to stimulate eco nomic growth to create More jobs. But government spokesmen say they cannot afford larger spending deficits. Finance minister Jean Chretien says rapid growth of the Manitoba shuts Down Churchill pre fab Plant in tinted Spond to Telephone enquiries about the North Ern companies monday except about the Churchill housing Plant. The housing Plant s death was announced in a one Page press release earlier monday by Northern affairs minister Ken mamas Ler who said the four year old company has been unable to obtain new contracts despite provincial assistance. The minister whose department last week handed Pink slips to of employees in Northern Manitoba communities said the firm s assets would not be sold for six to 12 months in the Hope new business could be found. However he said in an interview he was not at All optimistic about this. There is jus no Market for their product mat master said. I think any government would have found in difficult to continue that kind of Macmaster said the company which now has seven employees on contract and 21 hourly paid workers has received about million in Federal and provincial subsidies since tile nip established ii in the minister said the final blow was the firm s failure to win a contract from the Northwest territories Ilous Inu corp. Lie said the government involved Churchill residents in preparing a bid for the contract so they would know we weren t just trying to dump the company but it was about 10 Pel cent higher than the Low bid. Mac master said the department and a committee established in Churchill tried to develop an alternative use for the Plant but just could t come up with a single the minister also said he had kept the Plant s employees informed of its precarious position and closure but its office Man Ager was a prised when a reporter later asked about he Mailer. The employee de Hayko said he had contacted the Northern affairs department s regional office at the Pas after hearing of the layoffs on a Csc radio news broadcast at noon monday. I Tel exed and asked if they would confirm or deny the Hayko said. They answered Back that they d Check Winnipeg and find but lie was still waiting to hear at quitting time monday. Kilayko s inquiry was sent to Hay Delbarre in he Northern affairs department. A reporter was told six times Delbaere was on the and on the seventh try his Secretary said he in t Able to give you anything Call the mat master did t reply to phone messages left later for him Hayko said he knew the Plant would eventually close but had been told to prepare contracts for employees for april May and june. He said the Plant is still working on four of housing units for the Manitoba housing and Henchal corp., but has been told to hire subcontractors to finish them. Right now i Don t know where we stand and i m More than a Little a uni i he said. It s easy to draw up these enl rails. Bin gelling the minister to sign them is another spokesmen for Oiler firms operated by the department s Northern development corps said in interviews they have been told the government wants 10 end its Auto rate Rise possible in 79 an increase in the number of Accident claims May Force aut Opac to apply for a Rale schedule increase next year aut Opac Gener Al manager .1.0. Dnton said tuesday. Since the end of the Public insurance corporation s fiscal last oct. 31 to the end of february this year there have been claims compared with Kif in the same period a year previously Dutton said. Also the Cost per claim has risen. Dutton blamed the increase ill accidents at least partly on the Road conditions in the province this Winter much worse than a year especially in Winnipeg. Another increase in Aulo Pae costs is the one year agreement just reached with Auto body shop owners granting them an eight per cent increase in repair Rales. Dulton said if aut Opac requires a in creased rate in would nol Lake effect until March and would require approval by the provincial Cabinet. Labor Force has caused the recent increase in unemployment. Between february 1977, and february 1978, today s figures show there were 000 new entrants into the labor Force but Only new jobs created leaving a net growth in unemployment of the february figures show that for the second month in succession unemployment has moderated. There was a steady Rise in the jobless rate Between May and Decem Ber last year to a Peak of 8.5 per cent. In january the jobless Rale fell to 8.3 per cent the first decline in months. In the ., the february unemployment Rale was 6.1 per cent last month they lowest figure since october 197.1. N Slivens repeated earlier Calls for a i billion tax jul to stimulate economic growth through consumer and Busi Ness spending. He said parly researchers have calculated that a tax Cut now of that order would bring billion Inlo government coffers Over the next few years. While a Large tax Cut would add to his year s estimated Federal deficit the shortfall would be reduced As the Economy recovered. Stevens said a Basic mis Lake Federal authorities made dates Back to 1973-71 when he government opted for a stimulative measures when the Economy was headed into recession. The americans Wiio take 70 per cent of Canadian Trade came out of thai period lean hungry and efficient and Canada lost us competitive Edge in Export Trade he said. Churchill concerned Church Man. Stuff people Here Aren t disheartened Bill just damned concerned Over the provincial government s announcement monday that their prefab housing Plant is to be closed with a loss of 28 jobs. Mayor Les Osland