Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 22, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 20 Winnipeg Grain firm leaders hit Chapman report by Jack Francis country elevator agents Are managers and must be treated As such under fed eral labor Law for the West Ern Grain handling system to function is the unanimous position of com Pany officials interviewed by the free they expressed disappointment that the new Chapman report on hours of work for country Eleva Tor agents has recommended limits on the time they can put in each apparently based on systems in other elevator companies would be forced to add staff for different spread around the and discontinue bonuses and at the same time there would be More pressure to rationalize the causing More ele vat of abandonment even than recommended in the mall it was Sug this was because firms already operating on narrow margins would have serious problems cop ing with the added b Commerce 349 Portage Avenue Manitoba 204 monday Friday 9 5 savings account currently paying 7v2 the feeling is that the Federal labor department and Union officials Are imposing regulations suited to factory workers on a totally different work the report of conciliation commissioner Chap Man of Winnipeg recommends two special a 10week period in Spring and a 10week period in fall with a maximum work week of six Days or 54 the first eight hours of overtime in these special periods would be at straight time and the rest member Canada Deposit insurance corporation Abi Tibi paper company dividend notice notice is hereby Given Luil i dividend of Twenty live cents 25c per share Hiis been declared on the outstanding common shares of the com Pany payable november to shareholders of record at the close of business october on scr lilt Tutwil Thompson Secretary and general i Nunsel Ontario september at Simean Dahal in pay or time during the rest of the 32 weeks of the the can Ada labor code on hours of work would apply a nor Mal 40hour work week for elevator agents with Over time limited to eight extra hours paid for at Tim and half in Money or time this was seen As being in keeping with Union recommendations and labor Canada regulations policy without considering the realities of the actual working periods of the peo ple serviced nor the Param eters of the Grain handling service the designation of the elevator agents As manag for rent office warehouse space 761 Marion units from 1300 6800 parking Grade level loading available Contact Bob Mowat 2333717 co pro industries ers of what is actually the Case so that they Are exempt from the Law and therefore Able to apply their working hours from within the sys tem rather arbitrarily applied from the is seen As the Only practical solution by Mac president of United Grain growers part Iii of the labor code says the hours of work regulations apply to All workers with the exception of Chapman was appointed to conciliate a dispute be tween the Grain services Union Csc and the management of the Saskatchewan wheat Pool and Mani Toba Pool elevator agents at Alberta wheat United Grain growers and the private elevator companies do not warehouse space available downtown to Short Call Rosen at Runciman Only Solu belong to the but All would be governed by the regulations if they were put into Force in the Federal James presi Dent of Manitoba Pool ele said it was hard to believe that the majority of elevator agents were be Hind the Union pressure that would mean lower in come for them individually and perhaps fewer elevator Points individuals will earn less elevator Man agers average to per in a bonuses and com and that would he statistics indicate ele dive son lower in Vator manager earnings in a Range of to with most somewhere in Bruce presi Dent of Pioneer Grain com Pany called the recommendations inflationary As we have an incentive program and bonuses on the years with commissions on the sales of farm and elevator managers like at least three quarters of our agents appear to like it As it and question the pressure from the depart ment of labor to change he husky a leading Canadian Independent Oil is proud to Welcome your neighbourhood Roco service station to husky expanding system of stops and marketing outlets which extend from Ontario to the West Roco radio Oil was started in 1921 by Ben Hechter with one gasoline pump in front of a Small family grocery store in East in 1925 Max Hechter provided additional capital and joined his brother Ben in the expansion of the in 1930 Busi Ness had expanded to the Point where the Brothers seriously considered erecting their own refinery and at this stage were joined by another brother and brother inlaw Fred sures and the refinery was Gerald Hechter joined the company in 1939 and by the Early fifties had become the sole owner of the under Gerald Hechter vigorous radio Oil expanded its refining activities to about 2000 barrels per Day and the company embarked on a program of sustained during the fifties and sixties radio oils expansion con generally As a result of Gerald Hechter foresight in the Selec Tion and acquisition of service stations and viable Ning a Well earned Gerald Hechter says of those earlier Days As often As i was working five and ten years into the but life for Gerald Hechter was not without its in 1963 an extreme High blood pressure condition led to Complete loss of vision and he was rushed to the Mayo clinic in where treatment Over a period of months restored his when i returned to Hechter i Felt i should ease up a Little and i sold most of the properties of radio Oil to Toyanne enterprises limited with a Leaseback arrangement to radio Oil left to right James Toyanne enterprises limited Jack husky Oil Gerald radio Oil by radio Oil had grown to include Many More locations in Manitoba once Gerald Hechter was struck by that year he suffered a heart attack following hospitalization and he decided to his decision was also influenced by the fact that he has no children and would not have a successor in the family to carry on the after a Long period of acquired most of radio oils remaining Petroleum marketing assets As of August ;