Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 6, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free May 50 unemployment big Factor in talks construction jobless rate spurs Union contract Deal by Scott Edmonds a spokesman for a construction Union that has tentatively agreed to a new contract with Manitoba build ers admitted Friday a record Indus try unemployment rate of 50 per cent played a part in the Harry Knight of the bricklayers and masons part of the Multi Trade bargaining said he Felt his unions membership would approve the proposed two year con there not unaware that the employment picture is not too Knight said the unemployment situation in the construction Industry has exceeded even the most pessimistic predict the latest figures supplied by the Winnipeg builders Exchange show an unexpected leap in the Industry unemployment rate to nearly 50 per cent As of april highs of near 35 per cent had been predicted earlier in the and months ago when the unemployment rate was still less than 30 per cent Industry spokesmen were saying the Outlook in Manitoba was bleaker than it had been for according to the statistics com piled by the unemployment insurance there Are almost unemployed tradesmen in Manitoba out of an estimated total including both Union and nonunion workers of about Knight said the 50 per cent unemployment rate was definitely a Factor in negotiations leading up to the tentative agreement but would not go we were pretty Well aware of he he also said the based on the number of tradesmen registered for unemployment insure were not necessarily construction normally starts to pick up about this time of year and some claimants May have left their names on file with the commission despite the fact that they already had a just in Case the Job didst he he said the number of Union and nonunion tradesmen out of work is usually considering slightly unequal so that each group will be feeling the effects on roughly the same its estimated that about tra Desmen in the province Are Only a few hours after reaching tentative agreement on the terms of a new two year contract with the Large Multi trades group at Fri representatives of Manitoba unionized contractors went from one Marathon bargaining session to an this time with the operating a scheduled afternoon bargaining session with local 343 of the Carpen ters Union was postponed to next week to allow a morning session with the members of the International Union of operating local to the hectic series of talks is an attempt by the contractors to get agreements signed As quickly As pos sible with the no striking civil construction thus paving the Way for settlements with four mechanical unions that have been on strike since the Multi trades group includes drywall labourers and during the next week individual unions Are expected to present the terms of the agreement to their memberships for the terms of the agreement have not yet been made 5 year guaranteed investment certificates per annul interest paid or compounded Royal Trust 287 Winnipeg 9430431 member Canada Deposit insurance corporation ads get each for lung disease project the Manitoba lung association has awarded two 323 fellowships to Foster the training of physicians in respiratory disease treatment at the University of Manitoba for the academic year starting july recipients Are John Heath of the University respiratory diseases department and Kozui Kida of the department of the association says the two recipients will be known As Fellows of the Manitoba lung Heath graduated from Mcgill University in 1976 and has just completed two years of training in internal medi Cine at Dalhousie Kida graduated from Kanazawa University medical school in Japan eight years he came to Canada last year and has served As a demonstrator in the department of pathology at the University of by Gerry Cairns Mario Villa plays a piano while Lewis Sokolov listens on the the students at Laidlaw have built a display on sound one of More than 700 displays from All Over the province on show this weekend during the Manitoba schools science symposium at the University of students were Busy Friday setting up their displays will be open to the Public from noon today and from 9 medal awards will be made sunday and the major awards will be presented at 2 on trial for murder Appleyard denies involvement a Man standing trial for murder told police at the because that1 s you get the Deal to the Long run Corner 0f no st Matthews Avenue time of his arrest last octo Ber he be charged because he had taken no part in killing Laurence was found dead 25 last year in his apart ment at 316 Stra Brook ave his head had been battered by a Hammer and his Throat slashed with a straight a Manitoba court of Queens Bench jury has been the jury of 11 men and one woman heard police witnesses testify that when Lloyd James was arrested head fitted striking Smith about a week he was in Smiths suite with three other he told but one of the others had used a and James Appleyard co accused now standing trial with had struck Smith with a Ham Appleyard told James Raftis testified that when Appleyard was arrested in the bedroom of a Beacon Street Home and told that police believed him implicated in Smiths he replied no i never did the later at the Public safety building he told police he had wanted to accompany the others to the Stra Brook Avenue he walked in and booted the Guy and i started hitting him and the Guy tried to cover his then i backed off into the Appleyard said in his state his assault was followed by the attacks by others with the Hammer and he Raftis said that Appleyard had a Conversa Tion with his common Law wife at the Public safety he heard Appleyard referring to the kill ing and Tell his wife he go Home with i was i guess its the same Stanley Tataryn Testi fied that he overheard Appleyard Tell his common Law wife at the Public safety i dont know Why they charged me with Mur he was still alive after i hit Raftis told Appleyard de Fence counsel Richard Wol that Appleyard said he haunt heard of any talk of killing Smith before entering the Stra Brook Avenue in a session with police after giving his Appleyard said he put on surgical gloves before entering the suite be cause in Case of a fight i didst want to get busted for he said there was no Way he touched either the Hammer or straight the trial is scheduled to continue monday before Justice Louis fidget a gentle touch and a solid the Armstrong pledge protects you from unforeseen covers onetime delivery and a worry free moving if you dont think this pledge is then youve never moved ask about armstrongs gentle touch protects from your furniture to your pets and the food in the youre moving Down the Block or around the were a member of Allied Van the worlds most successful moving if youre moving Call if clip and save this number the mow 7742435 the Allied Van lines ;