says. It s going to be he mayor said. I Don t blame the province. North Ern affairs minister Ken Macmaster has been very sincerely Osland estimated dial Churchill s population of less ban now include., unemployed and another 150 unemployable. Osland said the closure does t mean that the opera Tion is slopped Penn mently. Lie noted Macmaster has Given the town six months to develop new plans for it. Sex shop crackdown recommended there Are not exactly any hanging judges around now they lend towards the lenient the City will be consulting with the provincial govern ment about enforcing the bylaw. Coun. Jim Ragsdill Springfield Heights recommended the provincial government be asked to lighten its liquor control regulations to outlaw nude entertainment in Beer Par lors though committee took no action on this request. With the lower drinking age increasingly younger teenagers Are being and continued melted to these Parlours Ragsdill said. If Hie girls in the Massage Parlours Are going to have to cover up then so Are the ones in the he said. Debate was unanimously in favor of the plan with councillors arguing sex oriented businesses including pin Ball arcades provide Fertile ground for criminal activities such As prostitution loan sharking and drug pushing driving neighbouring businesses out of the area. Hardest hit has been the District North of Portage Avenue around Ken Nedy Street they said. Councillors said the City is implying approval by allowing those businesses to continue providing a poor example for children who Are tempted to do As they see not As they re the proposed amendment will be open to Public input during a forthcoming meeting of the designated zoning hearing committee. Some of the few unionized Coal miners Back on the Job in the Ride a mine car in Keystone w. Crts rejects pay to system continued corned however.1 by the Canadian association of broadcasters the Csc and other groups who have opposed introduction of pay to. But the Industry which had been lobbying intensively for three years for the right to run he first National Cable system said the report showed the continuing negativism of the c Etc which has characterized its pronouncements on pay to for the last six years. Michael Hind Smith president of the Canadian Cable television Assoc a lion turned unworkable and unrealistic the Choc s recommendation that any pay to system introduced should have Canadian programs at least 50 per cent of the time. The Cable Industry s proposal called for 25 Pel cent Canadian Content by time. But they Are Only recommendations and mrs. Sauve has said she will make the final decisions on pay to Hind Smith said in a Telephone inter View from Toronto. The objectives not met in the applications include Canadian Content regulations and requirements that broadcast outlets use mainly Canadian Talent and resources the crts said. The broadcasting act is unequivocal in its requirement that the broadcasting system be predominantly Canad the crts said there is also no compelling Public demand for pay to at this Lime. Fewer than 100 miners obey Washington up fewer than 100 of the striking Coal miners in he United slates obeyed Back to work court orders Llinat went Inlo Force monday. The rest remained defiant in he face of injunctions obtained by the Carter administration and most of the mines that have been affected for ii weeks were deserted the spokesman for the bituminous Coal operators association Boa said. In Washington meanwhile negotiators for the Coal operators and the United mine work ers ump Union walked Over the Tele phone and agreed to meet again today to discuss renewed efforts to end the rec Ord in Day walkout. I can neither Rule out nor Promise agree ment tomorrow when the negotiations re sume said one source close to the bargain ing. A spokesman for the Marshal s office Here said More than per cent of the 81 ump districts and locals named As defendants ill the Taft Harlley action have been served copies of the order by Laic tuesday afternoon. Emotions of men limit women s role Ottawa up women in he Canadian armed forces Are barred from combat duty because men arc emotionally unable to accept it. Defence minister Barney Danson told the commons monday. He was replying to David mat Donald opposition spokes Man on women s rights who asked when the government will end a discriminatory practice of barring women pilots in the armed forces. It was years ago monday the first Pilot s licence was issued to a woman in Canada. Danson said the Issue is under constant review and is related to he question of whether women should be permitted to engage in combat something the govern ment has not come to grips with. Experience in Oiler countries showed permitting women in combat was demoralizing not because the women could not fight Bill because the men combat with them Aren t emotionally Able to accept 44 killed in jail riot Huic nos Ahks a police said ii persons to Ere killed today when guards and police crushed a riot Al an Argentine prison holding Many political prisoners. Police sources said 30 others were seriously injured most of hem from Burns in the incident at Villa devoid prison Argentina s largest about i Kilometres from the com re of Buenos Aires. Both prisoners and guards were said to be among the casualties. Air Canada 727 jets Lack proper staff Mckenzie says continued cers. Some time ago. Air Canada abolished the specific Trade of flight Engineer but qualified pilots now serve in that position where the Crew complement Calls for in. In Canada it s believed that among the scheduled carriers Only Pacific Western air lines still uses flight engineers he said. The spokesman said this is in the written agreement Between the Canadian air line pilots association culpa and air Canada. Spokesmen for the new air Carrier Section of the civil aviation Branch of transport Canada weren t available for comment in Winnipeg or Ottawa. One letter to air Canada from the depart ment gives the company until next october to make current employees acting in the flight Engineer s position get the required licence. As of july i any new employees air Canada hires for the Job must have the proper licence he letter says. The memoranda say the minimum night Crew requirements slated in the Boeing 727 right manual include Pilot and flight Engineer. Air Canada Crews include Pilot and second officer. The memoranda dated Between co. 1978 and March ask the head office the transport department s civil aviation of fice for guidance because of Legal implications and possible embarrassment to the government. They came from regional civil aviation officers and inspectors. They re not worrying about the travelling Public. They re concerned about the Legal aspect and whether they re going to Embar Rass the Mckenzie said in an interview. Decision reserved Ottawa up the supreme court of Canada re served judgment monday on a special request by the be Abl commission to allow the Quebec inquiry into police wrongdoing to reopen Public hearings As soon As possible. The request filed by com Mission lawyers last week is designed to modify the terms of an order from the Quebec court of Appeal which has suspended the inquiry. The order to suspend All proceedings is part of an appeals ruling which the com Mission backed by the que Bec Justice department is contesting in supreme court. Dutch storm moluccas Rescue. 70 hostage the anti scr Aorist unit which Rad been airlifted in helicopters to the siege scene monday night attacked from two sides under a withering barrage of covering gunfire from Marine sharpshooters on roofs of nearby buildings. The moluccan militants seek dutch intervention o obtain the Independence of their Home is lands from Indonesia. Both the South moluccas and Indonesia Are former dutch colonies. The terrorists who called them selves the South moluccan suicide squad had demanded in a letter to the Justice ministry the release of 21 South moluccas imprisoned after the terror action last sum Mer and one in 1975, a plane to take them All out of the country and a Ransom. Karl scr the gunmen at the five Storey building in this Northern dutch City had released a woman hostage mrs. M. De keeper after talks with moluccan Community leaders invited by the terrorists Loael As go Between with the government. They gave no reason for re leasing this a govern ment spokesman told reporters. The Jar be left the building through a ground floor window climbed Down a ladder and walked across a Park to a government Aid Centre set up in a nearby skating rink. The mediators see noes Souisa -18, and Abe Man Putty 36, had to use the ladder to get into the building because the gunmen blocked the doors. A Justice ministry spokesman refused to give details of the continued talks the mediators had with the terrorists but said it leaves Little room for negotiating. He said or. Dirk Mulder a psychiatrist who directed the government s War of nerves in Previ Ous moluccan sieges had been recalled from Canada and was meeting with Cabinet ministers at the Hague the dutch capital. More than -100 police and troops ringed the provincial government Headquarters which four to six armed members of the South moluccan Independence movement look Over monday. The Security forces were bolstered Early today by the 100 Man Marine commando squad that broke a siege by South moluccan terrorists last summer. Despite a threat by the terrorists to Slart killing the hostages if their demands were not met by 2 . Today 7 . The government showed no sign of giving in. We re prepared for a Long a government spokesman said. The terrorists fired at anything they saw moving monday wound ing four persons including a Schoolboy bicycling past police said and one Man who jumped from the building broke a leg. One person was believed to have died so far. The body of a was thrown from a third floor window and Lay motionless on the sidewalk in a bloody Heap. Amu Lance men who tried to pick her up before Nightfall monday were driven Back by gunfire. The police said they believe the terrorists killed her. The gunmen said in Telephone contacts they were holding 55 men and 1g women ranging in age from 18 to 63, on the top Noor of the building and that they wanted Vallum for three of the hostages and bandages. We deduce from this that some of the hostages were wounded when the Mold Evans seized the a government spokes Man said. He said the gunmen also asked for boxes of fruit cigarettes and toilet paper. The terrorists fired a sub machine gun burst just before Dawn today at photographers using Flash bulbs on the military Cor Don thrown around the building but nobody was hit. A government spokesman said the gunmen members of an in dependence movement who have terrorized Holland periodically for a decade made their de mands in a letter to the Justice ministry. Calling themselves the South moluccan suicide squad the raiders demanded the release of 21 South moluccas imprisoned after the terrorist action last sum Mer and one in 1975, a plane to take All of them out of the country and million Ransom. They indicated they would not negotiate threatening for every counter demand dead will ;